Loss PL: Arsenal 0 - 2 Chelsea | 22nd August | KO: 16:30 | Sky Sports

[Heavy Duty Rom]

We predicted a loss because we saw us play pre-season and lose to Brentford, that's why we predicted a loss. We predicted a loss because we know that Arteta will feck it up no matter what. We predicted a loss because over the last season we have been kak at home. We predicted a loss because we know that the 125 Mil spend will not the needle a mm. We predicted a loss because we have eyes, we have brains, and we have been watching this manager for 20 months. That is why we predicted a loss, and this manager certainly does not. disappoint.

So no, it is most assuredly not an overreaction.

Out of interest, what would you have preferred?

Grealish - 100m

Ødegaard, White, Lokonga - 100m

 

[DUFFMAN]

Not exactly stonewall, though

Stonewall for every team except arsenal.

 

[yorch44]

Out of interest, what would you have preferred?

Grealish - 100m

Ødegaard, White, Lokonga - 100m

Ødegaard, Lokonga and CM. Not 50M on White an use Saliba. An then RB.

But before anything, a manager

 

[jgirolami]

Stonewall for every team except arsenal.

More like. Stonewall for every team against Arsenal.

 

[Oxeki]

 

[Beany]

 

[ptrcopp]

To be fair some of that is a sheer talent gap.
Santi pre injury, Özil before he lost motivation or Sanchez before the lack of any summers off caught up with him were all just better than anyone in our squad. Wilshere when fit was England's great hope and even Theo had 2 super-high level skills despite the paucity of the rest of his game.

As for comparisons with the Invincibles - that team had 6 or 7 of the best players to play for this club in the last 125+ years. Not enough people appreciated how that was literally a once in a lifetime team

I agree there is a class gap between players like Özil and Sanchez but I don’t believe there is between Wilshere and Walcott and the players we have.

I was just trying to make the point that we don’t have to go back to that once in a generation team to find quality because it wasn’t players that were the problem.

The current players have no confidence and a large part of that is because the things they’re being told to do either don’t make sense or don’t make use of their best attributes.

For the first time in the 20years I’ve been following this club I don’t want to watch us anymore