I never rated cancelo defensively. They looked better balanced with oleks
Antony is probably one of the worst signings a professional sports franchise has made since the late 70s
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That transfer stinks. I fear the glazers have been taken for a ride.
United have had some absolute corkers of bad big money signings. The lads theyâve spent fuck all on have worked out handy enough.
It would remind you of the time Houllier signed Diouf and Diao on a friends recommendation in 2002, except in this case ETH actually worked with Antnee before. It would make you question his player judgement a bit.
Itâs odd. You look at the arsenal teams of the last decade or two on paper and compare to this one and itâs difficult to pinpoint the huge difference. Then and now, they can all play great football but somehow these guys arenât as fragile.
Everyone for guts of 2 decades said they needed a dog in midfield, uncompromising centre halves and more steely strength overall. Seemed blantaly obvious. Soft cunts, they can be got at. Did they get what seemed needed and put in this tea.?
Theyâve still no real.out and out dog in midfield. Xhaka fine footballer and unafraid but hardly intimidating or physically bossing it. Youâd take casemiro for example over him in an instant for that role.
Xhakas still in front of CHâs that are equally more like last decade CHâs theyâve had than the centre halves the decade previous. More Koscelnys than Campbells.
Theyâve also given armband to a kid, not one youâd have thought they were crying out for nor obvoius leader of men.
Collectively tonight, you never thought theyâd collapse like previous generation. Could end up losing but not abject fall apart collapse theyâd in them before.
So, itâs peculiar. What is the difference? How come these cunts arenât wilting? Theyâre ultimately not much different to past decade or so fragile teams skillwise, not employed what most thought obvious but somehow they really are different
Wenger must be creaming himself watching this crop.
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Partey makes a huge difference. Heâs been there for a few years but he adds the bite in the middle. He got injured at the end of last season and they lost half their remaining games, fucking away a great position.
Last season, he played 24 games. Record with him- W16 D2 L6 (2.08ppg). Record without him- W6 D1 L7 (1.36 ppg).
If he gets injured this season, I think theyâre still in bother.
Thatâs not the only factor, you also have the continued maturing of Martinelli/Odegaard/Saka, who are all in brilliant form, given licence to go and play. Jesus was a big loss (and him being there was a big factor in their early-season form too) but Nketiah is scoring goals.
These are lovely footballers. But theyâve had lovely footballers as good.or better than them and absolutely fell apart.
The culture change is obvious and dramatic between these guys and similar previous.
Theyâve won fuck all yet but find whatâs being created fascinating.
If Casemiro was in today and partey was out it would have been a different game
If cassimero had discipline and Partey didnât you mean
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Have they had players as good as those all together at the same time?
I think Saka is the best attacking player Arsenal have had since Fabregas, and they still had some very average players regularly starting when Fabregas was playing (Diaby, Denilson, Bendtner, etc).
Casemeiro cost united that came today
10+ years ago, that honky second united goal goes in and youâd think itâs Jenga time- arsenal will fall apart. United would.smell.blood, arsenal fall into their shell, home crowd go from nervous to self-destructive
Not an whiff.of that happening today
Hleb, Fabregas, van persie. All.exceptional individual attacking players together. And fell apart.
Saka nowhere near as decorated yet but as.you say, heâs flourishing into player of that calibre.
Signing ozil fucked Arsenal proper
Partey sounds like a nasty piece of work.
City will win the league.
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I agree. The mad thing is people dont even seem all that surprised that theyâre winning? Theyâd surely be the biggest shock winners of the premier League in the last 25 years bar Leicester. I donât think any of their players have actually ever won anything bar the two city cast offs. What price were they before the start of the season?
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Tierney
Partey
Odegard
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What did the second two win?