PL: Arsenal v Manchester City | Sunday, February 21 | KO: 16:30 UTC | Sky Sports

[Rimaal]

Looool whatt nooo rimaal!!
You are my fav

Utterly mutual, cherub. Utterly mutual.

Sincerely hope this Rimaal person isn’t some overweight guy behind a keyboard in The midlands and is actually some dashingly beautiful female somewhere out there

This person is a middle-aged woman, if that's any better.

 

[wolfkidultman]

What will it take for some of you to realise the level that we’re at?

It doesn’t matter how much we pay our players, or how much we’ve spent on transfer fees, or who they’ve played for before and what they’ve achieved in the past - it’s about the here and now. We have no World class players. We have some very good players but we have even more glaring weaknesses.

It will take time to build around these very good players who even need to improve themselves. I’m talking about the likes of Leno, Gabriel, Tierney, Partey then your young players like Saka and Smith-Rowe.

Some decisions will work out, others won’t. There’s no guaranteed blueprint for success that Arteta isn’t aware of, despite a lot of people on here seeming to think that there is and they know better.

We’re about three years and many good decisions away from being able to moan about a game like the one today with a straight face. This is why fans of other clubs look at our fanbase and see us as deluded, arrogant and entitled. Get real, people. Stop making a fool of yourselves by pretending that we have the right to expect to beat this Man City team.

We’re a 5-8th placed team at best at the moment. Newsflash: teams in those positions will lose games.

 

[GeorgiaGunner]

Testimonial-intensity game today.

I get that both sides have big European ties coming up, but still a yawner.

 

[Makingtrax]

Humiliating defeats every so often? We spent 7 years in a row not being able to get past the last 16 of the CL.

You spend your whole time defending a man who is several places below the Europa League qualification spot by pretending it’s somehow better than getting knocked out of the last 16 of the Champions League.

Do you even think about what you’re saying?

 

[dka1]

You spend your whole time defending a man who is several places below the Europa League qualification spot by pretending it’s somehow better than getting knocked out of the last 16 of the Champions League.

Do you even think about what you’re saying?

 

[Gooner416]

To each his own, my love. I prefer not having competition for my men. It's why I've followed a hands off policy with @Trilly & @OnlyOne they are yours - "girlfriend code".

Problem is apart from those two absolute man rockets, the majority of this place is dominated by short, stubby, balding, bootcut jean wearing males. Good luck.

 

[HollandGooner]

City didn't care and Arsenal didn't care so 0-1 is a fair result anyway.

 

[Sniper Mik]

Sincerely hope this Rimaal person isn’t some overweight guy behind a keyboard in The midlands and is actually some dashingly beautiful female somewhere out there

She's a Kuwaiti princess IIRC from my time in this forum
@Rimaal

 

[Big Poppa]

What will it take for some of you to realise the level that we’re at?

It doesn’t matter how much we pay our players, or how much we’ve spent on transfer fees, or who they’ve played for before and what they’ve achieved in the past - it’s about the here and now. We have no World class players. We have some very good players but we have even more glaring weaknesses.

It will take time to build around these very good players who even need to improve themselves. I’m talking about the likes of Leno, Gabriel, Tierney, Partey then your young players like Saka and Smith-Rowe.

Some decisions will work out, others won’t. There’s no guaranteed blueprint for success that Arteta isn’t aware of, despite a lot of people on here seeming to think that there is and they know better.

We’re about three years and many good decisions away from being able to moan about a game like the one today with a straight face. This is why fans of other clubs look at our fanbase and see us as deluded, arrogant and entitled. Get real, people. Stop making a fool of yourselves by pretending that we have the right to expect to beat this Man City team.

We’re a 5-8th placed team at best at the moment. Newsflash: teams in those positions will lose games.

When David Moyes is riding high in 4th place with that West Ham squad and teams like Villa who narrowly avoided relegation are hovering around top 6, I'm afraid this ceases to be a valid excuse.

 

[Abhishek Arora]

Don't understand why Arteta played Saka L and Pepe R. They're more effective offensively on opposite flanks. Plus, Saka is better defensively so is better played in front of the weaker fullback Bellerin.

 

[Makingtrax]

When David Moyes is riding high in 4th place with that West Ham squad and teams like Villa who narrowly avoided relegation are hovering around top 6, I'm afraid this ceases to be a valid excuse.

Villa are two points ahead of us, but crucially, two games in hand. It's not going to be easy moving up from mid table.

 

[kash2]

The lengths some on here will go to is unreal.

its becoming self aware

 

[wolfkidultman]

When David Moyes is riding high in 4th place with that West Ham squad and teams like Villa who narrowly avoided relegation are hovering around top 6, I'm afraid this ceases to be a valid excuse.

What David Moyes has is a very well balanced squad. We have some players who are better than theirs but it’s not about individuals. Our squad is a shambles.

 

[wolfkidultman]

Don't understand why Arteta played Saka L and Pepe R. They're more effective offensively on opposite flanks. Plus, Saka is better defensively so is better played in front of the weaker fullback Bellerin.

Because Cancelo is a bigger threat than Zinchenko.

 

[Batman]

Has he? Do you remember from memory or is that your bias talking?/

Do you remember from memory? No Manberg, from my left testicle. Not only has he laughed after losses, he's also cozied up to opponents who have gotten his teammates sent off through theatrics. I'm 100% biased against anyone who engages in such behavior.

 

[Trilly]

To each his own, my love. I prefer not having competition for my men. It's why I've followed a hands off policy with @Trilly & @OnlyOne they are yours - "girlfriend code".

Pardon?!

As a proud man I well never be the property of any woman.

 

[Big Poppa]

What David Moyes has is a very well balanced squad. We have some players who are better than theirs but it’s not about individuals. Our squad is a shambles.

Be honest, did you think that at the start of the season? West Ham don’t have the luxury of loaning out England internationals or £27m defenders. We’ve got an unbalanced squad but allowed a lot of promising parts of it to rot unused.

 

[Big Poppa]

Villa are two points ahead of us, but crucially, two games in hand. It's not going to be easy moving up from mid table.

And we have Leicester, Liverpool and Sp**s in our next 4 league fixtures if I’m not wrong. Need an attitude transplant to get meaningful points out of those.

 

[freeglennhelder2]

It doesn’t matter how much we pay our players, or how much we’ve spent on transfer fees, or who they’ve played for before and what they’ve achieved in the past - it’s about the here and now. We have no World class players. We have some very good players but we have even more glaring weaknesses.

Partey is without a shadow of a doubt a world class player.

Maybe that’s about it though.

 

[14Henry]

Partey is without a shadow of a doubt a world class player.

Maybe that’s about it though.

World Class players play for World Class teams. Hes a very good player but he is not world class.