Nathan Cullum

[Ebere @EbereEze10]

I swear imma make It and when I do, they're gunna show this tweet lol

[Guillem Balague @GuillemBalague]

Now that Arsenal fans are booing their own team and former players are lining up to criticise, let me offer the bigger picture, the one you hear across Europe.

Arsenal are not seen here as a team that has stalled. They are seen as a reference point. As the team many look at when trying to understand where elite football is heading.

The game has shifted, it is no longer enough to dominate the ball or to attack well. The top sides now compete in, and often decide matches through, the four phases that make teams excellent: organised attack, attacking transition, defensive transition and structured defence. At the highest level, those phases matter more than possession percentages or aesthetic debates.

This is where Arsenal stand out.

Under Mikel Arteta, Arsenal control space, time and another very important element, rhythm. They are aggressive without being chaotic, but can create chaos to find gaps, they are compact without being passive. Their pressing is prepared in detail, lose the ball and the reaction is immediate. The opponent is denied oxygen.

Across Europe, this is understood as modern dominance.

The key battleground today is transition. Not what you do with the ball, but what happens the instant you lose it. Defensive rhythm has overtaken offensive rhythm. Space is smaller and time is shorter. The teams that survive are the ones that arrive first, win duels, plus reset order before danger appears.

Arsenal do this as well as anyone.

In Europe, Arsenal are seen as a team that has absorbed Guardiola’s ideas and pushed them forward, they have strengthened them for a football world that now plays faster, presses harder, and it totally punishes hesitation.

At the very moment Arsenal are being questioned at home, they are being analysed as a model.

Progress is often uncomfortable and it rarely moves in straight lines. Arsenal don’t look lost. In my eyes they look early!

[Jamie Kent @BigBearKentlaar]

I'm 31 years old, I've seen Arsenal play some of the best football in Europe. Wengerball was a beautiful sight, it was fluid, quick, attractive football and beautiful on the eyes. Yet, it was married to finishing 4th, with the odd 2nd or 3rd thrown in for a bit of flair. Big games over and over, being beaten by our rivals time after time. 5-1 at Anfield, 6-0 at Stamford Bridge, 8-2 at Old Trafford, home and away being thrashed by Man City. 

So tell me why I've now got every media outlet & jounralist looking for a clicks telling me I shouldn't be happy with what I'm seeing? 

"1-0 to The Arsenal" or "Boring boring Arsenal", this isn't a new part of the game, this is Arsenal's history. 

Social media are more than happy to talk about some of the best defences in the Premier League. Ferdinand/Vidic, Terry/Carvalho, Adams/Keown, Campbell, Van Dijk, Kompany. Or Chelsea only conceding 15 in a season, a remarkable feat. 

Liverpool being crown "set piece kings" a few years ago during the title run, Chelsea having a piece done by Jamie Carragher about how Champions use set pieces during a title run - By now it's an issue? An issue much less brought up Jamie Carragher himself. 

For years Arsenal were beaten by physical teams, lesser teams would play Arsenal with the pure intention of kicking us off the park. But now, we're too physical?

Arsenal go play defensive away to big teams, get accused of not going for a win or being "scared" - Yet no one talks about Haaland playing CB during Man City's trip to Arsenal this season?

Arsenal go all out attack and try to go toe to toe with teams we weren't simply as good as a few years ago & get beaten. Arteta is "out his depth" or Arsenal aren't good enough - Yet, when do you ever see a team go to Arsenal and attack us for a game? Man City tried and lost 5-1. PSG had Donarumma to thank for not leaving the 1st leg with a defeat. 

When it's Arsenal who are the ones being beat or being treated like the little boys of the league, the media are quick to paint Arteta as the bad guy or find a fake story about a possible squad fall out. But when it's Arsenal being the bullies, dominating the game and acting like a big club should, suddenly it's an issue? 

You can keep your days of beautiful football with Fabregas, Hleb, Nasri, Rosicky, Wilshere, Arshavin, Diaby etc. 
You can keep your horrid defence of Sokratis, Luiz, Chambers, Cedric, Lichtsteiner, Mustafi.

The squad as a whole right now is one of the best squads Arsenal Football Club have ever had. It is completely unfathomable to me that this squad do not win silverware - And when we do, I cannot wait for every single media outlet to have to post their graphics that 70% of our goals were set plays. I can't wait for them to have to make graphics of Mikel Arteta lifting the Premier League trophy.

[Nathan Cullum @NathanCullum]

@nocontextfm1 @fminside @Hibberd89 I hope this isn’t right, far to good to start the same! Maybe a few seasons in he could hit these numbers if injuries don’t play a part but from the get go this is far to overpowered

[S👻 @scrapytweets]

NORTH LONDON FOREVER 😭❤️
https://t.co/MijXduFjLh

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

Viktor Gyökeres and Arsenal, here we go can be very soon. ❤️🤍💣

[The ORIGINAL Arsenal Insider 🔍 @InsideArsenal89]

Arsenal fans & followers of mine.

When Zubimendi is announced, I know you wanted to ‘dunk’ on Liverpool.

But please have some class.

I remember exactly where I was stood when the news broke of Reyes.

Please remember that.

💔

[WelBeast @WelBeast]

I don’t want to speak.

[WelBeast @WelBeast]

If you’d rather have this and Europa League final over a Champions League semifinal and second place then you’re sick.

[Nathan Cullum @NathanCullum]

How the fuck are either man united or spurs going to be in the champions league next season. Struggled to break 40 points in the league this season and if the bottom 3 weren’t so far away one of them would be going down this season. Honestly dreadful from both this season.

[Patrick Timmons @PatrickTimmons1]

When the club hit rock bottom, these two teenagers put us on their back.

Tonight, they both scored at the Bernabéu as Arsenal smashed the European champions 5-1 on aggregate.

Love them so much. ❤️

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

WHAT. A. PLAYER.

[Nathan Cullum @NathanCullum]

Real Madrid got Uefa in their pockets fuck me. No one will stand a chance against them when the governing body of the tournament wants them to win it.

[Nathan Cullum @NathanCullum]

@Arsenal @ComAve_Official @Hibberd89 let’s go!!!

[Nathan Cullum @NathanCullum]

Ball over the top is killing us.

[A @AfcAish]

Stay humble you C*nt! 😂

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

Watch for the goal. ☄️
Stay for the celebration. 🧘

🎥 @SkySportsPL

[Evan Cooper @Lacazest]

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[afcstuff @afcstuff]

A STATEMENT WIN! ✅😤