Arteta isn't flexible and doesn't know how to maximize his squad. This is why we've not won anything in recent years. This is why we drop form during the business end of the season. This is why our players are looking burnt out right now. You don't understand me? I'll explain...
There's a reason why teams have 25 players available in their squad. Of course you can only start 11 and have about 9 substitutes on a matchday. Maximizing the usage of this squad properly helps in keeping the players fresh and sharp each week.
Pep is a genius when it comes to this, he sure knows how to use his players. He doesn't let his emotions get the better of him and that's why he's been a serial winner all along. He doesn't play the same starting lineup every gameweek, he studies the opponents and sets up with the right profile that suits the game. He also leans towards players that are in form and drops whoever isn't.
At some point this season, Reijnders was in form and playing weekly, now he's not even playing again. Same for Foden, even the Cherki that's balling right now was also dropped at some point.
Arteta doesn't seem to know how to do this and it's why we keep falling short around April every season. He doesn't trust his squad well enough, he only trusts his starting 11 and that's so not going to help. Footballers are humans, not machines. Saka is sufferring from this right now and so is Timber.
There were games we were winning already earlier this season and he still wouldn't take out Saka or Timber, all of that contributes to what's affecting us right now. He's played Zubimendi all season with no rest and now it has affected him because he's never played this number of minutes at this point of a season before in his career. There's Norgaard who's PL proven and yet he won't give him minutes, it's so exhausting.
If we fall short this season, don't blame it on injuries or any player but rather the coach and until he learns to maximise and trust his squad we'll keep having this same issue.
@Gunnersc0m Permit your wingers to switch sides during games. It confuses the opponents, they have to think about defendin against a different person during some phases of the game. They don't have to be rigid and stuck at one side of the pitch till they are substituted @m8arteta@Arsenal
@EduardoHagn For a Striker to be so low on confidence, ability and self esteem that he dodged the first 5 kicks, and when it went to knockout he continued to evade taking any hoping it would never get to him; is very pitiable.
@EduardoHagn@DuncanCastles I'm not Gyòkeres yet this stand-off is demoralizing
@Arsenal if/when he finally arrives & then fails to deliver the goods, just know it's partly because of these complicated negotiations.
Please just agree to their terms or propose structures more realistic & get this over with
McTominay, surplus to requirement, wasn't in Ten Hag's plans for the season; scoring a spectacular goal tonight, wins the #Scudetto named #MVP of Serie A while Man Utd languish in 16th place losing the Europa League.
Antony also doing the Lord's work in Betis tonight
@FabrizioRomano I think Man City are expecting a transfer ban soon in the next couple of transfer windows. They seem to be sorting out the various departments in their current squad not to salvage this season but to cater for the future
China Destroyed Silicon Valley.
They built an AI model that beats OpenAI, Google, and Meta.
It only cost them $6M (vs OpenAI's $17.9 billion).
Here's how DeepSeek is changing AI & why Sam Altman & the US government are worried:🧵
@ArsenalN7@SportsPeteO Every transfer window, be it summer or winter, Arsenal always exploring, as per Microsoft Explorer abi Dora the Explorer.
Next they'll say we're linked to this person or that person cos we are Linkage Insurance or Panama canal.
Then end up not getting anyone eventually
BBC reporting about 4.4m children malnourished in Northern Nigerian and the works done by 'Doctors Without Boarders'
But oooh, the protest is organized by enemies of Nigerian peace