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Spy360:
I am glad you have started mentioning figures.

Arteta was given 90m dollars to win the league. Do you know how much Pep was given for the January transfer window alone? 190m dollars.

If 190m dollars cannot save Pep's season how do we expect that an odd 90m will win Arteta a title. Are we serious?

At the start of the season Arteta wanted a goalkeeper, a defender, a midfielder and a forward. How do you do this with 90m? Even the 90m was partly raised through sale of players like Ramsdale, ESR and Nketiah. So that there was actually no new additions but replacements.
90m despite having to sell of the likes of ESR, Ramsdale and Nketiah and knowing that Tomiyasu isn't coming back from injury.

Yet Arteta mismanaged 90m.

You have called it mismanaged because you think 90m could get us a striker and a backup for Saka. Who does that?

You are thinking so, with the blessed benefit of hindsight because you saw MLS and Ethan. And so you feel the signing of Calafiori and Merino was a waste.

As a manager would you have gambled on a 17yo rookie who has not even signed a professional contract as your LB for the season and expect to win an odd title? Or you expected to rely on an injury free 35yo Partey to be your base midfielder and not sound silly?

Yet Arteta mismanaged 90m.

He mismanaged 90m in the summer then what happened in Jan? Seeing the amount of injuries the team has suffered including players being ruled out for months and some for the rest of the season. Yet we should blame Arteta because he mismanaged 90m.

Let's be objective.

This is exactly what i wanted to type.
Pls don't tell me Cala is a waste. Never.

Even Merino ...this is his first season.

Nwaneri and Lewis skelly were not in the picture at all.

Oga that merino deal drag...I am sure zumabedi was also wanted by Arteta but funds did not allow.

I will never believe the players he got were all he wanted for last summer.
U can never expect all signing to come good .
Only low-cost signing have been average the others are doing well bar Tomi coz of injury.
Besides all our players now command a fee unlike years ago.
Arteta decided to loan out non performing players Tavares, Loķinga and that Porto softy.
Tavaresin now a wanted man ...Lokonga is better nut injury is not his friend...I can't say of the other.
If Arteta wasn't ruthless he would not have bought Raya after the performance of the other keeper which he sold.

On funds I can defend.

The others I leave to spy and his friends

Zinnny had his days .

And he will command a fee of not less than 25M being wanted by Dormund and Athletico...but Arteta did not sanction the deal becaus6of cover.

Spy360:
I am glad you have started mentioning figures.

Arteta was given 90m dollars to win the league. Do you know how much Pep was given for the January transfer window alone? 190m dollars.

If 190m dollars cannot save Pep's season how do we expect that an odd 90m will win Arteta a title. Are we serious?

At the start of the season Arteta wanted a goalkeeper, a defender, a midfielder and a forward. How do you do this with 90m? Even the 90m was partly raised through sale of players like Ramsdale, ESR and Nketiah. So that there was actually no new additions but replacements.
90m despite having to sell of the likes of ESR, Ramsdale and Nketiah and knowing that Tomiyasu isn't coming back from injury.

Yet Arteta mismanaged 90m.

You have called it mismanaged because you think 90m could get us a striker and a backup for Saka. Who does that?

You are thinking so, with the blessed benefit of hindsight because you saw MLS and Ethan. And so you feel the signing of Calafiori and Merino was a waste.

As a manager would you have gambled on a 17yo rookie who has not even signed a professional contract as your LB for the season and expect to win an odd title? Or you expected to rely on an injury free 35yo Partey to be your base midfielder and not sound silly?

Yet Arteta mismanaged 90m.

He mismanaged 90m in the summer then what happened in Jan? Seeing the amount of injuries the team has suffered including players being ruled out for months and some for the rest of the season. Yet we should blame Arteta because he mismanaged 90m.

Let's be objective.

You can turn the amala as much as you want but the facts are the facts! We have 90M pounds sitting on the bench as a result of his choices.

Pep spent 190 million pounds as the standard for competition and spending? What and how much did Slot spend to be leading the pack? How much did NF spend to be challenging for top 4? It is no secret that we do not have the pockets of City, so I am not sure why this is reading like a novel idea. He knew the strength of the team before he decided to clear out options. Calafiori was and still remains a luxury player, Merino can't start, considering the deficits in the team and our financial strength, that amount could have been invested in shoring up the team with capable starters.

When we needed a forward/ striker, who did he sign? He has failed to prioritize the needs of this team. The hindsight on MLS and Nwaneri is only because of his continued failure to integrate academy products into his plans since he joined until the Arsenal hierarchy forced it after Chido-Obi's loss. Everyone out there except Arteta knew Nwaneri and MLS were exceptional talents that needed to be seen but he held on and kept them away. If he had the courage, we would have seen their value earlier than now and not expend on players who can't start. You are not City, you don't have their pocket, so you manage and prioritize correctly.

On this same thread you guys pushed back several times on the idea of a striker/ forward as an attacking option, until he realized he couldn't without it. Sesko's release clause is 55M, you chased Watkins at the last minute, there were other options that could have improved the team from an attacking standpoint but he was busy molding his own striker. Who created the imbalance with our roster? Who spent every season buying defenders in place of attacking options?

When he had options, how many times did he play them? You expect Arsenal to keep all the players and not generate income from players he has absolutely no use for? 6 years into his reign, I am sorry, I won't absolve him from the imbalance of the squad. We are talking about a coach who burns out his best players. Saka did not need to come in during a Carabao cup game that was already in the bag with Arsenal playing 2 days or there about but he decides to bring Saka in and 2 weeks later Saka is done. Havertz did not need to play 90 minutes in so many games, he could barely make it out of one game but he continues to burn them out until Havertz suffered a hammy! These things are not happening in isolation.

Arteta isn't a victim of circumstance and I will not excuse it. He is welcome to resign since we don't have City's pocket. Barca have been limited financially for nearly 3 years but guess what? They have remained competitive using resources efficiently.

If we draw feyenoord today, we are likely to face that snake in the dugout
Omo the treatment at the Emirates will be fire

Calling Calafiori signing a waste of money is unfair.

At the end of last season we had just the unstable Zinchencko and an underperforming Kiwior as our fit LB options considering Tomiyasu has been out of action as far as we all can remember.

Most fans knew we needed a decent senior player in that LB role and Calafiori fits perfectly into that picture considering his exploits at the Euros.

It is unfair to claim his signing was a waste of money simply because an academy player is shining and Arteta decides to allow him shine and not dim his light by benching him for Calafiori who has had injury issues this season.

BlueRayDick:
Calling Calafiori signing a waste of money is unfair.

At the end of last season we had just the unstable Zinchencko and an underperforming Kiwior as our fit LB options considering Tomiyasu has been out of action as far as we all can remember.

Most fans knew we needed a decent senior player in that LB role and Calafiori fits perfectly into that picture considering his exploits at the Euros.

It is unfair to claim his signing was a waste of money simply because an academy player is shining and Arteta decides to allow him shine and not dim his light by benching him for Calafiori who has had injury issues this season.

Since arteta came onboard we had just got saka as RW, most fan knew we needed a deputy for him, but he will rather prioritize defense and more defense
If unstable zinchenko was our only LB why is he still at arsenal
Unless we want to lie to ourselves, we can't compete with other top clubs in transfer we are known to sell before we buy
Arteta getting those funds were luxuries after all no one force him to take the job, we have so many fringe players under his care I am sure you have wondered why did he buy them in the first place.
This is not hard at all, he should try sell all those fringe players na and see if the club will back him or not
We all know if arteta had his way Ethan and MLS will still be in the academic but he's the one that let MLS shine 🤣

iamoyindamola:
Since arteta came onboard we had just got saka as RW, most fan knew we needed a deputy for him, but he will rather prioritize defense and more defense
If unstable zinchenko was our only LB why is he still at arsenal
Unless we want to lie to ourselves, we can't compete with other top clubs in transfer we are known to sell before we buy
Arteta getting those funds were luxuries after all no one force him to take the job, we have so many fringe players under his care I am sure you have wondered why did he buy them in the first place.
This is not hard at all, he should try sell all those fringe players na and see if the club will back him or not
We all know if arteta had his way Ethan and MLS will still be in the academic but he's the one that let MLS shine 🤣

Zinchencko was rightly relegated to the bench due to his poor perfoemance, just the Same way Ramsadale was relegated to the bench for a whole season before we got a buyer for him the next season.

You need to be objective looking at this issues. Nwaneri and Sterling were touted to be Saka's deputy even though Sterling turned out to be a finished waste pipe. We needed a decent left back and we got Calafiori which is the right call.

I'm sure if he has not gotten Calafiori and we had just Zinchencko and Kiwior as the left back option, u would've found way to blame Arteta each time Zinchencko fails to track his man and opposition scores against arsenal from his angle.

We can rightfully blame Arteta and the club management for not signing a decent senior player as Saka's deputy, but claiming Arsenal don't need a new LB in Calafiori is just pure agenda of looking for another rope to hang Arteta.

BlueRayDick:
Zinchencko was rightly relegated to the bench due to his poor perfoemance, just the Same way Ramsadale was relegated to the bench for a whole season before we got a buyer for him the next season.

You need to be objective looking at this issues. Nwaneri and Sterling were touted to be Saka's deputy even though Sterling turned out to be a finished waste pipe. We needed a decent left back and we got Calafiori which is the right call.

I'm sure if he has not gotten Calafiori and we had just Zinchencko and Kiwior as the left back option, u would've found way to blame Arteta each time Zinchencko fails to track his man and opposition scores against arsenal from his angle.

We can rightfully blame Arteta and the club management for not signing a decent senior player as Saka's deputy, but claiming Arsenal don't need a new LB in Calafiori is just pure agenda of looking for another rope to hang Arteta.

Why not sell zinchenko and others that are not worthy of playing time?
I just read Tierney is leaving for free, that's how majority of our players are I can't remember the last time we sold for profit
But still the management should be dropping funds for such coach and his team, let's look at it as our business will you be happy making investments and they keep on depreciating
We don't need calafiori because that wasn't the priority at that moment, funny enough he's been kept out by a 17 yo if by next season arteta don't need him you will still defend and say he is injury prone so why did he buy him?

iamoyindamola:
Why not sell zinchenko and others that are not worthy of playing time?
I just read Tierney is leaving for free, that's how majority of our players are I can't remember the last time we sold for profit
But still the management should be dropping funds for such coach and his team, let's look at it as our business will you be happy making investments and they keep on depreciating
We don't need calafiori because that wasn't the priority at that moment, funny enough he's been kept out by a 17 yo if by next season arteta don't need him you will still defend and say he is injury prone so why did he buy him?

That u keep repeating the same thing over and over again doesn't make it suddenly become correct. Tierney is leaving for free because his frequent injuries truncated his move to other clubs which were interested in signing him. Arteta didn't keep Tierney because he wanted to, but kept him because no club was willing to buy him due to his crazy injury history. Even when he went to Spain on loan, he was still injured and couldn't really live up to potential.

Zinchecncko was kept as a deputy pending when good offers will come for him. You are the one complaining we don't sell our players for good money yet u want us to sell Zinchencko hurriedly knowing fully well that the buyer will capitalize on our desperation to price him cheap.

Calafiori was needed because as at the time he was signed only Kiwior and Zinchencko were the two fit senior LB options and they were both perfroming below par. Looking back now and claiming Calafiori was not needed because a 17 year midfielder was experimented at LB and clicked while Calafiori was injured is the height of intellectual dishonesty

BlueRayDick:
That u keep repeating the same thing over and over again doesn't make it suddenly become correct. Tierney is leaving for free because his frequent injuries truncated his move to other clubs which were interested in signing him. Arteta didn't keep Tierney because he wanted to, but kept him because no club was willing to buy him due to his crazy injury history. Even when he went to Spain on loan, he was still injured and couldn't really live up to potential.

Zinchecncko was kept as a deputy pending when good offers will come for him. You are the one complaining we don't sell our players for good money yet u want us to sell Zinchencko hurriedly knowing fully well that the buyer will capitalize on our desperation to price him cheap.

Calafiori was needed because as at the time he was signed only Kiwior and Zinchencko were the two fit senior LB options and they were both perfroming below par. Looking back now and claiming Calafiori was not needed because a 17 year midfielder was experimented at LB and clicked while Calafiori was injured is the height of intellectual dishonesty

Experimented bawo
Did he also experimented partey at RB, oh now we know MLS is a midfielder and not a defender because we want to justify Calafiori purchase, btw we all know zinchenko is a defensive liability but he went ahead to get was he expecting a miracle
How would he have known the potential of mls and Ethan if he wasn’t forced to take them?

iamoyindamola:
Experimented bawo
Did he also experimented partey at RB, oh now we know MLS is a midfielder and not a defender because we want to justify Calafiori purchase, btw we all know zinchenko is a defensive liability but he went ahead to get was he expecting a miracle
How would he have known the potential of mls and Ethan if he wasn’t forced to take them?

Why are u jumping from pillar to post? Skelly is a midfielder that was deployed to LB and that's a fact. Nobody has said anything about Partey , rather we are talking about our LB options as at the time we signed Calafiori.

Skelly was never in the picture as LB option when the decision was being made to Sign Calafiori; if u have any evidence that suggests otherwise, please bring it forth to the table.

You are the only one that knows where u heard the coach was forced to take the players he regularly trains with the first team. You talk as if the young players would even get promoted to the senior team without his blessing in the first place.

You need to be objective here and stop letting ur bias against Arteta make u see everything concerning him as something u must complain about.He has his faults/failings no doubt, but some of these things u are trying to roast him for no be am at all.

BlueRayDick:
Why are u jumping from pillar to post? Skelly is a midfielder that was deployed to LB and that's a fact. Nobody has said anything about Partey , rather we are talking about our LB options as at the time we signed Calafiori.

Skelly was never in the picture as LB option when the decision was being made to Sign Calafiori; if u have any evidence that suggests otherwise, please bring it forth to the table.

You are the only one that knows where u heard the coach was forced to take the players he regularly trains with the first team. You talk as if the young players would even get promoted to the senior team without his blessing in the first place.

You need to be objective here and stop letting ur bias against Arteta make u see everything concerning him as something u must complain about.He has his faults/failings no doubt, but some of these things u are trying to roast him for no be am at all.

Exactly if skelly is a midfielder playing lb, why do you feel comfortable seeing partey play rb
Because they are all experiment according to you
No one is roasting him for anything, he should win trophies and stop complaining or he resign
Simple!!

iamoyindamola:
Exactly if skelly is a midfielder playing lb, why do you feel comfortable seeing partey play rb
Because they are all experiment according to you
No one is roasting him for anything, he should win trophies and stop complaining or he resign
Simple!!

I am not uncomfortable with skelly playing LB; neither am I uncomfortable with Partey playing RB when the ocassion demands it and we don't have any other option.

When I talked about experiment, I was telling u that Arteta never set our to play Skelly as LB when he had just Zinchencko and Kiwior as the tow fit LBS. That was why he signed Calafiori ; it was after Calafiori had injury he had to improvise and we all now saw the boy plays the LB well.

I don't recall Arteta co.ainjng about his job, on the contrary u are the one complaining about his job and setting ultimatum for him.which his employers didn't even set for him 😂

BlueRayDick:
I am not uncomfortable with skelly playing LB; neither am I uncomfortable with Partey playing RB when the ocassion demands it and we don't have any other option.

When I talked about experiment, I was telling u that Arteta never set our to play Skelly as LB when he had just Zinchencko and Kiwior as the tow fit LBS. That was why he signed Calafiori ; it was after Calafiori had injury he had to improvise and we all now saw the boy plays the LB well.

I don't recall Arteta co.ainjng about his job, on the contrary u are the one complaining about his job and setting ultimatum for him.which his employers didn't even set for him 😂

I ain’t complaining either
It’s posts like he’s doing us a favor I tackle
He’s the second longest and highest paid manager in epl with nothing to show for other than bottle jobs and second place
For his sake I hope he wins something fast , it’s no surprise no one is bidding for him after the whole favor he did for arsenal fc

iamoyindamola:
I ain’t complaining either
It’s posts like he’s doing us a favor I tackle
He’s the second longest and highest paid manager in epl with nothing to show for other than bottle jobs and second place
For his sake I hope he wins something fast , it’s no surprise no one is bidding for him after the whole favor he did for arsenal fc

When did clubs start bidding for caoches like players?

If a coach is unsettled at his club and looks at future away from his current employers is when he starts listening to offers from club who need a new coach. Arteta is not unsettled at Arsenal but actually enjoys the trust of the club management as of today.

If he decides to move away from Arsenal, he will get a good job without breaking a sweat. If Vincent Kompany can get a job at Bayern Munich, who says Arteta won't get employed by any of the top clubs if they need a new coach ? You don't need to like him for him to get a good job away from Arsenal

BlueRayDick:
When did clubs start bidding for caoches like players?

If a coach is unsettled at his club and looks at future away from his current employers is when he starts listening to offers from club who need a new coach. Arteta is not unsettled at Arsenal but actually enjoys the trust of the club management as of today.

If he decides to move away from Arsenal, he will get a good job without breaking a sweat. If Vincent Kompany can get a job at Bayern Munich, who says Arteta won't get employed by any of the top clubs if they need a new coach ? You don't need to like him for him to get a good job away from Arsenal

Kompany that brought burney from relegation is who you are comparing to arteta
Make arteta take championship job first and survive na

iamoyindamola:
Kompany that brought burney from relegation is who you are comparing to arteta
Make arteta take championship job first and survive na

Good coaches don't take championship jobs, it is the lower cadre of football reserved for mediocre Players and coaches. That's why u don't see any manager that knows his onions taking championship job

Guy!!!!!!

They were forced on him but they have been training with the senior team for over a year.
Watkins was identified earlier by Arteta but the management had their issues with him and didn't go all out and when they did go, they underpriced what Villa wanted. But somehow it's our mumu coach fault.
Make dem shaa win something this season (though I dey laugh on that shaa) make everybody calm down.

We are facing PSV. Quarter finals looks feasible. Hopefully we won’t bottle it.

We will face either Real Madrid or Athletico at the quarters. Solid test that would be. I’ve always wanted us to face Real Madrid. It would have happened last season if we didn’t bottle Bayern match.

toluxe0075:
We are facing PSV. Quarter finals looks feasible. Hopefully we won’t bottle it.

We will face either Real Madrid or Athletico at the quarters. Solid test that would be. I’ve always wanted us to face Real Madrid. It would have happened last season if we didn’t bottle Bayern match.

Be careful of what you wish for bro.

germaphobe:
Be careful of what you wish for bro.

😂

We go face Madrid, dem go beat us finish and baba go come here to resume cussing Arteta

BlueRayDick:
Good coaches don't take championship jobs, it is the lower cadre of football reserved for mediocre Players and coaches. That's why u don't see any manager that knows his onions taking championship job

Lol
Because he use us elevate he's ahead of young coaches in the championship

toluxe0075:
We are facing PSV. Quarter finals looks feasible. Hopefully we won’t bottle it.

We will face either Real Madrid or Athletico at the quarters. Solid test that would be. I’ve always wanted us to face Real Madrid. It would have happened last season if we didn’t bottle Bayern match.

I don't want that Madrid route
Why psv I was rooting for feyenoord
Third time we are meeting psv

We will be the underdogs if we jam Madrid. Their firepower upfront is something else.

Can anyone replicate the Igwe one man mopol of 2006?
Can we avoid the nonsense we did vs Bayern?
Hope we won't regret a 9 after that affair?
Downside, what if na Atletico? 😂😂😂

iamoyindamola:
Why not sell zinchenko and others that are not worthy of playing time?
I just read Tierney is leaving for free, that's how majority of our players are I can't remember the last time we sold for profit
But still the management should be dropping funds for such coach and his team, let's look at it as our business will you be happy making investments and they keep on depreciating
We don't need calafiori because that wasn't the priority at that moment, funny enough he's been kept out by a 17 yo if by next season arteta don't need him you will still defend and say he is injury prone so why did he buy him?

If Merino, who turns 30 next year doesn’t make it anywhere in the midfield of the first team after this season and we get Zubi, that means Merino will become a bench merchant. Watch how folks will turn around and tell you Merino was bought to sit on the bench, just to defend the transfer and Arteta.

We have never said Calafiori is a bad player, never. I follow the Serie A religiously and knew about him before most. But like you rightly said, the team had worse holes to fill that could have made the team better and more balanced than it is. Now, we have a Calafiori who has to wait until injuries or suspensions to make the first team because he can’t displace any of the back 4.

Roland17:
If Merino, who turns 30 next year doesn’t make it anywhere in the midfield of the first team after this season and we get Zubi, that means Merino will become a bench merchant. Watch how folks will turn around and tell you Merino was bought to sit on the bench, just to defend the transfer and Arteta.

We have never said Calafiori is a bad player, never. I follow the Serie A religiously and knew about him before most. But like you rightly said, the team had worse holes to fill that could have made the team better and more balanced than it is. Now, we have a Calafiori who has to wait until injuries or suspensions to make the first team because he can’t displace any of the back 4.

I am even surprised they are changing mouth, because after last season we all agreed attack should be prioritized this season because of how we fell short last season only for this season we sold all our attacking backup and got a defender and midfielder
Why did we sell ESR and nketiah?

iamoyindamola:
I am even surprised they are changing mouth, because after last season we all agreed attack should be prioritized this season because of how we fell short last season only for this season we sold all our attacking backup and got a defender and midfielder
Why did we sell ESR and nketiah?

Anything to defend Arteta. Now, we are reading the owners have no supported Arteta in the transfer market since he joined because he did not get 190M that Pep got in January. Baba, I’d rather we sell them and make some money abeg because Arteta will never rotate his squad even for tactical reasons until he is forced by injuries or suspension.

When it comes to Nwaneri and MLS, I keep reading in hindsight, in hindsight! All we had to do was give them opportunities to see what we have before he was forced to. That way, you know how to approach the transfer market, knowing you have great prospects in certain positions that are ready for the first team. Some of us were already asking for first team participation but no, he would rather Chelsea scraps and young prospects outside Hale.

Imagine we continued the bidding war with Chelsea over drug lord Mudryk like Arteta wanted? Shebi na here we for dey reading another spinning and amala turning.

Why is nobody saying anything about our draw? Anyway, we need to beat Westham United tomorrow.

Roland17:
You can turn the amala as much as you want but the facts are the facts! We have 90M pounds sitting on the bench as a result of his choices.

Pep spent 190 million pounds as the standard for competition and spending? What and how much did Slot spend to be leading the pack? How much did NF spend to be challenging for top 4? It is no secret that we do not have the pockets of City, so I am not sure why this is reading like a novel idea. He knew the strength of the team before he decided to clear out options. Calafiori was and still remains a luxury player, Merino can't start, considering the deficits in the team and our financial strength, that amount could have been invested in shoring up the team with capable starters.

When we needed a forward/ striker, who did he sign? He has failed to prioritize the needs of this team. The hindsight on MLS and Nwaneri is only because of his continued failure to integrate academy products into his plans since he joined until the Arsenal hierarchy forced it after Chido-Obi's loss. Everyone out there except Arteta knew Nwaneri and MLS were exceptional talents that needed to be seen but he held on and kept them away. If he had the courage, we would have seen their value earlier than now and not expend on players who can't start. You are not City, you don't have their pocket, so you manage and prioritize correctly.

On this same thread you guys pushed back several times on the idea of a striker/ forward as an attacking option, until he realized he couldn't without it. Sesko's release clause is 55M, you chased Watkins at the last minute, there were other options that could have improved the team from an attacking standpoint but he was busy molding his own striker. Who created the imbalance with our roster? Who spent every season buying defenders in place of attacking options?

When he had options, how many times did he play them? You expect Arsenal to keep all the players and not generate income from players he has absolutely no use for? 6 years into his reign, I am sorry, I won't absolve him from the imbalance of the squad. We are talking about a coach who burns out his best players. Saka did not need to come in during a Carabao cup game that was already in the bag with Arsenal playing 2 days or there about but he decides to bring Saka in and 2 weeks later Saka is done. Havertz did not need to play 90 minutes in so many games, he could barely make it out of one game but he continues to burn them out until Havertz suffered a hammy! These things are not happening in isolation.

Arteta isn't a victim of circumstance and I will not excuse it. He is welcome to resign since we don't have City's pocket. Barca have been limited financially for nearly 3 years but guess what? They have remained competitive using resources efficiently.

Whatever you have said didn't address the main issue.

You have overlooked the owners.

If they feel as you do that Arteta is a failure because he wasted 90m as you claim then let them sack him.

The fact that they are offering him new contracts almost every two years shows that they are satisfied with him. That is where you should be worried and not critiquing Arteta.

If they really want him to succeed as you do, let them spoil him with expensive and quality toys.

Look at Ancelotti, for all the accolades he has nice toys to play with. So being a good manager he wins at will. Same as Pep.

As for Slot, he is yet to show proves. Arteta had been in his position two seasons ago. So there's nothing strange unless he does bottle it. Even if he does, we will give him his due flowers. It's not easy.

Lush100:
This is exactly what i wanted to type.
Pls don't tell me Cala is a waste. Never.

Even Merino ...this is his first season.

Nwaneri and Lewis skelly were not in the picture at all.

Oga that merino deal drag...I am sure zumabedi was also wanted by Arteta but funds did not allow.

I will never believe the players he got were all he wanted for last summer.
U can never expect all signing to come good .
Only low-cost signing have been average the others are doing well bar Tomi coz of injury.
Besides all our players now command a fee unlike years ago.
Arteta decided to loan out non performing players Tavares, Loķinga and that Porto softy.
Tavaresin now a wanted man ...Lokonga is better nut injury is not his friend...I can't say of the other.
If Arteta wasn't ruthless he would not have bought Raya after the performance of the other keeper which he sold.

On funds I can defend.

The others I leave to spy and his friends

Zinnny had his days .

And he will command a fee of not less than 25M being wanted by Dormund and Athletico...but Arteta did not sanction the deal becaus6of cover.

Thank you.

Who no know no go know.

Who no want know no go know either.

If we lose Arteta, Man City will go after him immediately without wasting time at all.

iamoyindamola:
Kompany that brought burney from relegation is who you are comparing to arteta
Make arteta take championship job first and survive na

Make person wey dey near you slap you for me for this nonsense post.

Imagine comparing Arteta with Company?

Roland17:
If Merino, who turns 30 next year doesn’t make it anywhere in the midfield of the first team after this season and we get Zubi, that means Merino will become a bench merchant. Watch how folks will turn around and tell you Merino was bought to sit on the bench, just to defend the transfer and Arteta.

We have never said Calafiori is a bad player, never. I follow the Serie A religiously and knew about him before most. But like you rightly said, the team had worse holes to fill that could have made the team better and more balanced than it is. Now, we have a Calafiori who has to wait until injuries or suspensions to make the first team because he can’t displace any of the back 4.

Merino was signed to replace Partey in the midfield. The reason you have the privilege to complain is because Partey is fit and in great form. Something that should surprise you if you're honest with your analysis.

Calafiori and Merino provide us solid options whether from the bench or as starters. Something we have always wanted.

Against Leicester, it was Calafiori who created the chance for Trossard to assist Merino who scored.

Think about this.

Spy360:
Make person wey dey near you slap you for me for this nonsense post.

Imagine comparing Arteta with Company?

Wetin you sabi before
Go sleep ogbeni