Ofcourse my friends in Spurs do not have the effrontery to talk to me since Sunday, when my Arsenal punished them. It's not just that they were beaten, but it is that they played a kind of low level football that some league 1 teams will not play. So they have a huge problem to solve, it's their cup of tea.
Turning to my Gunners. What's that word "sad" in my heading? It's the way and manner of the victory. Elderly Arsenal supporters must have been cautious of the blood pressure at a point. What scandalous amount of missed chances. The Spurs were clueless, you should put some nail in their coffin really.
But what did we see? Chance after chances coming without a finishing. Very embarrassing really. It seemed Arsenal had forgotten how to score. This game should have easily ended 5–1 in Arsenal's favour!
Meanwhile, there was a striker on the pitch, by name Kai Harvetz. An Arsenal fan I telling me there's no good striker available in January, that Vhlalovic and Sesko refused to come in the last two consecutive summers.
That's a very un-informed fan.
Truth is, Arsenal dilly-dallied on the Sesko deal last summer, so the boy decided to move on with his life and renewed with his club, Leipzig.
It's same kind of thing that happened to Ademola Lookman of Atalanta, two big clubs dilly-dallied over a move for him for during the summer. He would have been in a quagmire now, but like Sesko he was smart and quickly renewed with Atalanta.
He's stubborn, this Arteta, right from the first day at Arsenal.
Excuse me, let me even look at things with more incisiveness.
If truth be told, so if an Arteta really wanted a striker last summer, a club of Arsenal’s calibre who should be thinking trophies instantly, is it Sesko theu are supposed to go for?
I put it to you that they just wanted a boy that they can tell to sit on the bench for their dear Harvetz and the boy won't complain much because actually he is still an upcoming talent in the real sense of things.
Yes Sesko is a born scorer, but he had not fully graduated from being just a potential last summer.
Osimhen was way ahead of Sesko, Isak too. Sesko was a player, last summer, who needed one or two seasons to mature fully.
Arteta was scared to go for a fully established striker because of his love for Harvetz or the stubborness of Arteta. Gyokeres of Sporting was there last summer and others!
No they didn't want signings that will hurt Harvetz and Gabriel Jesus. We know Arteta.
When we saw Gabriel Jesus as fit as fiddle in pre-season and training like an animal, we rang the alarm bell that Arteta has found an excuse not to buy a striker.. Now someone is insisting that there isn't any good striker anywhere in January. The question is
what was the coach doing in the summer? As you lay your bed, so you lie on it.
So that's it. Arteta was not hell bent on signing a striker. THAT'S WHERE THE ERROR HAPPENED!
Pls shun those who say you can't see a good striker in Jan.
Back to Arteta. The second error was he gambled with Odegaard and Saka.You shipped out players enmasse, yet ypu were not sure of a proper Odegaard and Saka deputy.
Who does that?
We saw how reluctant he was to use Nwaneri when Odegaard was injured...he kept chopping and changing in Odegaard's because there really was no replacement in his mind.
Today Gabriel Jesus who recently hit a rich goal scoring form is out for an extended period of time leaving Harvetz as the only striker, a striker who isn't clinical and not as physical as the EPL demands.
Tottenham will be pleasantly surprised that it was only a 2–1 scoreline on Sunday, a lot having to do with Harvetz not being clinical and it's not it's something new. He has shown that he's a great team player, he will run for the team and score goals at times, but he can't be relied on for goals regularly like the other strikers I mentioned above.
Glad to be now just 4 points behind Liverpool but the aforementioned things are saddening really. We wait if Gabriel's injury will force the board and Arteta to buy.
Cheers