Arsenal banter 2

26 Jan 2026 08:56:36
What is a concern is how City have been adding to their already talented squad this transfer window.

26 Jan 2026 07:39:39
{Ed's Note - Klopps new glasses has posted a new article entitled, Slot's Liverpool Project Unravels Despite Early Promise

26 Jan 2026 04:47:23
Morning campers, it's the captain of the rose tinted brigade here

I always said if mikel and the boys was still in the title race at Christmas I was behind them and we are

Yesterday was a blip nothing else so how about getting behind the club

Onwards and upwards.

26 Jan 2026 06:51:37
Morning (captain) mal, hope all’s well, win, lose or draw… THE ARSENAL until I die. the team needs us fans more than ever now… yesterday’s result was a dropped stitch in our seasons tapestry… re-set re-focus and we go again…. they have my backing no matter what. 🔴⚪️❤️.

26 Jan 2026 06:54:25
Oh come off it skipper

Liverpool - away poor
Villa - away poor
Liverpool - home poor
Forest - away poor
Wolves - home poor
Brighton - home poor

Yes we won a couple of the above but in the last 8 weeks of PL football we have had 45 minutes of excellent football. Villa at home.

Yesterday wasn't a blip Captain Birdseye, as we get in the last 3 months of the season the games get even harder, we will see more of your blips if we perform like yesterday.

By the way you should be behind the team even if they are in a relegation battle. Doesn't mean you can't be critical of them.

Ship ahoy! :)

26 Jan 2026 07:12:52
Most of our dropped points come against top 6 clubs. We have two more games against these opponents and then the rest of the matches are against teams below. League will still be ours if we keep performing well against the mid-table and bottom teams.

But we still need to find a way to beat the big teams if we want to win something from the cups. I keep thinking the period when we beat Bayern. I believe Mikel Merino was playing CF. Should we explore that option again?

25 Jan 2026 22:35:53
Arteta is turning into Southgate I swear going to defensive and not enough attacking this league will pass us by if we don't step. up.

{Ed025's Note - thats the big worry Stephen..

25 Jan 2026 20:53:09
That was hard to watch. From the off the defence looked shaky I thought and it seems to be the norm that we have superior possession and no end result.
Our shots on goal were weak or off target, especially when compared to United's blockbusters.

The nerves are showing and its sad to see 😔.

{Ed025's Note - spot on Sally, its sad really because you could tear teams apart with the talent you have, but its all too safe and negative for me mate..

25 Jan 2026 21:55:48
I'm always mindful it was ManU who put an end to our Invincible's run ed.

25 Jan 2026 19:51:56
Gunner62 - where you at? BBC have now put Silent Witness and Emilia Fox back on the TV to cheer you up and get you back online

Hope you are ok bud.

25 Jan 2026 19:28:47
I got slated last week for being negative

I want to hear what positive spin the rose tinted brigade will put on this . can't see them now.

I always give credit when it's due but there is nowt I can give. yet again.

Arteta just doesn't know how to go for the throat does he?

{Ed025's Note - in a word mate...NO..

25 Jan 2026 19:46:58
Why does that surprise anyone - it’s been the same for 4 seasons but everyone goes on about how better we are and he knows best. He’s bottled but every time and not getting a decent striker nor getting us attacking demonstrates that he still hasn’t learned. Nor has he got a backbench or captain to call this out. Where are our leaders and disrupters that keep improving. Instead we have a dog called harmony or winner or something stupid.

Let’s shake it up boss - sign a bloody striker. Worst 3 strikers on pitch today = our top two targets and Jesus…someone help him out.

25 Jan 2026 20:02:11
Ill come on when we lose aswell as win when i can, we lost, nothing i can say, what donyou wamt me to say you were all right and i was wrong, i don't think saka is world class like most of the people on here his goals and asisst are awful, i don't think out captain is brilliant aswell, ben white is absolutely garbage, i just didn't think we went for it that's all i can say but i'm here win lose or draw, I've said from the start if he doesn’t win anything this year he has to go but i still support my team and manager till the end.

{Ed025's Note - we all support our teams Dublin but there is nothing wrong for saying it like it is mate, there is faith and there is ...blind faith..

25 Jan 2026 21:45:24
What’s your honest opinion Dublin. Stick with that.

Saka is still class but he doesn’t get down that wing as he did before. His first touch is more often to face our goal.

Ode isn’t quite good enough in big tight games and is a poor captain. Still a good player but not a DB10 or Pires or Henry game changer of a player.

Eze has gone backwards and we lack intensity as well as desire to win.

25 Jan 2026 22:09:12
It's not about admitting who was right and who was wrong for me Dublin it's about watching our team for the fourth season running self destructing again. That might be over dramatic for some people considering we are still 4pts clear but we was 8 PTS clear with 10 games to go 4 seasons ago and we blew it. Put that down to the injury to Billy boy and inexperience. The following season to distrasous home loses against West Ham and another home loss against Villa which was put down to Arteta team selection and tactics that day. Last season 18 PTS dropped from winning positions made it a stroll in the park for Liverpool. This season the owners gave us massive massive investment in the summer and the look of our forward options we should be creating mayhem in the oppositions penalty box. I like to mention also 3 seasons back we were scoring goals for fun. What we have got is simply not good enough, just cast your mind back to the very beginning of Wenger's reign when Henry, Dennis, Pires used to take people on and draw defenders into making mistakes and rash challenges.

What we got now is a captain who shouldn't be a captain, can't play a forward pass even if his life depends on it. Saka who doesn't think he has to pass to anybody, Dekkers who is getting more frustrated as the weeks go by and VG who I have a lot of sympathy for because he is getting any service. Only Noni seems to have any idea to beat defenders and create things. Eze looks absolutely lost, couldn't understand why Martinelli didn't get minutes. Its like the latter Wenger says when we use have 90% possession and no shots on goal. Utd won today and they deserved to win, all that pressure in the first half and it was a fluky own goal and straight away we sat back and invited them to score, just like the games against Wolves, Chelsea which tells me we are not learning from our mistakes. I am ranting and probably losing my thread but I am so pissed off with why we keep continually playing like we do with the tactics we do
Take care.

25 Jan 2026 19:04:14
I did put a post on but it's not on show

But the points were its no good being top of this and top of that and so far in this and that cup and being thrilled about

We have won nothing yet and as Henry has said wait and see what you have won, because at the minute we are no better than anyone else.

Villa and City are still in this, I have seen enough recently to say Arteta isn't the man to win us the PL, that is so obvious.

{Ed025's Note - hes a very pragmatic young manager Banbury, its going to be squeaky bum time until the very end of the season i expect mate..

25 Jan 2026 19:23:51
Pragmatic, he is in reverse in certain games.

It's still so obvious we still need a true striker, we don't have one.

I also believe Arteta doesn't know his best starting XI he has an embarrassment or riches but can't use them.

{Ed025's Note - its all about keep ball Banbury, but possession wins you nothing mate, im so disappointed with this team and if you had anything about you then you could be 15 points clear, come on Mikel take the handbrake off FFS..

25 Jan 2026 18:38:56
Obviously disappointed with today’s result. we shot ourselves in the foot. Big time. it’s done now, we need to dust ourselves down, re-group and go again…one game at a time…WE ARE THE ARSENAL. COME ON. the guys need our support more now than ever. ONE TEAM/THE ARSENAL/ONE L❤️VE….

{Ed025's Note - those 3 little words.."death by possession"..

25 Jan 2026 19:10:04
I am so pissed off Ed, we look so fragile mentally. There, s no game changer tactics despite the squad we got. The slow build up and passing sureminds me of Wenger's later days, a lot of passing and nothing else. Apart Spurs and Villa we have not played well in the Prem.

{Ed025's Note - its torture to watch at times Bill, you have a lot of very good players mate but this tactic of pass for passing,s sake does my head in, even when you were one down in injury time the keeper and defenders were playing little triangles in your own penalty area, i have always said i wanted Arsenal to win the title again but this anti-football you are playing is putting me right off i must say..

25 Jan 2026 19:12:09
Hello Gabi mate, hope everything is good.
To put it bluntly things need to change and change quickly or this is going to end in tears again
Take care.

25 Jan 2026 19:29:46
Bill you are spot on with everything mate.

25 Jan 2026 18:31:22
Not only we have thrown away our advantage, the way we get our goals isn’t filling in confidence for the run in. We are showing the pressure again and again not showing any urgency, passing sideways and back even in 88th minute when we need to score a goal. Well….!

25 Jan 2026 18:47:16
Not sure why Martinelli didn't start, get them on the back foot from the off.

25 Jan 2026 18:47:40
BOTTLE mate - we play with a fear of losing rather than a desire to win. Our striker signings don’t scream “we want to score” yet our defensive signings scream “ it will be difficult to get past us”

Look how boring Eze now looks under Arteta

Bottle - same issue for last 4 or whatever seasons.

25 Jan 2026 18:53:14
I couldn't agree with you more Highbury.
It seems to me we play with the brakes on all the time, slow build up which is suited for CL. Even when we were behind there wasn't no one to take the opposition on and create something. Some people won't like this but apart from the Spurs/Villa home games we have not played well in the Prem. We have assembled a great squad but but it seems hamstrung by tactics.

I would like to try 442 to see if that suits the squad better. Pressure is getting to us. I know teams are hard to break down but we got a lucky goal then sat back. We looked very fragile tactically and mentally. Once again like after Liverpool and Forest games I am really pissed off with a performance which doesn't reflect the quality we have in the squad.

25 Jan 2026 18:58:05
Evening Highbury hope alls well. I wish we would take shots from edge of opposition penalty area. there’s been countless opportunities for us to do so throughout this season, we just seem to always look for an extra pass. other teams do it and profit from it. We just don’t seem to do it as much as other teams. it’s a little frustrating to be honest.

25 Jan 2026 19:25:16
All well mate, a little disappointed with the result today.
Yes, we need to show aggression, pin the opposition back and score goals. Today, Dorgu and Cunha took a chance and it paid off with spectacular goals.

At least when we need a goal we must move the ball quicker and have shots on target. We didn’t have any in the second half except for Merino’s lucky goal.

25 Jan 2026 17:11:24
Why on earth you play a pass back when Timber is open in front of you to pass to!

25 Jan 2026 17:23:33
We faff about far too much, we need to have so many touches and over complicate things.