Rashford, shaw, awb, mata, jones, henderson. Pogba and cavani should be allowed to leave and ronaldo too if he wants to.
If it was an ex player they played with they'd make all the excuses under the sun.
Yes managers can be trusted 100% not for results but how they handle the group and how they respond in tougher situations and developing the pattern of play among group. Many could produce results unexpectedly here and there but pattern of play not easy to develop unless you got skills.
We're going to continue being shit and Arsenal have been playing well recently to be fair, so they will secure top 4 easily.
This is simply untrue. Wade into the United forum and you'll see overwhelming misery and borderline hatred towards most of our players. If someone has compared McTominay favourably to Henderson, they are in the very small minority.
Like I said, it's been a while since there's been a good day.
That's true, but your characterization of redcafe otherwise wasnt.
He may "know", but a team used to one game a week will have a rude awakening when Europe comes thick and fast. Arsenal either rise to the challenge or struggle. Time will tell.
Yes every team has that kind of fans who don't have enough patience or see things in perspective. But boards too equally culpable if they fail to realise football related things like schedule and injuries other than play style. Any body can understand some lethargic performances after heavy schedule.
It was ridiculous his moaning about the schedule.
If my memory serve me right, there was a manager in a club tried to implement his philosophy there with Cruyff/Dutch possession football, the same football that Pep, Arteta and Xavi are playing. He gave lots of chances to young players from academy, put Daley Blind as ball playing CB just like Ajax now for his possession football, and actually did get the young players to implement it. The player recruitment had issues and the players brought in during his time were not the right fit (i did not know who was responsible to identify target for player recruitment in that club. Let's assume the sole responsibility was on the manager), and he didn't have enough quality in his front 3 to convert the possession and domination into goals. In this process his football was deemed as too boring, all the pundits and fans wanted him gone, and he was fired in this process, even he won a FA cup in his final year. The foundation was there.
If he is not able to get over the line for top 4 he should never see the next transfer window as arsenal manager. If he failed it only highlights his inability to manage a team to perform consistently. It's not even like manutd or spurs or Leicester are flying high to give them tough time.
CL is non factor for Arsenal and the players they would be targeting , they won't be spending money based on regular Cl participation based on just single appearance in 5 years nor the players who deem regular CL participation necessary would be interested in Arsenal next summer either .
They themselves had the same with Cesc, Nasri, RVP etc.
Lego complaining when he gets an extra day’s rest between every game compared to everyone else. He’ll be in for a real surprise next season when he won’t be having 90 % of midweeks off.
I think your biggest mistake post LVG was not so much getting rid of him but not getting someone who could build on that style.
Yes I agree. We should have gone for Poch back in 2016 but went for an easy choice with Jose. However I still feel a ruthless club would have sacked van gaal in December 2015 itself. We were just atrocious. People like to rewrite history and look at Van gaal's period fondly but it wasn't. All those 0-0 draws were awful to witness.
Not getting 4th this season would be an underperformance from Arsenal given the current conditions. You don’t base your assessment of a 38 game season on what people were thinking 25 games ago. Should Arsenal not claim 4th given the fact their rivals have all but handed it to them it would be a massive underachievement.
Also, the irony is lost on people that if we were in Europe next year we wouldn't have this issue because the CL teams that play on Wednesday won't have to play the 12:30 KO Slot
Artetas issue is that this is the third time it's happened this season to us, when it isn't really meant to happen. If he doesn't complain, then it will just keep happening, hence why he's made a point about it. If it's a one off, you can understand as a covid clash occurrence. If he just keeps quiet then the prem i'm sure will just arrange our NLD match to be the exact same thing.
The fact that it's banned for CL matches on Wednesday to play the PL 12:30 KO Time, why is it not banned for all competitions? Arteta's in his right to question it.
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