EliteKiller wrote:swipe right wrote:Ozil was a great player but then he became lazy and had to go.
Saliba was considered Europe’s best young defender but he needed a transition.
Auba was scoring for fun at every club he was at and then he just got shit all of a sudden.
Partey was a standout performer in Madrid but in London he’s just mediocre.
Always the players. Never the manager.
That's because it's the players on the pitch -
Ozil
WAS a great player three years ago, now he can't even make it in Turkey.
Saliba has never managed 20 games a season at any club, he is a prospect nothing more.
Auba has got old, like 99% of players that's what happens when you get passed thirty, your desire and capability decrease.
Partey is struggling in a far tougher league - give him time to adjust - but you're right standout against poor opposition does not guarantee anything.
But hey blame the manager - Wenger failed got sacked - Ljunberg no chance - Emery failed got sacked - Arteta is failing and according to you needs sacking .... yup all these managers are to blame it's never the players, are you sure?
LOL. Are you serious EK ?? When Wenger was hounded out (I was one of them wot hounded him out), he was hounded out because he was fooking shit !! His decisions and stubbornness were counter to our progress. What does any of that have to do with the players ??? It was 100% Wenger's fault !
Emery had a good starting point, the team had bags of goals in them, they were not coached to defend. In comes a defensive manager, all he had to do was improve our defensive capability even a little bit and we would've challenged for top 4. Remarkably he managed to do EVEN WORSE than Wenger, defensively. He insisted on high risk playing out from the back, he continued the trend of over-committing in attacks, we were all over the place. This was 100% on Emery, how can that be the fault of the players ????? Almost the whole spine of the team was replaced.
Arteta came in and we immediately saw improvement in performances and our shape, we were improving defensively too. We were told the players couldn't do it, Arteta proved that they could. We won the FA Cup on the strength of improved defending. Clearly the players were NOT to blame. We started the new season ok, then in November Arteta lost his damn mind and we slipped to 15th in the table. We couldn't create chances and we couldn't score goals - all this with an even better team from the season before. How can it be the players when we have better players - but we are playing worse football ?!!! With the introduction of ESR our performances changed, the system changed, we began to look better, now we are back looking like imbeciles again due to Arteta making the same mistakes he made during that torrid 2 months last year. I don't see how any of this is the player's fault.