without a doubt we will lose that gameOriginally Posted by Marc Overmars
of course Sky have put it up on a nice big plate for the media to feast on 'Arsenal lose to Plucky Palace' headlines as a nice start to the usual Arsenal-bashing media season...
At this point I reckon we start at Palace with only one new player in the starting 11.
Knowing Arteta it might even be none because "Eddie trains so well and deserves it".
Forget best XIs - 5 subs is going to be a seismic change to the game in this country, and I think a lot of what we’re seeing with our activity is us tooling up for it. Everything’s about to get a lot more tactical, with far more system changes and counter-changes within games, specific players picked to start games, different players picked to finish games, etc, and the most successful teams are probably going to be the ones who have the most options and adaptability.
Chuck in Europa league and a couple of domestic cup runs (and a ridiculous WC in the middle of the season) (and the usual injuries we have to cover) and there will easily enough minutes to keep everyone happy!
I know what you mean with Tielemans - I want him, but I can’t quite picture what job he does for us? I get the feeling he might be our ‘everyman’ in CM - someone who can play left-8, right-8, as one half of a double-pivot and maybe even cover Partey as the lone 6 (I really don’t think that role is what people think it is in our system).
Eddie will be fine for this season. If he can come into a creaking, threadbare team in the run in and bang in 5 goals in 8 games (and we had some tough games in that run!) then he’ll do just fine with our best players around him and everyone fresh. At the very least he buys us a year to look at 2nd striker - I don’t feel any great urgency to do anything about that one this summer (nor can I see who might be available who would make a difference to us). I feel like the immediate answer here is to stick with the original plan and bring in a goal-scoring wide forward.
My feelings too. We have definitely improved, but so has everyone else aside from Manure so it’s not as open as it was say 5 or 6 seasons ago.
Im looking forward to the season more out of hope than belief. I personally don’t think we have done enough to upgrade our team and I don’t believe Arteta and the coaching staff are good enough to improve us to the position I want us to be in.
Still hoping for a right winger/striker that can get goals.
Not sure who is available however now
Good signing.
We've done some great business aside from Turner who looks like a dud.
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Wrong - he snubbed a spuds fan so he's already a legend
Zinchenko's a good hire but my excitement at the signings is a bit tempered by not just Xhaka but also Cedric not being talked about as likely to go - it's looking like Arteta sees them as part of the future, at least for the time being.
Until we get rid of that kind of banter trash player we're going nowhere
[QUOTE=Mac76;4558918]Zinchenko's a good hire but my excitement at the signings is a bit tempered by not just Xhaka but also Cedric not being talked about as likely to go - it's looking like Arteta sees them as part of the future, at least for the time being.
Before we start selling, especially defender's, we need to look at replacing Tommy. He is injured yet again and is pretty shit anyway.
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