What a wally I looked yesterday!
How could I doubt John Cross. The man from The Mirror came back from the dead. He stole the internet crown from David Ornstein. A GoT like plotline.
Aaron Ramsey is DONE with Arsenal.
Now, I really don’t know what the fuck is going on here. So here are some bits that I do know, mashed in with guesswork. I won’t tell you which is what to keep you on your toes.
Mesut Ozil getting £350k a week was a massive mistake.
Aaron Ramsey’s agent pushed for that number.
Arsenal has withdrawn the deal.
Now, something must have gone on here that was major.
Did his agent name the number and refuse to budge?
Did the club catch wind of a deal with another club?
Did Arsenal decide that the money Aaron wanted didn’t match his ability?
Was it a blend of all of the above?
Here’s my thinking on it. He’s just too expensive for what he gives to the team.
Aaron is a good player, I struggle to see the greatness.
He works best when he’s allowed to do what the fuck he wants. He’s not really fitting into the Emery system at the moment. There are younger players with a better record of fitness that could do his job.
Additionally, the club is severely short of talent that works in Emery’s system. We need a winger. We need a replacement for Koscielny. We’re going to need to upgrade at leftback. There are a lot of holes in the squad. I’m not sure the best place to invest £91m is on Aaron Ramsey over 5 years.
The next area of planning Arsenal need to address in the transfer market is hot young players in the mold of Torreira. Players like Sarr. Those that’ll come in on £50k a week, and maybe look like Dembele in 2 years.
If we’re going to splash out galactico money, we should be doing that on transfer fees, not on wages.
The worst thing to happen to Arsenal this year was tying Mesut down to a £18.2m deal over 4 years. It was a crazy moment driven by ego and misplaced fear. There was nothing ambitious about it. I said at the time, the best leverage Arsenal had was that no other club in Europe had gone near him. But we pulled the trigger because the press of losing him wouldn’t have reflected well on Ivan. Now Emery is in, he can’t use him as a 10 and if he’s played on the right, he clearly hates it and it doesn’t really click.
Here’s the question now on Rambo. Where is he going?
Juventus won’t pay him galactico money, because they don’t have it. The Milan rumour is fucking hilarious if true, Ivan promising to make him as rich as him at a new club.
Will he move to Chelsea? United? City? Will they pay him mega money? It’s hard to see it, because, despite his talent, he’s not disciplined because he’s never been properly coached (until this season).
Another guess, he’s pushing Arsenal for mega money, if he doesn’t get it, he’ll chase trophies.
Whatever the deal, if Arsenal has pulled out of negotiations, I trust the decision. We have footballing brains on the team now. Raul will have made the case money wise, Sven and Emery will be looking at his data and comparing what they could buy for that money elsewhere, and the decision will be a sound one.
It’s sad that he wants to move on. I’ll always have a soft spot for him. I think the real issue is the loss of control over the narrative. Ramsey will now come under intense scrutiny. His body language, perceived effort, dedication, how hard he goes into challenges… and ultimately, he’s likely going to become a target of fan angst… and that’s a shame.
It’s like living in the same house as a partner you’ve broken up with. It’ll be sunshine and rainbows for a month, because you’re mature people. Then something will happen. He’ll drop a stinker against Spurs, and that’ll be it. Game over. Get the f*ck out of my house you selfish bitch, how could you do this to me! GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY CAT!
Anyway, sad times, but fuck it… we’ll move on, we’ll find better, we’ll survive his loss. Hardly an RVP or Cesc moment.
Finally, how can you not look at that picture at the top of the blog and not feel a little sad? Project British Youth was the most miserable failure of Wenger’s tenure. The vision was interesting, but the execution was diabolical. You know why? Shite coaching. Imagine those players under Klopp? We’d be in a very different place right now…
Wipe those tears, we’re done.
Phil Thompson devastated Arsenal have scored.
Thomson is gutted we scored
Emery-train marches on
Now see the game off please
There’s Iwobi. Like I said, deserves the start. Working hard.
Own goal, was it?
#EmeryIn
Now we can just pick them off.
Get in! Couldn’t see us scoring
Cesc
Yep. Incredibly lucky today
Delicious.
Especially tasty.
OGoalllllllllllllllllllll
Love it. Some please call Deeney a call.
Yeah 2/0 !!
In ur face akb buggers
Goal!!!
wtf….I missed we subbed in Ozil……..cmon u gunners!!
Get in you gunners
Cesc
Own goal…yes
He had to pass a good cross to put the defender under pressure though
Emery the lucky emerald
Iwobi making the difference
Definitely og cesc,well played laca,still getting in those positions despite having a shocker
Nice pass from Iwobi, nice ball from Lacazette and a decent finish from Ozil.
Going to be a long 10 mins
Ramsey
eh….what were you saying?
We are winning with you boy on the bench.
Smash and grab but who gives a fuck.
Laca finishing the game better with a semi-goal and an assist now.
2nd half experts.
Second half changes make the difference yet again. Iwobi making a good impact.
Iwobi just changed the game
Fucking hell!! Lol
Leave Deeney another message.
That’s why good WINGERS cost a fortune.
Karim
Again it is sort of hiding some deficiencies.
Having said that, we all knew the shit squad Wenger left Emery and we all said that we needed to win every game after the City and Chelsea games. We’re doing that.
*We are winning with your boy on the bench
Ramsey off, Arsenal score 2. Coincidence? I think no.
I like the way we are winning these edgy games.
Making a habit of this now, average performance and then sort of turn it on for 10 minutes
FUCK YOU TROY DEENEY
Has it been said that no sooner Ramsey was removed, we actually look very decent?
Project British youth is still on with Iwobi and the likes! Forget the passport. Smith-Rowe is there too
Just like to highlight this gem from earlier..
“Ramsey in the mood. I love it. “
No guesses who Lol. I love more the fact he was replaced by “garbage” and we’ve since scored two with “garbage” getting an assist.
🙂
Bellerin improves by the game.
Dissenter, I’ll go into rehab
Its too early to starting gloating though
I don’t trust Mustafi and Xhaka
Where’s Hackney lol ?
Ozil has been really poor today but he’s scoring as freely as he did all of last season
Iwobi has to start from now on, his attitude is great. From his words and actions he has taken Emery’s appointment as an opportunity to improve.
Keep calm. Just make sure we don’t get unnecessary yellows. Especially. Mustafi and Terreira.
Bid a big 5m for Deeney in Jan. Better CB than Mustafi.
7 on the bounce. Make no mistake, this is a very good result against a very determined watford side
“Has it been said that no sooner Ramsey was removed, we actually look very decent?”
Utter fvcking rubbish
One lucky goal and a quick fire follow up.
The commentary on US TV is as anti-Arsenal as it gets.
Holding has had a good game, same for leno
‘Where’s Hackney lol ?”
Still crying his eyes out after maliciously calling people holocaust deniers and antisemitic.
He’s a thin skinned troll. He gives it out but cannot take it.
It’s also refreshing to see Emery spazzing on the sidline
All we can do is keep putting the points on the board.
“Ramsey in the mood. I love it. “
Same shit mood he’s been playing in all season long. Ramsey cannot CANNOT start against Liverpool no passengers in that game. Iwobi and Mhiki and yes even Welbeck are doing more than Ramsey and Ozil at the moment
Ozil just tracked back and tackled someone………….
All very good this passing about but it would be good if we went forward with it. Be daring!!!
Another Arsenal win. That’s Seven in a row for Emery. Keep it rollin!
Watching Watford drop their heads and give up is going to give me enough wanking material to last me until 2019
Fucking inbred cunts
Welbeck’ sliding interception started the second goal. Good.
Auba really needs to add a bit more to his game in Arsenal.
2 + 0.
Job done.
If Emery is going to persist with Auba out left then Welbeck is the better left-sided forward option and should play ahead of him.
Party tonight at Joe’s
Diss
Oops. I haven’t read the blog this week.
Great 3 points Arsenal !
Good result.
The team still doesn’t look right and the improvement came when we got some semblance of balance by taking Ramsey off and actually having something like wingers on the field.
Really is pointless playing Ramsey anymore.
Emery is demanding more from this players.
He’s not afraid to take off the golden boy…in Wenger time [67 min] just to rub it in.
Bid a big 5m for Deeney in Jan. Better CB than Mustafi.
Holding has to retain his place when Sokratis comes back. He’s not even remotely close to being good enough but compared to Mustafi he’s Tony Adams and Fabio Cannavaro rolled into one
Not the scintillating performance we all want to see, but it’s another 3 points and the 7th win in a row, which has to be good for confidence.
I’ll take that at this stage of the season.
Well done emery.
You can only play one of Lacazette or Aubameyang and on current form it is Lacazette for his hustle and general play.
Always said this whole Aubameyang at LM thing doesn’t work, it smacks of FIFA like thinking just cram all your good players on at once, when you add Ramsey and Ozil into the mix as well you’ve got a right mess.
Makes sense the team looked more functional when the changes were made.
Where the haters at???
7 wins in a row. Clean sheet
Crowd was completely into it
Energetic great performance
Aaron ‘top tier’ Ramsey. Thanks for your top tier performance today, lad.
Swap deal for Joe Allen, another top tier Welshman.
What a lovely afternoon. Seven wins on the trot. Can’t be bad. How reassuring and refreshing it is to see our manager shouting and gesturing instructions. Wanting, desiring, demanding. And the substitutions he made were also first class and had an immediate effect. Very happy with that. Oh and a clean sheet as well. Plus I thought Leno did very well.
Agree.
Sokratis and Holding at CB now. Mustafi is a f*****g disaster.
Its not really about one player being better than another but more about players being played in their strongest position. Ramsey is not a number 10. Ozil is. When Iwobi comes on and plays on the wing and Ozil goes in the hole then we are dangerous going forward.
It’s always much much easier to impact games and look great when coming on as sub. Iwobi starts the next few matches and he will be the one getting his arse hauled off most likely. Look at Torreira. Since starting he has been decent but nowhere near as impressive compared to when he came on at half time. Walcott most extreme example of a player who could’ve conceivably had one of the best minutes to goals ratios ever if he was just exclusively used as a sub. Giroud as well has only scored goals in the last few years as… Read more »
Of the 10 fixtures we demanded Emery win after the tricky City and Chelsea opening we’ve won 7, Fulham away, Leicester at home and Crystal Palace away left before Liverpool.
Leno was good and made a number of saves. Good sign.
Jamie – Our win rate with Ramsey last season was 65% compared to 35% when he didn’t play.
Coincidence? I think not.
Leno did well as well
Still needs alot of work but thats the best I’ve seen us defend this seaon. Mustafi has to go, give sok and holding a run when he’s back
Paulinho –
We were pony last season! What was our win % like with, say, Xhaka in the team?
Nowhere near as many hairy moments as we’ve seen in the past games. Still shitting myself about Liverpool, can take a loss, but I don’t want a massive confidence hit after a slow build in the these 7 games.
Interesting that West Ham look better without Wilshere in the team, I always felt it was the same story with Arsenal.
Slowly getting there with his selections …..
Torriera starting
Lacazette starting
Leno starting
That’s the end of Ramsey
Ozil starting as our no.10
Didn’t play brilliant but if you can’t be good ,be lucky….
Jamie – Xhaka was an ever present more or less wasn’t he?
So don’t really need to ponder that one too long.
I’m looking forward to the successive windows when I know Emery will want to bring in worthy talent. He’s going to need a skip though.
Paulinho if you’re making a case for Ramsey to come off the bench as a substitute I wholeheartedly agree. Anyway that gets him away from the starting 11 in this form is a must
Another thing to note is the boys didn’t hide or crack even with Watford’s physicality.
We also defended their crosses pretty well.
Emery’s subs consistently make an impact, game after game.
“Jamie – Xhaka was an ever present more or less wasn’t he? So don’t really need to ponder that one too long.“
Why wasn’t Ramsey an ever-present?
Hilarious response from the Iwobi-should-be-a-starter crowd. One, on the own goal, he ran five yards and crossed a ball — nothing that any player on either team could not also do. Two, if you’re going to compare him favorably to anyone, you should be comparing him favorably to either Aubameyang or Ozil. He was playing as a wide player, not as a CAM; therefore it makes sense to compare whatever you think he did to what Ozil or Aubameyang did from that position, not to what Ramsey did from a different position. Three, this Iwobi situation will play out exactly… Read more »
Jamie – Our win rate with Ramsey last season was 65% compared to 35% when he didn’t play.
The math checks out. Amazing to think that we were so bad last season and finished only 6th
Marko – Just saying don’t be surprised if Iwobi gets hauled off in the next few matches and Ramsey comes on and does some good work that leads to goals.
Iwobi has some good qualities but overall he’s powder-puff.
man I missed the game. Thanx for all the comments though guys. I was angry in the first half and frustrated in the second. I’m sure that’s how the game went 🙂
Lucky??
Haha that was not a lucky win
Thy was a good win. Laca should have had us up 1 nil early.
Let it go pierre. You’re coming off as apathetic old man
Good to get a result, though. As I said Wednesday night, the one thing one can say in Emery’s favor is that the players are playing with more intensity and more energy. This is a good thing, and this is why we’re getting results.
paulinho
what I’ve seen from iwobi this season, he’s better than ramsey. Guy wants to improve and He’s young and focused. same can’t ‘ve said of ramsey
Because he was either injured or rested for European games.
Xhaka may have been rested a few times anyway. Regardless, Xhaka is irrelevant to the point.
Very happy for Iwobi who I’m often quick to criticise. Much better mobility from him. Emery is good for him. Hope my boy Maitland Niles has the same uptick in performance when he comes back. Lacazette had an average match, but he’s a persistent fcuker. Just wish he was a little quicker. Correct decision to take off the Welsh Wonder and Aubameyang. ozil was average, but better in the 2nd half when he went centrally. He enjoys playing with Iwobi and vice versa. Still worried we’re Aubameyang like Stewart Downing down the sides. We’re not able to sustain posseasion in… Read more »
As is often the case, Paulinho knows what he’s talking about.
“Ramsey off, Arsenal score 2. Coincidence? I think no.“
Should start phasing him out NOW
Say it again. Ramsey hasn’t added to the team. Bench him.
Creative department still lacking. Play the form players and iwobi would need to start. Mikki should also rotate as a regular 11.
The shooting needs to improve. We don’t seem to be able to pull the triggers smartly.
Auba is not working out generally. Could be th position but is lacking even as a pro. Can’t have the poor touches and passes.
Last 20 minutes of a game. Tired legs in opposing team. We score. Nothing to do with Ramsey being off.
Great win against very physical and determined team..
Referre gave us nothing ,absolute kunt of the highest order
Apart from mustafi, and Ramsey, they all has been excellent
I would add ozil ,but he scored so ..
and yes our biggest villain xhaka had one of his best performances .
2 goals and clean sheet ,manure lost again
Excellent weekend
Up the Arse!