Arsenal’s game with Vorskla has been moved to Kiev. Why?
‘Arsenal’s Europa League group tie with Ukrainian side Vorskla Poltava has been moved to Kiev due to security concerns.’
For fuck’s sake… the country we’re heading to has parts of it under martial law. SAY WHAT. I hope no Arsenal fans went to Ukraine earlier to soak up the culture. Nightmare.
I also hate the fact we’re in such a shite competition that we have to fly a very long way to play on a terrible pitch, to a small crowd, on a freezing cold night. There is no respect for players bodies. Let’s hope Emery takes a very weak squad.
Great news is Spurs are playing Inter Milan and they HAVE to play a full team as they chase CL group stage survival. If we send no players to the Ukraine, we’ll have a squad that’s spent a weak refreshing the legs, whilst being drilled tactically. That is a huge advantage. Poch was only complaining last week about player fatigue. I don’t think we were over exerted against Bournemouth and I certainly think Spurs blew a gasket against Chelsea (hopes really hard).
Unai Emery channeled his inner ARRRRFUUUR FOOCKING SHELBY when speaking about how Arsenal train.
“I try to encourage the players to be more demanding,”
“One of the first things we looked at with the players was the idea of training for training’s sake, training to compete and training to win. Those are three different steps and very often players do them subconsciously.
A massive zinger at Arsene there. Arsene didn’t change the way he trained for 16 years, and it was pretty clear that there was no intensity to the way they players were coached. Emery is trying to up the energy levels and he’s trying to give it purpose by making players better.
“You want development and improvement from all players. Obviously, when you have a squad of 25 players, you’re not going to be able to achieve that with all of them because at the end of the day you’re not able to give all of them the consistency of opportunity so that they all move in the same direction.
“That said, you need to get the best out of the individual players in training and then implement that in the matches. It’s more noticeable with some players because the players more and have the capacity to do so, and perhaps because they’ve also found new impetus.
Emery is making players accountable. He’s probably setting them individual goals. He’s likely trying to keep the players all mentally involved in the game.
Sure, I’m celebrating absolute basics here, but who cares, I spent 11 years telling people these things weren’t happening… now we’re finding out that this information was correct.
Things will still go wrong. We could still finish 5th. We might not achieve much this season. But everything is a process this year. It’s hard for anyone to rectify 10 years of neglect in a year. But we’ll get there, even if it takes 3 managers to achieve that.
Finally, take a listen of our latest podcast. It’s me and Aash shooting the shit about a range of issues that spans super league, Mesut, Emery, and the much discussed budget. Enjoy.
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Cunt Spud’s 1 nil up. A late Inter equaliser will be great for morale.
Atleti is through. That means we avoid them in ECL
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Correlation is not causation, and simply citing the date of Kroenke’s take-over is correlation alone, not causation. To get causation, you need to cite specific things Kroenke has done to hold Arsenal Football Club back, something you’ve never been able to do.
In truth we were an irrelevant, also-ran over the past ten years because the game evolved but Wenger didn’t evolve with it, not because we happened to be owned by Stan Kroenke.
I predict the following 8 third place teams:
Napoli (Liverpool will beat them at home)
Galatasaray
Benifica
Shakhtar (Lyon will beat them)
Plzeri (better goal diff.)
Valencia
Brugge
Spurs ( They’ll lose to Barca)
We need to win the group tomorrow to avoid meeting those teams too soon.
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Hopefully Pool continues. I prefer facing Napoli than bindippers.
We can go round and round on this, but surely some of you can admit that the owner of our great club bears at least some responsibility for its recent decline.
Hands off owner or not, it’s his club.
It baffles me why some of you insist on giving him a free pass.
It’s as if wenger had put some kind of hex on him.
Anyway, he’s in complete control now and wenger is gone so let’s see what happens.
The early signs are positive.
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The Europa League is shaping up to be difficult compared to last season. Liverpool, Spuds, Chavs all in the way it stands
We can go round and round on this, but surely some of you can admit that the owner of our great club bears at least some responsibility for its recent decline. Hands off owner or not, it’s his club About as close as you’re going to get to admitting that you were talking shite all day. Again can’t really blame him for the decline it’s all Arsene. Now that he’s gone we’re going to find out what kind of an owner Stan is or how bad he is. Not that it’s going to matter because you’ve already made your mind… Read more »
The prize money from the Europa league will be paltry, even by Europa league standards if Liverpool and Spuds join Arsenal and Chelsea.
Four clubs from the same country sharing the same tiny pot.
Imagine Arsenal spending the amount of money Liverpool spent in the summer and still lose 3 away champions league games..
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‘Shite’ is it?
The idea that the owner of a club ultimately bears responsibility for that club’s fortunes. I can’t believe you’re naive enough to think otherwise.
But then again maybe the dastardly wenger put poor old Kroneke into some kind of hypnotic trance at a board meeting in 2007. You never know.
Also, unless old Stan has had some kind of epiphany, we’re not going to ‘find out what kind of owner he is’. We already know.
Maybe you haven’t been paying attention for the past ten years.
Let’s leave it there.
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He’s the kind of owner that spends what we have.
He hired in a group of people who know how to spend better.
We’ll have to go through the process of being a selling club until we can get to Liverpool levels of commercials.
There is no withholding money from Stan K. He just doesn’t put in like the sheikhs do.
We have a huge wage bill, an unreal net spend considering how shite we’ve been and the accounts indicate we spend what we earn.
That’s what kind of an owner he is.
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When arsenal returns to the position it was in before kroenke bought into the club.We were very good before Stan got involved, then we got a lot worse. This is what I term shite talk. We had already stopped competing for league titles and were a few years into the 9 years without a trophy stuff and were already selling our star players before Stan got his hands on the club. I mean I don’t even like the guy he’s a greedy thieving Republican what’s to like but you’re trying to rewrite history here in either an attempt to absolve… Read more »
Marko
‘Again can’t really blame him for the decline it’s all Arsene.’
That’s as ‘shite’ as it gets for me.
Still, I hope you’re right. Maybe Stan has changed. Maybe he’s going to be more committed to arsenal achieving success and doing the utmost to bring that about.
We shall see.
Again can’t really blame him for the decline it’s all Arsene.’That’s as ‘shite’ as it gets for me.
And there it is. About as honest as you’re going to get. Literally met with facts and you’re throwing up “alternative facts”. I think you and Stan would actually get along. But sure we’ll see how the club gets on under him now that the the more obvious problem is gone from the club.
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Hellow. I think we darn well solved this shit?
Looks like it’s working fine on android too, even got rid of the “comment here” text so no need to delete that anymore.
Great job Pedro.
Pedro I have listened to your Podcast and would make following points: 1. Lucas Perez was SOLD to West Ham last summer and signed a 3 year contract. That was according to official statement published by West Ham. 2. Whilst I appreciate that several players at the club are on inflated wages considering their actual worth I don’t believe that the total spend at £210 million is as unrealistic as you suggest. Arsenal’s last published revenues are higher than Chelsea, Liverpool and of course Spurs. 3. I am sure that Arsenal will be able to adjust the inflated wages that… Read more »
EmiratesStroller, thanks for the correction on Perez, I thought he was on loan.
I thought you’d like the Aash comments on Ozil. He’s a big fan. I’m still not sure on him ever hitting the levels again.
Good point on the kids, a year out on loan will do them wonders. Smith Rowe was tapped up by Thierry, that would have been great for him!
ALSO: I fixed the comment issue, clear your cache and check the box below to keep your deets filled in.
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Top 4 Tro4hy will get sterner
Thumbs up Pedro
Pedro for president….. thumbs.
“We’ll have to go through the process of being a selling club until we can get to Liverpool levels of commercials.”
Been saying all along we won’t compete for titles in a while yet. The PL is the hardest it has been ever. We derided Wenger (rightly for nicking top 4 because he could have done more) but now Top 4 will be a real trophy now for us.
Liverpool have definitely lost their spark.
Final game against Napoli should be a belter. Winner takes all game.
See Napoli scoring.
As for Spuds, Barcelona will undoubtedly rest players so not an impossibility.
Hahaha I’d certainly vote for Pedro.
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What’s the story from Balamory?
Is tonights game definitely going ahead?
Hmmm
Run out for the fringe players tonight.
I hope spurs do it
I like them. They’re a good club. They run themselves organically and within their financial means and very importantly, they blood young English players
Probably the most prominent side for the England team at the moment and if we all took a leaf from their bookour clubs and national sides would be in a much better state.
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Un na naai
Don’t sell yourself short, you annoy a lot more than 2 people when you post.
I hope Spurs….join us in the Europa Cup, lose their next 15 games, are unable to move into their new stadium until 2020 and have to sell all their best players for cut price fees due to a catastrophic financial position.
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Yeah well done un na naii, you know you’re on an arsenal blog right.
I really hope you were taking the piss.
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