2019-2020 Season Wishes

[LMAO]

Mine are:
1. Prioritize the PL. Getting into the CL is easier through the league than through the EL since four spots are up for grabs versus one spot. Winning the EL would be fantastic, but not at the cost of missing out on the CL again. After two seasons in the EL, I'm tired of the competition and a club of Arsenal's size should be in the CL, and I hope this is our third and final season out of it. Play our strongest team in PL games, and play youngsters, fringe players, and second stringers in knockout competitions unless we reach the semis (EL, FA Cup) or the final (League Cup). We don't have the depth to fully compete on two or three fronts, so prioritizing the easiest path back into Europe's premier competition makes sense to me.
2. Have a plan A play-style. Constantly chopping and altering tactics without having a defining ethos seems like throwing crap against the wall and seeing what sticks. Yeah, I know Emery said that he wants us to be adaptable, but there's little point in having a plan B, C, or D if there's no definitive plan A. I want to be able to watch Arsenal and say, "Yep, this is Emeryball," not watch some six-year-old on FIFA playing any and every-way without a sense of purpose.
3. Greatly improve our away form. 25 points from a possible 57 is midtable form. We should be earning no fewer than 40 points away from home (17 points is already a lot to drop). On the other hand, we earned 45 points at home. And then there's scoring: 42 GF, 16 GA at home and 31 GF, 35 GA away. At home, we're 42% better at scoring and 119% worse at defending. There's a massive consistency problem that needs to be addressed. However, as much as I give Emery a hard time, I'll give him a slight pass for our away form last season since it was his first season in the PL. But, he needs to stop giving our opponents so much respect when we're away from home; he's coaching Arsenal, not Brighton.

[Nuggets]

1) Get rid of the Yank
2) Give the Don a decent transfer budget
3) get a proper Captain.
4) Get rid of Ozil.

[theHotHead]

Fix the defending.

[LMAO]

Fix the defending.

Fixing our away form would go a long way toward that. The way Emery had us set up, we were defending from the get-go most of the time, and we're always going to look poor when we invite pressure instead of taking the game to our opponent.

If we extrapolate our home form over a season, that's 90 points with 84 GF, 32 GA. That's hella fantastic! Would rather see a GA more around 22-25, but I certainly couldn't complain with 32. Still less than a goal per game.

But yeah, it's not necessarily that we have shit defenders, it's more the tactics imo

[Dejan]

1) Get rid of the Yank
2) Give the Don a decent transfer budget
3) get a proper Captain.
4) Get rid of Ozil.

Pretty much this

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[Phil71]

Get some players who have some fire and fight in their belly.

[Sims]

We play with an identifiable style of football which allows us to compete rather the shitshow we’ve had for 80% of last season

[PairyGrows]

All these wishes cost money, and we don't have money.

[CrimsonGunner11]

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[PairyGrows]

With few significant signings coming in, I'm starting to think we should hope that our youngsters (Nelson, Smith Rowe, Nketiah, Willock, Bielik) can step up and carry the team forward.

'Project Youth 2.0' should be the punchline for the 2019-20 season.

[looper007]

To not slip down further in the PL

Maybe win a trophy to save Emery for another season

Try to improve on the away form

Not see Ozil and Mustafi in the first team for most of the season.

[Yago]

Emery getting the sack if he continues on last season's path
top 4, but that's wishful thinking
give some youth prospects a chance, don't need mkhi screwing up every week when ultimately we won't get top 4 anyway