Other forum meltdown watch 24/25

[Farkmaster]

Arteta is quite good at rationalizing and contextualizing failure, it's because of all the practice.

This time though, I'm not so sure. Which one is it, "over my dead body" or "we are actually punching above our weight to be where we are."

 

[MomoWASright]

Who's leaving this summer? Sounds juicy

Zinchenko, Partey and Jorginho

 

[MomoWASright]

Apparently they've not scored from a set piece since december. He's no doubt hiding in the back

They’ve scored 1 since Saka got injured. I’m sure I read that in the last few weeks. They haven’t scored by any method since.

 

[Squiggles]

I'm sure Arsenal justified the overspend on Rice with the classic "he's the final piece of the jigsaw" line. Now, as they near the end, they're realising the box was missing half the pieces all along.

 

[mwake]

I'm sure Arsenal justified the overspend on Rice with the classic "he's the final piece of the jigsaw" line. Now, as they near the end, they're realising the box was missing half the pieces all along.

£105 million for Rice OR £129.2 million for the combined transfer fees for Alexis Mac Allister, Dominik Szoboszlai, and Ryan Gravenberch. When Arsenal push the lucky Liverpool narrative I direct them to this fact. You make your own luck on and off the pitch.

 

[Farkmaster]

I was very happy for them to spend like 160 mil on havertz and rice at the time. I thought rice was only a marginal functional improvement on xhaka, and I still think that.

They haven't identified what needs they have that would be transformative. They haven't bought awful players, but they have bought unnecessary ones.

 

[binomial]

Arsenal got taken to the cleaners for Rice, moreso than they did for Pepe...who for a brief spell actually looked like a 70m winger.

Does all the basics well enough but no 1 part of his game stands out and no amount of media dick sucking will convince me otherwise.

 

[Brizzle]

Yep they bought at the top of his value, you love to see it. With the right players around him he's a v. good player but he's not 100m worthy

 

[keniget]

I guess the argument was that Rice didn't need to be worth 110M if they win the league... which has some merit.

Havertz wasn't necessarily a terrible signing from a sporting perspective but the 65M fee made it one. They let Chelsea off the hook there.

Anyways, any team would struggle losing their main source of goals and creativity so it's a little unfair to judge them too harshly this season. They will still finish 2nd / 3rd... it's a tough league!

They will have to buy goals in the summer and as we know, easier said than done.