Gunner Rob wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 5:56 pm
BobbyPires7 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 5:33 pm
These are the last days of Arteta. Believe me he will be gone by Christmas.
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You really think that the Kroenkes will sack him after he nearly took us to the title last season ?
Look how long it took to get rid of Wenger. He will stay as long as he wants.
Yep he will Rob. That 2nd place has given him a job for life and as can be seen on here he can do no wrong in some fans eyes and it will ever be this just like the akbs until it really becomes infighting and untenable but it will take years as it did with wenger.
We are worse than last season all because of team selection tactics and pure self harm.
Instead of adding to what we had on what appeared to be a potentially winnng formula, by improving certain positions and adding backup strength, which is what we thought the signings had done, he's completely jumped the shark and ripped up what we had to either try and be clever or because he's facking insane.
It all seems to be to accommodate his love child havertz. Wtf has he started each game? Why disrupt a winning team for this no mark who's done nothing to justify a starting place? Bring him off the bench ok, but completely change us to start this non entity is lunacy.
Complete imbalance. White was not the best last season but i thought he was pretty effective at right back, working well with saka, and he's a poor CB, yet no, partey ffs in a position he's never played before, simply to accommodate havertz who is worse than xhaka ffs!!!
Breaking up a pretty strong CD partnership for no reason, a disgraceful situation at left back getting rid of the best albeit injury prone defender when we are short and making us weaker there (fine let him go if timber hadn't got injured but he has) not giving esr, one of the brightest talents and more potential than saka imo, a chance, the willful neglect of even pretending to be interested in signing a goalscoring striker.
The crazy GK situation...ramsdale is error prone but not the biggest area of need yet we sign another number 1 of similar level...completely pointless...fine do it if your gonna bin ramsdale off immediatly but just do it straight away and get him out of the club. This 2 number 1s is madness and going to cause issues.
The manager seems to have believed his own hype and gone mad...I was full of hope, and even thought maybe havertz was not so bad having not watched much of chavs, despite not rating at all what I had seen, yet he's utterly awful and arteta has destroyed what we had last season to fit him in and making bizarre choices as mentioned above to leave us weaker than last season.
It's baffling. Self harm.
Piss easy start to the season and we have made hard work of it. It's gonna be a struggle and this side will be well below the victims and chavs and Saudis, let alone city unless big changes are made ASAP.
United are shite but if they beat us its a crisis imo if not already.
Yes a home draw to Fulham after 2 wins isn't the end of the world but we look so disjointed and poor.
Add to it all the media cream their pangs over scum and the BAP effect and its incredibly frustrating.
I was never convinced on arteta but felt he earned this season to be truly judged. So far it seems he's gone batshit and willfully making us worse.
I simply don't undertsand it.