Man U reaction and player ratings

[mandela8]

Or just buy a Proper DM, a reliable one that doesn't miss half of his games to date in his Arsenal career. This team is handicapped when Partey is out. Sambi isn't a DM, Xhaka isn't a DM. Elneny is an OK DM, Partey is a crock, always injured and I'm sick of him TBH.

I actually quite like Sambi, I think he is a decent option at 8, the way he moves the ball is really impressive TBH.

Well, the simple fact of the matter is that this team are mid table without him. No one else comes even close to making the difference to the team he does. He's that good.

He'd have been there in the monumental gap in CM for the first and second goal of theirs. Would've controlled the pace of the game much better too when a tempo change was required.

He's, by far, the single most important player at club.

Anyone who doesn't see this loved being molested by their dad as a child.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Well, the simple fact of the matter is that this team are mid table without him. No one else comes even close to making the difference to the team he does. He's that good.

He'd have been there in the monumental gap in CM for the first and second goal of theirs. Would've controlled the pace of the game much better too when a tempo change was required.

He's, by far, the single most important player at club.

Anyone who doesn't see this loved being molested by their dad as a child.

I’m convinced social services have a file on you longer than my arm and you slipped away to the states under an assumed identity

[selassie]

Well, the simple fact of the matter is that this team are mid table without him. No one else comes even close to making the difference to the team he does. He's that good.

He'd have been there in the monumental gap in CM for the first and second goal of theirs. Would've controlled the pace of the game much better too when a tempo change was required.

He's, by far, the single most important player at club.

Anyone who doesn't see this loved being molested by their dad as a child.

Yes he is, but he is always injured too. I read a stat the other day he has only played 58% of Arsenal's games since he has been here. He is unreliable, constantly crocked. If Arteta thinks Tierney needs competition with the Zinchenko signing then our priority purchase should be a new DM and we should blow our budget on one. Partey can be a rotation option. We can't build the team around a crocked player.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Yes he is, but he is always injured too. I read a stat the other day he has only played 58% of Arsenal's games since he has been here. He is unreliable, constantly crocked. If Arteta thinks Tierney needs competition with the Zinchenko signing then our priority purchase should be a new DM and we should blow our budget on one. Partey can be a rotation option. We can't build the team around a crocked player.

I don’t even buy into the idea that he’s that good. He stank the place out for months this time last year. Honestly if you don’t believe me watch the game away at Brighton and look how easy it was for them to dispossess him. Similar story a year earlier at Tottenham. Even before he overexerted himself and got injured they were going through him like Sidney Cook’s gang went through Jason Swift.
If he’s our best player we are well and truly fucked.

He’s definitely our best central midfielder but that’s a low bar to hurdle over.

[selassie]

I don’t even buy into the idea that he’s that good. He stank the place out for months this time last year. Honestly if you don’t believe me watch the game away at Brighton and look how easy it was for them to dispossess him. Similar story a year earlier at Tottenham. Even before he overexerted himself and got injured they were going through him like Sidney Cook’s gang went through Jason Swift.
If he’s our best player we are well and truly fucked.

He’s definitely our best central midfielder but that’s a low bar to hurdle over.

He's kind of the most important player in the sense that when he is out the team we really suffer in that area of the pitch. I can't think of one other player in the team who if is out really weakens it, probably Jesus....though Eddie is fast improving. The issue is more to do with a Squad building problem that needs to be addressed in the next window or next summer.

[HCZ_Reborn]

He's kind of the most important player in the sense that when he is out the team we really suffer in that area of the pitch. I can't think of one other player in the team who if is out really weakens it, probably Jesus....though Eddie is fast improving. The issue is more to do with a Squad building problem that needs to be addressed in the next window or next summer.

The point is that’s less about how good Partey is and how shit the other central midfielders are

Why do you think I keep banging on and on and on about this. It’s embarrassing having Xhaka in our midfield…to a degree Partey can cover for his inadequacies and his total lack of discipline but that we’ve spent 300 million since Arteta joined us and that central midfield is the state it is makes me wonder about Arteta’s mental stability.

We have three defenders who cost a combined total of 120 million pound and yet by playing this shite in front of them
We are making them look like amateurs. This is what I mean when I say Arteta is sandbagging his own team.

[selassie]

The point is that’s less about how good Partey is and how shit the other central midfielders are

Why do you think I keep banging on and on and on about this. It’s embarrassing having Xhaka in our midfield…to a degree Partey can cover for his inadequacies and his total lack of discipline but that we’ve spent 300 million since Arteta joined us and that central midfield is the state it is makes me wonder about Arteta’s mental stability.

We have three defenders who cost a combined total of 120 million pound and yet by playing this shite in front of them
We are making them look like amateurs. This is what I mean when I say Arteta is sandbagging his own team.

Cool, lets buy a whole new midfield.

I personally think with an experienced reliable DM this team wouldn't be that far away from being a geniune top 4 team. Despite our good start top 4 is by no means guaranteed this year. City, Spurs and Liverpool will all finish above us, I would be shocked if they don't. We are in a battle with Chelsea and Man Utd for 4th place and I am not confident.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Cool, lets buy a whole new midfield.

I personally think with an experienced reliable DM this team wouldn't be that far away from being a geniune top 4 team. Despite our good start top 4 is by no means guaranteed this year. City, Spurs and Liverpool will all finish above us, I would be shocked if they don't. We are in a battle with Chelsea and Man Utd for 4th place and I am not confident.

You say it flippantly I say it with uptmost sincerity

We don’t need a whole new midfield we just need a better one than we have. Which means dumping Xhaka and Elneny. I’m ok with Lokonga as a squad player, and using Partey rotationally. Douglas Luiz and Tielemans as replacements for those two would exponentially improve the squad

Also we should have sold Tierney to Man City before bringing in Zinchenko.

The money wasted on Ben White we are playing him as a right back because Arteta sunk 50million on him rather than trust Saliba.

The recruitment policy has been a joke for every decent signing we’ve made, we’ve made a totally illogical and unnecessary one.

Thirty million on Skeet Ulrich? I don’t know how any fan with any brains would trust Arteta ever again. He’s a car crash of a manager. The process of building a young side through transfers and academy players is sound, no arguments there. But it can’t be left to a deranged and deluded individual like Arteta to control that process.

I won’t lie I fucking hate the guy, he’s destroying this club. At least Emery was easy to get rid of

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So we all agree that we need quality defensive midfielders.....wow, who would have thought??

[mandela8]

Yes he is, but he is always injured too. I read a stat the other day he has only played 58% of Arsenal's games since he has been here. He is unreliable, constantly crocked. If Arteta thinks Tierney needs competition with the Zinchenko signing then our priority purchase should be a new DM and we should blow our budget on one. Partey can be a rotation option. We can't build the team around a crocked player.

Ideally, maybe.

But it's really not that straightforward, is it? There's a reason Partey was 50m player and is on 200k per week. Replacing that takes the same again, thereabouts, and clubs like arsenal can't "rotate" that level of expendicture. You know this, so not really sure why you're posting this, tbh.

Apparently he was pretty resilient at Madrid. Weird he's had these issues. Someone like Tierney was predictable, given his history. They must think Partey has just been unlucky, but I'm speculating, clearly.