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MA gave the contracts to those muppets, Mari and Cedric.

Gwendo and Saliba did very well for Marseilles at the weekend, apparently. While Xhaka, who we wanted gone, was sent off and the back 3 had 5 put passed them.

We wanted an upgrade on Xhaka, but when Roma only offered 10 mil, we give him another contract while we paid Ozil to leave, and Mustafi, to get them off the books.

I'm sorry, but sticking with Xhaka because no-one else thinks he's worth 20 mil is idiotic. So we have 4 right backs, none of whom are any good. Still have Kola on the books, where loaning him out last year may well have cost us the Eufa Cup.

28 mil on Saliba but forced out playing Mari et al instead. 72 mil on Pépé and yet he signs Willian and then MO to move ESR wide, despite Pépé looking good towards the end of last season. Gwendo and Torreira forced out, and Ozil. He has no experience of managing a team. The players haven't got a clue. We can't do the basics of defending and he's destroyed all creativity we have.

Xhaka failed for Arsène, Unai and yet MA gives him a new contract because he wanted an extra 10 mil, despite wasting 40 mil on Willian's wages.

Auba's got malaria, Laca can't play as a lone no.9, we sell Willock who could have been useful off the bench for a late goal. Saka will be off. Kwonkee has destroyed the club and he doesn't care. He wanted to create a European franchise system, where like his American clubs, his team could prop up the table while he just banked the cash.

We're finished.
You seem to think 100% of squad management is down to Arteta, I dont agree with that point of view. You keep blaming him for squad management decisions made when he was just Head Coach, when he didnt have any of those responsibilities.

He wasnt the manager when we signed Mari & Cedric. And he's not responsible for covid's affect on the european market either, which is part of reason we havent been able to sell some players (Edu's job).

Or what's been Raul's and Edu's responsibilities during their time at the club you reckon?
Watch whilst Emery & Arteta work on exactly all of what Arsene used to be responsible of?

Even if Arteta recommended these decisions, is it Edu's (and previously Raul's) job to just be agreeable and say Yes to everything? They're the most responsible for what we have the squad (along with 5-8 years of bad scouting and bad squad building during last years of Wenger).

Arsenal are an absolute mess at the moment and has been for some time and its really disapointing how the Arsenal community find it so difficult to unpack whats actually been going on the last few years.

If the structure (of DoF & ownership) above the manager keeps being as bad as its been in recent years, we'll keep blaming the managers for many more years to come.