Arsenal - All or Nothing

Be interesting to see what it is behind the scenes that keeps them playing like shit. They’ve got all the talent in the world and plenty of money/resources, and a decent enough fanbase.
 
Be interesting to see what it is behind the scenes that keeps them playing like shit. They’ve got all the talent in the world and plenty of money/resources, and a decent enough fanbase.
-Too many non-football people with made up jobs holding committees on transfers (those 3 guys that got axed recently).
-Poor handling of transfers and contracts, they number of players they've had to essentially write off is mental. (Ozil, Aubameyang, Mustafi, Kolasinac, Mkhitaryan, Willian plus a probable huge hit on Pepe)
-Kroenke's absolute refusal to put a penny into the club for transfers meant they couldn't realistically compete with everyone around them for players. Last summer was probably the 1st where the purse strings have been loosened.

Things look to be heading in the right direction now though, they've got a squad of talented young players and are adding a bit of quality around that, plus there's signs that Arteta actually has a vision for how he wants them to play.
 
Think the format is getting done to death now.
Some are quite enjoyable, in the middle of the Crystal Palace series just now, a wee fact that I didn’t know was Eddie Howe had agreed to take over from Dougie Freedman (2010?) and renegade on the agreement and joined Burnley…….no surprise then about his Celtc string along. Howe has previous!
 
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-Too many non-football people with made up jobs holding committees on transfers (those 3 guys that got axed recently).
-Poor handling of transfers and contracts, they number of players they've had to essentially write off is mental. (Ozil, Aubameyang, Mustafi, Kolasinac, Mkhitaryan, Willian plus a probable huge hit on Pepe)
-Kroenke's absolute refusal to put a penny into the club for transfers meant they couldn't realistically compete with everyone around them for players. Last summer was probably the 1st where the purse strings have been loosened.

Things look to be heading in the right direction now though, they've got a squad of talented young players and are adding a bit of quality around that, plus there's signs that Arteta actually has a vision for how he wants them to play.
Losing Ramsey on a free to a top European side and selling Ox Chamberlin for below value to a direct rival really stick out as poor.

Doesn't help they have a habit of signing players Chelsea no longer wants to huge deals and then them underperforming (David Luiz and Willian).
 
By 'all' I assume they mean champions league qualification without having any real hope or ambition of actually winning the league
 
-Too many non-football people with made up jobs holding committees on transfers (those 3 guys that got axed recently).
-Poor handling of transfers and contracts, they number of players they've had to essentially write off is mental. (Ozil, Aubameyang, Mustafi, Kolasinac, Mkhitaryan, Willian plus a probable huge hit on Pepe)
-Kroenke's absolute refusal to put a penny into the club for transfers meant they couldn't realistically compete with everyone around them for players. Last summer was probably the 1st where the purse strings have been loosened.

Things look to be heading in the right direction now though, they've got a squad of talented young players and are adding a bit of quality around that, plus there's signs that Arteta actually has a vision for how he wants them to play.
Need to start getting back into the CL or Saka looks like he’ll be off, if he doesn’t leave this summer that is. Probably wouldn’t be the last to go out of that crop either
 
Joke of a club from a big rewarded by mediocrity and the league they play in. See also Hotspur, Tottenham
 
Should be good, they’ve all been worth a watch so far - Spurs, City, Sunderland, Leeds. I even watched the Hearts one.
 
Anyone interested in this type of documentary should give Six Dreams a go. It follows:

Andres Guardado (Betis player)
Eduardo Berizzo (Seville manager)
Inaki Williams (Bilbao player)
Saul Niguez (Atletico player)
Quique Cárcel (Girona sporting director)
Amaia Gorostiza (Eibar president)

So it gives a lot of different perspectives from a range of clubs.
 
Wonder if any clubs will start trying to do a deal only allowing for the show to be released if they have a successful season? Hopefully the TV companies signing them up ensure they have total control over what is shown.
 
Anyone else find these documentaries boring? The NFL ones are brilliant but the football ones have all been pretty shite, maybe bar Sunderland.

Think Amazon's first UK All Or Nothing was Man City, which tried to follow the format of NFL ones. It was okay for novelty value. But then they did same for Spurs, and now Arsenal.

Best Amazon football docs are Rangers72 and Leeds - not the All Or Nothing productions

Netflix Sunderland series was great
 
Anyone else find these documentaries boring? The NFL ones are brilliant but the football ones have all been pretty shite, maybe bar Sunderland.
I have watched most of them, can't remember any of the teams being successful.

The one with Cam Newton's team was good I'm sure, huge expectations.
 
Absolutely disagree with the nonsense suggesting Arsenal are not a proper football club, they are an institution. Unfortunately for them they’ve not been run very well in recent times but can only ascertain that those decrying them as a nothing club, are the type that go along with the Chelsea blues brothers tripe.
 
Absolutely disagree with the nonsense suggesting Arsenal are not a proper football club, they are an institution. Unfortunately for them they’ve not been run very well in recent times but can only ascertain that those decrying them as a nothing club, are the type that go along with the Chelsea blues brothers tripe.
Agree
Arsenal are a huge football club, not just in London but all over the South East of England ,same can be said of Tottenham tbh
 
I knew Rangers had bought shares in Arsenal years ago and played a few friendlies before WW2. Found this link interesting.
Not sure why anyone would think them to be a nothing team...
 
Anyone else find these documentaries boring? The NFL ones are brilliant but the football ones have all been pretty shite, maybe bar Sunderland.

Depends on the team usually. The Man City one, while interesting in a ‘behind the curtain’ sense, was frightfully dull because it was just watching a very good team be very good and Pep being a bit mad.

They are generally much better when they involve a team which is absolutely rotten like the Sunderland one, the Spurs All or Nothing was decent also.

Do agree that in general the NFL ones tend to be better though.
 
Losing Ramsey on a free to a top European side and selling Ox Chamberlin for below value to a direct rival really stick out as poor.

Doesn't help they have a habit of signing players Chelsea no longer wants to huge deals and then them underperforming (David Luiz and Willian).
Since the move to the new stadium, they’ve always lost big players to rivals or picked up sloppy seconds.

Sagna
Nasri
Van Persie
Adebayor

All taken by direct rivals in their prime

Picked up used players like

Cech
Silvestre
Mkhytarian
Gallas

And the ones you referenced

Losing Ramsey probably couldn’t be helped if he was offered the chance to sit it out and make 4x his wage at Juve
 
Always find these modern, squeaky clean football documentaries to be dull as f.uck. All the character sanitised from them. A bit like the EPL!

The best one was the Channel 4 one with Graham Taylor back in the day.

Do I not like that...
 
Think Amazon's first UK All Or Nothing was Man City, which tried to follow the format of NFL ones. It was okay for novelty value. But then they did same for Spurs, and now Arsenal.

Best Amazon football docs are Rangers72 and Leeds - not the All Or Nothing productions

Netflix Sunderland series was great
Spot on Bro., although the Crystal Palace ‘When Eagles Dare’ was a good watch.
 
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