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Im saying 3rd the teams below will slip up. Citehs last 8 games always looked like 24 points or very close
Pity there isn't 10 games left, they'd catch the victim scouse bastard vermin filth!
We've had no luck this season, so maybe due some in the clge!
Having never won it, I'd have taken it ahead of the plge!
A decent striker, creative midfielder, hold on to our best players, get shot of the dross and with a bit of luck with injuries next season and I think we could stroll the plge!
Also I think Kiwior could be an important player next season!
Im saying 3rd the teams below will slip up. Citehs last 8 games always looked like 24 points or very close
Pity there isn't 10 games left, they'd catch the victim scouse bastard vermin filth!
We've had no luck this season, so maybe due some in the clge!
Having never won it, I'd have taken it ahead of the plge! A decent striker, creative midfielder, hold on to our best players, get shot of the dross and with a bit of luck with injuries next season and I think we could stroll the plge!
Also I think Kiwior could be an important player next season!
Trouble is, we’ve been listening to that refrain, not just under Arteta, but for the best part of 20 years. I’ll believe it when I see it, because being 2 or 3 obvious players short seems to be in our DNA.
I don’t know much about Berta, but we can only hope he has the input to make a difference.
Just becoming more and more Wenger like with every passing week
We grew used to this in the league. The borefest of working out which of the minor CL places we'd take and insipid performances at this stage of the season played out in front of a disappearing crowd. It was interesting to hear pundits talking about that yesterday i.e. crowd apathy. I got offered tickets to last night's game from three different mates where as in the past 2 seasons that just didn't happen. Most people have had enough of this season and its literally all about PSG now.
I gave up on Wenger when the 08/09 team collapsed. I felt after '06 he deserved the chance to build a new team on the back of the invincibles break up and there were some really promising signs. The team signed some exciting young talents and were playing exciting football at times. They just lacked 1 or 2 ingredients - the Vieira replacement and a proper CB rock of a leader - to be champions. His stubbornness preventing him signing those replacements, albeit his supporters blamed the lack of funds, and then the team broke up and he tried to be 'mini Spain' playing soft as shit tiki-taka rubbish that saw us regularly bullied and go 9 years without a trophy before eventually stumbling over the line to beat Hull City in a cup final
My awareness has been heightened by that period and so should the board's, as it feels to me like Arteta is at Wenger's 09 point right here and now. If he chooses, he can go get Gyokeres, Zubamendi, a decent back up keeper, Sane (or equivalent), and a CB who isn't always injured and have us challenging. Or he can choose the never ending vanity project of being 2 or 3 players short and signing shitty two bob c.unts on loan as we did back then.
If its the latter then I'll be back where I was then - hating everything to do with the club and the manager. We'll see but this feels very familiar and last night's crowd was like old times sake
Spot on. We have Mk ll at the helm. A few years of nothingness incoming.
I was feeling reasonably upbeat about the CL and certainly about making the final, but last night gave me a tough dose of reality. Let’s hope it doesn’t affect the players in the same way, which is why I mentioned momentum and a winning habit on the match thread after the game.
Im saying 3rd the teams below will slip up. Citehs last 8 games always looked like 24 points or very close
Pity there isn't 10 games left, they'd catch the victim scouse bastard vermin filth!
We've had no luck this season, so maybe due some in the clge!
Having never won it, I'd have taken it ahead of the plge! A decent striker, creative midfielder, hold on to our best players, get shot of the dross and with a bit of luck with injuries next season and I think we could stroll the plge!
Also I think Kiwior could be an important player next season!
Trouble is, we’ve been listening to that refrain, not just under Arteta, but for the best part of 20 years. I’ll believe it when I see it, because being 2 or 3 obvious players short seems to be in our DNA.
I don’t know much about Berta, but we can only hope he has the input to make a difference.
Not entirely true. Arteta shifted some shite out of the club!
But this will be his judgement transfer window
Im saying 3rd the teams below will slip up. Citehs last 8 games always looked like 24 points or very close
Pity there isn't 10 games left, they'd catch the victim scouse bastard vermin filth!
We've had no luck this season, so maybe due some in the clge!
Having never won it, I'd have taken it ahead of the plge! A decent striker, creative midfielder, hold on to our best players, get shot of the dross and with a bit of luck with injuries next season and I think we could stroll the plge!
Also I think Kiwior could be an important player next season!
Trouble is, we’ve been listening to that refrain, not just under Arteta, but for the best part of 20 years. I’ll believe it when I see it, because being 2 or 3 obvious players short seems to be in our DNA.
I don’t know much about Berta, but we can only hope he has the input to make a difference.
Not entirely true. Arteta shifted some shite out of the club!
But this will be his judgement transfer window
Well, I was more referencing the 2 or 3 players that we always seem to short of, as we clearly are currently, with a desperate lack of a striker and a top quality centre mid.
As for dross, it took Arteta quite a while to get shot of a lot of the crap he inherited, but he then bought a lot more and we still have that, either at the club or out on loan.
So we sit here with 67 points looking at games against Newcastle and Liverpool wondering where our next win is coming from
We need 70 points to match Emery's only full season. Yay, progress. Back then we spent 40m to get 70 points and there were only 4 CL spots, two of them went to City and Liverpool who finished on 98 and 97 points.
People tend to say the league season is the yardstick for where you are as a team. Well, if that's the case then we'd better beat Southampton as everyone else has and get something from the other two, otherwise we are precisely where we started. Back then we had paid a pittance for a handful of players and had the likes of Guendouzi, Mustafi, Sokratis and iwobi. Less than 18 months in the role
Our boy Arteta is up to 5 and a half years now. He absolutely has to get this team winning the PL otherwise what has it all been worth ?
So we sit here with 67 points looking at games against Newcastle and Liverpool wondering where our next win is coming from
We need 70 points to match Emery's only full season. Yay, progress. Back then we spent 40m to get 70 points and there were only 4 CL spots, two of them went to City and Liverpool who finished on 98 and 97 points.
People tend to say the league season is the yardstick for where you are as a team. Well, if that's the case then we'd better beat Southampton as everyone else has and get something from the other two, otherwise we are precisely where we started. Back then we had paid a pittance for a handful of players and had the likes of Guendouzi, Mustafi, Sokratis and iwobi. Less than 18 months in the role
Our boy Arteta is up to 5 and a half years now. He absolutely has to get this team winning the PL otherwise what has it all been worth ?
Absolutely. And I'd go one further and say if you can't win the PL at a club the size of Arsenal within 5 years after spending 800 million then you are not the right man for the job.
So we sit here with 67 points looking at games against Newcastle and Liverpool wondering where our next win is coming from
We need 70 points to match Emery's only full season. Yay, progress. Back then we spent 40m to get 70 points and there were only 4 CL spots, two of them went to City and Liverpool who finished on 98 and 97 points.
People tend to say the league season is the yardstick for where you are as a team. Well, if that's the case then we'd better beat Southampton as everyone else has and get something from the other two, otherwise we are precisely where we started. Back then we had paid a pittance for a handful of players and had the likes of Guendouzi, Mustafi, Sokratis and iwobi. Less than 18 months in the role
Our boy Arteta is up to 5 and a half years now. He absolutely has to get this team winning the PL otherwise what has it all been worth ?
Absolutely. And I'd go one further and say if you can't win the PL at a club the size of Arsenal within 5 years after spending 800 million then you are not the right man for the job.
He won't win the PL. EVER!! We are only where we are because everybody else is so poor. The victims haven't even had to earn it. If this terrible, erratic, stop start season wasn't bad enough, we are now chugging down the home stretch in an ambulance.
Third, behind City. City have had a shocker of a season, will still probably finish 2nd and win the FA Cup. And that represents failure for them
3 to 4 players needed next season for our best first 11
Raya
Timber Saliba Gabriel MLS
New CDM
Odegaard/New CAM Rice
Saka New CF New LW
How the fcuk any fan can look ahead to next seasons potential line up and still have the disappearing prik in it astounds me tbh We have two absolute priorities this summer - one is the obvious recruitment of a top quality striker, but equally important imo is bringing in an upgrade and that gutless c.unt in the attacking midfield position. You could bring prime brazilian ronaldo into this team and it wouldnt get us over the hump as long as captain invisible is in the team
This season is nothing short of a ffffing disaster. We were never in the title race. A mixture of shite awful ref decisons , injuries and the bloody transfer debacle. This was suposed to be our season but we never got going did we. Two games against Madrid were exceptions but ffs how much better were we last year.
I hope that they have a striker lined up and this is announced asap but this season , what a fuuking let down. I don't think they will sack him though
He'll be here next season so we can't even draw a line under what has been as bad as anything under wenker or emery, because next season will be just the same.
So there's nothing to look forward to next season!
We need a fan reaction in our last home game, to let him and the kroenkes know in no uncertain terms that he doesnt have the support of all gooners!
Under MA a LOT of money has been spent, all parts of the team improved bar the forward line and most importantly the striker position.
The best one he had and binned who won him a FA Cup was Auba.
5 years since, his choices/signings Nketiah, Jesus, Havertz, none good enough to help us win a PL or CL.
Next year he has to deliver, no excuses, sign a good striker and give us a chance to compete as without a good one it will play out exactly the same 25/6 season.
Under MA a LOT of money has been spent, all parts of the team improved bar the forward line and most importantly the striker position.
The best one he had and binned who won him a FA Cup was Auba.
5 years since, his choices/signings Nketiah, Jesus, Havertz, none good enough to help us win a PL or CL.
Next year he has to deliver, no excuses, sign a good striker and give us a chance to compete as without a good one it will play out exactly the same 25/6 season.
You think a striker alone is going to fix us ? Our supposedly attacking midfielder has scored TWO league goals in 27 appearances, and has only EIGHT assists in almost 40 appearances (all competitions) - that's one assist every five game ffs For comparison smith-rowe has scored three times more league goals for a mid table side
for a change.
