I understand the criticism Arteta has got for being conservative in possession yesterday but Liverpool were just as conservative if not more.
They would’ve wanted to push forward and pick us off in transition and we didn’t give them the opportunity.
Guarantee Guehi gets quite a lot of minutes at RB for Liverpool
Quite annoying as it’s an option that’ll allow them to be a bit more secure OOP and play Frimpong as RW when Salah isn’t available
People underestimate the impact of players being pushed to the edge physically last season.
There will continue to be hangovers from that until we can get the squad settled properly and rotate more.
We want Gabriel-Saliba starting 30 league games a season at least
There will be times to rotate, mainly in the cups and CL league phase, but we want the best CB partnership starting most of the time.
I see the title race as a battle of who keeps their squad fittest out of Arsenal and Liverpool
We’re definitely better equipped overall to deal with injuries but perhaps more susceptible to key injuries to the forward line, although Liverpool are totally reliant on Van Dijk.
Martinelli, Merino and Trossard probably leave next summer and we’d only really need to buy one LW and just move MLS into midfield (another LB for Mikel in summer 2026 😎).
Havertz could be one who leaves as well but other than that it should be a settled squad.