Some people were really high on him because the idea of pairing him with Partey meant no Xhaka and a very locked down center. But idk that Arteta wants to play that way.
I think he really wants to have Partey hold that entire midfield alone and have two guys ahead of him.
Maybe a more ambitious club would buy Bissouma as cover, but we aren’t that club.
Spurs are going with a totally non-creative midfield and banking on the wingbacks doing it. Hopefully Perisic can’t cope with the speed and blows out his hamstrings by October.
Taking stock here, my guess is that the window ends with them getting something like: Perisic, Forster, Bissouma, Spence, Eriksen, Pau Torres, Richarlison. No idea who they’ll sell beyond N’Dombele and Lo Celso being unwanted and some of their younger players like Gil and Sarr bound for additional loans but that seems to leave them with:
That’s a very complete team with a lot of experienced players and enough depth to fight on all fronts. I really don’t see the talent level at CM and WB being high enough to challenge City or Liverpool but unless they have some significant injuries I can definitely see them in the 75-80 point range.
he would also be good as a 2nd choice stiker there I think. Not sure he wants to be that anymore though. Son would ne fantastic om the right for them, I’ve been hoping for that to happen for years nut somehow they keep holding on to both him and Kane.
That Spurs fan Flav actually used this excuse on The Overlap a while ago and I was baffled but I’ve been seeing it a lot now, some of them actually convinced themselves that it’s actually ok to have won nothing the past decade with the tram they had, lol.
If they win some trophies they won’t have to worry about we say.
Let them enjoy Conte before it all blows up tbh, doubt he does anything apecial with them. His record in Europe is shite and they are not touching City over 38 games
It obviously bothers them about not winning a trophy otherwise they wouldn’t keep going on about it.
It’s like Chelsea supporters saying that having a sugar daddy owner doesn’t make any difference.
Both clubs are deluded.
Yeah a bit like how If @Castiel wants us certain posters to change our demeanor on this forum, then Arsenal should probably rid its bottling tendencies on the pitch whenever things are on the line.
People may notice a correlation with significantly improved performance with abundantly improved moods with certain posters on this forum .
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