Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [2nd - 7th March 2018]

elmuzzy66. said:
Well you take that god dam awful defence from in front of the keepers and everyone will improve.
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Yup, confidence for the gk in his defence and the confidence of the defence in the goal keeper is crucial. That is why Cech has been making some of these stupid as hell mistakes in the past month while the defence has gone to absolute pieces. He's playing nervous as hell with zero trust in his defence and it shows.
 
We need a major rebuilding job in the summer. There were some good steps taken during the January window towards improving our attack but we still need upgrades in GK, CB and especially midfield. Xhaka simply hasn't lived up to his reputation
 
Winning this really won’t do us any good. All we’ll get is the same old crap from Wenger about showing character and fight to get back into it. Papering over cracks is all it is.
 
We need to qualify for the Europa as a minimum for next year if we want to attract a decent manager, even offering the sort of wages we do.

Ideally, we go on a bit of a run in the league, win the Europa for CL qualification and Wenger bows out with a trophy
 
trigg_27 said:
We need to qualify for the Europa as a minimum for next year if we want to attract a decent manager, even offering the sort of wages we do.
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Not true at all. If you're looking to rebuild then not being in Europe will be a blessing in disguise. You should be hoping to lose every remaining game.
 
Managers pick the best job available, we aren't going to be making an offer to nab Guardiola, it's more like we want the next Poch, which still could be Silva. As such Arsenal are still a fantastic club to join for most managers.

A season without europe though would be far easier with which to have a preseason without early qualification games(can't remember if 6th place needs early qualifying games or not though?), no midweek games. It gives the manager more days for training, learning systems, improving players. A year without europe for a new manager to better rebuild, remotivate and train the players would be great for the club and give us a much easier season in the league.

IE if we had europa cup next year and a new manager improved us it would be harder to get back into the top 4 than if we had the same players/manager but no europe. Same way Chelsea, or Leicester, or Newcastle or Everton or a whole bunch of teams do better in the league without europe.

I don't care if we get into the europa cup or not, what I care about is Wenger either choosing to leave or being forced out, we won't improve with him at the club. Been saying it for a decade, it's been obvious for a decade. I honestly can't believe people haven't been able to see his complete inability to change or improve for that long.

The only reason this decline took so long is we had a 70-80% higher wage bill than Spurs, that buys a lot of higher quality players and a much bigger squad. Yet we've declined so far even that level of wage bill and squad size can't make up the difference. A 'big' club finishing 6th is to me the equivalent of a club going from 7th to relegation. There are simply different targets, different expectations and different capability of clubs with completely different finances.
 
nemtizz said:
Not true at all. If you're looking to rebuild then not being in Europe will be a blessing in disguise. You should be hoping to lose every remaining game.
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exactly - not being in Europe at all is actually better all round than being in, more time between games for new manager to get his methods / ideas across and more rest time for the players - more likely to pick up points in the league
 
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