Arsenal 2023/24

Now that we are closer to the bottom 3 than the top 4, if things continue like this getting outplayed and taken apart and not looking like scoring or even competing with anyone, at what point do we start having to nervously look at 18th? Genuinely don't know what game I can imagine the next point or even goal coming in.

Anyway, we might as well bring the likes Nelson, Willock, AMN, Nketiah, Martinelli (once fit) into the starting side now. What's the value in continuing to play Lacazette, Xhaka and Willian at this point? Surely we don't think we're actually increasing the transfer value of the former two at present?

Been this way for a long time, just don't understand why players lose the ability to take a corner when they come to Arsenal. I only played to Cap 8 level but in our games players were generally able to lump a corner into roughly the middle of the penalty area. 

What's with Arteta's comments about crossing lately? 54 crosses today.

What's he doing???

70% possession and fudge all to show for it. We barely worked Lloris at all. We are in trouble.

In his head he's double tapping square and then it auto switches to Auba who perfectly executes a bicycle kick. He can't understand why this isn't working IRL.

You be the judge. Is he or isn't he??

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Captain Brown (From Captain Scarlett)  or                                Arteta

So January needs to be a big window; especially for exits.

Mustafi, Sokratis, Ozil, Kolasinac must be front of the list.

Chambers, Nelson, ESR, and Saliba must be leading candidates for a loan.

An attacking midfielder must be the priority signing, but unsure who else we'd look to bring in as the message to Arteta must be to get this very expensive attack firing.

Who's buying Ozil though? He doesn't seem too keen to leave either?

Well, he's got a choice in January either way when he can talk to other teams. Chelsea nor Sp*rs will have him, so I imagine he'll be heading out of London for next season. Why not go now and start playing? Arsenal will likely subsidise his wages and loan him to get him away in the reverse of deals like we did for Soares.

Given the training ground leaks and his constant pot shots on social media he's better away from the Arsenal asap.

Fenerbahce have been trying to get him over there since forever, and now reading there is potentially a strong offer in the US, from DC United. Talks of an Ozil academy, and he's all about his gaming and clothing so would probably be a good fit in the US. 

He won't leave until the end of next year, nailed on imo. If he does leave, we'll probably still need to pay 3/4 of his wages or something.

DC United’s been sniffing around since they lost Rooney. Totally agree it’s a good fit, and hopefully gives him and his wife the lifestyle they like (although personally I wouldn’t swap the USA for London right now - but I’m also not dealing with multi million dollar annual contracts ??♂️)

Europa group stages will get interesting with Ajax, Inter, United, Salzburg, and our old foes Olympiakos dropping down.

Inter finished last in their group, they're done in Europe for the season.

Seeded:

Roma

Arsenal

Bayer Leverkusen

Rangers

PSV

Napoli

Leicester

AC Milan

Villareall

Tottenham

Dinamo Zagreb

1899 Hoffenheim

ManU

Club Brugge

Shakhtar Donetsk

Ajax

Unseeded:

Young Boys

Molde

Slavia Prague

Benfica

Granada

Real Sociedad

Braga

Lille

Maccabi Tel Aviv

Antwerp

Wolfsberger AC

Red Star Belgrade

Krasnodar

Red Bull Salzburg

Dynamo Kiev

Olympiacos

Would like to avoid Real Sociedad, Lille, Salzburg and Olympiakos in the round of 32 if possible

The seeded group is pretty strong, the business end of this comp will get very tough.

I am deeply disappointed we don't get to have a crack at Sanchez.

How good was that Elneny strike last night? Such a shame he wasted it on a dead rubber - would have loved him to pull that out this weekend!

Don't often watch live, I'd usually be on the way to work at this time and try to avoid the result to watch in the evening but working from home today so I can watch live. Forgot how bad an experience it is. Picture constantly breaking up and of course we have to cross to the other game every time they have a shot.

A win against Burnley this morning could shoot us up from 15th to.....................14th  :(

geez. This is pretty flat. Everyone is lacking confidence and form. Gonna need something special to break this cycle.

Same old so far. Huffing and puffing, plenty of crosses and corners, can't finish. 

How long does Arteta persist with this front line? We're doing most things well as a team, but the attack just continues to stutter. The output from them is dire at the minute. Meanwhile the kids are scoring pretty regularly in the Europa League. 

Willian is giving us absolutely nothing. Doesn't look dangerous whatsoever.

What is the point in continuing to play with Xhaka, Willian and Lackofthreat at this point? Could play this for the rest of the week and still won't score.

oh what the fudge xhaka. Ffs 

The relegation battle is real

It fudgeing is ay. We are horrid 

The only thing stopping me from being Arteta out, is I don't think anyone could transform this team right now. 

Geez this is getting dire. We just cannot score in the league.

Surely Arteta has to drop players for Thursday, we cannot sustain the lack of goals and creativity from this forward line any longer. I half expected more changes today.

can't score, can't defend, not even playing football just physically assaulting the opposition.

Maurico Pochettino?

Leaving the result aside, it was an absolutely terrible experience watching live on Spark Sport this morning. Picture constantly breaking up, and had the black “Sorry for the interruption” screen 20+ times in the 2nd half alone so that it was almost unwatchable. Anyone else have it this bad or was it problems at my end? Have had no issue with work computer connected to the same WIFI at the same time, and was only checking emails on that so it wasn't doing anything that should have impacted on streaming on another device. Only people who had a worse experience watching would have been the 2,000 who were unlucky enough to be pulled out of the ticket ballot. Glad I don’t usually attempt to watch live.

Do you really think he could come in and sprinkle his magic dust and this side would be better? I'm just not convinced.

This squad is in such dire state I'd consider keeping Leno, Partey, Tierney, Gabriel, Saka, Holding, Nketiah, Nelson, ESR and be happy putting the rest up for sale.

So badly put together for how Arteta wants to play.

I'd love to see us give this a shot against SOTON because it can't be worse than what we've been doing

                  Nketiah

       Saka     ESR      Pepe

          Ceballos Elneny

Tierney Gabriel Holding Soares

                     Leno 

Genuinely can't see where the next goal or point is coming from. Have to be close to the point where bottom three becomes a genuine concern now. Who's the next team who haven't beaten us for 40+ years or are there no more of those records left to rectify now?

It's got to the point where my friends don't even give me shark anymore when Arsenal lose. 

I had those issues too AJC. Was unusual, usually been very good for me with Spark

Glad it wasn't just me then, didn't think there was anything wrong with my setup. Don't usually watch live so can't comment on how well it's been working recently but this morning was horrible. I see their Facebook page is inundated with comments from people who had the same experience this morning so won't bother to add mine too.

atmospeheric conditions?

Arsenal fans when they find out London has been moved into tier 3 so they don’t have to go to the Emirates anymore

Southampton haven't beaten us at our place for 30+ years. Sigh. Didn't think there were any of those records left to rectify.