It’s going to be a tough away day at the worst new stadium in the country. We head east to play WEST Ham. There’s a confusing one for you non-London folk.
Anyway, I’m worried about how our defence is going to hold up tomorrow. On the one hand, I’m excited to potentially welcome back Hector Bellerin, on the other, I’m deeply concerned about how we’re going to deal with Mustafi, Koscielny and Monreal playing together.
Arnautovic is a man-beast and unplayable when he fancies it. Felipe ran rings around us last time he played. Antonio is also more than capable of causing us problems. If you remember last time we played West Ham, we really were lucky not to come away from the game losing. Now Pelligrini has had more time, we should expect just as tough a game as before. Our last 4 away Premier League games have seen 2 draws and 2 loses. We really need to get back on track and it’s imperative we don’t lose more ground on the top 4.
We have a squad as fit as it can be at this stage of the season. Will he play Ramsey? Will he go with two up front away from him? Will he start Auba and Laca? So many questions that need answering.
In other news, Cesc Fabregas has ducked out of the Premier League to join Monaco on a 3 and half year deal. Thierry has dropped a steal there… not quite sure I’d be giving someone with his injury record and pace that money, but whatever. I loved Cesc. One of my all-time favourite Arsenal players. When you talk about attacking footballers playing in a banter team, that was Cesc, and he fucking owned it. No bitching, mincing out or failing to score goals because that’s “not his thing.”
I remember him bursting on the scene with his mullet and rat tail. He looked like he was going to sell you a banging pair of fake Rayban’s, and he defo knew someone who could by you some South African skunk. But as his hairstyles improved, so did his ability to control games on the pitch. He was a revelation, one of the first midfielders of his type in the league. He had no pace, no physical presence, he just had this incredible ability to always find space… and his range of passing was out of this world. Then the goals came… then the interest came.
I don’t want to talk about how he left. I think the strike thing was massively overblown. Really though, who can blame him for going to play in that Barcelona side? It was the greatest of all time. Doesn’t matter that he didn’t really break into it. He went there to win trophies and that’s what he did.
Would I have wanted him back at Arsenal? For sure. We held out for him for a summer and didn’t fill his position because Wenger didn’t want him going to United. He kind of strung us along to get assurance from Barca, then he stayed and was fucked over anyway. We eventually moved hard on Mesut Ozil and that was that. Cesc was over for us.
What a career he’s had regardless. He’s lived in London, Barcelona and now Monaco. I have so much love for how that guy has run his career. A true role model if ever there was one.
Good luck Cesc!
Finally, Bielsa admits to hiding a spy in a bush and there are people out there defending the actions like that isn’t utterly abhorrent behavior. I saw a French publication justify the Leeds managers decision by saying there is no law against spying, and it was basically fine because he was chasing perfection.
Hmmm… pretty sure the police wouldn’t have picked up the perpetrator if there wasn’t something legally dubious about what he was doing. Additionally, don’t be a cu*t and play the strict interpretation of the rules card. Life is not about living by a strict legal code, there’s such a thing as norms, if you think there is anything upstanding in spying because no one thought there was a chance an opposition manager would go to those lengths, you’re full of shit.
Someone could stab someone in the leg before a game and there’d be a dickhead on Twitter lining up to tell you that taming player passion was a bad thing and if we punished the stabbing, it could be the end of the game. Not all opinion is born equal and the internet levels a cesspit of horrific views.
Right, that’s me done, enjoy the West Ham game! x
The jury is out on Emery we can agree although he should be given time, but we know the players are shocking. It was always going to be a tricky season with the personnel we have to choose from.
Rambo needs to start every game now
When Bellerin is coming on to save the day…you gotta know the club is finished.
Carroll hatrick.
Ramsey should have started hate to say he is our best midfielder.
Fair to say anyone that thinks AMN is Arsenal level knows ‘dick all’ about football any maybe watch another sport. Netball maybe.
wouldn’t trust this manager with any money.’
I said that after we got mulled by dippers and was given sticks for it
It’ the right thing to do, leave the powder dry for a new manager and send Emery packing, he is utterly out of his depth
Team finally the way it should have started with the exception of Mustafi on for Kos.
I’m keeping my barrel dry till the summer.
It won’t be only Emery’s head that will be on the block. It will be the entire backroom as well.
AMN showed next to nothing.
Hackney
You have no idea if Arteta would have even been good much less better than Emery. He has never managed before and he has no track record to point to. He exists as a manager in your mind only. This is why he seems so promising to you: his quality as a manager has been fashioned by your own imagination.
Juventus must be regretting their £300,000 pw investment.
I thought the first thing the new manager would do at arsenal after Wenger would be to sort out the defence ?!? Silly me.
Why still so many back /side passes when we are chasing the game on 70″?
Carroll on…. hummm
Ramsey starting every game means going to a 4-2-3-1 and you need a fit Monreal and Bellerin for that.
Kola can’t even cross the damn ball
The starting xi was piss poor
Bamford
You’re right. In my head Arteta has won the CL back to back.
We’ve definitely been better since Ramsey and Torreira came on.
“The starting xi was piss poor”
The squad is bad barring 4-5 players
this ref is very one sided. we hassle them free kick, they hassle us, nothing. every time.
Vicky is right.
Emery is a good man but he’s so far out of his depth it’s worrying.
Boring boring arsenal
IMO, Emery has been hired as the Europa League specialist to get back in the CL that way.
He has been given very little to work with. Very poor team selection and tactics today tho.
Emery needs a loudspeaker and let the boyys know we are one down, not up.
Up the bloody tempo boys.
Dissenter, indeed but Rambo and Torreira are two of our best, nowhere to be seen.
Cue more larking around from Arsenal players on the training pitch.
More interested in having a laugh than playing football.
why is the ball falling to guendozi all the time on the edge of the box instead of laca or auba?
get the ball in the fucking box!!! cant score from the corner flag.
Man like Xhak
Will get Emery the Sack!
Iwobi has had a very good game
The people lumping him in with ANM have spikes stuck in their rectums.
Iwobi is miles away from ANM…and the pun is intended.
We are poor today.
The worst Arsenal side I have watched in years. Very poor.
Flappy the happiest guy. Not tested at all.
Koscielny looks like Worsel Gummidge.
Still Arsenal doesn’t know to score With first touches. They are still shoot-shy in the final third. When will Wenger’s ghost go?
West Ham are woeful at the back and we’ve hardly made them pay.
The silly passionless displays, lack of cutting edge and sharpness of last season have crept back into our game and all of the matches. Its getting hard to watch again.
And that’s why Ramsey won’t be missed
Agreed, Iwobi has been tidy for a while, at least trying incisive passes. The rest are pedestrian, guen struggles to feed the front well
Over reliance on a 19 year old look. You can see he’s feeling the pressure.
The Klopp effect is visible, 3 points lost and the real reason to let go of the deadwood appears.
Marko
What do we do?? Quick get in the phone to emery.
I can’t watch any more of this. Dreadful stuff on display here.
We play the ball in our half way too much.
Win and you go level with Chelsea, even if for a few hours it lets them know we aren’t going away, only to put in a performance like this? This is horrible.
This is poor, poo.
There have been too many shit poor individual performances today.
Auba, Laca,…everyone except for maybe Iwobi who’s had an average game.
Emery should be banging on Raul’s door asking for players.
Wenger’s last two seasons was the wheels coming off the train – emery’s first season is the actual train wreck engulfed in a fireball.
Auba has been gash today.
It is best this 3-4-3 experiment ends today, we can’t have Xhaka as our spine in midfield and no creativity in the team.
Hoping to see Gambino unfurl his majestic Emery-out banner today.
Why would Emery has to start Xhaka every game? Every fucking game???
We’re so poor. What happened to AFC?
This will be our level for many years i am afraid,no money coming our way and the club completely ambitionless and we have finished paying of the stadium almost.
ponderous innacurate passing in the final third is hurting us.
Genuinely believe the Europa league is our best chance of success this season.
Ramsey saving himself for Juve. Not committing 100%
We make Carroll a top player lookalike.
Shocking stuff.
Pierre
Watching Anderson/
That’;s what a proper creative footballer looks like
Good offensively, hardworking and yet effective on the defensive end.
Pitchforks £5.99
Tar and feathers £9.99
Stones. Bring your own but some available for £1.00 each.
The Emery out walk will start at 09.00 tomorrow at Marble Arch.
Emery should be banging on Raul’s door asking for players.
Would tell him to fuck off
Dire stuff really.
Josip,
They are coasting now, knowing that they can hold this club over the barrel, with most of them having little to no resale value and being paid too much for anyone to take interest in the first place,
Ozil and Mkhitarian taking the piss, Ramsey leaving. Poor morale overall, IMO. Arsenal is not a happy place.
I can’t wait for Ramsey to leave the club.
west ham playing the way we used to now – embarrassing for us
We’re not winning the Europa league either. This club is a joke.
What is the point of Vinai and Raul sitting in the stands for?!
Suga3
Years of mismanagement at all levels are costing us dear now… 🙁
It’s just so pedestrian
No urgency, no awareness of what to do and certainly very poor organization.
To think we are relying on the player who’s signed a pre-contract with Juve.
Woke up at 04:30 for this shower of shit
Vic why dont you fuck off
Why the fuck Papa and Kos pass to each other 4, 5 times.
Where’s the fucking movements in MF?
All self inflicted.
Unacceptable.
One shot on target. Maybe 2 corners.
We need to sell laca put our eggs in the pea basket and invest proper;y in a dynamic wide man.
Once we have that need to actually decide on a formation which is balanced.
5 at the back is a cover for Mustafi weaknesses. 4 is the way to go.
Need to integrate ozil somehow too as he is here to stay
Wouldnt hold it against Emery if he packed his bags players are starting to look as disinterested as in the last year of the Wenger era.
Özil is a cunt but he’s the only cunt we have that can pass a ball.
Get him back Emery
Thanks Arsene. Your legacy is truly wonderful …
This is how we were when we all wanted Wenger out…So Emery isnt an upgrade on Wenger afterall.
Emery picks rubbish starting 11
Freezes certain players out
Plays also his favourites at the cost of results.
look at the team – 1-0 down and desperately need a goal – still passing sideways and backwards – gtf!!
Auba is too comfortable
This is the game that he should have been replaced with Nkettiah just to prove a point.
Hopefully Emery finally realises Xhaka is a cul-de-sac player that leads to nowhere if you persist with him longer term.
This is what you get from mediocre players whrn you tell them 4th is our trophy this season. Its all in the mind.
Look at this ffs. It’s 89 min and we still dilly dally
3 more fucking minutes
Suddenly Fabianski is some kind of beast keeper. I seem to remember being in the away end at Porto when he fumbled in a weak cross. Fucking cunt.
And yes Iwobi has been our best performer this dire match
Emery should be banging on Raul’s door asking for players.
What has he done with the ones he has???
Paulinho-agreed he has glaring floors which will inevitably shine through during a season
The teams desire is horrid. For a while they had renewed determination but thats fell by the wayside.
Not once we’re they bothered, before going a goal down and since going a goal down. That is unforgivable.
Emery has lost his way too.
He has made some players seem irreplaceable.
A lot hangs on Emery today. sorry to say that. but tactics and original team selection were totally wrong. too late to come back from 1-0 down today. too much to do. Poor poor game – AGAIN,
George Graham wouldn’t have tollerated this bullshit.
This rabble would have either been drilled or sacked.
Modern managers are too millennial friendly.
Where the fuck is the creativity in this side?
Josip,
An we have also managed to somehow make no use whatsoever of the stadium advantage, etc.
Wenger, Gazidis and the rest of the merry band of hapless suits running this business in the last decade must have been the most incompetent bunch amongst the big European clubs. Criminal levels of negligence right there.
No one thinks about getting the ball somehow into the box.
Shameful pros.
Fuck off.
Shame shame shame
Emery out
Mourinho in
Emery can rest easy, this one will get swept under the Xhaka rug.
3 losses and 2 draws in our last 5 away games. January 12th with no INs or OUTs. Leadership is awe-inspiring
Emery should just be sacked abeg. What is it with this lackerdaisical attitude from our players when you are trailing? What’s with the back pass like we are leading ten nil? He’s just a stupid fella. This ain’t on no one but him
Piss poor really.
West Ham were terrific, every player for them really gave it everything.
Xhaka was abysmal and Maitland Niles was way off the pace today. Aside from a 10 minute spell were Lacazette was good both Lacazette and Aubameyang were trash today.
Iwobi was our best player, when that happens, usually means nothing good has taken place.
I would say the only positive was that Sanllehi was there watching, but even then, to what end?
Emery picked Xhaka to play he accountable.