Are you confident for sunday's match?

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>>154235741
Leave poop fraudiola to me

arse wins 0-0 and youre SEETHINGGGG

Lads, Sharteta is definitely playing for a draw against City isn't he

>>154235732
ty

>>154235776
Is there another way to play? Attack is so blunt. Throw men forward for what? More poor passes and failed dribbles? More long shots over the bar?

what will you do when you lose both the CL and the premier AGAIN?

Where the hell is saka

>>154235871
achilles exploded apparently.

Joke club

Arsenal will win at least one trophy

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>>154235861
Probably click the not interested button on a ton of my YouTube recommendations.

sadly, city will BTFO arsenal and it won't even be close

Biggest thing I hate about the club is how international it's become. It's literally a product now. I hate seeing so many foreign flags in the thread. Fuck off if you're not from British Isles or DON'T have a player of your nationality in the squad.

>>154235776
Draw is a win, city needs the points more than us

>0-0
The perfect kind of Arteta victory.

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>haramball vs haramball
Kino beckons, but before that >our humiliation ritual continues this sunday.

>>154236256
>>haramball vs haramball
stay in reddit please.

>>154235741
95% chance to hit on x-com confident

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>>154236145
I’m French. it’s literally more our team than yours bitch. The important history of the arse is French. The soul is French. It just happens to be in london

>>154236388
>il est unironiquement francais
ngmi

>>154236388
Wenger drove this club into the ground

>>154235163
Not really, they play in the style we want them to play though
Also they got lucky TWICE with two reds otherwise their leg would have been decided on the first game against barca

Apparently arteta was adopted and this is his real family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_Vinladen

>>154236416
>gold trophy

Imagine losing the Premier League on the final day and losing the CL in the final too a week later

>>154236416
>gold trophy

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>lead down to a couple of points
>rematch with a league rival just a few weeks after demoralizing loss
>banter at a season high

Can I dream lads?

>muh haramball
>artetaliban
When will retards finally understand, we arent playing like this out of tactics, our team fundamentally does not exist beyond defensive midfield. The team has been shattered and has been in decline since December. It's reached the critical point where theres nothing left in them. We dont play for 0-0 for any reason other than we have a competent defense and nothing else. Our games arent defensive and controlled, they are very open. Once the ball makes it past the defensive third its just waiting to be dispossessed, and the match becomes a glorified defense training drill.

If Greece 2004 can do it, so can Arsenal!

>>154237831
rare

>all the negativity
for what? still 6 points ahead, still in the semis, still a chance for silverware, still a chance to watch Tottenham go down. All is good, just need some wins and key draws to seal the deal

Arteta OUT
Big Sam IN

wilshere in

>>154237261
It's Tetanyahu now, get with the times.

fell asleep in the first 20 minutes, glad i missed all of it
>>154237261
it's more that teta is setting us up like 2010 spain but without any offensive mavericks like torres or villa to pull the trigger and shitty midfielders who are allergic to passing the ball forward

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woahhh STANDARDS! Making history!

Arsenal and Bayern are good, but it seems crazy to me that PSG are 11/4 to win the Champions League

>>154239437
So Pathetico isn't even on the conversation right?

>>154236145
>I hate about the club is how international it's become. It's literally a product now.

>Fuck off if you're not from British Isles or DON'T have a player of your nationality in the squad

That's 600m people, not exactly *support your local club* territory

>>154236145
>Fuck off if you're not from British Isles
Why? Someone from Scotland/Wales has about the same connection to the club as someone from Kazakhstan so why are you giving them a pass?

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>>154236145
will you.... end me?

>>154239782
Cardiff to London is only 3 hours, Americans commute that far every day

>>154240034
Irrelevant. No kid in Cardiff has any connection to Arsenal.

This weekend we win the league

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Battle of the Grim.

Arteta OUUUUUUT now before he ruins >our season completely in the span of a week.

>>154240227
Ok who do you bring in to replace him before Sunday?

>>154240234
Me

>>154238285
We're not 6 points ahead, we're 3 points ahead because we will lose at the etihad on sunday, and we're not even 3 points ahead because we're going to lose another 1-2 matches after that.
All the aforementioned facts aside; we're playing a complete SLOG of football, david.
We're complete and utter SHITE. We have completely forgotten how to form an attack, we can't correctly pass the ball, we don't know how to make runs and through balls, we're making mistakes in our own third constantly, our defense is no where near the level it was at the start of the season. Most importantly, the team looks absolutely SHATTERED. Completely drained physically, but that's not even all there is, the chemistry between the players is no where to be found as well for some reason, they look as if this is the first time they're playing together, every time they're on the pitch. We cant even string simple passes together without fucking it up to no mans land. This all adds up perfectly with the fact that we completely lack individual prowess since this team set up have always been a "teamwork" oriented approach, which makes the current situation even more DIRE.
So in conclusion, all is not actually well, its fucken miserable in fact.

>>154240234
Mourinho

>>154240129
Aaron Ramsey

But what if arteta wins on sunday?

>>154240256
Yeah but it's the 2nd year in a row they reach the semis of the champions league

For your sake I hope you win the Premier League but lose the UCL semi-final. It would be really sour to win EPL and then lose out on the UCL, kek. let atleti take the bullet
Maybe next season Arseanal can win UCL.

>>154239425
>massive
kek easy road to the final, real madrid and barca would've been in the semis had they faced
>sporting 'p
>loserkusen
instead

>>154240342
there is a bigger chance of literally anything you can or cannot imagine happening. It has been a long time since I’ve been so certain of a loss.

>>154240368
You should place a bet on city then. £1000 bet returns £1800 if they win. Put your money where your mouth is (you won’t)

>>154240368
So you're saying there's a chance?

>>154240377
betting is haram anon, I’ve wasted enough money on Arsenal but I’m not stopping you from betting on Arsenal to win.

>>154240390
>haram
Knew it. Another brown foreign arsenal fan. You're all that's wrong with the club. Try not having a skin colour the same as literal poo mate.

>>154240394
nice try anon but I’m probably the ONLY actually white person in here, not that it matters.

I remember a month or two ago where we were making scores and it turned out arsenal could afford 2 losses and a couple draws whilst city had a pretty good run to the line. It's definitely not over. But after the city game they cannot lose. Their loss quota runs out after city. Play the u14s, rest arteta. After that, there's zero excuses.

guys stop fighting…..

>>154240398
I've got a close eye on you bud, another forrunism and you're getting it.

>>154240411
no I got MY eyes on you, I will not tolerate any open racism on /arse/!
>>154240387
there always is even it’s just our wishful thinking.

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Eight clean sheets in 12 CL games.

>>154240446
Yeah eight clean SHITS alright....

whatever happens atleast we have the “back to back semi finals” trophy

>>154240446
If only >we could somehow replicate the form that got us most of those clean sheets but >we look worse and worse every game.

Tottenham have a go kart track under their stadium. I want a go kart track under our stadium. Kronke's OUT.

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>>154240540
Do you want an NFL pitch too?

>>154240560
I think I'd prefer a retractable motor cross course please Stan, make it happen or you lose a customer.

>>154240560
Apparently that surface is largely responsible for their godawful injury record

>>154240611
god damn the next two weeks are going to be wild, might need to restock the liquor cabinet.

Sporting haven't won an away knockout game in a top European fixture since 1970, not sure why everyone was worried :^)

>>154240611
>>154240789
Most importantly, no fucking midday kickoffs left.

If I’m Arteta I’m playing a back 5 on Sunday and grinding out a 0-0. Let the world seethe and we’ll go and win the league.

>>154240611
>Sun, 16 Apr
O rly

>>154240560
btw this utterly dogshit idea is being cited as to why Spurs have so many injuries

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>>154240234
This trophy-winning manager and former Hale Ender.

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>>154240234
Slegers.

I want my club back artetaout now

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>>154241499
I dont want the club to be out of the CL in the first knockout round year after year after year after year.

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FABREGAS IN

>>154241568
True atleast now we can lift the “back to back semi finalists” trophy

>>154236145
>"British Isles"

>>154241614
Better than "never compete for anything" trophy and "lose key player every summer" trophy. I remember.

>>154241645
Those aren’t trophies

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Welcome to Arsenal.

>>154240342
Don't extend his contract if he wins the league we can give him a grace season until he finishes 2nd again

>>154241807
as the infamous iraqi politician mustafa sanad said when there was a decision to make a secondary oil pipe to deliver iraqi oil through jordan and into aqaba port(so that iraq doesn't get chocked when the hormuz strait gets blocked(which happened in the following two years)):-
"i will go there and blow it(arsenal football club) up my self"

So who in here actually thinks that we get at least a draw on Sunday ? Falseflaggers need not apply cause I can see you miles away.

>Former Arsenal goalkeeper Alex Manninger has sadly passed away, aged 48, following a traffic accident.
Will never forget you mate
Your performance against United in 98 literally won Arsenal the league

>“I am dreaming so much, I have done so much to be in this position. I see beauty, opportunity, I want to get it done. I have zero fear. Purpose, fire, direction, conviction that we will do it.”

Big words Mikel. Make sure to follow through. There will be no 2nd chances.

>>154242232
The thing is, I know >we can actually win on Sunday. We've seen how many holes City have in their defence. We know how easily teams can exploit it. The question is, will >WE do any of that? Nothing in the last 6 years has given me any reason whatsoever to say 'yes' even tentatively. It'll be a resounding 'no'. So yeah, I can see a draw, because pretty much every single match is score a shitty goal and then defend for the rest of the match and >we can't even do the first part properly so it'll just be defend for the rest of the match starting from kick off. I pray that I am wrong but I've no reason to think I will be.

>>154242244
Oh damn. RIP.

Is Arsenal far too dependent on its manager

>>154242232
You never know with this team. Like the beyer game they came out thundering. Great performance out of the blue. A draw is very much on the cards. A win a little less. My honest feeling right now is a win however. They've got a bit of magic left this season. Is it logical? No. It's just a feel. A filthy 0-1 win. I feel that's the most likely result. I think a 2-0 loss is logically the most likely however.

>>154241639
You come under our domain so you're allowed to be one of us in a sporting sense. We do of course carry these isles on every major sport and competition. You are like our development team that feels genes into our pool.

>>154242270
>>“I am dreaming so much, I have done so much to be in this position. I see beauty, opportunity, I want to get it done. I have zero fear. Purpose, fire, direction, conviction that we will do it.”
Professional waffler at his peak. Every single sentence is just filled with lies and nonsense. He got 6 and a half years and a billion pounds to get here. There is no beauty anywhere to be seen on the pitch. Opportunities are plenty but nothing to make anyone believe that these opportunities will be taken. If he wants to get it done, he's showing it in a really fucking bizarre way, by dropping points and crashing out of competitions. "Zero fear" is just fucking laughably false. True fear has taken hold of every single fucking person in the club. "Purpose, fire, direction, conviction to do it" is again demonstrably false.

>>154242244
>it’s true
>got caught by a train and his car dragged along
god damn RIP legend

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This is not the face of a man delighted to be in the semifinals

Mikels on fire but he’s cooking with the stove off

>>154242341
It's a man who 18 hours earlier was parked on the toilet shitting his guts out

Hi lads, I hope you lose every game between now and the end of the season because otherwise blacks would get too uppity in the country and we can’t have that

>>154242356
Hi mate can you just go and suck a fat Paki cock and choke to death as soon as possible, hurry up as you're not busy and have no life, get a move on cheers

>>154242369
I’ll leave the choking to assna matey cheers tho

Two posts in an easily-avoided general about a team he dislikes, BAITED and also obsessed beyond belief, hurry up with the death by the way thanks

>>154242380
that was probably my first post on 4chan in about 2 years glad you enjoyed it though, miserable fella no trophies and no life, no women..omg it’s upsetting

we should've bought olise instead of madookie
him and eze together again would've been big, massive even.

Now three posts and more to come. A drain on the taxpayer, his only job is stinking up his bedroom which he never leaves, and his single mother is crossing her fingers he just ends it as quickly as possible

>>154242389
>miserable fella no trophies and no life, no women..omg it’s upsetting
it's ok as there are options
you should just end it now as been recommended, mr. poster 'who never posts here'
or you can get a prozzie ok your choice

>>154242393
Should've bought Harry Kane but unfortunately he just had to be a Tottenham player so it was never going to happen.

>>154242443
agreed, harry was meant to be an arsenal player.

>>154242244
F

>>154242458
He’s a white Englishman, he wants no affiliation with Arsenal and who can blame him

>>154242478
>englishman
>kane
Lol

>>154242478
am a white englishman and i am associated with arsenal football club.

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>>154242458
Kane was sent to Spurs where he was just good enough to be their greatest ever player but not good enough to win them a single thing
It was intentional. He absolutely hates Spurs (the natural state of man)

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>>154242341
We need to remember to the good times.

>>154242485
People say Kane is Irish but I just don't see it. You can tell Rice 100% looks Irish, Kane just looks like a normal English lad.

>>154242244
Great backup to Seaman. Kepa could never.

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>>154242244
So sad. They said it was an accident I really hope it was.

>>154242232
Not playing like that.
Not playing like yesterday, not playing like against Bournemouth, not like against Soton and especially not like against City not so long ago.

>>154242270
>I have zero fear.
LOL
LMAO

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kjQ4GWaKbLQ

>>154242244
He should have stayed on track.

On the weekend, we’ll see the logical conclusion of Artetaball.
He ruins every player he coaches. >we are in dire need of a rebuild when the squad should be in their primes and in win mode.
And for all these sins, he will be rewarded with a raise and an extension.

>>154242232
I give us a 10 % chance

>No team has had more attempts on target (63) than Arsenal in this season's Champions League.

Quality of finishing is the problem as usual

>>154242961
Seems more like quality of opposition issue

i always thought alex manninger needed more training

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hmm

>>154243032
is this true?

Thread reminder:

DO NOT RESPOND TO TROLLS OR BAIT FROM OTHER SUPPORTERS

We will not become like /epl/. Keep it clean. Heads held high. Trolls only do it for dopamine so don't feed them.

>>154243032
He's the xfactor clutch player we need but don't deserve. He's always a contributor in big games.

>>154243137
Don’t tell me what to do

I just realized that we play not to lose, we don't play to win, in fact we play to draw...The way we are set up is to ensure we take minimal risks to concede but also to score...Watching Bayern yesterday was unreal, Madrid kept catching them on the counter, and they kept taking risks to score up until the very end.

Pragmatic Arteta would have shut up shop as soon as Neuer fumbled in the 1st minute

>>154243215
playing is a very loose term now for >us since >we can’t do anything exceptionally good now. Even the defending has gone from league winning Mou Chelsea standard to still very good to absolute shit in the span of a couple months. >We can’t pass, can’t defend and sure as hell can’t attack, add the already countless neck breaking mistakes to it and ‘playing’ turns into whatever >we do now.

>>154243137
>t.bottlejob FC
>derailed

>>154240446
By playing the most uninspiring cowardly football on the face of the planet

>>154242244
F
He was a good keeper, I always thought he would be at arsenal for longer than he was

>>154243282
It's not really playing, my eyes were opened yesterday when I had the two games going side by side. I came to the realization that we are not an elite team, and the talks of winning a quad were straight up foolishness.

Bayern are on to win the quad and they look the part.

>>154243282
Please learn how to use green text

>>154243215
>just realized that we play not to lose, we don't play to win
Took you long enough. Better late than never though, I suppose.

>>154243401
wut ?

>>154243401
I think (You) should learn something.
>>154243282
yeah >we are gonna bottle again

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these people are not real

and it's arsenal FC

>>154243648
kek, the lengths that people go to, holy fuck. It’s as if people refuse to trust their eyes when watching football.

>>154243955
I am convinced most of the people who talk about >us, or honestly any club, online genuinely don't actually watch the matches. They see highlights and form their opinions after reading the comments and they just accept that as reality. The amount of people thinking >we'd cake walk over Southampton, Sporting, Bournemouth, even fucking Man City, was just ridiculous. All while talking about >we have a cheat code with >our set pieces. It's so obvious that they haven't watched a single match in months. Hell, even some actual commentators spout the same nonsense.

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>>154242545
Look at his eyes. He's got the Kelleher look. The lad who played Joffrey in GoT look.

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>>154244176
I don't think any of those lads you mentioned look traditionally Irish.

THIS is the ultimate Irish phenotype.

>>154244097
people also get swayed too easily by set narratives, be it online communities, the media or god forbid professional shit stirrers aka ‚pundits‘. You can easily make a rather solid prediction if you watch a team at the start of the season for maybe 10-15 games and I always knew and preached that >our style if you want to call it that isn’t sustainable. The corners and whatnot have papered over so many cracks and even the most elite of defense can’t carry you to a title if you don’t have at least one or two clutch attackers,
hell even then injuries happen or bad spells. Arteta has been utterly mind-broken because of all the bridesmaid never the bride memes over the last few seasons that he went off the deep end and instead of tweaking an already impressive team slightly he went and sacrificed the whole attack. Sure >we haven’t had players like Ode, Kai or even Saka for most of the season but that’s not an excuse. People need
to wake up, football has become so overly complicated in people’s minds and to a certain extent they are right but most often it’s not, just like with Wenger and for example his everlasting refusal to buy a real fucking DM, among other things of course, Arteta has some so obviously bad habits/core problems that he just refuses to fix. It’s driving me mad, but of course the worst thing is the mentality aspect.

how come the Sporting Lisbon left back can offer more of an attacking threat than any of Arsenal's attackers?

>>154244413
you know why, Shitty.

Do it for Alex Manninger ;_;

Arteta Out

>>154244340
Well what was wrong with the way the team had been playing the previous 2 seasons?

>>154244443
damn

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If you guys are so much smarter than Arteta, whats your line up, formation and plan to beat this?

>>154244097
How long since the last corner goal? Even that's been shit.

>>154236145
How about you cucks do something about your club hen? Start copying intrnational things too. Invade the training ground, demand answers from the players and coach as to why they are performing so badly for months?
Shitcunts, cucks, acceptance of mediocrity.

>>154244542
Literally just mirror it, but with better players (which is exactly what Arsenal will do btw)

>>154244542
Raya
White - Saliba - Gabriel - Tierney
Nwaneri - Rice - Poo is smelly
Saka - Isak- Kvaratskhelia

>>154244601
>hen
Que?

>>154244542
Bribe the refs to actually card them when they foul Arsenal players.

>>154244772
maybe he meant gunnersaurus which is, according to scientists, is just an overgrown hen.

>>154243215
Artetaball is all about control and suffocating the opposition. Push the opposition back into their box before trying to enter the box and score. If we fail at scoring and lose possession the opposition is pushed so far back that they can't counter and we win the ball back without everyone needing to run back 60 meters. Now with everyone being out of form or injured we can't play that way. So Artetaball is not working and we simply try to hang on every minute of every game.

I think we got the balance of the team completely wrong (bad transfers + unlucky injuries in same position). So what we see this season is not Artetaball but Arteta doing whatever he can to make this unbalanced team competitive. And yeah you could argue that he is not doing a good job at making this team competitive (although we are in first with a few games to go, got into one final and one semifinal so maybe he is doing well with this unbalanced squad (that he himself built))

I grew up in norf London. My gran lives literally opposite the stadium. Went to games. The North London Forever song is fucking gay because having grown up there, I know it's an utter shit hole and my parents were right to move us away. My heart is not there "forever". I despise that shit hole, feel ill when I return and I think sharteta should cease that song ASAP. The fans singing it are probably from Saint Albans and Hemel Hempstead anyway. Let me tell you now, nothing good goes on in that area.

>gud ebening about to win a european trophy with villa before sharteta ever wins a major
The cone placer fan boys need to be culled

>>154244886
Steady on, they'll still need to win their semi-final just like us.

>>154244824
A really good post. I'll add that injuries in the same position are not a coincidence. Every game they go hard on whoever is on the right. Saka, Dowmen, Madueke. They always go for the legs and the ankles, always double up on defensive players there.

The transfers are absolutely dreadful though. Gyokeres is a good player but I find his role doesn't do any favours. He should be more like a poacher similar to Haaland. He's far too often found out wide playing the ball in when he is thmost dangerous player to receive the cross.

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>>154244886
Is that the same trophy that the mighty tottenham hotspurs are currently holding

>>154240342
I don’t gamble but I’m genuinely tempted to throw my life savings on city. It feels inevitable

>>154244861
Based

>>154243648
There are way too many buying into the cult of arteta over the progress of the club. I'm not sure who would be able to take us over the hump but if there are no trophies this season he has to go.

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>>154244915
I think Gyökeres would be very good in the team two years ago. The team when we had Nketiah playing striker because Jesus was injured (and then Havertz became a striker again because Nketiah was useless). I really thought we would return to that kind of football this season since last year was a shitshow of injuries. The true Artetaball of suffocating opposition. Gyökeres fighting in the middle as the striker in that team would be great. I really preferred Gyökeres ahead of Isak because of the way I assumed we would play. But this years football I guess Isak would have fit us better (assuming he wouldn't get injured all season as he has been for Liverpool).

>>154244824
I can take all the shitposting and trolling and schizoposting and all characterfaggotry with all other forms of mental retardation that goes on regulary in this anonymous IRGC recruitment site. But YOU always successfully manage to make me facepalm IRL with your ungodly posts, every season it's these "unfortunate" set of events that are somehow always unique to arteta's arsenal, it's always not a direct consequence of arteta's management and tactics, but rather just outside factors that are utterly out of the manager's hand, which somehow shifts the discussion into how arteta is "doing the best he can in this unfavorable situation"(which has coincidentally happened to arteta FIVE(5)[fünf]{fem} times in A ROW).
There's no "artetaball", over all these seasons he managed us, you cant form a singular unique style that he consistently used and improved over the said period. We weren't this hyper "defense & control" oriented team in the previous seasons, we famously were saying in this general that we will inevitably concede but we will outscore the opponent usually.
This approach took a shift in the last 2 seasons and we became more defensive and set piece dependant and our attack waned heavily. And if he stays(GOD FORBID PLEASE NO) i can gurantee you the playstyle will shift again in the next couple of seasons.
When someone says hansi flick, you directly think about extremely offensive football, when someone says klopp you instantly think gegenpress, when another mentions pep everyone says tiki taka. Aretetaball doesn't exist and that's the biggest issue we have along these last 5 seasons, the football style is constantly being constructed and going into "the next phase" which is why we're always a club that's under the "next season" mentality.
God i feel like shit typing all of this when we're inevitably going to end up trophyless once more....

>>154245333
so tl;dr - your point is that we cant blame external factors but rather the fact that mikel doesnt have a consistent footballing philosophy?

>>154245333
I think you project a bit too much in your post. I never claimed any of the first part.

But I don't agree there is no Artetaball. We have always tried to keep possession and force the opponent to defend deep, we have always pressed high when losing possession, we have always defended deep when the pressing fails and we have always been a bad team at counter attacking (more important to keep possession and push the opponent back). That has been the way of Arteta since his first season when he managed to buy his own players. And I still believe we play that way except that we don't have the quality to keep possession or press the opponents well anymore. Which means we end up in the defending deep position much more than before (and emotional fans like yourself think it is a new tactic (when it was always what we did when we failed the press)). And yes, our counter attacking is still very bad.

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>>154245311
>I really preferred Gyökeres ahead of Isak

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>>154245558
>i prefer a flair merchant who cant stay fit instead

>>154244340
>people also get swayed too easily by set narratives, be it online communities, the media or god forbid professional shit stirrers aka ‚pundits‘.
Lord knows that's true. And in some fucked up way, they kinda "have" to shit stir, because that gets them more views and engagement which means more money.
>I always knew and preached that >our style if you want to call it that isn’t sustainable.
Yup. You could tell that if the set piece goals wlever dried up, >we would be well and truly fucked. And lo and behold, >we look completely toothless in every way. I stupidly had hope until about the end of December but I knew then the cowardball would crash. >Our tactic would be fine if the manage wasn't such a fucking humongous coward. 1-0 totl the Arsenal could have worked but the manager was too much of a fucking coward for even that. It's exactly as you say, the mentality is by far the worst part.

>>154244576
That was exactly my point. People, and commentators, keep saying "Oooh, they got a corner, we all know Arsenal are lethal from corners, look at them set up" when >we haven't scored from one in who knows how long. I genuinely don't know. Noni's corner against Leeds is the last one I can remember but I don't know if that was the last one ever.
But people who don't actually watch matches have this idea that >we are still excellent at them and always score from them.

>>154245417
We ABSOLUTELY cannot blame external factors anymore, it's a complete rubbish of an excuse.
How many external factors are there? This is his SEVENTH season at the club, he delivered ONE fa CUP, and CHOCKED the league fucken 4 times(? I cant even keep count anymore thats how messed up this is) the external factor might have happened once; perhaps we're unlucky and it occured twice, but ALL THIS?
no way, in quite simple mathmatix, there's only ONE constant in the football club, everything around him from players to fans to assisstants to chiefs to medical departments to the members of the board are all shifting, but he's the only constant in this equation that remained unchanged, how can you interpret this in any other way?
The only remaining constant needs to be replaced to have a different outcome for the equation, otherwise this is all futile.
>>154245497
We're objectively NOT a bad counter attacking team; nor is it not a part of "arteta's system"(whatever it may be), the sole reason we employ martinelli(whos basically legally blind) is to help the defensive fuck ups and to catch opponents off guard on the counter( which occured multiple times).
And our possession style is a complete mystery that even arteta himself doesn't know when will it work and when will it not, this becomes evident when we play even slightly compotent opponents(aka manchester city& liverpool) who just simply take the ball away and don't fall for our pass the ball to raya then hoof it in the middle of the pitch.
>press high when out of possession and defend deep when press doesn't work
What else do you think we can do? What other option is there?
"The style is we do A, and if A doesn't work we do B, and if B doesn't work we do C"
That's not a playstyle, that's just getting swept away wherever the wind blows.

>>154244824
>Push the opposition back into their box before trying to enter the box and score.
I feel like this is the embodiment of "playing not to win, but not to lose" though. Packing 11 players into their box and then trying to score when every single player has to take a minimum of 3 touches before doing anything is nonsensical imo. And all the forwards are tasked to track back and defend so they all have to sprint full pelt back to >our box every time they lose the ball anyway. Arteta is far too worried about never conceding than actually scoring. Because after scoring one goal, the tactic seems to be to just camp out in >our defensive third and never push out. Possession and traditional control just goes right out the window completely. Which is also why so many first and second balls always goes to the other team seemingly. Because none of >our players feel comfortable chasing after them because that would be too risky. Is that the actual reason? I've no clue. But watching the matches, that's what it seems like to me.

>>154245801
allahuakbar fampai.. idk why youre so negative and salty. iirc you were studying to be a doctor? imgine being super salty at your patience because..they come to you because they are sick?.... but fine ill bite.

>We ABSOLUTELY cannot blame external factors anymore
ofc we can. every fan of every club does that. how much weight you put on it is a different question. things have to go your (our) way. heres an example - ode challenged for a 50/50 - he has his meniscus torn; the other guy doesnt event need spray. same with merino. same with refs - sure we had a few soft calls go our way but weve had plenty of ref fuck ups and bad decision even this season let alone past seasons. lastly - imagine that korean cunt finishing the 1v1 vs shittys second GK....

>This is his SEVENTH season at the club, he delivered ONE fa CUP
>longevity doesnt count for shit.

>...perhaps we're unlucky and it occured twice, but ALL THIS?
so ok we can blame shit on something else twice, arteta has been in charge for what 6 full seaons if we include this one? we covid seasons and about 2 years for him to get his squad. so leaves us with what.. 2 seasons? last season was a joke so we're left with one season so ill give you that.

as for the rest of your argument - ill sum up artetas philosophy in one word - win. thats it. is it pretty? maybe not always. do we win every game? no. does he have flaws? yes. hes been consistent about that for years - win in different/every circumstance.

>>154246156
>ill sum up artetas philosophy in one word - win
so...about that

>>154246184
haha yes i love memes and lmaos and verydemotivational too :D:D:D

P W D L Win %
344 207 65 72 60.2

that aint too bad is it my potato nigga
>inb4 wHeRes MuH pReM mEdaL tHeN

>>154246244
>Win % 65
Do you get a trophy for that?

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>>154246309
pshhh
>imblying the London Football Awards isnt the ball d'or for managers

>>154244861
>t. grew up in Finsbury Park or some other doss hole near the Emirates
Your parents moved away because they couldn't afford the nice parts like Islington. So yeah, you only knew the shit parts because you're a poor fag. (Don't worry, I'm a poor fag from south London, and if you think the Holloway Road area is terrible you need to see more of the city, and I think it's obvious north London as a whole has most of the city's nicest neighbourhoods.)

>>154245558
>hes black he must be good
Racism aside he’s the most overrated prem player of my lifetime

>>154249763
but enough about Saka

You now remember Mikel Merino.

Arsenal femboys, UNITE!

>>154247650
No we were further north in a leafy suburb that became a shithole because people bought houses and turned them into flats meaning scum began to be moved in by the council. The nice parts are next to the shit holes too if you've ever been. Council estates are next to the big houses, scum roam everywhere. Schools are shit holes unless you go to a private school. Unless you're living in somewhere like Hampstead garden suburbs you cannot escape it. And even then you travel through shit holes. London is just a grim place. Pretty much every British city is the same. I love Edinburgh but you are never far from shit bags and the stench of weed. Hence white flight to smaller towns and villages.

Last night i was watching the Betis Braga match. I saw Bellerin getting completely humiliated by a Braga player, who afterwards does the pass for the 4th Braga goal.

It made me laugh so hard. Never change dude, never change, 4 ever a retarded player.
How did he managed to stay at Arsenal for so long?

All three English teams progressed last night in Europe. Even more evidence the EPL is the best league. The depth in teams is what's most notable. The top teams are similar to the other top European sides but the mid table and relegation sides blow other leagues of the water.

>>154250819
>come through the academy
>have a few decent seasons
>become infallible when you perform like shit

Literally what's happening to saka.

>>154250647
His absence has been painful, so I never forgot him. Imagine if we had him and Nwaneri available, he? Criminal that we put Ethan out on loan when Madueke had spent half the season with next to no output vs what Ethan had demonstrated the year before.

>>154250815
Eh. That's London in general, though. Nice bits next to shit bits. Some would say that's a good thing, unless you want total ghetto arrondissements like Paris. But I agree, most British cities and towns are holes and the countryside and smaller towns are the nice parts to live. But then you have to commute, so whatcha gonna do? Not like I've been dying to get back!

>>154250819
At one time he had good recovery pace that meant he could make up for his brain farts, but after injuries he lost that and he was doomed.

remember when bellerin & Kieran tierney had a “thing” going on. They were definitely fucking

>>154250845
Na Bellerin only asset was his pace, he was always too dumb to defend. When he lsot hsi pace, he was exposed hard.
Also he doesn't give a fuck about football, he doesn't watch his opponenets play. t's just a paycheck

Saka, yeah, we can make the argument that Arteta is ruining him

I don't think anyone believes Saka is infallible anymore. Especially since he got the new contract everyone is, justifiably, asking what he's producing for all that money.

>Rúben Dias will miss the Arsenal match and is not expected to return before the end of April

I'm in fool doomer mode for Sunday, like never before personally. I can't believe how badly that Bournemouth game hurt me

>>154251108
Get a grip

>>154251108
*full, not fool obviously

>>154251114
I've been trying. Sporting game didn't help

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>Before hosting Sporting CP in the Champions League, the ‘fire’ referenced by Mikel Arteta was more than just a metaphor. The Spaniard lit a real fire at Arsenal’s training ground to symbolise purgation, purification & transformation.

>>154251332
What a nutcase

>>154251332
BAKA. I was hoping this was fake news, but nope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXWNRUktSSM

Great interview. This is what Arteta lacks. If Arteta doesn't win, will he ever? He needs to go abroad to a shitty league to win something to gain a winning mentality.

>>154251529
This is why I was against hiring him in the first place. Even if he ends up becoming the next Fergie, we're just getting the East Stirlingshire version of him.

>>154251569
He is too weak to be the next fergie. He needs to grow some balls.

>>154251108
Just gotta accept that >we play like absolute ass. Cheer when (if) >we score and be annoyed when >we don't.

>>154251332
Jesus fucking Christ

do you think the boys would actually feel like real champions if we won something this year? Isn’t the dream of every footballer to play actual football and not cheese their way to a trophy? Seems cheap

>>154251860
No. Football for players is about pride and knowing you’re the best. They’re not the best. Football for fans is about bragging rights and there’s absolutely nothing to brag about, it’s going to be a gay win by a very easily forgotten team, no one will talk about this team as one of the greats.

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>>154251332
Instead of this retard lighting a fucking a fire he should be getting every single one of his mentally weak players and himself a psychologist to sort out their weak mentality...unreal stuff...cultish stuff even

>>154252062
Just meaningless ineffective gimmicks that do absolutely nothing. I wonder if he gets that. You know the 'fire' was a little BBQ oven with the fire brigade present in case of any mishaps. Light a massive effigy of Pep and Cherki and light it on fire, the players will respond to that. But the gimmicks are all safe little nothing gimmicks that have no effect, I'm certain of it.

ARTETA
OUT
NOW

I am unironically Sharteta in. Give him a few more seasons. This football won't last because if it does he'll be ousted. I think he needs to pack in the gimmicks, create more of a tough atmosphere, bin off shitters like shartinelli, drossard, havertz.

>>154250819
The only good thing AFTV have ever managed was exposing that clown.

>>154251332
Fucking hell, would have got a better reaction out of the players if Arteta had set himself alight, stupid cunt.

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>sucka could be out for the season
Lol, lmao even...ahahhahahahahaha. SHARTETAOUT NOW!!!!

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>>154251332
Bro has lost it

>>154252673
Don't give him ideas