:-(
we've got a bunch of shidcunds and no bench whatsoever.
another genius move to let so many players leave too.
But apart from that it's so boring.
And Ozil is not worth the money in this current set up.
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we've got a bunch of shidcunds and no bench whatsoever.
another genius move to let so many players leave too.
But apart from that it's so boring.
And Ozil is not worth the money in this current set up.
Yes. It’s hard to see why there’s even a question over whether Wenger stays or goes at this stage. When one finds oneself forced to agree with the array of gibbering spastics on Fan TV, one must either demand one’s family has one committed or accept that they are actually right and that he absolutely must go.
The day when you agree with TY is the time to seek out the nearest cliff edge
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Surely the problem is that we are hugely underperforming as a club and as a squad. For years now the only sensible argument against getting rid of Him was that the replacement might do even worse. I really think we have reached the point where that is virtually impossible and even if it did happen it would have to be much, much worse for it to make any real difference.
If you are going to finish 6th you may as well finish 8th, 9th, 10th.
Are we? How does on judge that.
There is no divine reason why we should be above City or United for example, they would regularly outspend us so one would maybe expect them to have better playing resources who in turn yield better performances and results.
Even on a good day how many of our side would get into the City 11? None?
I think what has been evident this year is the abject level of performance which has happened too many times, yet amazingly we still find ourselves in 6th place and kicking distance of the teams who are clearly better than us.
Last Thursday, **** me. Playing a bunch of Swedish no hopers (sorry BGS) who were still pre-season. Then yesterday with a vastly different personnel and one player out of the equation by being cup-tied. There has been others this season also, away from home as the home form is what is keeping us above the rest.
Any team can fúck up. We now expect to fúck up.
By not performing we are underperforming
QED
There’s an excellent video on YouTube of Graham Potter going through all the tactics Ostersund’s employed when beating Galatasary.
Pretty in depth and well worth a watch.
It’s completely different from Arsene on French TV explaining how we play ie Ramsey played a bit on the right and in midfield and Wilshere was a little bit more forward and little hit as a midfielder etc etc
Not saying Graham Potter is the new Mourinho but you clearly ain’t going to be successful on any scale without any sort of plan or tactics.
Well, I think you can judge it by looking at your financial status compared to others. You can also judge it by the performance of your side relative to the quality in your squad.
We are not in kicking distance of City, they are light years ahead of us in the League. We are between 8 and 12 points behind four other sides who are certainly proving to be better than us. Two of those are Liverpool and Spurs who have smaller turnovers than we do and smaller wage bills. We are underperforming compared to those. THere is nothing about the status of the three clubs that suggests the other two should be performing better than us. Considerably better at present.
As a club I think it is clear we are under performing. Asa squad, I am witnessing performances from individuals that are nowhere near where they should be. As a unit we are all over the place in defence and midfield. THere is surely no question in anybody's mind that this group of players is capable of playing better than this???
Monty's gone very quiet during all of this kerfuffle. No stoic last minute defence? perhaps the bestowing of cancer on the few that called the old tit out years a go ?
Yet we won more last season than both of those teams combined have won in the past 5 years.
I’m just not sure the argument that we are underperforming is correct. I think what is wrong is our expectation as fans is wrong.
I don’t even contemplate us winning the league any more when we kick off in May, I did in the past. I know where our place is and I’m relatively cool with that.
It’s the level of performance that grinds my ****. Performance from very good players but players who appear to have little or no leadership.
You've not been around enough recently, 7s. Monty's new view is that he recognized some time ago that Wenger was under-performing and therefore has been right all along.
The years preceding that when he wished cancer on anyone who dared question the SFC have been conveniently forgotten.
And that doesnt qualify as under performing??
Notice I made precisely no mention of winning the league. We are so far away from that it isnt even worth thinking about. Our goal is now to challenge (not accomplish, but challenge) for distant fourth because right now that is a long way off and looks dead in the water with a third of the season gone.
I think fourth is about where we should be- there or thereabouts. Bit higher in a good year, bit beneath in a bad one.
However, even if we were challenging for fourth right now it wouldnt change the fact that this group of players looks horribly disorganised and is performing poorly. THat alone strongly suggests that we can and should be doing better. That really should be enough to prompt change of some sort.
That the time is right for him to go now does not mean that the time was right then. Not that I have any wish to once again rehearse the old arguments. At least now there is no great schism, as all but a few are agreed that it is time for change. Had he gone when we were still playing decent football the divide would have carried on into the new regime.
I find it a bit weird that people are pining for fourth now that it is so distant, and saying it is where we should be, when being fourth at the time was never considered good enough, and the fact that other clubs had more money was just a weak excuse for not winning, or regularly challenging for, the league.