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Watching AFTV earlier, they’re really missing Claude/Troopz not even talking about any rants just seems dead in general.
 
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No hate, but Spurs will regret this Jose hire. You not getting a major a trophy, and he will destroy every attacking player under 25. Its already happening.
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He’s the perfect manager for that group of players. At least for this season, until he and Levy fight around this time next season.

Those players were almost at the end of their cycle and he’s going to get them close to a trophy. I don’t think they will win, he’ll run them into the ground but they needed him.

If Spurs end this cycle without a trophy, it’s embarrassing.

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Sums up my frustration with Arteta and Edu. You have an absent owner, more power than most managers not named Klopp or Guardiola, an owner who spends and you keep players who we all knew weren’t good enough.

Arsenal won’t change the manager. The players will go long before he does, but that might be predicated on Arsenal not being in the relegation zone come the end of the month. We are shyte. Our players have a long history of pundits bemoaning their meekness. But Mikel doubled down on them, no one asked him to. He gave out the deals, he extended the stay of execution for about 8 players, and he insisted that the things they do at training was the stuff of top 4 teams. Things went to shyt in the first 10 games and he excused it by saying he needed 6 players to get back to the top. GREAT, we needed that actioned in the summer, not now.
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Arteta Enters The Death Spiral®
 
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Montez said:
He’s the perfect manager for that group of players. At least for this season, until he and Levy fight around this time next season.

Those players were almost at the end of their cycle and he’s going to get them close to a trophy. I don’t think they will win, he’ll run them into the ground but they needed him.

If Spurs end this cycle without a trophy, it’s embarrassing.

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Sums up my frustration with Arteta and Edu. You have an absent owner, more power than most managers not named Klopp or Guardiola, an owner who spends and you keep players who we all knew weren’t good enough.



Arteta Enters The Death Spiral®
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They unleashing the flutes on Arteta

If Mourinho will delight in his pre-match strategy working to perfection, that reflects incredibly badly on Arteta. For all Tottenham’s counter-attacking brilliance, any Arsenal supporter nervously watching from behind the sofa could have identified how Mourinho would set his team up to frustrate and ultimately catch out Arsenal. For a coach whose meticulous preparation has been well-documented, Arsenal played as if intent on falling into every Tottenham trap.

When faced with a deep-lying defence that requires quick passing and movement to unlock it, Arsenal passed the ball slowly 40 yards from goal and barely touched the ball in the penalty area. In midweek, Arteta defended his team putting 33 crosses into the box without scoring on the basis of “pure maths”, but they tried 32 on Sunday and created only one clear chance from which Aubameyang should have headed them back into the match.

The one golden rule of playing against a counter-attacking team is that you cannot allow frustration to cause attacking overloads that leave you vulnerable. Cut to the final action of the first half, four red-and-white shirts in the same ten square yards on the edge of the Tottenham penalty area. One simple pass from Serge Aurier and Spurs were four on two in Arsenal’s half.

These are basics, and Arteta is getting them wrong
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Finally, and more pertinently to Sunday, Arsenal look under-coached. It wasn’t just that they played so clearly into Tottenham’s hands, but how even the basics were wrong. Hector Bellerin has taken five of the 16 foul throws in the Premier League this season – can someone please shout at him? Every free-kick and throw-in seemed to lack preparation, either taken short and wasted when defenders were up or launched into the box when they stayed back. There was a first-half scenario in which Kieran Tierney seemed to surprise everyone with a long throw, not least because Arsenal were outnumbered five to two in the penalty area.

That hardly smacks of meticulous planning and, to repeat, that is exactly what we were told to expect of Arteta. Make no mistake, he should be under pressure. Arsenal’s defending has got worse. Arsenal’s attacking has got worse. Arsenal’s midfield lacks balance and creativity. Arsenal’s signings haven’t really worked out yet. Too few of the players he inherited have kicked on. These are not the obvious ingredients of an imminent surge in the right direction.
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Mourinho is the master of Premier League winners and losers once more
 
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