As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
See they (AFC) did a Q & A with Arteta, where "the Fans" could ask anything they liked, as you probably guessed (correctly) not ONE question called him on his obvious flaws and failings like:
Why the fuck did you re-sign that useless cun.t xhaka on a new deal AND for more money
or
Why do you persist in changing the line-up for every game you cun.t?
or
Why do you keep NOT playing Martinelli ? Who is one of the few players with any balls & spine and always gives 100% you cun.t?
All the questions (if you can call them that) were arse-licking simpering bollocks...
Extended interview with Martinez-Lite on SlySports. Worryingly he comes across as very deluded. More than ever. He cannot see that he often picks the wrong starting eleven and often makes the wrong substitutions.
Also rolling out the excuses: covid, impatient fans, people not understanding "the process", issues around the club, things out of his control....
Extended interview with Martinez-Lite on SlySports. Worryingly he comes across as very deluded. More than ever. He cannot see that he often picks the wrong starting eleven and often makes the wrong substitutions.
Also rolling out the excuses: covid, impatient fans, people not understanding "the process", issues around the club, things out of his control....
To be fair - if they keep playing like they did today, not many will care
Extended interview with Martinez-Lite on SlySports. Worryingly he comes across as very deluded. More than ever. He cannot see that he often picks the wrong starting eleven and often makes the wrong substitutions.
Also rolling out the excuses: covid, impatient fans, people not understanding "the process", issues around the club, things out of his control....
To be fair - if they keep playing like they did today, not many will care
Brighton away will be a tougher challenge. Give Arteta credit, he got it right today.
Still no sure why Xhaka contributes apart from keeping our defence on their toes. Hopefully, this is the start of something and not the peak.
I must admit he has got the signings spot on this summer - Ramsdale, White and Tommy look great buys. If he sticks with that defence we won’t be conceding too many this season. Partey finally coming good, and Saka, Smith Rowe continue to progress.
His reactions to the goals show that he cares , hopefully he is learning and picking up on the comments from the people that are supporting him whilst staying objective.
Lets be honest - the only team we've beaten that we might not necessarily expect to beat was the vermin scum on Sunday......and with their dismal record at our gaff (2 wins in 29 games) even that's a questionable notion. West Brom's reserves, Norwich, Burnley and AFC Wimbledon - hardly a list to set the pulse racing and in the case of Norwich and Burnley highly unconvincing wins
Lets not carried away. If the manager is going to win more of us over, he needs to prove a number of things. Firstly for me is that he's man enough to knock a few experienced ones on the head consistently - that means Leno and Xhaka not returning if the likes of Ramsdale and Sambi are playing well. Secondly he needs to keep a settled back line, and without European football if that means no opportunities for Cedric, Chambers, Holding etc then so be it. He needs to consistently get us scoring from open play. When we were 3-0 up at the weekend the commentators mentioned how Sperz had only scored 1 goal from open play......and I thought 'hold on a minute, so had we up until today!'
There's a long, long way to go to convince me. The first 45 minutes on Saturday were as good as anything we've produced under him, and we played "ok" in patches against Burnley and Norwich. When we're going on 10-15 game unbeaten runs, scoring goals and playing with a settled style and pattern I will start to believe........there's a good way to go yet!
Credit for the new signings though - if we're honest we were quick to condemn the likes of Ramsdale and Tomiyasu but so far they haven't put a foot wrong