comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 2 hours, 13 minutes ago
comment by Dan Arsenal (U21084)
posted 1 hour, 3 minutes ago
The OTT response to any dropped points on here is just bonkers.
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How is it bonkers for a fanbase to expect a level of consistency? Your performances are so flaky and this suggests your Manager doesn't know what he is doing tactically. You've excellent players by the way so should be taking advantage of the dodgy results of late of the other big teams (bar Liverpool)
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You were demanding Arteta out 50 games into Arsenal's reign and beyond...about 70 games after you ended 8th!

We can demand consistency but if it was as easily done as said then football would not be the mystery it is. It is the hardest thing to achieve, whatever level you are at. Arsenal managed it this season, last 6 LDLDWWNope!!

If the same old issues persist late into the season, if this costs us in cups and the league then we can agree that it's failing.

For context, Spurs just drew with Fulham after a midweek game and in Arsenal context we were missing the equivalent of Raya, Saliba, Gabriel, Havertz, Jesus, Partey, Nwaneri, Sterling.

I would be interested to see how Arsenal coped with that lot out.
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I think they would have probably won as they'd still have enough quality. Even if they had only drawn like we did, I imagine they'd have outplayed Fulham overall and the result just didn't go for them. Unlike ourselves who were outplayed by Fulham and were helped at the end by a red card.

I'm just not getting the amount of positivity for this result. It was another winnable game that we dropped points in and looked poor, following on from a great result (discounting of course the other winnable game in Europa against Roma in which we dropped points and looked poor).

comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 8 hours, 16 minutes ago
comment by BelfastSpur (U15068)
posted 9 hours, 7 minutes ago
Spurs have the second youngest average squad age in the PL, coupled with the 6th lowest % of minutes afforded to academy players. That tells you quite a lot. But the main thing it points to is that players we have signed - there has been many - haven’t been bought for the here and now.
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Current firstteam:

Vicario
Van de Ven
Solanke
Johnson
Maddison

all bought for Ange and the first XI at about £210m

back up to first XI:

Dragusin, Werner, Odobert at about £50m

Kids, to play some part now but bigger future:

Gary (18), Bergvall (18), Veliz (19), Phillips (18) Vuskovic (16) at about £70m

So roughly first team spend 65%, first team squad 15%, future 20%

I just have a real problem when people say stuff to support their narrative and it just aint true.
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You’re missing my point entirely.

I am not saying we aren’t signing players for the first team. I am saying the players bought aren’t for us to compete for titles or trophies in the here and now. Rather we are building a team capable of competing tomorrow. Other than Solanke or Maddison now of the players you listed have reached anywhere near the ceiling of their potential yet