Almost every player seems to have a sudden catastrophic decline in their ability to play football once they have been coached long enough by Arteta.1 tackle doesn't make a good player. He can't tackle. How often do you see midfielders just glide past him. That happening is not knowing when/how to make the tackle. He is rubbish.
Combine him and Pepe and that was 125m outlay and the team is worse. Liverpool got VVD and Allison for that.
We also paid Partey top whack on wages to convince him to sign. We should now start convincing him that Spain is a much better suit for him and try to recoup something. Though on 200k a week a doubt it will happen.
Partey is just a slightly better version of Diaby, people nowadays say that Diaby could have been a world class player but conveniently forget how once upon a time he sucked so much that he made Denilson look good in comparison. But Diaby was exceptionally good at one thing: collect the ball from deep and running with it for a while before passing to someone. That is the only thing Partey is good at too and what he should be limited to doing every match. The further up the pitch, the more useless he becomes. Unfortunately there are fools who think Partey is Vieira and should be doing the job of 2 midfielders, and Arteta is one of those fools.
im no fan of Arteta but the back 5 in general have performed well enough under Arteta.Almost every player seems to have a sudden catastrophic decline in their ability to play football once they have been coached long enough by Arteta.
Let's wait till we have a competent manager before selling Partey, Auba, Pepe etc in a fire sale.
Partey is just a slightly better version of Diaby, people nowadays say that Diaby could have been a world class player but conveniently forget how once upon a time he sucked so much that he made Denilson look good in comparison. But Diaby was exceptionally good at one thing: collect the ball from deep and running with it for a while before passing to someone. That is the only thing Partey is good at too and what he should be limited to doing every match. The further up the pitch, the more useless he becomes. Unfortunately there are fools who think Partey is Vieira and should be doing the job of 2 midfielders, and Arteta is one of those fools.
The defenders have done well mainly because we place so much emphasis on containing the opposition, overly cautious with committing players forward etc. We basically have sacrificed all attacking intent to look solid at the back, which gives the illusion that we are defending well. Even then we just about manage to keep out the likes of Norwich and Burnley. As soon as we come up against any decent side none of our defenders (apart from maybe Tomi) look anything special, We get ripped to bits.im no fan of Arteta but the back 5 in general have performed well enough under Arteta.
Saka and ESR have performed well. So that's 7 out of 11 players. Sambi has done OK. Partey isn't good enough. Good players especially CM make their mark on the game.