Arsenal banter 10

18 Sep 2025 12:27:47
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18 Sep 2025 09:13:27
Quiet on here

Always the same when we are winning.

20 Sep 2025 08:01:18
Hey Mal mate, there is nothing to moan about hahahahhaha.
I hope you and your family are well brother.
I love the depth in our team now and seriously I was one of those who questioned noni's signing but he proved me wrong. I love his directness and how tirelessly he works
Looking forward to sunday game.

20 Sep 2025 11:25:20
Hello brother mo, the family are OK thanks
Was only thinking about you the other day hope you're family are safe and sound

Haha that was my point about no moaning

Love Noni couldn't understand why people slagged him before seeing him play reminds me of Freddie all he nerds to do is score

Stay safe my brother, regards to you're family.

18 Sep 2025 07:39:36
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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.

16 Sep 2025 07:39:29
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15 Sep 2025 20:14:31
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16 Sep 2025 07:00:05
Nice write-up Ed. Re: Villa, we are constantly being told how incredible Emery is as a manager, and his ability to take Villa from the pits under Gerrard to top 6 has been impressive. However, we Arsenal fans watched him for over 16 months here and over a period of 4 straight months had to watch some of the worst football I can remember as a Gooner. No plan, no belief, no effort by the end. Is he just unsuited to maintaining success at a bigger club? Perhaps his methods are too intense to sustain progress past the short-term?

{Ed001's Note - I don't think it is intensity, I think it is more about him struggling to work well with a recruitment team. He was unhappy with the summer transfers and so is not really using them, which leaves the team lacking threat. He just seems to throw his dummy.}

16 Sep 2025 12:11:40
You might have a point Ed as the Pepe debacle will always give me nightmares :)
However, I thought the whole point of bringing in Monchi was to fix this?

{Ed001's Note - yeah but psr is a major issue.}

15 Sep 2025 15:52:31
Popped round for the week's round up but looks like "someone" is slacking.

{Ed001's Note - it was up this morning mate. I had it finished in the early hours before going to bed.}

15 Sep 2025 17:23:10
I found it on Liverpool page. Seems like it wasn't posted here at all. I guess they were banned from the Arsenal page because of the hair flick jokes.

15 Sep 2025 18:42:15
Had to go find t on the United page as the pool page seemed to be down.

Ed001, how come it wasn't posted to the Arsenal page, mate?

{Ed001's Note - I don't know, it should have done. I have asked Ed33 about it mate. I got up early especially to post it for the morning autolink, so it should have done.}

15 Sep 2025 19:15:04
Good read though, mate. What are your honest thoughts on wirtz and kerkez? Still settling in? Haven't seen a great deal from them. Kerkez looks a bit of a liability.

It seemed you were a little harsh on the Arsenal, but really you're suggesting we should have done better than we did in the game. As Arsenal fans, I think most of us are just glad we played mostly on the front foot. The game against pool was dire.

{Ed001's Note - it was more about how bad everyone was this weekend. It was an awful weekend for football.}

15 Sep 2025 05:58:12
Morning trish

Just wondering what you think of the squad we have built now?

I think it's one of the best I've seen

How are you buddy?

{Ed001's Note - it is very good, particularly in defence, but you have no cover for Gyokeres at all, which is something you do need to look at, instead of buying another couple of centre-backs every summer. Also, you are at your best when youth players are involved, so I would like to see him make more use of the likes of Nwaneri rather than turning to Trossard when there are injuries. That Lewis-Skelly is better than Calafiori imo, so I would have started him, unless the plan is to keep them fresh for the UCL, in which case it is a big risk as they are not match sharp yet, so shouldn't be struggling for freshness.

I am good thanks mate. Though I am sleepy still, just got up to upload the weekend round up, so I will be going back to sleep soon! How are things with you and the family?}

15 Sep 2025 07:00:15
I'm OK buddy, the old man is the same evil disease

Have a good sleep speak soon.

15 Sep 2025 08:01:56
Valid point about our cf situation Ed. I've been thinking about Saka as a cf for a while, but especially now after seeing Madueke play so well on the right. Honestly i can't see why Saka couldn't become one of the best strikers around. He's the most well-rounded forward in the team and our best player. But of course this is just theoretical right now. Can't say whether it would actually work and would he be better as a rw still. Ultimately we want to play our players in their best positions for the majority of the time.

Left back is a mysterious position for us. Calafiori is a very fun player to watch, he ends up in all kinds of crazy positions. Lewis-Skelly seems to be more fixed to the midfield. Then there's Hincapié who i could see playing as a slightly more traditional overlapping full back, which i think suits Eze the best. Right now i'm thinking that over time Hincapié becomes the main lb, Calafiori migrates to cb and Lewis-Skelly migrates to cm (which will Ultimately eat up Merino's minutes) .

{Ed001's Note - Hincapie is not really a full-back. He is a centre-back who can play there, I am not convinced he is going to be a flying wing-back.

Reducing Merino's minutes would be a good thing, he is far too immobile for the Premier League. Shame because he is so good technically, but he is slow enough to fit in West Ham's midfield.}

15 Sep 2025 09:34:26
Difficult to argue with that Ed. Although Merino boosts his brand in Europe, he’s just not epl pace and was expensive but may be a decent option off the bench as he’s a bit like Platt in that ge knows where to be to score. I would have loved us to sign a striker as that’s a glaring hole and we don’t have a striker on the bench. Kai or Jesus don’t scream game changers or goals in big tight games although they probably have a role to play somewhere. I’m not a huge Cali fan but it’s another CB converted to a LB which Arteta loves and suits his style. I’ve given up on a Cole like LB bombing down the left wing. Strange it never releases the LW but hoping we can let Eze spend more time up front with a defence minded LB whereas Skelly has a mindset of a midfielder. I would have signed a young or an old striker to take pressure off Viktor but we had such a good window. Hopefully Kai, Jesus or Eze could fill the void in the short term.
Fancy us for a cup this year.

15 Sep 2025 10:16:03
Okay thanks for the insight on Hincapié Ed. I've only seen him in clips and in many of them he is playing lb, has good pace and seems to have a good left footed pass/ cross. So i thought he might be our slightly more defensively minded Tierney replacement. But what you can't evaluate from clips is whether he can run up and down repeatedly for 90 mins. Maybe that's where he falls short?

The thing that irks me with Merino is he was clearly signed as a squad player yet cost way too much. Look at Kepa and Norgaard. Those were bargains. I trust Berta to not repeat the mistakes of Edu.

15 Sep 2025 18:00:23
Evening all missed the gameon Saturday but seen the highlights. Personally I think we are finally at a stage where we can challenge on all fronts, for me in January we need to look at bringing another striker to protect Victor,

Our next two prem games will provide a more clearer picture, Man City are not fully at the races I don't think so we have a good chance and we generally stuggle with Newcastle away but it does not look good for newcastle at the moment.

Lets stay behind the team and the manager a lot of fun days ahead.

15 Sep 2025 20:17:17
Hi G4, I really enjoyed seeing our first goal come as a result of an Arsenal player taking a shot from distance and the second goal coming as result of a long direct ball over the top.

We all enjoy watching our easy on the eye intricate passing game when it leads to a brilliant team goal that takes our breath away, but adding a more direct approach to attacking options can only be a good thing that gives opposition managers a lot more to think about when trying to prepare their teams to play us.

14 Sep 2025 16:41:22
Just wanted to say R. I. P Ricky Hatton 🥊 shocking news only 46 years of age. great little fighter and a great guy outside the ring. one of englands true sporting icons.

14 Sep 2025 16:57:08
Rip Ricky.

15 Sep 2025 07:46:19
Absolutely endorse what you said Gabs.
Sad sad day for boxing
Take care Gabs.

14 Sep 2025 15:28:02
I thought I'd say hello on the Liverpool live chat
My posts won't go though

Oh well.

{Ed033's Note - The Liverpool live chat has changed. Only approved users can post now (it says this at the top of the live chat page).

14 Sep 2025 16:25:27
They do love a bit of fergie time don't they.

14 Sep 2025 16:56:20
Oh OK ed33, will be approved now?

{Ed033's Note - ok malaga-gooner approved.

13 Sep 2025 16:43:32
On Madueke:

We're about to sign him and I see that there was a lot of reaction around him.

"I spoke to him and he was like 'I go for it, I can't wait to put that shirt on and play for you guys'.

"I said wow, let's bring him, if I was convinced before I'm even more convinced now that he's going to do it. "

Well played today and great attitude - hope you are our star of the season.

13 Sep 2025 18:05:05
He was very good today mate as was mossey is he the new saliba?

I thought Victor did good, 2 attempts hitting the bar and scoring

And well done to arteta for making the subs in a timely fashion

I thought mo had a good game and zui what a goal and performance

Well done boss for making those subs in a timely fashion

Great day all round.

13 Sep 2025 21:16:47
Really like Mosquera. Along with Timber ❤️🤍.

14 Sep 2025 07:58:02
Mornings sy, I can't remember how long it's been since we've had such a strong back 4.

14 Sep 2025 08:10:24
Mosquera was incredible. Couple of critical tackles but so cool in possession, progressive with his passing, and quite nimble feet too for a big man. Stellar signing.

We haven't had a player like Madueke in a long time, a really brilliant combination of aggression and directness. Might be a few more games before he and Gyokeres click, but the potential is there for a big partnership.

14 Sep 2025 08:53:48
Hi Mal -very true. You could even go a step further and say the back 4 and the back up back 4. The depth in defence is truly remarkable.

When Saka, Kai and Jesus are back we start having serious options up front - but like a Swiss Army penknife with different tools for different situations.

The squad is the strongest it’s been for decades - such a shame we didn’t get there a few years earlier but c'est la vie - I will just enjoy what we have in the moment. This really could be the year.

As you say though - the back 4 with options is the strongest I can remember and not out of place in the best GG or AW side. Think in years to come we will appreciate what we had. Just as I remember thinking that when we had TH14. Pires, DB10 and Freddy that this is special so enjoy.

Enjoy your Sunday bud.

14 Sep 2025 09:52:57
Agree totally sy

Didn't jesus play a little in the beginning just left of the forward line. Could he be an option for lw if he stays fit this season?

I don't know there are so many variants this season I'm getting confused lol.