Quick post from me, namely because I feel like Arsenal needed to get through the first two games pointless so the real season can kick off. Remember, Chelsea > Champions of 2 seasons ago, City > Champions of last season. Those were the two toughest games of the season (first half), now they’re done and we’ve learned a bit.
Unfair Advantage:
Nothing triggers wounded AKBs quite like me reminding them that the reason the job of Emery is so tough this season is because Wenger neglected the squad and its education so badly over the last ten years. Our boys are like 13-year-olds who’ve been homeschooled in the woods. There’s a lot of talent in our squad, but they’re not educated tactically and they’re a long way off mentally. You do not shake the Wenger out of that squad in two games. Those opening 20 minutes are a byproduct of yesteryear.
Chelsea, on the other hand, has far fewer challenges. I know Sarri inherited a club in chaos, but at the same time, he picked up players who’d been managed by Mourinho, then fine-tuned by Conte. They are winners who lost their way last season. The whole squad is slammed full of exceptional players. The whole club is built around success. It’s going to be far easier for Sarri to make things happen.
Now, that’s not to say Emery is going to get away with this for long. The defence is a mess, his starting 11 was a mistake, and the team looked like they were caught between systems. Nothing looked particularly cohesive. Bielsa at Leeds has been at the club the same amount of time as Emery and he has them playing an exceptional style of football already. You don’t need 3 months to make progress. Remember, Leeds finished 13th last season.
So how about some postive talk?
The response:
We failed hard conceding two goals in the opening 20 minutes. That would normally be the start of a humiliation, but to Emery’s credit the team found the spirit to fight back. By the end of the first half, we’d not only pulled two goals back courtesy of Iwobi and Mikhi, we’d also managed to spurn three open goals (and an easy chance). Ozil missed early on, Iwobi fired over and Auba had an uncharacteristic disaster in front of the target. We should have been 5-3 up.
Petr Cech:
Arsenal fans are crowing over the glorious failure of losing on the technicality of conceding more goals than the opposition, but having the better chances… but the reality is, Chelsea’s keeper wasn’t anywhere near the MoM (he was shite), but Cech was. The Czech had and OUTSTANDING game. Incredible what a bit of competition can do for the spirits. Time and time again, when he was called upon, he made the right decision.
The Subs:
Again, you have to temper your praise for the new manager sometimes because Wenger was just that bad, but fuck it, Emery made BOLD subs.
He took Xhaka off at halftime again for Torreira, my question was: Why did he make the same mistake twice? He also yanked Ozil off on 70minutes after his typical top 6 #DisasterClass. I know making logical changes shouldn’t be a big deal, but at least subs are now chess moves, rather than the click of a switch in an entirely predictable process.
Guendouzi:
He had a poor game against City. You can’t paint a game positive just because a professional doesn’t hide (I know I was guilty of this). However, yesterday he really came into his own. I love his aggression and quick passing. He’s showing up Xhaka and I love it. He’s a real player in the making.
The worry:
Emery has to shape up. It’s clear he’s struggling to get across his ideas and he looks like he’s making some very odd decisions that could add up to issues further down the line. He’s hitting players with double sessions, he’ll no doubt be pulling them in for a video analysis slamming tomorrow, and he’s making big moves on big players before he’s proved anything.
Benching Aaron Ramsey was a big move. Pulling Xhaka off early was embarrassing for the Swiss. Pulling Ozil off after a terrible game was brave. These things can start to add up when things go wrong. Expensive personalities have big opinions. Emery could quickly alienate himself at a club he doesn’t really understand or control at this moment.
Also, what a fucking scenario… our worst performers all have new deals.
Anyway, my point with this Emery shake up is that he doesn’t have the luxuries Wenger had.
1. Emotional Connection
He’s not the charismatic leader we’d hoped for. He struggles to communicate in press conferences and he doesn’t have the swagger of any of the managers in the top 7. That might seem like a minor observation, but remember, he’s dealing with footballers. He’s also dealing with a very aggressive press core. He was destroyed by the French, and they’re children compared to the monsters that run the rags here.
I know you think this point is weak, but look at how much Mourinho gets away because he’s a sound bite. Jurgen Klopp is a darling of the media because of his smile and charisma. Nearly all the modern managers in the game are good in front of the camera, and great for the soundbites. We don’t have that. Though Emery is more of a football student than Wenger, he’s certainly not the charmer the Frenchman was. That is costing him after one game, the press have already lined him up as the next David Moyes. Once the narrative about you is set, it’s hard to shake it.
2. Player power
This is not Sevilla. This is Arsenal. We are a major club. You have to treat the players a certain way, or you’ll have the players down tools. We’re a long way off that, but Arsenal players couldn’t get Wenger fired, they could easily get Emery moved on.
Remember, Emery tanked a one horse race in his first year at PSG because the players didn’t get him. He cannot afford the same mistakes again.
Also, remember what Ivan Gazidis passed on when making his decision.
He didn’t opt for prodigious talent
He didn’t opt for a manager who is the talk of the elite managers’ fraternity
He didn’t opt for wild charisma
He didn’t opt for ‘proven winner’
He went for safe because he’s weak.
The players know that, and if our next ten games don’t pan out well, the club is in big, big trouble… and where will Ivan be? Milan, working on a new project for a hedge fund.
There are 24 points to play for before the Liverpool game. The run is fairly easy. We need to bring home at least 21 points.
Emery needs to start making it happen, because the press, the pundits and the fans won’t tolerate Wenger 2.0 for long.
There are positives for sure, but don’t pretend glorious failure is something we haven’t seen before.
barney 75
Exactly.
I thought Emery had twigged how useless Bellerin is when he mentioned Danny at RB.
No Bellerin, no Ozil, and no Xhaka in defensive mode.
Michael
Mix up the tactics. Don’t play a predictable game like Wenger.
With a caveat, getting a group of players to understand your philosophy often means insisting on playing a particular way CONSISTENTLY. Something akin to developing muscle memory
I am not saying playing long balls is wrong per se.
However we were cruising at the end of 1st half and had an advantage. We should have carried on with playing our way at the start of 2nd half rather than waiting for chelsea to force the issue as Hazard change was always on cards.
Michael
It is a problem if we continue to play ponderous, one-paced balls across the back four/keeper with players who do not have the basic football ability. Look back at how the Chavs closed down on our defenders at goal-kicks and how many times Cech was unable to get the ball out of the 18-yard box. It is the basic tactic which is wrong.
I think you are confusing playing out the back with the notion of the keeper-sweeper
We had th e wrong manager on our touchline. It took sarri a whole preseason to know azpi shpuld be
Michael ”It is a problem if we continue to play ponderous, one-paced balls across the back four/keeper with players who do not have the basic football ability” So this problem will see even more of this with Leno in the team no? We keep on being told that Leno is a good sweeper keeper. But you seem to be against the concept of sweeper keeper itself. I saw the team struggling at the back with it with Leno in the team in a friendly and made the point it’s all well and good sweeper keeper but you need to know… Read more »
One of the big problems that was really noticeable yesterday was that playing out from the back doesn’t work because both Xhaka and Guendouzi drop deep for the ball playing a matter of feet away from the CBs when they turn around there is literally no one in the midfield because Ozil is off hiding somewhere which means it becomes predictable where the ball is going, either wide or back. As we don’t have actually wingers with pace who can beat a man pressing the wide areas becomes easy and playing it back to CBs and a GK who don’t… Read more »
Look we can talk all day and night about tactics this and formation that I think we’re finally coming to the realization that it’s certain players not being good enough that’s the problem and until they are addressed in the transfer market we’re going to go through ups and downs all season. The only hope we can have now is to get as much points as we can until the new year hopefully make a couple purchases that can help us get over the line for the champions league places and then go again in the summer only this time… Read more »
“There’s a lot of talent in our squad, but they’re not educated tactically and they’re a long way off mentally. You do not shake the Wenger out of that squad in two games. ”
Amen to that – and good luck to Emery, he’s gonna need some.
Especially with some fans like DDG or GoH…
Country boy
.Like I said in one of my posts, nothing wrong with the tactic, we just need to commit to it.
Nothing wrong with a lot of tactics but you have to have the players to enable that tactic to be deployed and that back 4 aren’t equipped to play high.
There’s a lot of talent in our squad, but they’re not educated tactically and they’re a long way off mentally. You do not shake the Wenger out of that squad in two games. ” Amen to that – and good luck to Emery, he’s gonna need some I agree in part with that but a bad defender is a bad defender and I don’t know if there’s a manager in world football who can get Ozil at 29 to start giving a shit. There was always going to be a big worry defensively because there’s little evidence that simply hiring… Read more »
Marko Without doubt. This team has no future going forward but Emery has to get what he can out of them. In January I think we need to make buys that help the system he wants to play but are not necessarily the quality of player we will want to see in the team in 3 or 4 years time, stepping stone players like Liverpool have bought and then replaced. Emery is going to have to have some balls though, because there are some tough choices coming up in terms of who he sells, or tries to. I would be… Read more »
I would be trying to get Xhaka and Ozil sold in January, Ramsey as well but if he signs a contract with someone I would try and get a loan fee for him until the end of the season.
Maybe loan with a buy option for Ozil I’d use Xhaka to try to sign another midfielder. Dahoud from Dortmund or Sanson from Marseille. I think we’ll be stuck with Ramsey
Marko
Swaps are the way forward I think, can get a bit more value for each of the players.
Ozil I really have no idea how we would even begin to get rid of him unless he wants to go China or the MLS.
Brilliant assist for Ederson
CA in a world where midfielders are going for 40-50 million and we’re worried about trying to get back the 35 million we paid for Xhaka we might be better off looking for swaps. Only issue is whether the player wants to be difficult
City look pretty fucking good. Jesus on the left looks very effective. Mendy looks great going forward
So everyone agrees that Emery needs time and money…he won’t get both anytime soon.
What exactly is the point then?
City are unstoppable
Mendey involved in so much what a good player.
To many Carsey brush hairstyles for me on players .
“he won’t get both anytime soon.”
Why won’t he?
The man needs to bring in his own players instead of dealing with the dreck that was left by Wenger.
What must it be like for Wenger’s spoilt pets? Poor things, no more hugs and kisses, sympathetic shrugs, languid run-abouts, and no longer plenty of time-off for the least niggle. No wonder then that Ozil is so sullen and that Ramsey is deliberately intransigent. Nor is it surprising that Bellerin resents being told he is a right back when he knows(because Uncle Arsene told him) that he is really a right winger or that Xhaka thinks it unfair to expect him to defend because (as Uncle Arsene explained) he was there to make distance passes and shoot from long range.… Read more »
For those soppy fools even mentioning Wenger and the early(miniscule) comparison with Emery:; I say this :the defense is a Wenger construct. It’s disorganised, has no leader, is soft, lacks physicality and has a player (bellerin) that cannot be classed as a defender whatsoever.
im starting to lose faith in Emery. How do you persist with xhaka and topknot (bellerinend) for 2 games vs 2 of the best teams in the prem. I predicted that xhaka and bellerin would cost us the game. Bellerin being dragged out of position and xhaka bypassed time and time again. one of the main issue is the lac of protections for our wingers ;). Topknot is already suspect yet mikhitaryan is made to cover for him who was notoriously benched due to his lack of defensive game by mourinho. i think we need to do an athletico madrid… Read more »
Emery is in a bad spot for two principal reasons: one, he has a relatively weak and unbalanced squad; two, the approach he is trying to implement isn’t well-suited to our current personnel. However, there are a number of simple things he can do to improve the situation immediately. These include: 1. Drop the high press and switch to a deep-sit and counter-attacking approach. The latter suits our personnel better, suits both our shortcomings and our strengths better. 2. Start Lacazette and Aubameyang together in a 4-4-2. We have two good central strikers and no real wide players; we have… Read more »
So everyone agrees that Emery needs time and money…he won’t get both anytime soon. What exactly is the point then?
I mean he won’t get much time if people like yourself won’t shut up criticizing him every 5 mins. Look the Arteta boat has sailed move on. What exactly is the point… what does that mean what do you suggest then?
For the first time in ages I’ve read all the comments and there’s a lot if sense being talked. I think the realisation of what a shit show we are is slowly dawning on people. Our club is a mess simple as.. Dick Emery is doing his best but Jesus look at the players he’s got for fuck sake!! The debate today is whether Iwobi could be the answer or Wellbeck out wide)?? Simply the answer is NO but we have have to go with it.. Also this Sven bloke is culpable. All he’s done is raid Dortmund and spunk… Read more »
Elneny apparently surplus but we might as well keep him, play in Europa and then again try to use him to raise funds in January or as part of a swap deal.
If we send him out on loan, I just don’t get it.
A team is only as good as its players. Our defenders outside of nacho are all bad to terrible.
Marko I moan because I can see how this is going to play out. Look, I along with a few others saw signs way back in 2008/9 that Wenger was done. Remind me how long it took to finally rid the club of that leech? I’m not an idiot who thinks for a moment we could challenge for anything and I appreciate that without £400m we can’t really change the personnel en masse. However, what I can’t and refuse to accept that a manager who is getting £6m a year can’t see what armchair fans have seen for over two… Read more »
Actually, not everyone is talking sense, as some people are still talking about Kroenke being the problem.
We have a self-sustaining model which allows the manager, DoF and head scout a reasonable amount of money to spend. They have been handed a poor squad and they didn’t have a good enough first summer. So be it. They have some work to do and they’ll have to make some smarter decisions going forward.
Kroenke is beside the point.
Hackney
“Emery is a Wenger clone.”
Dumb. Emery is any number of things, but he isn’t this.
Bamford
I guess we’ll see.
I really think there’s a lot of hysterical OVER-REACTION to Emery We’ve lost to the team’s that win the last two league titles He has to develop his own ideas about the team by playing people. It seems Mislintat and the back room are working at odds from the manger because they have managed ti renew the contract of every player we need to get away from. Emery doesn’t rate El Neny yet he got an extension Xhaka will need to go, yet someone renewed his contract They let the Ramsey situation onto a place where he will gonflr free… Read more »
If some people had been as critical as quickly of Wenger as they have Emery we wouldn’t be as deep in the shit as we are right now.
*teams that won the last two league titles***
Guns, ‘not me though’ does that mean you’ll distance yourself from all things Arsenal including posting on here or continue to moan relentlessly?
Danny
It_ is a problem if we continue to play i think we need to do an athletico madrid and have 2 banks of 4. i would go for a back four of mon, sok, mus and lichsteiner who is a great defender. the next back 4 would have to be iwobi, gouen, tor and welbeck. yes welbeck. atleast he can trackback has real pace and the fitness to get up and down that wing.
This
Arsenal. A real professional outfit.
Phffftttt.
For years we mocked other clubs’ policies and sniffed our noses at them…well, well, well.
There’s an old saying “be careful what you say to the people on the way up as you might see them again on the way down”
Hackney is talking a lot of trash.
I have to say it’s annoying because he would have placed the club in the hands of a novice.
Pedro is in the same boat. Deep down he’s still smarting that Arteta wasn’t appointed.
Can you imagine is a novice football manger was then one trying to sort out Wenger’s mess right now.
All that talk about emery lacking charisma??? To blazes with that nonsense.
Maybe emery should just say fuck it an play the team he wants to play…
Something like
Leno
Bel sok manavoups Monreal
Matty Torriera
Mikki
Nelson laca Aubameyang
Dissenter
I agree, I do a lot of trash talking but I am right.
I get that Arteta would have been a gamble, totally! But, it would have been something different. Peter is right…Emery is a bit bland.
Two games in and Sarri is already creating a bit of a cult.
Emery is no Charles Manson.
I wonder if there’;s too ouch duplicity in the way there club is managed.
Sometimes it’s better to have one individual responsible for transfers and not the multi-layered system we have.
Why did they let Ramsey and Welbeck go over the transfer deadline. They will most likely leave for free next sunmer- that’s 40-45 million lost. That’s a lot of money for a club being run on a self-sufficiency principle.
Hackeny
Emery is bland because we lost to two clubs who have won three of the last four league titles?
Poch is more bland and is doing well after a tough first season with spuds.
You’re a wrong…and dead wrong.
You do have a way of moaning that makes people agree jest in or to help you through your sorrow.
Why is Arteta still an assistant is he was so good?
Arteta’s only
***Why is Arteta still an assistant if he was so good?
Dissenter
I’m so glad I garner pity for my obvious mental anquish from a bunch of online masterbators and creeps…
Let’s see where we are in May. I promise to keep my Arteta obsession under wraps.
There is nothing comparable to Wenger. That fraud wasn’t fit to manage in the last 8 years.
There are parrallels with Emery and Wenger re the inheritance of the defense. One inherited the finest defense ever seen in the prem , the other one of the worst in the current prem.
Those sitters that Auba, Miki and Iwobi missed look worse every time I look at them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DykgTA1nriQ
Aguero golden boot this season??
Wenker
Emery has a £120m frontline that doesn’t look like it could score in a brothel.
He bought some players that would look out of place in a pub team.
I moan because I can see how this is going to play out. Look, I along with a few others saw signs way back in 2008/9 that Wenger was done.
So you saw signs Wenger was finished over 10 years into the job and you can tell Emery is finished two games into the job? Is that right? A troll or not that’s pretty fucking ridiculous
Marko
Actually after losing the CL final to Barca there was a few warning signs. So yes, actually I did think that Wenger was done.
Also, if we disagree with each other it doesn’t mean I am a troll. It means we just disagree. Okay.
Hackney
“Emery has a £120m frontline that doesn’t look like it could score in a brothel.”
Another silly comment. You need to settle down, mate. You’re frustrated and talking nonsense. Yes, Aubameyang missed a couple of good chances; it happens. However, his record of goal-scoring and Laca’s record of goal-scoring are beyond question. Neither is world class, but both are very, very good. We simply need to use them properly.
guns
I refuse to accept that you were Wenger out back in 08/09. Only one person here was wenger out from a long time ago, that guy is gambon. Most people saw the light around the 10/11 season. are you seriously telling me you weren’t one of the blokes shouting “we would have won the league had eduardo not broken his leg”.
But on the plus side when emery fails you can say you called it before gambon. I’m sure you have your fingers crossed and are kneeling at your bedside at night praying for it to happen…
At least Redtruth doesn’t keep posting on and on. This Guns of Hackney character just keeps going on and on. Lots of nonsense too.
The ones that keep referring to Arteta really leaves me astonished. If an actual manager is finding the job difficult after a mere 70m spent I wonder how an assistant who learnt among other things how to spend 100’s of millions would have fared.
Arteta should never be made Arsenal manager until he has proven himself to be an actual first team manager
Hackney
Actually, some of the things you’re saying are so ridiculous that you do sound a bit of a troll. Calm down. Try to be reasonable.
Hackney you must realize there’s a difference in saying someone is finished after 10 years in a job and saying someone is finished after two games. You do realize that.
Guns,
Wenger bought strikers that are useful against average teams but not lethal and top quality like Costa, Kane, aguero,Salah.
Emery. Apparently given £50 million seems to have bought wisely within that budget and has an absolute gem in guendouzi.
As I’ve said. I’ll try and curtail my insanity.
Let’s wait and see this play out.
One thing about pressing vs. sitting: while I am recommending we sit instead of press — at least for the near future — if you replaced Sokratis with, say, Mavropanos, and if neither Ozil nor Xhaka was in the XI, I do actually think we could press effectively.
As long as Sokratis, Ozil and Xhaka are in the XI, though, I don’t think pressing makes sense.
I like it when he’s being funny but when Hackney starts talking Emery or Arteta he talks shite
Marko
You have my word that I will keep quiet about the dreamboat, Arteta and the Vanilla man, Emery.
I’ll only post racist jokes and right wing propaganda from now on.
Bamford, I think you’re wrong when you discount the importance of the ownership. He’s responsible for hiring Chief Exec and therefore indirectly the manager. He is also the person to decide if an injection of finances would be beneficial to re establish the club as a force. The concept of self contained financing is fine if the acquisition and development of players is successful. For a few years( under Kroenke’s ownership) this has patently failed which has left us with a squad which is weak by anybody’s judgement. Silent Stan is one thing, passive (my investment is fine so I’m… Read more »
A dream boat that apparently can only manage Arsenal. A prodigious talent that no one else is scrambling for. I remember a certain Paul Clement was regarded as such too simply because he sat beside Ancelloti.
RH
Time will tell. Arsenal’s loss was City’s gain.
2 competitive matches against top opposition and some are righting Emery off as a catastrophic hire. He definitely wasn’t my top choice but after enduring the back half of the Wenger years I think we can give this fella a bit latitude to achieve this season. Made some decisions yesterday we’ve been in dire need of, notably substitutions. He’s clearly in process of making this side his, signs all there to be seen. And if it doesn’t turn, now have a team in place with enough ruthlessness to move on if it gets really messy. But thats surely well down… Read more »
Wenger wilfully squandered our competitive advantage with the new stadium, he dismantled the Invincibles with undue bordering on obscene haste, he recognised Stan had no ambition other than financial, so he mirrored Stan for reasons of unlimited power at the club and survival. Wenger perennially lied to fans and I would imagine players as well, he promised success that he had no intention of fulfilling, he kept his powder dry to wait to. sign Chamakh, he refused to learn from the most humbling of defeats, he dithered when action was required, he refused to cede power, delegate or modernise. At… Read more »
I commented re Arteta some months back
Why would he even consider leaving MC.
Ambition or not he new exactly what was going on
at Arsenal.
And what it would take to rebuild this side of ours.
Did Arteta have a Steve Bould face on today “Did he fuck”.
Pep Guardiola is still City manager Guns.
Unless of course you are suggesting Arteta runs things there, that would actually sound better when compared to most of the stuff you come out with.
Where was the clamour for big investment 10 years ago, it was all about how Wenger was doing a fine job on limited funds and FFP…..
Gambon defintely wasn’t the only one on hear shouting Wenger out that 2008/9 season!
Guns is call
I noticed guns changed since Pedro was bugging up Gazidis a few years back. Guns hasn’t been the same since.
Cool*
guns
I’ll only post racist jokes and right wing propaganda from now on.
finally, some thing we can respect… lol
@david Smith,
Probably the best summation of Wenger I’ve ever read. Succinct yet comprehensive. Amber( or whatever these people are now called), should read your post.
Same
Ha ha…I’m still good. I’m just trying to keep things frothy.
RH
I am no longer making comments about Emery or Arteta. The ship has sailed.
I guess in May, we will have our answer.
And for the record, I absolutely do not want Emery to fail but I want Arsenal to be the best and I’m not sure Emery is that guy…I’ll be happy to be proved wrong.
Just finished watching MC vs Huddsfield. MC uses a formation 3 5 2 with two strikers leading the line. Someone should advise Emery to study this game.
Also I found out that when MC builds up the play from the back, even the strikers come back and offers an outlet. Our players are just not trained to play like that. I am afraid that the transition is going to be long and painful. We need to lower our expectation.
David Smith
The problem is you was late at ths party and should of hounded out Wenger 10 years ago.
Gons
I thought racism and abuse was the prerequisite to post on here!
Anyway, I have taken my meds and agreed not to give Emery a tough time.
I’m interested to see Stand reaction if by Christmas were still shit. If we continue to fall away from the top 4 his investment will start to lose value so will he change his ways and speculate to accumulate? If he sits on his hands, who will the fans blame? If he fires Emery who will come without the promise of funding? How bad does this have to get before he has no choice but to put some money in? Or… Can Emery turn this round? Could we look like a top 4 team by the end of the year?… Read more »
Guardiola has spent a fortune which gives him a big advantage over every manager.
Redruth, ‘David Smith’ you do write a load of drivel.
At least you didn’t sign off with lol….
Countryboy
” i think we need to do an athletico madrid and have 2 banks of 4. i would go for a back four of mon, sok, mus and lichsteiner who is a great defender. the next back 4 would have to be iwobi, gouen, tor and welbeck”
2 games too late mate… We dont need work horses in midfield for the next ten games as we will /should have more possesion of the football… At least for the home games anyway.
Pierre
True
gonsterous, I became a staunch Wenger-outer since the 08/09 season. It is pretty simple: Wenger is/was nothing without David Dein in the wings. His failure to grab the team by the neck after Eduardo’s leg break and the way we failed to keep the team together in the summer thereafter were two sackable offences in my book. Dein was ousted in April 2007. Granted, we made a couple of good buys in the summer of 2007 (Eduardo, Sagna), but the next summer was a complete clusterfuck. And no, I don’t believe for one second that we could not give Flamini… Read more »
You mean carthorses not workhorses.
MarkoAugust 19, 2018 14:19:20 So everyone agrees that Emery needs time and money…he won’t get both anytime soon. What exactly is the point then?I mean he won’t get much time if people like yourself won’t shut up criticizing him every 5 mins. Look the Arteta boat has sailed move on. What exactly is the point… what does that mean what do you suggest then? Exactly marko The man has taken over a team beset with issues ingrained throughout the culture at the club. He’s played two games against the two richest teams in the country with two of the best… Read more »
Mhkitarayan, I believe, should be our cam .. Yesterday he showed that if you give him the ball in the right areas he can damage the opposition.. He also showed that if you put him in the wrong areas, he can be a liability..
He showed last season his ability to pick out a team mate from the by line and is also capable of scoring 10/15 goals a season if played in the right position.
RedtruthAugust 19, 2018 15:52:21
Guardiola has spent a fortune which gives him a big advantage over every manager.
Red truth
Every now and then ou produce a nugget of truth
Well done son
I am angry with the AKB’s for denying Emery that little bit of extra quality which would make a difference.
I am angry with the AKB’s Board for denying Emery that little bit of extra quality which would make a difference.
Many whom became disillusioned with Wenger round 08/09 came and found Le Grove. It was the only space speaking of the obvious cracks appearing in Wengers armor at that time.
Credit to Geoff and Pedro for writing about it, having long family history with supporting club, not some Wenger upstarts creating a fanboy blog like others that knew nothing else.
“Remember, Emery tanked a one horse race in his first year at PSG because the players didn’t get him. He cannot afford the same mistakes again.” it was that same Monaco team that sent Pep and his team out of champions league that year, but you keep using not winning the lig1 that season against Emery knowing that apart from the fact that it was his first season there, that monaco team had player that sold for over 100 million (Mbape) and several others for 50 million pounds at the end of that season which should tell you how good… Read more »
It is clear, after two competitive games, that we have several players who, no matter how hard you drill them, are incapable of taking personal responsibility. Hector Bellerin, Mesut Ozil, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and, to a degree, PEA need constructive personal attention, or should I say some tough love. Neither one of these players has self awareness, which, in a team environment, is detremental to the collective unit. Going forward Bellerin can be a potent weapon, however, his defensive capabilities are, for the most part, atrocious. Ozil, no matter how hard you try and defend him, is a luxury we can… Read more »
Xhaka might not be good, but honestly our wide play and forward movements were anonymous when he was subbed. I know some will vehemently disagree with me but when an opinion is made of someone by certain people is difficult for them to think other wise.
Defensively he’s a liability but he gave us quick movement when we had to go up field and it caused a lot of problems for the chavs.
Mhiki over Ozil Pierre? I agree
Un na naai
You’re a joke for calling for Wenger’s return during yesterday’s game lol
Brighton deservedly ahead against United. My god United have problems with dominating possession. A long way from the Fergie years
Apparently the Arsenal owner is “beside the point” when discussing the future of the club.
Starting to think it’s just one dumb yank supporting his own.