Arsenal Thread | 2024/25

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woody1968 said:
The problem is quite simple and it’s Arteta. As long as he makes excuses, blames refereeing decisions, injuries or as he has just done claims they are the best in the competition then his team will fail. Man up Arteta and accept sometimes you get beat because the opposition is better. His players reflect him and think they are hard done to and not that they aren’t good enough. They’ve won fuck all really considering how much they’ve spent and as long as Captain Black is at the helm that’s the way it will continue to be.
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Lesson number 1 from Pep & he didn’t get it.
 
Declan rice talking out of his arse and the media lapping it up. They haven't got a clue what an injury list looks like.

according to Declan rice

"It's tough. We've done the whole season without five or six of our best players so to do what we've done is unbelievable."

Really? Who are their 5 or 6 best players? I'd say Gabriel, saliba, Rice, partey, saka and then either odegaard or Raya. Don't think there's much controversy in saying that. So let's look at how many games they've played this season and where they rank in most appearances

Gabriel - 42 (8th)
Saliba - 49 (4th)
Rice - 50 (3rd)
Partey - 49 (4th)
Saka - 34 (14th)
Odegaard - 42 (8th)
Raya - 52 (2nd)

So there's only saka that's missed any significant part of the season and either then he's played the same number of games as Ederson has managed this season. Saka aside, their next lowest in odegaard and Gabriel are on 42 games, 8th overall, there's only 3 city players that have made more appearances this season than that in Gvardiol, Bernardo and Gundogan.

So this injury hit season to their best players is a complete and utter myth that's easily debunked.
 
ninjamonkey said:
Declan rice talking out of his arse and the media lapping it up. They haven't got a clue what an injury list looks like.

according to Declan rice

"It's tough. We've done the whole season without five or six of our best players so to do what we've done is unbelievable."

Really? Who are their 5 or 6 best players? I'd say Gabriel, saliba, Rice, partey, saka and then either odegaard or Raya. Don't think there's much controversy in saying that. So let's look at how many games they've played this season and where they rank in most appearances

Gabriel - 42 (8th)
Saliba - 49 (4th)
Rice - 50 (3rd)
Partey - 49 (4th)
Saka - 34 (14th)
Odegaard - 42 (8th)
Raya - 52 (2nd)

So there's only saka that's missed any significant part of the season and either then he's played the same number of games as Ederson has managed this season. Saka aside, their next lowest in odegaard and Gabriel are on 42 games, 8th overall, there's only 3 city players that have made more appearances this season than that in Gvardiol, Bernardo and Gundogan.

So this injury hit season to their best players is a complete and utter myth that's easily debunked.
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I think they had a couple of weeks where they had quite a few players out at the same time, and that evolved into "we've had loads of injuries this season" when in reality, they've had the same sort of injuries that every other team has to deal with. The real issue is that Liverpool got incredibly lucky with injuries. They had a few, but never to their best players.
 
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