Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - The Scriptures Prophesied the Messiah Plays 3-4-3

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gho3st said:
Silly point. OLE had way better players than Arteta at his disposal.
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There's always a double narrative about our squad. It was the same when Mourinho left. It's "everyone is rubbish. Need a whole new squad" when things are bad and when things are good it's "well look at the players United have. Top 4 is the minimum requirement."

I think so long as we keep the young core, I think we're at least a Top 4 side.
 
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Kunty McPhuck said:
You don't want to sound ungrateful but winning the FA Cup set the club back by 12-18 months.
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They signed Ozil. Then signed Auba and Willian to the same contracts.

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Partey was actually one of the worst players on the pitch. I might be on my own with this but for the past few weeks, Lokonga has played better than him and I think we would have played better with Lokonga/Elneny. I’m seeing people scapegoat Tavares today but he actually had a good game whilst Partey lost CR7 for the second goal by not tracking his run.

Auba has been playing against us for over a season now and I know he’s a fan favourite but he has to be dropped. He offers very little in terms of link up play and he’s missing sitters. Arsenal are in a messy situation with our strikers because two of them are due to leave at the end of the season, one has no form and the other can’t get a chance because “he’s not ready yet.” I think Arteta needs to bring in an attacking coach because we’re in his third season now and the team still doesn’t have consistent patterns of play in the final third.

Odegaard had a Xhaka moment with that penalty but quietly, he was in the middle of all our good looking attacking spells. We looked out of ideas once Arteta took him off.
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It's why I hated his performance. When he wasn't running he was creating havoc but he ran like a chicken.

Agreed on the need for attacking coach. Arteta's philosophy asks too much of center forwards and it creates no chances. Nuno and a few other modern coaches have the same issues. And we don't really have an elite wide forward with pace so the CF's job is even harder.
 
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TheOptimisticCynikal said:
There's always a double narrative about our squad. It was the same when Mourinho left. It's "everyone is rubbish. Need a whole new squad" when things are bad and when things are good it's "well look at the players United have. Top 4 is the minimum requirement."

I think so long as we keep the young core, I think we're at least a Top 4 side.
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Mourinho's squad was not good. This one is much better.
 
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Nerve of manyoo fans.. When fergie had the FA, refs in his pocket and was the ONLY club spending they were happy. Soon as pressure came from Wenger, Mourinho (he bought Rio Ferdinand and Wayne Rooney back to back seasons for World record £30million fees) he dipped and is now managing behind the scenes..banter club.

At least Mourinho and Fraudiola don't deny they are cheque book managers.. Needing whole countries to finance their regimes.

Let's see how another fraud Conte does with little funds and has to coach Harry Kane to a trophy.. Lol
 
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