Reiss wrote:Santi wrote:Reiss wrote:Fran Solo wrote:Reiss wrote:Goonerred wrote:theHotHead wrote:Reiss wrote:We've had half our defence decimated for most of the season that's why we've conceded more goals than last season. So it puts to bed that argument.
If our manager was too stupid/naive/inexperienced to plan for injuries/absences then thats his problem and cannot be used as an excuse.
So NO - that doesn't put to bed the argument, it reinforces the point that Arteta was solely at fault for not planning correctly and/or for making bad decisions.
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Our back up players are not good enough and that will be addressed this summer. We're in the market for a RB and LB apparently.
No-one could have predicted we'd rely on Tavares and Soares for half a season. We were very unfortunate.
Some people praised Arteta because he got rid off our players.
Then those people said that we failed to get top 4 because we didn't have enough squad players.
Some people also praised Arteta for not buying 'the wrong players' in January.
Then those people said that we don't have enough players for the run in.
Some people said that Arteta is brave and commendable for trusting young players.
Then those people said that we failed to get top 4 because those young players need experience to perform under pressure.
Some players said that we definitely need to buy 'the right players' in the next summer window.
I wonder if those same people will say that it will be hard to get 'the right players' because they all want to play in CL.
When will this circle ever end?
None of those things are mutually exclusive.
He got praise for getting rid of players but we could have kept someone like Chambers who would have come handy.
Exactly, acting as if everything is completely black and white…what century are we in?
I’d also like to know who ‘some people’ are because I for one can agree with half of those statements but pretty sure I’ve not then said the counter argument to them.
Trimming the squad on the whole has been good, a lot of shit is gone and bad apples out the club which is great. Was letting AMN go in Jan at a time when we had no midfield, rather than waiting til Partey was back, a good idea? No but I even said that at the time and I f***ing hate AMN because he’s shit.
In hindsight was letting chambers go for pennies worth it when we ended up with 4 defensive injuries? No but again said this over a week ago and apparently nobody who backs the manager admits the clubs mistakes….
People claim they want this place to get back to normal yet still throwing misplaced shade (don’t mean Fran).
Yep.
I've said letting AMN go was stupid.
I've said we should have kept Chambers.
So not sure where those things have come from.
And I completely agree with everything you said in your last sentence too.
You know what? I am actually glad that you and Santi acknowledged that some of the decisions like selling Chambers and loaning Maitland Niles were not exactly a good idea. Even jayram agreed with me about the mistake of not getting a striker in January.
Some people (in my real life, in social media, they're everywhere really) still believe that those decisions are great and literally refused to accept that the decisions have their own consequences.
"Oh, Aubameyang should have been gone earlier."
"Oh, Chambers is sh*t and he won't be missed" blah blah blah
...without wanting to accept the fact that these decisions might have cost us at the same time.
Youth policy. Ok.
Trimming our squad. Great.
Selling a fringe player like Chambers. Good.
But, with him gone (and some others because we have already lost Bellerin and AMN in the same window), we got less depth and failed to get CL and ultimately make it harder for us to attract his replacement.
The consequences of not getting top 4 will not end this season, but surely will effect our next season.
Arteta might have all the right reason and all the good intentions, but his strategy in doing that hasn't been the best.
You can say that this season is a success, but I personally think that the success (or the failure) we achieved this season is not clear yet. I need to see what will happen in the next few months to rate this.
One last thing that I can say is we are all in this together, regardless of our opinions.
If the club fail, we suffer.
If the club success, we cheers.
the girlfriend wanted to go on it... "ironically"
constantly 'shooshing' my son while he talks over Teen Titans. It's his program and all, so I don't really care ya know. I have no interest... none whatsoever 
