Mikel Arteta: Aston La Vista To The Title?

[A_G]

Are you Arteta in?

He has to blud, he has to go blud.

 

[GLITCH]

Wait, is he actually arguing that all three should have stood?

He was miles off on the first one.

Banter doesn't have to be accurate. It seems, if you're sh** enough, anything goes.

 

[Penn_]

Was strange to see Arteta talk about Wenger coming back in some capacity. Perhaps his starting to feel the pressure and thinks he’ll have his back.

 

[A_G]

This might be the club's thinking actually

 

[Arsenal1508]

Our board are cowards or use wait and see approach. Another year, no CL and probably not even Conference league haha.

 

[Makingtrax]

@American_Gooner Bit sick of young squad excuse narrative now. Arsenal 2007/2008 squad average age was under 22 years after losing a number of experienced players (Campbell, Lauren, Pires, Cole, Gallas etc) and going for a rebuild.

That team was immediately the top of the PL until the Eduardo injury and finished 3rd with 83 points. Goal difference +43.

Goal posts can't keep moving to defend Arteta

 

[Paperino]

This might be the club's thinking actually

What kids is he talking about?

 

[SA Gunner]

This might be the club's thinking actually

I wouldnt be suprised if it is.

 

[A_G]

What kids is he talking about?

ESR, Saka, Sambi, Martinelli etc.

 

[Paperino]

Is Ben White (24) one of the kids?

 

[Paperino]

ESR, Saka, Sambi, Martinelli etc.

None is below 20 years old. They are not kids.

 

[A_G]

@American_Gooner Bit sick of young squad excuse narrative now. Arsenal 2007/2008 squad average age was under 22 years after losing a number of experienced players (Campbell, Lauren, Pires, Cole, Gallas etc) and going for a rebuild.

That team was immediately the top of the PL until the Eduardo injury and finished 3rd with 83 points. Goal difference +43.

Goal posts can't keep moving to defend Arteta

Gallas was captain that season.

 

[2Smokeyy]

This might be the club's thinking actually

Remember when our board were planning on taking advantage of the FFP that was over a decade ago? Going toe to toe with the likes of Bayern we were told.

They’ll take another L with this project. We are such a reactive club with terrible luck and planning.

 

[Sniper Mik]

James McNicholas in the Athletic

'If you were already concerned about the absence of a coherent strategy for Arsenal’s attack, then their performance in this 2-1 away loss to Everton will have confirmed some of your fears.'

Hey, I'm thinking he's seeing the light, until he spins it that Arteta hasn't been able to buy any strikers of the right type to suit his style of play and suggest a player like Calvert Lewin would be more suitable.

'Stylistically, he is a very different player to either Aubameyang or Lacazette: of his 43 Premier League goals to date, almost half (18 goals — 42 per cent) have been headers. He would offer Arsenal the focal point they frequently lack.'

Get your cheque book out Stan Arteta's PR team is trying to suck you in again.

I would pay good money to see this man getting flogged in public.

 

[GoonerJeeves]

My gut feeling tells me he's very frustrated and it's affected his form. At one stage last night Lacazette cleared the ball off the line to stop a corner. What was he doing there behind Tomi? These strikers are so deep it's mental. No new frontman will solve this problem.

I agree with you that the tactics are a different matter. Still, when you're in the position where it's easier to score than to miss, and you still miss, you have to wonder. With auba there's simply been too much of that this season.

 

[Keplaz]

This might be the club's thinking actually

Are our competitors standing still and not signing any players at all? They are just waiting for their team to be over the hill, so Arsenal can dominate.

And these "kids" are just renewing contracts with no trophies. Happy to be the best team outside the new Top 8. No one is trying to sign them. They have no ambition. They only want to win with Arsenal.

We have to learn from the past guys. We've seen this before.

 

[TakeChillPill]

Mediocrity confirmed

 

[Makingtrax]

Gallas was captain that season.

Yeah stupid, he came in the Cole exchange. He must have been almost 30 then so it shows how young the others were.

 

[Penn_]

This might be the club's thinking actually

Stuff like this just reminds me of a great Peep Show line.

“You're not a bad person, but I'm afraid to say you are a *****”.

 

[Tom349]

Our issues are identical to the final season under Wenger. Can't create or score away from home and struggle to win comfortably at home. In that season we scored 20 away goals so just over a goal a game away from home and scored 54 at home which is rather misleading when you break down each individual game with many of our goals coming in the final 10 minutes when the game opened up. We are getting those chances this season in the last 10 minutes but failing to convert often it being a case of miss placing simple passes in the build up rather than the final action.

If you back even further to the 2016/17 season how many times did Giroud bail us out with a late goal using his strength, height and aerial ability to finally convert the numerous crosses we would put into the box.

Emery first season was an outlier with Aubamayeng and Lacazette scoring goals that they have never before or since come close to scoring. Dried up in season 2 which spelled the end for him.

Moral of the story we have struggled to score under the last three managers especially away from home. No one questions Wenger attacking set up despite the latter years of his being a grind and while many of his players have moved on since the few left from his tenure were his attacking options.

So while it may be popular and easy to say the coach is the issue, is this really the case.