Is it because he was a youngster at Spurs?
He did disparage Wolverhampton once but I doubt it’s that.
They seem to be pissed off they keep taking players from Chelsea, many of whom turn out to be garbage lol
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I’ll never question our own Bond… Richard Hughes.
They should chill out. I don’t think they will come second again…
With Man City regrouping and Chelsea looking stronger, Arsenal will be more of a top four side next time than a title challenging/winning one. And Arteta’s goose will be cooked, though when he is sacked, he will of course be saying that he is the best manager in the game.
I think that’s 6 players from Chelsea for Arteta, and they have been crap. Doesn’t pass the sniff test either, since loads of Saudi dough is flowing through Chelsea after two decades of roubles.
Yeah, he don’t have to win a single UCL/EPL title to be the best, and he is the best. 
“It’s a great achievement to not win a trophy in five years, and still be the manager of a Premier League team”… …Gary Neville 
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So Arteta ios the new Moysey?
The Everton DNA
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Interesting piece on how Gyokeres would fit in at Arsenal and the take away is it is pretty muddled.
Outside of his goals, the main characteristic of his play is how direct he is - very aggressive running off the ball towards the opposition goal. Of course playing for Arsenal he wont get anything like the same space to run into, but they point out that Arsenal are good at winning the ball back in their half and terrible at converting that it a quick attack with a shooting opportunity. The thought is that while space to run into will be infrequent, when they do get it he will add a new dimension and be a big improvement.
The second piece is he is an absolute unit and Arsenal pump the ball into the box a lot. A LOT!. There is an obvious attraction there. Except he’s shit in the air.
You can see elements of the fit, but overall it looks like a bad trade off. It seems the most likely outcome is he struggles to get involved when he plays and sooner or later finds himself out of the side replaced by someone like Havertz who contributes to the build up well but doesnt score enough and has the fans pining for Gyokeres only for him to then come on and remind everyone why he hasnt been playing.
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They going continue to foul at corners then?
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So…
He is Andy Carroll without heading ability.
This should be fun.
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He might well turn out to be a success but going on a strike and then bigging himself up as one of the best strikers in the world before proving himself at bigger stages…well I hope he turns out to be GOAT Lord Bendtner
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It’s Arsenal’s main weakness right now. They are cowards about attacking and try their best to get corners rather than actually attacking the box. When they have Xhaka, they do have someone who could switch the ball from the back directly to Saka, but now no one is able or allowed to do that anymore.
I’m much more worried if they find Jesus 2.0, who can involve carrying the ball from midfield and open space for Martinelli; another target man waiting in the box would help them little while their left side remains as useless as usual.
Anyone know anything about this guy?
“Mosquera was identified as Arsenal’s main target to provide competition for William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhães after establishing himself as a first choice for Valencia over the past two seasons. It is understood an agreement has been struck for to pay an initial £13m plus up to £3.5m in bonuses.”
“A defender, who can play CB or RB…”
Arteta is a man with a problem
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Sounds like another manager we all know.
How many positions in the back four must he be able to play Pep?
Arteta poised for The Arsenal sack thanks to Andrea Berta and Liverpool
Story by Will Ford
“We are going to make it happen,” Arteta vowed to Arsenal fans in May when reflecting on a fifth trophyless campaign on the bounce, a third consecutive second-placed finish in the Premier League and a Champions semi-final.
The ultimate Next Season manager knows 2025/26 has to be the pay-off and that only one of the two big trophies will do on the back of a promised “big” summer transfer window which Andrea Berta is in the process of delivering to plug holes in and strengthen an already very skilled and experienced squad.
The striker plight looks to be over, with the long-drawn-out chase of Viktor Gyokeres almost as boring as ‘the need for a Proper Striker’ chat itself, and although 5,183 pathetic and heartless Arsenal fans may disagree with his signing, Arteta has got a winger he ‘really pushed for’ in Noni Madueke.
Martin Zubimendi has arrived to form what everyone expects to be a midfield trio with Declan Rice and Martin Odegaard, which is about as good as it gets assuming Zubimendi can adapt to the Premier League and Odegaard rediscovers something approaching his best form. Ethan Nwaneri, Mikel Merino and Christian Norgaard are there to provide cover and competition, while Eberechi Eze may yet join too.
Cristhian Mosquera is set to arrive from Valencia to add to what was already the finest collection of defenders in the Premier League, while Kepa Arrizabalaga will be one of the best No.2s as understudy to arguably the best No.1 in David Raya.
Even if Eze doesn’t arrive and they fail to get a deal over the line for Rodrygo or an alternative marquee left winger, Arteta will have two quality players for every position and therefore a squad built to cope with the injuries he blamed for their struggles last season.
His interminable excuses will fall on the deaf ears of an increasingly entitled fanbase and the rest of the football community, who may never have disliked Arsenal more despite admiring the quality and character of many of the players, thanks to a resentment medley featuring but not limited to the abhorrent fandom of what feels like a majority, the way they now call themselves The Arsenal and the elephant that wasn’t just in the room but played 52 fing games for them last season* .
He’s far from alone in this, but Arteta’s become the world-leader in blaming the uncontrollables – injuries, the schedule, referees, VAR, the ball, the weather – and we wait with bated breath for the tell-tale sack-preceding comparison between summer spends after an already far superior Liverpool broke their transfer record once, if not twice, ahead of being almost out of reach by Christmas.
The need for a net-spend excuse in order to explain how an invigorated Chelsea have pushed them down to third would be a chef’s kiss peak Arteta moment for all the reasons – including it immediately negating the Liverpool logic – though we may be asking for too much there. But after Arne Slot and Richard Hughes followed the 2002 Sir Alex Ferguson blueprint, it really does feel as though “it’s now a case of who will come second”.
But Liverpool having better footballers than Arsenal won’t wash as an excuse and the ‘you can’t blame us we gave it everything’ line he rolls out when everyone’s fit and there’s no wind to speak of won’t either. Berta has handed Arteta a finished puzzle – it’s not going to get better than this. If he can’t make the final push in 2025/2026 then he never will; he’ll be out on his ear as the club looks to placate trophy-hungry players seeking an exit by hiring a manager who can get the job done.
Arteta said “I feel goosebumps” when looking forward to the coming season, but with Gooner fingers poised over hashtag keys while a growing anti-Arsenal band have their favourite knives sharpened, we’re not sure whether that is indeed “excitement” he’s feeling or fear.
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Some absolute pish in there like:
“Kepa Arrizabalaga will be one of the best No.2s as understudy to arguably the best No.1 in David Raya.”
“add to what was already the finest collection of defenders in the Premier League”
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It’s a big collection.
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The most expensive ever at No. 2 and the shortest No. 1.
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Apart from the sort of details being picked up on, the article is generally bang on. Arteta has been backed, a lot. It has gone on for years. He is being backed again this summer. A fortune has been spent. He need to stop whining and making excuses, and deliver the Prem or CL.
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