Said it before - Martial is a great player but has clearly had lessons in the Ashley Young School of Diving.

 

Same with Lingard, i have seen him take a fair few dives too. It's annoying because we get called divers and our players rarely dive. It's cost us countless penalties in the last 2 seasons, but United get away with it. Another thing i have noticed United getting away with this season is the pulling in the area. Rojo, Smalling and Darmian are terrible for it, they are worse than Stoke's lot these days.

I wish I could post the Buzz Lightyear meme. Bottlers everywhere.

We picked a bad season to be this poor. If we'd been playing like last season we'd be walking to the title again

I wish I could post the Buzz Lightyear meme. Bottlers everywhere.

We picked a bad season to be this poor. If we'd been playing like last season we'd be walking to the title again

We'd be setting a new PL points record, beating our 2005 mark of 95

Poor Claude

 

Claude's not even angry anymore, he's just terminally depressed.

utd and us to make top four, and city and arsenal to drop out the top four, wouldn't that be something to top off a totally mental season? lol

utd and us to make top four, and city and arsenal to drop out the top four, wouldn't that be something to top off a totally mental season? lol

 

Wouldn't rule West Ham out either.

As bad as Aston Villa have been this season, the worst team in the league this year has to be Newcastle.

The Geordies wanted Pardrew out and they got their wish.

They wanted Ashley to send some money on the squad and he has (biggest spenders in January).

And despite all this they've been utter pony all season and look a good bet for relegation.

Just goes to show, be careful what you wish for.

The title is there for the taking and no one wants to reach out and grab it. I recommend that the season is disqualified and everyone resumes from last season

such a shame really, this season could of been a stroll in the park back to back prems for chelsea. Along with united and city we have royally f**ked up.   If Leicester go on to win it and i so hope they do, these so called  top clubs should bow their heads in shame

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such a shame really, this season could of been a stroll in the park back to back prems for chelsea. Along with united and city we have royally f**ked up.   If Leicester go on to win it and i so hope they do, these so called  top clubs should bow their heads in shame

 

The sh*ttest year in Premier League history and it's the season we decide to not bother going for it. 

Papers reckon Wenger is getting a £100 mil war chest in the Summer. Don't they say that every year? Then Wenger gets a few back form injury and says they're like new signings.

such a shame really, this season could of been a stroll in the park back to back prems for chelsea. Along with united and city we have royally f**ked up. If Leicester go on to win it and i so hope they do, these so called top clubs should bow their heads in shame

If we'd actually brought in some decent players in the Summer we would be walking it. Such a shame the board were so short sighted.

Those ArsenalFanTV videos are gold. All the moaning and outbursts directed at the players and management, yet they play "Ohhh Arsenal we love you!" at the beginning of each clip. Brilliant.

If we'd actually brought in some decent players in the Summer we would be walking it. Such a shame the board were so short sighted.

 

no excuses to be where we have been for the majority of the season with the squad we have currently, whether we had bought or not. the issue is the players last season who were in great form have let the side down and have become passengers, i.e. matic, hazard 

no excuses to be where we have been for the majority of the season with the squad we have currently, whether we had bought or not. the issue is the players last season who were in great form have let the side down and have become passengers, i.e. matic, hazard 

 

Plenty of blame to go around but the board's failure to improve the squad sent out the wrong message at the very start of the season.

 

Leicester have three times the net spend that we've had over the last two seasons. That's a severe lack of ambition at the top of the club and for all Arsenal Fan TV's hilariousness, their supporters seem to be very clued up about where to distribute the blame for their failings....eventually.

The board got lazy but they could never have imagined the squad would go from title winners to relegation fodder in the space of a few months.

I hope lessons have been learned from everyone at the club, you don't allow a squad to stagnate...you need to improve it otherwise you risk what happened with us.

Guys like Papa and Hector were embarrassing tbh

Just got round to watching Arsenal fan tv from last night. So funny.

Leicester have three times the net spend that we've had over the last two seasons.

 

The key words being "net spend". We've spent over 150 million on new players during the last two seasons, while Leicester has spent around 60 million on new players.

 

Jose and the players are the biggest culprits behind our poor start to the season. Sure, we could've bought a few top class players, but if we had 2-3 players coming in, we'd still have had most of the squad underperforming. Lack of big name signings can't be used as an excuse for our worst ever start to a Premier League season. Turning from champions to (nearly) relegation fodder tells us that there was something more going on that can't be explained by us not getting a couple of new signings.

Good couple of footballing weeks, we're winning, the ones we dislike are dropping points/losing cup finals.

All four of the CL teams had chances to capitalise on the others' slip-ups this past week, and it seems they all failed to do so. 

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The key words being "net spend". We've spent over 150 million on new players during the last two seasons, while Leicester has spent around 60 million on new players.

 

Jose and the players are the biggest culprits behind our poor start to the season. Sure, we could've bought a few top class players, but if we had 2-3 players coming in, we'd still have had most of the squad underperforming. Lack of big name signings can't be used as an excuse for our worst ever start to a Premier League season. Turning from champions to (nearly) relegation fodder tells us that there was something more going on that can't be explained by us not getting a couple of new signings.

 

You're right, but I'm talking about the level of capital investment in both clubs when it comes to transfers and whilst I agree that the board aren't solely to blame you have to ask what exactly their aims were for this season.

 

If the players come off a tough season where they win the league but are found out in Europe, and the board weakens the squad, what message are you sending to them? Are you saying that we as a club have ambitions to be the best in Europe? Are you telling these sportsmen that we're going to provide them with the best opportunity to succeed this season?

 

I don't think that's the message the board sent out to this group of players. I think everyone at the club got complacent and you can't do that in this league.

Nicked from the comments section of this Guardian article, but it sums up Arsenal SO well!

 

"The issue is that they simply aren't that good. Its that simple chums. That's why they haven't won the title in ages, that's why they never get beyond the first knockout round in the CL. Giroud, for all his qualities, isn't good enough. Cazorla, for all his fans, doesn't ever actually do anything. Coquelin is incredibly average, and it baffles The Spam when people refer to him as the best DM in a league where Dier Kante and Matic ply their trade. Walcott is sh*t, 'nuff said. Koscielny and the German lad have the speed and agility of tectonic plates, and they have Chelsea's old reserve keeper between the sticks. They aren't choking, they are exactly where they should be."

I hope lessons have been learned from everyone at the club, you don't allow a squad to stagnate...you need to improve it otherwise you risk what happened with us.

 

Yeah maybe THIS time they'll have learned. I doubt it tho.

If the players come off a tough season where they win the league but are found out in Europe, and the board weakens the squad, what message are you sending to them?

 

The board weakens the squad? Yes, we sold Cech and Filipe Luis, but both of those players wanted out. We got in a quality international keeper which means we still have the best second choice keeper in the league. We sold Filipe Luis, but we got one of last season's top performers in Bundesliga to replace him.

 

Found out in Europe? That's dressing it up a bit. We won our group without losing a match and with a goal difference only matched by Real Madrid. Yes we got knocked out by PSG, but only on away goals.

The board weakens the squad? Yes, we sold Cech and Filipe Luis, but both of those players wanted out. We got in a quality international keeper which means we still have the best second choice keeper in the league. We sold Filipe Luis, but we got one of last season's top performers in Bundesliga to replace him.

 

I can kinda see the way you're presenting this. On paper you're right, we replaced a keeper with a keeper and a left-back with a left-back. 

 

What actually happened was that we lost two of the most experienced leaders we've ever had in the club (Cech and Drogba) and an experienced La Liga winning and Champions League runner-uppering left-back. We didn't replace their presence and barely replaced them as footballers, if at all. That to me is weakening the squad, and the club as a whole.

 

 

Found out in Europe? That's dressing it up a bit. We won our group without losing a match and with a goal difference only matched by Real Madrid. Yes we got knocked out by PSG, but only on away goals.

 

Again that's one way of seeing it. The other is that we couldn't beat a PSG team who had been reduced to ten men.

 

But you're right, we didn't lose any matches against Schalke, Sporting or Maribor. We did draw two but we also smashed Maribor and Schalke so maybe we had a case that we were one of the best teams in Europe last season.

 

And the truth is PSG are a good team. We can proudly say we lost to the team who lost to the team (7-1) won the whole competition.

...an experienced La Liga winning and Champions League runner-uppering left-back. We didn't replace their presence...

 

I'm not sure how big of a presence Luis Filipe had at Chelsea. He was a squad player who didn't play very much, which is exactly why he left.

 

Cech wasn't going to stick around as second choice. He's too good for that. Drogba knew it and the club knew that he could no longer perform on the level that he did in his prime, so it was inevitable that he left.

 

Replacing leadership is not easy and it's not something that can be bought. It's very rare that a player comes in to a club and becomes a leader right away.