Arsenal 2-2 Fulham Player ratings and Match reaction

[HCZ_Reborn]

Because of the clear improvement from the previous season. The previous season we'd thrown away a Top 4 finish. Last season for me it was Top 4 or bust. I didn't expect a title challenge, nor did you, nor did anyone.


That is a not the only measure of a successful season. I mean, ultimately we want to be winning trophies, obviously. But you also want to be seeing a clear direction of travel in terms of improvement.
If we'd won the league cup and finished mid-table no-one would have attended the open top bus parade.


Well of course it does. It's a pretty good metric of where you are as a team.



Well sure, and if we tank under Arteta this season then he should be sacked. I just think it's a bit early to be calling it yet, although I agree with some of your concerns.
I think a difference between us is you think he should be sacked because of the mess that you believe will unfold this season, I think we should at least wait to see as 3 games isn't really sufficient to know.
The board have backed him, he has to deliver. I hope you're wrong about how this season will go. I guess you hope you're wrong too?

Again you fail to make a distinction between good will and given the season. As I say last season entitled him to no goodwill, nor does it entitle him to see out this season if he makes a bodge of it.

I want him gone come what May, and I say come what may because no one who isn’t delusional thinks we will be champions and I think short of finishing a couple of points behind City after a sustained title challenge…a title or pushing all the way should be what we should be expecting given what he’s spent. That no one expects it, is a) down to the fact that he hasn’t especially spent well and b) no one who should be taken seriously actually rates him that highly.

Do I want us losing games to get rid of him? No, and I hope he’s gone long before it gets to me having to make such a consideration. But it will take us winning the title for me to want him to stay, and it’s not going to happen.

I did concede that last season exceeded our expectations from the start of the season, even though the ending was a total burn out fuckface. But I think that’s as much to do with not expecting Liverpool and Spurs to drop off as much as they did.

The goals we scored and games we won were enjoyable, but that should be where we are continually, not as a one off.