Wrighty loses faith in Arsenal’s title hopes

He’d be called “not a real fan” or “you don’t deserve to see us win” by this sub.

Love him but what’s he doing there? He knows his opinion has weight on our players. Even if he does have doubts he should keep them to himself. Hard to do for someone who wears his emotions on his sleeve like him, but still.

Every rational arsenal fan is feeling like him right now 

Being perfectly honest we’re probably going to end the season trophyless. The team/squad look completely gassed and our earlier defensive solidity looks to have completely evaporated… we aren’t even scoring coreners that frequently anymore.

We will probably end the season on 81ish points and get pipped by City who will end on 82/83/84 points.

Not the end of the world, we will still be challenging for top torphies in the coming years and will most likely win PL/CL at some point in the next 3/4 seasons.

What bizarro world alternate timeline have I stumbled on where Wrighty is the pessimist and Keane is “look at the bright side” guy….

I don;’t necessarily disagree with Wrighty, but I still have faith.. this weekend is all or nothing for me.

Not having any Wrighty slander. The guy has been the most upbeat and positive fan even when things have gone pear shaped.

This year is draining for many reasons and like us he is feeling it.

It’s just really hard when you’ve got players getting injured so often, and looking at the list we’ve had one of the most injured squads in the league this season. Liverpool won the league last year and all their best players were fit for almost every game and in good form. If you don’t have that or something close to it, it’s always going to be tough, and we’ve managed OK simply from having a big squad. If we had a fully fit Saka, Odegaard, Merino, Calafiori, Timber, Havertz along with the other guys for almost the whole season, I think we’d be looking a bit better really. But it’s not been the case. We’ve managed to grind out results for the most part anyway.

Hopefully even if this season ends badly, we can hang onto our best players, move on some of the lesser ones, bring in a few more that really bring the quality and technical level up, and have more luck with injuries next time around.

I’m quite petrified about Sunday, but I think as long as we turn up we can avoid losing, and that might be enough to still win the league if we can keep it together in the other games. If we lose though then I think my hopes will be pretty much in the toilet.

He feels they way a majority of the fanbase feels. Unfortunately it’s hard not to feel it as a fan.

I would love nothing but for the players and manager to prove us wrong. Seriously. I hope I am wrong and this blip in form is just a “crazy as a fox” move to conserve energy of our key players so we make the final push and win the PL and maybe the CL. If that happens let’s put this team rightly on a pedestal and celebrate their accomplishments. Conversely, if we lose on Sunday with another lackluster and sub-par performance let’s also hold our players and manager accountable. Arsenal fans deserve more than coming second again. We need a team that’s not just good in August and December but great in April and May when it matters most

I agree with him. Our players will try hard but are more likely to fumble against City. Don’t put it on Wrighty or Henry for telling the truth. Put it on the players and the coach for having us in this position.

Grow up. Don’t be an idiotic optimist unwilling to accept the truth. The past 4-5 games we have been shite. Be realists, one thing worse than pessimism is Forced and deluded Optimism. Nobody likes that.

I want us to win atleast the EPL if not both, but it’s the PLAYERS AND THE MANAGER that have shown absolutely garbage football for an Elite club like ours, to not inspire much hope. Get mad at them, not the ones telling you the truth.

The reality is, we’ve been asking for months to see the team do something to spark some momentum, but they haven’t.

The number of times they’ve had the opportunity to make things more comfortable – and instead deliver a 0-0 against Forest, get played off the park against Brentford and scrape a draw, face a Wolves team that are already 1 foot in Championship – go two nil up and utterly capitulate to end up lucky the game didn’t go on 10 more minutes or they might have found a way to lose.

Making heavy work of a favourable F.A cup run – needing to put starters on to see off Mansfield, then getting clapped by Southampton.

Making heavy work of a favourable Champion’s league draw – having to be bailed out by a soft penalty at the death to get the draw at Leverkusen, finally turning up for a game in the home leg, but then immediately making both legs against Sporting an absolute slog (and I don’t care what they’re home record was before the game, they’re Sporting fucking Lisbon – every other team that went through to the semis and most of the ones that didn’t would have back handed them into the sun)

The final nail in the coffin for me was the final against City. You go out and do everything you can to win that game – we looked like a team playing for a nil nil. The moment they scored it was over. And look at what it’s done for them. City suddenly look like the team that wins game after game again. Their tails are up, and there’s no pressure on them because even if they don’t win the league, they were told Arsenal had the title in the bag in December – no shame in not winning it in May.

On the other hand we have 6 league games left – we’re going to go and play for a draw against City – and maybe we get it. Then what? There’s still 5 games to go and even more pressure because the title is ‘in our hands’. This team can’t cope with pressure. They can’t cope with the big occasion – they just get smaller and smaller every time.

I want so badly to see this team do it, but we feel like we’ve been crawling for months already and they don’t look like they even have the energy left for that. They don’t even look like they expect to score from corners anymore.

They need a spark, and that can’t come from the fans – no matter what Arteta says. And if it doesn’t happen, and they don’t get it over the line – we need to see a drastic overhaul, starting with the manager.

He is saying what we are feeling. Gunner for life!

He feels exactly how I feel.

We’re just waiting for the killing blow on Sunday. But there’s that small bit of hope, what if we somehow win? That’s what kills you.

It feels like 22/23 when we started a challenge.

When the wheels fell off, it wasn’t a lack of scoring but keeping the ball out.

It feels exactly like the Liverpool Southampton west ham time.

If we can turn it around, it will show growth from the team mentally.

I really hope we have, but like wrighty, I just don’t see it

Wrighty is right tbh.

I should be way more excited at a B2B UCL semi but I can’t because of this sense of impending doom and the never ending narrative that would come with bottling it in this manner.

Sunday is a real revolving doors moment. We either show up and become legends or flounder and cement this group’s tag as “nearly men”.

It’s all up to them. We’ve backed them all season long. Now it’s time for them to dig deep and finish the job.

Guess this sub will turn on Wrighty now lol. He’s not invited to the parade. Everything he said was true. Would LOVE to be proven wrong this Sunday. 

It’s easy to have faith when we’re still top.

It’s also easy to be pessimistic with the way we’ve been playing and the results we’ve been getting.

It’s hard, but we ball.

I agree with Wright here. I’ve been hurt too many times before. I have given up hope. We go again next season, proving Evra right yet again. My friends are calling me Bottle Glimt in the group chat. If we win anything this season, at this point, that’d be a welcome surprise. 

Keane is objective here and Wright is emotional. And also, why not have faith? What’s wrong with that? Why are you scared of having faith and being positive, because we might not win again? Grow a pair! I’d hate to be in a foxhole w this fan base.

We’ve played well plenty of times this season, but we only want to look at the last few games results?

I’m sure Wright’s reaction is just for TV but a lot of fans have supported Arteta’s Arsenal through countless failures and kept believing with nothing in return. At some point the reaction is understandable.

I cannot overestimate how much I appreciate what Ian Wright is saying in this video.

The fact that someone as passionate and as emotionally invested in the success of Arsenal as Ian Wright standing up and saying that he cannot honestly tell people to have faith in this Arsenal team getting over the line is brave, sincere, and poignant for it.

His utter distaste for the way this team plays football, and his clear feelings about how the only reason he puts up with it because he wants to see them win at all costs, should be a point of reflection to this club and this fanbase that Arsenal has lost its way footballistically.

Ian Wright is expressing the true prevailing feelings of the majority of this fanbase. Not the toxic positivity bullshit that the happy clappers are desperate to force everyone to feel and accept. He’s expressing the uncensored truth of the situation, and he’s basically telling anyone who wants him to be quiet about it or to forget about it to get fucked with a hot burning poker up their arse.

And I cannot adequately begin to appreciate how much I respect and love Wrighty for doing this.

If even Wrighty is pessimistic, then the psyche of the fanbase has been rocked. But I don’t agree with Wrighty. I don’t think that judgements about “the way we play” are appropriate in this context, one in which we are battling, with a spate of injuries, against one of the best-resourced teams in the history of sport, in the toughest league in the world, to win our first title in more than 20 years. Expressing displeasure about the way we play, at this point in the season, is like complaining about Tour de France riders looking tired in the final stage in Paris. If we finish second – because of injuries, tiredness, fear, missed chances, or whatever – everyone who loves the club will hurt real bad. But for me, none of that will mean failure. It will just mean that, despite doing our best, one other group gifted athletes finished with more points than our group of gifted athletes. At times, people need a healthy dose of Hegel. In this title run in, there is no distinction between what is and what should be – and I think this is more or less what Roy was saying. 

Keane being the voice of reason as it pertains to our title run was not on my bingo card.

Losing to Bournemouth on our turf at this critical time is discouraging especially as City’s form appears to have gone up. I can understand Wrighty’s virw