We played well for 40 mins, missed a few sitters
Why did the club get riess Nelson to sign a new contract if he isn't going to play?
The way things are looking I’ll take 3rd place finish right now.Why did the club get riess Nelson to sign a new contract if he isn't going to play?
Why was ESR kept if he he's going to play just 5 mins here and there.
With Martinelli and Trossard out either of these two could have played. Instead Jesus was put out wide and Nketiah through middle.
Once again Arteta shows how clueless he is when it comes to rotating under pressure
Nketiah nor havertz should have played as much as they did today.
Arsenal now have Bournemouth away where they are probably going to have to play a midfield 3 of jorghino / havertz and oddegard
I said the squad "depth" and rotation would be exposed. Arsenal can't afford to drop points next week.
Il say this now when Man city turn up at the Emirates with 7 wins from 7 games and beat Arsenal, Arsenal will be 7 points behind already and Arsenal's title challenge will be done before it's even got started.
Arteta will be exposed even more this season and will see how many of his fan boys mamoon, immy69 etc.. are still making excuses.
He's a professional bench warmer he was startled to be playing
Arteta is intent on play nketitah and havertz no matter how much its to detrimental to team play etc..
Man city didn't start last season slow at all they won 8 drew 2 of their 1st 10 games. All this City were slow was a load of nonsense.
I wanted maddision when we signed oddegard and I wanted maddision over havertz.
Man city were supposedly weaker this season? And Arsenal are stronger?
This will be 2003 Chelsea under raneri vibes when the manager was clueless in team rotation in different competitions. Back then Chelsea had a quality squad, but at the time not the manager to gey them over the line or the mentality.
Excellent put post, glad some fans can be honest and telling it like it is.
ye this game really deflated folks. Upto the boys to respond
It was a typical Arsenal home performance this season. Very little creativity, wasted the few chances we got. Gave away sloppy goals.
Rice was needed as xhaka left and Partey can not stay fit. Arsenal's midfield otherwise is very mediocre level in terms of quality or so called depth. If you look at all of Arteta midfield signings only oddegard has really done decently.
Whilst league Cup is not seen as top priority let's be real Arsenal ain't winning the PL or the CL and the club can't afford a trophyless season and certainly can't afford to throw cups away like it has in last 3 season. Since winning FA cup Arsenal's cup performance have been disgraceful to say the least.
The havertz signing was a waste of money and yes that money should have been spent elsewhere. We could have signed better in maddision or khudus who are better players and for less money. We heard end of last season how ESR was being trained up to play xhaka position and then gets zero game time and Is a better player.
Only 3M loan fee was spent on keeper. Its the 65M wasted on a donkey from Chelsea which should have been used on a striker.
It's funny how supposedly PEA had zero link up play and was just a goal scorer and Artetas team needed players who "work hard"
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It's a coaching issue, these sorted of things shouldn't keep happening, it doesn't look like as a unit they work on much defensively. Seems the focus is more on playing the ball out from the back. Players have to be able to "invert".
Eddie isn't worth 20M, let alone 35M.
1st time round Arsenal didn't want to pay the 60-70M for maddision, ozil-gaard was the cheaper low risk option.
I wished we'd signed Madders, well to be honest I actually wish we had not signed Havertz and just pocketed the 65mill!
When Eddie was in his final year of his contract Arsenl put a price tag of 20M on him and teams like palace, Leeds and West ham were interested in him and none of these sides were willing to offer more then 13M for him.
Yeah actually the point on the yellow card is a good one, it does hamper the press with the worry of a 2nd yellow.
Who is Sagoe?
19 year old youngster.
ESR goal would be good for his confidence he's miles better then Vieira and havertz
Whilst these chances are wasted. We could get punished. Not clinical enough
and some people think this guy is an upgrade on xhaka and that Arteta would turn him into a top player
He does this with loads of players. Then comes out with excuse "oh I wish I'd given player x, y, z more game time.
The club earnt 150M for finishing 2nd last season, plus guaranteed CL group stage money I think the club could have easily spent 250-300M in summer but kronkes don't want to out their own money in. They will go back to this self-sustaining non-sense they had last time we were in CL.
I would rather sell Eddie. I like Nelson. He’s got a bright future ahead of him. He’s got a high ceiling.
Gabriel has been superb. He’s world class. I don’t get with him and Saliba how we’re leaking so many goals. Arteta can’t blame personnel when it comes to the heart of defence.
got away with that
