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Just a friendly reminder to Hausa that Saka has equalled his last season record of G/A with 14 games to play this season.💀😄

Hervertz score fine goal.

We are finished! spy go deal with us 😂

mostob:
Gary Neville in March 2023: "I wouldn't be spending £110m or £120m on Declan Rice if I was Manchester United this summer. I would spend £50m-£60m on Declan Rice, but I wouldn't spend the figures being reported because I feel in that position, I still feel like he's got a lot to grow." [@GNev2 via @centredevils]

clown

Real clown…I swear.

iamoyindamola:
No be only you

Baba is just too clinical.

You MCM Kiwior try small today 😁

I swear I just too like Trosaard

Goal ball joor!!!

Why Martinelli I no understand this nonsense.

;DThem don do their own error

mostob:
If arsenal should sack Arteta tomorrow, which coach would you recommend to replace him?

Xabi Alonso

Wetin Trosaard want come do for field? 💀😂

iamoyindamola:
Kiwi own goal
I talk am😂😂😂
Oloriburuku somebody

Your guy guy 😂🤣🤣

It’s been long I carry this level of Negativity into an Arsenal match.

To make matters worse they are still pissing me off which the amount of Rubbish we are playing…Lmao!!!

How can I get back the team of last season, please?

I swear we would have been 2 or 3 nil up by now.

It is well sha.

All the rubbish we played in first half came to bite us in the ass.

Anyway sha, we move. Unto Sunday things.

We Dey play rubbish honestly.

Honestly white is making me miss Tomiyasu.

Last season there was a debate on who is better between him and Tomiyasu.

This season, Tomi is better honestly, bar his consistent injuries.

I like the fact that Aston Villa is being humbled.

BlueRayDick:
Even Martinelli , as much as we still have one
Reservations about his decision making in the final third , he has obviously grown from the player he was 2 years ago.

This is the same team that bought Pepe for 72 million and could not make champions league . Now we have a team of young players that growing and slugging it out with a much more expensive and star studded man city side.

Kudos to Arteta and every member of the team for ow far they’ve come jare .

Exactly. Pepe! OMG! The less said about that one, the better.

This thread has receipts of me ranting about him back to back.

If Hausa watch Pepe, Sanogo, Kalstrom, Dennis Suarez, Sylvester, Justin Hoyte, 😂 Omo!! Him go know say we have one of the most decent squad of recent.

Martinelli is annoying no doubt, but let’s not forget that he can cause harm when he is at this best.
Now I see why Arteta took his time before unleashing him, obviously Martinelli needed some one on one training for this reasons.

@Hausa I’m honestly trying to see where you are coming from, but I can’t.

Like for real, you are getting carried away by our recent performances that you can’t see that we’ve come a long way.

Take this Liverpool match for instance, as far back as two seasons ago, we chop 4 goals from them.

Now we are going head to head with them, at Anfield.

Odegaard was compared to De Bruyne last season, Martinelli was a honorable mention for FA team of the season, Saka was close second to Halland for player of the year, last season we were top of the league in Christmas , this season we are still top of the league again around that time, which show’s consistency- growth, we are through to round of 16 in champions league for first timers after almost 7 years.
So, are we there yet? No.
Is there room for improvement? Yes, I agree with you.
But you are wrong for saying they aren’t growing.
Even in their games, I’m seeing some level of composure and maturity in them, even when things are difficult for them…I’m referring to Saka and Odegaard.

I don Dey beg for draw

BlueRayDick:
White just useless in this match, na passenger

I called it from the on set.

Man seem uninterested.

Saka isn’t getting much support up front.

Saliba is the most confident defender I have seen in a long while.

By the way, that was a penalty.

Let’s not forget.

Rice na baller. He is the only one that is maintaining his composure in this game, apart from our central defenders.

Roland17:
It was and the call could have gone anywhere. I’d be mad if that was against us. I guess VAR determined he was falling to the ground and the hand was in a natural position with Odegaard slipping.

I hope this decision doesn’t come to buy us in the ass sometime in the future.

Zinchenko been his usual self, has given Sallah a goal.

Was that a handball?

Ben White is giving me weak vibes today.

It seems like he is not in the mood to defend.

Spy360:
The bolded are contrasting

Oh okay.

I meant “manager” for both cases.

Roland17:
Hey Bud, thank you for the mention.

Your first paragraph encapsulates the bulk of my issues with Arteta’s man management skills and I will try to keep my post strictly around man management. Arteta’s deficit in man management is historical since he took over Arsenal. His handling of Pepe (no one should misconstrue this to mean any support for Pepe), Saliba, Gabu, Ramsdale, D. Luiz, Guendouzi, Niles and Tierney. The bulk of these issues were managed with a lot of pass aggressiveness towards the players and a total lack of communication.

The Saliba situation is the pick of the bunch for me because we could have lost Saliba and God I wouldn’t have forgiven Arteta. Our saving grace is that Saliba is mentally tough and wanted to prove himself because he knew his worth. We saw the same deficit in man management which is mostly driven by his ego and stubbornness fear it’s head early this season with the decision to bench Gabu early in the season. It took bad performances, pressure from the press and ultimately the fans before he reverted, this had absolutely nothing to do with injuries or tactics but a coach who wants to be right.

Should we talk about the artificial goalkeeping crises we currently have? Let’s be clear, maybe I can find the particular post where I thought Ramsdale needed competion after some of his performances last season. I did not think Turner provided the competition. I was also insistent that he is Arsenal’s number 1 and the competition has to be better in many ways. Problem now is, no one can definitively say Raya is better than Ramsdale. Also, the way Arteta has handled the demotion of Ramsdale leaves much to be desired. He was asked if a good performance will give Ramsdale any chance at getting back number one and Arteta flat out told the pregame press conference that it doesn’t matter what Ramsdale does, Raya is his number one.. I mean, is this now personal.

Arteta is a huge contributor to our injury crises and mismanagement of their conditioning and it doesn’t seem like he has learnt anything despite admitting it cost us the league last season. I have said this before and I will reiterate that I have no problem if Arteta says the pressure of winning the league is a convenient excuse as to why he has refused to develop/ integrate any academy playe. What I won’t accept is the narrative that Hale send doesn’t have good prospects that are ready to be developed and integrated into the first team long term.

This December makes it 4 years since Arteta joined Arsenal as manager, yet, we can not point to one single player from the academy that he has developed and integrated into the first team.. one single player in 4 years. Personally, I don’t think he has the patience, communication and player management skills to develop players, he thrives with established and experienced players in comparison. So like I said if the argument is that he needs to win now, I will tolerate but don’t tell me we don’t have prospects.

On player rotation, it’s like beating a dead horse at this point. I pray for Saka every day at this point because Arteta wouldn’t mind fielding Saka on a wheelchair. It is one thing to field your core constantly even when it is not needed, it another thing to play them heavy heavy minutes when it is not necessary. Why in God’s name did Saliba play 62 minutes against PSV, even if u were going to field him? Do you know the number of times Saka has gone down or looks dead beat before games? Partey’s situation while partly age related, it was aggravated by Arteta’s mismanagement because he ran the guy to the ground. We are talking about a coach who put Partey in the first team the following day after he flew in from AFCON. Barely 17 minutes into the game, Partey dropped to the ground and that was it!

People think I hate the guy, I don’t, I just don’t buy the hype because it is exaggerated. He is learning on the job and that cost us the league last season and the top 4, 2 seasons ago. An experienced coach in the same position would have won Arsenal the league last season.

I will also be the first to admit, he has improved on a few things but they are mostly ingame tactics which I said I would not delve into.

Thank you very much for indulging me.

Honestly, you made accurate and fair assessment of Artetas Flaw as a manager.

You also did justice to my question, you did so with facts, not just hard facts, but historical fact and trends, receipts choke everywhere.

I won’t lie, I sometimes thought your criticism of Arteta was unfair, even though I always respected your opinion, because we both share something in common, we love this club and want it to succeed.

All in all, I am loyal to Arsenal not Arteta, all I want is for this club to win something either by Arteta or not, even though I like him being our coach for now.

BlueRayDick:
I am one of those that supported and even commended Arteta for our second place finish last year. I chose to see the progress we made from a team losing scandalously against most big teams to almost running away with the league within a one-year period.

I believe we were ill-prepared for the title race last year , hence we faltered when it mattered most (which I do not really see the reason to blame Arteta for cos there was nothing he could've done to keep Saliba injury free nor prevent some of senior players like Partey, Saka and the likes from making game-costing mistake)

That being said, the bold is where our problem lies this season and if Arteta does not show he has learnt his lesson, we may still suffer similar fate as season. If Arteta does not learn to use fringe players in dead rubber matches, he will lose key players to avoidable injuries or fatigue which may come back to bite us when we need those players more. He needs to stop the nonsense he tried in that PSV match and manage his thin squad's fitness.

Exactly, and which begs the question of, what is the use of keeping a lot of Fringe players without using them when it matters and doing so adequately?

Come to think of it? non of our fringe player have played a complete match this season (correct me if am wrong).
My point is knowing when to have all your players fit is the difference between success and failure in EPL.
Honestly I will be so mad if we don't capitalize on Man Citys dwindling form this season, at lease lets give them a lot gap pending when they pick form towards the later stage of EPL.

I genuinely hope he gets this sort out because the season is still long..o

On a side note, bloated squad does not mean squad depth, players like Cedric to me are just occupying space, let them leave so that we can replace him with one of our academy player that will understudy Tomiyasu and Benny blanco, same can be applied will elneny.

Hello Roland17 a penny for your thoughts?

About Arteta's man management, what is your specific line of argument? Is it that he is not developing youngsters well enough i.e bringing out their potential? or he isn't rotating the team well enough to give space for rest for other first team players.

My own opinion is that, he needs to do better with giving first team players rest, he needs to rotate the squad better so as to avoid, burnout, mental block or injury.

On the aspect of mental block, I think that is what is affecting Martinelli-that final output.

Otherwise, I think he was impressive yesterday IMO, he was causing defenders problem, but you see that "what to do with the ball in the end" that is where he is frustrating to watch.

Saka has a better chance conversion than him, but I digress

On the aspects of Arteta's player management, I am trying to see things from his perspective in the sense that, he thinks he is under pressure to win all games and as such he doesn't want to take chances by fielding in so much youngsters.

There was a time I was furious with Wenger for always featuring youngsters in such a way that we were constantly bullied by the likes of Sheffield and Stoke city.
However, if it is in the aspects of bringing out the potentials in a player, is it to early to commend Arteta for that? seeing that he was able to turn things around with Xhaka and about to do the same with Kai and Jorginho.

In essence, all am saying is that, maybe he has the ability to develop potential but he thinks now is not the right time, as he needs to deliver.

But on the aspects of Squad rotation I totally agree because asides Saka, Gabriel is another player that featured in almost all our matches.
Those guys need rest so as to be available during the final stages where teams like Man City would be in mad form.

Arteta needs to know that the league is won between March and April and we need all our squad to be fully fit by then.

What say you?

I Dey tell you, baba is patiently waiting for his flowers

Roland17:
Na we go suffer am with their epistles

No worries Spy.

Jodera Dey introduction page of his apology essay..LMAO!!!

Hervertz!!!!!!!!!!

Todays game was frustrating sha.

Brighton don wake up..o

Them Dey exploit Ben White wing now.

Also, Nketiah is useless up front.