The real season starts here people. We had a nightmare opener, the worst in 20 years, and don’t kid yourself, Wenger wouldn’t have come away with anything more impressive than Emery.
We now have 8 games to find our stride. Work out who can do what. Find the best 11. Search out missing form. Rack up 24 points. Go into the Liverpool game living our best damn lives.
Well, that’s the plan. If we can achieve 21-24 points, that’ll have us within spitting distance of the top 2 or 3 teams and it’ll give us a tremendous platform to push through into the dark months of November and December.
Emery has a few very important jobs to do in the next few months.
Firstly, he needs to establish who is first choice centre midfield. I appreciate he’s mixing up his formations, but I feel like we need to find a bit of consistency. If the problem you’re seeing is the problem that’s been at Arsenal for the last 3 years, just nix it. I think LT and MG are going to be a solid choice. I also think Emery has to give up the idea that Ozil is going to be able to do the defensive side of playing as a modern #10. He can’t do it for Germany, he won’t be able to do it for Arsenal. Put him out on the right.
Up front, it seems like he’s settled on Auba. Lacazette is a lethal finisher, but he doesn’t allow us to stretch teams because of his lack of pace.
I’d imagine he’ll continue to play Petr Cech who has done nothing to suggest he’d be dropped tomorrow. I also think the defence is settled until Koscielny comes back. Under any normal circumstances, Bellerin would be dropped, but I struggle to see how the manager can roll with a 34-year-old in the Premier League. We’ll see though.
It’s a big game tomorrow. West Ham have a very good manager, he’ll have made the right changes in the week and they’ll come all guns blazing tomorrow.
Hopefully we tear them a new one!
Right, last chance on the podcast. See you on the other side.
Gambon, I’m not an apologist for Ozil but we don’t know what’s wrong.
You on the other hand appear to dig him out repetitively. Yesterday it was statistically, today you jump on in with racist nonsense (lazy Turk). There can’t be an Arsenal fan who is happy with Ozil’s start to the season but continually posting attack after attack is trolling in my view.
PedroPhile America called we don’t want your politically correct horse hockey here, take it back to Londonstan with the rest of the scared Englishmen to speak their minds.
Btw Arsenal 2
West Ham 2
If this isn’t a proper performance with a distinct style and formation, coupled with a nice win…I think it would be safe to assume Arsenal hired the Spanish Wenger.
As for Ozil. The guy is obviously mentally ill. He doesn’t want to play football anymore. Arsenal should release him ASAP. There can be no more debate about this bug eyed squid.
Ars 3 vs westham 1
le grove on fire with pond life this morning!
There’s no just helping for some folks on here,thought Wenger was the harbinger of their misery, how wrong was I eh,I mean months after the man’s departure,the doom and gloom continues to thicken
Today probably should tell us alot about Emery,A convincing performance is just as important as the 3points.I mean it doesn’t get easier than a poverty West Ham team full of pensioners and journeymen.
The club is rotten. That’s why people are still a bit gloomy.
Emery is like wallpapering when the roof has caved in.
“The contract is another thing for his agent and the club but we want and I need his focus only on training, only on the match and on his performance each day.”
In other words Emery wants Ramsey to do better. Which is so refreshing
Guns are you STILL a supporter of the club?
Marko
Ramsay CANT do better. He’s at his limit.
Emery, if he is to be taken seriously, needs to sell the Welshman ASAP.
But Arsenal, as they always do, will cave in to a shit players demands.
Ozil and Ramsay will cost £550,000 pw.
Lolz
A lot of fans thinking Ozil has been dropped, interesting, massive respect for Emery if he has done. It was Neville talking about the Chelsea game and backing Emery who said that no one has called Ozil out about laziness like Emery did before the Chelsea game and he then took him off halfway through the second half and now potentially might have dropped him.
That is good work by Emery.
Today then no question it should be Torreira, Guendouzi, Mkhitaryan in the middle and then Iwobi, Aubameyang/Lacazette, Welbeck/Aubameyang up front.
I mean months after the man’s departure,the doom and gloom continues to thicken…A convincing performance is just as important as the 3points.
We’re okay Vic it’s you and Pierre who are the misery merchants around here. Everyone is expecting a win
Vic
Not really.
Why do people keep giving them attention?
fingers crossed we can a) sell ozil either in Jan or in the summer and b) get an adequate replacement…
Loyika First game of the season, so both City and Arsenal were not playing at top gear. I don’t buy your narrative that City could have switched gears as they wished. I saw them gave it their all for 90 mins. I also saw Arsenal press like a team to good effect. In fact their keeper had to hoof it out of play on 2 or 3 occasions, and he even made a direct pass to Ozil under pressure. I have not seen that type of sustained collective pressing under Wenger. So yes, I repeat, there were some positive signs… Read more »
Guendouzi was a Mislintat spot.
Also Ozil is ill… after two games… after the summer he just had… with an 2 week international break/holiday coming up? No really. The wet sponge is surprising no one. Enjoy the break Mesut you’ve earned it what was it 17 touches in his last game.
We’re okay Vic it’s you and Pierre who are the misery merchants around here. Everyone is expecting a win
What.You mean the same people who always want the team to do well regardless of who the manager is?Dont suppose it’s been an easy adjustment for you though , I mean from desperately want the team to fail last season to suddenly now hoping for the win at all cost, even if it’s a scrappy win.
I actually think jokes are on those who think ‘supporting’ a club is like a pack of wafers were you can pick and drop according to your whims,i believe lessons have been harshly learnt and you do now know exactly how it feels when you want your club to succeed and bring even the smallest of joys but has other people questioning the manager and the clubs ambitions in the quest for success.
Just so unfair looking at the city’s squad and that of the ‘rivals’ for the league title,Shows you how far Money has brought disrepute to the sport, I mean this was a middling club before the influx of oil money, Probably has the title on a lock for the foreseeable future
@Pierre ” Not sure what the amount he earns has to with it…. ( Re: Ozil) Pierre it’s simple; 1. He’s not worth that money 2. He’s a waste of Fucking money. 3. No-one else would pay him that money based on his performances over the last few seasons. 5. We could have a much more productive players/players for £350k s week. 6. His performances are embarrassing for us to be paying him that money in the PL, for what we get back. 7.He is weak and puts in minimal effort for £350k what message does this send to other… Read more »
Money has not bought the game in to disrepute, Vic.
Arsenal are far wealthier than all but six clubs in the world…so today’s game against West Ham should be a walkover based on “money”.
If money brings the game into disrepute, Arsenal are as guilty as anyone.
I hate the “season starts now” mentality. This was the same type of thinking that Wenger cultivated in last decade here and it is such a defeatist attitude. Our season started 2 weeks ago and yes we lost both our opening matches but the key for me is this. Are we going to learn from them so that when Chelsea come back to the Emirates in the second we can get a win? The same for Man City when go over there? If we learn from our mistakes and eliminate them this would be progress. Losing is ok as long… Read more »
@Vic, I mean a new manager comes in and he’s not been put over a barrel to play players he perceives to be SHIT because at the end of the day it’s on him to deliver results,…” As suggested before maybe it’s part of his clean slate method. Players have been given a chance. At least he’s not mucking around in getting the underperforming players off. Which has been a breath of fresh air. I’m No longer screaming” get him off.. ” only for Weng to do nothing and start them the next match with regularity. “You play Shit this… Read more »
(Sorry for the long post guys )
Don’t apologise you summed up how most Arsenal fans, pundits, football writers and just about anyone who watches football feels about him these days.
No such thing as the season starts again. 6 points lost, forever ,this season. Wenger had done Untold damage and the club is paying for it, and will for sometime. I’d think, like in the corporate world, Afc needs to stop the bleeding and do whatever it takes in our control. Ozil has a mega contract and Ramsey has the upperhand on contract front. Financially, Afc is already screwed and can’t undo it. Be wise and don’t sink further and pay Ramsey more than he deserves. That’s probably 150k pw max, assuming he’s healthy. Let him train with the ‘reserves’… Read more »
If money brings the game into disrepute, Arsenal are as guilty as anyone.
230 million in wages… but no it’s those pesky oil people
Özil is in danger of becoming our club’s most expensive flop. He needs to get over himself and focus on what got him there… that is football.
Marko
Exactly. The apologists excuse.
The money issue is as tired as the reasoning behind our failures.
Leeds
Ozil is already our most expensive flop. This is in no doubt.
A Wenger Fuck You if ever I saw one.
Arshavin left the club, not on a bang but a whimper. Özil, at this rate is going to leave the club without making a sound.
He has the chance to rescue his reputation and his career by putting in the hard work and focussing on his football. Please Mesut… take it!
Arshavin was the most sought after midfielder in Europe when we stumbled across him.
What did Wenger do? Take an amazingly talented player and destroy him.
Arsenal F.C. is a graveyard.
He has the chance to rescue his reputation and his career by putting in the hard work and focussing on his football
What else is he focusing on? Also you understand hard work and Ozil don’t go together. Try Ozil and illness or Ozil and yagunnersya on the end of a Instagram post
Mark,
So he played with , I mean by himself in his bedroom
Please Stop. Lol
marko
you mean ja gunners ja… lol
Step one for Özil – stop looking for excuses for your poor performances, have the integrity to stand up by your performances. Take responsibility. Step two – what is it with these mysterious illnesses? You have all the money in the world, get it sorted out if it is a problem. If it is a long standing condition or your trying to manage it… come clean and be frank with what you’re dealing with. Right now it looks like you are stringing the club and her fans along. Step three – learn from your mistakes… and work to improve. Step… Read more »
*to do
Wolves have started off well.
Grimandi was our main scout in France. Any reason to believe he had nothing to do with is signing Guendouzi? According to Emery we were already on the case before he arrived.
Pleases me to no end to know that both Pierre and Victorious are having such a miserable time under a new Arsenal manager. You now both have a taste of what it was like for a great many of us under Arsene Wenger, for a far longer period of time
Enjoy the ride! Hahahahaha
Grimandi was our main scout in France. Any reason to believe he had nothing to do with is signing Guendouzi? According to Emery we were already on the case before he arrived.
He said it was Sven though. And let’s be honest what has Grimandi done in the last few years? He’s our main scout in France and we kind of stopped buying French players there for a while. Not necessarily blaming him he was working for one of the biggest ditherers in the history of the transfer market
Özil I’ll again? Is it his immune system that’s the problem or he’s having some depressing issues?.
Wish him well though.
Mark
Brilliant post on Ozil.
100% correct in everything you say.
As for @Pierre and @victorious, they are broken.
Fixing them is an impossibility.
Let them stay in their permanent state of denial.
For them the world is flat, the skies are pink and the seas are yellow.
They will never admit their own failings but will be the first to point the finger at others.
Ozil must suffer from mental health problems. Can’t always be a physical illness with him.
If we played the way Wolves are playing City now.Everyone would have tipped us contender under the new management.To me we still look like under Wenger.It will change gradually I hope for the better
Wolves 1 up to the good, not good for my fantasy team but good on them
Bishop,
“If we played the way Wolves are playing City now.Everyone would have tipped us contender under the new management.To me we still look like under Wenger.It will change gradually I hope for the better”
The Wolves manager has been there for over one season so it’s fair to say the players know his methods already.
He’s a FC Porto manager with very good Portuguese players who already know how he wants to play.
Mendy must see the hand ball by the scorer.
Great short corner goal from Wolves. Up 1-0 on City.
That was not a penalty
Silva kicked his own leg and fell over. Good job Atkinson.
Handball goal
Oops
Should have all voted for VAR
GOH
Is an Arsenal supporter of the highest order.
The problem is, he has reached base camp 4.
Little or no air to breath, where altitude sickness kicks in and the summit is nothing but a distant dream.
To a degree, I understand how he feels.
Years of Wenger have destroyed his belief and trust in everything Arsenal.
Dissenter,
I know,just pointing that was the expectation but it’s easier said than done and it would take time.
Wolves very unfortunate there. Still a threat on the counter
Don’t begrudge a man(GOH)the chance to express his true feelings.
Oops! 1-1.
bishop
the way you wrote that, I thought wolves were a goal up..
So it’s true, Man City have signed Tom Daley as their new diving coach.
That fucking idiot Xhaka in the lineup again?!?!
That being said West Hams central pairing of Jack and Sanchez is utterly woeful
Only change is Ramsey for Ozil. Illness they say. Can’t find his testicles I heard
Ozil has testicultis.
Emery challenged him to do more and his testes are reacting to that challenge.
Ozil has flu, out of the squad. Last chance for Ramsey.
I hope this Mr Emery isn’t gradually destroying Torriera’s confidence.Player of such needs to be given all the confidence to kick start.He keeps playing Xhaka who at some point he takes off after been shit.
I will keep Iwobi based on last week’s form but no way Xhaka starts ahead of T11.
Emerys going to force Bellerin and Xhaka down our throat no matter what. Its time I accept this.
Odds on Xhaka scoring?
Looks like Man City will only get 112pts this season.
When the going get tough – the flu get ozil
Good to see our £350k a week star player is there when we need him ….
Mesut out “sick” again..
Ramsey at the #10 again?!?
Emery has us playing underdog football again smh.
The hammers aren’t City/Chelsea level, so we’ll have more possession by default.
Expect us to win because of individual quality, but no collective play. Not happy with this XI though.
Spot on Bishop.
Xhaka must play like Busquets during training because he’s in the starting lineup again. Unbelieveable.
I know Cech had a good game last game but if I was Leno I would be annoyed at the very least.
City should have a couple of penalties.
Jorge Mendes has the referee on the payroll.
Fucking Freddie Mercury had a better immune system than Ozil
I must say I do like the look of that Diego Jota lad
Why didn’t we try to get a B-grade winger like Adama Traore?
Adamas looked lively so far, got the physique of a boxer
“Adamas looked lively so far, got the physique of a boxer”
The man will tear Hector apart
I don’t ‘t think Torriera is ready to play 90 minutes
Besides this game has a Xhaka masterclass all over int.
Xhaka tends to play well against teams like Westham.
Emery’s call to start him is right.
Stop press!
Ozil was dropped!
City should have a couple of penalties.
Jorge Mendes has the referee on the payroll.
Aguero dived and David Silva kicked Neves’s leg. Bullshit
Traore is a beast.
Wolves giving a good account of themselves.
I believe Traore is the fastest player in the league.
What up cvnts?
Torreira a £26m signing. Leno a £22m signing. Both on the bench?
Who do we think we are, Man City? Lol.
Emery making a point just to make a point?
It’s likely that he was being dropped. I don’t believe Ozil is suffering with “illness” I didn’t believe it last season either
Ramsey should have been dropped for Laca, it’s West Ham we are playing ffs.
What is up with the weird new gravatars?
Emery couldn’t bless us with a 4-2-3-1/4-3-3
formation. Ramsey #8 with one of Xhaka/Torreira, Iwobi plus Mkhitaryan ahead of them and Lacazette partnering Aubameyang up front on the lush Emirates carpet???
Yellow card for Mister Unai. Likeable man, but questionable choices. Hope we score five today
Apparently Ozil had a training ground bust up with Lichsteiner and Emery on Thursday. He was dropped over that.
‘Stop press!Ozil was dropped!z’
Check press!
Ozil called in sick. He’s off to Istanbul on Sunday. He’s just getting his juices ready for miss Turkey.
Marko
Thought the Aguero one was a penalty
Ill say it again. ALL of wengers babies have to go. All ‘Wengerized’ players have to go. Again let me break down what ‘Wengerized’ is. 1. Mentally weak. Unable to self motivate. Lacking courage and bravery. Willing to take excuses when presented by others. No real remorse when guilty of not leaving it all on the pitch. (How many times did Walcott say “we’ve had a player meeting to addresss whats been happeneing” only for the same lack of effort to be shown in the very next game. Blames fans. 2. Physically weak. Lacking solid physical frames (athleticism) to deal… Read more »
‘Apparently Ozil had a training ground bust up with Lichsteiner and Emery on Thursday. He was dropped over that.’
Where did you hear/read that !?
Its annoying when the better team starts diving all over the field.
Neither of the city ” penalties” was real
Why doesn’t the league have VAR?
The wolves goal would have been ruled out .
Torreira must be shit if he can’t dislodge Xhaka hahaha
flappianski and Jack in the side. we should be crushing them. sadly I can’t watch the game. just my luck, someone’s in the hospital and I gotta go visit…
Wolves are very good.
City should have won though, the crossbar must be still be hurting by now.
I’m starting to worry about Torreira, if he can’t dislodge Xhaka something is wrong there
Ramsey at CAM most likely and not Mkhitaryan which is annoying
Cesc
Actually Xhaka may be the better option for Westham, to start at least.
Xhaka has a reputation for being a very completive player in training.
Nothing to do with Torriera
Lots of new players don’t get up and running immediately