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It’s blatant missing of hints enabled by echo chambers. You point out a glaring point and people make up arguments to go around it, heavy on the downvotes.
I’m always of the view never trust a manager’s words 100% in press conferences. They barely play down any player. Just see their actions. People were seeing Kiwior, Xhaka, half-fit Zichenko, and Tomiyasu all playing LB and still maintaining that Tierney was part of our plans.
Ramsdale was another example. Deep down, you’d know that Ramsdale was screwed but the sentimental part of us made up stories to convince ourselves otherwise. And just because Ramdale started the first few games, we thought we had “won” yet there was glaring proof that Raya was better.
In a funny twist, even Arteta made up some weird tales about subbing off GKs yet he knew who would start.
There are many additional hints in that team that either backfired because of injuries, failed transfers or even a player immensely improving.
Yeah you put it perfectly. Really it’s more about what people want to believe rather than the reality of it.
It’s interesting though because you can sort of gather hints from his decisions. For example dropping Gabriel and putting Ben White in CB earlier in the season makes me think White is higher in the pecking order but in my eyes Gabriel is the better CB so I disagree with Arteta where I think a lot of people don’t want to openly disagree with him.
I don’t think he made up weird tales. I think his point was he genuinely wanted to sub the goalkeeper on a couple of occasions.
Which makes ramsdale look even worse. There were probably times where arteta didn’t have enough faith in ramsdale to keep us in the game, or perhaps wanted Turner on for penalties, who knows. I remember having no faith in ramsdale against Lisbon. I was actually disguised that he couldn’t save one