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In The Winchester, Waiting For This To Blow Over
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The fans really should have waited to see if we get Champions League, before they started singing that new Arteta chant.
Feels very jinxy!
Feels very jinxy!
Tomi’s been gone so long that some folks have forgotten his influence. With him gone, we have been that unbalanced. With him being more defensive, it allows the other wing to bomb forward a bit more which plays to their strengths.
We have had 2.5 seasons of Arteta, back to back 8th place finishes, almost 300m investment and yet we’re only ahead of last season by 4pts (while only playing one game a week). If a person is still backing Arteta after a sea of evidence that he’s clearly not fit for our club and our ambitions, then you cannot expect a well reasoned response to your well reasoned question. Like all cult followers, they will find and invent reasons to back up their warped sense of reality.@AbouCuéllar if you admit that Mikel is somewhat of Pep-lite then can you argue that he’s not the right fit for a team like Arsenal?
Sure, you can argue that.@AbouCuéllar if you admit that Mikel is somewhat of Pep-lite then can you argue that he’s not the right fit for a team like Arsenal?
The **** you on about?Carry on then, with your rabid dogism and looking for reasons to confirm your bias and a priori hate.
I feel it’s already beginning to thin out and recline again. Swear it was thicker and more lustrous in Dec-JanThe real hero here is Rob Holding's new hair.
But to play the Guardiola style you kind of need a £1Bn squad?Sure, you can argue that.
I wouldn't, because I think what we badly needed post-Wenger was someone with a coherent project and vision for the club, and someone with the personality and conviction to enforce it, and also someone who continued the philosophical legacy of Wenger. Arteta is that for me, and he's doing it with a modernised version which proposes football and seeks to dominate games proactively, which is part of the legacy of Wenger which I think is so important to continue at this club, after he spent 20+ years associating the club with it, in what I would consider his greatest feat as Arsenal manager.
And Pep-lite for me is still a major compliment.
What I don't think there is, or should be any argument about, and what strikes me as a rather stupid argument / belief, is the one about who has done better for this club, Arteta, or Em*ry. But I definitely respect those who are on the fence or even anti-Arteta (within reason, and willing to be flexible and open-minded in their assessment of him), as I am somewhat on the fence myself, and not completely convinced by his work over his 2 and a half seasons, despite the adverse conditions he picked the club up in.*
* (That said, the more I give myself time and get more objective with my emotions, I tend to come back to a more pro-Arteta stance when I analyse coldly the facts and information; the times I have considered myself against him--after Everton and United, and after Villarreal / the end of the season last, and even to some extent after these last 3 matches, though I learned from the previous two episodes to not post and take some time before assessing things a bit more coldly--after further analysis and distance from my emotions I tend to see that there are more arguments for him, than against him)
You also need to be as good as Guardiola.But to play the Guardiola style you kind of need a £1Bn squad?
Nah, to play Guardiola style and win the league yeah, or really good squad development so your squad is more talented than what you actually paid for it (which is the way to win the league almost irregardless of what style we go for), but there is nothing saying that you can't get 4th (we might and should get it this season...) or 3rd or exceed expectations with our current (watered-down Guardiola-ball) style, and potentially do interesting things in CL tournament football.But to play the Guardiola style you kind of need a £1Bn squad?
Cockroach #1All you rabid doggies never learn, get in here to have your hate wankfests whenever things waver a bit but Arteta just keeps working and keeps being better than the clowns you big up in your rabid dog, blind hatefests.
VIVA Arteta VIVA EL ARSENAL!!!!
I mean if we want to play that game then a penalty has an xG score of .75 lots of fortune in both of Eddie’s goals which also had high xG values.For the record, for those suggesting we didn't deserve this win, and that it wasn't a good performance...
Sometimes I wonder what it takes to get a bit of faint praise. Necessary victory at Stamford Bridge after three disappointing, and undeniably unfortunate results (won on xG in all 3 matches rather handily), and people are doing what they can to subtract from it...
To be honest.
If we do manage to get Champions League, everyone on here will be so happy, no one will really care about point scoring.
Arteta inners are ****. They can tag me all they want.