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Good that he's firing the shots, but the skeptic in me also thinks this is hugely convenient on the back of the Tottenham game and seeing we have Liverpool and City before sunday.
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Lol he’s realised he’s not a miracle worker and coaching won’t fix what he’s got.When a manager is speaking openly like this then it suggests something is wrong behind the scenes.
Not buying it.
Look I’m not denying that we could easily upgrade on those three calamities. But in the last 10 years we’ve also had Vermaelen, Koscielny, Mertesacker, Senderos, Squillaci etc and we still regularly lost these games in the same manner. With the above mentioned making similar errors. For me the main issue is not personnel but the culture that has uprooted at the club.
Yes we need more talented defenders but until you get the leadership, mentality, organisation, preparation and a proper footballing philosophy right, we’re still going to come up short regardless of which defenders we recruit.
It's a bit chicken and egg. Buy a couple of top defenders and they're top because they have these attributes
Here’s what I’m talking about:
““It would be too simplistic to say that the more things change at Arsenal the more they stay the same. There are signs of improvement in Arteta's team. Nevertheless, deep-rooted and fundamental flaws continue to hold them back.””
“”It's not just an issue with the back four or back five at Arsenal, either. It wasn't under Unai Emery and it wasn't under Arsène Wenger. No, Arsenal are a club at which the ugly stuff has come too hard to everybody for a long time. It has become a cultural thing and as such is hard to unpick.
Manchester City and Liverpool, for example, defend front to back. At Arsenal, too few people really want to do it - the front three certainly don't - and the ones who do are not particularly good at it.””
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...-Arsenal-Mikel-Arteta-flaws-holding-back.html
Problem with that is no club is giving us those amounts for who I assume, are Laca and Auba respectively. Not in these times.To do what Liverpool did we’d have to sell our two best players for £65m and £120m then use that money on a world class centre back and a holding mid.
Surely Mesut Özil is Top Player at The Arsenal. He's insisted he is ready for Liverpool. I say let him prove his worth by destroying the League Champions tonight and then accept offers round the £200M mark and rebuild the whole team.Problem with that is no club is giving us those amounts for who I assume, are Laca and Auba respectively. Not in these times.
Klopp the most recent manager to rate Arteta and say we'll be challenging soon.
Are they just being nice or what?
Just being nice. We are not even close to challenge for the title.
To do what Liverpool did we’d have to sell our two best players for £65m and £120m then use that money on a world class centre back and a holding mid.