re: The Arsenal 2017/18: Au revoir Arsene, et merci.

Yeah Oli is a God with his back toward goal. Wish we would have used him and Lacazette more.

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Gabonese pace warrior

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Siri, show me “trying too hard”

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Justin I'm convinced all you do is sit on your phone thinking of the best way to get an upvote on TD.

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Don’t get put in timeout again.

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Grow up, seriously.

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Never.

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You try too fricking hard to be an internet tough guy.

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This is the first time anyone has ever called me a tough guy. I take it as a compliment.

Okay since y'all apparently can't see the sarcasm, it was a joke. I'd prefer to keep Giroud more than anyone, he's one of the only ones I give a shite about. But he's over 30 and doesn't get game time. I understand that 100%.
I would just prefer we keep him

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105 Olivier Giroud

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108 THEO WALCOTT

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but seriously, good luck to Theo. Not my favorite but should've gotten more chances this season. Now he'll get to prove Arsene wrong. All the best

I believe it's bantz, but now I'm mostly here to thank Theo Walcott for his service to my FIFA 13 career mode.

I've always had a soft spot for Theo, hope he does a lot of good for Everton.

I've been telling people for years how productive Walcott was from 2010 to his knee injury. There is a genre of a fast winger with African or Afro-Caribbean roots in England, and Walcott was by far the best of that genre. In the right system he's superb, as he keeps left backs pinned deep, he's very smart with his runs, and he actually has a final ball and good (sometimes great) finishing. He was a good winger in his own right, certainly unlike any one else in the game, precisely because of his ability to make the right decision in the final third, at least so that it would lead to goals.

I'm very disappointed Arsenal is letting him go. Sanchez has played like a big old cocksucker, yet Walcott couldn't get a game. The transfer policy doesn't make sense, especially if Arsenal gets Mkhi, who for me is a luxury player.

I think a player like Ozil is someone who disrupts our balance. It's not that he's lazy or anything, but if we retain the idiotic 3 at the back system, then Ozil doesn't have space going forward. He likes to drop into vacant positions on the wings, but those positions are always occupied in the 3 at the back system.

Also Xhaka is a terrible buy for a midfield two. He needs a partner with him, someone who can take pressure off of him. Right now Xhaka tries to make entry passes to the other midfielder, who is for some god awful reason positioned greater than 45 degrees from him, meaning that the pass is vertical, into tiny windows of space. Because of this, we have a retarded CB who has to step into midfield, destroying the whole damn point of 3 in the back.

With Ozil, we can't play the 4-3-3, a system we are far more suited for, as Ozil doesn't have space to glide into. We will go back to the 4-2-3-1, and be unbelievably shitty there. Ozil and Sanchez would have been great buys if we had a dedicated system for them to operate. The 4-2-3-1 with Cazorla and Coquelin was the answer, but for the love of god poor Santi can't stay fit, and we sold Coquelin.

I'm hopeful that there is an exodus of first team players that coincides with a new manager coming in, because Wenger has been trying to hodgepodge a team together since Van Persie left. It's been fricking terrible, despite the fact that we've fielded very good teams certain years. The regression in the last two years has been alarming.

I'd agree with all of that if we end up staying with the 3 back system.

Hypothetically if they make the move back to a 4-2-3-1, who's in the midfield as the pivot and No. 10 if your options are Wilshere, Ramsey, Xhaka, Elneny, and Mhkitaryan?