Give him a proper striker.
Not a loser.
Fully on board the gyok over sesko train.
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Maybe we’ll win a major trophy when all these guys are old as shit and creaking
He’s delusional and arrogant AF for someone who has lost 7 semis and scored a measly 2 goals
All that crap at the final whistle means fuck all when they’ve just sent you home and rubber stamped your season as a failure. A team with no European pedigree too, well they’ve got more than us now.
There’s no guarantee we get that kind of opportunity again under his tenure, some people thinking it’s like some queue where you’ve got a ticket and eventually you’ll get let in just because. How’s that been working for us in the PL when Liverpool just jumped the queue?
Beyond infuriating
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There’s no doubt Arteta is a good manager. Nobody is denying that. But after a certain point of time, there needs to be something to show for it(big trophies ), which Arteta has none of till now. I’ll give him one more season and hope the board backs him heavily in the summer and he solves his jigsaw puzzle. But if there’s still nothing to show for next summer after his 7 years here, serious questions will need to be raised. This is professional football, not Sunday league, and trophies is what ultimately defines a manager.
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After 160 min lol, what a weird metric to make that conclusion at.
The team showed fight and a will to tey and turn it around yesterday but there’s no doubting the better team progressed.emphasised text
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Its really hard to judge this season when Saka and Ødegaard have been injured the majority of it then Ødegaard has been an absolute walking shell of a player.
The awful refereeing we have been given and the constant injuries.
I will accept progress in the champions league. Two years back and we have done 1/4’s then semis. We actually look like we belong at this level.
I want to win the domestic cups but its not what I base a successful season on.
I am praying we get a striker new winger and Ødegaard returning to his old self plus some luck with the cunt refs and injuries and hopefully that gets us over the line to win one of the big two
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The fucking deluded and moronic shit this man has been saying in three of his recent interviews…
The first one about injured players.. okay to some extent true but stretching it.
The 2nd and 3rd ones though about our points total last two seasons v Liverpool and worst of all what he said last night about being the best team. FUCK OFF. Take accountability ffs our moment came and WE DID NOT DELIVER.
We had the team to do it right now and we fucked up SIMPLE. Both goals conceded last night off our own mistakes. To top it off our star man missed a fucking open goal from 5 yards. Both legs we fucked it.
How’s about this Mikel. You can’t juggle multiple competitions. You’re the worst in game manager in the clubs history. Can’t make a fucking sub. You have failed in every single crunch or pressure moment of your Arsenal stint. Every moment there’s expectation - it’s failure.
Europa League semi final, flopped.
Top four in your hands, bottled it.
Title in your hands, bottled it.
Champions League semi-final.. FLOPPED
Every fucking domestic cup competition every season… dog shit.
You backed Martinelli, Havertz, Trossard, Jesus to do the business watching them week in week out… they failed.
This man can get the striker, winger, CAM, CDM but honestly when those pressure moments come around again he is a proven failure now at that stage. The time was fucking now.
He’s done great to get us to this stage. But I don’t see any reason to be confident we can execute the final hurdle when the chances have already been there.
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I’m not having this ref/VAR stuff being used as an excuse for us anymore. Why did those decisions affect us so badly? Because our turgid attacking football isn’t creating enough goals, simple as.
How are we going to score when he continually lets his No.10 camp on the edge of the defensive line, absolutely ruining any dynamic and chance of breaking lines? You see Odegaard do that in two games tops and you coach him out of it. See him do it another two times, you’d drop him.
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Is it really? Our lack of variety going forward has been apparant for basically three full seasons now. Ever since Xhaka was occupying that left midfield position. What have we done to solve that? Sign Havertz and Trossard. We still count on Martinelli and Jesus.
The fact that we have been too reliable on Saka and Odegaard has been the case for those three seasons. The fact that their injuries fucked us is a consequence of the club’s negligence to get other creative players to make us less reliable on those two. In that sense it’s not hard to judge at all.
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I do feel sympathy for Arteta on how the season has gone with losing key players to fitness and we really did drop points in earlier games like City and Liverpool which were a result of unfavourable refereeing decisions / injuries.
What I would say is he also had to contend with losing Edu before the January window and the club seemingly not being prepared to do business in January when he called them out on it multiple times.
I think he’s clearly aware there’s an issue with the quality of some of the players but he also has to accept he hasn’t really used the squad too well and also hasn’t found different tactical solutions for the team.
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@The_Invincibles at the very least Conte would play football that was no less entertaining than the dross we’ve had to put up with for most of this season.
In addition, he is at least open to finding different tactical ideas. He’s played a 3-5-2, 3-4-3, 4-4-2, 4-2-4 and 4-5-1 in his career at different clubs and he’s also actually found ways to adapt to losing key players to injuries / transfers.
Unlike Arteta who never found a solution to losing Saka - Conte lost Osimhen, Zielinski pre-season and Kvara in January and seems to always find a way to get ordinary players firing at 100%.
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There’s a huge dearth of quality in the side that’s been unaddressed for years.
We have a collective of some of the worst finishers to ever grace the club. The xg could’ve been 100, and our lot would still find a way to miss the goal.
Can you imagine prime RVP, Fabregas and Sanchez in this squad!?
There’s no creative outlet in the team.
Our 2 biggest superpowers have been dead for a while now.
Set-pieces and stalwart defence, ruined. Take that Nicolas Jover painting down.
I maintain that almost any top coach would’ve also gotten us to where we are after 6/7 seasons lol.
£12m/yr for winning nothing. Wild.
No other top 10 club would accept it. But Arsenal do.
B-Tech level expectations, gets B-tech results I guess.
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Yep, you can’t just ignore the actual circumstances, they are a part of the story just as Artetas; limitations are.
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Injuries that are in part due to relentlessly flogging the same players for three years on the trot
His squad management has been absolutely dire
This team is his creation, he went to bat for all these major signings. Can’t moan about the taste of a sandwich when you’re the one who hand picked all the ingredients
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Yep. Don’t get me wrong, it would be nice to add some silverware but we’ve been an irrelevant football team in top European completion since 08/09 (after spending half a decade out of it) and hadn’t been involved in a proper title race since 07/08.
Arteta has returned us to both positions and this season has obviously been disappointing but people wilfully ignoring the circumstances that have affected our season is just bizarre to me.
He deserves to be criticised for his lack of tactical flexibility and his inability to find solutions in game when things aren’t going well. I also think he deserves criticism for failing to manage games properly when we’ve ended up dropping 21 points across the season from winning positions.
But people ignoring the issues he’s faced just seems like they’re running an agenda now.
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The formation might differ but I don’t think his tactical idea’s differ from any of the clubs he’s coached to be fair. At least not with Juventus, Chelsea and Inter.
There will also be other circumstances out of his control next season too.
A few first teamers will be out injured for a couple of months a piece again.
The 21 points dropped from winning positions is a disastrous stat and arguably the biggest reason why we’ve lost this league, again.
My question to everyone here is why does all the stars need to align in perfect unison for this club to win something?
There will be new problems, next season too. How will we handle them? The same as we did this season and the season prior?
I’m worried we’ll be in the same position again.
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Don’t know why you bother watching at all. You know it all already
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Entertaining I guess. We’re always in the news for something.
Because the team we came up against in the last two seasons are a 90+ point team and very few teams in PL history have ever hit those numbers. So of course you need the stars to align to be able to beat that and we nearly did.
This season we’ve lost so many players to injuries and that coupled with our poor start to the season (with some seriously unfortunate refereeing decisions) just fucked our league campaign.
We definitely could have done better in the cups but I’m proud of our European performance this season and on another night we beat PSG with some of the chances we had the chances they scored with.
Ultimately, we didn’t have a great season but there were some highs amidst the unfortunate lows.
I’m not as down on Arteta as you because I can literally see the progress and whilst he deserves to be criticised for some of the results this season he isn’t getting enough leeway from some fans for the bullshit he has had to deal with. The club definitely didn’t back him in January when he kept calling for it
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