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Arteta has also had fricking dire and arrogant man management. His treatment of Saliba, Pepe, Auba, etc... has been woeful. Remember when Willian went to Dubai and came back and immediately started? Pepe got a red and Arteta publicly blamed Pepe for the problems. Xhaka does it 3 weeks later and not a peep from Mr. Perfect.

I completely agree. One problem is Arteta is too proud to admit he was wrong in signing and sticking with Willian for so long.
In the case of Auba, assuming you mean the NLD, I can understand why he didn’t play. Can’t bend the rules for anyone including the captain.
Saliba debacle is so baffling to me. Rumors of his parent(s) dying over the summer, so maybe he wasn’t there mentally, but why didn’t we keep him here? Surely he could’ve came on in the league cup or Europa groups.

And your point of Nelson— I don’t mind the club bringing in an older experienced winger. In fact I love(d) the idea last summer (didn’t love the choice, though) just so Saka/Nelson/GM wouldn’t be forced to carry us all year. Unfortunately with Arteta sticking with Willian for so fricking long, it really did ruin Nelson’s Arsenal career. Maybe he isn’t “good enough” to be an arsenal player—okay, fine. Fair. But give him a chance. You’ve given a thousand opportunities to Nketiah, surely you could do the same for others

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Posted by Bottom9

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Posted on 5/7/21 at 12:43 pm to RebelVol

Yep. On the plus side I think missing Europe can help us trim the squad and get to a solid 18 to 20 players since it is all domestic next season.

Auba
Pepe
Martinelli
Smith Rowe
Saka
Partey
Tierney
Saliba
Gabriel
Leno* (have my doubts but he certainly is a top 6 GK)

All are good enough to be top 4 to 6 next season and Xhaka as a 3rd or 4th option too since we can't buy 4 CMs in one window and I certainly dgaf if he goes

Auba
Pepe/Martinelli-ESR-Saka
Partey-(Insert CM here)
Tierney-Gabriel-Saliba-(Insert new RB here)

That is a damn strong 11. Need 2 starters. A CM and a RB. I'm not joking when I say that I rather buy to CMs over a 10 and a CM. Saka and ESR can split the 10.

Xhaka and Laca can be role players but I think Laca is gone. My team above has great potential if they aren't coached to death on how to maintain a rigged attack.

Add Azeez, Balogun, and even Nelson if not sold and boom that is a solid 20 to 23. Literally fricking get rid of everyone else.

Sell:

Hector
Holding
Chambers
Cedric
Mari
Elneny
Laca
Nketiah
Willian the stupid fricking mercenary

This post was edited on 5/7/21 at 12:44 pm

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