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30 Aug, 9 tweets, 2 min read

https://twitter.com/TheAdebisi8/status/1432425651294846977

Arsenal are actually in their brightest spot in 6 years but the media narrative driven by momentary issues makes fans feel like this.

You don't get it? The media are not your friends. They would sooner see the rebuild fail so they can get clicks. They are not on your friends.

https://twitter.com/TheAdebisi8/status/1432425651294846977

See the media as profiteers. Opportunists. Vultures waiting for any hint of a dark cloud, even if it is summer.

That is what they are. The narrative is established by popular sentiment. Stop listening to them. This is our best period for years. We are finally back on track.

We are owned by a family from one of the most stable geopolitical backgrounds, part of a long-term portfolio intended to go down for generations. They can now spend money, finally, after pushing the current ownership of Everton out in 2018. We have invested in the academy.

We are producing some of the best talents in the game. Arsenal DNA runs throughout the whole club, from Mertersacker to Edu to Arteta. We have now established a unified playing vision and model for the entire club. We just started signing young, experienced and good players.

Our youth are leading the rebuild. Everyone at the club is convinced and confident that the future is bright. We are finally moving out all the mistakes of the past holding us back. Restructured the recruitment department. Restructured every old part of the club.

What is not to like about this. Even if you believe that the football is terminal under the current coach, what is not to like about our situation?

The future is extremely bright no matter what from here.

But here you are feeling hopeless and angry over 3 games and AMN news.

The crazy thing about negativity is that it requires reinforcement to thrive. You need me to agree with you that we are in deep shit so you can justify your borrowed feelings.

Yet I am the one that is deluded. If I am, why do you insistently shout it at me? Why?

In any case, I will not engage terminally negative fans from here on. There is enough of that to go around. Good luck with arguing over why Arteta didn't let Gunnersaurus play rightback.

This is the most hopeful I have been since my 16 years of supporting this beautiful club.

https://twitter.com/EduardoHagn/status/1432424666640142336?s=19

Look at this. 3 games into the season. With 4 major players out. Is this what you want to be consuming every hour? How is this even personally good for your health?

https://twitter.com/EduardoHagn/status/1432424666640142336?s=19

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15 Sep

People often ask me why I am so willing to defend Arteta like he's the second coming of Christ.

Today, I will answer this.

This is why I believe Mikel Arteta is the best appointment Arsenal have made since we hired Arsene Wenger from Japan over 20 years.

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Just look at some of the signings we've made at his behest:

—Gabriel
—Partey
—Tomiyasu
—Lokonga
—Odegaard

I have no words to describe how transformative these signings are. No words or I'm going to be writing poetry. This is extremely good talent ID, especially with the state

of the club when Arteta arrived. We LACKED technical ability. We couldn't keep the ball in any phase of the game. Up front, we had Pepe and Aubameyang. At the back we had Sokratis and Holding.

This is why Emery resorted to a 3-4-2-1 knock it down football. It was TERRIBLE.

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@nonewthing

14 Sep

Any Arsenal fan who watched the Bayern v Barca game can immediately tell that Arteta is a far superior coach to the likes of Ronald Koeman.

Structurally, our shapes are so much better than the rubbish Barca had tonight. We are so incredibly lucky to have Arteta, you will see.

I was not really impressed with Nagelsmann's structures tonight. His Leipzig were far more interesting. But it's early days, yet.

People don't see how incredible Arteta as a rookie coach is but they will. He's actually amazing if you know what to look for in a top coach.

Whenever I remember that it is Arteta in charge, I actually smile. It's like having a young Tuchel manage your club. His is more difficult due to the league strength and cultural issues at Arsenal but he is so good all the same.

Only a matter of time, lol. Next star manager.

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@nonewthing

12 Sep

Tacticos often mistake a coach adapting to the profiles he's got as some baffling tactical choice or philosophy pivot. This happens with analysts, too.

'Pressing is a means of chance creation. Why are Arsenal not pressing more? At least Klopp did it in Liverpool's first year.'

Team rebuilds are different from club to club. Arsenal were notorious for being defensively inept when Arteta came, conceding an unholy amount of shots every game.

You think that is the kind of atmosphere to instill a gung-ho approach? Especially with a coach who wants control?

You have to make choices with respect to your situation. Arsenal needed a steady ship at the back. That is what Arteta instilled immediately—top coach. The profiles of defenders in the squad were not conducive to pressing high anyways: Sokratis and Mustafi.

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@nonewthing

12 Sep

People who use results without context to judge teams have the worst ball knowledge around.

Was Pirlo bad or was it Juventus that were bad?

Juventus are a little like Arsenal before this transfer window: lacking in the necessary elite technical quality to meet their ambitions.

The way out for Juventus is to admit the state of their squad. This means that the manager get ALL THE excuses in this world until the team is infused with sufficient quality. Just like with Ole, Klopp and Arteta.

The best way to successfully compete is to play with sustained

pressure. Find a coach who can do that and give him the keys. Depending on the characteristics of the coach you may or may not let him dictate signings. Ole and Arteta are exceptional in this regard as both are amazing at identifying talent.

Lock in for the scrappy results and

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@nonewthing

11 Sep

Football is amazingly nuanced. In the mishmash of the game and with macro factors above macro factors, recorded events are not necessarily the best version of the truth.

Saying X Player did X number of this does not equal to a useful take. It only shows a basic take on the game.

A lot of our attack against Norwich was ran through Pepe. Anyone who has watched Liverpool or City or even Chelsea know that it is a different game if Mahrez, Salah, Hudson-Odoi see as much of the ball as Pepe did against Norwich.

He created a decent amount but that statistic is

not proportional with the amount of the ball, chances and situations that we had with him. A top forward produces more with so much. Even if you argue that what he created was proportionately sufficient for you (which I strongly disagree with seeing as he was indecisive), you

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@nonewthing

11 Sep

Don't get it wrong. Today's start at RW was another massive opportunity that Arteta handed to Pepe to prove himself as part of our future going forward—and he absolutely ruined it.

Another infuriatingly wasteful performance from the most expensive player in our history.

Do not be surprised when he gets dropped for our next games. And do not accept the stunning mediocrity that Pepe, a 72 million euro acquisition, has to offer. Half of his touches result in an offensive transition for our opponents. This is anathema to the way we want to play.

We want to play and win games by sustaining pressure on the opposition, by locking them in their own halves: that is how we ought to play; that is how top teams play and that is how we can get back to the top and Pepe absolutely ruins that for us. Unbearable.

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