re: Arsenal 2023/24 Season Thread - Rice, Rice, Baby

I like him for what he is as sort of a false 9 and prefer to keep him around, but he's not a reliable goalscorer, and is also injury prone. Seems like Toney will be the signing in January and he's going to be a much needed addition.

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Just fricking give it up man. Your act is tired

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Nah, frick you.

David raya sucks. He should have saved that.

I wouldn’t be digging my heels if I wasn’t right.

Arteta has made mistakes. They wanted to buy mudryk. He’s fricking awful. They haven’t been clear of making dumb roster decisions. There was a time people wondered if Saliba was ever going to come in.

Yeah it’s a process, but frick he’s being stubborn on this one thing. He easily could have given both keepers adequate game time without actually just dropping them for a mistake. They must have the stats. You should have given Aaron a chunk of away games.

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David raya sucks. He should have saved that.

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Arteta has made mistakes. They wanted to buy mudryk. He’s fricking awful. They haven’t been clear of making dumb roster decisions. There was a time people wondered if Saliba was ever going to come in.

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So you criticize Arteta for not buying a player that isn't that good? Yet you don't mention that we got a top player in Trossard instead? wtf?

There was a time people wondered if Saliba was ever going to come in and now he is here having started 43 league games and signing a 4 year deal with literally a year left on his contract.

Just stop. Today, we completely dominated with everything except the final ball and finishing. Odegaard should have had 2 goals. Martinelli blew a pass, Zinchenko out of position and Rice going after Bailey helping Gabriel instead of staying on John Ginn cost us.

To sit here and pretend that the reason we lost was because fricking Ramsdale wasn't playing is a fricking joke and tired like I said. Raya was bad Wednesday. He was alright today. I think the reason today was lost was because Tomiyasu is hurt plain and simple. I think there is no way Bailey gets that much space if Tomi was playing LB.

To sit here and pretend Ramsdale (who we all love btw) is this who is a superhero and isn't prone to errors is disingenuous. He had an arse load of mistakes last season.

Blaming Raya for today is genuinely fricking stupid. Take a chill pill

ESR is finally back.

Let's pray he can give us some good minutes. Lord knows a firing Smith Rowe would do us wonders

I have the game on mute in the background.

Can’t say I like how many full out sprints our CBs are doing to try to defend. Just have a nightmare that Saliba pulls up during one of those.

I would have liked for Gabriel and Saliba to get rest, oh well.

Can someone give me a quick recap of the game, I was taking the CPA exam so I missed it

ESR coming off the bench can be huge for us if he has his 2021 form back

If we go in with the attacking mentality, we will cruise. If we go into the game just to spar with them, it will be a battle.