TOP GUN wrote:
Bernard wrote:
He was excellent earlier in the season. He started this season and last very well. Sadly his form dropped off. But to call a young player average because he shows inconsistency is nothing short of pathetic.
Do you have psychological issues, like anger management? You seem to need to focus dislike on a player? We saw it with Mustafi and Xhaka. Then around the time their form picked up you decide to focus on Guendouzi instead. No player stays at a club for ever, however good or bad they are, so there will come a time when none of them will be Arsenal players. Wonder who you’ll focus your dislike on then? In ten years we might have players in the team who are currently still at primary school. Wonder which one you’ll pick on?
I’m not a psychologist so perhaps it’s simply that your understanding of the game isn’t as high as you probably like to think.
Psychological issues. You were the one calling for Arteta to be sacked yesterday

If you go back a day or two I was actually saying it’s too early to sack Arteta when others appeared to be heading towards that viewpoint. I haven’t made up my mind about him yet, one way or the other. But I don’t think his start has been brilliant. However, I will be disappointed if Guendouzi is one of the players he gets rid of and that would edge me closer to wanting him out.
Nevertheless, and it’s a major point, I no longer see who is bought and sold, or who the head coach is, as important as I once did. For me the big issue, by a long margin, is the owner. I recall making the point that if before the season started Liverpool’s owners had offered to swap every single player in their squad for every one of Arsenal’s squad and that had happened, I really doubt we’d have won the league, let alone by the margin they have. I accept I can’t prove it, but it’s honestly what I feel.
I know buying and selling players and sacking or appointing managers is what football fans like talking about. In person and on line. But for me it’s not as relevant as Kroenke who in my view has and is overseeing a lack of ambition to win things that has compromised our chances, whoever the players or manager is, for success on the pitch. If Stan stays, then for example Guendouzi and Aubameyang leaving with Partey and Upamecano joining just seems, to me anyway, a bit immaterial.
Arsenal is still the third most successful team in England on a historical basis and has a huge worldwide fan base. If Kroenke stays I wouldn’t bet against Chelsea overtaking us for league wins in any Arsenal fan’s lifetime who hasn’t yet had his or her telegram from the Queen (slightly tongue in cheek but who cares). As recent success is even more relevant to fan base size, I’ve got a feeling I once read Chelsea sell more shirts than Arsenal. If that’s right, it is debatable if Arsenal still has England’s third biggest worldwide fan base as well?
Under Kroenke I’m finding it hard to see a successful future for Arsenal. It’s allegedly what Stan does to clubs. I’ve said I know next to nothing about US sports but I have read his long-standing teams over there are all pretty mediocre. I think Zed also said that recently.