Arsenal Thread | 2024/25

[bridgeno1]

Why would Gabriel displace Akanji? If your centre halves played the average positions on the pitch that City do, they look a hell of a lot less secure than they do playing Arteta’s way, and conversely, Akanji and Dias would look much more secure playing Arteta’s way. Sometimes Akanji’s average position is in the opposition half, Gabriel’s is often below the centre circle.

Could either of Gabriel or Saliba play in central midfield like Stones does? If we needed any centre half from both teams to do that role against a certain team, Stones is by far the most suited of all of them. There’s no way either of your two centre halves would get MOTM in the CL final playing in centre mid.

Raya makes more mistakes leading to goals than Ederson (when he was younger, Ederson was quite bad for this but now it hardly every happens), and he can’t do what Ederson can with the ball at his fe

Well you've raised a good point about the tactical systems being used by the respective managers impacting how effective the players would be. You're probably right that Gabriel wouldn't be as effective as Akanji in a Pep system but then again under Arteta he basically acts firstly as a Gandalf figure at the back ('you shall not pass') and secondly as an offensive weapon at set pieces. Whether Akanji would be as effective under that system I guess we'll never find out.

What's for sure is Haaland, KDB and Foden would be the best player in their positions in either system - I reckon Saka would ironically be even more effective under Pep's system as he'd not have to track back so much.

 

[Blue Til Death]

Ian Wright the man of morals and a beacon of light.

This arsehole makes out he's a victim all the time but he is one of the biggest fraudsters going.

To have the cheek to have a pop at Haaland for a soft situation. The same "Wrighty" that went over the top of Schmeichel and tried to injure him. The same Wrighty who punched David Howells. The same Wrighty that called a lino a spastic for having physical deformities. Telling a postman he's acting like a white man when he's black. Playing a race card story about Peter Schmeichel when it was all horse shit. Spending a few weeks in Chelmsford nick for being a criminal. That's off the top of my head.

The bloke is a vile wanker and shouldn't be having a pop at Haaland at all while acting the shrinking violet. Absolute prick. Con man. He's definitely trying to influence the media and refs to watch Haaland from now on. But according to Wrighty Shitey, Arsenal's underhanded tactics are fine.

No point me posting, my thoughts exactly ..

 

[M23 Citizen]

Honestly this reads like something from a North Korean propaganda release mate.

Really?

Your club are the main drivers behind all the activity by other clubs against City.

Since 2008 your club, ex-manager and fans have been the biggest moaners and nosey cunts about City’s takeover, finances and court cases. It’s been more constant and obvious from your club and fans than any other right from the start.

Arsene Wenger Wants FFP Villains Like Manchester City Out of Champions League

Arsene Wenger has called upon UEFA to install simpler punishments for clubs who breach the financial fair play rules...

syndication.bleacherreport.com

Man City discover Arteta's Arsenal leading bid to uphold Champions League ban

Bit of a weird one...

metro.co.uk

Revealed: How Arsenal and United plot to take down City backfired

MIKE KEEGAN: One word, delivered by the three experienced and former high-ranking retired judges on the panel, screamed out. The rules are 'unlawful'. This was a victory for City.

www.dailymail.co.uk

The shit bunch of bins bags held up by your anti-Semitic, Ricky Gervais convention boys reads, ‘CLASS AND TRADITION SOMETHING OIL MONEY CAN’T BUY’. Obviously, with no idea who owns your major sponsor.

Your fans have this misplaced and lacking-in-historical-knowledge-about-your-own-club superiority about being more classy, more traditional, doing things the ‘right way’, more organic club than City. That shit oozes from your fanbase. You always hear it on the phone-ins, you see it written on the forums, you see and hear it on the fan channels.

Arsenal = Bitter Hypocrite FC.

Oh and racists:

Emmanuel Adebayor celebration: 'The racist abuse was too much’ - Striker explains infamous Arsenal kneeslide | Goal.com UK

Emmanuel Adebayor has revealed that racist chanting from Arsenal fans caused his infamous celebration against them in September 2009.

www.goal.com

(it wasn’t just the odd ones, it was the full away end singing it)




You support an insecure, hypocritical bunch of busy cunts. Yet you’ve always been ‘at it’ yourselves going right back to the dodgy promotion in 1919, your chairman being banned from football for life in the midst of your greatest ever era, your players coming out and saying they were paid in offshore accounts during your second greatest era, and now with it coming out that you have interest free shareholder loans totaling over a quarter of a billion£…

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Why would Gabriel displace Akanji? If your centre halves played the average positions on the pitch that City do, they look a hell of a lot less secure than they do playing Arteta’s way, and conversely, Akanji and Dias would look much more secure playing Arteta’s way. Sometimes Akanji’s average position is in the opposition half, Gabriel’s is often below the centre circle.

Could either of Gabriel or Saliba play in central midfield like Stones does? If we needed any centre half from both teams to do that role against a certain team, Stones is by far the most suited of all of them. There’s no way either of your two centre halves would get MOTM in the CL final playing in centre mid.

Raya makes more mistakes leading to goals than Ederson (when he was younger, Ederson was quite bad for this but now it hardly every happens), and he can’t do what Ederson can with the ball at his feet.

Like most at Arsenal, he's not often on his feet.

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Well you've raised a good point about the tactical systems being used by the respective managers impacting how effective the players would be. You're probably right that Gabriel wouldn't be as effective as Akanji in a Pep system but then again under Arteta he basically acts firstly as a Gandalf figure at the back ('you shall not pass') and secondly as an offensive weapon at set pieces. Whether Akanji would be as effective under that system I guess we'll never find out.

What's for sure is Haaland, KDB and Foden would be the best player in their positions in either system - I reckon Saka would ironically be even more effective under Pep's system as he'd not have to track back so much.

Would he fuck. Peps system relies on playing staying on their feet. Have I said that about your players before? Maybe there's something in it. As soon as he's within five yards of the box, sure as eggs are eggs and Arsenal cheat and moan down he goes.

 

[Manc in London]

I started calling them cheating Arsenal, after the shitshow at Etihad a few weeks ago, but it seems they were cheating in more ways than one.

For me, the issue is that they called us financial dopers based on accusations based on our owner allegedly injecting funds into the club. Well, look at what they have been doing. Same thing.

 

[bennyboy]

Lee Gunner not a happy man.I like him.

 

[jamesha]

Really?

Your club are the main drivers behind all the activity by other clubs against City.

Since 2008 your club, ex-manager and fans have been the biggest moaners and nosey cunts about City’s takeover, finances and court cases. It’s been more constant and obvious from your club and fans than any other right from the start.
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Arsene Wenger Wants FFP Villains Like Manchester City Out of Champions League

Arsene Wenger has called upon UEFA to install simpler punishments for clubs who breach the financial fair play rules...

syndication.bleacherreport.com

Man City discover Arteta's Arsenal leading bid to uphold Champions League ban

Bit of a weird one...

metro.co.uk

Revealed: How Arsenal and United plot to take down City backfired

MIKE KEEGAN: One word, delivered by the three experienced and former high-ranking retired judges on the panel, screamed out. The rules are 'unlawful'. This was a victory for City.

www.dailymail.co.uk

View attachment 134510
The shit bunch of bins bags held up by your anti-Semitic, Ricky Gervais convention boys reads, ‘CLASS AND TRADITION SOMETHING OIL MONEY CAN’T BUY’. Obviously, with no idea who owns your major sponsor.

Your fans have this misplaced and lacking-in-historical-knowledge-about-your-own-club superiority about being more classy, more traditional, doing things the ‘right way’, more organic club than City. That shit oozes from your fanbase. You always hear it on the phone-ins, you see it written on the forums, you see and hear it on the fan channels.

Arsenal = Bitter Hypocrite FC.

Oh and racists:

Emmanuel Adebayor celebration: 'The racist abuse was too much’ - Striker explains infamous Arsenal kneeslide | Goal.com UK

Emmanuel Adebayor has revealed that racist chanting from Arsenal fans caused his infamous celebration against them in September 2009.

www.goal.com

(it wasn’t just the odd ones, it was the full away end singing it)


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You support an insecure, hypocritical bunch of busy cunts. Yet you’ve always been ‘at it’ yourselves going right back to the dodgy promotion in 1919, your chairman being banned from football for life in the midst of your greatest ever era, your players coming out and saying they were paid in offshore accounts during your second greatest era, and now with it coming out that you have interest free shareholder loans totaling over a quarter of a billion£…

And drop the mike!

 

[M16 citeh]

Really?

Your club are the main drivers behind all the activity by other clubs against City.

Since 2008 your club, ex-manager and fans have been the biggest moaners and nosey cunts about City’s takeover, finances and court cases. It’s been more constant and obvious from your club and fans than any other right from the start.
View attachment 134506
View attachment 134507

Arsene Wenger Wants FFP Villains Like Manchester City Out of Champions League

Arsene Wenger has called upon UEFA to install simpler punishments for clubs who breach the financial fair play rules...

syndication.bleacherreport.com

Man City discover Arteta's Arsenal leading bid to uphold Champions League ban

Bit of a weird one...

metro.co.uk

Revealed: How Arsenal and United plot to take down City backfired

MIKE KEEGAN: One word, delivered by the three experienced and former high-ranking retired judges on the panel, screamed out. The rules are 'unlawful'. This was a victory for City.

www.dailymail.co.uk

View attachment 134510
The shit bunch of bins bags held up by your anti-Semitic, Ricky Gervais convention boys reads, ‘CLASS AND TRADITION SOMETHING OIL MONEY CAN’T BUY’. Obviously, with no idea who owns your major sponsor.

Your fans have this misplaced and lacking-in-historical-knowledge-about-your-own-club superiority about being more classy, more traditional, doing things the ‘right way’, more organic club than City. That shit oozes from your fanbase. You always hear it on the phone-ins, you see it written on the forums, you see and hear it on the fan channels.

Arsenal = Bitter Hypocrite FC.

Oh and racists:

Emmanuel Adebayor celebration: 'The racist abuse was too much’ - Striker explains infamous Arsenal kneeslide | Goal.com UK

Emmanuel Adebayor has revealed that racist chanting from Arsenal fans caused his infamous celebration against them in September 2009.

www.goal.com

(it wasn’t just the odd ones, it was the full away end singing it)


View attachment 134514

You support an insecure, hypocritical bunch of busy cunts. Yet you’ve always been ‘at it’ yourselves going right back to the dodgy promotion in 1919, your chairman being banned from football for life in the midst of your greatest ever era, your players coming out and saying they were paid in offshore accounts during your second greatest era, and now with it coming out that you have interest free shareholder loans totaling over a quarter of a billion£…

Racist cunts towards adebayor and all!

 

[Andy TheCatalyst Morrison]

Well you've raised a good point about the tactical systems being used by the respective managers impacting how effective the players would be. You're probably right that Gabriel wouldn't be as effective as Akanji in a Pep system but then again under Arteta he basically acts firstly as a Gandalf figure at the back ('you shall not pass') and secondly as an offensive weapon at set pieces. Whether Akanji would be as effective under that system I guess we'll never find out.

What's for sure is Haaland, KDB and Foden would be the best player in their positions in either system - I reckon Saka would ironically be even more effective under Pep's system as he'd not have to track back so much.

You might want to delete the last sentence. What utter nonsense. Wingers don’t have to track back under Pep - have you ever watched a City game? You don’t track back for Pep, you don’t play. Simple as that.