Jury
A-M's drunk uncle
Renewing Xhaka and dropping £75m on Ramsgate and Whitely should result in a court case and prison for somebody. We haven’t got the time or resources to be blowing our load in that fashion.
Like every other transfer window under Wenger so we're used to itDowngraded my vote to a 2 this morning. Had a chance to sleep on it.
Let them play first, but I don't expect much anyway because of the manager.Why are people voting 5/6 when the team hasn’t improved?
Ødegaard is a gifted player. a Talent. But this is definitely not his profile.
Pepe has to play instead of Smith-Rowe or Ødegaard in my opinion. There just aren't enough goals in ESR, Ode and Saka to play all three of them.Gave it a 6... If we got rid of Xhaka i would have rated it a 7/10... My first wish of the summer was to get rid of that guy at all cost.
If somehow Arteta stops overthinking, we might see some football at the Emirates with the popular "best line-up". I'm guessing this the team most of the fan would pick.
But Mikel can't help himself. He might find a way to play Cedric or Kolasinac or Pablo Maric etc... Can never trust the guy.
Why are people voting 5/6 when the team hasn’t improved?
I disagree that the squad is unbalanced.
GK - Leno, Ramsdale, Okonkwo
DL - Tierney, Taveres, Kolasinac
DC - Gabriel, White, Mari, Holding
DR - Tomiyasu, Chambers, Cedric
MC - Partey, Xhaka, Lokonga, Elneny, AMN
AM - Ødegaard, ESR
L&RF - Saka, Pepe, Martinelli
SC - Auba, Laca, Nketiah, Balogun
We are definitely lacking in quality in some areas, central midfield in particular but numbers wise I think it is the most balanced squad we have had for a long time. We also look a little light in the wide forward positions but ESR and Auba can fill in there at a push. When you consider we had 34 players and 9 central defenders on our books at one point last season it is looking considerably better now.
I can only really see Kolasinac, Cedric and Nketiah who are completely surplus to requirements and hopefully the links for Kola and Cedric to Greek teams come to fruition in the next week.
He'll probably leave for free and then AM will tell me our players are hard to sell.
Well you are talking like Arteta who could even play Kola as centre back. After so many seasons I could say without a doubt that Chambers is a CB and not a RB, AMN would do a better job there. Also at MC we are very dependant on Partey/Xhaka. Injuries/Red card/AFCON is going to put rookie Lokonga as focal point. See next 2 games are super critical for us and we dont have both Partey & Xhaka.
Rest of the squad is ok for 8th position finish. Just hoping Tomiyasu plays a blinder for this season and AMN does very well at MC. I would be very surprised if we finished top 10 with this squad.
I don’t really know how this buying for the future thing works. So does it mean that artetas results don’t really matter because it’s all about in 3 years time anyway? How does arteta feel about that because the pressure is on him? Do we never sign an over 25 again? Do the club see the next 3-4 years as a right off?? (It probably is anyway tbf). What if we continue to decline so it doesn’t matter how good these players are in 3 years as the club is in turmoil? These players could turn out to be absolute garbage and we’ve just wasted about 4 years plus a lot of money. It’s not like this project youth is from the academy this time.
I don’t know.. I want to be optimistic but with the last 15 years of this club I can’t help but feel like it’s just going to be another flop idea. Right now my feeling is it’s 2/10 I’m afraid.