arteta always seems to follow up on former links like jorginho, odegaard, raya, apparently douglas luiz. when he wants a man permanently he can drop it for a while but down the road he makes it work if the profile is irresistible. always found it notable then when a link goes completely cold like aouar
trying to imagine how arteta and mbappe would work together if we were ever to pursue it and somehow get it over the line lol
i need bro out of the club yesterday, his hamstrings are the only no he listens to
havertz stocks at all time highs, kissinger heart rate at all time flatline. life is beautiful when you keep the faith :')
the chelsea tax is just devastating. this bloom into an arteta-trained b2b midfielder is gonna be scary
moved into a new apartment about a month and a half go. first big girl solo apartment ever. have needed to buy pretty much everything. (always relied on student housing w furniture and fixins or on roommates)
anyway i feel like a pre-historical hunter stalking its prey for days and weeks waiting for black friday sales to go active… soon…
just so amped still that rodri failed with his little save city at the death gimmick. footballing justice. what a weekend. if only brentford had something for us
want to reiterate something: BURN IN HELL RODRI fuck you, fuck your jammy last minute goals, go fuck yourself thinking you won it all, your heroics mean fuck all, i repeat rodri go fuck yourself and burn in hell you fuuccking prick
honestly i don’t want goals from havertz, i want assists and key passes. i would love for him to slot in where nketiah is as the deputy CF, but under arteta atp bro is a midfielder. goals are nice but not mandatory
his game is growing, unevenly. there are moments here and there that if you cut and pasted into a collage would amount to a genuinely good CM performance. he is at his best in this role when he takes advantage of his stride, like that shot in the second half.
as a midfielder his only chance at getting up there and being worth his fee and wage is learning to become a transition monster. the agility to turn, the dribbling to beat his man, making passes while in full gallop. our expectations of him fail him and fail us. he’s not the xhaka upgrade, he’s not late entry into the box sneak to eat up the cutback. he’s a donkey who’s salvation is becoming a stallion.
more and more i think outside of his off-ball prowess and aerial dominance in the midfield, perhaps this is what arteta sees in havertz’s profile. someone who, if he can master his lanky awkward physical form, can eat up the entire middle third with a single 1-2 then make the key pass prior to a goal, or the assist, or do that shot against sevilla but it goes in
he’s the abou diaby replacement
you just know after newcastle arteta looked at benny and was like “fix your STUPID FUCKING HAIR”
if we crash out, we die doing what we loved… being arsenal. i cant believe they fucking have 0 xG… head is on mars honestly
we were equally impotent against tottenham and lens as we were against chelsea, in addition to our performance collapse against forest and fulham (those were more low block plus transitions vs intense pressure but still), i’m not sure how much we’re really learning when these lapses of standards keep cropping up. we keep having ‘wake up calls’ and then get caught sleeping
bruhh even john terry agrees it wasn’t a penalty. just crazy. worse season of PGMOL yet, many more to come!!
in a sense we have replaced eddie with havertz, now the name of the game is finding a world class LCM. (also i havent fully given up on the kai as CM dream but we can’t afford such fanciful and long term experimentation at our level of play and result expectation)
the ref did that by allowing him to clatter into every and any one with impunity until the 70th, after which he cried like an absolute bitch. the game is way easier when the ‘no fouls’ cheat code is activated
it’s coin toss honestly. definitely not certain, distressing as it is
idc lowkey. give rice the armband. he is the next mr. arsenal, he has the profile. won’t disappear, like others, will always show up, unlike others
its obviously almunia, the lack of quality goalkeeping during the emirates era is massive part of our fall from grace post-highbury.
but also chamakh was uniquely frustrating because he was sooo good during that long RvP injury spell then wenger dropped him instantaneously when robin came back and he never not once even got close to the shadow of that former self
with the latest neymar injury and the focus on just how heavy his workload was in his youth… icl… im thinking of saka. we really need worthy rotation for him, same phenomenon of so many minutes so young and also everyone’s go to is just kicking the everloving fuck out of him
fulham are absolute criminals for this wtf