Match Reaction vs Dortmund

[LDG]

I’ve said this before, but you don’t notice the details until we’re hit with a loss. These sort of results don’t just come out of nowhere.

Bloody right they don't.

Luckily, the scoreline was respectable, and very flattering on us last night.

That could easily have been 5 or 6 again. All that shows is that we're still no closer to being able to compete with the better teams than last year.

I'd go so far as to say, we're so open, that getting hit for five is the norm with the better sides.

Fuck it, we're even struggling against teams (with the greatest respect to them) who we should be beating. Leicester being a case in point. Last minute goal aside, we would have drawn v Palace. Everton played us off the park.

We haven't played well for months. even with glimpses of fluidity up top against City, we were still more open than Tescos at the back. The FA Cup was great, but in all honesty we threw ourselves over the line. We were playing really badly from January onwards, and only scraped fourth again, having been clear at the top.

No cohesion. No tactics. No balance. No defence.

Lessons never learned.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

there are times when we are tactically astute against the bigger teams, but it's more few and far between.

Both home games against Liverpool last season, the away game at Dortmund last season, arguably the tie against Bayern Munich we actually played well and executed a decent game plan but we managed to get ourselves down to ten men.....
I think it evidences for me that Wenger is more of a lazy manager than a tactically clueless one, he transposes the side he puts out against city and thinks it's good enough to play away in Dortmund....

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

There's a group of knobheads on here that don't show their face much when we lose but always come on here and brag like a bunch of wankers when their beloved Arsene gets a win.

You know who you are.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

There's a group of knobheads on here that don't show their face much when we lose but always come on here and brag like a bunch of wankers when their beloved Arsene gets a win.

You know who you are.

And Vice-Versa

[ARightTouch]

There's a group of knobheads on here that don't show their face much when we lose but always come on here and brag like a bunch of wankers when their beloved Arsene gets a win.

You know who you are.

Lol normally in these threads there a few posts defending Arsene. None this time!

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Large part of me feels Arsene Wenger should have gone after he won the FA cup, the club was in a pretty good place both in terms of squad and financially.....but the clear fact remains that the club had nothing by way of ideas of who to replace him with, there is no point getting rid of Wenger unless you have any guarantee of someone better coming in.
Would Klopp have been better?....probably but frankly at the moment why would he come to us?....when he had the likes of Barcelona in for him.
It was definitely a mistake giving him a three year contract because that says, ok Arsene we are completley happy with everything you have done at the club, a rolling contract would have been a better idea. But the appointment of Shad Forsythe and Andries Jonker by Gazidis shows that the ground is being laid for a coaching set up post Wenger, where no man no longer wields control in the way Wenger seems to feel he has to.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

Lol normally in these threads there a few posts defending Arsene. None this time!

The real gooners don't stand for this shit. Only the warped, thick ones do.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Why would Klopp come to Arsenal?

One look at Wenger's salary and the size of our transfer budget ought to provide a couple of answers.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

But when he's arguably the most sought after Manager in Europe, he could command an even bigger transfer kitty and salary at a much more prestigious club

[Power n Glory]

Why would Klopp come to Arsenal?

One look at Wenger's salary and the size of our transfer budget ought to provide a couple of answers.

Exactly. I have no idea why people talk as if the new manager is taking over West Ham.

We pay well, generate our own income, have a good youth system, great facilities, a promising first team, a brilliant stadium and owners that aren't trigger happy ego maniacs that won't interfere with your work.

What more could you want from a club?