Politics and pragmatism on the mind of Emery

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Never thought I’d be at the stage in my life where I have to plan what I eat the night before a staff do just so I’m ‘comfortable’ when I turn up the drinking game to 100. I’ve settled on a bag of peanuts. What a miserable little night I’m having.

Still, last laugh is on me. Watching a non-binge culture office try and numb their social anxiety with UNLIMITED everything is always entertaining.

‘I may have just passed wind young Johnny, but the CEO just saw you vomit in that plant pot’

Anyway, what have we in the world of Ars… JOSE GOT FIRED la la la la la la la la laaaaahhhhhhh!

The specialist in nasty finally landed his comeuppance as Ed Woodward pulled the trigger on his miserable United tenure.

The man has been in decline for many years now. His ideas are stale, his attitude has been disgusting and he’s clearly lost all the drive that made him great. Power corrupted his curiosity. While Pep Guardiola is constantly developing a tweaking his vision, Jose simply gave up. The master of Stoke football with world class players gave up. As he’s aged, his ideas have struggled to transmit and the rest of the football is now out thinking him.

United is a prime example of how being grotesquely monied doesn’t always buy you success. There’s no real plan in place over there outside spunking cash on whatever the super agents suggest. Crazy to say, but it’s very similar to the mess that followed Arsene Wenger around. The richer version of decay.

Too much power was given to the last three managers. There’s been too little accountability for horrific spending. No clear direction for the club. They have a fanbase that complicit in the demise.

‘Listen, you can’t just blame Mourinho’ is of course correct, but only in the sense that Ed Woodward has been an embarrassing sycophant who refused to take control of the mess. Jose chose the players, trained them, instructed them and motivated them. That’s his squad. The footballing mess is his.

Bitching about a lack of investment because there’s a City to point to is so disingenuous.

I joked that the next move from Ed Woodward was likely to be someone from the class of ’92. I’m not sure Ole Gunnar Solskjær is quite ’92, but he’s not far off. So far, Woodward has gone for a shite ‘young manager’, he’s tried a ‘steady hand’, he’s just had a crack at ‘WINNER’, and now he’s fucked so he’s going to try and keep the fans onside with a hire based on pure emotion.

When your manager is there because it feels right, it’s probably wrong. This is like the time Newcastle handed the reins to Alan Shearer. Sure, there have been some great examples of it working, like Zidane and Pep. But I’m not quite sure either of those two (or Arteta as some will predictably shriek) quite correlate to hiring the Eliteserien manager.

United need to hire in a world class sporting director, they need to move on Moratta as their next CEO, they should bring in someone like Les Read and let him reinvigorate the academy, and they should hire a young manager with a philosophy that aligns with the real Man United.

Hopefully, they’ll take Pochettino from Spurs.

That’s my segue into the BIG game this evening. I’m very excited to play Spurs, but this one really does come at a bitch of a time. We just slumped to a shocker away at Southampton, which as Emery points out, is not good times at all.

“Sunday for us is a big reality check in our way. We need to improve and also we need to continue doing our way in our process.

“It’s not a good result but this reality gives us more motivation to continue to work hard, finding a new thing to work on each day, and also it makes us demand a lot from ourselves in the way we work on this way.”

This is where the money making decisions come in. The club do not need to win the League Cup. It offers no value outside giving us a trophy most fans will deride. We need Champions League football. That means top 4 or a win in the Europa League.

Emery will knows this. However, the fans won’t tolerate a pasting from a local rival, and any sort of loss could also have a negative impact on the squad. So he’s going to have to dance between politics and pragmatism.

“Our first idea is that we play with the best players that we can use in this derby,”

“The opposition is very big and it’s demanding a big performance from us tomorrow.

“We can use some young players because we think with a big performance, they can help us win.

Maybe he can disguise the starting 11 as experienced by bringing back Cech, Kos (who won’t start this weekend) and Licht. A little sprinkling of Mesut and Ramsey would also add to the appearance of going for it. Maybe Saka and Eddie can take up the wide positions to soften critique?

This is a real test of managerial strength for me. It’s also a test of the depth of our squad. There are 4 players out injured, with 4 facing late fitness tests tomorrow. We’re creaking before shit hits the fan. Hopefully, we can come out of tomorrow unscathed.

Right, enjoy the game, see you in the comments! x

P.S. Great to hear our manager admit he’s going to move for someone in January, I just hope it isn’t a pony signing.

“The club is working because if we have one good option to come around and help us, we can do it,” said Unai. “The club has this possibility to help us in the transfer window with some players, but I am very happy with the players.

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azed

“is that eddie nketiah or akpom all over again?”

Yes.

Rainman

Yeah lets blame Emery for the defense. No improvement whatsoever and all that.
This certainly has nothing to do with the shit defenders. It’s Emery’s fault.

Paul Mc Daid

Bad night ,
Learned a lot, Wenger left us in the Shit,
So much Brock on on our books, Emery will sort it but it will take time, Crowd were piss poor also, Any cunt that leaves early is an embarrassment , Seen some shite in my day but leaving early is sad and pathetic, Especially againtst these bastards.

Guns of Hackney

Alex James

We stopped being a football club the moment Arsenal sold themselves to Stan Kroenke.

We can moan and whine all day long about this player or that manager but unless Stan ponies up the sort of cash that a side needs to compete, we will always be a sidenote in the season.

Arsenal aren’t relevant anymore.

Pierre

Work ,work ,work …….the team are knackered

What happened to letting the ball do the work ….pass pass pass

HighburyLegend

Sorry, woke up from a nightmare, dreamed I was GoH or gambom lol

Receding Hairline

Arsene wasted transfer funds on players not good enough to compete at the top

Emery isn’t even in charge of transfers

You don’t bring in a 33 year old center back then stand on the touchline and instruct him on how to defend

Gary Neville said earlier that Emery is having to manage every minute of every game and that wasnt sustainable. In the long run we have to bring in better players

No one rates the players Wenger left behind, that alone says everything

Cesc Appeal

Yeah I think people need to chill on the quality of our youngsters. They always do it.

Yet to see anything from Nketiah that makes me think he could be stellar or even good at EPL level, Maitland Niles has faded massively and even Smith Rowe is miles off.

Throwing kids at things is not the answer.

Moray

We had to change and change is never comfortable and rarely immediate. With our relatively poor club resources we needed a manager with a long-term strategy and make no bones about it, the squad he inherited was a fucking mess. We have a guy on 300 grand a week who prefers to play computer games. If we were going to be honest 75% of these players are not good enough to be playing for us. Moving from zero tactics to a team capable of reacting tactically to the game in real time as the modern game dictates is a big… Read more »

Guns of Hackney

I used to leave Highbury at 15.01. If arsenal weren’t 5-0 up by then…I was gone!

Alex James

Guns. Regrettably so true.

useroz

also, we put out a near first 11 tonight and lost

a bad call by emery? desperate to win something?

thought 1/3 or even 50% of kids would have been ok :

*saka can’t be worse than iwobi

*ESR seems to know where the net is cf Mikki

*Zed surely not worse than kos at this stage

Joe

2 new CBs needed. Where was Mustafi tonight ?

Guns of Hackney

HL

We haven’t improved 1%.

That’s a Gambon line.

Arteta would win the league is a GOH original.

Marko

Emery doesnt seem to understand squad management. Doesnt rest players. To be fair to him he inherited a dirt poor squad and a wafer thin one considering how useless some players are and how others feign injury all the time and can’t be considered much. Give him two seasons like you said. I mean he’s only improve the starting 11 to the tune of two players (Torreira and Leno) Guendouzi isn’t ready Sokratis is in and out of the team and Lichtsteiner is a nothing signing. The question is, do we now let Emery spend another £100m on the defence… Read more »

Leftsidesanch

Mustafi back in a week apparently. Kola may not be the most solid defensively but he has added a lot to us going forward over these last few weeks.

Paulinho

The only way Emery can make these mugs more effective defensively is sit ten men behind the ball.

A good offense and possession game is needed for a good defence in Emery’s system and he simply needs time to get the WHOLE team right.

Isolating the defence from the rest of the team is just daft unless you’re talking about a defensive manager.

Receding Hairline

Not your blog either Gambon

When you say emotional stuff like the women u spent the evening deriding expect to be called out on it

That 1% rubbish needed calling out

Guns of Hackney

Our defence has more holes than St Andrews.

Cesc Appeal

Yeah I think we can lose Kozz, Mustafi and Chambers and bring 2 CBs in.

In terms of defence basically weed all the Wenger players out and bring new ones in.

I think this is going to be a fun and painful year or so because so much change is needed.

Paulinho

Smith-Rowe and Saka have talent.

The rest are absolute shit.

useroz

“We stopped being a football club the moment Arsenal sold themselves to Stan Kroenke.”

yep… and who sold us out ?

plus ,the financial mismanagement in the last 2 to 3 years drained the club .. .and who did that?

Redtruth

I wouldn’t pick.Maitland Niles for a Sunday league team.

Alex James

Bring in the Burnley coach to teach defending

Receding Hairline

Paulinho you might need to explain Emery’s system. Some on here says he doesn’t have one

Cesc Appeal

I agree.

Smith Rowe, Saka and Nelson look the ones to have patience with. The rest don’t look great at all.

AA23

We’re overreacting here, it’s his first season (remember Klopp’s and Pep’s?) and he’s already changed things. Did you lot forget that NLD a couple weeks ago? When’s the last time you saw Arsenal play like that?

We had one of our starting defenders fit today, with Kos way off the pace still and Xhaka in a backline.

Score could have easily been 2-2 with Miki’s chance first half and Laca was unlucky hitting the post.

We’ll regroup and be a lot stronger after a couple more transfer windows.

Guns of Hackney

Useroz

Lady bracewell smith.
Dien.
Arsene.
Gazidis.
Kroenke.

Any of those in any order you like. All responsible for what we see now.

Usmanov would have backed this club and turned us into a superpower.

Arsenal are done.

Cesc Appeal

You have to say as well our possession play is hurt when Xhaka is not at CM, I’m all for upgrading him with someone more mobile but they have to have on the ball skills in terms of passing.

You could obviously offset any potential possession play loss by getting a better, harder working CAM as well which distributes the possession work.

That’s the way it should be.

azed

In January we two attackers. A winger and an AM.

In the summer, we need a new defence.

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Was going to happen weren’t it …

Cesc Appeal

The reactions to defeats are a bit much this week.

Unless you’re a moron this was always going to be a big job.

We’ve all harped on about what a fuck up Wenger was, correctly, so we all must know then the scope of the changes needed.

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Defence
Bel go
Mustsfi go
Papa …?
Montreal go

Alex James

Who sold us out? Unfortunately, it was Lady thingy who sold her shares to him, and broke her family’s almost 100 years association with the club.

Just listening to Jamie Redknapp, who reckons Iwobi was our star player. What do I know?

Receding Hairline

Cesc I remember some on here saying a 19 year old Matteo already offers what Xhaka offers in midfield… This two matches proves they were way off the mark

Guns of SF

How much is Emery to blame for this?
He has a shitty and now tired squad. As of now- I would say he needs to be resting the squad more. Today was not good- but again it was a Derby game. So Ill give him that but NO more.
We need reinforcements in out attack- wing/ CAM/Wing
It will be hard in Jan… but we must sign 2 players and if we can offload Ozil- maybe a third player!!!!!!!!

Joe

Aa23

Exactly. A lot of throwing the toys out on here

This has always been a transitional year. Hopefully we get back to the CL. That should Be the only mandate. No matter how ugly it is, just get back in. Get rid of the wenger stench with players like Ozil, Kos , Iwobi etc.

We need a strong Jan
And summer TW.

Leftsidesanch

Cesc,

As I said on Sunday, when we lose this place is like AFTV.

Cesc Appeal

RH

Guendouzi has faded a bit, but that is to be expected in a 19 year old with limited experience.

Xhaka offers us a fair bit in possession, but we can do better. His lack of mobility costs us but I do like his fiery attitude, anyone calling that c**t Alli a c**t is alright in my book.

We can easily upgrade though. But right now the CAM situation, winger situation and defence situation are more pressing.

Champagne charlie

Receding Hold on, Pep came in and City were clearly evolving and developing under his guidance. He didn’t have the players to make it work to the standard he wanted, but the signs were there and as he added what he wanted it came closer and closer to his vision. Same goes for Klopp, Liverpool were inconsistent but noticeably different along the way. I’ve yet to see even the inconsistent improvement under Emery defensively. Yes, we run more, yes we press higher, yes our mentality appears more hardened. But defensively we’ve been abject, and he’s changed 3 starters that were… Read more »

Cesc Appeal

Leftside

It is a bit much.

This was always going to be a long project. But we’ve done better than other teams transitioning and this isn’t City where Guardiola had £400 Million to spend or something.

This is more like Liverpool only we don’t have anything of value to sell like Coutinho.

Nelson

I remember those days when we have Santi, Ozil and Sanchez in the team, There were some nice passing plays. Emery prefers a different style of football. He didn’t sign players to compliment Ozil. He relies on Iwobi and Mikki to do the job. Up to now, we have two good strikers to cover our deficiencies. Once Auba is not scoring, our teams’s weakness is exposed.

Joe

CC
A bit disingenuous there

Pep and Klopp have both completely changed their teams from what they inherited.

Don’t see you questioning their influence

We also have a team completely destroyed by wenger and completely Mis bought players. This team finished 40
Points back if league leaders with the failure that it is wenger.

That you expect emery to influence as much as you do with one TW.

You’re talking out your ass. Sorry.

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

We can’t hide
Club an the new man need investment
He’s shown he knows what to do

AA23

We couldn’t play kids today, this was a man’s game. Did you see some of those challenges? Ref was rightly letting a lot go.

We’re tired but we had to make a statement today, and we did. We lost but we match them physically, and were unlucky not to score over the 90 minutes.

Plus, we know Tottenham won’t win the Cup.

Cesc Appeal

Did Liverpool finish 8th in Klopp’s first season?

Joe

He didn’t have the players to make it work to the standard he wanted, but the signs were there and as he added what he wanted it came closer and closer to his vision.

Yeah and only had to spend 300m in 2 summers

Good point CC

HighburyLegend

GoH, I agree with you when you say we were finished the day Stan bought us.
But what I don’t understand is why you’re blaming Kroenke AND Emery at the same time….

gambon

Im not too keen on the pass that Emery gets in his first season.

Yes its a transitionary season, and yes, barring severe decline, he should be given time, but the improvements have to start on day one.

You dont get to defer all your improvements to years 2/3 etc. You have to start making a difference straight away.

It would be best to wait til the end of the season to make a real judgement, but im worried about a lot of what i’ve seen so far.

Cesc Appeal

If we’d played kids against that Spurs team it would have been 6-0 or something stupid and the same bleaters would be bleating that Emery had embarrassed the club which would be deliciously ironic.

We were flat, Spurs looked the more grown up team but we still had chances.

No argument with the result but I think we’ve reached the stage where Emery has worked the whole squad out and needs transfers.

Joe

Cesc

Shhhhhhhh

He showed great influence as a manager

Pierre

Would have been nice to see a little bit of composure on the ball..this kick and rush stuff isn’t doing it for me ..reeks of desperation I’m afraid.

Emery thinks Iwobi and Ramsey are tactically superior to Ozil …now that is funny

Danny

Jeez it’s only the fuckin’ League Cup, who gives a toss?

AA23

Agreed Joe, think Kos and Ozil will leave as soon as a suitable buyer is found but I would keep Iwobi and try to get Pepe in January.

I have seen a big improvement with Iwobi and I think a better winger to learn from could make him improve further.

Joe

If mkhit scores instead if missing it as per usual game is completely different.

Mikhit has cost us at least 3 matches so far this season

Paulinho

Receding – It’s clear any type of dysfunction in the midfield/attack is disaster for Emery’s philosophy. Suppose quite similar to Wenger in some ways or any team that likes to play on the front-foot.

So many goals we concede can be traced back to lack of quality in midfield and attack. Once Emery gets those areas to the levels needed our defence will improve naturally although some defenders not named Koscielny will help.

Joe

Aa23

His final ball is atrocious. Passing or scr

Alex James

For all Wenger’s boasting about making players, we never got Coutinho money for any of them. TH and Cesc were sold for pittances in comparison. I certainly feel the black dog at the moment. We lost to an agricultural team in Soton; and defeat to Spurs is worse than to the Mancs and the bin dippers. I hate all three with a passion.

Joe

Passing or scoring. Don’t know how much more he will get better at it

Cesc Appeal

I think that’s critical to point out, Liverpool now competing with City for the title, finished 8th in Klopp’s first season and were terribly inconsistent and porous at the back for season after that until they spent £75 Million on a CB.

Emery won’t do that badly.

Receding Hairline

I think you are doing a lot of airbrushing there Charlie Liverpool were shocking defensively under Klopp until they spent Guardiola first season scrapped top four despite having the components of a team whose last league titles wasn’t a decade plus ago Our objectives this season is to finish top four or win the Europa, we are on course for that but need to improve. This night means nothing to us except tiring out players in my opinion we should not have played. You keep going on about the three players brought in, they are not top class but have… Read more »

Cesc Appeal

Given the way our system works if you have superior players to Mkhitaryan and Iwobi getting the ball as much as they do we will improve no end off the bat.

gambon

Joe What worries me is why did Emery give literally everyone apart from Ospina a second chance? The entire fan base said we needed a LB, everyone knew we needed at least another CB. If Emery doesnt like Elneny then why did we not sign another DM rather than run Torreira into the ground. Why did we not sign any attacking midfielders when it was clear Iwobi & Mykhitaryan arent up to it. Why did we not sell CHambers? A loan makes absolutely no sense. Why did we not sell Welbeck, or Ramsey? Im not saying we shouldve spent more… Read more »

Joe

Re watch the delle goal. Complete individual mistake.

Nothing emery can do to fix school boy errors by a supposed “top defender “ as some like to claim Kos is

Joe

Gambon

He probably was giving the first few months of the season to assess players for himself.

He’s already decided Ramsey can go and wellbeck. I’m sure we will see a lot more go in Jan or summer

He couldn’t just come in and sign 15 new players.

Joe

You can’t blame emery for Ramsey and wellbeck for being in the last years of their deals.

That’s on wenger

And Ramsey still may be sold in Jan

Cesc Appeal

The club might want to force a new defensive coach on Emery though if things don’t improve after a CB buy.

Maybe someone like Keown.

The club is to blame for this, we sacked up about 4 years too late, left ourselves with a mountain of work and because of the falling standards less funds.

Alex James

Kos ranks with Caesar in costing us finals. Luton and Birmingham won their single cups, courtesy of these two.

Kayciey

Its very frustrating when someone paid to take charge of a team can’t see that Xhaka is not a CB, Guendouzi is all hype…no end product and that Ozil is the best creative midfielder we’ve got at Arsenal….he must play. Iwobi, Mikki, AMN, should all go. Why bring on Nketia anyway when we had Auba and Laca on? I’m beginning to think that we’ve been lucky with the unbeaten run. Emery has just been lucky. He’s just as stubborn as Wenger.

gambon

“I have seen a big improvement with Iwobi ”

Hes not any better than the day he made his debut against Everton.

Absolutely atrocious player.

Guns of SF

“Given the way our system works if you have superior players to Mkhitaryan and Iwobi getting the ball as much as they do we will improve no end off the bat.”

true this

Joe

Ramsey has probably been one of our better players coming off the bench

Don’t know how he’ll play in the latter per of the season trying to prevent injuries etc

Dissenter

The problem we have is the one few people talk about.
We do not have money to spend and are just busy making stop gap changes.
Whatever happened to all that money stashed up in the bank?
Even when you account for the mismanagement of outgoing players contracts, we ought to have spent more last summer.

Receding Hairline

I thought it was common knowledge Emery isn’t in charge of transfers

Danny

Chelsea to play the Scum……….twice! Excellent for us. Hope they fuckin’ kill each other.

Guns of SF

Yes Gambon

The El Neny issue is a bit perplexing. Why keep him? He never plays and can be of use to relieve Lucas

Head scratching. I think that Emery is going to be feeling some heat if we continue to lose this way.

We literally depend on the entire team for goal scoring- bar our CBs

Proper wingers and attackers can alleviate this problem, by reliving this pressure from our wingbacks

Receding Hairline

Paulinho

Thanks for the breakdown

Very nicely put

The top teams have players who can hold the ball and makes things happen, that automatically makes the defense better

Iwobi,Mkhi,Ozil..these guys loose the ball under any kind of pressure, and that doesn’t help any defense in the world

Kayciey

Cech should never play any game for Arsenal again. His distribution is poor, he can’t save a team, I think Leno is the best we’ve got. Kos is finished, Guendouzi should not start any game again. Xhaka and Torerria must be our deep lying midfield pair. If we don’t have a CB, promote under 23 CB to play for first team.

Marko

The overreaction is unbelievable considering the amount of people who have understood that he inherited a shit squad that time and money is needed to address that squad and that there was a transition period needed to address the malaise that happened under Wenger. I mean have some people forgotten that? Gambon clearly has you say give him two seasons and at least two summer windows but you say improvements have to start from day one. Which is it. I get that certain types would be so quick to judge the new manager given how the felt about the previous… Read more »

Dolomite

Contrary to popular opinion I think todays defeat solely lies at the feet of the players. Mkhytarian not taking a gilt edged chance – the difference between winning and losing Koscielny – not being pumped up or edgy enough in a NLD, See Sokratis for a good comparison he was READY. Iwobi for not having the bottle and composure to play his own game at home Guendozi ditto – much better than the headless chicken routine Aubameyang – step up to the plate if you want to walk in Henrys shoes – he ALWAYS did versus Totts Maitland Niles not… Read more »

Cesc Appeal

Dissenter I think, as Gambon has said numerous times for years, the entire financial direction of this club was stupid to say the least. Cash was king except cash earns base interest when player values were going through the roof. Your £40 Million player suddenly becomes worth £70 Million in two years and what is your £40 Million in cash worth? Factor in falling into the Europa League, commercially being trash as the Adidas CEO told us a few weeks back. I said for a while Arsenal have been incompetent/negligent for a good 6 years with our general direction and… Read more »

Pierre

Joe
I thought we looked a much better team with Mhkitaryan on the pitch , we created some good opportunities in the first half …I thought he and Ramsey linked well but iwobi was poor .

2nd half Ramsey may just as well not have been on the pitch..

lots of kick and rush, no composure on the ball ,no patience from the team but that’s the game that Emery wants so the fans had better get used to it…

Champagne charlie

Joe Nothing disingenuous in what I’ve said, I noted both have helped realise their visions by making the signings they wanted along the way. But both changed things from the get go in ways we’ve not yet seen under Emery. Receding No airbrushing, both Pep and Klopp had a massive impact at the clubs with the players already on the books. Sure, there were some that didn’t fit the needs and got replaced, and nobody is discounting Emery that right. But, he’s not changed anything significantly enough from a coaching perspective so far. No first half lead in the prem,… Read more »

Joe

Pierre

How many more chances does
Mkhit have to miss

He is costing us points. Game after game.

Pierre

Ces Appeal
So today’s performance was wenger’s fault.

Joe

What’s the point of looking good if you’re not going to finish the chance to change the outcome of the game.

No point

Joe

CC

Klopp finished 8th first season.

gambon

Marko You think we should wait 729 days, then suddenly improve significantly overnight? If we are supposed to be going from A to E in 24 months, then is it not fair that we should at least be at B by 6 months? Or do you think we should make zero improvment for the first 23.9 months of them 24? If we’re gonna spend £150m building a great defence, shouldnt we be seeing improvement after the first £70m? Surely improvement is a process, and im not seeing that process. Same terrible defence we had under Arsene, baffling selections, constant early… Read more »

Guns of SF

can anyone explain why ElNeny is not playing?
Certainly he must be sold as well in Jan.

if we can offload Nozil in Jan, that is like a cup win to me.

Cesc Appeal

Guns of SF

I think Elneny is gone in January and the club will likely try to push Ozil onto some unfortunate.

The thing is now Sanllehi and Mislintat will be looking at the team and what we need as much as Emery. They will still be here, Emery might not if he doesn’t perform.

It doesn’t take a genius to see what we need, and it’s a lot. CB or 2, LB, 2 CAMs, a winger and maybe another CM.

Lot of selling as well.

Marko

Expectations are that we will sign a couple players this coming transfer window. On top of the 5 last summer and another expectation of more or less the same next summer you’ll be looking at a lot of these problem players and squad deficiencies being replaced/addressed. To what level they’ll be addressed obviously remains to be seen. If anything the real judgement starts next month for better or worse he and others at the club thought that they could work with certain players and obviously these past few months will show that they were wrong in thinking that and will… Read more »

Rainman

“Contrary to popular opinion I think todays defeat solely lies at the feet of the players.
Mkhytarian not taking a gilt edged chance – the difference between winning and losing
Koscielny – not being pumped up or edgy enough in a NLD, See Sokratis for a good comparison he was READY.”

Nope Dolomite, This is all on Emery, Emery bashing is the new thing. They want to see changes and they want to see it NOW, or else toys will be thrown out of the pram.

Guns of SF

this is like Wenger days. Crying for new additions only to be fed horseshit for years and panic buys that dont really help.
The writing is on the wall, lets see how this so called new team pans out. I expect them to add 2 players in Jan. If they do, hats off to them. No BS ing the masses

Kayciey

After what 5-7 absolutely drab and pathetic seasons under Arsene Wenger surely we can stand more than 6 months of Emery before we throw our toys out

We hardly lost to Spuds at Emirates during those seasons.

Champagne charlie

Joe

That’d be relevant if people were discussing things end of season and basing their judgements on where Emery finished. But that isn’t being discussed, influence and ability to reap changes is what many are looking for.

Also, didn’t Klopp take over from Brenda in October/November that season following a poor start?

Marko

If we’re gonna spend £150m building a great defence, shouldnt we be seeing improvement after the first £70m? It should be noted that it’s 70 million over three position not one imo if we just spend 70 million on addressing our awful group of CB’s I would absolutely agree that we should be seeing more in that area but 15 million on Sokratis isn’t enough clearly. If anything we need to spend at least 100 million on that area and that’s still the case. Surely improvement is a process, and im not seeing that process. A process is defined as… Read more »

Marko

We hardly lost to Spuds at Emirates during those seasons.

Emery has played them twice at the Emirates so far what’s your point. He’s yet to lose by more than two goals or in embarrassing fashion time and time again either

Joe

CC

It was also a team that should have won the league the season before all for Gerrard to slip.

Pierre

Marko
Let’s be honest here …Tottenham didn’t even play well tonight and they saw the game out comfortably in the last 20 minutes …we ran out of ideas, the Arsenal crowd gave up on the team after 80 minutes in a NLD ..that is pretty embarrassing.

Nelson

Emery is now our coach, we’ll have to support him. He has been trying to remodel the team to play his style of football. The board has to support him. Get rid of those players that don’t suit his game A.S.A.P.. Even if it means a financial loss. Replace them with player that Emery needs. If after two years, we still can’t get into top 4, then we’ll have to start over again with a different coach.