The mental fragility emanates from the manager at the Emirates.
Mikel Arteta | Lego Pep watch
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Pep lite barely drew with leeds. Better than Ole they say.
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Arsenal being solid defensively at the end of last season is a bit of a myth based on two games where they played a flat back five in the Cup. It’s still the same side that got turned over at Brighton, almost blew a 3-0 lead at home to Watford and let in an absolutely calamitous goal in the NLD.
Arsenal played the same ultra defensive football in the Charity Shield and at OT and kept clean sheets with Leno too so I don’t think the goalkeeper is anything to do with it.
The funny thing is that the club actually rejected him for Emery back in 2018.
Tito Vilanova won La Liga with 100 points in his only season as Barcelona manager.
Almost the complete opposite of AVB. Villas-Boas won a treble with Porto and was criticised by the UK press pretty much from day 1. Arteta came to Arsenal having never managed a team before and up until a few weeks ago was still being treated as some kind of coaching wunderkind.
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We beat Leeds, so we helped them, right? They still have a chance to catch up for 14th.
‘They know why they lost’ by Tim Cahill has to be the worst piece of footballing punditry in history.
I just fear the next match. Every match.
Arteta will be the collateral damage (and is 100% equally to blame for our current position).
What worries the absolute shit out of me is that the board can turn around and say "See we spent the money!". We don't have the buying power of United and we are in an absolute "backs against the wall position".
I fully expect us to end up in the top 10 but oh my god we are unbelievably bad right now.
Arteta will be the collateral damage (and is 100% equally to blame for our current position).
What worries the absolute shit out of me is that the board can turn around and say "See we spent the money!". We don't have the buying power of United and we are in an absolute "backs against the wall position".
I fully expect us to end up in the top 10 but oh my god we are unbelievably bad right now.
What's your financial situation like? How much spending power do you have?
My opinion is we only spend what we make. Our current wage bill is so inflated it's almost a joke (years to recover from). Take into consideration loss of match day revenue (COVID) and we are in this pile of shit.
Bigger picture is we have an owner that doesn't give a toss about Arsenal as a FC, but more monetary dividends.
The result.
Banter FC.
City in the EFL cup and Chelsea after, isn't it? That can be brutal mate. After that, it should be better (Brighton, WBA, Newcastle, Crystal Palace, Newcastle).
It should be better, but I don't think it will be.
Can see Arsenal dropping plenty of points there.
Ramblings of a madman
Spouting some 'fachts' here
They are in serious trouble.
Auba doesn't seem too bothered after securing his massive £250-300k a week 3 year contract.
Willian looks genuinely awful, 3 year contract at £200k a week. I am surprised Willian has been so poor, he was never this bad for Chelsea.
Ozil they are paying £350k a week for him to play fortnite. At least he is off at the end of the year.
Saliba £27m CB, rated higher than Fofana playing in the youth team.
Pepe, £72m winger looks about as good as Bebe.
They don't have as much money to spend as other top6 clubs, but what they have spent they have spent dreadfully. I cannot see a way back for them into the top6 for many years. Sacking Arteta won't change much, although if they persist with him they could be in a legitimate relegation fight.
Have to say I'm enjoying watching it happen!
Auba doesn't seem too bothered after securing his massive £250-300k a week 3 year contract.
Willian looks genuinely awful, 3 year contract at £200k a week. I am surprised Willian has been so poor, he was never this bad for Chelsea.
Ozil they are paying £350k a week for him to play fortnite. At least he is off at the end of the year.
Saliba £27m CB, rated higher than Fofana playing in the youth team.
Pepe, £72m winger looks about as good as Bebe.
They don't have as much money to spend as other top6 clubs, but what they have spent they have spent dreadfully. I cannot see a way back for them into the top6 for many years. Sacking Arteta won't change much, although if they persist with him they could be in a legitimate relegation fight.
Have to say I'm enjoying watching it happen!
Spouting some 'fachts' here
What does any of that even mean?!
Spouting some 'fachts' here
This can't be what he has come out with?
If so, can anyone tell me where these numbers were plucked from?
I'd say there's a 53% chance it's real.
Spouting some 'fachts' here
WTF?
Problem he has is Arsenal have lost games they shouldn't have and now they're in the middle of a tough run of games which they'd likely loose at the best of times
Where are these percentages from?
Is C-3PO part of his coaching team?
Is C-3PO part of his coaching team?
He's got some algorithm where he's looking at possession stats and xg or whatever and producing a % chance of winning the game based on historical PL data I'd say.
Now I know why he is associated to Lego.
0 emotions, charisma, look like a robot and his hair is like lego.
0 emotions, charisma, look like a robot and his hair is like lego.
Spouting some 'fachts' here
What the...does that even mean!! Data analytics gone too far
From 2 feet below his neck perhaps?
It gets worse:
"I want to see fighters. In these situations you have two types of people, fighters and victims. I don't want any victims. Victims bring excuses"
"I want to see fighters. In these situations you have two types of people, fighters and victims. I don't want any victims. Victims bring excuses"
Whooosh, what is that? But, he is clever, I bet all the pundits are scratching their heads saying wtf?
Next time Arsenal plays pundits will use these numbers to show how unlucky he is, needs more time, he is working on it, so smart, look how knowedgeable he speaks, unlike that Noogie, and also to pretend they know what it means.
Next time Arsenal plays pundits will use these numbers to show how unlucky he is, needs more time, he is working on it, so smart, look how knowedgeable he speaks, unlike that Noogie, and also to pretend they know what it means.
Spouting some 'fachts' here
What's the % of winning or losing he is referring to?
That has to be his pep talk at half time.
That's pretty strong stuff there.
'It's okay lads, we may be 5-0 down but my pre-match analytics say we only have a 0.5% chance of losing. No problems, keep doing what you're doing"
Watching The Expanse I guess
