Arsenal’s 23/24 & The FUTURE
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- Let’s reflect on why Arsenal fell short of the Premier League trophy, how the team evolved and what to do this summer to finally overtake Man City!
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He just talks repeatedly without any actions to prove them, hence we’re improving but not succeeding . Anyone remember him saying he was going to win the UCL this year 4 years ago? Anyone remember him saying he was going to be unpredictable in his playing style this season? Do people just forget things this easily and how do they? The idolization of this man is scary to me plus I don’t think I’ve felt more blue balled before than last season. And it’s not to say he’s been bad in anyway but what he’s doing is his job. He’d be gone if weren’t improving every year but to each there own
Bro I need that frame behind you can you please help with that ??
Super work James. Best wishes always
1st part is a pathetic monologue. Who was sad? Arsenal had a great season. The title was lost at villa but to compete with City us something else. Liverpool once had 97 and didn't win it. What's all this fake mopping and crying about?
@@user-vs2hr1wq8d did you see crying and sad emoji? No plus if you read the comment used see I said last season
The table at 2:51 is exactly why I don't think 'the league was lost' due to the Villa defeat. The argument at that point is that Arsenal should've picked up 52 points out of the final 54 available, which was a ridiculous ask. The real issue was that run in December.
Either way, there's no denying that it was easily one of the most enjoyable seasons of football in the 28 years I've been watching Arsenal. What a squad, and what a group the backroom staff are. Arteta's tenure has been verging on heroic.
Totally. I said after the last loss in December that the title race for us was over. we only got back into it because of the insane run we went on. But we can’t lose 4 matches before the New Year and expect to win the league. We have to stop having a great first half of the season or great second half and put them both together and find the ultimate level of consistency that it will
take to beat a team built on 15 years of cheating.
Agreed. I think we went too quick in 1st half of the season last year, and too slow this year....though that may have enabled us to perform so well this period from January. I think Arteta recognised the problem at the tail end last season- we were gassed out come March, and adjusted accordingly. Add a few more players this summer who he trusts and he can then rest/substitute key players to conserve energy without dropping our pace of play.
More to the point is that beating Villa would've meant winning 17 out of the last 18 games with only 1 draw, which is something even City have never done. Yet people talk as if we're expected to do that. Had we done better in December, we probably could've lost to Villa and still been ahead.
December was the turning point indeed and that goal at Newcastle
it’s upsetting but I’m confident that we will be back challenging again next season! Let’s hope we win it. Also great to see Timber back, cant wait to see him next season!
He looked brilliant! And agreed, we go again
We WILL win next season mark my words
Am u guys said that last season 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm happy we're competing again and being treated as a top team by opponents... one of the youngest squads in the epl... future is incredibly bright
@@redfire1094 imagine being a spurs fan
*I'm damn proud of our players, coaching staff and fans this season in the Premier League. It's been fantastic, if not awesome.*
Excluding the Champions League, we've been damn awful in the domestic cups. Getting KO'ed in our second game in the EFL and KO'ed in our first game of the FA Cup. The cup we have won the most.
So we need to strengthen for next season and I have a shopping list for Arteta. *_If Arsenal can get these three players for next season,_* _I'd be more than happy._
*Midfield. Everton's Amadou Onana.* Only 22 years old and a really intelligent powerhouse.
*Attacking winger. Nico Williams.* Athletic Bilbao. Only 21 years old, really fast and tricky and intelligent too.
*Striker. Benjamin Šeško.* RB Leipzig. Only 20 years old. Was clocked this or last year being faster than even PSG's Mbappe. He's big (6'5"), intelligent and powerful and he knows where the goal is.
And all three are relatively young. But not bought for the reserve team. All are currently rated as very good but all can be honed even more to be real super stars by Arteta and the Arsenal coaching staff.
If we can get those three plus any others that Arteta want, I'd be chuffed to bits. *_We wouldn't be just a damn good team._* *We'd be bl00dy well scary too!*
*#COYGsince66*
To quote Kroenke Jr - "be excited". This young Arsenal team are exceptionally talented and have so many opportunities to win titles and cups in the future. I'm so proud of this team and how they played this season. They are one of the best Arsenal teams I've watched in my 30+ years of supporting the team. They just went against one of the best teams of a generation..........although if City are found guilty next year then all they have achieved is built on lies and deceit and will count for nothing.
I feel like Arsenal are getting solid each passing year. It's an amazing transformation to watch this team development under Arteta. Next season I think Arteta will buy 1 key player for the midfield and our perfect midfield trio will be complete.
For me yesterday proved Martinelli can be the direct winger we want on the Right and then we can get a left winger
Martinelli was best player for me yesterday
It is the controlled football which restrict his movement. Arteta has to find a way to be more fluid in attack, Martinelli will assist and score more.
Martinelli was garbage this season. No excuses. Saka did not look good on the eye but at least he racked up the number. If Martinelli cannot adapt to the system, then he needs to go.
Or wingers lacked intensity all season. There was a lot of ball recycling and not enough one on one beating of defenders.
I just hope that we don't give up on cups way too easily, next season. Don't particularly care about carabao cup, but FA cup should also be on our priority list. With regards to UCL, given that anything can happen in that competition, I don't particularly have very high expectations, SFs would be significant progress imo. PL, ngl, I think we'll win it next season based our progress.
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There are many opinions out there but not too much #intelligence, so I really appreciate who you do James #thankyou #blessyou
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Great video James. How the season capitulated last year I welcomed the break and it wasn't until we bought Rice, I was desperate for this season to start. I was ready for next season as soon as City scored that third goal on Sunday. I actually think the players feel the same too. Although I'm excited for the Euros, I am kind of annoyed it'll disrupt our pre season. We seen how good the last 2 USA trips were and how the excitement built up, especially in 2022 in what still feels like the beginning of the Arteta era.
We need a tactical insight on transfers. We need buy another playmaker 6 like Partey/Jorginho especially when we're moving to a more defensive LB. Creativity from Partey and Zinchenko is what made the 22/23 team.
Everyone always speaks of how ManCity kicks into another gear at the turn of the year.
But based on the stats you showed for 2024 we went up another gear beyond City 49 points to City 48.
The title was lost in the first half. Most likely the month of December.
Love you insight James, good on you Max for the visuals and editing. Great vid, you made me not get too angry after losing out on the title.
Thanks James for the content. Great stuff. Thanks Max for bringing all of this stuff together
I don’t think we should look at individual games anymore for why we didn’t win the league, the reality is we haven’t got a match winning world class forward in our team to win us games we don’t deserve to. City do and that’s why they’ve won the league.
The Jorgino mess-up against spurs at the emirates, when he gifted Maddison and Son their equaliser, cost us 2 points.
Thank you very much Max. We appreciate all your hard work in bringing James' insightful ramblings to our screens
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Great stuff as always, James. We actually came into the season with quite a changed squad. Havertz and Rice new in midfield. Timber and Raya new in defence. Then Timber gets hurt and Partey gets hurt, and Zinchenko, Martinelli and Jesus are nowhere near their form of 22/23. It took a while to find Kai's position. I think we'll go into next season with a much more settled and larger squad, which should have positive effects on our Cup effectiveness. I kind of feel like this summer will be the final squad building summer of this current side. After this, it will primarily be shopping for those one or two players that are super expensive but raise the ceiling of the first XI.
Keep up the good work, Max!!
I will! Thanks ❤
Big up James and Max, thanks for the content❤
The encouraging thing is that we will definitely be in the title race next season
This season we showed that we are not a one-season wonder team and we have the ability to improve every season.
Big up James❤ quality content👌
You've created such a family-feel aspect to your channel. Love it! Keep it up. COYG
Ahhh that’s great to hear as it exactly what I’m going for! Thank you so much - more to come!
Congratulations James! You deserve all the success. Looking forward to a great year for you on your Chanel!
We need to win the title next season which means adding ready-made winners. I would love to see us signing Leon Goretzka and Leroy Sane from Bayern. Goretzka's a beast of a DM in the mould of Rodri, and very skillful - see his pass to set up the Gnabry goal against us. Yes, he's 29 but we'd get 3 good years from a top quality champions league player - and we could release Partey who I love but who seems to have lost his athleticism (see also Casemiro).
Sane is blindingly quick, and skips past the opposition - he can play all positions across the front 3, and he's a good finisher. He would challenge Saka for a starting position and also has extensive CL and PL experience. Given Bayern is in flux due to losing their manager I reckon if we strike quickly we could sign one or both of these players - say 50M for Goretzka and 60-ish for Sane. The strategy here is to add experienced starting-11 players to enable more squad rotation and keep fresh the likes of Rice, Saka, Havertz, Martinelli. So that's c. 110m.
I'd also sign Gyokeres who looks the best of the available strikers - quick, good skills and a clinical finisher: a much better all-round package than the likes of Isak and Toney IMHO. So call that a total outlay of close to 200m.
These new players allow us to move on squad players who aren't at the level to improve us next year. I'd sell Nketiah (c. 20m to a mid-table team), Nelson (c. 15m), Jesus (c. 30m), Partey (c. 20m), Kiwior (c. 25m), Elneny (10m), Cedric (free), Vieira (25m). That's 135m coming back in - although even if it were 65m we should do it.
I mentioned Vieira last - as a potential sale - because he's a really high quality player and we've seen glimpses of that in his assists for Jesus for goal #3 v. ManU this season and also for Martinelli last year v. Villa. But the reality is he doesn't have the strength or engine to compete in the Premier League - unlike Odegaard who he was bought to understudy. Vieira just hasn't got to the required consistency level.
My final point is we do need an understudy for Odegaard and that should be Smith-Rowe who we definitely shouldn't sell. ESR showed against Everton how he can impact games, and I think he would be great in the Odegaard role as well as covering on the left-8 position and even wide right or left. A great utility player and someone who will be much better next year after a full pre-season now he's injury free.
Anyway, apologies for a much longer rant than I anticipated, but to summarise, imagine Arsenal are playing Fulham on a Saturday next year and Real Madrid in the ECL on Wed, here are my teams:
V. Fulham
Martineli Havertz Saka
Rice Jorginho Smith-Rowe
Zinchenko Gabriel Saliba White
Raya
Sane Gyorkes Saka
Rice Goretzka Odegaard
Timber Gabriel Saliba White
Raya
Finally, thank you James for your excellent content about Arsenal and big up to you and Graham for your illuminating tactical analysis podcasts.
In a preseason match , he played Tomiyasu at RB and Timber at LB and they switched sides during the match (like wingers). I think we may see that next season. Defensively there doesn’t seem a whole lot to improve on. Basically the season before we got 50
Pts from the first 19 matches and this season we got 52 from the last 19. All that’s missing is consistency, being able to maintain that pace. My concern is that it will require way more depth than we have or are likely to have with so many players leaving this summer and I worry we may need to take a step back to take those final two steps forward. But I also have faith in Arteta and the players to get it right. It’s coming!!!
Fantastic content here James and behind the scenes support you have 👏🏿
Awesome work max 👏👏👏 YNWA
Next season we need to improve in cup competitions. We need to have a mindset of winning them all, cannot be going out in fa cup and carabao cups so early. Winning bleeds winner mentality. We need a big squad
Well done Max fair play mate great work 🤝
My signing for the summer: Steele (GK), Hato (D), Bruno (M), and Sesko (ST).
And we sell: Ramsdale, Kiwior, Partey, Nelson, and Eddie, Tavares, Tierney. With Elneny and Cedric already leaving. Send Lokonga out for one more loan at a PL team.
If a good offer for Jesus comes in than we can listen and Sign somebody like Nico Williams.
I will keep zinny for one more season.
Sell Kiwior and keep Zinchenco? The whole team looks nervous whenever Zinny is on the pitch and Kiwior has been solid in an unfamiliar position.
@@Starwars0405 I totally agree with everything you just said but we don't have any player like Zinny in the team so If I were to sell a defender this summer then it would be Kiwior. Now that doesn't mean Zinny will be the first choice but in a game where we are behind and we don't need 4 defensive minded players in the backline, Zinny can come in because as much as defending is not his best quality and everybody knows that but going forward and inverting into midfield he is best to non in that position. quite frankly Kiwior isn't that solid defending either, I understand he was playing out of position but he gets turned easily and Arteta doesn't seem to trust him either. The only reason he was starting in those games is because Timber and Tomi were both injured or had fitness issues but if you noticed, in the run-in he started Tomi in that position. So they're both not my first choice, but if I was to sell one and keep one, I'd rather keep Zinny just cos of what he offers going forward.
@@KandowaTechGood opinion
Excited for what’s to come on this channel, James
big up Max!
Let's load up our squad and try for a double next year, whether its 2 majors or a cup and 1 major the expectation is AT LEAST THE PREM TITLE. So let's add some decoration with that if possible.
Really needed James to talk me through it after this one. Top man. Keep it up. x
The progress of the team is great but the lack of trophies is worrying/annoying
We've been challenging for titles just 2 seasons, did you forget where we were 3,4,5 years we were a mid table team
@@absshire7984 we also won an fa cup with that worse team just think the league cup competitions we should be doing better in
We started this season slowly and became stronger as it went on. Hope we start strong next season.
ook at Haaland and how he looked lost against us. He is world class. What we need maybe someone who help us beat Fulham, Aston Villa and Westham. Maybe some one like KDB, Gundogan, Gvarvidol in Mancity with clutch moments.
Maybe we should learn from the Invincible. If we can't beat them, at least don't lose. Imagine we drew those 3 games
This season is gonna take me a min to get over. Mainly because we were so very good and have nothing to show for it. Damn. We go again 🫡
Nice content always.
Please the break is long we need the transfer edition.
Up gunners.
Looking forward to watching more,good work mate!
I agree with much you say.
Villa dominated city.
But, arsenal vs villa away, arsenal dominated the game and shouldve won prob 4-1, 5-1.. we didnt.
Same vs westham. It shouldve been a big win.
And i know people wont talk about VAR, but i am not talking about with VAR or without. Many rivals wanna point out that ”without var city wouldve won anyway”.
Yeah, but its the mistakes var makes that effect us, its not that they change it, its that thet didnt.
Look at Newcastle, i am 110% sure that if no one saw the game they just show a clip of the goal with players with black vs white shirts. 98% would say its no goal.
What would happen after that win, draw or lost anyway. But my feeling is a draw.
We can talk about PGMOL going out and saying arsenal shouldve had a pen in the 2-2 game vs Chelsea. Yeah 110% pen.
Thats 3p and won the league.
Then we change it, city only had var with them. And are we gonna talk about 1-1 vs Fulham and a offside goal? That might be a loss for them or a draw. And we know more wrong has been Done in the favour of city.
The worlds best team dosnt need the ref.
I am proud of arsenal and i understand you are aswell. But sometimes we need to blame other things. I mean, we won vs city but they shouldve had 2 red Cards.
Bruno vs Newcastle shouldve had a straight red, and prob 5-10 game ban. But nothing, tomi got a 2nd yellow when CP player dived. Still missed the game after..
Nketiah kicked in the head by Lindelof, where is the PGMOL.
They only take the blame with its 1 situation vs 1 situation … or it dosnt matter..
Thank you Max✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽
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If City win the FA Cup we will play them again in the community shield
Time for United to share the pain
I don't want this.Let united win,no?
@naomibosibori3138 and give them an excuse to say they had a better season than us? No no no 😂
Big up max
For me James, the first thing we need to do, especially Edu, is to get some of the excess players out of the club....... i.e Nelson, Nketiah, ESR....sadly... and get players like Viera out on loan.
What about mbappe do you think arsenal can secure him as a signing?
Here is my opinion on the season. First, let me be clear that I ve never been part of the Arteta out club, in fact I was in opposite, and I am not arteta out now. Although Arteta has done really well, I believe that his team selection and squad management this season resulted in second place again. You can look at it glass half full or empty but I think there was an opportunity this season to win the league, and instead of taking it Arteta was preoccupied with Havertz in 8, and that’s frustrating. In the beginning of the season, I thought that Arsenal will win the league. However, the league for me was done in the first game vs villa in December 2023 (not second one, the first one) as it was the game where I realized that Arteta won’t let go of this Havertz in 8 thing, i e Willian thing all over again. I can accept experimenting for a few games but villa game was game #16, while Havertz in 8 hasn’t really worked since PRE-SEASON. Now I agree that Arteta and the team have done EXTREMELY well in the second half of the season but the end result is same as last year bc in order to win the league in the current environment you have to be good throughout the season, not just half of it. If you do your job throughout the whole season, you wouldn’t need tottenham to help you, as Liverpool has done in 2019/20. Why does all this matter? bc the league was lost by 2 pts, and if those two points were recovered, then probably goal difference would have adjusted in our favor too. You cant win every game, there will be pts lost along the way. However, you have to make sure that you put your maximum into winning those points, and for me playing Havertz in 8 is not maximizing you chances of winning the league bc city or Liverpool will punish you, and that’s what happened. Sure you ll win games bc your overall team is still good and havertz in 8 does contribute still, especially against lower teams, and other players will put in a double shift (Odegaard, Rice) but it wont work throughout the whole season. Also, it’s ok to use Havertz as second striker sometimes, like against Brighton, but it should not be base case. On the dropped pts, we have 5 draws and 5 losses in PL (last year we had 6 draws and 6 losses, so an improvement). The only points dropped when Jorginho, Rice and Odergaard STARTED in midfield was Chelsea away draw (for which I thought Arteta chose the wrong tactic in my opinion, should have done same as away vs Tottenham) and draw away to city. The only pts dropped was TWO AWAY DRAWs vs CITY and CHELSEA. While in all the LOSSES in PL, except for West Ham (where trossard was in 8), Havertz STARTED in 8. Arsenal btw lost more games than city and Liverpool in PL this season. To the people who still believe that Havertz in midfield works, the biggest indicator that it doesn’t is the fact that Arteta has pretty much given up on it himself. It’s not a coincidence that the only two teams that we haven’t won against this season in PL were Villa and Fulham, in all those 4 games, Havertz STARTED in 8. Also, what a coincidence that the only game we lose in PL in the second half of the season (Villa) is the game where havertz starts in midfield. Out of the dropped pts, if we had turned 1 draw into a win or two losses into draws, we would have been champions, that was the difference. In my opinion, if Arteta went with jorginho instead of havertz in those games, we would have achieved it, and probably more. It’s not a coincidence that Arsenal went on a run when arteta started using jorginho more. The fact that Jorginho started only 10 games this season is crazy, he started 9 in half of a season last year. To the people who point to Jorginho mistake vs tottenham, that was from rustiness from not playing, you cant expect a player who hasn’t really played to start playing really well from the start, he played well since. You don’t just have to look only at dropped pts, eye test, personal stats of Havertz in 8 (not great), the fact that in the first half of the season Arsenal were struggling to create chance from open play (those stats miraculously improved in second half of season, when Havertz played more up top), it all points to the same conclusion. Therefore, in my subjective opinion if Arteta gave up on Havertz in 8 earlier, we would have been PL champions. On Havertz, unlike many fans earlier in the season, Havertz was never a bad player for me, he was just played out position by Arteta. Since the moment he joined, I knew that he was a false 9 bc it suits his profile given how Arsenal play, and up front is where he played for every previous club, and for the national team. Also, for every previous club, he was tried in several positions before settling up front, so Arteta naively went through the same process again. However, even I was surprised how bad havertz was in 8, but like I said before it was clear in pre-season already, and you could argue it takes time but game week 16 is too long for me. Also, theoretically you can convert a forward into a midfielder (why you d do that in season where you can win the title is a different question), and I have no problem with that, but if it’s not working, just play him in 8 at the end of the game when the result is secure, and don’t play him EVERY game. Havertz STARTED 30 PL games this season, and played in 37 out of 38 PL games in total. Based on starts, he is part of the core group of players but have his performances, especially in midfield, justify being part of that core because every other player in this core has justified his inclusion throughout the season. The core players based on starts (30+ starts) were Raya, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Rice, Odegaard, Saka. Just to clarify, jesus, zini, trossard, jorginho STARTED less than 20 games each, martinelli started 24, and all are therefore not part of this core starters list this season. Trossard btw has 12 goals in 18 starts, and should have played more. In my opinion Havertz should have been part of the latter list rather than the first one, unless he played as a false 9 during the whole season. Second part of season, Havertz deserved to be starting, but that’s because he was playing up front. On Raya vs Ramsdale, I really don’t care because in either case it’s a good goalkeeper playing as a goalkeeper. Now on the excuses: on depth, clearly the run in the second half of the season points to the fact that there is depth in this team, why for example ESR got man of the match one game then haven’t really played since. Same for partey and timber injuries, somehow team managed a good run without them. Obviously, having them would help but it could have been done without them, city played without KDB for half of the season. To the people who say that it was always arteta s plan to play partey and rice together in midfield, before his injury, partey played at rb, so you cant claim that. On Arteta saying that in any other league, he d win, well we knew this when Liverpool got 97 pts and haven’t won, so no news there, arteta recently said it himself. Also, Inter won with 90+ pts this season, Leverkusen 90 (34 game season), real madrid 90+, so arteta with 89 pts wouldn’t win in those leagues either, and those teams also have good coaches. George Graham won against then mighty Liverpool, wenger vs Fergie’s United, so it was tough for everyone. In the beginning of the season, pundits were saying that the Havertz purchase would make or break Arteta. I could never understand why, bc no one was forcing Arteta to play havertz, especially in midfield, but now I understand why. Arteta has done really well overall and has generally done well with transfers, but when you go against Pep’s city you have to be on point, and Arteta just simply wasn’t. At some point, he has to make that shift from a promising manager to title winning manager, and he has to stop making silly/unnecessary mistakes, NO excuses. I still think he can win a major trophy, but the risk of him being a Poch of Arsenal is NOT OFF the table. Having said all that, the club has made a choice to go with a promising but inexperienced manager and mistakes are part of the process. His potential to win PL is still there and Arteta should continue trying, and he and the team should get all the support in next few seasons. I personally think that the teams needs a good 8, a piece that is missing
It's surely will take more than one more season to establish a squad strong enough to give Arteta the confidence to rotate.
Isak would be a great signing but it’s going to take £120m ish minimum if they’d sell him. No way they sell him and Bruno. Bruno is IMO too old at 27 to spend £100m on - 3 yrs older than Rice. Kudus would be great but he’s got 5 years left on his contract and a £85m release clause next summer. So again, I can’t see him moving this summer. And if you can get Wirtz to leave after the season they’ve just had (4 yrs left), it’s going to take a transfer record.
My guess on those 4 is, Kudus and Wirtz are basically impossible deals this summer. Someone else will pay up for Bruno - City or PSG - and then no way Newcastle sell Isak.
Sesko looks a deal well worth doing to me, Gato is likely a Zinchenko replacement if he leaves (I think unlikely), Joao Neves is another basically impossible deal this summer.
Frenkie De Jong would be the more realistic dream midfield signing but even there I’m expecting the wages to be somewhat prohibitive.
We should get Kudus. We should have gotten him last summer but even for 70m, the guy is a bargain.
Awesome James!!💖👊💯
That harvetz number 8 is where we lost the league. And then there was Zinchenko problem.
Zincheko fell off this season or its xhaka who supported him defensively
@naomibosibori3138 maybe if he played more with Rice playing 8 ,he would have had more cover.
Nah id say zinchenko alone in that statement, without havarts clutch moments we were completely out of the race tbh
Gotta win the league, champions league or minimum fa cup next year.
Hi James. Do you see Smith Roe being part of the next season?
I dun know people being too negative will affect our players and the way we perform next season
Shoutout Max
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I expect this team to be like blood thirsty hounds next season. Arsenal were really 1 win away. They should take a lot from that as players.
We outplayed Liverpool in the fa cup…
Why has Viktor Gyökeres seemed to fall off everyone's radar? I think he would really suit arsenal's style
Just came here to say hold thattttt
James x a diff knock please maannnn !!!!!!!
Alot of people say we have a young average age but I actually calculated it for the past 4 yrs and actually are average age from 19/20 till now are 25.0, 26.0, 24.5, 25.0, and 25.3 respectively compared to Liverpool’s (27.9, 26.6, 26,9, 26.4, & 25.8) and Man City(27.6, 26.0, 26.9, 26.7 & 26.7). Starting 11 is a bit younger but the narrative that Arsenal had a young squad is actually false. Tottenham’s squad under Pottenchino from 14/15 to 18/19(23.7, 22.7, 22.7, 23.8, & 27.1) was a lot younger so generally I don’t think it’s a valid excuse & I don’t believe in excuses in all aspects of life especially football. Also, if you compare Man City's first four years from 08/09-11/12 (four seasons+I've adjusted for inflation) with our own from 20/21-23/24, Man City have spent £680.33M and Arsenal have spent £606.24M. Keep in mind Man City weren't in qualifying for Europe every year they were a mid table club. In those first 4 seasons argued the takeover: 10th, 5th, 3rd, 1st with an FA cup and PL while competing in an Era under Ferguson, Ancelotti, and Wenger. Arsenal spent only around £80M this summer alone they aren’t still winning the league. Arteta has done a good job taking us back to where Wenger was in his final years sparing the last two seasons but if we want to continue to close gap between Man City, a change might be the right step forward. It doesn’t mean we spend more rather spend smarter, smarter than we’ve been doing
Sack arteta??? Are you ok??? The guy who has taken a club who consistently finished outside the top 4 for years to challenging for the title in 2 consecutive seasons now, who has increased the club's points tally for each of the 4 full seasons he's been in charge and will likely do again next season.
Sack the manager who has built a squad for years and knows the players who are perfectly selected and suited for his system for a brand new manager who dosen't know the players. And which manager will this be???
Some arsenal fans🙄
I don't have any argument on young average age, but your budget argument is kind of wrong and out of context. If you compare the number alone; it's obvious the gap is not that much. But put it in the context of 08/08-11/12 with £680.33M, you can buy a chunk of quality players with that amount of money in that time. I'm not just talking about the inflation rate, after Neymar-PSG transfer, the price of a player has almost doubled. So the same amount of budget, but now you can buy less than half the amount of players with the same quality. That is not equal in the sense you're talking about.
Another thing, the average winning points nowadays are higher than the period 08-12. So the league becomes more competitive by a small margin. To summarize my points: Arsenal nowadays has fewer resources but expected on average higher performance. It's actually very good what we've done and keep doing.
Sorry if my English bothers you. My English is not good, but I hope you understand my argument.
@@applenuts firstly, yes I’m fine. Secondly, all the things you mentioned are things he was meant to do and it’s not to say he’s been bad in anyway but what he’s doing is his job. He’d be gone if weren’t improving every year. 1st season 8th that’s just to get settled + win a FA cup. 2nd season 8th failed to improve position and failed to qualify for Europe for the first time im since Bruce Rioch, 3rd season 5th failed to qualify for the UCL, 4th season 2nd he suprised me but on record became the biggest bottlers in English top-flight history, & 5th season 2nd improved the defense but spent £200M to get a 1 less draw and loss than last season. But to each there own
@@nabeel426 what a clueless fool you are
@@nabeel426doing his job???name me 1 manager who took a team who has finished outside the top 4 as many seasons as we had to challenging for the title for 2 consecutive seasons now???
Also you didn't say the genius you want to replace him with?
Liverpool lost twice to City, including a heartbreaker, before breaking through and winning. I feel Arsenal must be considered favorites - City has no more motivation for next season. Certainly Arsenal has the talent to win it on their own merits next year, even as currently constructed.
Tbf Cit has not lost a game since beginning of December last year 😮they deserve it 🏆 we lost to West ham at the new years and Villa lost is where we lost the title.
one thing i don't want to see experimented with is Saliba Gabriel, but we probably will.
Their minutes need to be managed though
I want to see a Wirtz, Rice, Odegaard midfield so badly 😭
Wirtz lmfao. You seriously think he'd join Arsenal 🤣🤣🤣
@@FrankSolo367 Never say never, but it's obviously a long shot for insane money.
@@DrHankVenture Got nothing to do with money. They'll be clubs who win stuff. Champions leagues who will be in for him.
but i though Rory said not to worry "City will drop points". Rory should quit.
30 years later ,,, 👴🏾 we have finally done it, premier league champions
Next season is our year
That's right just like 2004!
how could one expect going through Liver? it's not given, it's not to be expected regardless of stage. so Fa cup exit complaints from fans are simply stupid. doesn't count at all. While some dumpster clubs play f... Preston in SEMI, we just got unlucky, and squad was rotated to an extent. West Ham - pretty much the same. Hugely rotated squad which is awesome, and result is disappointing but never the one to criticise for. Sorry, Nelson and Nketiah don't attack very well, 1 st conceded goal was a blatant foul. Doesn't count.
I like to give Pep and the players credit- they're truly great, but never their club as a single entity. I don't respect it at all
Martinelli and Saka missed a lot of chances in that bad period in 2023! if Trossard was playing instead of Martinelli at that time we would have more points
What if he got injured in one of those games and was out for the rest of the season? No point in looking back at what ifs. We had a great campaign by anyone's (except City) standards. City with multiple world class players and the best manager in the world were only slightly better than us. Literally an injury or a dodgy referee decision away from losing it to us.
Arteta's 'experiments' Half a season of shoehorning Havertz in. That's what cost us - it's simple. Anybody could see Havertz in midfield was a complete disaster...but not Arteta...
No.
Our main problem in the first half of the season was the fact that we couldn't put away our chances....
End of.
@@gooner72 Oh "end of" alright then. Well aside from that Havertz is obviously no midfield player under any circumstances ( I could say "end of" at that point could'nt I?) Trying to fit Havertz in at the expense of a balanced cohesive midfield which we have when he's not in there was obviously "end ofery" a huge mistake. One I hope Arteta has learned from although it has to be said when the crunch game v Villa came along guess what he did? Havertz in midfield!! after all the success we'd had with him up top where admittedly he's been a revelation. Terrible decision from Arteta and one that costs us in my "end of" ery opinion............- END OF
James needs to own the toxic area of the early part of the season. On signing Raya and Havertz, instead of being the 12th man 👨
What do you mean?
Magic doesnt happen in football anymore, hardly any 40 yard goals or steikers beating a defender and scoring
I don’t arsenal fans are bleak with the team. More bleak with city and the teams that rolled over for city.
we did not lose the Title ... we came second..
It's a lot better than 4th. But don't kid yourself. Arsenal bottled it. In typical gooner fashion.
All Hail the Almighty Algorithm ☯️🔥
You didn't lose the title. You never had it.
we need to sell some players.
We'll win the next league titles. Have no worries.
Arsenal players will be defeated. Liverpool won it immediately the season after they missed out by 1 point. They were also Champions of Europe a few weeks later too. Arsenal have missed out twice in a row and with no other trophies to fall back on. Won't suprise me it's back to 3rd/4th next season.
Max > goldfish😂😂😂
Copium
City have the best manager best team, so how can people say to sack the manager
Literally one of greatest manager in the English game with the best team in the prem era all time and we pushed them to the last day of the season so unless pep is coming to arsenal then I think we have the right manager 🤦
I have only seen legitimate head cases say fire the manager. I think our fan base has well and truly put that idiocy behind us.
@@sriig Not all. There's still some delusional fans with fairy tale dreams of some manager that's gonna rescue us from big bad bald menace..
we didn't have the team for the cups. you could see that at the end of December and a bit end of the season. Brake in January actually pushed the form we were in till the end.
Great content again and I am already excited for next season - I am hoping we competed across all competitions and 'selling' the Arsenal dream to potential players must be so much easier than 2 or 3 years ago.
❤ much love James!
Class work bro
I am so proud of my team 🔴⚪
Some people will talk, we will act. That's the difference.
I truly believe we will be contending again next season.
Our best chance was last season when we were 10points ahead with 5 games to go. Inexperience and individual Mistakes costed us.
wish we had Declan Rice and fit Saliba for the entire season.
we was never 10 points ahead 8 points but city had a game in hand
Excellent job max❤ keep up the great work 👍 👏 💪
Appreciate it a lot! ❤
we need a series where you play football manager with arsenal! 😁
Max>>
We need to add some more better player's
Well said James and thank you for all your efforts to bring great content to us !👏 ... And well done Max ! 👏
As an old Gooner who has experienced Arsenal success before, its been a real pleasure, sometimes frustrating, but, overall, wonderful to watch a new generation of Gooners steadily growing in belief and faith in our team. It really is what gets a great team over the line as Mikel, Martin and all the players acknowledge.
We’ve done great things in the past but there’s something really special about our current team that can go further than before and something special too about this generation of supporters who haven’t seen the success yet still believe. That my friends really counts. This feels like a tidal wave building, so to our growing roll of believers, get out your red surfboards for next season; it’s a beautiful ride we are on. COYG ! 🔴🌊🏄🏼♂️🏄♀️🏆❤️
LETS GO MAX !!!
Wirtz...lmfao. Thats not a player Arsenal can sign. Thats a player champions...teams who have a track record of winning champions leagues sign. Leave it out.
First 19 games, we had same points as Man City: 40. Second 19 games, Man City amassed 51 points & we got 49 points. It was the Villa loss. But for that loss, we would have won the league by 1 point all things being equal. Next season, Arsenal should get players who will enable the team go into every game with the intention of winning. We have a good defence that we should aim to beat any team, including Man City at Etihad, & any team in the cup competitions (Carabao, FA Cups & Champions League).
Though i believe i Arteta. The first half of the season Arteta was playing Haverts as an 8. And we were always playing with 1 man down, as harvetz always looked lost.
I think he tried to implement pep's tactic wherein pep tweaks a bit at the start of the season, rotates the squad a lot and then picks up form second half of the season. Strategic planning if you have the squad depth, which we unfortunately do not have.
Moving forward, we have to do what klopp's team did....just blitz our way through, start to finish, I guess.
But I'm hopeful for the summer transfer window, I think we'll make some key signings and sell the dead weight.