Arsenal Thread | 2024/25

discopop said:
You’re bit of a cheeky fucker claiming City have shat the bed after our exploits over the last 6 out of seven seasons especially given the body of work your mob of chokers have produced.
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I said you shat the bed this season. Which is true. Nobody expected anything other than City vs Arsenal for the title.

The fact City have dropped off a cliff and yet Arsenal are 9 points off a team who has a brand new manager and spent nothing in pre season is a bad reflection on Arteta. Arsenal have much easier fixtures than Liverpool so in theory could claw it back but come on if you watch the current Arsenal team on TV they don't look like a title winning team and aren't as good as last season. Arteta has had a fortune to spend on players, is on a huge salary and unfortunately the name of the game is winning - you have to turn that investment into trophies. Then if your main rival has an absolute nightmare yet you don't take advantage then questions need to be asked.

I reckon Arteta will play a reserve team against Newcastle in the EFL and the Rags in the FA Cup and we'll go out of both as a result. So he's therefore got to win the league or the CL and we aren't anywhere near a CL winning team - the league is an outside bet. There's a reason we are 6-9 points behind the Dippers and that reason is we deserve to be - we haven’t been good enough. Sure there have been some unusual refereeing decisions but we weren't good enough to beat Brighton and actually could have lost that game.

The last 2 seasons we were exciting to watch. This season we've played regimented tedious shite. So boring. Occasionally we turn it on - like the 10 minutes at the start of the 2nd half at Brentford when we murdered them but usually it's just a load of sideways passing, interminably long throw ins (30 seconds left of injury time vs Brighton, we get a throw in and Partey takes 20 seconds!). F*ck this shit, we're better than that. I'm bored watching our games now.
 
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jimharri said:
One of those "wish I hadn't posted that" posts. To be fair, at that time (the run up to Christmas), Chelsea were looking good. But they've shit the bed over the festive season.
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Like I said, City will finish above them. City will finish either 2nd or 3rd. City's fixture list from Feb onwards is a nice one - I can see City finishing above us as you've got form for turning 6 point deficits on Arsenal around!
 
bridgeno1 said:
I said you shat the bed this season. Which is true. Nobody expected anything other than City vs Arsenal for the title.

The fact City have dropped off a cliff and yet Arsenal are 9 points off a team who has a brand new manager and spent nothing in pre season is a bad reflection on Arteta. Arsenal have much easier fixtures than Liverpool so in theory could claw it back but come on if you watch the current Arsenal team on TV they don't look like a title winning team and aren't as good as last season. Arteta has had a fortune to spend on players, is on a huge salary and unfortunately the name of the game is winning - you have to turn that investment into trophies. Then if your main rival has an absolute nightmare yet you don't take advantage then questions need to be asked.

I reckon Arteta will play a reserve team against Newcastle in the EFL and the Rags in the FA Cup and we'll go out of both as a result. So he's therefore got to win the league or the CL and we aren't anywhere near a CL winning team - the league is an outside bet. There's a reason we are 6-9 points behind the Dippers and that reason is we deserve to be - we haven’t been good enough. Sure there have been some unusual refereeing decisions but we weren't good enough to beat Brighton and actually could have lost that game.

The last 2 seasons we were exciting to watch. This season we've played regimented tedious shite. So boring. Occasionally we turn it on - like the 10 minutes at the start of the 2nd half at Brentford when we murdered them but usually it's just a load of sideways passing, interminably long throw ins (30 seconds left of injury time vs Brighton, we get a throw in and Partey takes 20 seconds!). F*ck this shit, we're better than that. I'm bored watching our games now.
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The fact that city having an off season for the first time in a decade is described as “shitting the bed” is moronic tbh.
 
jimharri said:
I'll settle for fourth right now.
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Fifth will get CL this season I reckon. I can't see City finishing below third - you're currently 3 points off Forest and they are overachieving and will drop and Chelsea are too inconsistent.
 
bridgeno1 said:
I said you shat the bed this season. Which is true. Nobody expected anything other than City vs Arsenal for the title.

The fact City have dropped off a cliff and yet Arsenal are 9 points off a team who has a brand new manager and spent nothing in pre season is a bad reflection on Arteta. Arsenal have much easier fixtures than Liverpool so in theory could claw it back but come on if you watch the current Arsenal team on TV they don't look like a title winning team and aren't as good as last season. Arteta has had a fortune to spend on players, is on a huge salary and unfortunately the name of the game is winning - you have to turn that investment into trophies. Then if your main rival has an absolute nightmare yet you don't take advantage then questions need to be asked.

I reckon Arteta will play a reserve team against Newcastle in the EFL and the Rags in the FA Cup and we'll go out of both as a result. So he's therefore got to win the league or the CL and we aren't anywhere near a CL winning team - the league is an outside bet. There's a reason we are 6-9 points behind the Dippers and that reason is we deserve to be - we haven’t been good enough. Sure there have been some unusual refereeing decisions but we weren't good enough to beat Brighton and actually could have lost that game.

The last 2 seasons we were exciting to watch. This season we've played regimented tedious shite. So boring. Occasionally we turn it on - like the 10 minutes at the start of the 2nd half at Brentford when we murdered them but usually it's just a load of sideways passing, interminably long throw ins (30 seconds left of injury time vs Brighton, we get a throw in and Partey takes 20 seconds!). F*ck this shit, we're better than that. I'm bored watching our games now.
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Dropped off a cliff is the right terminology. I don't think you can claim a side who have made history in winning 4 titles in a row then shits the bed when they lose form. Particularly when you consider the number of injuries we've suffered this campaign.
 
I never thought this season would be between City and Arsenal.
I never consider Arsenal as serious contenders anymore. They don’t even wait for season end to bottle it anymore.
I reckoned they’d be fourth with the title between City and Liverpool who are infinitely better than the tarquins.
 
bridgeno1 said:
Fifth will get CL this season I reckon. I can't see City finishing below third - you're currently 3 points off Forest and they are overachieving and will drop and Chelsea are too inconsistent.
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We're benefitting from the fact there's such a long "mid table" with so many teams beating each other. It's a bit like the Championship. A good spell of form lifts you right back up the table - see Newcastle.

Bar is usually a bit higher for 4th place.

67-70pts is usually good enough for 4th so we need to double our total at least.

We had 23pts from our first 9 games and then picked up 5pts from our next 9. The last two wins haven't been comfortable at all and the issues we've had aren't resolved.

It's going to be incredibly difficult to make the top 4... if 5th gets CL then that might be what's needed.
 
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