IT’S WELBZ TIME
Arsenal’s draw against Sporting Lisbon was spoiled with a horrendous injury to the main man, Danny Welbeck. He was challenging for a cross and it looked like his ankle crunched with an awkward fall. The man is the unluckiest guy at Arsenal. Absolutely awful to see.
The added layer of toughness is this: his deal runs out in the summer. I know Arsenal aren’t a charity, but it’s going to be tough not to have a heart for someone whose money will dry up in June with an awful injury.
What do you do there? I trust in Arsenal here. Not like the man hasn’t gone all out for us whenever he’s been given a chance.
As for the game, what can you say? Sporting didn’t register a shot on target in either leg, we’re on top of the group, we’ve qualified in that position if we finish off the next two games without hiccup.
There was additional bad news as Stephen Lichtsteiner proved that despite protest, his body isn’t actually that of a 28-year-old as he pulled up with a strain. I can recognise his leadership skills, but it does seem quite irresponsible of us to have had him as back up this season. We’re going to struggle on the right if we don’t address the weakness this January. AMN will help there, but it’s not his natural position.
There’s not really that much to talk of regarding moments on the pitch. No one really stood out, though I did think we were worthy of the win after creating some good chances, particularly in the second half.
The positives are that we’re unbeaten in 15 games. We drew after making 9 changes. It’s also very tough for a team to pick themselves up after a horrific injury to a teammate, as Emery pointed out.
“The worst news is injuries. He was working well, having a good game, he had a chance to score. When you are playing football, when you are playing competitive matches, it can happen. You don’t want that.
“But that is our profession. When a player is having an injury like that the players on the pitch look at it, and in your mind you are thinking of the player. At the end of the match the players asked for him.”
The most important game is this Sunday. Wolves are going to stretch us after a European game, so we have to be motivated and sharp. That game is a real banana skin. Lots of good players, lots of potential. All very exciting. Still can’t believe we’re not 19 points behind as we usually are at this stage of the season.
Right, that’s me done. See you in the comments for a fight. x
I disagree Danny. If utd don’t turn a major corner and if spurs luck runs out 4th will be an achieveable, though difficult, proposition But whether or not we get it, to aim lower than that serves what purpose? If you aim low you are very unlikely to achieve anything at all. If you aim high you might come short but you’ll be more likely to get closer along the way I don’t see what we get from aiming for lower than 4th when it is a possibility. As well, it’s precisely a lack of serious expectations or targets that… Read more »
‘Hopefully the Lacazette-Aubameyang bromance ‘understanding’ tripe is well and truly binned from now on’
Unless we’re playing 2 up front I hope so.
It is Wenger levels of lazy to ignore the need for a winger and play Aubameyang at LM so I’m a bit disappointing Emery has reverted to it after abandoning it. When he did we played better and also had a serious weapon on the bench.
Raptora My point isn’t that the top 4 aides are miles better than us (only city are miles better) But that teams are that much better than us to come ahead of us, if only by a few points. The fact is whether we are beaten to top four by 10 points or 3 points the end result is the same. Spurs are grinding out wins as are/were we, but my point is spurs are grinding out more wins… Neither team is lucky or unlucky but spurs still are performing better than us, maybe not by a great deal but… Read more »
The most worrying part of the game is that after we scored ,there was only one team that looked like scoring the winner and it wasn’t Arsenal.
Emery has been applauded for his substitutions earlier in the season ,and rightly so ,but his substitutions v palace, Liverpool and wolves were poor.
The last 20 minutes we played like headless chickens ,we scored a fortunate goal but the balance of the team was all over the place ….we could have conceded 3 or 4 goals towards the end .
London Gunner.
We a screaming out for a athletic ball player.
Biggest mistake so far this season not jumping in for
Shaquiri the guy somehow manages to get about he’s mobility
is good.
That type of player is something we lack.
Still it’s a point but not pretty.
Out attack has goals according to Pierre…lol
Aubameyang is world class says gambon lol
Another classic Ozil performance am I right Pierre. Certainly has turned a corner alright since the Leicester game. Back into the cul de sac for him
Aubam on the wing is basically us playing with 10 men. He is next to useless there.
We need two ballers on the wing, to cut in from a 45 degree angle, beat the fullback and also to win penalties in the box by trippy dribbling skills
A draw was undeserved and Wolves were unlucky in the end. Signs of the old Arsenal in this performance, far too slow, backward and sideways passing and painfully lacking in dynamic play,ni dribbler. Xhaka proved he’s an idiot and lacks concentration. Kolasinac needs replacing and showed he shouldn’t be 1st choice too. The positive is that we didn’t lose!
Another positive i guess is Leno
What a beast!
That’s too many draws now to get top4…not acceptable against mid table teams
Shock horror, different manager but same outcome.
Is one place up a notch worth the fuss? Absolutely not
5th at best
” did a half time sub lolz”
Lol raptora you’re right!!
Vicuntious are you ironic about Leno ?? Just asking…
Ok I got my answer, you dirty lil’ wenger’s whore. lol
Surely the jury can’t still be out on Ozil.
Where was he? Mkhitaryan ahead of him for me.
Not a good performance. Slow and ponderous.
However, 24pts from 12 games and 3 points off the Spuds is not too shoddy, all considering.
International break may come as a blessing.
Aubameyang, at this moment in time, looks so brittle.
Leno basically gave us a point today. Very brave goal keeping
Aubameyang played through the middle and was useless same as lacazette
Kolasinac is a horrible footballer
The earlier we get dribblers into this squad the better
Marko
“Does he(Ozil) want to be a Footballer anymore”?
Doesn’t look like it.
lol, Ozil did all he could against a team that defended with purpose from the blast of the whistle. Scape goating is bad. He could have played better but definitely wasn’t shit.
Graham “Surely the jury can’t still be out on Ozil.” After ozil went off do you think we looked better as a team , do you think it was a coincidence that wolves had chance after chance because we kept losing possession of the ball. If you want to keep applying the pressure on a team ,the most important thing is to have possession of the football…without the ball you start playing panic football, You give away free kicks which in turn allows them to run the clock down …if you keep giving the ball away it allows the opposition… Read more »
Emery needs to use the international break to have a detailed discussion with Mislintat and Sanllehi about squad plans. There’s a lot of players who’ve made gains but still are well short of what we need. Such an unbalanced squad lacking in quality.
He needs to really have a think about selection and formation too. Right now Leno, Guendouzi and Torreira are the only real shining lights. Have to say Bellerin has improved as well when you consider he was truly bad at the start of the season.
As I wrote after game on Thursday Arsenal have gone into “draw’ syndrome and
that is not good enough in the EPL.
Drawing three successive games in the League means that we have now dropped 6 points. Okay the Liverpool result may be acceptable but not the results against
CP and Wolves.
I guess we won’t be “blowing apart” United or Spurs any time soon.
I guess Xhaka remains precisely what his critics here have long said he is.
I guess I was right to think Iwobi lacks quality and isn’t a first-XI wide solution for Arsenal, not if we want to be a top team.
I guess Emery still has a lot of work to do — as do Mislintat and Sanllehi.
I would go 4-4-2 diamond. Like so:
_________Leno
Bell__Hold__Sokr__Monr
_______Guendouz
_____Torr____Ramsey
__________Ozil
_____Laca____Auba
But Emery likes to be able to press from wide positions, so he’d probably prefer 3-5-2. In that, he could have the two wingbacks provide wide pressing.
Auba wide is a dead end, IMO.
Is one place up a notch worth the fuss? Absolutely not
Vic the Arsene FC superfan
Bamford may be an obnoxious prick most of the time but he’s certainly right about some things… and apparently that’s important to him. Not anyone else though
In terms of xG, Wolves “beat” us 2.4 to 1 today. Thats pretty shocking for a home game against a small team. I have to say, I’m really worried about where we’re going. Im not sure we’ve actually seen any improvement at all under Emery so far. I like Torreira & Leno, but players of that calibre arent going to transform us into a top team. Defensively we dont seem to have improved at all, and going forward we seem to struggle massively apart from some very brief spells where it clicks. I see what Emery is trying to do,… Read more »
As expected, we put in a poor performance and Le Grove is buzzing! Seems some can’t wait for us to lose. Sad
What’s worse is a lot of these players have had a fill weeks rest. Lacazette again today I thought was poor, good game against Liverpool and a great goal, but poor again today and had a very similar performance to Palace. He had a full weeks rest. Mustafi and Xhaka as they so often have kind of undermine the entire side with shaky performances, stupid mistakes, stupid giveaways and in Xhaka’s case massively injurious mistakes. Both had a full weeks rest. Ozil is part of that tripartite of instability along with Mustafi and Xhaka that undermines the side. Again, full… Read more »
Gambon We’re never going to be a city. Guardiola has spent £400 Million or something and had a very so so first season for the money spent but kept building a great side bringing in the players he needed and has built a truly great team. Emery is never going to get £400 Million over 2 seasons. He will get half that if he’s lucky. The added problem for Emery is he’s turned up and so much poor transfer work has been done. He arrived the season after Sanchez was wasted as an asset and Ozil has weighed the club… Read more »
“No way do we go out and spend £50 Million on a LB the way City did a RB. No way are we spending £50 Million on a CB the way City did, twice, or near to that.”
Well, we wont be competing then, will we.
We absolutely must spend in January.when the big boys aren’t shopping just to breach the huge gap. It’s even more obvious now that the only reserve player Emry believes in is Guendozi.
Finally, Leno has just become our first choice. Today could have been embarrassing.
Lol I will be Emery out if he doesn’t spend 250m next summer.. Good grief Does Emery decide how much there is to spend on players? Do some people even think before they type? Conte took on the Chelsea board about signings and how much he got given to spend, that worked out well for him in the end. Mourinho is going on and on about what City have spent, forgetting he has brought in some players as well . So Emery out if he doesn’t spend, ignore the fact he has little say in how much is available to… Read more »
Gambon
If you think that is the only way we can compete then no. We won’t be.
Not a chance Emery is given £400 Million to spend over 2 years, remembering as well because of previous appalling management we have no assets in this team to recoup money. We don’t have a £120 Million Coutinho, for example, and we have not been smart with our youth system meaning we have a nice supply of young talent to sell like Chelsea did.
We’ve been so poorly run for years we’re basically building a club from the ground up.
I agree with Cesc, it’s gonna be a long rebuild job. We won’t actually challenge for at least 5 years. I don’t think we will achieve champions league football this year, I think the best we can hope for is to implement emery ideas, work on the tactics, improve the play(ers), develop/identify the young talent worth bringing in/keeping in the first team and get us playing good football. This summer we need four players at least. Next season we need to get top 4 and maintain that for at least three seasons, improving the squad year on year so the… Read more »
We’re are going to have be patient but and when we do sign a player it’s got to be the right one. Unfortunately City have the monopoly on the type players we need: Players that can dribble with their head up at all times, ability to swivel on a dime and bring 360 degree vision, and players that are quick and mobile. It’s not all down to money. United have had loads of it and bought limited players like Sanchez (who can’t dribble with his head up and lacks awareness as a result) and Mata (who can’t dribble against a… Read more »
Good post Cech Appeal
The state of the squad has little to do with the manager. I will get on his back when he has brought it at least 8 players and they are still not playing the way he wants. Not when he is playing with a squad without a single player that can take on a man and beat him.
He isn’t responsible for the squad we have
Cesc Appeal Man City won the PL last year – biggest budget in UK football PSG won Ligue 1 last year – biggest budget in French Football Barca won La Liga last year – biggest budget in Spanish football Bayern won Bundesliga – biggest budget in world football Juve won Serie A – biggest budget in Italian football Any plan to get to the top of the league that doesnt involve significant investment is akin to crossing your fingers and praying to the football gods. In fact, if Man City’s 5 year plan is to spend £500m on players, ours… Read more »
Spurs picked up Son and Moura
Liverpool got Salah and Mane
None of these players cost that much. They basically came around the same price we paid for Xhaka and Mustafi
Very smart signings.. That’s what we need. Extensive scouting, signings like Torriera, out of the blue and very good.
We don’t need our manager to spend every press conference complaining about how much City have spent
RH I also think of the players we’ve bought during Emery’s very brief time here we’ve done well and he has got a lot out of them. These are players that do not pre-date him. Lichtsteiner has not been good but I think he was also bought for his off the field influence. Sokratis has been solid, given way too much unfair stick and looks a mountain of a CB compared to Mustafi. Guendouzi, great find, just £8 Million, playing really well and developing. Leno, smart buy, £20 Million, compare to Allison and Kepa who were £70 Million. No real… Read more »
Gambon Then we will have to settle for a title push and hope for some luck. We’re never going to spend what a club backed by an oil producing country can spend. But that is never what any of us were asking. All we asked was with the resources available that our club give us the best probabilistic chance of success. Nothing they’ve done from June onwards has shown me they are doing anything other than that. Our spending was potentially one of the smartest out of the top clubs, Mahrez and Fred cost City and United respectively what we… Read more »
Full agreement Cesc Appeal
I for one do not believe the best way to success is to emulate City, we do not have their resources so I don’t even understand that view point.
Athletic Madrid, Dortmund, Napoli. Even Spurs have built consistent teams over the years without spending an arm and a leg. Let’s do that first, break into the top four on a regular before talking about City.
Patience is required here and some on here on here don’t seem to appreciate that
I see what Emery is trying to do, but I think his game plan cannot possibly work without top class players. I hear you but at the same time you must realize that only with time and transfer windows will he ultimately be able to change and get the players in that he wants. As for the potential one or two I firmly believe that he recognizes that wholesale changes are needed and because we’re not City or United that will be more gradual than instant. The fact that he didn’t offer contracts to Ramsey and Welbeck and continues to… Read more »
“Arsenal midfielder Xhaka has made five errors leading to goals since his Premier League debut in August 2016. No other outfield player in the competition has made more in that time“ Even the BBC can see the obvious, why can’t the club? I guess it’s up to debate and perspective whether Xhaka’s clumsy tackle invited Zaha to fall on it which led to the 2nd penalty upon which Crystal Palace equaliser… I personally think Zaha exploited Xhaka’s error to the maximum. That being so, where is the censure for Xhaka’s naivety? Perhaps it’s a bit harsh considering he was playing… Read more »
“Athletic Madrid, Dortmund, Napoli. Even Spurs have built consistent teams over the years without spending an arm and a leg.” How many leagues have these teams won in the last 5 seasons out of 20 possible titles? “Patience is required here and some on here on here don’t seem to appreciate that” People would probably show patience if there was any evidence we have improved. Im not sure there is any at all. I’m not a football manager on £6m a year, but I said 100 times in the summer that Mustafi was a problem, left back was a problem,… Read more »
*equalised
One things for sure we’re not buying these obvious players that better us until we’re back in the champions league and that’s a fact and the only way to do that is with some investment in the January window. That’s just a fact. Top 4 has to be the target because I don’t think we’re winning the Europa League one of Spurs or Inter and PSG or Napoli or Liverpool will be dropping down into the tournament and it’ll be tough
Yes Xhaka made a mistake that led to a goal, a very stupid mistake out of nowhere. No one is doubting that. But he was by no means the worst player out there today so I don’t get the calls for punishment. Since Emery arrived here he has relied on Xhaka a lot, sometimes to cover a position he has never played in before. Our attack from the left was non existent today until he moved there. Yes in the long run he will have to be replaced, but calling for him to be dropped as an example I do… Read more »
” our complete lack of wide players was a problem.”
Yep, I remember certain posters claiming we didn’t need wide dribblers, and all the concerns over that were over exaggerated.
Gambon finish in the top four at least twice in a roll first before talking about league titles
I like league titles too, but making unrealistic demands I know cannot be fulfilled doesn’t help anyone. Kroenke isn’t putting his hands into his pockets anytime soon. We have to spend smart and coach smart to succeed. Success is relative by the way.
I’m not a football manager on £6m a year, but I said 100 times in the summer that Mustafi was a problem, left back was a problem, Xhaka was a problem and our complete lack of wide players was a problem. 70 million budget in the summer and it was clearly spent on shoring up the midfield and backline. Not enough of course but my point is that we were never going to address all of the mess that Wenger left us. Summers end 2019 if Unai Emery hasn’t brought in two natural widemen and a LB then rest assured… Read more »
I was overjoyed when we held Liverpool but progress can be achieved when we face reality head on. Draws against teams like Palace, Sporting and Wolves is not good enough.
Wenger achieved similar results and called it progress. If it wasn’t progress under Wenger, it’s not progress under Emery just because he’s new.
We played, pretty much our strongest team today who were well rested.
They should have won. No excuses.
Very worried after today’s game.
I am yet to see anyone here make excuses for today’s draw
Pointing out the obvious deficiencies in the squad aren’t excuses
That we played our strongest squad today doesn’t automatically guarantee 3 points anyways. Wolves actually played very well.
“70 million budget in the summer and it was clearly spent on shoring up the midfield and backline. Not enough of course but my point is that we were never going to address all of the mess that Wenger left us.” Agreed. We got off to a great start in the summer, but didnt try our hardest and kind of limped out of the summer. For example: – Why didnt we sell Chambers. A loan is worthless for all parties. Cost us £20m – Why didnt we sell Welbeck and Ramsey. Making a decision on Ramsey in October is a… Read more »
Receding
Punishment? I call it, accountability. One of the worst excesses under Wenger was that no matter how badly someone played they were rewarded with starts. This led to a morass of stagnation and complacency.
I don’t want that to appear again in our club.
We played, pretty much our strongest team today who were well rested.They should have won. No excuses. And you’ll get no one making any. It’s absolutely ridiculous to see players like Özil and Xhaka and Lacazette and others being rested and then put in a performance like that. It’s not good enough but it’s all too familiar from the likes of Mesut and I believe it will be eventually addressed under this manager unlike the previous one. Gambon I agree that the summer window ended in a whimper one of my biggest problems was with the budget and the need… Read more »
Hindsight is of course 20/20… but the draws against Crystal Palace and Wolves were draws because they exploited our mistakes. Had we not made the mistakes we would have won those games… and this is what makes me a bit sore. Palace and Wolves aren’t any better than us, they just made the most of our errors. If Palace and Wolves scored unstoppable shots against us I think I would find it easier to take. Cutting out errors and learning from our mistakes should be part of progress… I hope Emery gets the video out and intensely coaches Xhaka so… Read more »
*mistakes
Receding
Your obsession with top 4 is fuckin ridiculous.
We spent 18 consecutive years in the top 4 and did fuck all.
I could say the same of your obsession with Ospina
The top four makes us a champions league club, increases revenue and makes us attractive to players. We are not going to go from a club that finished 6th to one winning the title
No Chelsea didn’t do that, their last title isn’t 14 years ago.
All this talk of spending sprees, does AFC have 500m pounds kept somewhere the public isn’t aware of?
I don’t rate any Arsenal player signed under Wenger.
The player’s Emery has signed have been top notch, just 8 more players to go before we dominate.
Finishing in the top 4 yielded no Champions league titles.
A return to the top 4 would just be standing still.
We are better than this.
Emery at this stage is blameless, takes a while to turn around what Wenger and co left.
If emery tries to change things too quickly, the risk is that wengerised players on fat contracts will just down tools and make things even worse. He cannot get rid of all the underperforming over night
Whatever he is doing is going to take time, and his own players
The main result of being in the top four all those years was just a matter of extending wengers tenure
It is disappointing that Emery still plays Auba on the left and Iwobi on the right. Auba is useless on the left wing. Iwobi has much more confidence playing on the left.
Today, we started the game so slow as if we needed 30 mins to warm up. After we gave up a cheap goal, the opponent parked the bus and played counter. The game became so much more difficult. Sometimes, it seemed that they have 9 guys inside the box and blocked all the shots.
Credit to Wolves. They defended increadibly, every attack we had they dropped back and were in perfect positions to make life miserable for us. The reality is that we are going to struggle with teams who set up the same. Wolves just gave the league the blue print to slow us. Auba is really looking not good. Fortunately, he tends to break the hoodoo quick, unlike other strikers who lament for weeks before getting their mojo back. I still dont think he would be on the wing, I thought that giving him space would play to his strengths, – running… Read more »
Arsenal’s main problem in recent games is that the goals have dried up. We are struggling to score goals.
There is an overdependence on both Lacazette and Aubameyang to perform in almost every game and if they don’t do so then we are going to struggle.
No-one other than these two are reliable finishers and we are lacking goals
from midfield.
The absence of Welbeck with longterm injury has also reduced our physicality upfront.
We were really bad. Sometimes it feels like Boro Primorac and co are still in charge of training.
Auba, while a great sprinter down the line, is not very good technically with the ball at his feet. I thought he would be better than what he has shown, but aside from quick passes in or around the box, he cannot really dribble his way to scoring position. He needs the ball to him or very close to his shooting range. He seems more a fox in the box more than anything despite some pretty nice shots from outside the box so far. Its a conundrum how to use him to his strenghts
gambon you would be better off supporting city or pray a sheikh take over arsenal if you think we are going to spend 200m in a season. We need smart buys. We need player upgrades. If we had a good winger, we would have won against CP and wolves. Red truth top 4 isn’t a stand still. you don’t go from coming 6th to winning the title. You build your team and then come closer to it season by season (unless you do a Leicester ). Top four gets you revenue to build your squad. And the new manager would… Read more »
I remember thinking when watching the highlights of Auba’s Dortmund goals when we were negotiating for him was we haven’t got a winger anywhere near the Dembele mode. I had serious reservations that Auba would be as effective for us without decent wingers, and that reservation is becoming a reality as this season wears on. Auba is best utilized coming on late in games – not starting out wide. Although Xhaka has improved a little, his ingrained deficiencies, such as momentary lapses of concentration, being far too slow on the ball for PL football and rash challenges cannot be improved.… Read more »
looking at the highlights, what the hell was xhaka doing ? did he let the ball roll past him or did he mis control it ? either way, we got punished for it. Leno produced some great saves. Onwards and Upwards. Up the arse and at em.
Wow, knives are out isn’t it ??
Ozil was average yeah but so was the entire team. Bellerin or Auba had finished those chances we wouldn’t be talkinh about him but no its all his fault. So much hate for a player really.
The sad thing I learnt yesterday was that we do not have enough quality players. The performance by the boys, albeit being a complete eyesore, was to me the ceiling we would get with this current crop of players. I’m sorry but most of our players are not good enough. A coach can only take you so far, if you have tactically inept or error prone players you are going nowhere. It was a really sorry sight seeing Emery looking confounded yesterday, as he obviously has done all he could on the training ground but the players are not just… Read more »
Believe me “Emery is under no illusions that the squad is perfect”
Of course we need a couple of “upgrades”.
Ask yourself this. We’re you expecting more at this stage?
Better to be struggling under Emery than struggling under you know who.
Were
I just watched the game again and whilst it wasn’t a good performance, Wolves made blocks that they won’t make everyday. We had a number of really good chances but there was a Wolves player in the right place at the right time each time.
We all expected to beat Wolves but it didn’t happen. On to the next game.
We have not been leading in any game at the end of the first half in the league and are relegation material but in the 2nd half those same players have a record that is good enough to win the league. yet the manager is blameless…………I don’t think so somehow… If he can get the credit for his amazing half time talks then he is culpable for sending the team out to play in a lethargic ,insipid manner. Obviously there is something wrong with the players and manager’s mental attitude prior to the game …..the fault lies with the manager… Read more »
Four draws on the bounce now excluding Blackpool and we were fortunate to beat Sporting in Lisbon in the fifth match since Leicester. Worrying aspect is that we’re not playing well and coming up short in terms of our finishing/luck, we’re not creating much at all and are struggling big time to dominate matches or even have decent spells of superiority. Only positive really is that it’s been a long time since we’ve lost which is good for morale and keeps the unbeaten record in tact, draw too many games though and it’s worse than getting beat the odd week.… Read more »
People questioning Aubamayang and what he brings to the team are not showing any real understanding of the game and the fine lines between being branded a success or a failure. Aubamayang has been playing out wide and his goals per minute ratio this season are 2nd to none and that is why he was player of the month in the prem, but people still question his ability and his use to the team. He hit the post with a chance that He probably should have put away ,if that had gone in fans would have been singing his praises… Read more »
It’s not that they’re questioning his role, we’re privy to what he brings and what he does best is score goals, he’s as good a penalty box CF finisher as you’re going to find so what is he doing playing out wide left is what we’re all questioning as it’s been shown to render him invisible at times and ineffective. He’s had three very poor games in a row now. I still think that we should just play two up top and change up the formation, we’re weak anyway in the centre of the park so why not just play… Read more »
WE “Worrying aspect is that we’re not playing well and coming up short in terms of our finishing/luck, we’re not creating much at all and are struggling big time to dominate matches or even have decent spells of superiority.” The only thing that is different is that our finishing is not out of this world anymore but that was never going to last was it. You say we are not playing well ……no change there. You say we are not creating much …..no change there You say we are struggling to dominate matches….no change there You say we haven’t had… Read more »
Pierre Wasn’t ever going to be sustainable to maintain that run of form in front of goal, the concerns were flagged up weeks before the end of our purple patch. I suppose I was looking for a bit more out of Emery in terms of improving the play of the group that we already had. Didn’t expect anything radical due to a lack of quality in the side but we’re not playing any better football than we were last season under AW and defensively we’re still poor. So when the wins dry up it’s to be expected that questions are… Read more »
Wengemery. Ultimately our chickens have come home to roost. We still have a very poor team/squad that needs a complete rebuild. We do seem a more combative unit and the unbeaten run shouldn’t be underestimated, although it has been a rocky road. Our attack is still powderpuff although capable of really nice moments. Mikki, Ozil, Ramsay and Chaka Kahn are at best, consistently 6/10 players with the odd stand out game. We need 8/10 every game. Our defence is still very bad. Bell end has improved but he’s not a great defender. Kos is finished. Holding meh. Mustafi is garbage.… Read more »
Cesc and Mata would be terrible signings, the latter isn’t even one of United’s better players and the former would be purely a sentimental move as he’s got splinters lodged in his arse from parking up on the Chav bench.
Only way I would be happy to see Cesc come back would be if we moved on Elneny and he came back as a squaddie, could use him for his leadership and experience.
Finished as a top level competitor in CM though.
Like we need another couple of 30+ players. Our squad is actually getting on a bit…
Let alone adding another £300k to the already bloated wage bill.
We need yoot and we need cash/money.