So here we are again, Mesut Ozil drops out of the Arsenal trip to Liverpool complaining of a pain in his knee.
Is it real? Could be. Is it made up? History would suggest that when Mesut thinks bad news is coming there’s often a reaction. Whatever it is, I’m not really surprised that we’re here talking about the mercurial German again.
It’s quite interesting watching a certain group of fans use this issue as something to pin on Emery as bad management.
I think fans need a reminder of what Mesut Ozil has been for Arsenal.
This is the most expensive player on our books by about £150k a week. I know people don’t like the fact I mention the figure, but that’s because it’s a baffling number when you consider his drawbacks. It doesn’t matter how you package money, in football, it should be related to what you consistently deliver to the team. ‘It’s not his fault he’s paid that much’ isn’t an argument I’m afraid.
Mesut needs perfect conditions to perform these days. Nice weather, preferably a little break before he plays, he’s no good away from home, doesn’t like to play bruisers or teams that drop a heavy press, and he also doesn’t like to have to muck in for the team, nor will he play out on the right.
We thought his issue before was having to play with Giroud, so Lacazette was going to unleash his creativity. Didn’t happen. Then we thought signing a striker with pace would help him. Didn’t happen. Then we thought it was Wenger, so we waited for the World Cup, where he tanked. Then we waited for Emery, and he once again tanked.
Not to get into the weirdness of him being given tough away days off by TWO Arsenal managers. Imagine that, being 30 years old, the highest paid player at the club, and you’re given tough games off because the manager thinks you’re lightweight? Embarrassing…
Anyone who thinks the Ozil situation under Emery is weird hasn’t been paying attention to what’s going on in football or on a personal level with the player. The game does not allow for passengers, especially when you’re a Europa League side trying to climb into the Champions League. Mesut is a passenger these days, he’s a quarterback who only wants to do what he wants to do. How does Emery have any other choice outside moving him on?
Can we beat Liverpool away in the Premier League? Likely not. Is taking Mesut there going to change things? Unlikely, he couldn’t make it past 45minutes against Brighton.
Be on the lookout for Arsenal fans using this to go at Unai Emery. The careful-what-you-wish-for contingent are stinging after their summer humiliation. They are softening fans up for questions over the manager because he’s taken all the bold decisions most people who have really been paying attention tend to agree with. Mesut Ozil has been a disaster signing for Arsenal and Emery is addressing that problem as we speak. That’s decisive, it’s bold and it’s the right decision.
If we’re going to beat Liverpool this afternoon, it’s going to be with a team of professionals dedicated to the cause. It’ll have to be a full-throttle performance from every single player. We are capable of such a game as you saw in our destruction of Spurs a few weeks ago, but even if we fail, we’re playing the Premier League leaders with two of our most talented player unavailable because of form or contract troubles.
Our defence looks ripe for destruction. I have no idea how Lichtsteiner and Koscielny are expected to survive an onslaught from the outrageous pace of the Liverpool side, outside a very deep block. In midfield, we don’t have much choice outside a bland offering of three defensive midfielders and up front, our hopes and prayers rest on Auba and Lacazette having an outrageously potent day at the office.
Liverpool’s unbeaten run can’t last forever, but I do think they’re too much for us to handle as a team today.
But, it is what it is, and I don’t think there’s any brand of Mesut Ozil that would help us through today.
Wonder if its damage limitation from here or will we display more nonsense brain dead defending.
I saidv4-1
But at half time
We have a school boy defense. The second goal, they let Firmino to walk through the middle and score. The third and forth goal, they lost the ball and the team is not ready to defend. One long ball, the back side is fully open. 1. We need at least one good CB 2. We need to replace the defensive coach. Once we lose the ball, the team has to get back to the defensive shape very quickly. 3. Our 2 full backs also need to be replaced. Our defense today is worse than those bottom five teams in the… Read more »
There’s a new Cirus in town called Arsenal. A bunch of clowns are busy performing in it with a ring master who can’t sort out a defence for shit.
The last clown to manage Arsenal ran out of tricks for twelve years; now a new one is watching tons of videos but the defence looks even worse than it was under the Old Clown.
Time for this shit show to come to an end.
Perhaps a good hiding from Pool today will help instill in the new manager the importance of defence.
I said 5-1, 6-1 last night.
Puma should be ashamed of this wishy-washy kit as well.
We really cannot defend a lead to save our lives can we? Arsenal FC doing their best to make sure we have a miserable new year.
Honestly we need a complete overhaul in defence.
A. Complete. Overhaul.
I really hope Sven and Raul have their transfer targets ready because this continual inability to protect a lead is beyond ridiculous.
Even if we manage to recover something from this game, it is a continuous pattern. We score, than we switch off mentally and we allow our opponents back in the game.
We knew before this game that our defending is pathetic …nothing has changed.
Is there anyone here who approached this game with any expectation that we wouldn’t repeat the mistakes of recent weeks at the back?
I respect Pierre’s opinion because he’s been making the same point all seasons. [however wrong it may be]. The other actors are really drama queens.
Can you imagine if Arsenal sacked Emery on Monday morning like gambon is demanding for. That will be the real crises.
When was the last time we looked decent with a 4 at the back?
We need the 5 gives a modicum of comfort at the back and bails out our defensively awful full backs
Champagne
Torreira and Sokratis have really struggled the last few matches. No stability in the middle of both units. Lichtsteiner has been awful.
Damage limitation and rest players for Fulham or go for more goals?
Arsenal’s defence is not soft with the likes of Sokratis, Mustafi, Lichsteiner, Kolasinac, Xhaka and Torreira in the team.
They are just unintelligent, ill disciplined , tactically poor and limited in defensive ability.
None of the defenders playing today would make the bench of most of the top
four teams the way that they are playing today.
The Wolves defender who scored against Spurs should be bought by Arsenal.
No way of coming back here and to ozil fan boys, what would he have done? Played better than Ramsey? At least Ramsey is showing up for balls and tackling
It’s funny that the babies on here like Gambon are sooo fucking stupid that they can’t figure out no one will want emery to stay on if he fucks it up.
But to be such whiny babies after 6 months and 1 transfer window is ridiculous and shows how immature you really are (gambon)
Pulp your baby heads in
with no freaking attack is going to get it
Emery needs time to get this straight….. Klopp etc etc would struggle with our players as well.
We do need a defensive coach
We need faster CAMS
Our back line needs a revamp but that will take a few windows.
Its a waiting game unfortunately.
Dissenter
Oh is that right. We knew. Us. The fans!!
What about the fucking coaching staff sending this shit out then???? If we know then surely they must know and do something about it
1-0 up??? PLAY FOR A FUCKING DRAW THEN. Shut them down. 5 at the back.
I would appreciate some kind of response from the team in the 2nd half. The attitude and fight of a team in bad situations are sometimes a more accurate measure of morale than the score line.
Another 8-2 type result would signal to me the club aren’t playing hard when they need to get out of a hole.
Looks like that numpty Marc won’t be getting that drink off you joe.
I’m beginning to feel a little sorry for joe,Graham,Marko and Marc(the Marx brothers ,comedians),Tony D, C.appeal and Raptora.
They have been taken in by the bullshit ….suckers.
Ffs Koscielny on. Emery is betting on this match
We have to win at Fulham which is going to be very difficult because they have started getting results.
Hopefully we can bounce back.
Good thing the next game is in 3 days time.
Joe
You’re a cock
You only wanted Wenger gone to satiate some weird personal urge. You don’t care that we are losing now. Damning Indictment on a phoney pseudo fan
These defence lacks even communication. How can two of you be contesting for same ball?
As I said before we might as well hit the reset on this season and just chop this squad out while we can. Ramsey, Ozil, Mustafi, Kozz, Monreal, Elneny loads of them. Over the next 8 months get them out and start replacing them. Emery is a very good manager, all the people saying sack him, sack him, who’s coming in? Who’s watching a decorated manager struggling to get this lot on the right path having been given just £70 Million and is thinking, corrrrrr, bit of me that is? I will take that lot on and turn them into… Read more »
Lol this blog is having a melt down priceless. I think the only manager getting us top 4 this season would be fergie. I think even klopp and pep would struggle with the woefully unbalanced team we have. Emery was dealt shitty hands he really was. People are seriously underestimatung the sysmic gap between arsenal compared to Chelsea and spurs. Spurs are cunts but they are stacked to the deck with one of the most well balanced formidable athetlic and technical attacking football based team. Chelsea unlike spurs do have certain weaknesses but are still better than us even withiut… Read more »
Embarrassing stuff
Defence don’t exist
Toreira is off the pace
Lich is embarrassing
Men against boys
Arsenal players all look like pussies ..
Deja vu
Saying that I don’t think Emery deserves all the shit from the usual suspects
Not now
The cancer that’s spread inside this club over the last few years needs multiple surgeries, chemo,and radiotherapy plus full rehab.
No matter how skillful the surgeon can be , he can’t erradicate the disease in 4 months
Next season is the judgment day..
Sokratis is still ok, if he can cut out the wrestling
Pierre
You got taken by bullshit from
A French wanker for 15 years
How stupid are you
London this blog goes into meltdown when we draw lol
Sancho
Giving a new manager 70 mil was the clearest sign we’re not playing hard. You get that at Wolves
And as tactics go, I think Emery was going with 4.5 at the back to use Licht to overload Robertson in Liverpool’s left and free AMN to attack more. Licht doesn’t have the leds to do this all match. I suspect Emery was looking for a frantic first half and hopefully a tie or lead and then bring Kos on at HT.
I hope Emery is not given any money in January and is dropped like a used condom in the summer. I called them Joes, by the way.
We need 2 quality CBs. 1 isnt enough.
Throw out Kos and Lich.
Un
I’m loving this. Even if we lose we win because I don’t have to look at the French wanker on the sidelines anymore
It’s a win win for me. 🙂
Don’t be so bitter. Wenger is gone. Thank fuck for that
Akbs like you and Pierre next
First time Liverpool have scored 4 before HT since they smashed us in 2014.
But apparently this result is totally expected and can’t be helped.
Every other team has managed to avoid it.
Iwobi and AMN have shown decent, but what is PEA’s excuse?? another dull performance bar tap-ins
London
Could not agree more with you.
Funny how the ‘judge him May x10’ brigade wanted to ‘judge him after 90 minutes’ suddenly.
Our fan base is full of shitbags, one of the largest bags of shit existing on here tried to pick a fight about Ozil on Christmas Day, totally out of nothing. No one had said a thing.
You have to be an especially large bag of lonely old shit to do that.
Ramsay showing what arsenal are going to miss once hes gone
Upstate
Yeah he might buy a squillaci Sylvester kallstrom wellbeck sanago elneny etc etc etc
I just did an upstate in the toilet. I call it a piece of shit
Auba’s worked really hard in the last few matches.
Those thinking we’re going to be strengthening in Jan are having a mare. Cahill loan and done.
Who gives a new manager £70m to work with, considering the holes we had to fill and the lack of quality in the squad.
Agree with the few here that aren’t being too reactive to a score line. On the while the club is obviously heading in the right direction. Honestly could care less if it’s Emery or someone else who is at the helm but think he is quite a good manager, definitely a hard worker but has been dealt a bad had. Regardless of all that I trust the club will see same faults in the squad that everyone else sees and address them to the best of their ability, something I couldn’t have been sure of a year ago.
If this season really does start to crash and burn, the reaction from fans will a lot clearer than it was during the slow death of the later wenger years.
Auba with that killer instinct
I hope Emery gave them hell in the dressing room. Regardless of the result this first half capitulation is embarrassing.
Guess we should blame emery for that miss too.
Cesc For once I’m in agreement. If anyone is saying sack Emery halfish way through a season has never managed anyone in their entire lives. Before you sack anyone you have to actually analyse what is the cause of the specific issue(s) what are the real limits to progress. I see this in corporate life all time people close their eyes to the bigger more uncomfortable issue aka replacing half to two thirds of a team and instead like to microcompress all specific issues to Emery because its easier more convinent it involves less effort and less honesty about the… Read more »
Ramsey, Iwobi and AMN have played well. Ramsey looks best playing that free role behind the striker.
There’s a reason Allegri was rumoured to want at least £250 Million and walked away when he was told he wouldn’t get near that.
Any manager worth a thing will want massive money to spend.
The club have basically done everything you can ask bringing in Mislintat and Sanllehi to make every single pound count.
But it ain’t going to happen overnight.
Auba can’t even hit the net
Might have been offside but awful touch/shot by Auba. Shocking from 2 feet out
gambon
Stop your pseudo-scientific nonsense, throwing out silly numbers.
We won’t forget your penchant for throwing temper tantrums like a little girl.
Joe
You’re loving arsenal losing??? Out in the open now you little jellyfish
Go bake some muffins or make up lies about your millionaire home on a fireman’s salary you fantasist.
Tr7
Striker?? We have a striker out there today?? Who??
TR7 – Just hate Ramsey in that advanced role.He always looks shocked to receive it so close to goal and hesitates.
Cesc
They are all a bunch of babies. Gambon. Pierre. Upstate.
Pierre the king of judge him in May
It’s funny to read the meltdowns of gambon upstate etc
The meltdowns of 3 year old babies yet they want us to take their posts seriously haha.
Joe is clearly an unemployed paedophile
Won’t stop going on about kids and babies.
Anyway
Back to reality mugs
Joe
You really don’t have to go anywhere to see a piece of shit. Just carry a portable mirror with you and look at it every once in a while.
..only bright spot today is spuds lost in a disastrous way. Ok
Xhaka and Lichtsteiner should be subbed.
Yes gambon you fucking child.
Must be it
Go get your diaper changed you whiny baby
Dissenter
What he said was fair cop, how can people try and speak an untruth into reality when the reality is as he stated.
First time Liverpool have battered a side this bad since 2014. It wasn’t expected, and if that was the case it’s an admission that Emery isn’t up to much.
Is it me or is auba not as quick as made out
Pseudo-scientific nonsense?
On course for the most we’ve ever conceded, least clean sheets, conceded more than Brighton, Palace, Wolves, Leicester, Watford and West Ham.
What part of that wasn’t cold hard fact?
Best case is we score again and liverpool don’t
I have never known anyone talk about kids so much.
Absolute paedo scum bag this Joe.
Funny how arsenal losing brings out all the cunts
Gambon
Pierre
Upstate
Un
Charlie We will see what kind of investments the club make over the next few windows. If the opinion before was that minimal investment in a few areas plus a new staff would be enough, then they need to change their assessment. Basically if they were trying to get to top 4 on a certain budget, it’s become fucking obvious they need to spend more and inject some kind of higher quality rather than wait it out. It will be a clear sign of the level of ambition moving forward. Self sustaining model will only sustain the current level at… Read more »
CC
Do you believe Emery should be sacked because of this result?
That’s my grouse with gambon, he tends to make all these OTT emotional comments.
I’m not one to defend Emery no matter what.
The game is already lost. Why not sub our Torr to save him for next game?
Cesc Keep up the good work. We need a voice of reason on here. A logical pragmatist. I’m pissed off to be losing I get why people are down on emery it’s human nature he represents the club when it’s winning and this case losing. But direct that energy to the real issues. Even if you don’t rate emery change him with who? You may get marginal inrpivments if you find a more talented manager (not many out there, not many discovered) But the real big gains come from the talent we can bring in. That’s gonna shift out performances… Read more »
Anyone remember Arshavin?
Another pen. Is this for real?!
Aaaawwww poor baby gambon has been called out and now is throwing more toys out
You’re a whiny loser gambon.
No one takes your shit serious.
Your diaper still need changing. Is that why your so whiny ?
This is unbelievable
Just beggars belief the stupidity of some of these players.
just not good enuf
gambon will get his wish
Emery gets fired and then he will get to choose the manager
Joe
The only cunt here is you. At Anfield, it’s Emery and our whole defense.
This is pathetic beyond belief, now
I hope emery gets the sack after this game
How is that a penalty?
amen gambonlol….add pancake maker and you can guess the whole fireman thing is just nickname for child molestor,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,we’re shit! joe, accept it
lol Kolasinac did that in last game.
And to think Liverpool fluffed their lines 3 times, in this half, before the penalty, makes it even more worrying
Joke ref decision. If this is a pen there’ll be 7 pens every game.
Joe doing a Michael Hutchence on himself every time he writes out the word diaper.
He’s the new Jimmy Saville.
who do liverpool sign for 40m? – salah
who do we sign for 43m? – ozil
rofl all the way down the street
The board needs to back the manager.
It’s panic stations now for the January TW.
I’m not even sure we can beat Fulham on new year’s day with the state of the defense.
I love kids gambon.
I have 2. They are great.
Would you like to come
Over and have a play date with them you child?
You can build LEGO. Building blocks. Play trains
No tantrums though ok gambon! I don’t want them to learn you bad habits
Don’t want them to be whiny little bitches like you are
Utterly prideless. Embarassing. You have a team who have no desire to defend, limited ability in doing so and no pride about them.
Embarrassing………………….quite embarrassing to watch.
Ref hasn’t made a wrong call
It’s never one person’s fault.
It wasn’t all Wenger’s fault, and it isn’t all Emery’s fault.
“How is that a penalty?”
So the fact that Michael Oliver stood 5 yards away, and there wasn’t as much as a peep out of any of our players…yet you’re posing this question?
Think we’ve seen enough. I want Emery out of the club in the summer.
I don’t want that sentimental shit we had to endure with Wenger.
The refs aren’t to blame here
Allegri was my first choice.
Difference is as others had said he pussied out.
Emery had the balls to take the job.
The question is will he be able to stsnd up to kroenke and the board and tell them the hard truth the players aren’t good enough.
Made pancakes for breaky Dale
They were delicious. The kids loved him
What did mommy make you?
Playing Auba is this context is like playing 10 vs 11.
He’s just detached from the play.