Arsenal Thread - 2022/23

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jim tolmies perm said:
Not even close to our 100 point team in quality
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I agree, they're nowhere even close to the centurions side we had or even the city and Liverpool sides of the last few years but they don't need to be, they only need to be better than what's infront of them and right now the league is probably the weakest it's been since Pep came here.

It will be down to us to beat them twice put them on a downward slope prevent them from getting 100 points and hopefully prevent them from winning the league.
 
I remember last season when we were crowned as the champions after 21 games and having an 8pt gap...turned out a lot closer than that didn't it! And we were only 3pts ahead after 19 games, so the gap swung and then closed in the blink of an eye.

I can't see them getting more than 40pts from the second half of the season. But can we pull ourselves together and get 90+?

Out of interest I had a look at the form of the previous highest points tally's across the first and second halves of the season. Expecting Arsenal to only get 40pts from the second half of the season seems crazy but when you reflect on the below, it's quite likely. No team has ever hit 50pts or more in both halves. But records are there to be broken of course! We need to really step it up if we're going to get 90pts though, but we do have the benefit of two games against the Arse to reel them in.

Chelsea 05/06 - 91pts (52/39)
Rags 99/00 - 91pts (45/46)
Dippers 21/22 - 92pts (44/48)
Chelsea 16/17 - 93pts (49/44)
City 21/22 - 93pts (47/46)
Chelsea 04/05 - 95pts (46/49)
Dippers 18/19 - 97pts (51/46)
City 18/19 - 98pts (44/54)
Dippers 19/20 - 99pts (55/44)
City 17/18 - 100pts (55/45)
 
Too early to be talking about the title with 19 games to go and much will happen. I’m pleased with our current form. Our last 4 league games were against 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th in the table and we got 3 wins and a draw, so hoping we can keep that up.
 
Jack Hackett said:
Too early to be talking about the title with 19 games to go and much will happen. I’m pleased with our current form. Our last 4 league games were against 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th in the table and we got 3 wins and a draw, so hoping we can keep that up.
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If you maintain your form from the first half of the season (getting 100 points) you will have achieved more than your invincibles team and will be worthy title winners. For me it is much more impressive to attack and try to win every match instead of grinding out draws to remain unbeaten. It would be an amazing achievement for Arteta with such a young team.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
If you maintain your form from the first half of the season (getting 100 points) you will have achieved more than your invincibles team and will be worthy title winners. For me it is much more impressive to attack and try to win every match instead of grinding out draws to remain unbeaten. It would be an amazing achievement for Arteta with such a young team.
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As much as I’d like to see that happen, I really don’t think we’ll get close to 100 points
 
Jack Hackett said:
Maybe so but all teams go through a blip at some stage during a season. We haven’t had one yet.
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**Drops to my knees and prays**

Strange this because a rag colleague said today he is waiting for your blip, and that the Prem is ours ;-)

I'm not so sure, but for about 5 seconds today I quite liked the rag colleague ;-)
 
That Arsenal fan earlier in the thread had to be on the wind-up, with his "gross spend is more important" talk. In fact, a lot of his arguments were a bit "fishy", you could say. Arsenal's gross spend is fast approaching £1bn since Pep arrived anyway(€941.26m or £826.83m) and of course net spend matters a little bit more than gross spend("this means more" as Liverpool and Klopp like to say).

Although, it's pretty obvious why it was temporarily the most important thing in world football for certain people, just as City fans said all along. If they can use it to bash a club they don't like and big theirs up, they will. The minute they can't, is when it's stops being that important. It was just a stick to beat City and then Pep with. More and more Liverpool fans have realised that the net spend trophy isn't all that and are asking why a club with revenues just as high as City's can't use them for transfers, like most other clubs do.
 
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Metalartin said:
That Arsenal fan earlier in the thread had to be on the wind-up, with his "gross spend is more important" talk. In fact, a lot of his arguments were a bit "fishy", you could say. Arsenal's gross spend is fast approaching £1bn since Pep arrived anyway(€941.26m or £826.83m) and of course net spend matters a little bit more than gross spend("this means more" as Liverpool and Klopp like to say).

Although, it's pretty obvious why it was temporarily the most important thing in world football for certain people, just as City fans said all along. If they can use it to bash a club they don't like and big theirs up, they will. The minute they can't, is when it's stops being that important. It was just a stick to beat City and then Pep with. More and more Liverpool fans have realised that the net spend trophy isn't all that and are asking why a club with revenues just as high as City's can't use them for transfers, like most other clubs do.
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Of course gross spend is a better measure. Coutinho was at Liverpool before Klopp and then Liverpool got lucky selling Coutinho for that ridiculous sum. Klopp then went out and bought Allison and VVD for 80m each. Liverpool fans like to downplay the significance of these purchases due to the fact it was the Coutinho money that paid for them. But it still doesn't ignore the fact Klopp got to spend 80m on two players who transformed his backline, which is a luxury very few mangers have enjoyed.
 
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