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Don't you fancy us then? Bloody VAR.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Not really been watching to be honest. Dealing with a cat related crisisQuote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Funny you should say that; our team is dealing with a cut related crisis. Seems to have helped though as we've taken the lead.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Sorry to hear about the cat. All the best.
Cracking goal that :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Long 20 minutes now....
This is actually my favourite fixture. It's been decent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Been a decent game. They have improved a lotQuote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
They‘ve spent half a billion on new players and used every accounting trick in the book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
That still makes them cheating kyunts in my book.
Absolutely. But until now they'd managed to do all that and get worse. Sone achievement :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by 7sisters
Draw is not a bad result there.
True. I’m happy with it. 2-2 there last season before people on X start calling for Arteta‘s head. . Liverpool have had a good start but titles aren’t decided in early November.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
In our next 14 games the only genuinely difficult one is home to city. The rest are winnable. We need to win them all. There is no more room for slip ups.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7sisters
Brighton and, dare I suggest it, Fulham away ? Both winnable but at the same time, banana skins.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Not easy, but that is the task we are facing to even stay in the conversation.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7sisters
The problem is that we don't seem to be particular winny at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Well, yes. We need to become a lot more winny, and quickly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
No injuries over the International break would be nice. I get the impression that both Saka and Rice will be pulled from the England squad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Scoring more goals could help, especially seeing as we appear to have quietly fired our clean sheet coach.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
More goals couldn't do any harm. At least, not any REAL harm.
Yes, on balance, we should start there and see where it leads us.
I agree, as long as we don't score too many. Let's start with 2.5 per game and see how we get on.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Arteta was furious about the goal we conceded. I watched it again- have to say I am not sure we did that much wrong. Could have closed the gap a bit quicker but that isn't the biggest error in the world.
Arteta was not overly subtle on that point :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
They both came off injured. 100% they should pull out. Both are desperately in need of a rest, despite being two of the most resilient players around. And I will be angry if Odegaard goes anywhere other than the pub for the next two weeks.
We mustn't allow our emotions to run away with us. 2½ goals per match is simply asking for folk to get excited and begin imagining a world in which we should not buy another striker.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Two is sufficient, assuming our assistant coach in charge of clean sheets returns from injury (or Bahrain?) soon.
I suspect it was timing that upset the manager. Schoolboy stuff :-\
We've gone into the last 20 minutes of matches against City, Chelsea and Liverpool a goal up. And haven't won any of them. Mitigating circumstances in all three to some extent but even so.... annoying.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
I do shudder every time I see 'pundits' and other assorted arseholes whine on and on about who we should have signed and when without any context, most particularly how much these assorted fanny dancers and goal-shy layabouts would have actually cost. We are not made of money and like most of the league we are bound by a set of rules about spending.
That said, I wonder if Arteta is beginning to wonder whether he might have been better off keeping Reiss Nelson than bringing in Sterling. I guess he isnt setting the world alight in training so far :-(
Money has ruined the game. One or two more goals each from Eddie and Jesus and we're champions. And when the alternative was one hundred million British pounds worth of, as you say, goal-shy fanny dancing gambling addicts ("layabouts" is harsh, I feel), you can see why we took that chance.
Sterling for Nelson is a little sad. Though young Raheem does add a little something, it doesn't appear to be helping so far and our squad has aged alot in three years. The manager may be losing patience with himself :-\
I guess we have been close the finishing line for two years and he is desperate to climb over it. And as we all know, you don't win anything with kids :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
The Sterling signing has baffled me.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
I appreciate MA8 has worked with him previously, but...
At least wage wise, it is a low risk one.
I understand the gamble, in the hope that if he comes good he is a special player that Arteta knows well. But I would have thought the experience of Willian would have put them off. Sterling looks slow and nowhere near the player he was, and that was always likely. You have to wonder whether his heart is in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
I would have understand it more if we had been desperate but we could have kept Nelson. He is at least hungry, loves the club and has had decent games for us.
Nelson or ESR imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
If Sterling had taken two shots at John Lennon, he'd be 84 etc, etc...
My thoughts on ESR are well known....Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
8 December at the Cottage should be interesting. Silva will undoubtedly play all three of them if they're fit.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
I think it was that we needed the money this summer. And his injuries were probably part of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Real shame. Really good player
Rather we'd sold Nelson.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Nelson can't playQuote:
Originally Posted by pjlincs
gpwm......Quote:
Originally Posted by luis anaconda
Harsh, imo. He's had some good games for us :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Nelson isn?t exactly pulling up trees at Fulham tbf. He?s replicating what he did for us.I think he anticipated more starts, although he did get one last time out, only to get pulled in the second half.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
The issue is more that Sterling is a busted flush, the warning signs were already there but the deal, and perhaps Arteta?s ego, wanted to see if an Indian summer was a possibility.
Mudryk would have been the better loan but I doubt that was ever an option.
Think you've jumped the gun on Sterling very early there 7. He's come into a tight unit with no pre-season - let's see what impact he has later on in the season. To have such an experienced player as back up to Saka and Martinelli is surely a plus. Seem to remember you crying out for such experience back in the Wenger daysQuote:
Originally Posted by 7sisters
Not sure I agree. He looks as **** as he was at Chelsea. Think he's genuinely done. Hope I'm wrong but Preston looked his level.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Let's see him play with the skipper - I think he has lost a bit of pace but the great thing about ?degaard (like Bergkamp - and I don't make this comparison lightly) is that he can make up for thatQuote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Of course, I might be talking **** and you both may be rightQuote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
I think we all know what arteta hoped he could get out of him. And that he hasn't seen it yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
It's all down to sterling himself. He is a fine player, comfortably good enough to provide a real threat for us if he can get himself properly fit and focused.
We have to wait and see if he has another season in him. Or has he just had enough and all we've done is replaced Willian.
I agree it is to early to judge. But if he isn't contributing by Christmas then it hasn't really been worth the gamble.
This is a well-balanced and reasonable argument. It has absolutely no ****ing place on awimbQuote:
Originally Posted by Peter