Re: Season 2024/2025
 

Do you remember Michael Owen saying that Liverpool would get top 4 in place of reigning Champions League qualifiers Arsenal :LOL: As frustrating as those days were I kind of miss them :naughty:

Re: Season 2024/2025
 

Michael Owen is best served sticking to his horses now as his punditry and predictions like many are clueless.

Re: Season 2024/2025
 

Great goal against Argentina though, give him that ;)

Re: Season 2024/2025
 

I'll make the most of this while I can. :D

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...chmentid=31199

Re: Season 2024/2025
 

I don't even rate this squad Arteta and co have assembled.

No doubt after being forced fed the Kroenkes by certain "journalists" the fan base who originally disliked the owner will beg for them to do something :banghead:

Re: Season 2024/2025
 

Still 3rd after everyone has played.


Might get that passport renewed...

Re: Season 2024/2025
 

If anyone had said at the start of the season, that after 10 games, you'll be 3rd, I would have thought them nuts.
Will it last, probably not, I guess we'll see as we have Newcastle, Arsenal & Man City as three of the next four matches.

Re: Season 2024/2025
 

How do you Nottingham Forest fans take to this news? I'm glad he's going. He's bang average. I hope Arteta follows suit.

Re: Season 2024/2025
 

Personally I thought he was doing a good job there.


Arteta has had a lot to turn around as like Man U post SAF you lot weren't as good at the end of Wenger's time and whether or not Emery was the right choice he wasn't given time to rebuild.


Given the last couple of windows I'm not sure I'd want to swap Nuno or Ross Wilson for Arteta or Edu though. Whoever decided to get Matz Sels and Nikola Milenkovic... well

Re: Season 2024/2025
 

I agree re: Emery. I can only wonder what he could have done with 700 odd million :shocking:

Arteta inherited a side that went onto win the FA cup. His only achievement. All this talk of him being left a mess is nonsense.

Edu played it safe when he started his role at Arsenal buying players from Brazil, fair enough if thats his strength. He then took rejects and happily paid for players in their last year. Foolish behaviour in my opinion.

Re: Season 2024/2025
 

I guess the key point is that I'm neither an Arsenal fan nor was I particularly interested in what was happening in the PL whilst we weren't in it, aside from the odd cup interaction where largely speaking we got hammered by the PL side.


So I think the key point with Wenger's last season is them losing 4-2 in the cup at home to us, it was also one of the few occasions Wenger lost in R3. I think you guys were holders at the time too and we had Gary Brazil in charge as caretaker. But it showed his time was on the wane.


Checking wikipedia that close season Emery brought in 4 players for fees, nothing extravagant, and 2 of them being Guendouzi and Leno. You did bring in a fair amount the season after, but they didn't look like bad buys really and it wasn't extravagant spending given the year before.



You came 5th that season and improved on 6th the year before though the season after where you finished 8th and won the FA Cup wasn't really progress but more of the same.



But it had been 15-16 the last time you finished in a CL place.


Given Arteta a couple of seasons and then you get 2 2nd place finishes. Would another have done it quicker or even more than that? Who knows


Edu sticking to what he knows is not too bad a thing really. But he would work on getting knowledge on other markets if he was decent at his job


here we seem to have various targets in various areas such that you can perhaps tell who might have signed them. Syrianos, who has a similar group role with us, Oly and Rio Ave, tends to target cheaper/young players from the Bundesliga. Marinakis' lad likes the marquee signings like when we got Lingard and probably also Keylor Navas

Re: Season 2024/2025
 

The media spin on it is unreal.


I'll be honest I tuned out around 2016 for a few seasons. Something tragic had to happen for change because of the now clear direction the ownership was going.

Pepe was signed as a marquee signing, all 80 odd million. The powers that be turned out to be frauds. Guendouzi was a really good signing, he was showing great promise at u21 level but it was attitude issues which cost him a place to remain at Arsenal. I don't buy into his attitude being a problem. I reckon he was a winner which clashed with losers. Leno was ok, a second rate Neuer. There was no real planning under Emery. He didn't have what he wanted but carried on and done well. Europa League finalists with a club that was coming up short soo many times in Europe. His short coming was not getting a top 4 finish, I genuinely felt bad for him.

Emery laid the foundations for the FA cup win. Aubameyang, the bad apple, won him the cup who he and the board got rid of for free which Barcelona then got 12 million for. Unreal behaviour.

I soon tuned out after that.

Emery would have won a cup at the very least with 700 million. I have no doubt he would have done something.

He brought in Martinelli. An actual winger. He was bound to get something right with the spending power.

I can't comment on your club. I don't have the knowledge.

Re: Season 2024/2025
 

Yes l will give you that.

Re: Season 2024/2025
 

Well for a treat to myself for my birthday and as there was no game at Old Trafford today I watched my first ever non league game. Went to Boundary Park to watch Oldham Athletic v Tamworth. It was bloody cold but an enjoyable game as Latics won 4-0.:cool:

Re: Season 2024/2025
 

Harry Kanes statue looks like Tom Brady :LOL:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...y-Hackney.html