Country: England
The only thing this team is missing is a player with tons of x-factor that can score loads of goals and bail the team out. Arteta doesn't deserve it though, he and his fans need to be humbled by coaches with worse teams every April.
Need a striker like David Villa in his prime (how I wished he joined us back in the day).The only thing this team is missing is a player with tons of x-factor that can score loads of goals and bail the team out. Arteta doesn't deserve it though, he and his fans need to be humbled by coaches with worse teams every April.
Need a striker like David Villa in his prime (how I wished he joined us back in the day).
The mixture of technique and ability to combine like Jesus does whilst being a ruthless finisher in and around the box.
You, of all people, dissing the Charity Shield? Have you taken your supplement today?We are that Sp**s team tight now, tbh...least until we win something.
The last trophy we won was literally a different starting 11 in 2020, you had like 18 year old Saka and Martinelli on the bench watching Auba and Xhaka do their ting in that final.
It's up to our players (and manager) to change that, and you can only change it by getting silverware.
I just don’t think we can rely on our wingers getting the goals we need. Saka is not a goalscoring forward in the mould of prime Mo Salah (which is what you need if your goal output is going to come from your wide forwards).Don't think there is a CF out there, that we can get that can immediately take us to the next level, tbh... pretty scant position these days when Toney is as highly valued as he is.
Only hope is fixing the midfield and hope the knock on effect gets the wingers firing again like last season, or buying a younger CF and hope he develops...not sure Mikel has time for the latter though, if he ends next season trophyless I can see him being really under pressure by the fans.
Exactly.Weirdly Man City finished 10th in the 08/09 season
then 5th in 09/10
Then 3rd in 10/11
Then champions on GD 11/12
Then 2nd (by a lot) in 12/13
So even unprecedented long term investment took 4-5 years to be competing and they didn't have the sheer volume of teams capable of that kind of spend to compete with.
Me. I'll bring beautiful football back to this club. Say NO to sideway football.Exactly.
Now don’t get me wrong if we can go get one of the top 3 managers in world football right now then you obviously do that. But the fact is we can’t.
I don’t even know who’s significantly better than Arteta across Europe?
Makes you think
There have been far more than just three seasons.I'm not even mad about the fact we lost the title. I couldn't care less about anyone tryjg to gaslight me into accepting this embarrassing capitulation. Like I said, I'm not mad about losing to bayern or losing the league to City. It is the way and manner we did that pissed me off.
Teams have off days, but the least you should expected from a team fighting for the title is to at least look like they give a ****.
This is the third time in the past 3 seasons that we've had a late season collapse. That is deeply worrying.