17 Sep 2025 09:40:02
Good solid performance again. We’re a funny lot lose 1-0 to a worldie = meltdown good away win in CL silence. Only caught last 20 mins as working but Martinelli well taken goal and Tross a nuisance. Well played Gooners COYG.
17 Sep 2025 13:04:19
Hello Sussex mate. First half performance was poor. Arteta made the substitutions and we came away with the 3pts. CL games are so different imo and i said this last season, Artetas tactics are better suited for CL.
Big game Sunday but i fancy us strongly.
Enjoy Florida??.
17 Sep 2025 18:51:30
So far the increased competition seems to be having a positive effect on Martinelli, long mate it continue ?.
18 Sep 2025 04:29:12
Not just the increased competition but I think he's currently well-suited to coming off the bench. Gets a chance to run at tired defenders. My hope is that he comes off the bench for a couple months, scores a few important goals, and learns to back himself again. I'd love to see him earn that starting LW spot back again and make us forget all about his troubles. I'm very emotionally invested in Gabi's success, he and Saka were the only bright spots for a good year or so.
18 Sep 2025 10:35:34
Comparing our squad when we won fa cup under Arteta to Liverpool we had two left last season Saka and Martinelli! Liverpool had Nine. To compete we needed to buy at least SEVEN first teamers to catch pool up and more to really compete. It explains why we spent a fortune- we had to - and why I give MA Edu and Berta credit in the bank. It’s tricky buying the right players. So we had to spend to make up for the extremely poor buying circa 2016- 2020. Thank feck for Hale End. So yes Martinelli has been poor but like Wire he has credit with me. Maybe emotional rather than head but to me that’s football COYG.
18 Sep 2025 14:57:54
Hi Kent, I think Martinelli has a lot of emotional credit with many of us and we'd all love to see him earn an extended contract at Arsenal.
He was a sensation when he first burst on the scene, along with Saka and ERS they were one the one good thing happening at Arsenal back then
Unfortunately ERS neeed to move on from Arsenal to try and make his way in the game while Saka has become a superstar of the game with Arsenal.
I think virtually all of us want Martinelli to replicate Saka rather than ERS and hopefully he will take every chance he gets to do just that. With the arrival of Ezes and Noni, Martinelli must be aware its now or never for him to show what he can consistently at Arsenal, and fingers crossed ? that's exactly what he will do between now and May.
{Ed025's Note - for me G62 the problem with Martinelli is that he cant put a full 90 minute shift in, hes good for the odd 10 minutes here and there but for me he is nothing more than an option from the bench mate..
18 Sep 2025 16:00:47
Hi Ed025 however are you?
I disagree mate, I've watched Martinelli put in a full shift in the past and I believe he can do so again. He definitely lost his edge for some reason or another but i'm hopping competition for places will help him rediscover that Edge on a consistent basis mate. Time as always will tell ?.
{Ed025's Note - you obviously see more of him than i do G62 and while i do think he is a very good player he could do a lot more for me, yes a lot goes down your right because Saka is an exceptional player and Madueke is very good as well, but Gabi for me flits in and out of games and lacks concentration and physicality and he also loses the ball too often, there is a player in there mate but he has to do a lot more..
18 Sep 2025 18:15:29
Hi Ed025 hope all good and enjoying new shiny stadium. Most Gooners i know think we have for once real competition for places and Martinelli if he wants to play needs to outperform Eze Tross and probably Madueke when Saka back. Where it leads us who knows but strongest squad for us in recent history is a good start. Quietly confident COYG.
{Ed025's Note - i so want you to do well SUSSEX but at times i find Arsenal very frustrating mate, take the Liverpool game...they were there for the taking but your tactics was to play to not get beat rather than go and win the bloody thing, you are the only hope we have to stop Liverpool walking this league again but you have to be more ruthless imo, you have a very good squad now and the title is within your grasp...but you really have to want it, im good thanks and hope you are well too my friend..
19 Sep 2025 08:07:56
I agree with you 100% on the Liverpool game Ed025 mate, that was very disappointing to say the least.
Mikel can't afford to lose with that approach again, the squad we have now raises the bar for everyone and for Mikel more than anyone.
{Ed025's Note - i feel this may be last chance saloon for him G62, i do like Arteta mate but if he cant win it with this squad then i think you may need someone who will..
19 Sep 2025 09:50:11
If Arteta was for some bizarre reason to ever ask my advice it would definitely be " go for it 100% you've nothing to lose " because if he allows his over cautious nature to get the better of him he will end up getting be sacked anyway.
19 Sep 2025 09:22:47
All good here Ed025 and 865 hope you`re all good too. No one more frustrated with Liverpool game than us. Obvious we went for draw and had we got one landscape would be different . It is the lack of trying to win the game that irks us Arsenal fans but think he didn`t trust the team without Saka Odegaard and Saliba (obviously injured) . Hoping performances over international break and v Leeds and Forest and Bilbao means he trusts a bit more as Mosquera Madueke and Nwaneri have impressed. Fingers crossed anyway COYG Would we have won if Salah VVD and Gravenberch missing? I think so.