Arsenal riding the luck train

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It’s very interesting reading the different perspectives on what’s going on at the club at the minute. The general notion is Arsenal are winning ugly and we’re shithousing our way up the league.

I’m not quite sure I buy it.

This bit of analysis from Gracenote was very interesting.

Now, you can take a few things away from this.

We’ve been ruthlessly efficient in front of goal to start with, and we’ve had some luck. Yesterday we only managed two shots on target and we claimed an own goal.

Defensively, we’ve been shite, but thankfully, the teams we’ve played have been useless in front of goal (and our keepers have been good).

What this table tells you is we’ve been very fortuitous. The idea that we’re ‘shithousing’ teams doesn’t really sit right with me. This isn’t doing what you have to do to win, like Inter Milan in the semi-final of the CL against Barcelona. This isn’t United under Mourinho. This isn’t Ramos like evil genius. This is Arsenal playing really badly and falling up the stairs.

We’re not creating good chances moving forward, and we’re terrible at the back… but we’re 4 points off the top of the table, so it’s hard to be real about the situation without sounding like a brat. But, you know, I am a brat. I think a big reality slap is heading our way if we don’t quickly improve.

We’re 9 competitive games into the season and we’re still shite. That’s with the players training almost every single day (which comes with its own issues, usually in December). The ideas, whatever they are, aren’t settling with the players at the minute. We’ve seen Bielsa at Leeds turn them into a spectacle, they’re scoring freely, 2 a game, and they’re conceding less (a goal a game last season, 0.8 a game this season). I mention Bielsa because he’s bringing elite level ideas to very average players. Emery took over from an artist, not a butcher, it shouldn’t be taking this long to see an identity.

The play has to get better if we’re going to make it into the top 4 this season, because luck won’t carry us through December. Emery has either got to make changes to the way he’s setting up so he can get the team clicking from the off, or we’re going to have to do some reshaping in the January transfer window.

Starting Ramsey seems like a bad idea. The club withdrew the offer because they didn’t see value in Ramsey signing a £300k a week contract. So it’s not about the Welshman, it’s about Arsenal making an aggressive call on his ability. No wonder he looks pissed off, he’s just been told by the clubs hierarchy they don’t rate him. Here’s the thing, I absolutely agree with that decision. Trouble is, now he’s going to be uninterested for the rest of the season. He’d be a useful player if he was on top form.

Mesut Ozil needs to play as a #10, or it’s simply not worth it. Emery is going to have to work out a way to make him work harder for the team, or he’s going to have to build the system to be able to deal with his lack of defensive work. He’s the most creative player in the league, we’re not creating anything, let’s make it work.

We also need to work out why our defence is so poor. Is it a back to basics kind of issue? Who knows. But it shouldn’t take more than 3 months to see an improvement. I mean, it doesn’t help having someone like Xhaka protecting you, but honestly, I don’t understand how we’ve regressed so badly at the back.

Anyway, a little bit of a moan this morning.

What do you think about it all? Let me know in the comments! x

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Champagne charlie

Olumide

Right but PSG aren’t a typical hire to other top sides in Europe are they? There’s no domestic rival and their one goal is European success.

On that basis you can see quite comfortably why Unai ‘just won a hat trick of Europa leagues’ Emery fit the bill.

Are you related to him at all? You seem another heavily triggered at anyone who dares scratch the surface in analysis of current affairs. Bit odd.

China

Why would he be deflated? We’re winning.

Also you can criticize the quality of the play to some degree but how are these games boring?

The AKBs claim that we constantly get carved open, and we’re simultaneously scoring 2+ goals a game and winning but the matches are boring. Right.

Pierre

Olumide
Apologies…8 …

Michael24

Pierre

It all boiled down to the fact that as long as Wenger remained at the club, everything was meaningless for most fans.

Maybe one day you’ll understand.

Olumide

Pierre
Olumide
You said 9 so did you only include one of them .

Go up and check again.

China

7 wins on the bounce, 2+ goals a game after week 1, our defense often gifting the opposition chances and goals, most of our goals coming late on in smash and grab fashion, a manager throwing comedy actions around on the touch line and we’re told this is boring

What planet are you guys on?

Critique the quality of the football but boring? Bland? What are you on lol

Receding hairline

Charlie spends his time deriding the arsenal manager.. Playing down his achievements in the game while bigging up an average ex footballer as an exciting hire

His only defense is to ask people why they are triggered when pulled up on it before resorting to tantrums and insults.

As for Pedro..it’s his blog and he can peddle whatever agenda he fancies..but the day will come someone will succeed pep at city. That someone won’t be Arteta. Its a pity lessons weren’t learnt from the Gazidis debacle.

China

We used to get called plastic fans by AKB

Oh how times have changed

shbhlando

we’ve been playing with 1 shite cb, (holding looked good btw), ramsey/ozil senseless combo, and one striker adding basically nothing for 2 of every 3 games and we are still winning…drop mustafi, ramsey, and auba, and we will compete for 4th…maybe play our 3 “dms” against the top 3 with auba, laca, and ozil and we may have a chance to nick some games against mc, liverpool, and chelsea who are the only teams that look far better than us this year.

Michael24

Pierre

You’re like a metronome.

Regular, repetitive and predictable.

Grip, stance, swing, contact, follow through…………..Grip, stance, swing, contact follow through. You get the idea.

You deserve a prize.

Jamie

Remember this blog 2-3 years ago? That was when Vieira was the next manager of City.

China

In marketing it looks messy to push one direction then change your mind/admit it was wrong soon after Pedro bet the house on Gazidis then went for arteta. He’s not going to change tac now. And since we never got arteta the ‘we’ll never know’ is the default defense of any form of logical reason why we shouldn’t have got him. Ironically if arteta had actually stopped sitting in peps shadow and fucked off to do some actual managing and he got linked After a couple of years I’d take him seriously. But he hasn’t. So ‘we’ll never know’ is… Read more »

Receding hairline

Chelsea completing a lot of meaningless passes doesn’t mean they play well… How many clear cut chances do they create per game.. Did anyone bother to watch the Liverpool game and see how many times liverpool got behind the defense only to fluff their lines…where is the Chelsea were Lucky comments? I didn’t know a good team were supposed to give up zero chances per game

Champagne charlie

“Charlie spends his time deriding the arsenal manager.. Playing down his achievements in the game while bigging up an average ex footballer as an exciting hire“ That’s cute, but not true. Just an unimaginative spin from someone that treats Emery like a loved one. We’ve been unconvincing and disjointed thus far, argue that if you like but i’m entitled to call it as I personally see it. Don’t see me jumping on your back for worshipping the path Emery walks. Same as with his hire, I again have some questions over it and criticise the board and leadership for the… Read more »

China

Jamie I think Pedro was calling Vieira city’s next manager even as recently as a year ago. Until he quit the American club he was ‘farmed’ out to to prep him for the job

Funny that

Olumide

Champagne Charlie Right but PSG aren’t a typical hire to other top sides in Europe are they? There’s no domestic rival and their one goal is European success.On that basis you can see quite comfortably why Unai ‘just won a hat trick of Europa leagues’ Emery fit the bill. Are you related to him at all? You seem another heavily triggered at anyone who dares scratch the surface in analysis of current affairs. Bit odd. — By this reasoning, Guardiola was a failure at Bayern? Lol related to Emery. Most of the things I’ve posted about Emery are facts. Facts… Read more »

China

Give up zero chances and dominate going forwards with penetrative triangles. All goals should be from outside the box and scored with the outside of the boot as well otherwise it’s just bland

China

If you were here every day saying you wish we’d gone for bagelsman instead then I might not agree but Id get where you’re coming from

Arteta doesn’t correlate with the others you mentioned though because he isn’t a football manager. The guy has managed as many football matches as my nan (assuming my nan doesn’t have a secret past)

Champagne charlie

Olumide Yea except I didn’t call Emery a poor manager at any stage today, or previously. I said his record is predicated more on European success than it was domestically – a record I said a was “great”, and fitting reason for PSG to look to hire him given that’s where they wanted to compete most. Go ahead with the facts, what was Emery’s crowning league achievement before PSG? Because unlike you I fail to see the benefits of hiring someone with a strong European success, I’d sooner see us go for someone with a track record of taking 6/10’s… Read more »

China

The day arteta has managed more professional football matches than my nan is the day we can begin to get an idea of what he’s about Before then it’s just random hope from a couple of references I have no particular loyalty to emery mind. I hope he builds on what he’s done and makes the necessary next steps in the coming months. But even if emery was a safe choice, I think safe is ok when you have a mess like this squad. This was an exceptional circumstances and the PL is too competitive for us to take too… Read more »

Receding hairline

I guess we are going to brush Emery’s valencia record out of the history book. That was where he did his best work.. Keeping a team in financial diffivyku

Receding hairline

I guess we are going to brush Emery’s valencia record out of the history book. That was where he did his best work.. Keeping a team in financial difficulties third for three seasons in a roll. I guess only his relatives remember that.

Guns of SF

I think part of the issue is, that we are beating crap teams ugly. We have not found our best team nor have been playing great eye watching football I get the feeling this is how its going to be this season. We do not have the personnel to play the beuatiful attacking game,- with slow Xhaka, Ozil and Ramsey. This is a slow midfield. Something has to give and I doubt another coach would have a MUCH better solution given what we have to play with. January will be the time to see what we can do to mold… Read more »

Olumide

Champagne Charlie
Because unlike you I fail to see the benefits of hiring someone with a strong European success, I’d sooner see us go for someone with a track record of taking 6/10’s and making them 8/10’s, or delivering a mid-term vision of making us a European giant. Emery doesn’t have a CV for that, that’s a fact. not a sure why it garners the reaction from people such as you and Receding.
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Maybe you should check Emery’s record of developing players at Almeria, Valencia, Sevilla, and PSG.

Joe

Pierre

and then the match kicks off and you must think to yourself ,why did I bother

Nope
That was only during the last dozen years with le cunt and fraud specialist in failure wenger

I’m loving seeing us win. Energy in the team. The crowd is alive.

Funny. As soon as we got rid of the anchor that was holding us back the Emirates has come alive

Now to get rid of akbs like Pierre and victorious.

Receding hairline

You have to first off finish in the leagues top four… Then win a European trophy of any sort before looking to be European giants.

I wonder did pep make Bayern European giants? He failed there if the goal was champions league

Nagglesman is next level yet has settled for lipezig a year early.. Very ambitious

Let’s see Tuchel win the champions league with PSG.. Show Emery how it is done

useroz

“Trouble is, now he’s going to be uninterested for the rest of the season. He’d be a useful player if he was on top form.” Trouble is, when was Ramsey on top form, or anything close? Walcott at least on top form every time he played for a new contract. If Ramsey doesn’t agree to leave in Jan, don’t play him at all. Why display something in the shop window that you can’t sell?? On the other hand, our attacking football is really shit. It’s like awkward, ad hoc, abrupt, an almost by chance (luck?). Don’t see any tactics they’… Read more »

Champagne charlie

Olumide Maybe you should note that not all management jobs have the same demands, Arsenal is one of success and trophies. Something Emery hasn’t provided at clubs prior to PSG, sorry that’s lost on you but it’s a point of fact and nothing more. Only you can Receding seem to have this emotional response to anything bar lavish praise of Emery. Receding You ran away from a previous discussion about Emery when you started ridiculing and the like, why bother re-agitating the POV? Rafa, a manager I directly compared with Emery, took Valencia to the title. He would’ve made more… Read more »

Up 4 grabs now

Evening all, A few points to digest, 1, Emery has probably only had all his squad for two months now and that’s after a world cup. Not even 3 months and people are questioning why he hasn’t been able to turn that shit sandwich of a defence into a solid one. Pep couldn’t do it in his first year and blew 100 million plus on fullbacks and centrebacks Alone. We got Nick the Greek for 18million and the other three are last season’s defence, and people are questioning emery as to why the defence is shoddy. Xhaka is still playing,… Read more »

azed

Pedro
what have the Nagelsmann, Gallardo, and Tuchel achieved compared to Emery?

What makes them more exciting Emery?

Olumide

Receding
I guess we are going to brush Emery’s valencia record out of the history book. That was where he did his best work.. Keeping a team in financial difficulties third for three seasons in a roll. I guess only his relatives remember that.

The funny thing is that managers who have done this (e.g Pochettino) without the trophies are seen as more exciting.

Joe

Pierre

If you’re so bored with arsenal and wish you didn’t bother watching.

No one is forcing you to watch Pierre

Why don’t you just

Fuck off down the lane then Pierre. Go support someone else.

Fuck off from the Arsenal and let the real fans enjoy arsenal winning matches.

Receding hairline

Charlie you don’t care what I have to say yet you are responding to me despite the fact I choose to ignore your stupidity from earlier. I don’t care about whatever you have to say about Emery either and I won’t be responding to you myself so jog on. Wait for bamford to come on so you can harass him.. That’s only what you are good at.

Olumide

Champagne Charlie
Maybe you should note that not all management jobs have the same demands, Arsenal is one of success and trophies. Something Emery hasn’t provided at clubs prior to PSG, sorry that’s lost on you but it’s a point of fact and nothing more. Only you can Receding seem to have this emotional response to anything bar lavish praise of Emery.
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I guess we can discard his 3 Europa leagues at Sevilla then. For the record, he won 5 out of 8 trophies on offer.

Receding hairline

@ azed

They are younger and talk a good game without actual winners medals to show for it. Their teams play a fast paced game that when it goes wrong goes spectacularly wrong.

Anyway all those names are just a smoke screen..all we are discussing here is Arteta being a better manager than Emery based on nothing but word around the City training ground

Olumide

*5 out of 8 trophies on offer at PSG.

Champagne charlie

Receding

I responded to you because you openly spoke about me on here with your “Charlie spends his time…” quip.

You continue your holier than thou crusade you believe yourself to be on, not once have I criticised your POV about Emery but here you are stating mine is “stupid”, and making more quips about “harassing” Banford. It’s fucking pathetic and you want to try and throw mud at me?

I called you petulant before and this is precisely why. Your intolerance to other POVs is a joke, get over yourself.

Champagne charlie

Olumide I’ve already made the point about Emery regarding domestic success, and the correlation of what is wanted at Arsenal. Nobody is dismissing his Europa league record, I myself said it was a “great” record so best keep abreast of the points being made instead of waging a futile war of words because you feel Emery has been wronged. He doesn’t have a strong domestic record of success in the vein Arsenal are hoping to rekindle. If we win the Europa league this season but finish 5th, then we retain the Europa league and finish 5th that’s not where I… Read more »

Northbanker

I don’t really understand why we’re debating Emery at all The guy has only been here 5 mins – had 2 nightmare opponents to begin with and has won every game since Sure there are some questions – much as Id love to see us NOT playing Xhaka Ramsey and Mustafi were not blessed with decent senior options and playing the kids is a huge risk It really wouldn’t matter who we appointed – Wenger had spent most of the money on crap, left a shit legacy (sad considering the early years) saddled us with Ozil and you can practically… Read more »

Joe

Pierre.

1 nil to the arsenal and trophies and league titles with GG

Or the last dozen years of wenger?

Joe

North Banker

That’s all fine and dandy.

But he isn’t winning every match 6-0. Boring!

Told you to be careful what you wished for.

Joe

North Banker

That’s all fine and dandy.

But he isn’t winning every match 6-0. Boring!

Told you to be careful what you wished for.

Wish we had wenger back!

Joe

NB

Don’t try to talk sense to akbs like Pierre etc.

Michael24

CC

Thanks for your response.

Still stand by my perceptions on Woods as far as the Ryder Cup is concerned.

Kay

Hiring someone exciting is fine. But not after a 10 yr downward spiral.

Perfectly happy with someone like emery to steady the ship and later hand it over to someone exciting.

Slating emery after 7 games is absolutely disgraceful and that too with xhaka and mustafi still doing duty in the starting 11.

Champagne charlie

Michael24

That’s fair enough, his record is pretty average to shite anyway if I’m not mistaken.

Joe

CC

His record is not good at all at the Ryder cup

But honestly it’s the only time I want to see woods not do well. And that’s more because of the yank thing than him personally

Love watching Europe win the Ryder cup.

Victorious

Ogbeni Receding calm down, No need going after Charlie like he took away your toy, I mean he’s equally entitled to his opinion, don’t expect everyone to worship at the alter of Emery.he hasn’t earn that right, we’re winning YES but the football is painful,literally like a blow to the nutsack.

Joe

Pierre

If we get into CL for next season, and maybe win Europa or another trophy and we still play in the same way as you feel we are playing right now

Would you be happy with the job Emery has done?

Joe

Victorious.

It’s better than the football
Wenger had us playing the last 7-8 years

And Emery is going to improve as he’s only been here for 9 matches. Wenger was getting worse every day but you didn’t seem to mind that

Victorious

You know it’s time to give up when folk like Joey of all people is trotting out ‘Go on and support another club’

would be funny if it wasn’t so painful

Champagne charlie

Joe

Eh, prefer when the Ryder cup is neck and neck for the excitement. Prefer to see them all firing on all cylinders too; the yanks looked like they’d done 4/5 games of beer pong too many early in the week.

Joe

CC

if you were Canadian you’d understand why I like seeing the yanks get smashed haha

Victorious

Joey would you take 3 FA cups in the next 5years?

Joe

Vicky

Been around a lot longer than you have. And will be here a lot after you fuck off

What’s painful is listening to you Akbs whi have been here less than a cup of tea. Only supported arsenal because of wenger.

So yes please, give up and go support someone else. Hopefully wenger be managing a new team soon and all your dreams
Of wenger-ball will come true

Joe

Victorious.

No

Joe

Victorious

Would you take 3 FA Cups over the next 12 years?

Jamie

It took Wenger something like 14 years to win his last 3 FA cups, not 5 years.

Just saying.

Joe

Vicki

Would you take :

3 FA Cups over the last 12 years ( not 5) I don’t know why Akbs say 4 or 5 years. It was 12

Being a laughing stock in CL. Being pushed out at the round of 16 for 7 straight seasons

Losing 8-2, 6-0, 6-3, Bradford. Bham, forest, 4-4,4-4, 5-1, etc etc etc.

Would you?

Jamie

Joe –

Jinx.

Joe

Ha Jamie

Wrote the exact same thing at the same time you did

englandsbest

Bamford10 It’s a surprise that someone stateside waves the flag for Stan. What he did to the city of St Louis and the people of St Louis was unforgiveable. Maybe you don’t dig the mid-west? It’s also totally ludicrous to say that he hasn’t operated constraints on Arsenal. There were at least two seasons when, for want of a decent GK and/or CB Arsenal probably missed out on PL titles. At the time the two would have cost under £30m and there was circa £150m in the current account. And we have it on record direct from both Wenger and… Read more »

Cesc Appeal

The LA Rams are doing great right now, the Denver Nuggets were also a team many thought could be a surprise package this year and they opened up by beating the LA Lakers quite comfortably.

Kroenke’s franchises are starting to do well.

Bob N16

Joe,
When someone disagrees with someone else’s POV, and then accuses them of being an AKB regardless of context, it does give the impression that their argument is weak.

Cesc Appeal

Lot of rumours that Arsenal are interested in Zielinski and Pepe/Sarr in January, it would be great if Emery could start building the team he wants.

The instructions he has given Iwobi make it clear he wants a winger, telling Iwobi to take people on and not worry if he f**ks up, try again, shooting more etc.

We could land Rabiot on a free as well if we get UCL and have rebuilt the midfield by the start of next season with the biggest outlay being Zielinski.

Pierre

Joe
You need to try a different line of conversation, try and expand beyond wenger and/or AKB because you end up having a conversation with yourself on here as you never have anything worthwhile to say.

Joe

Bob

If the shoe fits

Vicky

I’ll wait for your answers.

If it’s 3 FA Cups in 5 years which would be a much better achievement than 3 in 12 but that’s neither here nor there. That’s another discussion

But 3 in 5 with strong league challenges and a good run in the CL would
Be a massive improvement from
The previous failure of a manager where we were a laughing stock in the league and CL.

Joe

Pierre

Answer the question I asked you.

Joe

Questions.

Joe

Pierre

Rather a conversation with myself than a conversation with a lonely old man like you who has a wenger fetish

azed

CA

There’s no way we are buying Zielinski. The Napoli owner/CEO (not sure) is in the same category as Lyon’s chairman: they don’t sell cheap.

Northbanker

Get Joe off this site – the guy is a complete bore

Joe

Here you go pierre

If we get into CL for next season, and maybe win Europa or another trophy and we still play in the same way as you feel we are playing right nowWould you be happy with the job Emery has done?

Let me ask you what vic asked me

If Emery wins 3 FA Cups in the next 5 years.

Would you be happy?

Joe

Northern banker

I say the exact same things you did in your last post

So what’s that make you if I’m a bore if you’re repeating what I say

Northbanker

It’s how you say it Joe not what

Redtruth

You would have to be a beast of a manager to win a league containing Barcelona ans Real Madrid with a sSevilla

Pierre

Arsenal wouldn’t Go far wrong in looking at lewis cook of bournemouth for our midfield … Very tidy player

Redtruth

You would have to be a beast of a manager to win a league containing Barcelona and Real Madrid with a side like Sevilla

Pound for pound Emery is the best manager in the world…

Michael24

To all our American bloggers.

What’s the fallout in the States after the Ryder Cup defeat?

Who’s blaming who?

Maybe you should consider building proper golf courses, rather than the manicured lawns that scatter the landscape.

Also, don’t pick players based on reputation, especially when those players have a shite Ryder Cup record.

Joe

Micheal

Only 2 players are picked. The rest get in with point system

Joe

Tiger has been one of the best players on the planet for the last few months

That’s not reputation. He made it on merit

He was one putt away from winning the fed ex

Joe

Pierre , Vic

Waiting for your answers. Running and hiding like typical akbs?

Michael24

If Eddie Howe was Spanish/Italian/German, he would be one of the most sort after managers in Europe.

Has done an absolutely amazing job at Bournemouth.

T

Mustafi and xhaka arent really that good players…

Kozielny and monreal have really carried the left side and middle of defence and now that kozzer is gone and not protecting xhaka and mustafi all the time they are getting absolutely spanked in every single game.

I really rate big papa thou and he will do well if mustafi gets replaced with a fast sweeper.

Joe

Especially your answer Pierre as you’ve been throwing out “ 3 FA Cups in 4 years” ( even though it 3 in 12 years but whatever) like it’s the greatest achievement ever.

Champagne charlie

“if you were Canadian you’d understand why I like seeing the yanks get smashed haha”

Lol fair. Careful though, you’ll have Banford crying racist with remarks like that.

Joe

Charlie

Bam has no sense of humour.

He actually takes Le Grove quite serious and feels his the big man on campus here

Michael24

Joe

True, but he shouldn’t play Ryder Cup. Even he knows that.

It’s embarrassing to watch him play, in such a magnificent team based environment.

Joe

Not going to turn it down.

Be like someone turning down playing in euro’s or world cup

Leedsgunner

I do not care if we are bland. We are winning… and sport to me is all about winning.

Michael24

Eddie Howe has earned his spurs.

Deserves the chance to prove himself at a big club.

PessimisticPat

Would love to go to a dinner party with Charlie,can imagine his straight talking might get socially awkward at times. Maybe im wrong CC and you’re more tactful in real life,if so apologies. Not a negative just find some of your insults in posts hilarious. On the arsenal debate above everyone seems to think either we’re shit or great. You can be somewhere between those two things. I don’t think we have been great so far but neither do i accept that we have won through luck. Thats horseshit. It is only our poor finishing that is making the matches… Read more »

Michael24

Leedsgunner

Hear, hear!

After years of chaos, “bland” feels so good.

Joe

Leeds

100% agree.

PessimisticPat

“Englandsbest :

It’s also totally ludicrous to say that he hasn’t operated constraints on Arsenal. There were at least two seasons when, for want of a decent GK and/or CB Arsenal probably missed out on PL titles. At the time the two would have cost under £30m and there was circa £150m in the current account. And we have it on record direct from both Wenger and Gazidis, that Stan refused to give his permission.”

If you could point me in the direction of where this was said and is “on record” it would be most appreciated. Cheers

Bamford10

No, Joe, actually I don’t. And I do in fact have a sense of humor. Alex Cutter makes me laugh out loud all of the time. As does gambon. As do a couple of others.
I don’t find people insulting me very funny — if that’s what you’re referring to — but no one does.

Leedsgunner

“I do not care if we are bland. We are winning… and sport to me is all about winning.”

Having said that, I’m not saying we are bland by the way… it’s been fascinating trying to understand what makes Emery tick. He’s making mistakes but somehow he’s making them whilst winning.

Brilliant.

Well done Arsenal.

Well done Emery.

Leedsgunner

I wonder if Wenger will have the “cojones” to apply for the Man United job when Mourinho is given his marching orders….

In a way given the bitter rivalry between the two manager throughout the years… I could imagine it would satisfy Wenger’s ego.

After years of Wenger enduring Mournho’s taunts about being a specialist in failure, for him to take up the mantle would be absolutely hilarious… and worth it for pure bantz value.

If it happened, can you imagine Alexis’ face?

LMAO just thinking about it.

Joe

“I do not care if we are bland. We are winning… and sport to me is all about winning.”Having said that, I’m not saying we are bland by the way… it’s been fascinating trying to understand what makes Emery tick. He’s making mistakes but somehow he’s making them whilst winning. Brilliant.Well done Arsenal.Well done Emery.

Leeds I think I just fell in love haha

You’re spot on. I love watching arsenal again. Excited about arsenal again. And have enjoyed every match.

Emery’s red and white army