I thought he looked really promising TBH. Very tidy on the ball aside from one misplaced pass. I like that he gets stuck in too.Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
I thought he looked really promising TBH. Very tidy on the ball aside from one misplaced pass. I like that he gets stuck in too.
wotThere is nothing wrong with our wide options compared to Midfield! You have admitted we only have one decent Central Midfielder at the club and he is a complete crock!
Spend on wide players when you have fixed Central Midfield!!!
I think Partey partnered with Zinchenko is a good midfield. With Lokongo deputizing and possibly Viera an option too. I think Xhaka and Elnonentity are fuckin atrocious but there are other good options in CM.
Not the case for out wide. Sakashit is clearly not good enough, Martinelli is raw...is ESR even a wide player? I'm not sure but I'm sure he's overweight and also injury prone, since that term is out there. Viera possibly?
Wide options are awful and there's zero killer instinct out there. THAT is the biggest issue with this team.
Last edited by mandela8; 05-09-2022 at 01:11 AM.
Just read ESR injured himself in the warm down, ffs.
Nothing wrong with the wide options though...
Our main priority at the end of last season was - make sure we get a decent CM / CDM - pretty much everyone outside of the club knew and could see that was a major area of weakness for us.
But as usual, it didn't happen. Then we spent deadline day low balling Villa, hoping they would roll over, for a crucial area of the squad.
I don't blame us entirely for that as Villa were being twats, but maybe we should have offered £30m instead, might have got the job done, rather than £20M with £2-3m increments. This isn't the 1990's ffs.
Also, Sambi was pretty solid tbf, Xhaka was a fucking disaster and yet somehow was kept on the pitch for the entire game.
How the fuck Arteta thinks he is good enough is fucking incredible!
100% agree with that, I honestly think we should have taken the scoreline at 1-1…played Zinchenko in midfield taken Xhaka off and put Tierney on and taken Ben White off for Tomoyasu. Slowed the game down…see if we could draw them in and hit them on the break. Disastrous in game management from Arteta to compound the error made in not buying a central midfielder (arguably two)Our main priority at the end of last season was - make sure we get a decent CM / CDM - pretty much everyone outside of the club knew and could see that was a major area of weakness for us.
But as usual, it didn't happen. Then we spent deadline day low balling Villa, hoping they would roll over, for a crucial area of the squad.
I don't blame us entirely for that as Villa were being twats, but maybe we should have offered £30m instead, might have got the job done, rather than £20M with £2-3m increments. This isn't the 1990's ffs.
Also, Sambi was pretty solid tbf, Xhaka was a fucking disaster and yet somehow was kept on the pitch for the entire game.
How the fuck Arteta thinks he is good enough is fucking incredible!
Normally 12 hours after a defeat I’ve calmed down a bit, but I’m still fucking livid with Arteta.
Yeah he is injury prone.
I said compared to Central Midfield our Wide options are not that bad. Sure we need to add in this position, just like I believe we need to add another forward. My opinion is Central Midfield should have been a priority position in the Market.
Ah but you’re forgetting that Saka is the shittest player in the team and we all refuse to accept that because we want him to be decent because he’s young and English
I wouldn’t mind if he’d just said Saka is overrated. I am on board with that, I think he overthinks situations and overplays the ball far too much…none of the cover we speak about having for him are natural wide players.
I’m admittedly obsessed with the central midfield almost to the exclusion of other areas. I do think we need more options in attack, but to be honest I’d have a striker that gives us aerial presence before buying a winger.
I think we’ve reached a stage now with Arteta that we know how to press and move the ball effectively, which is good, however I do worry if there’s some killer instinct missing. Turning games into a rollercoaster isn’t exactly ideal and although we’ve come out on top most of time so far it’s going to level out a lot during the season.
I think we’ve reached the stage with Arteta that we can gleam that unlike Klopp there isn’t going to be a turning point that turns us into contenders. We are dealing with someone who whilst they have greater tactical understanding has too many glaring negatives.
This summer and last summer were a disaster in the transfer market. 50 million wasted on Ben White when we didn’t need him, almost 70 million wasted this summer on Zinchenko and Vieira. If we were going to bring in Zinchenko at all which should be dubious as he’s too slow and not good enough defensively or technically it should have been after selling Tierney. Vieira the same unless we were going to sell Smith Rowe
Then we’ve got the right back situation, where two centre backs are playing at right back
This is even before you get to the disaster of central midfield and the clear mismanagement of giving Elneny and Xhaka new contracts.
With the money we’ve spent I actually think a top coach could have identified the kind of players to make us title contenders, as it stands after yesterday I think our chances of top four are zero.
So with a combination of shocking transfer policy and in game management that tanks the team the only question that is left for me is when do the club cut its losses with both Arteta and Edu.
Fans of course will obsess over VAR and other decisions they don’t think went our way, rather than identify correctly that it’s unsustainable to carry on with Arteta. We don’t have the money as a club to waste money the way he does and set us up to fail.
Last edited by HCZ_Reborn; 05-09-2022 at 08:33 AM.
Yeah I hear you on Saka. I thought he was pretty good yesterday though, starting to come back into form.
Yeah I am the same regarding Central Midfield, I think we are one or maybe two players away from being a great team with the right signings in Central Midfield. I think even players such as Sambi and Vieira are more than capable backups for the number 8 position. Even having a player like Xhaka or Partey as rotation options along with everybody else suddenly makes our Midfield look very strong.
I agree regarding a striker with aerial presence, however I have high hopes for Balogun, he is doing really well out in French this season, I think he is the leading scorer in Ligue One.
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