I can’t get enough of watching Jose Mourinho spill his career down a toilet he’s been well and truly soiling for the past 3 seasons. Managers like him are a relic of the past. Stale ideas, a nasty approach to man management, and a horribly negative vision of what football should be.
My hope is United fire him and line up another washed up hack, the worry would be if they went hard for a real talent in the shape of Pochettino. I’d be very worried to see what a man like him to could do with a squad that needs some love and excitement. Personally, I’d send Ryan Giggs their way, and I’d pay for the train ticket.
There are also some very boring rumours that Arsenal might go back in for Alexis Sanchez.
Errr… guys… he earns £26m a year for some reason.
We packed him off for a £35m that now looks like a clear case of misrepresentation of goods. They could literally sue us for what we did. Outright revenge for that special signing they dropped on us years ago… yeah, you remember the summer of Silvestre.
Anyway, I wouldn’t want a rancid personality like his near the dressing room. He went to United and was truly exposed for what he is… a talented individual incapable of playing as part of a team. That’s why Pep binned him the first time. Why United thought they’d get anything out of him playing in a criminally dire system like Mourinho’s… well, I have no idea.
Still, we’ll always have that piano visual. Those embarrassing commentaries about ‘how big clubs unveil players.’ That’s one of the archives. Embarrassing, start to finish.
Also:
HE HAS GONE 1000 MINUTES WITHOUT A GOAL LOLOLOLOL
Petr Cech is out for longer than we thought, up to 4 weeks now. That’s a shame. Hopefully, Leno plays so well he won’t return. Harsh, but so is the circle of life. Not sure if you’ve seen Lion King, it explains a lot.
Aaron Ramsey’s agent is attention seeking again, talking to fans, then deleting the tweets. I’d be majorly hacked off if I were a player and my agent just blew a deal for me, I’d be even more annoyed if they were making things worse on Twitter.
Here’s the thing, if Ramsey really was committed, he’d have signed in the summer. Whatever his agent was doing with the deal tipped the club over the edge to invest elsewhere and forfeit a transfer fee. Good riddance. I’m sure reuniting with the blandest CEO of all time is exactly the jump start his career needs.
Finally, there is no Mikhi on Thursday in Baku because of political nonsense.
Right, now we’re done here, how about you jump on the podcast and gorge yourself in Arsenal goodness?
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WE
Yeah he is almost like a wrestler, works well though because it gets people interested who don’t really watch MMA.
It is the same as Mayweather, you get the casual boxing fans who would buy his fights to watch him lose basically, jokes on them.
incredible Sarri and scintillating Chelsea only won 1 nil at home to MOL Vidi.
#frustrating.
“I don’t think we played well, we have done a good offensive phase and had a lot of ball opportunities but we conceded too much. “We have to play every three days, it is very difficult and so we have to have a great mentality. There is a risk to arrive at a match without the mental power and energy. I am very happy with my squad. “It is a very important in this period of the season to get results, it is not easy but I will have to change a lot players for Southampton and it is not… Read more »
Last night’s positives. Eighth consecutive victory and third clean sheet in four games. Iwobi and Smith-Rowe both had decent games and are clearly players to progress the team in future. Leno also had solid game albeit that I wish that he picked up and handled the ball occasionally. He plays too much football and that does create problems on occasion. The main negatives. Our defence is shambolic whether we play three or four at back. There is no organisation or understanding. Against better opposition we would get creamed if we played like we did tonight. Elneny is a complete waste… Read more »
ES
Welbeck elneny have always been on my list as the first to sell. Wellbeck is a Man U reject. A striker who can’t score ( I say that knowing he scored 2 last week). Just think Perez and wellbeck cost 34 m. We could have bought quite a player for 34m.
Cesc AppealOctober 4, 2018 17:59:38 “I don’t think Emery was the first choice for many, if any, on here. But what most sensible people can agree is that given what we were going through, given Wenger’s total mess, given our financial situation and massive structural shifts he was probably the most sensible option we had.Does not require massive amounts of spending, is not a rock the boat type of manager and has overachieved at clubs with less status than Arsenal. Accepted wages less than half of what Wenger was on and is pretty disposable in the mind of the fans.To… Read more »
Champagne Charles, “That’s why I feel Emery is meek in terms of appointment. We will get better, but I’ve my doubts he’s the capabilities to see out the whole ‘A to B’ transition we’re hoping to make. I’m greedy basically, not satisfied with the middling moves after that stagnation you talked about.” I really can’t take you seriously. You spent years deflecting blame from Wenger, and have obviously seen the mess he left, but you would be happier with Arteta in as manager than Emery. You’re also a hypocrite saying that you’re ‘greedy’. It’s ‘shut up and support the team’… Read more »
Two great posts Goober
8 wins in a row and some are still complaining
Don’t know what manager would have done better than a 8-2 record considering we started v city and Chelsea.
Can’t wait to see this place if we lose to Fulham on Sunday
Also my take on why Arteta was even on our shortlist or whatever list that may have been…
Ivan gazidis. And arteta’s sucking up nearly bearing fruit.
Yes oversimplified, but no fucking way in hell Raul and Sven would have agreed to it bringing him in. Not a chance.
I would shift Kolasinac,Elneny, Ramsey, Welbeck & Mustafi in January.
I would also like Diamond eye to find a winger, cheap young Left back, a CDM and attack minded B2B midfielder.
With such addtions we should be able to cement top 4 and Europa
Haha Thanks Joe. What time is it now in Canada?
17:30.
10 30 in Melbourne.
I was leaving for work as the game kicked off, have only seen a 2 min vid of the goals and done a bit of reading through the comments to get a bit of the drift of the game while on a break haha. Just waiting for Friday arvo brewskies and to sit back and watch the game later.
Can not complain about a change up of formation, squad players and youngsters getting a run, and 3 first goals for 3 new players. Great to see!!
Keep it up The Arsenal hahaha
Gambino,
You think we would be able to achieve that in Jan window?
Who would you like to see in?
My wife’s cousin lives in Melbourne and one of my best friends is there , although in a 2 year contract in HK at the moment
Love Australia. Been there 5x.
Think Ramsey and wellbeck definitely.
Get something for them before they walk for free in the summer
Hopefully shift elneny to whoever wants him. He bottom half of the table/ championship level player at best. Never good enough for arsenal. Thanks wenger.
I would love to see Mustafi shown the door in Jan though.
We definitely need to bring in a no nonsense solid cb. Koulibaly is the one for me.
It’s all about replacements first in that position though, we’d need to line someone up before selling. (Pretty obvious statement I know)
Ramsey money if we get any in Jan, should go towards that winger we desperately need. And then I’d go a young impressive lb and the b2b midfielder. Xhaka should be used as funds there. 35 odd mil for him is such a joke.
And yeah I keep forgetting Welbz is in his final year. How much do you think we could raise for him?
And Joe that is awesome you have friends here. I’m only new to Melbourne in the last year. Prior to that was in the gold coast and also worked in the whitsundays for a year. Haha originally from sydney though. Where did you travel while you were here?
Did 6 months the first time. Did the winter at Threadbo while living in jindabyne.
Then Sydney for the other 3 months in Manly
Been up as far as Gold Coast on my travels.
Usually just stay in Sydney as that’s where of my friends are
Did 10 days at Bluey’s Beach last time we were there in 2015
Let the salty tears of the wenger/arteta lovers rain down from above in all their glory
-8 wins on the bounce
-Marginal gains throughout 70% of the squad
-haven’t conceded for about 560 odd minutes
Let the tears flow lads. Make my day!
Blueys beach is amazing. Growing up I lived in laurieton, about 50mins north of there. But as surfers, my mates and I always got up and down the coast finding different beaches to go camping and surfing.
Such a small world, hearing you have been essentially to my home area on the mid north coast of NSW. (I have moved a lot, but spent the majority of my life in that area)
I have travelled australia pretty well, but have only ever been to Thailand a couple of times. Need to do more travel abroad for sure.
Hahahaha China, just loving to rub it in. So weird that it’s even a thought to say that yo arsenal fans haha.
How’s the time where you are? Wouldn’t be too far away from midday?
Gooner
Blueys is on my fave places ever! One of the best beaches I ever went to. Been there twice. Once on a bucks party. Last time with the wife and kids
Sitting at a bar in Auckland Airport awaiting my flight to the Gold Coast to visit the step daughter and grandson. I encountered a wandering mendicant who stopped me to confide that Arsenal will beat Fulham 5-0. I have put $5 on it.
Lots of aussies on here
Why can’t you get a blow job in Australia?
Because all the cocksuckers are in Whistler
A joke we used because of the # of aussies in whistler
Hahahahahaha GuNZ, you can always trust a cadger! Might put that bet on myself haha.
Hope you have a great time on the goldy though! I can’t wait to get back there!
Have a friend who just moved to Ballina. Just south of Byron
Hahahahaha Joe. Aussies are damn hussies though
Goober
Some of my fondest/fuzziest? memories of my 6 years in whistler are with Aussie girls Hahahaha
Goober it’s too late for me to watch EL games so I missed it but woke up to the score line and I’ll have a glass of AKB tears for breakfast.
Needless to say tho, arteta would’ve made Mustafi world class by now, ozil would want to play football, Ramsey would know what his position is, we’d have played more thrilling triangles around Carrier Bag FC and we’d have scored at least 6. But I digress
10am and a bit smoggy here in Tianjin, how about where you are?
I’m taking the family to Thailand tonight and will come back on Wednesday. To any of our resident (Tony?)/visitors to Thailand, what’s the best way for a tourist to catch the game this weekend? Should I be looking for pubs (in Phuket) or should I just settle for trying streams on CR7/streaming site? Any suggestions boyos?
China
Reddit soccer streams always works for me
I’m sure it’ll be pretty easy to find a pub showing the matches.
Don’t you know that Arsenal has 40m that Facebook followers.
It’s why we are a much bigger club that Juventus.
They only have 3 Thai Facebook followers.
Big club my arse
Forgive my social media ignorance but I’ve never used Reddit before
I need an account or I can just go to the website and search for Arsenal streams?
No account
Just google “ Reddit soccer streams” and you get a list of all the matches.
It’s actually to Ballina I’m headed. Step daughter got herself knocked up by some Aussie scumbag (actually he’s an OK bloke) . Got him absolutely shitfaced last time I was there for the baby’s head-wetting.
Thanks for the guidance btw On a tangent – Apart from the time difference China is a really legit place to live and watch arsenal. Every match is normally streamed with official licensing and the quality and speeds are 1080p real time with no lapses. Most are free and occasionally you have to pay but it’s only about a quid for the game when you do. Or you can even opt in for an arsenal stream season ticket for about £15 and get every game for the season. Dunno about other countries but if the time difference here was manageable… Read more »
Fuck small world
Cheers again joe
China
Canada is ridiculous for football
The early match is televised
2-3 of the 3:00 matches are shown live
5:30 match is shown live
Plus we get a number of the CL matches each game day.
All in HD
But Joe we have all the 3pm games live on demand! Just pick your match and stream away! I think we have all the games from all the european leagues, though I’ve never bothered to check in detail. There are dozens of games available! How does Canada’s time zone(s) set you up though? I’ve given up on late games unless we get to a final or a CL QF (or later). Games from like 2-4am are too late to stay up for and too early to get up for. Had good luck so far this season with the PL match… Read more »
We are good
Early match is 430 am
Then 7:00
And 930 am for the late match
Sunday’s are 6:00
And 8:00
CL matches 11:45am
take 5 million for kplasinac and clear that 120k from the wage bill. Wenger and gazidis really had no clue how much to pay a player.
” So far. Sokratis has proven people very very wrong. ”
Yup, I shall raise my humble hands up in surrender.
I thought he was another Mustafi in the making.
I had a lot of concerns about pappa but he seems like a solid buy. I can’t say he’s top class or anything but good enough that if we put him with Kos (or holding as backup) then I think our CB situation will be reasonable if not exceptional This season I’ve really liked what I’ve seen when holding has played. I hope this is a sign of things to come and not just form. He is very tall, physically imposing but actually a pretty cultured player. He fights well and plays quite a lot of nice passes Could just… Read more »
Imo the two urgent selection issues emery needs to sort out are Mustafi and Ramsey Mustafi is an awful CB and Ramsey is well…Ramsey. Kos/holding/pappa as 3 options ahead of Mustafi should go a solid way to making a difference to our defense As for Ramsey, I’d drop him permanently to force his hand into a January move. Occasional late cameos for the shop window at best. I’d put iwobi in on current form and ozil at AM. These two selection changes would surely make us that bit better in defense midfield and attack. For those who saw last nights… Read more »
Khabib a beast mcgregor is in for a tough fight.
and still the emery out crowd will be back here nit picking. Just one question to them, when was the last time we won 8 in a row in all competitions playing good or bad footie ??
Also – 4th places trophy < Europa league unless 4th place comes within just a small handful of points of being league champions, which they absolutely never do 4th place is usually 12-20 odd points back and entirely irrelevant to competing for the league. I’d rather have the EL even though it is demonstrably a second class trophy For me the order of prestige goes CL, League, EL, Fa Cup, League Cup, Charity shield, Emirates Cup (lol) I’d put the fa cup and el on about a par because both are very nice to win but second class. However the… Read more »
Plus points. Holding is coming of age. Smith Rowe looks excellent. Guendouzi and Torreira add dynamism to the central areas. Leno is better than some thought. Sokratis is solid. Negatives. Kolasinac looks lost. Caught out of position too many times. Elneny is basically the water carrier. Lots of huffing and puffing but that’s about it. Still no leadership at the back. Definitely a work in progress. Welbeck’s mindset to START a game needs an overhaul. Has to understand that intensity starts from minute one. As for Ozil. Yes, some good points but wtf, take some fudging responsibility! Emery looks pissed… Read more »
Michael
I’ve been saying all along that we should be blooding holding more
Always rated him. Any kid that could lock Diego Costa in his pocket has the talent to play centre half at a very very high level. Just how high we will have to see but certainly better than Mustafi and papa at his tender age already
Funny though. Stroller slated him last year along with chambers. Always thought stroller had his finger on the pulse.
Just goes to show that football is a game of opinions. Everyone gets it wrong at times.
Especially Bamford and marko
China
Edging into the CL would be a phenomenal achievement in Emery’s first season.
I’d take it hook, line as sinker.
And joe
Emery : middle of the road appointment
Arteta: bold and brave, unknown, might explode and take us to the next level
Yea Charlie I am misrepresenting your argument. Simple fact is you have no argument at all, you have been digging this ditch for yourself for a while now and lost all credibility. No wonder you are fuming. Keep digging
The fact that some posters on here are still harping on about Arteta is unbelievable.
The guy is not proven and, significantly, no one else wants him.
He should apply for the Villa job and then we can really see what he’s all about.
Even Villa may not want him.
I’ve not been overly impressed with Sokratis. He’s not been really tested since Chelsea. He’s looked better than Mustafi but the jury is still out for me. So far holding has been our most impressive figure at centre half for me
No real always solid
Bellerin looking slightly more like a rb again these days
Michael
You never know. Arteta could have us level with city. You can’t prove otherwise. I’m happy enough with emery as you can’t argue with 8 wins on the trot even if it is games that arsenal should be winning but there is no way of knowing how any other manager would fare at arsenal right now.
Un na nai, I’m with you RE Sokratis. I thought he looked good against WestHsm, he put in some really tough no nonsense tackles but it’s not been replicated in any other game yet!
I’m sure there is some adjustment time etc for him but I guess time will tell if he’s an Adams or a Mustafi!!
Samesong
I am rooting for Khabib.
But McGregor….he is like the old United. You want him to lose but he just can’t.
To me Sokatris was bought as a 1 season stop gap which makes sense when you consider Kos injury and need to blood in younger CBs
Longer run I see Holding and maybe Mavrapanos forming the central partnership
I just hope Hilding is now given time to cement his place
Holding
If Emery keeps winning the winnable games and lose against big opponents… We will make top four with ease…. Last season had wenger won at least 3-4 of the smaller teams away from home… We will be playing CL today
Very happy 8 from 8 Some didn’t’t see Charlie boy’s warning: “I take exception to ………..” Followed by: “You’re full of shit, and as I stated earlier I now take your misrepresentation as a deliberate move to discredit. Grow the fuck up and stop behaving like Emery is next of kin you thin skinned manchild.” Charlie is the only guy I know (only on here thankfully) who can have an argument in an empty room. Sorry Charlie not in prison. Mind you my wife’s uncles are a judge and police chief in BKK, not that I would infringe the laws… Read more »
Banega being tipped as replacement for Ramsey
At 30 I can’t see why we’d want him and doesn’t feel like a positive move unless we’re getting him on the cheap
Minds you he won’t wind me up as much as Ramsey does
Never known anyone in years who loses possession and misses great chances to score at the rate he does
Ramsey’s contract wouldn’t have been retracted unless Sven and Emery had a replacement in mind. Very interested to see who it is. Has anybody else noticed that under Emery even in this run we seem to be avoiding injuries? I know AMN, Kolasinac and Mavropanos suffered setbacks really early in the season but we seemed to attracting less injuries as a whole. The only notable injury is Cech but apart from him, our squad seems quite solid on that front. If Emery can keep the squad relatively injury free it will keep our momentum going and save us millions in… Read more »
Tony
Which speakers did you go for in the end?
The first set of speakers I ever bought were KEF, as a teenager.
Been loyal to the brand ever since…
‘Unai You never know. Arteta could have us level with city. You can’t prove otherwise’ Hahah yeah he might have and you’re right we can’t. Just like you can’t disprove that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is God or that my 2 year old son might be the Tianjinese Pele in 15 years as he already can play an accurate 5m pass. Heck we can’t disprove that anything could happen. I can’t even be certain that you won’t be the next arsenal manager and that you won’t be the one to deliver us CL glory. Maybe we should give you a… Read more »
“Has anybody else noticed that under Emery even in this run we seem to be avoiding injuries?”
You’ve just gone and done it haven’t you.
I’m not sure about the injury situation so I’ll reserve judgment on that December/January is when the bodies usually get heaped high and the season goes on the bonfire and this is emery’s First season so he’ll likely underestimate how heavy the winter schedule is and fuck us then Honestly I’ll be very surprised and impressed if emery doesn’t fuck up the winter period because even seasoned prem managers often do and for a first season I think it’s always a real eye opener. I’m expecting that and will be very pleased if he’s on the ball enough to get… Read more »
Receding Yea mate, no credibility for having a different opinion to you. Quality stuff. That’s your ilk in a nutshell, Jamie showed you how to post earlier when he stated his POV and mentioned how mine differed to his in some aspects and was the same in others. He didn’t mudsling and attemp to undermine like you because he’s not insecure about his POV, he’s big enough to understand there isnt one definitive POV to take in some instances. You’re actually pathetic. TinyD Nice ramblings mate, shit home cinema setup though they obviously saw you coming (well not literally given… Read more »
Charlie did you just complain about mudslinging and lecture someone on appropriate ways to address people then refer to someone else as TinyD, describe them as rambling and insult them…. all in the same post?
Thanks TonyD, I used to be called the Sheriff on here for that reason! I don’t mean to do it but I just think sometimes the name calling weakens a good debate.
PS, you’re right I do work for the Government, I’d like to say I was like James Bomd but sadly it’s just in I.T. for the department of Transport.
Wenger alone wasn’t the problem. he was just the poster boy for the nitwits board to hide behind which made it difficult for them to question him. no sane person will leave a well paid job coupled with the backing of the owner just because some customers are not happy while other customers are backing him for past glories. now we have football people in charge and This alone makes me happy. kroenke already said he didn’t buy arsenal to win trophies which explains why he didn’t sack prof Wenger till revenue started to dwindle. It’s kinda funny how Pedro… Read more »