Let’s head off to my usual Arseholes forum and their Title Charge thread.
It's over, if it wasn't already. Big money needs to be spent on a CF and LW before Saka, Saliba, Gabriel, Ødegaard want to move on
Central midfield too.
God, Mikel Merino, what a load of **** he is.
Time to make the title change official, Mods. This race is about as lively as Ramesses II.
Title winning run any minute.
If city beat yanited they'll be level on points 😭
Nah man this team is taking this piss at this point.
This was always going to become an issue when you start believing in your set piece hype and focus too much on that, now they've become completely inept at creating chances from open play on a consistent basis. Every week we have to sit and watch this team pass side to side, win corners and try to score from that and that alone. Given up on title at this point, they're not suddenly going to become consistent enough again to overhaul Liverpool and even f*ing Chelsea now. Absolute farce how poor we've become this season.
Yeah its done, Pool or Chelsea for the title. Looks bad on Tets tbh.
I put my money on liverpool and Chelsea.
Chelsea´s has the best midfielder in Caicedo and the best attacking player in Palmer, if City does not find form and Liverpool loses a key player a la Mcallister I can see them going all the way, their sheet is inmense and they have enough players to rotate, their European football is basically friendlies.
THis was the season we needed to step up and prove ourselves, instead of doing that, we went and bought 4 defenders.
I'm really tuning out of this season. I'll just watch the cup games. The PL is just a boring grind
What pi$$es me off the most, is everytime we need to win we dont. After last season i thought they had that mentality to win when needed. Not this year. Bar Lb and maybe Partey, thst was our first 11. Shocking!
You’re only hurting yourself if you’re still thinking about Liverpool. It doesn’t matter if they have the odd slip up, we aren’t Man City who will hound them down all season and take advantage of every slip up. (As we saw today) The gap between Arsenal and falling out of a top four spot is in far greater danger than the one that separates us from Liverpool. If they win their game in hand they go 9 points clear, that same gap is the difference between us and 12th - 13th in the table. Don’t do it to yourself
It's over guys yes the point difference still the same but honestly watch our team and we not good more chances finishing 4th
I think we threw it away today. It is a very damaging draw. You can't dominate the game like today, and end up giving away two points.
We aren't any better!! If I'm an opposition manager, I'd count my lucky stars to be in a title race with a perennial loser like Tets who'll never amount to anything.
After today's result I think we have to be realistic. Barring an almighty fck up by Pool, we not gonna seriously compete for the title. Even if we somehow sort it out & go on an epic run, it's unlikely to be enough.
We should buy some attackers in January & just go for the CL & domestic cups.
The usual suspects will be out to say it’s not over, keep the faith.
It’s over.
He’s had enough chances.
Haven't watched a full game so far and I'm glad. Arteta has to go, failed this summer window and he's evolving into Mourinho. Seeing from reactions his game is still boring as hell. Sickening.
For those who have faith you know to win the title we basically need to at least win next 3 games get 39 points to finish first half but 2nd half of season you basically need 50 points at least and with how we going it's impossible.
Can't see it happening unless our attack by miracle start producing. The frustrating thing is Liverpool already gave us tow chances we took one against utd but return the favor the last tow game that the reason we ain't doing it
Would be interesting to see a poll here if anyone is up for a manager change and for who. I’m tempted to say this is it.
At least people have stopped moaning about ref calls and whatever else.
We haven’t played well enough to deserve the title. That’s the bottom line.
Arteta peaked in 2022
That was a more successful period. Paid off debt, cheap signings and met club targets.I’ll always be grateful Mikel got us to the level where this thread title exists on a forum.
I remember the fight for top 4 days, makes me shudder.
Mikel has been a raging success.
Now it’s massive spending and haramball with a guy from Holland coming in and winning the league without spending anything.
I don’t care.
We've been playing like this for the past two seasons and Arteta has perfected his style so that we struggle to do anything extraordinary. It will be a story for the ages if we win the PL this season but it was evident from matchday 5, despite our quarrels with the refereeing, that we hadn't improved. Our title challenge is done-unless we get a transformative player and the largest slice of luck in January. In truth, we never got started this season.
I think last season is as good as it will get with him. He will have 3 seasons based on last season and he will fill the squad with trash. Last window was disastrous
I think Arteta did as much with us that we can do. I don't blame him. If we're going to now do this I am going to step aside. If it gets ugly and fingers are pointed at him I don't want to be involved. I think his approach was the one.
I've already said this will likely be my last season following PL football and I think I was right
Unfortunately I don’t think we have what it takes people. We are just too conservative, and teams are now relying on that to compete with us.
When our set piece danger dries up it becomes a frustrating watch. We are just not attacking the diminishing spaces in behind fast enough.
The reasons Liverpool can score 2 goals with 10 men is twofold. They embrace the chaos needed to open teams up, and they finish off tight chances.
We get the tight chances, but we do it with control in place. Great idea but it’s far too tight to ensure consistent victories. Look at our last three games, all having tight chances with hopeless finishing.
If we have any dreams of any big trophy this season, we need to embrace more chaos in our game.
Will Arteta embrace that chaos, move us more towards 22/23 again? I doubt.
We aren’t finished yet… but we might as well be. I can’t see us winning 19/20 of our remaining 22 games. It’s far too big an ask for this inconsistent attack now I think.
I'm afraid if we don't fix up offensively we even finish outside top 4. All the teams going to sit deep against us apart from handful of teams no mid or lower PL team gonna play like monaco at Emirates. We had utd played so deep against us. Arteta is stubborn as well