Thierry Henry, Jamie Carragher & Gary Neville discuss Arsenal’s failure to win the Premier League
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Speaking on Monday Night Football in 2015, Thierry Henry, Jamie Carragher & Gary Neville share their thoughts as to why Arsenal have failed to win the league since the Invicibles in 2004.
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You guys are relentless, letting everyone have it equally. Class channel
Applauding Sky interns. I applaud you
You're welcome mate.
Gary was speaking from experience. Teams knew they could physically bully Arsenal in the centre of the pitch and if you successfully did it during the game, Arsenal would be there for the taking. Arsene Wenger truly believed that if he had enough ball players, his team could out-pass their opponents. That's the belief Henry mentioned. And even when results showed the players he trusted to do that either wasn't good enough or couldn't do it for whatever reason, he still persisted. That is the arrogance that Gary was talking about.
As opposed to unsuccessfully doing it?
Well said. That's exactly what it was. Soft players in the middle of the pitch were bullied. It's all nice when it does work out and passing is flawless but once it doesn't other teams could smell the blood. I believe we are still paying for Wenger's arrogance. Losing players every year and blaming the stadium was just a way to justify not spending any money. Partey looks soft not to mention the rest of our midfielders. We need a strong physical presence in the middle of the park.
@@Dave-nq6uy The team is made of young players, they need some experienced ones to lead them
In the Emirates era we have failed to address obvious weaknesses in the team. Not having physical midfielders was a major one.
I agree. All scrawny with no real fighting spirit.
@@Revelian1982 11:07 11:07
Yes, the second half of Wenger(post 07) was full of technical players with no physicality. And this is what the current Arsenal team built by Arteta scares me.The current team is also full of technical players but the team is not strong enough physically. We have seen this team being outmuscled by opponents on several occasions this season.
I hope Arteta addresses this situation in the 23/24 transfer window. If we want to challenge City and win the title, we need to add physical monsters(with good technique) in this team.
This year was amazing! When I was at the Ethiad a few weeks ago watching Foden nearly begging to come in at minute 85 and a bench worth £500m I understood what a great season we had.
I noticed something from the Emirates on Sunday !!
It was the awful look of the faded red seats in the stands !!
That ground looks 50 years older than it actually is !!
The amount of money they spend per year in wages and can't replace faded seats that make the stadium look terrible !!
The seats in Highbury didn't look half as bad as that when it was demolished !!
It costs a couple of pounds per seat in a football stadium the size of Emirates.
60,000 x £10 per seat including fitting would cost £600,000 ?????
That's less than a months wage to Gabriel Jesús.
Do you honestly think Man City's owners would allow plastic seating to fade that way and leave it looking old and tatty ?
And City do not even actually own the stadium, it's on 250 lease !!
Arsenal didn't move into Emirates until 2006, Man City moved into Etihad in 2003 and their Stadium was used for the 2002 commonwealth games the year before.
That Stadium is a representation of the club to the world. The photos, tours, television coverage etc all have the world's eyes on that structure to display the club to the whole world.
And the seats are faded all different drained shades of red?
A club of Arsenals size should easily be able to afford to replace the entire 60,000+ seats every single summer to keep that stadium looking at its best !!
Minor details make massive difference !!
City don't only develop the squad, the backroom staff, the academy, the training ground, the stadium, the sponsors etc !!
They spend fortunes every year identifying ANY areas within the clubs infrastructure and global marketing and research everything the best clubs in the world are doing to improve, strategize their plan and immediately take action to better the competition in every single area from restaurants, to match day programmes, to safe standing, to club tv, to interviews, to facilities, to stewarding, to hospitality, to dressing rooms, training grounds, coaches, playing staff through every age group, education for youth players, female sides, ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING !!
It's that attention to detail that is bringing the club success, they do not stand still or rest on their laurels, they want to grow, to sustain success, to be the best in all areas not just on the field but throughout the whole club !!
Maybe 10-12 years ago when City were initially sold to Thaksin Shinawatra and then the Abu Dhabi United Group, players wanted to come for financial reasons solely but not anymore, they want to come now because we offer the best there is to offer in every single department and if there's better anywhere, we address it and up our standards to surpass them time and time again.
Henry is being very careful with his words 😂😂
As much as I hate Gary Neville and love AW, Gary is very much right here. Building stadium and not having funds to buy star players(the 40-50m kinds during that time) is one thing, but buying wrong profiles again and again, not addressing weak areas is different thing.
We were crying for a top GK during 07-10 era, a DMF during 11-14, a prolific striker(partner or replacement of Giroud) during 14-17 but none of these positions were addressed.
If that squad with Sanchez, Cazorla and Ozil had a prolific striker, Arsenal would have become champions at least once.
Wenger always says that he was not given money but during his later years, he was given money and he used to waste it on average players like Mustafi, Lucas Perez, Chambers, Asano, Park Chu Young, Welbeck. I can never understand these signings.
But the money he spent on those pack won't get a big and prolific striker? Why not strengthen other positions and keep pushing? Idk, just saying 🤣
Arsenal had some terrible scouts didn't they tbf mustafi was a decent plyer before the injuries
Mustafi and Perez was after Leicester won the league and Wenger ceded control to Statdna. Welback was a good signing as a backup to Sanchez, Walcott and Giroud, there aren' t many top class striker available and they were too expensive. Park was bought when Arsenal had no money.
It was a huge missed opportunity for Arsenal during this period. Imagine if Arsenal signed Fernandinho during this period and then Kante 5 years later. I reckon Arsenal could have won the league 2 times in that time frame.
Henry avoiding the question
Yeah it feels like he doesnt want to disrespect the Arsenal players. Its always like that when you ask a former player in the team.
@@ballaboom1387
He doesn't wanna disrespect the fans not the players because he'd be disgusted if he was in that Arsenal side and they thrown away that lead
Thierry is extremely classy and graceful as a personality.
Jamie and Henry have come a long way
there is no way Henry thinks Coquelin was enough to win the league! we suffered a lot since Song left until we got Partey, that period in between we cried for a defensive center mid!
You don't need 11 world class players to win the title. Coquelin was (and still is) a solid DM that can play a role in a winning side
The issue was not with one player, but with their defensive identity as a whole
In that regard Neville was absolutely right, because Wenger had an arrogant style of play -- he refused to be pragmatic
@@randombutspecific biggest man in that team was Giroud! they used to be bullied hard! Coquelin, Ramsay and Cazorla cannot be left alone in midfield! we needed a physical player! also Cazorla wasn't a pure number 8 he was more like a 10 but was playing there! it was a total mess, although that team were 3 players away from being complete! a Good defender to replace Chambers a CDM like Partey and a good winger/striker!
@@randombutspecific back then maybe, but now you need at least 4 - 6 world class players and the rest have to be very good! 90 points doesn't win you the league nowadays! look at the current City squad, and tell me who isn't world class in their team?! they have at least 10 world class players if not 15
good point from Neville, if you didn't know him well you would think he was a decent manager lol
There’s no excuses
As an Arsenal fan, can't help but agree wholesale with Gary. Had same thought throughout those days ...
I love how they did a clickbait without doing a clickbait…. Be honest you clicked here thinking they were talking about this year
We had to sell Adebayor, who out of all the players who left, didn’t even want to leave
2:18 tbf that entire list were ballers
None of those players bar cesc would get in this years arsenal team let alone the 03’ team
@@joshuan2023 please stop. Nasri, Hleb, Sagna, Ramsey/Rosicky/Walcott when fit were all top players. Hardly a poor player on that list, but the list is lacking in physical players as Gary said. Players like Song, Diaby etc maybe we’re supposed to be the next Vieira/Petit but they didn’t.
Gary making valid points that Arsenal fans don't like to agree with because they can't question Wenger. There are so many good players he spotted who ended up going elsewhere while we ended up signing below average players. Yes, they say there was no money because of the stadium, but let's not forget that players weren't that expensive back then. Also, signing players and converting them to play in different positions.
The problem with letting other teams improve while you're not improving is that it becomes very difficult to catch up. Just see how Manchester City have invested their way into being miles ahead of everyone else in the Premier League. Catching up and going past them will be very difficult.
Bro the Players yes not that expensive back then, but the income that all club got back then not as much today, it similar to Labor wages always equal to the price of goods needed.
Players wherent as expensive, but teams also didnt make as much money as they do now.
@@fillah4910 was it only affecting Arsenal?
@@annexismuriu the problem with Arsenal is not only money, but Arsene Wenger failed to find strong character player, like today Casemiro, camavinga, Kante to break opponent play, he always finding type player like Fabregas, Rosicky, Arteta, they need someone like Yaya Toure, Vincent company, and Arsene Wenger failed to find it.
I stopped watching Arsenal for 6 odd years because of the type of players they were buying. We were a team of midgets.
As a Liverpool fan, Arsenal should look at where they were, and the progress they made in a season. Arteta done a great job, got a good blend of youth, experience and EPL experience. Arsenal and us can't compete financially. To stay in with a league chance, that long, is commendable. As for Henry, great on the pitch. ....end of.
arsenal definitely can compete financially. 4th richest owner in the Premier League. we just dont wanna overspend in a crazy market like Chelsea do nowadays e.g. we will upgrade and we will compete again imo
Were the 5th in the world in net spending for the past 10 years
It all boils down to finance. Pretty much all of those players on the list were value for money. Massively so actually. Top four was a major achievement year on year helping to pay the stadium debt off when Arsenal had zero right to be top four given the lack of money spent.
cannot agree more with Gary
I am 40 years gunners and still not see a persistent identity of arsenal football, after invincible
At least gary has been consistent with saying that he would want us to win the league if united dont.
Only because the alternative is Man City or Liverpool you loon 😂😂😂😂
Not because he actually wants Arsenal to win it !!
He wants United to win it and if not then anyone other than Man City or Liverpool 😂😂😂😂😂
@@WangPaste That doesn't disprove his point.
@@TomCruz54321
True. I wasn't trying to disprove what he was saying though tbh mate.
@@WangPaste yes you was stop fibbin
Good analysis and some excellent comments
Arsenal signed Diaby. Has Neville forgotten? He was identified as the new midfield general. Unfortunately was injured too often. Wenger was one of the first managers in EPL to signed 2-footed technical players liek Hleb, Rosicky, Cazorla & Arshavin. Arsenal just couldn't compete with Man Utd & Chelsea's spending power. Wenger also revolutionised thr culture of football in England with diets & training & limiting alcohol. Other clubs caught up.
Neville is 100% spot on
Sky sports retro being as brutal as they possibly can
Nice retro!
So crazy Carra is seeing Liverpool go through the exact same thing now
i agree with Gary here . Partey and Xhaka somehow managed to keep the physical prowness in midfield , not as good as Viera nad Petit but now their defence is also lacking "beasts " like Sol Campbell, Tony Adams
Saliba got injured and we started dropping off... Both Gabriel and Saliba are beasts........
Gabriel's decent he's not a beast
@@abdulraheem468 I don't know what you're watching...
He's decent not no beast
What I've seem is arsenal throw away the title
Henry using every muscle in his body to stop himself from slapping Gary Neville @9:56 . He really thinking about it
I wouldn't have enough muscles in my body to stop myself slapping Gary Neville.
Let's be honest here, anyone who began to slap Gary Neville would have real trouble stopping slapping him.
He sort of needs a real good lengthy slapping in my opinion
Thierry is extremely classy and graceful as a personality, a gentleman. He'd never actually debase himself to do such a thing.
This is the best youtube channel on the platform.
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When Gary Neville talk sense, he speaks with intelligence.
Gary Neville is good at talking. That's about it.
Neville was spot on about Arsenal and Wenger all those years ago
I think Partey was the first decent defensive midfielder we signed since Viera.
Xhaka was in the wrong position. Coquelin and Elneny are the only other ones that come to mind.
Neville should have been sent off more times than he did.
It's a favouritism and biased league.
Fergies kilt has been lifted and many refs sniffed fergies cheesy scotch sweat balls many a times.
@@amajeet ???
@@MrVish6666 whats hard to understand? the "saying"?
@@TheOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Song?
great timing
Instead of showing how man city turned it around, its all about Arsenal. We are really massive
RIP Reyes 😢
The key part was Vierra leaving and Wenger bought in a lot of soft players. when Vierra was there, no team want to mess with his teammates on and off the field . Several years after he left, other teams started to bully Arsenal players including multiple career-ending tackles during that period. He together with Roy Keane were true leaders and bosses. But unlike Wenger, Fergie knew this and brought in players with tough character to balance the team (Vidic, Rooney, Evra, etc)
TT is always calm is an analytical mind
if garry waited just a year , he wouldn't be saying that , after seeing Mahrez lifting the trophy with Vardy and kante , ranieri should write a book with the title : how to win the prem with just three good players
gary is an after timer, they are useless for so called pro pundits, thinking arsenal was gonna win the league this yes, embarrassing.
kante in midfield is the engine and physicality leicester had and also it was a freak season with every other club failing
Had more than just 3 good players mate.
@@moulinyan gary said city will win what are you talking about
@@laughingatyou2232 im talking about the fact he said arsenal will win it.
Wneger didint want to much stars in team ever , and i respect him alot , one of the best manager with ferguson , mourinho 9:37
henry say it the best
Man that ex Valencia manager is such a football visionary, frightening, really is, Pep beware.
God neville must rattle you to make a comment like this bless you. Sure neville is devastated by his valencia career, all that money he got, he must be so sad😂😂😂
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When Viera was sold Arsenal lost the winning spirit, they have never got it back since.
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the midfield was not problem , look at chambers in the deffence . look at Ramsey in wide areas . ...
I liked this video just because Neville mentioned Blackburn.
i agree with Gary here.
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Gary’s absolutely 110% right and I’m an Arsenal fan.
We just don't have any attachments to the stadium we have now
They will debate about this again in next 10 years "why Arsenal couldn't win the league?"
And there is always the same answer this Pep team is second to none ever team in the league fighting for the Premier league
@@jorgefernandez8728 Was Pep here for the past 20 years?
No shame for a young Arsenal team coming second to such a dominant force - it’s like coming second to Lance Armstrong in the Tour De France
Nobody knows what the future holds they might flop next year
Yeah whilst he's on PEDs
They had an 8 point lead a couple weeks ago. Now they're going to finish at least 7 points behind. Dropping 15 points in 3 weeks is embarrassing for a "big club".
@@russellward4624 just shows there is work to be done. No shame in admitting that and the Manager did. If they get their acts right, they will still compete strongly next season
@@shakibishfaq8627 exactly
#ANDY COLE👑🙌🛐
Not to mention injuries Arsenal post 08 important players were getting injured again and again
is this a old video ??? 🤔
Arsenal thought going all the way out to get Cristiano was insane but guess what if only they had secured cr7's signature, part of there problems would have been sorted out but ignorance made the pipo at not to see what Cristiano would have offered to them than what comes with having him in the team.
It was a lack of money, lack of recruitment strategy because they spent so much on that stadium.
Yep and then wenger was washed as tactics moved on
Arsène tried to play like barcelona, but Arsenal couldnt afford inesta, xavi, messi type of players all at once. They should have had one powerfull MC and sticked to their former winning formula.
This was recorded 8 yrs ago
I agree with Neville and Carrager arsene wenger has taken arsenal backwards after the invincible team
Sky retro strikes again
Can’t believe how much carragher has aged
Even Neville a bit. Hard work! But they seem happy
Carragher looks about 60 now it's unreal, Neville still looks about his age
Out of the blue Carragher looks 10 years younger
Old vid
We still don't have enough strength, look at city they have strong and huge players
Come on, Titi. As an Arsenal supporter for 2.5 decades, even I wouldn’t vouch for Coquelin being part of a league winning side. He was just about all right, definitely nowhere near the profile of a Vieira, Gilberto, or even a Partey or Song.
We’re defensively weak, I don’t think Gabriel’s composed enough to lead from the back. Would a strong technical DM help? Certainly. But it’s more about getting a good and experienced replacement for Holding at the back. Gabriel needs competition and Kiwior’s young.
Thierry Henry - i think its the stadium, we had to pay for it and sadly has to sell our best players.
Gary Neville literally 2 mins later - Look at the quality of signings since 2004, they have dipped over the years and I honestly dont know why.
You misunderstand. Gary wasn’t talking about their quality. He was talking about their physicality. All/most of those are under 6’0 and physically weak
@@kc43 physicality is a quality in itself.
You needed power in midfield to win the PL ...until Guardiola showed up
2:17 when you look at the fees they paid for players, they should never have been up there in the first place
'Arsenal's failure to win the league' interesting way of putting it
Arsenal was flying till Saliba and Tommy both got injured and would have won this season still even if only one of them got injured!
thierry knows its not good enough. hes just trying to be nice and PC about it...after all he still has a close relationship with arsenal football club, and that includes everyone from the board down to the players. he doesnt want to visit the club one day and have players remember him slating them on international television.
most of it comes down to the owners, they dont spend enough to allow them to compete at top level, they needed players in january and got just 1 in a title race, nough said
premier league hardest out there money counts but responsibility goes top 2 bottom everyone has part 2 play not just 1 person imo
lets not forget city took loads of our players during this period and we just learned that they were breaking ffp rule during this time.
EXCUSES EXCUSES FROM THE BOY HENRY 😂
Is this an old session?
Yep. I believe 15/16
For serious stuff, they brought in Gary
For funny stuff, they brought in Micah :P
for the past ten year Arsenal spend more money than Liverpool and for some reason liverpool won everything under Klopp and Arsenal have been switching plenty of manager every few season.. that's the failure comes from..
i believe arteta is second manager after wenger.
@@Karg537 nah he’s overrated to me, how you gonna drop out from Europa League and then Draw at west Ham and Anfield and then you draw at your own stadium against southhampton
@@Karg537 Emery, then Ljungberg for a bit, then Arteta. (though I don't think Ljungberg got to spend any money)
@@jianwen414 You said we have been switching manager when have only had 2 since wenger, arteta being here for 4 of the 5 years wenger has left
I don't know what Thierry is talking about having Coquelin and Cazorla being 'good enough'. Wenger got seduced by Barcelona and their small sized, nimble, skilled players, but they had big soldier like personalities to support the skilled players, win the ball back, and put some muscle into defending. Wenger filled up the team with small sized players and forgot to add the muscle.
Henry veira dennis gilberto n pires different class
Man City decimated Arsenal's squad and they never recovered. Then you lose Fabregas, RvP, Song, Hleb, Rosicky with injuries, Almunia was awful, don't even mention Sanogo 🤦🏾♂️, and the team never recovered. Moving from Highbury killed Arsenal along with the new owners the other teams had
Neville’s voice has changed in 8 years and Carragher has aged by about 15 years
neville dyes his hair
Gary's a stalwart at Sky Sports, I'll have you know.
If it’s about the goal post to fit narrative, how about net spend since 1960s? 🙄 As much as money is a big factor to success, the recipe is spending wisely which Chelsea, Arsenal, and Man United have all failed to do! Before you start any project, a club should invest in a world class manager that they actually trust and will stand with him when results are not going their way! Chelsea has been good at investing in good manager/world class but they lack patience that’s why they’ve never had a period of sustained dominance like we’ve seen with Man United or Man City currently. If only they could’ve kept Tuchel 🤔 we’ll never know 🤷♂️
Garry Neville absolutely spot on this Arsenal team Thierry Henry claiming they can win the League is not True
Neville says Wenger was arrogant 🙄 does this guy think before he utters words from his mouth 🤔. I doubt it
Gary Neville is right on this one… wenger was outdated and stubborn, I pray Arteta indentify the physicality problem in Arsenal this transfer window
I remember how Arsenal fans just 4 months ago were bragging about how 'they'd win the league & that they're untouchable'😀 Seeing their side slowly but surely crumble over the past few weeks was so sweet😄 2 decades without a league is brutal.
Cesc changed it BUT at the same time the football changed
Wenger struck gold by being the first one to really give foreign talent and especially Black players a chance. They turned out to be more intelligent (Bergkamp), skillfull (Pires), faster (Henry) and stronger (Vieira) than their White British counterparts, often by an embarassingly wide margin. Then everyone started doing it, and the gig was up.
Purest black 😂
It's British so always overrated even non English white players are better the most of them
Being White or Black has noting to do whit it.
It all comes from the upbringing, black players are good at football because they are ofthen from poor places and have the drive to be the best and help their familly.
Afcorse if you come from a competitive familly or a very good footbal nation.
And not to mention the teams you played at as a young boy, who might or might not be good at bringing talent up.
So how did keane dominate viera when united beat arsenal 6-1? 😂
Bergkamp and pires are both white aswell😂😂
Henry was also average compared to his white counterparts messi and ronaldo
Garry might be on to something here🤔, you cannot set a standard like the season of 03/04 and not keep up. This is enough we must correct this....
In Singapore we call this tyre pong chek
Arsenal is a banter club
I think over the last ten years arsenal haven't won the league 😂 Gary killing me
We need to add DM, CM, CB and CF to our squad. We need quality not quantity. We need to sign Declan Rice, Caicedo, Tielemans, Vlahovic, Gundogan, Cancelo etc that has quality and mentality. Is Arsenal the big team ? Or become medioker team ? Come on, wake up, we need more quality and mentality in our squad.
But y is Gary talk about arsenal as if he knows it more than Henry
This looks like an old video.
Why are sky releasing this again now?? Talk about rubbing salt...
Wenger thinking he could win with that team was arrogance and naive... That team was outperforemed by Leicester and Spurs!
"You don't win the league with those types of players." Has Neville not been watching man city for the last 10 years?
City won leagues with David Silva, Vincent Kompany, Yaya Touré, Sergio Agüero, Carlos Tevez, Kevin De Bruyne, Ilkay Gündogân not Zinchenko and Jesus
@@WangPaste think that arsenal team in 2016 cazorla, giroud, ozil, Sanchez was better than today's 2023 arsenal they took 3 points of man city and Liverpool the problem is they just had less time to grow together as a team and key players were sold after 1 season and they even won fa cup. I think Wenger was close to create title winning team again he just was unlucky and also out of time when he left! Now arsenal is performing better with less quality players! I disagree with Garry Neville about the 2016 team!
@@hzskillz1721
You made a fair point but if you also want my honest opinion, City weren't anywhere near their best until the New Year and was already quite a way behind at that point, Liverpool have been completely hit and miss all season and have been nowhere near their best, Chelsea have been a shambles but will be much better next season under Pochettino, I expect Newcastle and Tottenham to improve, Man United will be better after another transfer window under Ten Hag and I know that Man City will also be better from the off now Haaland has settled in properly and knows how to play his role in the team.
Arsenal have had a brilliant season but given the position they were in, they really should have won the league and I can't accept any excuses of inexperience, young squad or anything else I'm afraid !!
Leicester were inexperienced when they won the league, nobody in their squad, nor their management team had won the Premier League before but they kept at it until the end grinding out results and they'd not spent anywhere near what Arsenal have spent.
Mikel Arteta has been Guardiolas assistant manager and played a part in winning the Premier League with City, Gabriel Jesús and Zinchenko have also been Premier League winners with City on more than one occasion !!
In fact, both won it only last year !!
Mikel Arteta, Gabriel Jesús and Oleksandr Zinchenko ALL know what it takes to win the league and they ALL know how Pep Guardiola sets his team out, what he expects from each individual and how City approach games towards the end of the season.
Here's Arsenals mistakes as I see it :
1) Arteta, the Chairman and Board of Arsenal ALL knew that they were in a great position at the beginning of January and had the duration of the World Cup in December to identify realistic targets that would strengthen the depth of their squad in the January transfer window but they failed to sign anyone that would help to see them over the line and also had the opportunity of signing Mykhalo Mudryk prior to Chelsea signing him and wouldn't pay the money !!
2) Arsenal gave us (Man City) far too much respect home and away and we're noticably frightened of taking us on and having an all out battle (To be Champions of the Premier League you cannot fear the reigning Champions of the previous year and fall apart when you play them)
3) When Arteta signed Jesús and Zinchenko from Man City last summer, he surely must have been aware of Roméo Lavia who City sold to Southampton for £10.5m and he would have provided some much needed strength and power into Arsenals squad (Absolutely gobsmacked that Arsenal didn't come in for Lavia as Arteta would certainly have known about him)
4) Arsenal seemingly self exited from the cup competitions in order to give themselves the best possible chance of being Premier League Champions (That is not the mentality of winners, that's the mentality of chancers)
5) Arsenal clearly needed some grit in their side, some presence, some experience and some hard working physically strong players in my opinion (Why weren't Arsenal in for Casemiro? Why weren't they in for Lavia last summer? Why did they fail to sign Mudryk when it was almost nailed on? Why weren't they in for Sterling? Sadio Mané or Cancelo?
Had Arsenal signed Casemiro, Mudryk, Lavia and Mané and had the experience of Casemiro, the skill of Mudryk, the physical presence and energetic youth of Lavia and the experience, goal threat and work rate of Mané then I believe that Arsenal would have won the league this year !!
Those players I mentioned we're all available, 2 of them last summer and the other 2 in January !!
Lavia cost £10.5m, Casemiro £60m with a further £10m in potential add ons and Mané was sold for £35m.
Admittedly, Mudryk at £100m may have been a little too expensive but the other 3 for a combined total of £105m would have been great business as Lavia is only 19 years old and could be worth that himself in a couple of years, Mané has won the Premier League and Champions League with Liverpool and Casemiros composure and experience would also have been priceless in the title run in.
If you're an Arsenal fan, you shouldn't be accepting this as a 'great season, a massive improvement or a good go at it', that's just a lame and weak, sugar coating of reality in my eyes !!
Arsenal SHOULD have won the league, they were in a fantastic position on January 1st and are a big enough club to have afforded to bring in a few physical and experienced players in January that would have added something to get Arsenal over the line !!
I wouldn't say the Arsenal players 'bottled it' or 'capitulated', they done the best they could with the players available to them but the manager and the fans should have been screaming for reinforcements and additions in January that would have made the difference and possibly crowned them as Champions !!
I can't see Arsenal getting another chance like this in the coming seasons to be honest !!
@@WangPaste Your absolutely spot on, Arsenal fans should stop praising this team for finishing 2nd, it was an absolutely horrible bottle, being 8 points clear with 9 games left and all arsenal had to do is beat Liverpool, Westham and Southampton and arguably they would win the league, but they crumbled under pressure. How can you praise a team that crumbles when it matters most, I am an Arsenal fan since a while and I know Arsenal either start the premier league strong and then finish it poorly or they start the premier League poorly and never recover either finishing in top 5 or top 8, I believe next season will see Arsenal back to number 5. You can't be praising this team for crumbling when it matters most certainly fans are out of their minds not realising the massive opportunity blown by Arsenal to win the league, they literally handed city the league in a span of 4 games, knowing that even 3 results out of 4 would have won them the league, they failed to capitalise on 2 nil leads in 2 games and for me that's just a massive bottle!
@@hzskillz1721
Once again I'll reiterate, I do not believe that the Arsenal players 'bottled it'. I believe that the board and owners at Arsenal failed to strengthen the squad in January when they were in a great position and left the manager with a brilliant first 11 players but limited depth within the squad to see the job through !!
In the first 2/3rds of the season, Arsenal overachieved in terms of results and negotiated themselves into an unbelievable position, a position that nobody expected, so the manager and players were doing all they could to achieve success with what they had between them.
Every manager always has a list of targets for their specific clubs to pursue in transfer windows and Arsenal are no different.
Arteta would have presented the board with a list of targets to strengthen the squad in January probably a month or two previously and given the position that he'd negotiated the club into, the board should have backed him financially and moved heaven and earth to provide Arteta with the reinforcements that he needed to see it through to the end.
They didn't.
Now the players and Arteta are being blamed and called 'bottlers' when they've been absolutely outstanding for the majority of the season.
Blame the manager and players if you want by all means !! I don't care either way..... But after the World Cup and being in the position that Arsenal were in at the beginning of January, the board could have done a lot more to provide their manager with additions to the squad that may have helped him get them over the line !!
The diffence is between Arsenal and City.
City have EVERYTHING.
Pace at the back with Walker
Leadership at the back with Dias
Calmness and composure of Ederson
Physicality and presence of Rodri and Stones in CDM positions
Footballing intelligence and experience from De Bruyne and Gündogân
Skill, speed, carrying the ball and holding up play from the wingers Grealish and Bernardo
Clinical finishing, presence, movement and desire of Haaland up front
Then Mahrez, Foden, Alvárez, Aké, Laporte, Phillips, Palmer and Rico Lewis sat on the bench !!
Unfortunately for Arsenal and the others, City are only gonna get better from here !!
T. Henry was not completely truthful and you could hear that from his choice of words, trying to defend the club.
But Neville was too serious 😂he took it personal.
Gary: why dont you just go and buy the best players to win. easy! that narrative is just so basic... Just because united could do it for a long period doesnt mean other clubs can.
Neville doesnt understand anything about what he is saying, he says he understands arsenal didnt have money but he doesnt get why they didnt buy better players.....because they could not compete for the better players coz of the money thing....
We have made a massive improvement. But to be on the next level. We need at least 5 players. Inshallah
if you look at how liverpool attack, we are still a few more seasons away to match their fluidity
Arsenal have funds; Arsenal choose to funnel funds to the stadium more then the squad; that is on the chairman fault....