People that fall for this bollocks are the same people that sign up to the army because they saw a Tiktok of a good looking girl in uniform.

I was very surprised that when he came on last night, he was largely unenergetic.

Really? I don’t remember a single good sub appearance from him since his debut. Probably his biggest criticism is that he simply does not impact games from the bench.

Rice is elite. We’re much more solid with him in the team. Need to work out his partners though because Havertz is no where near the level of Xhaka from last season as an 8. It’s a gaping hole in the team with a bunch of players we’d all like to see fill it but none of them are up to standard right now.

Jesus is completely fine when he facilitates others around him. Martinelli is so much better playing with Jesus at 9 than he is with Nketiah. The issue isn’t how clinical our strikers are/aren’t. It’s that overall we’ve lost creativity and energy all throughout the team. Rice/Havertz or Rice/Jorginho is a huge step down in both chance creation and goals from Xhaka/Partey of last season. Saka isn’t 100% fit and Odegaard is off the pace.

Ashley Cole said he was so angry that Arsenal couldn’t match Chelsea’s 90k a week wages (double what he was currently on) he nearly crashed his car. RVP wrote a fucking essay about how he had Peter Pan syndrome and couldn’t help himself but go up north and suck Fergie’s wrinkly old ballsack. But yeah Reyes is the worst ex player.

There were huge problems at the club around mid 2010s. We were rotting from the inside. Gazidis and the entire board were to blame as much as Wenger himself, however, the club couldn’t move forward and adopt a modern club structure with Wenger in the way. He stubbornly refused to allow “football people” to have football jobs at the executive level. They were all money men. Gazidis - the CEO - and Wenger handled all the transfers.

In 2015/16 we only made one signing and it was Petr Cech. We then finished 2nd in the league to Leicester with our midfield depth being the likes of Flamini and an essentially retired Arteta, and our only striker alternate to Giroud being Danny Welbeck who wasn’t fit to play until the February of that season.

The following summer the club signed Xhaka, Mustafi, and Lucas Perez for almost 90 million total. These two windows are greatly attributed with our stagnant years without Champions League football that followed. And somewhere in there, Wenger signed a new 2 year contract, whilst results on the pitch got worse and worse. Not only were we getting battered by every top 6 team, we also got knocked out 10-2 on aggregate by Bayern in the UCL which turned out to be our final appearance in the competition until this season.

There’s a hell of a lot more to it than that but that’s a basic overview I guess.

And only 60% win rate at that. So what 1500 people are praising Havertz for is being slightly above average at winning 50-50s.

All the players we’ve had over the years that have been praised for really obscure, hand picked stats, have always been ultimately poor players for us.

Szoboszlai was an obvious signing since his Salzburg days.

The subs average age gets lower every day

Toney, no. Just the flavour of the month name for /r/Gunners to be obssessed with because he’s a) known and b) perceived as available.

I’m late 20s, have tried many times in my life to work this thing out. All I can say it’s a fucking mess over there. Truly a mess. The people cheering for one side or the other like it’s a football match is completely insane to me.

Something like this got posted the other week and I’ll ask you the same question I did then: Who from the academy isn’t getting a fair chance with the first team squad right now?