Not great news considering how closely he has worked with Arteta and how effective the recruitment has been.
It’s all a bit shit right now isn’t it.
Not great news considering how closely he has worked with Arteta and how effective the recruitment has been.
It’s all a bit shit right now isn’t it.
Dunno. The recruitment process has been at best a mixed bag, summer just gone was an utter shit show. Dont get me wrong, as I say repeatedly I genuinely like Calafiori….very good player I just question the necessity of the purchase given we clearly were working on a tight budget and had to bring money in. Merino? Fuck me he’s really atrocious. And less said about Sterling the better.
We are really lacking in depth in creative areas and we don’t have an out and out striker. That’s borderline negligence
And then you go back a few years, Jesus, Zinchenko, Vieira. You really have to ask yourself how good Edu actually was
No the set piece coach is still thereOriginally Posted by Letters
Jesus single-handedly pulled our collective socks up to challenge for the title the season before last - his injury at the Word Cup unfortunately was a huge set back from which neither he or Arsenal have ever really recovered
obvs i agree 100% with Zin but that will have been an Arteta buy
And with Vieira I can see what they saw in him but for one reason or another it didn't work out
I do actually think we needed to strengthen the defence - look at how we're still struggling at LB for example
I think Merino was a response to Partey being more or less written off but now he's come back, is fit and playing well so that makes Merino look a little surplus to requirements but he's not as bad as you say.
The main failing, which I place at Arteta's door more than Edu, is failing to buy more firepower up front
Sterling is not a bad loan to add depth but we needed an additional goalscorer
Edu has always felt a bit weak IMO
I hope they recruit a very football-wise person who's capable of driving a hard deal and standing up to Arteta, rather than another yes-man
Yeah was going to say, Nicholas Jover is still here
From what I can gather. Wilshere and Edu have left and that’s it.
Apparently the parents of Max Dowman who is supposed to be our next wonder kid, were upset over Wilshere departure because of good personal relationship between them, but people up and leave and get new jobs for all sorts of reasons.
Edu has been with us five years, it’s just possible that both he and the club have decided to go in different directions and it’s no bad thing to shake things up a bit.
This isn’t directed at you by the way, or indeed anyone else. I think the media like to create Drama though.
I think looking back at Jesus’ contribution to our title challenge, I think that claim is to say the least somewhat overstated
Jesus did ok for sure, but even at the beginning it was laughable how many chances he missed, and we were fortunate to have a triumvurate of Martinelli, Odegaard and Saka to help us.
As much as you won’t admit it, Zinchenko was also quite instrumental in making Martinelli a better player, in that Martinelli was operating in more space as a result of that. I think Calafiori when fit will provide just as much benefit to Martinelli without the defensive fuck ups and giving the ball away under no pressure.
I think Vieira always never looked physically strong enough for the premier league, always found it weird how someone reasonably short didn’t have a particularly good centre of gravity. I think technically very good, but never really showed much outside of pre-season games.
There aren’t many great out and out strikers, we don’t play a system where we employ a target man…in some ways might be better if we did…because I think Havertz is good with his head. I think ultimately you can see that Arteta wants to have the similar interchangeable front three that Liverpool had under Klopp and I must say I like that but it only works when you don’t try that ridiculous inverted full back system.
Sterling is completely and utterly burnt out, City knew this when they sold him to Chelsea I’m sure. He’s lost his electric pace and doesn’t have the strength to compensate.
Thia is worrying news. Edu has been a key part of our renaissance, and by all accounts works very well with Arteta and Josh Kroenke. More than that, it's strange that he would decide to leave if we are (as we all thought) on the brink of success. We seem to have lost our lustre this season, and this news won't help at all.
Putting the laughter back into manslaughter
I don’t know what he’s actually like, but in that Amazon documentary I think Josh Kroenke came across like a moron, someone sent out to us to get him out of the way by his father.
As for Edu I thought it was hilarious when talking about signing Tomiyasu when his own white board showed we had loads of options at right back already
Again don’t want to go on about what is only a Documentary, but I somehow strongly doubt that Edu leaving has anything to do with the last three league games.
Is Scrabble one of the events at that
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