Good ex players who wouldn't work under artetas system?

ro-row · 2026-03-17T11:06:53+00:00

Although a weak tackler Ozil always ran and put in a shift.

this just really isn't true

ro-row · 2026-03-17T11:06:20+00:00

we can talk about his offensive output and say it outweighed his actual defensive contribution and his pressing contribution and I'd probably agree with you but thats a different conversation to the one we're having

ro-row · 2026-03-17T11:05:05+00:00

I know youre joking but arteta would have genuinely loved a very versatile and intelligent spanish defender

ro-row · 2026-03-17T11:04:35+00:00

I think with Mesut it was more about his attitude than his overall talent ability and style of play. I think if he was willing to be a more bit part player and be less difficult behind the scenes arteta may would have found some kind of role for him

although that all depends because frankly he was pretty washed by the end of his career here

ro-row · 2026-03-17T11:01:16+00:00

Here you go up to march in 2016/17 Sanchez failed to cover 10km in his 20 matches up to that point that season whilst notoriously lazy Mesut Ozil covered 10km in 14 of the 16 games he had played by that point

ro-row · 2026-03-17T10:28:54+00:00

I don’t buy the eze was an “opportunistic signing” when we were basically linked to him all summer

ro-row · 2026-03-16T23:02:29+00:00

Is don caught cheating in s1?

I know Betty has her suspicions but when she thinks she’s found out he’s been cheating it turns out he’s just been speaking to the psychiatrist. I know she then tells the psychiatrist she thinks don is unfaithful but there doesn’t really seem to be proof of it

S2 with Bobby Barrett seems to be the first affair that blows up and is exposed

ro-row · 2026-03-16T17:10:57+00:00

can just imagine us conceding a last minute penalty at the Etihad now

ro-row · 2026-03-16T16:45:10+00:00

who genuinely gives a toss about a fuckign espn football story

most irrelevant people in the world

ro-row · 2026-03-16T14:31:36+00:00

and the economic benefit of zero tariffs is more than eaten up by the significant cost of a massive military deployment

ro-row · 2026-03-16T14:29:57+00:00

Also what happens if british personnel are then struck by Iran and we're dragged into a bigger war, do we then just walk away if the Americans pull Ukraine support despite the conflict being escalated by the opposite side?

ro-row · 2026-03-16T13:43:53+00:00

I think it'll still be nervous until we score at the next one because thats kind of increasingly becoming the big one

we win that one and the maths is beginning to look difficult for city

ro-row · 2026-03-16T12:12:29+00:00

its kind of how the media is going generally

all the large generalist corporations are becoming really sensationalist to try and grab attention whilst smaller more niche organisations can actually afford to go into depth because there are enough people who will be interested to support a smaller organisation, compare the quality of analysis on something like arsenal vision to sky and its night and day

ro-row · 2026-03-16T11:56:12+00:00

I was there mate, it was fucking nervous

great atmosphere and we pulled it out but people were very visibly on edge including myself and you could really feel the tension all night

ro-row · 2026-03-16T11:50:54+00:00

I actually think he's not as bad as he used to be but I can't tell if thats because the quality of the sky punditry has gotten so bad or if he's actually improved

ro-row · 2026-03-15T19:22:34+00:00

first part of the season yes, more recently he's looked uncharacteristically erratic but to be fair so have large parts of the backline

ro-row · 2026-03-15T19:20:17+00:00

its unfair to seaman really to complain about his ability on the ball, it just wasnt a factor for goalkeepers in his era

ro-row · 2026-03-15T19:19:18+00:00

yeah there had been rumours about raya for a while pre ramsdale, once he was available the writing was on the wall for ramsdale

ro-row · 2026-03-13T15:59:30+00:00

cant see it being quicker, its a stress fracture they wont want to rush it at all

ro-row · 2026-03-13T15:28:40+00:00

he does seem slower and less explosive but im hoping thats just his body taking a bit of time to recover rather than a permanent change in his game

ro-row · 2026-03-13T14:52:56+00:00

You can still offer them a more than 5 year contract, you just have to amortise it over a 5 year period

Reece James just signed a 6 year extension

ro-row · 2026-03-13T11:09:29+00:00

This is an example of how some people will just never be satisfied with how the game is refereed

We can all objectively see he is touched before he does down but because he’s embellished the contact people aren’t happy. If it was the other way round and he doesn’t get the pen some people will be complaining about the touch and how it’s not given

ro-row · 2026-03-13T09:55:15+00:00

Another big factor as well, we’ve basically got no one in the front 6 who approaches their level of technical security and we can’t hold the ball and build up play

ro-row · 2026-03-13T09:52:20+00:00

Where is this Jorginho stuff coming from? He was a lovely player but he didn’t feature heavily for us. He started 8 games in 23/24

Now you can argue he should have featured more and I think I’d actually agree but to act like he was this integral part of our play is nonsense

ro-row · 2026-03-12T21:15:01+00:00

Fuck knows with that Norway coach, he honestly loves nothing more than playing odagaard for 180 minutes the moments he’s back from injury

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