Not sure if they really need Eze, though with time, he might maybe become a starter on the left, as they don’t have an outstanding option there (Martinelli has stagnated).
The double false #9’s is also an option. But happy for Eze from the moving to a top club point of view, I was wondering if he would achieve that. Was possibly my favourite player outside the big 6.
Rodgers winning the fa cup with Leicester, glasner winning that with palace are bigger success stories than arteta winning with arsenal.
There will always be good coaches around. Think of what a iraola will do with this arsenal team.
For all his crying, the squad depth they have is pretty wild.
Midfielders - Odegaard, Norgaard, Fabio Viera, Nwaneri, Merino, Zubimendi, Rice
Forwaeds - Saka, Jesus, Martinelli, Gyokeres, Trossard, Madueke, Haverts, and Eze (if he signs).
Some still might leave (and they have a few injuries), but yeah, their depth is quality this season. Quality in certain spots in their XI remain under question. But it’s well balanced, without being too large.
When you split it into two XI’s, it’s more or less…
Yeah, I really rate him, and think it’s only a matter of time before he moves to a big club.
They’ve got another young kid coming through the academy as well.
Haven’t most teams.
Sure. But someone who’s supposedly had a very good preseason. Max Dowman.
Arsenal for all their transfers do produce academy graduates through as well. Arteta’s plight would be much worse if he hadn’t the likes of Saka / Skelly / Nwaneri coming through from their academy.
It’s almost the point as to why they want to invest in further defensive midfielders when they’ve got Skelly being played off position.
Yeah it was always about the injuries rather than the squad itself. It looked a LOT stronger last week, but now already have Havertz out, no return date for Jesus yet and Califiori and Timber, two players whose adaptability was key in the strength they thought their squad had, having ongoing concerns about their ability to stay fit and play regularly. They are not far away from getting to a place where they are complaining again.
Ok Max Dowman is going achieve their manifest destiny.
But Rio is really raw and not allowed to see two minutes of a Liverpool match.
Max is 15… Rio is 16 as I said clubs have good academies we are making lots of money off ours and will continue to do so even if the lads don’t break through. Max Dowman will not play a single PL game for probably 2-3 seasons unless it’s a dead rubber.
Also laugh all you want it’s true, this board is getting tiresome. Apparently we are shit have no options and yet everyone else is on the up. And that’s been the case for an entire year and a half one in which we won the title.
You can talk about how you’ll win till the cows come home but you have to do it. So far they’ve failed.
Also Max Dowman is so amazing they’ve bought two players in his position since he had a good pre season. Backs up the 2-3 year theory.
Ok, who the fuck is Max Dowman?
A 15 year old budding superstar. He really is the tits and has been destroying teams all the way up through reserves even at that age. Critically he hasnt been doing it with a raw physicality of a kid who is simply matured earlier than his peers. He is now on the fringes of the first team and has not looked remotely out of place.
And is 15 years old and has since seen 2 players signed in his positions.
No doubt he comes through and is amazing but Rio is of a similar quality. However it seems one is amazing and one might turn out like Ibe.
That is why Mascot could never be an Arsenal fan. You have to leave a path available to the first team for a player like this.
Well shit, kinda ruined my day now this has.
Call Masters and tell him it’s over. League’s done and we’d rather not go through the embarrassment of losing the title to a lego headed thundercunt and his 15 year old son (who may or may not start a single game) running rings around and making a mockery of every PL defence.
You know I was rather looking forward to a nice, quiet night in…few pints of Carling (I prefer Stella), maybe catch up on last night’s Eastenders (literally never watched it in my life), but instead now I’m gonna have to find out about this Max How…Max Pow…Dowman, Max Dowman kiddo and stress over the fact he’s going to takeover the league, possibly even Europe and World for the next 20 years of his spawny life.
Things like this that really make me hate this place sometimes.
https://x.com/SkySportsNews/status/1958601749213667702
“Transfer illness”