can we go again next season? have to have a decent summer window but I don’t want to get my hopes up again because it’s tiring
Is anyone really shocked. Shame about the performance but the title was done and dusted on Friday. The lack of bottle has really shone through over the last three games. You can’t lose to title rivals with such ease. City could have won that 6 or 7, it was that easy.
People keep saying we only need 1 or 2 to make this side compete. This side needs 4 to 5 players of high quality added to this squad to even compete for next few years at the top of the table with City. I’d be massively disappointed with only one or two added to this squad this summer.
For me Jesus isn’t good enough to lead a title winning squad, we need a top class finisher up front. We badly need another CB or move White back to CB and buy top class RB. Also a upgrade on Xhaka and someone to challenge Partey.
This squad needs serious depth. And this manager and squad need to stop bottling it in the run in at the end of seasons, this is the second time it’s happened under Arteta.
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The most concerning thing out of tonight isn’t even that we lost.
For me it’s the gulf in class, how badly we got beaten has be wondering how the fuck we beat this side to a title over the next few years.
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We played shit, city didn’t even play well, two of the goals were from unforced errors. The team played like cowards.
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Well we’ve shown this season we can hang in there. It’s the results against the other teams that matter and also needing to find a way to take points off them at home.
Well that’s 12 consecutive losses to them and 0 taken from 36 last 6 seasons.
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That’s fucked up
Need to address that but in isolation a defeat against them isn’t a decider if we can pick up points against the other teams. The dropped points in our last three games has been the killer this time.
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Don’t think so if I’m being honest, not in the way we almost ran the table first half of the season.
This “structural damage” to Saliba’s back should send alarm bells off in Edu’s office. We have to be prepared to be without him and Tomiyasu.
Our midfield has looked horrible the last month. We might need to sign replacements for Partey and Xhaka this summer, but that’s easier said than done.
Big questions at forward too. Jesus is great but is he just a more athletic Lacazette? Is that enough? Do we move Eddie? Balogun? Nelson?
That’s some stat
I don’t think you can afford to give up 6 points to a direct rival season after season when the standard to win the league is so high.
I agree West Ham and Southampton were bottle jobs and if we won them it would still be in our hands, but I don’t see us being perfect in our last 5 so I still think we’d have needed a draw at City.
No, exactly, its important we get over this mental hurdle to take points against them at the Emirates. It can be done but the performance has to be spot on. We came close last season, and had a good first half this one but same old story. It makes the Emirates game that much more important because of how difficult they are at their place.
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I really, really want us to lose this fucking bottlers thing, I absolutely hate it. Maybe because it’s fucking right 
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We need a bigger squad and improved flexibility from the coach on rotation and tactics. Then the trajectory might stay up otherwise this season could be as good as it gets even without trophies.
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Utterly fucking embarrassing for any team in the league, let alone one of the better ones.
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Yeah it’s absolutely fucked.
Am not sure how Mikel will do it but he needs to get these players to toughen up mentally if they’re talent is ever going to amount to anything.
I don’t buy the lack of experience argument. Youth is an excuse if we’re inconsistent, but we’ve been near consistent right till the Liverpool game and then suddenly fell off a cliff, when it mattered most. These players are lacking the self-confidence needed to handle high pressure situations. In the last few games, we’ve folded at the first sign of adversity. And they did the same last year so clearly they didn’t learn from that experience.
Like I said in a previous post, the West Ham game was the one that told me we just don’t have that killer instinct that winners have. Everything after that has gone pretty much how I expected it to.
There’s clearly lots of work ahead before we can get anywhere close to City’s level, both from a squad depth perspective and having a winners mentality perspective.
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Since the start of the season I’ve been determined to enjoy this - this season we’ve had wins over United (twice), Chelsea away, Spurs home and away, Liverpool and become genuine title contenders. It’s been the most enjoyable season for many years, and I’m not going to look back badly on it because it hasn’t delivered a league title.
I genuinely feel a little bit sorry for fans who’ve only taken stress and worry away from this season.
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Arsenal are back, and I’m so grateful. What a season it’s been, sadly, too long for our thin squad. But we’ve made massive steps forward, more than anyone expected at the start of the season. Ahead of the plan, according to Mikel himself.
Lots of work to do in the summer, but I have faith in Edu (and Mikel) to get the players we need this time. Back in the Champions League, playing beautiful football, players will want to come here. Excited.
Let’s finish the season strongly 
COYG
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