Many things to talk about today.
David Ornstein dropped the bombshell yesterday that in the whole of world football, the best we could do for our next manager was Unai Emery. I know nothing is confirmed, but Orn-dawg rarely makes a hash of an exclusive.
Now, we can start with the positives. Unai an improvement on Arsene Wenger. He won 3 Europa League’s in a row under Sevilla, which is a monster achievement. He partnered with the legendary Monchi to turnover players whilst maintaining a semi-major trophy a season for 3 years. He took Almeria to 8th. He took Valencia to 3rd 3 years running before getting fired for not being able to find the next level. He also managed to convince the vain hierarchy at PSG that he had what it took to oversee the most expensive squad in history. Apparently he has a plan…
Outside the above, he fits the brief. He can work in a crappy environment, he can deal with high impact shocks to his squads, he’s very organised, and his mind is obviously valued in Europe.
However, I’m finding it very difficult to accept this was a; to quote Ivan, ‘a brave and bold decision.’
It’s a safe choice. Our CEO flirted with the idea of Arteta, but at the last minute, he bottled it and went for experience. But not exciting experience, no, he wimped out and brought in someone fairly cheap, and fairly middle of the road in the grand scheme of 46-year-old managers.
Say what you want about Arteta, but if you’re going for an exciting young coach, he was your chance to do something bold and brave. I totally understand why Ivan lost his nerve. He probably saw Henry Winter on The Sunday Supplement, he probably worried that Areta hadn’t managed a club, and he maybe read some fan boycott tweets.
Ivan being a weak decision maker shouldn’t surprise us, he’s spent the last 10 years being the lapdog of Arsene Wenger.
However, I was foolish enough to think that if we were going for a tier 2 or 1 manager, we’d at least opt for the best money could buy.
How does Emery fit that bill?
At Sevilla, in his last season, he didn’t win a single away game.
He never made the top 4 for the Spanish club.
He went to PSG and in his first season, he lost a one-horse race to a Monaco that took a chance on kids.
He botched a 4 goal lead in the Champions League to Barcelona in an utterly humiliating defeat.
This year, he was knocked out of the Champions League by Madrid, getting beaten 5-1 in the last 16. This is a manager who has the best squad in the world. This is a man with Neymar, M’Bappe, and Cavani as a front three. This is a club with the sublime Veratti in the midfield with Thiago. This is fucking PSG dripping in oil.
Here’s the real kicker, his English is bad. He’s learning a new league, a new club, and a new language all on the fly.
Our thorough search for a new manager deduced that all of the above issues didn’t matter.
Gazidis and our fancy backroom team totally bottled the chance to do something exciting.
In a world that had Jardim and Sarri available, we opted for a person who was moved on from Paris because the players didn’t listen to his ideas, and he gave up trying to discipline them.
What is wrong with the club?
What is the Emery superpower?
Ivan Gazidis will say that he just won the treble. Sure, but only after Monaco were raped of their best players. Only after PSG spent so much money they’re under investigation for FFP violations.
Chelsea are literally about to fire Conte. Why not hire him if we wanted experience? Why not sign Carlo, at least he’s won the Champions League!
I cannot understand why we’ve played the experience card, and blown the biggest opportunity of the last 20 years on a guy who has 3 Europa Leagues under his belt. Wenger nearly won that trophy playing unmotivated second stringers, losing to Koln and Ostersunds along the way.
There are 10 managers I’d have gone for before Emery.
Gazidis is weak. The leak that the board voted against Arteta isn’t cover either. Who on the board do we trust? The same guys that have let Klopp, Guardiola and Tuchel pass us by swearing allegiance to a failing Wenger? Please. The board are an embarrassment to the club.
I cannot believe I was duped into thinking Arsenal would do something interesting.
I genuinely think the fans are all united under the WTF HAVE WE DONE right now.
We just signed a manager who was fired because he couldn’t take the best squad in the world past the CL last 16. Let that sink in.
THE CLUB JUST GAVE CECH THE #1 SHIRT!
Emery is a dull signing from a CEO who just proved the banter era didn’t die with Wenger.
What a fucking moment.
Also, massive shout out to all the frauds on Twitter who said Arteta had signed. I told you it wasn’t done. Grown men desperate to appear like they’re ITK. Pathetic.
Anyway, rage over.
I’m not going to run an Emery out campaign if that’s what you’re worried about, it is what it is. I’ll rally around him and hope he wins the Champions League so you can all laugh at me.
Still, we got the experience the fans wanted. Let’s see how that pans out.
Pete x
P.S. Something actually important
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sal
If Ramsey stays then do we need to try and sell Ozil?
I just dont see how both can work. Emery isnt Wenger, he wont just try to fit all his babies in the same team at the expense of logic.
For me you either go 4-3-3 with Ramsey in an advanced CM role, or 4-2-3-1 with Ozil central, which means you sell Ramsey.
This is the exciting thing – no more decisions based on the sentiment of an old man.
Gotta move Ozil on then, Ramsey has a work rate but will be hard to move Ozil, No club wants him and very few can afford him, Another Pathetic Wenger deal.
What’s wrong about waffles, Red ?? You don’t like waffles ?? This is sad, everybody loves waffles…
Both spurs and Liverpool have had the benefit if having players they could sell for big fees though. Couthinos fee alone skews the numbers significantly for Pool.
Other than that we can still get a lot done this summer even with a 50m budget. Sell sell sell.
For fucks sake Pedro,we cant buy Superman because he just doesnt exist in the real world but crikey you sound a little bit like a serial complainer.Noone in their right mind know how good Arteta is,he could be the next Johann Cruyff or the next Peter Reid he would have been a major gamble,let him get some experience under Pep and lets get him then if he is any good.Unai Emery could be as good as Conte,completely taking the PL by storm or he could be interrim the fact is you dont let a complete novice like Mikel take over… Read more »
“I think Wenger recommended Arteta because he loves promoting “his babies” — this is his whole avuncular, father-figure thing — and because he saw Arteta as a kind of continuation of his reign at the club, a continuation of his philosophy at the club, a little like if one of his nephews took over.“ Get over yourself with your half baked theoretical noise about Wenger. He was in an interview with Bein and was asked directly his thoughts about the “current favourite Arteta” and whether he had the quality for the job. He gave a stock answer, diplomatic, nothing too… Read more »
Pedro, Ian Wright, John Cross….please continue the chain of fools who believed Ivan’s fake story about appointing someone who’s never managed a single game of football in his life.
lol Cc, the wound still open ??
gambon
Story making rounds that he plans to build team around two players, PEA and Ramsay.
Imagine if he came in and cut clubs losses on Ozil, that would be a seriously boss move setting fierce tone.
The thing is Ozil under Arsene would pick and choose which games to play, always be under the weather, belly too full to play etc you name it. That being said, he would still walk into the team whenever he declared himself available. That luxury went out the door the moment Wenger drove out the final time yesterday. He’s going to have to put in a shift and work hard and try to produce in every game or he won’t play. I’m almost intrigued to see what Emery can do with someone like him.
Lol Gazidis reportedly blown away by Emery showing him a powerpoint highlighting that Ramsey and Auba are good. I don’t know if I’ll survive the impending banter tidal wave when Ramsey decides he’s out.
Emery worked without almost no money at all and still made Valencia and Sevilla a huge success,Marca described him as a very intelligent tactician and that is something we havnt had for the last 22 years.His luck completely ran out at PSG when Neynar got injured just before the games against Real,it would probably had been very different if he had played in those games.Fact is he will get time to transform Arsenal in to a real force something he didnt get at PSG.
Highbury
Witty banter, if only that actually made sense. Ahh well, one day..
I agree, Emery got the raw deal at PSG. Any sort of CL failure and he was gone. yes, some state that Barca got some home cooking calls in the last CL. Neymar injured in this years CL. Kinda of a tough situation for him. Anyhow, I look at his work at Valencia and Sevilla as a real barometer for working under pressure and with limited funds. thats where he really cut his teeeth He will not be in the shit show at PSG. A more stable environment. I think having the sack always above your head at PSG makes… Read more »
https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/22/warning-arsenal-unai-emerys-fiery-assistant-clashed-paris-saint-germain-players-training-7568226/
Reading this gives me hope.
What a contrast to wengers regime where nobody was ever accountable
While Emery’s by no means my top pick, I do find it really strange that Pedro’s pick would have been Arteta or Thomas Tuchel, the latter of which has achieved less in his managerial career than Emery and the former of which has never managed a single match in his career. Tuchel is the most overrated gaffer in Europe, the fact that he’s being held up in similar esteem as Klopp is laughable considering he came 2nd and then 3rd with the 2nd best squad and resources available in the Bundesliga while Klopp beat Bayern to the title twice in… Read more »
Red “Not another manager who watches endless hours of football videos, we had all this with Wenger.” The difference is Wenger was watching as a voyuer not to learn anything from it. This is what Keown said “There was one player who was making positional mistakes that were costing the team goals. I wanted to flag up these mistakes to the player by showing him the footage but Wenger did not want him to see it. In Wenger’s view, if a player sees himself making mistakes the problem becomes even bigger his mind.” So if Wenger was viewing videos they… Read more »
Emery’s work at Valencia was impressive, comnsistently had them finishing in 3rd which is basically as good as you can hope unless you’re Diego Simeone and Atleti.
Not as impressed by his tenure at Sevilla where despite their EL dominance where very patchy in the league and struggled hugely away from home.
Also had a dodgy stint in Russia in there in 2012.
There is no such thing as a perfect manager.
Samesong
Most important aspect of a manager for me has always been the ability to the get the best and more out of his players.
It’s why Fergie in my eyes is the goat and will always be a knock on AW, even in the good years where we underachieved.
Emery underwhelms a little bit in this respect.
Biggest issue is Ozil. Should never have got that deal. We could have done so much more with those wages. If emery straightens him out he’s earned every penny. I have my doubts. He was walked all over at PSG.
Most important aspect of a manager for me has always been the ability to the get the best and more out of his players.
Can’t disagree with this.
on another note Sandro to United not a bad signing if it’s true.
Özil or Ramsey….. There is only room for one of em.
Both play the cam role but in different ways…
Would be interesting to see which side of the fence Le Grove is on… Özil or Ramsey.
Özil for me all day long…
WE
I would say this though Fergie was a proper old skool manager that didn’t take no shit. Players had to perform or they were gone. Player’s actually feared him. I dont see that with alot of these current managers apart from Simone and Conte. Conte must be loving Abramovich not being able to come into the country.
Does anyone see the new manager putting up with Ozil and his sometimes performances???
Arsenal has lost its soul. To those who don’t know what is meant by that, too bad, I am not going to give a definition, but I bet they are not long-in-the-tooth Arsenal fans, Wenger kept talking about Arsenal values, but he lost his sense of what they truly are. We were a custodianship, not a business enterprise. The obligation of the owners was to pass on the Club in an even better state than they received it. The last one I can remember who thought like that was David Dein. Hence my list of pluses for Arteta. They may… Read more »
I’m on the fence about ozil and Ramsey because both are good but not that good
Different strengths and weaknesses. Ramsey is more consistent and involved but less talented.
I just want to see what emery does with them and hope he can get more out of them because whoever plays needs to do better frankly.
It’s a bright new day when I can honestly say I don’t really mind, i just want to see what happens
Pierre
“Özil for me all day long…”
It’s just that Ozil doesn’t seem capable of playing the CAM role from the middle like a Coutinho, Firminhio or David Silva. He tends to stay closer to the line like a winger.
I’ll take Ramsey along with a proper winger.
englandbest
Wh don’t you get behind the new manager and the team.
That’s the advice you were dishing out when defending our choice of a novice as head manager.
“Arsenal has lost its soul”…really???
Let me know where to send the handkerchiefs. It’s a short term appointment.
Samesong Fergie was ridiculous, he had no right winning the league in 2012/13 with such a shit team compared to City and pushing them to the limit in 2011/12 (GD). Yeah he definitely had the fear factor about him but guys like Roy Keane, Wayne Rooney, David Beckham, RVN, Scholes, etc were not scared of him, just had massive respect for him and let him take charge until he fell out with half of them haha. Guys like Neville, Nani, O’Shea and Carrick were likely frightened of him though. Alex Sandro? Great signing if true. They’re also being strongly linked… Read more »
I’m taking Ramsey over Ozil for work rate.
England’s best, so we should hire arteta because he is in Arsenal’s soul? How so? He was probably the least memorable established captain in the last two decades. He wasn’t a player who was able to put the team on his back like cesc or rvp, he just quietly went about his work and did a reasonable job. A decent but unremarkable player, captaining a miserably disappointing arsenal team. He then left to city for two years and now we should roll out the red carpet? Why? If we want an arsenal man we should have gone for Vieira. If… Read more »
I tell you whenever I hear arsenal or fans talking about our values it reminds me of the end of Team America when Alec Baldwin is frantically trying to ‘out act’ the main guy to impress Kim Jong Un by blabbering on ‘but uhh… global warming…international banking…equality..’ as his head bobs around like a balloon
It’s literally that level of cringeworthy
Emery worked with David Villa David Silva and Mata at Valencia and did well there.
Also if it’s between Ozil and Ramsey for CAM I’ll be difficult and say fuck them both who needs a CAM anyway give me two proper wingers instead. Or Fekir not a natural CAM more wide forward or off a striker but way better than Ozil.
Im getting pissed off at all this talk about his lack of English. That shit came out right when the leak broke he was going to take over. How fucking stupid. You tell me, if we have got Allegri, Jardim, etc, who also have limited English proficiency, would there be any chatter about that? I also hate how Pedro made this one of the issues in his critique of Emery. Veiled ethnocentrism I dont give a shit if he didnt speak any English. In today’s game, there are many ways around that. Assistants, translators etc. You would think to be… Read more »
Pump breaks. Can’t mess with Ozil… Ahern does not approve.
Not to worry Dan can’t imagine Unai got this gig by floating that in the meet, probably the opposite.
How to get maximum out of Ozil.
Which for me is in a 4231 w/ him playing centrally.
In other news new kit may be worst i’ve seen.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5756739/Arsenal-unveil-new-Puma-home-kit-2018-19-season-costing-100.html
Keeping Ozil and Rambo might be a problem… One demands the ball most of the time, and is slow in our build up… the other runs gung ho all over the place and ignores his positional sense.
I would like to cash in on Rambo now… he is in his prime and we can fetch some dough for him.
If Mr Flu is the slow peg, we need to add faster ones around him
Hopefully Emery tells Ozil to fuck off. A lazy and cowardly player.
I don’t think we have much of a choice. If one player has to go then regrettably it is Ramsey. I wont be for footballing reasons. The ink on Ozil’s mega wage contract is dry and Ramsey has one year left on his.
If I were a new manager and there were no contract restrictions, Ramsey offers a lot more but the die is cast.
Ramsey > Ozil for me, and im not even a huge Ramsey fan.
Im not a fan of a system that includes a number 10 in the Ozil mode, who is there to create chances and do hardly anything else.
I’d like to know the 10 Managers better than Emery.
Ozil or Ramsey?
As a neutral, I have to say Ramsey edges it.
I really can’t see Emery fancying Ozil. As has been said, at least Ramsey is more versatile and has the wider skillset.
Ozil is a specialist in a game that has moved on from this type of player.
If Arsenal appoint Emery and bring in some proper players, I guess I’ll owe an apology to Bamford.
Not sure why Arsenal are leaving this appointment until the end of the week, they shouldn’t give Chelsea an opportunity to pounce
Hahahaha. Pedro, you bought into the Arteta hype. You convinced yourself it was bold and brave. How about risky? Everything we know about Arteta’s managerial abilities and his philosophy is reported. We are having to trust those who claim to know him. including Wenger! There is no verifiable record of Arteta doing or saying anything of note anywhere. Yet you would rather have him than Emery?
After nearly a dozen years fighting for Wenger to be replaced?
The new dick plays
4 2 3 1
So incumbent staff
Cech
Bellerin chambers monologues. Kolosanic
Xhara AMN
Nelson Ramsay ozil
Bang bang
Just a guessing
Red
Looks like you are in agreement with the new boss
No need to reply
Good to see tho …
As you were
RSPC
You’ve missed Mikki off the list for an unproven although promising youngster?
Not sure what to make of this appointment, I’m feeling a bit underwhelmed to be honest but then I don’t know to much about emery, I just hope he puts a stop to the comfort zone that seems to have enveloped the club. I don’t think the club could afford to gamble , not at this time , so hopefully he can make some steady improvement starting with our weak defence, I was also thinking back to the dark days of the last 6 years or so and remembered that I would have taken almost anyone as manager over wenger… Read more »
Not a huge fan of Ozil or Rambo… but think both are decent players overall.
Moving Ozil is impossible. No one came in for him.
Ramsey- might have some suitors.
How Emery works with Ozil will be interesting… We need speed on the wings.
Ozil most likely in the middle… it seems
If that is the case,- sell xhaka… we need more dynamic players in surrounding Ozil. We are too slow with him AND Granit legs
Sal
I’d say that shirt is Puma’s revenge for us binning them already. WTF is the pink stripe on the sleeve – if it was red it’d still look poor but at least it’d make sense.
Frankly I was a bit aghast when I saw the breaking news last night.
Now having time to reflect I see it as a good move
From what I have read he is a bit of a tough tough master
Double training session
Drilled in playing structures
I like many warmed to the idea of Arteta
But right now I would rather a tough boss just in case there is an inkling of old buddy acts and scores to settle
So let’s put our hands together and give the new boy a chance
Marc
I did
Just thought the new boss will be encouraged to start youth
Also can ozil n Nikki play in same team ?
” https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44204959 “At Sevilla, Emery and then-director of football Monchi did an amazing job. Monchi, who is now at Roma, would deal with transfers, mostly bringing in young or unproven players, while Emery as a coach would make them better. The best job Emery did at Sevilla was to take those players Monchi was finding in the lower leagues in France or obscure leagues across Europe, improve them, make them play as a team and win trophies. If you realise there is a rebuilding job to do, you need someone who will work on the training pitch to improve the… Read more »
Aparantly
He always play
4 2 3 1
No ifs or butts
We will see
RSPC
Glad you are warming to Emery. He is different from Wenger and not sure why people are saying he is the safe bet, etc. He is not the same type of coach.
WE want different, well we got it.
If he can get the most out of our team. Ill be happy… he has some shit to work with here.
We need to be patient with him…
R.S.P.C.Arsenal
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I’m pretty sure he employed 4-3-3 a lot with PSG over the last 2 seasons.
If we can somehow snag Drax and Rabiot
Il be in 7th heaven
Add Sokratis, and another CB and keeper
That team will challenge for top 4
sounds like he adapts to what he has available, but prefers 4-2-3-1.
Chelsea are literally about to fire Conte. Why not hire him if we wanted experience? Why not sign Carlo, at least he’s won the Champions League!
Because they will want a budget to compete as they are not mugs.
We were lied to all the time about money available to spend. By the club. A bit by this blog also 😉
Emery has played PSG in a 4231 or 433.
433 would be interesting
Martial___PEA____Mhki
Lo Celso__Ramsay___ Seri
Kolasinac_Mavro_Sokratis__Bellerin
_________Leno__________
Sell: Xhaka, Ozil, Welbz, Mustafi, Ospina, Iwobi
MGooner
Nonsense. We have the money our financial model makes available to us, which unfortunately at the moment is only around £50m (barring sales). When we had £150m+ in cash reserves — the most in all of world football — we had more money to spend, and anyone who said so was telling the truth. That isn’t the case any more.
The only people who promoted a bullshit line regarding our money/spending are those who claimed that Wenger always spent what he had available to him. He didn’t — and when he did spent, he often spent poorly.
Dream for now
New Keeper
Bell Mavro Sokratis Kolas
Seri NZonzi/ Jorginho
Mik Ozil Drax
Auba
Can we get the $ for those 3? 50M plus player sales – I think so
* spend
Arsenal need most definitely to sort out first the goalkeeper and defence. That will require minimum of two players, but perhaps three in view of Koscielny’s longterm injury. We have currently five centre backs on books, but based on last season’s performance none are good enough to play in starting eleven. I am open minded about our midfield. Yes there was a lack of balance and serious questions about ability and performance, but a new coach may be able to get a better performance out of the current players if they are required to play in disciplined fashion. Organisation was… Read more »
SF
Kolasinac is a poor defender. I think we’d rather have Monreal there.
I also don’t know if we can afford all the signings you’re proposing.
At least give him a chance….
gambon
You’re the finance guy, but when I looked at our last financial statement data the other day, the £50m in disposable cash (barring additional sales + about £6m in likely Q2 profit) number actually looked pretty accurate. I posted the article I was getting the data from as well. Maybe someone with a financial background could take a closer look at all of that and tell us what they think.
Marc
Really in incredible, bring back NIKE!
Although its looks or maybe its now locked on Adidas?
Daz
Mate, why don’t you look at reports on our actual financials? The report I looked at the other day had us down to about £75m in cash, and we have to keep around £25m in cash on hand per our stadium financing agreement. So that leaves us around £50m in disposable cash (barring additional sales). The owner isn’t “hoarding” anything. If we have around £50m, we have around £50m.
Would it be nice to have an owner who was willing to dip into his own pockets? Sure. But it doesn’t seem like we have that kind of owner.
Weird post ,pedro having a whinge that the club decided against hiring a guy with zero games under his belt .Emery has won leagues and European trophys and is only 46,not much older than golden boy mikel who has never managed a game in his life
That oft-quoted 50 million figure is right.
I think gambing has repeatedly made the point that we don’t know if it’s 50 million gross spend or net spend. It’s just that we don’t have much to sell to make revenue; every player sellable went in the winter…except for Lacazette and Ramsey.
It’s a conundrum though, do we sell Laca and Ramsey to make more money, can we find better payers willing to play for the 6th place team in England?
Welbeck has to go
Hopefully he does well in the world cup to tempt the likes of Everton and Westham.
Lo Celso__Ramsay___ Seri
That midfield would honestly probably make 3 tackles a game and that’s on a good day. Seri isn’t great defensively and Ramsey doesn’t know what defensive duties are. Big ask for Lo Celso to do it all
We finally have 2 top strikers, no way we should be selling one of them after 1 season.
Mustafi, Chambers, Xhaka, Welbeck, Ospina. That is about 100 mil in todays market ( Chambers and Welbeck mainly because they’re english)
That’s without selling anyone vital to the team and getting rid of our 2 weakest links in the starting XI.
Ramsey must be sorted out one way or another this summer too, if Wilshere is staying I can’t see us keeping him. We need 2 new starters in CM ideally.
Don’t want Seri.
5 foot 6 midget that cannot tackle and is streaky offensively.
Dissenter
We could maybe get £20m for Xhaka. It’s not big money, but it’s something.
And I think we should at least consider selling Lacazette. As I’ve been saying for some time, what is the point of having a £50m back-up CF (especially when you have other needs and relatively limited funds)?
Yeah, I’m not interested in Seri either. And we need at least one athletic, ball-winning CM.
Fabinho’s the guy but looks like he’ll be following M’Bappe to PSG.
Still cannot believe this guy does not speak English.
WTF.
Whatever complaints people have about Emery (his English, losing a game to Barca etc), he is a FAR better choice than Arteta. Arteta needs to go manage a smaller club and take them forward. this recent exposure has made people sit up and look at Arteta so his profile is now significantly increased. If he chooses the right club to manage first, his next club could easily be a top 6 club but its way too early for him now and far too risky. Its weird that Pedro talked about what he wants from a manager (eg attention to detail,… Read more »
Sf
We have to embrace the change
I hope he is a tough no nonsense cookie …
Double an sal
4 2 3 1
Or
4 3 3
Shows he ain’t afraid to change hopefully depending on the opponent
Bamford
We aren’t selling Laca. He played really well after coming back from the minor surgery. Not only do we want cover at striker (and not in the form of nketiah or welbz), but he and Auba combined very nicely.
Laca actually does a number things that PEA didn’t show much of.
What’s the point in Ozil if we have mikki (harder working and actually shoots) and Ramsey?
I wouldn’t want us to sell Lacazette unless we were to get a silly offer for him.
If anything happens to Aubameyang we’re down to bare bones, nothing bad about having two very good goalscorers in the squad.
Whether they can play together is another question.
I’m loving this managerial appointment see-saw more than any transfer window of the last 10 years. At least AFC fans are genuinely intrigued & interested about the subject matter. Danish Gooner & Guns of SF -> you guys are spot on I also love the fact that all gooners are stating their opinion for the best interest of the club rather than a person. This is what the club needed for at least last 12 years. Long may it continue. And I’m super happy to see the AKBs nitpicking on any comment that is outside of their domain… i.e. against… Read more »
Seri slotted in there as its the rumor, i’d prefer someone more in the vein of Illaramendi whose had a very good season but ideally younger as he’s coming down from the upside. Dahoud and Tousart both look the business at 21.
It’s all banter regardless with Ozil going nowhere to fund those moves.
Selling Xhaka, Mustafi, Ospina, Welbeck, Chambers, Bellerin and Ramsey easily fetches enough for a rebuild job. Probably close to a 150 million if we sold them.
If anyone thought we’d sign up Arteta and suddenly become Man City they are deluded. There is a lot of damage to repair within the squad. We do not have the resources of the oil clubs so expect some shrewd dealings in the market. Some gems to be unearthed both in the market and within the current arsenal squads. Emery looks like a man who can sort out a mess and operate under this amazing new system Gazidis set up that you have been wanking over for months Pedro. Arteta sounded like he wasn’t so on board with that. Also… Read more »
Fabinho is going to PSG?
A shame, but at the same time we should go hard for Rabiot. 1 year left of his contract, talked us up before, has been talking about leaving lately. Would be a massive upgrade on Xhaka and could play alongside Ramsey or if he leaves someone like Doucoure or N’dombele.
One good thing about Wenger buggering off and Pedro’s post today is there’s a lot of new posters on here with new opinions.
Would still have preferred don Carlo or Pv4 but at least it’s not looking like our insipid ex captain.
Tactics and changing formation will be a huge help in getting back to a champions league place
And as long as xhaka isn’t our Dm next season we should be alright.
Or… Pedro is the highly paid devil’s advocate… In that case, hats off to you mate for killing two birds with one stone 🙂
Pedro
You must concede, when it came to the competence of Gazidis I was always right.
Marko
Probably closer to 170-180 mil, not counting our original budget.
So yeah, the money would be there if we wanted it enough, do we have the ambition though? Doubt it.
They’re really running with this Ramsey key to Emery’s plans nonsense. If he was key wouldn’t they have signed him up already? And they do realize that he’s not world class right? In fact he’s one of those players who hinders us when he plays especially from a defensive end.
Marko
If the trio sold that lot, i’d be very excited.
Barring Bellerin. Whom I think will flourish under the proper management, not the go and express yourself brief he’s been given thus far.
From what I have read, I am all behind this appointment, should it actually materialise. UE is not just a chequebook manager and three European cups on the bounce is not something easy to achieve. As they say, one is an accident, two is a coincidence, three is an enemy action. Slight paraphrasing needed here 😉 Sure, there are the few hiccups, like not winning a single away game in a season. Continuing with the above, that’s like a massive thermonuclear strike. But then again, he looks like a smart fella and pretty sure that taught him a thing or… Read more »
Pointless trying to move Özil, he just signed on huge money. You’re all fed up with him but he’s still an elite chance creator. Can operate in a 433 too.
For instance you could do,
Mhki Auba Özil
Ramsey (DM) AMN
Nacho Greek (CB) Héctor
(GK)
When used in a system that suits him, Ramsey is way better than Ozil when played in a free role. For a start he will press from the front and I think a new manager and a new buzz around the club will really boost him.
Bamford
Its a dream but we need to sell to buy more for sure!
Can we recoup another 100M in sales?
150M will be enough to get about 4-5 really good players in.
give or take
Its going to be an interesting summer for sure….