Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - RIP Diogo Jota

[gho3st]

Having a striker isn't a miracle though yesterday's game was winnable we just aren't decisive enough.

Hopefully uncle Berta can help us in the attacking department because despite Artetas short comings, great recruitment can help even the most limited coaches as individual brilliance can break the monotony of our current system.

Jose lived of that for years when he played similarly drab football, he always had some great attackers...specifically great target men to rely on when he got the ball forward, probably why he fell off as soon as he went to clubs who just didn't have the money to give him that anymore.

As much as everybody is screaming for a striker we need a big big upgrade on the LW, once again Berta needs to address this cause I know Mikel is happy enough with Martinelli cause of "workrate", he probably wants a replacement for trossard more than an upgrade on Martinelli.

Lmao , thats not why Jose fell off . His fall off began at Madrid. behind all that grand standing , was an insecure manager desperate for constant recognition and adulation. That insecurity bled to his tactics.

Even tho Pep will go down as the better manager. Weve always thought Pep was the humble one and Jose was thw opposite. But that aint the case at all, Pep is way more cold blooded than Jose. i doubt Pep cares about his players at all, only results

 

[MVike28]

Let’s all be real. Pep is out of blood this upcoming season.

It might get ugly

 

[phillycavsfan]

Let’s all be real. Pep is out of blood this upcoming season.

It might get ugly

We have to know if City get punished first.

 

[DapMeUp!]

Lmao , thats not why Jose fell off . His fall off began at Madrid. behind all that grand standing , was an insecure manager desperate for constant recognition and adulation. That insecurity bled to his tactics.

Even tho Pep will go down as the better manager. Weve always thought Pep was the humble one and Jose was thw opposite. But that aint the case at all, Pep is way more cold blooded than Jose. i doubt Pep cares about his players at all, only results

He still succeeded at Madrid and won cups at man u, when he had to go to the dust cabinet at spurs and a washed roma he somehow couldn't do it anymore same story in Turkey right now.

 

[Roberto Firmino]

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

I think Lego Hair is almost elite as a coach.

And Arsenal have developed every season under Arteta even tho most fans don't see that because its all about trophies to them.

 

[null]

He still succeeded at Madrid and won cups at man u, when he had to go to the dust cabinet at spurs and a washed roma he somehow couldn't do it anymore same story in Turkey right now.

eh. he got spurs to a final. won a cup at roma along with another final.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

I’m mostly still just very about it all. Turkish from AFTV is my spirit animal and he summed it up masterfully post game. He said he saw two Paris mans crying in front of him yesterday. I want to cry, tears of joy. But the tears bc of sadness, frustration?? Those dried up a long time ago

I don’t want to make this a long post, but Arsenal is always a nearly club. Every year we the fans see what the team needs and someone somewhere behind the scenes doubles down and says “nah fukk that, we’re smarter than you”.

I’m not Arteta out, but he’s showing me a few things that are huge red flags. His recruitment has been shocking. There’s a few bangers in there sure but that’s just numbers. He’s overseen signings of Willian, Havertz, Merino (both of whom are better strikers than the position we paid big money for them), Calafiori, Tomi, Cedric, Vieira, that one guy from Brazil that played CB and was trash, Kiwior who in fairness hasn’t been noticed in Gabriel’s absence which is great. Selling players with no plan to replace

He’s shown an inability or unwant to play youth. MLS is in the team out of sheer necessity, Nwaneri can’t buy a game. He runs his starters into the ground. Shocking substitutions when chasing games, inability to coach an attacking style. For all his talk about ruthlessness he doesn’t drop players he likes out of form.

People keep saying he brought us back from the dungeons which he’s done a good job, but he’s been backed. That’s more than we can say for the previous two managers. I’d 100% prefer Wenger if he had Arteta’s backing from the board. Even Unai wasn’t given a fair shake. We don’t give him enough credit for the bones being there to a better side.

Emery had Arsenal playing basketball games every match going life and death. He had 18 months to fix that defensive structure and he didn't.

 

[DapMeUp!]

eh. he got spurs to a final. won a cup at roma along with another final.

Ahh sorry, my brain just completely skips that conference bollocks my bad

 

[Yippee Ki Yay]

Lmao , thats not why Jose fell off . His fall off began at Madrid. behind all that grand standing , was an insecure manager desperate for constant recognition and adulation. That insecurity bled to his tactics.

Even tho Pep will go down as the better manager. Weve always thought Pep was the humble one and Jose was thw opposite. But that aint the case at all, Pep is way more cold blooded than Jose. i doubt Pep cares about his players at all, only results

Yeah that is one thing you can say about Maureen , he cares about his players

You listen to the players who have played under him and the way they talk about him, you can tell he cares

But then he did learn his trade under a certain Sir Bobby Robson

 

[OneManGang]

Emery had Arsenal playing basketball games every match going life and death. He had 18 months to fix that defensive structure and he didn't.

He wasn’t perfect, I’m not saying he was better or worse. But he does deserve credit for a few things that Arteta either reaped the rewards from or built upon. He’s clearly a good coach, maybe not a top coach for what we want to achieve but his resume speaks for itself.

 

[OneManGang]

Let’s all be real. Pep is out of blood this upcoming season.

It might get ugly

200 mill in fukking January and I don’t expect them to stop in the summer either. Anyone acting like Arsenal is on some linear path to a trophy is STILL just blindly optimistic. It gets harder every year. The years where the path is clear for us we shoot ourselves in the foot. When Leicester won the league we bought Cech in the summer and nothing the following January when we were short. De ja Vu

My predictions for the season are that we most likely buy some decent targets but Havertz will get as much game time as possible in unideal positions and it will continue to cost us fluidity and tactical flexibility

 

[null]

Ahh sorry, my brain just completely skips that conference bollocks my bad

it's worse than you think

fa cup final
europa league final

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

He wasn’t perfect, I’m not saying he was better or worse. But he does deserve credit for a few things that Arteta either reaped the rewards from or built upon. He’s clearly a good coach, maybe not a top coach for what we want to achieve but his resume speaks for itself.

Apart from Saka? What other credits does Emery deserve that Arteta built upon?

 

[DrHackenbush]

The PR that protects Arteta is unreal. He had a couple of good seasons but has a clear ceiling. Lets see what happens in the summer and then next season, he's obviously not gonna get sacked but Arsenal gotta win something next season