Yesterday's footballers simply couldn't live with the mega stars of today. I mean, can you spot a Palmer or a Haaland in this lot of wasters?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKG6XyPowvw
LOL
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Yesterday's footballers simply couldn't live with the mega stars of today. I mean, can you spot a Palmer or a Haaland in this lot of wasters?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKG6XyPowvw
LOL
Why are Carragher and Neville working night and day to disrupt MLS' and Nwaneri's careers? On and on and on they go about these kids, and still going long after everyone else has moved on. The latest shit is Carragher suggesting they kids don't use the main changing room with the first team is because Arteta is taking steps to keep them humble and tamp down the arrogance. Except that's not why Nwaneri is changing separately at all, it's because he is a minor and it's the law. And MLS is simply there to keep him company until they can both go and join the first team.
Why is Carragher literally making up shit abut our kids and when is somebody going to plant their boot in his arse? What a twat. I can get he wants Liverpool to win it, nothing wrong with that. But also, don't take a job as an impartial commentator if you can't be impartial and stop harassing kids why don't you?
It always seems to be open season on Arsenal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
If Nwaneri and MLS were at Citeh; Manure or Liverpool pundits would be applauding their talent rather than looking for reasons to do them down.
I've been thinking about the reasons for this. I don't think Arteta is liked - he is regarded as being disrepectful and moany (even though he has given no more cause for this than many other managers - Klopp for example) - but it's being going on longer than this.
I think part of the truth is Northern bias, and our enduring perception of being a 'foreign' team that started with Wenger's appointment (even though we now have 2 of the most important England players - and 2 more - in Ben White and MLS who are surely sought after to play for their country).
But I think the main reason is that we are not respected because we have won so little for over 2 decades. We are regarded as nearly men; lacking bottle, and a bit derided as being a huge club who don't win titles. The shame of this season is that we are adding to this impression by appearing small time in the transfer market...
Andrea Berta (formerly of Atletico Madrid) is now the favourite to replace Edu as Sporting Director
Then again I take this with pinch of salt as same ITK’s saying a few weeks ago it was definitely going to be Roberto Olabe
ST prices going up for 25/26, by 3% for upper and 5% lower ('Ashburton Army' :pal:)
People will have the option of buying a 19-game PL-only ticket or a 23-game ticket whcih includes four CL games (if we qualify that is...)
On the surface of it this sounds like a decent appointment, someone who will hopefully know his stuff and also stand up to Arteta a bit.
https://arseblog.news/2025/03/report...ting-director/
Where I am emotionally right now is that I'm pretty much done with debating the club's deficiencies, and the issues with the way we have played this season.
It's been a pretty horrible season in one way or another, and really depressing to see us drop off when we were hopeful of building further on our performances of the 2 last seasons.
I get why all the talk is about the CL quarters - but for me there is little chance of us going through against RM. (A half fit) Saka or not we are in poor shape as a team - and I do not expect the goals against a pretty awful PSV to count for anything (just as the Citeh result meant zero in our subsequent EPL games).
So the Berta appointment at least offers some encouragement as regards the Summer we are going to have to have to get back on track. And for now I am simply hoping that our season has been down to the exhausting effect of trying to keep pace with Citeh for the 2 previous seasons (it happened to Liverpool as well), and that we can regroup and show that all those (including me) writing off Areteta's system as a means of winning things can be disproven.
I simply don’t think I’d feel anywhere near as annoyed/aggrieved as I would if it were City we were 15 points behind rather than Liverpool. And even with that, that anger has given way to grim acceptance from the time Havertz was out for the season.
Equally I’ve never liked the way we play under Arteta, but as much as I like goals and good attacking football I hate defeat and I like that we are still hard to beat. I would prefer a more direct way of playing but I equally like keeping clean sheets and not conceding lots of goals.
I also don’t think the system is as much as a factor as injuries and not strengthening. We struggled to break teams down last season until we came up with the set pieces and whilst there’s an argument that could be made to say teams have worked out how to defend them, I think missing Saka and White has been just as responsible as that
Ultimately whilst Liverpool’s style is more direct and more eye pleasing, it wasn’t necessarily more effective against a determined defence.
The way I see it Liverpool struggled to finish 4th the season after winning the title due to injuries. We are still looking ok for 2nd. If we finish 2nd then with 1/4 finals of the champions league although it’s been more of a damp squib with everything factored in it’s hard to argue we’ve gone backwards even if not progressed.
It’s been a weird season, feels like it never really started. No peaks, no troughs, just an odd sense that nothing is really happening. Hugely disappointing and quite a contrast to the previous 2 years.
I'd prefer Arteta changed the system :)Quote:
Originally Posted by IBK
Seriously if we are to really be winners he needs to:
- find a way to find a more quick-moving playing style that may at times cede a little more possession but overall lead to more space and more goals
- have more than one setup and way of playing - a Plan B
- stop trying to rely on the same small group of players in every game and adopt a far more tolerant approach to giving others some decent minutes, even if they don't immediately impress
- stop playing unsuited players at LB who can't defend
- focus transfer strategy on creative and attacking players
It won't happen obvs, he's too set in his ways, which is why I can't get excited about next season even if everyone is fit and we sign Isak, Arteta will find a way to have us come up short
We're stuck with the horseshoe until he goes