Look at this way, without clicking we’re still top of the fridge, so like City, we can be very good without our best players and best form meaning that when we hit form we should be willing our way past teams 10-11 games on the trot.

Moving on from Xhaka is fine, but we should probably at least replace him with whomever currently has the most progressive passes in Europe’s top 7 leagues.

It’s likely an issue of higher intensity plus something to do with the WC in Qatar last year. Norway didn’t qualify and Haaland was basically injury free all season which I thought was rare for him. Other players that played in both seemed way worse for the wear if they were playing 90-100 minutes in each WC match and late into the knockouts.

Ramsey peak was literally PL’s best midfielder.

See, this is the perfect thread to shit on Cesc and call him a snake! I just don’t like it when highlight/analysis posts get derailed by hating on him when it’s not a post about his career choices or his views on leaving or not returning to Arsenal. Same with RvP and Nasri. We all know what it was like back then.

Yes.

u/farqueue2 is dead last in shooting accuracy in the top 13,895 leagues according to Opta.

Crazy that we can trace continuity from Elneny to Rosicky and Rosicky to almost all the Invincibles.

1. Fabregas, Rice, Ramsey
2. Partey, Cazorla, Xhaka
3. Fabregas, Odegaard, Song

I think these 3 trios would absolutely feast if healthy.

Players want to play these matches though - mostly because it’s not in a vacuum. If you pass up on international matches then you probably won’t get picked to play for your team once they do qualify since you turned your back on them. You also have to assume that many, if not all, of them actually WANT to represent their country even when they’re tired and/or injured so it’s not just about the tournaments.

Buy Neto or Bowen. Sell Vieira or ESR.

Then in the summer sort the #9, the #6, and the #1.

Ridiculous. I’d expect any player to pick something up like that and, if they’re going to throw it with enough force to get it off the pitch, toss it that far. He shouldn’t be in any trouble.

We’re 11-4-3 in all comps this year which includes a Community Shield, one loss in each competition, top of our CL group by 4 points after 4 matches, out of the carabao cup, have already beaten City twice, and are 4th in the table within 3 of City.

It’s obvious we’ve regressed in attacking potency a bit since last year’s first half of the season but if this ^^^^^^^ is a regression then we’re still in great shape. We can all ask questions of our team, our tactics, and our lineups, but I don’t think it’s all doom & gloom. We’re poised to do very well in all competitions and I don’t have that same “what if we face Bayern or Real in the knockouts” fear that I did when Wenger was topping CL groups with woefully inadequate squads. Chins up, everyone.

Man U should’ve taken a page out of the University of Michigan’s book and paid someone to watch globally televised matches.

It doesn’t work that way. The point of the hesitation and looking something else is that they’re trying to follow an instruction from training and not playing naturally like a Wenger team would.

For those who have been watching this sport for a decently long time, how do you think Saka & Martinelli compare to Robben & Ribery at Bayern? Were those two better? Will our boys be that good in a couple more years? Are their playstyles similar?

Cesc, Ramsey, RvP, or Alexis.

Why exactly not? He was playing through injuries before he went down and before that he scored 10 goals just in the back half of the season. Then by the time he got properly fit we added lots of players. He needs game time to get fitness back, but Arteta has been pretty stubborn about substitutions and also doesn’t even take starters off till very late in the game. If Arteta was making subs at 60’ or 65’ then these backups would get those 20-30 minute appearances to help prepare them for starts. And vice versa, take Smith off after 60’ until he doesn’t look gassed.

Why exactly not? He was playing through injuries before he went down and before that he scored 10 goals just in the back half of the season. Then by the time he got properly fit we added lots of players. He needs game time to get fitness back, but Arteta has been pretty stubborn about substitutions and also doesn’t even take starters off till very late in the game. If Arteta was making subs at 60’ or 65’ then these backups would get those 20-30 minute appearances to help prepare them for starts. And vice versa, take Smith off after 60’ until he doesn’t look gassed.

Why exactly not? He was playing through injuries before he went down and before that he scored 10 goals just in the back half of the season. Then by the time he got properly fit we added lots of players. He needs game time to get fitness back, but Arteta has been pretty stubborn about substitutions and also doesn’t even take starters off till very late in the game. If Arteta was making subs at 60’ or 65’ then these backups would get those 20-30 minute appearances to help prepare them for starts. And vice versa, take Smith off after 60’ until he doesn’t look gassed.