Arsenal Thread | 2025/26

Ha ha. One of the great sights in football is the Arsenal players synchronised arm lift every time they think they have been wronged. Almost as good as the pretend arguments with each other at set pieces. I wonder who is their drama coach.
Their previous synchronised arm lift for offside (as portrayed in The Full Monty) was a well thought out tactical manoeuvre. The modern one is a sub standard and badly executed copy. (Fake arm lift, - as the mango man baby might say)!
 
Fake. Just like their team.
I thought that about Lego a little while ago. He is always so agitated in and out of his technical area, but never seems to have a hair out of place when he's being interviewed directly after a game. The manicured stubble on his face, the perfectly coiffured hair...what is he, a football manager or a fucking gigolo? We had players on school teams who made Arthur Mullard look like Shirley Temple; they would have loved to have had an entire football field to arrange a new hairstyle for that self-absorbed ponce.
 
Which Pep team? The treble winners are miles ahead of the current City team (and current Arsenal side) but even so I'd argue some of the Arsenal back 4 would get into that side and Raya would have a shout too.

If you are talking about the current City team a lot of the Arsenal team would get into a combined XI and if Pep was manager of the current Arsenal side they'd have wrapped up the league weeks ago.

You really do talk shite.
 
Which Pep team? The treble winners are miles ahead of the current City team (and current Arsenal side) but even so I'd argue some of the Arsenal back 4 would get into that side and Raya would have a shout too.

If you are talking about the current City team a lot of the Arsenal team would get into a combined XI and if Pep was manager of the current Arsenal side they'd have wrapped up the league weeks ago.
I agree . Pep would have got a better tune out of your players So it's just your manager that lacks the football intelligence then ?

Just for perspective Pep created a record breaking team in his second season and we have had several refits since, with just the two seasons in his first eight when he didn't win the PL . The treble team was not the only fantastic team in that sequence .. Now we are into the second season of a near compete stripdown and already competing for all domestic trophies .

Your manager won a single FA Cup over a similar period and has deliberately swapped brains for brawn in an attempt to get things over the line , having considered that teams have worked out how to counter a possession based game . So it's Set Piece FC. Your players are not allowed to have an original idea in their heads , so if they do have any football intelligence it's not visible in the way you play . Without your two corner/ free kick takers , who can deliver a ball exactly where it's needed, you'd be struggling . That's not intelligence it's inate , like TAA whom Salah and Liverpool relied on so heavily but who looked like a lost child on a seaside pier whenever he wandered into midfield.
 
I'm pretty sure that Robbie exhorts people to lose it completely on AFTV. There's a suspiciously theatrical feel to it. It's good for clicks. It's good for business.
No self respecting youtube channel would have a guy like TY anywhere near there channel ..........it to me is all one big performance i didnt mind it at the start liked Claude ( rip ) but it seems that Mr hill have eyes has magically started copying him
 
I agree . Pep would have got a better tune out of your players So it's just your manager that lacks the football intelligence then ?

Just for perspective Pep created a record breaking team in his second season and we have had several refits since, with just the two seasons in his first eight when he didn't win the PL . The treble team was not the only fantastic team in that sequence .. Now we are into the second season of a near compete stripdown and already competing for all domestic trophies .

Your manager won a single FA Cup over a similar period and has deliberately swapped brains for brawn in an attempt to get things over the line , having considered that teams have worked out how to counter a possession based game . So it's Set Piece FC. Your players are not allowed to have an original idea in their heads , so if they do have any football intelligence it's not visible in the way you play . Without your two corner/ free kick takers , who can deliver a ball exactly where it's needed, you'd be struggling . That's not intelligence it's inate , like TAA whom Salah and Liverpool relied on so heavily but who looked like a lost child on a seaside pier whenever he wandered into midfield.
Why bother your not gonn win with him :( his club has spent billions over the last six years to maybe win trophy but there legacy will be the most negative shithouse boring team to win the title ?????.............. can you think of worse champions if they win it ????
Dont know how he tries to defend it tbh just own it ffs
 
I agree . Pep would have got a better tune out of your players So it's just your manager that lacks the football intelligence then ?

Just for perspective Pep created a record breaking team in his second season and we have had several refits since, with just the two seasons in his first eight when he didn't win the PL . The treble team was not the only fantastic team in that sequence .. Now we are into the second season of a near compete stripdown and already competing for all domestic trophies .

Your manager won a single FA Cup over a similar period and has deliberately swapped brains for brawn in an attempt to get things over the line , having considered that teams have worked out how to counter a possession based game . So it's Set Piece FC. Your players are not allowed to have an original idea in their heads , so if they do have any football intelligence it's not visible in the way you play . Without your two corner/ free kick takers , who can deliver a ball exactly where it's needed, you'd be struggling . That's not intelligence it's inate , like TAA whom Salah and Liverpool relied on so heavily but who looked like a lost child on a seaside pier whenever he wandered into midfield.
Yes. Arteta is the weakest link currently but the hope is with experience he gets wiser. I don't think anyone would disagree that managers like Pep, Klopp, Ancelotti etc are streets ahead of him at present.
 
It is quite remarkable that the quadruple winners elect have lost two trophies in two consecutive matches. We know they are bottlers, so it must be messing with their heads. We’ll find out today.
 
It is quite remarkable that the quadruple winners elect have lost two trophies in two consecutive matches. We know they are bottlers, so it must be messing with their heads. We’ll find out today.
Farteta claiming it wasn't yesterday.

If I was Hugo I'd asked my old mates at sporting to accidentally put a couple of City badges on the walls around their away dressing room.
 
Fake. Just like their team.
I read somewhere, possibly here, but possibly not:
When arsenal were going through the end of Wenger and all the way up to Arteta, their viewing figures were consistently high, because of the poor performances… since Arteta this has been magnified, ie viewers only when Arsenal lose. When in’rant’ mode they get 100,000’s views, when in ‘victory’ mode they get 10,000’s views

So, yes, purely for clicks are/were they successful… only when the team is unsuccessful
 
Just rewatched the league cup final. City absolutely spanked them. They were crying about Cherki taking the piss, doing keepie ups. They were 2 nil down with 20 mins to go they should have been all over him. As Alistair Mann said on commentary, only one team tried to win the game.
Listened to the cup game on Saturday via the City App. Steve Howey on co Comms called the Woolwich exiles a posh Wimbledon, made the point even when we were competing with Goofy's Littlewoods, they would at least try to win games, not like these.

A few years ago lego head attempted to play football, now it's a level of cynicism that'd make Simeone blush.
 
Legohead has lost it.
Pens?
What next?
Crystals?
Rabbits tails?

It's used to focus on two things?

Piss myself laughing.

As if being top of the league and into the quarters of the champions league isn't enough focus.

Only Eileen Drewery missing from that list
 
Which Pep team? The treble winners are miles ahead of the current City team (and current Arsenal side) but even so I'd argue some of the Arsenal back 4 would get into that side and Raya would have a shout too.

If you are talking about the current City team a lot of the Arsenal team would get into a combined XI and if Pep was manager of the current Arsenal side they'd have wrapped up the league weeks ago.
There is no way on this earth that Raya would have been ahead of peak Ederson, as he was during the Treble season.
 
Yes. Arteta is the weakest link currently but the hope is with experience he gets wiser. I don't think anyone would disagree that managers like Pep, Klopp, Ancelotti etc are streets ahead of him at present.
If Lego head hasn’t improved in six years, it’s doubtful that he will in the near future.
 
Yes. Arteta is the weakest link currently but the hope is with experience he gets wiser. I don't think anyone would disagree that managers like Pep, Klopp, Ancelotti etc are streets ahead of him at present.
Combined XIs are a nonsense created for interaction on Talkshite and X. They don’t incorporate tactics or a style of play.

Players have different attributes and are suited to different systems. I can’t think of an Arsenal player that would improve our team in the way we play.
 

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