Too rigid from Arteta. Arsenal lacks adaptation when the starting players are not fit, necessary to get the best out of the available squad and so, a system that works #AFC
its never a good sign when we expect or start relying exclusively on the promising starlet (Nwaneri) or a set-piece hit to overcome an ineffective performance. A tactics shift is needed, maybe since the absence of Odegaard in MF, to get the best out of the available players #AFC
hope Sterling on loan is the transition between Nelson outgoing and a true class winger coming in the next windows.
If this quiet window's goal was to focus in outgoings in order to have room for top class young players in the future, I'm ok with it.
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not disastrous as some are saying, but overall very lame window.
happy with outgoings, always good to free up space in the squad (still Nelson to go, and what happens with Tierney?)
apart from that, feels like the same squad as last season, probably same starting XI.
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Already eager to see how Mikel sets up the team next season. Guess Raya, Saliba and Gabriel are guaranteed starters; not so sure about FBs. Also, Rice as 6 or 8? who joins him and Odegaard in MF? Havertz stays as first choice centre FW?
switch to a 4231, pair Zinchenko with Rice in the MF pivot, and bring a LB who can tuck in and bring cover in build-up. 3313 in attack with Alex as primary playmaker from deep, with Rice and the LB shielding and giving dynamism. This could also free Odegaard to play as a pure 10
I would really love to see Zinchenko as Xhaka's heir, in that LCM position, forming the pivot with Rice. I would even give him the captaincy until รdegaard returns