Arsenal defence to face powerful test + Mini Cesc Tribute

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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

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Bamford10

Cesc

Right, but we long ago closed the book on his mistake of leaving Wenger in charge for so long. We have moved on. You are right that we’re now dealing with the consequences of that mistake, but the question is: did the football men do the best they could with what they were given this summer? I’d say no. They did a couple of good things, yes, but they didn’t do enough, and there were things they might have done that they didn’t do, like sell this or that player to generate revenue or free up wage space.

TallestTiz

Struggling to come to terms with the fact that I just watched that shower of shit, and the Arsenal board say that’s football

Upstate Gooner

Marko
Yes, both Xhaka and Iwobi were at the club with Wenger but it’s Emery who’s the manager now and he keeps playing them week in and week out. He doesn’t have to, you know.

London gunner

I dont think sacking Emery mid season is a good idea tbh.

I’d say give him a specific restricted financial backing in the Jan window of day 30 mil and see if he can turn this season around.

For me he needs to get fifth with 3 points off top 4 and make it to the final of the Europa. If he can do that much he has shown enough eith the resources he has to survive the summer and have half a season to showcase a new team.

Zfree

Charlie George

And are Brighton’s players better than ours? Setting up a team to defend and have a plan is something we’ve been crying out for and I thought Emery would deliver.

Paul Mc Daid

THE LOST DECADE. What Wenger, Gadaliz , Kroneke , PHW and the board have done to this club is criminal , Emery can’t fix this mess in a few months, Nobody could, It is gonna take years before we are a force again and as long as the Kroneke’s are here I don’t think it is possible, Josh is being held by the hand by David O Leary , That is Shambolic. Wenger thought really screwed us over in the last days off his clueless regime, Cost us 60 million with Sanchez and god only knows how many millions with… Read more »

Upstate Gooner

BHA vs Pool still 0-0. Weren’t we 4-1 down at this point? FRAUD.

Zfree

Lewis Dunk, gaeten bong, dale Stephens, solly March… these are championship players. It’s not like they’ve entirely replaced the squad since being promoted yet they are solid

Guns of Hackney

Imagine if city had got us now…in this form? Oooffff.

Charlie George

Zfree
Could not agree more
Hughton does it year in year out
No histrionics
No over complicating
And with dignity

Should be right in the frame for the Arsenal gig when Emery departs…( Easter, Methinks)

Nelson

We keep saying that our players are not good enough. I thought that the manager is supposed to tell each player what he should do before the game. In this game, the players seemed to be at a lost. There was no plan of attack. We have no identity. By now, we should know that Laca is much better in the buildup and Auba is good in the box. Why Auba tried to do the buildup and lost the ball so many times? Is he following the manager’s order? Does the manager make him look bad?

Bob

emery:
on why he didn’t use Ozil…
We decided that the players here were the best for this match. We’ve won with him, we’ve lost with him. No one player makes the difference between winning and losing the game.
he’s ego is killing this team.

gonsterous

yup charlie, let’s just get arteta and be done with it, after that let’s get eddie howe. That’s the calibre of managers we are going to get. Emery is the best of a bad bunch.

Bamford10

Champagne “We also didn’t sell or sign Ramsey and Welbeck.” Yeah, I’m with you that they didn’t do everything they could have done this summer. I don’t know that we would agree across the board with respect to what they should have done, but that’s a different thing. Hindsight is 20-20, of course, but I would have made a decision about who I liked better — Auba or Laca — and I would have sold the other. That’s 55m right there that we could have used to sign a couple of quality players. I would have kept Welbeck as my… Read more »

gonsterous

I don’t think ozil would have done anything of note today. Yes he has the creativity and the talent, but what he lacks is, taking control, and wanting to show up.
what we need is a 16 year old cesc to show how a midfielder plays. yeah, ironic, I know.

Bamford10

Yeah, absolute no to sacking Emery mid-season. He needs a tactical consultant — Paulinho? Cesc? gambon? 😉 — but we don’t need to sack him. Let’s be reasonable, people.

Upstate Gooner

Bob
Yes, he’s trying to show everyone who’s the boss. Don’t worry, he won’t be here for long. Hopefully Ozil will outlive the fucker at the club.

Sancho Monzorla

Very discouraging performance. Need to shake things up fast. Not a single team has an ounce of fear playing against Arsenal. If these kinds of results persist then all the perspective in the world won’t mean anything.

Bob

why not just keep ozil on the bench. emery style of football is negative and the bitch needs the sick.

Sancho Monzorla

Paulinho? Cesc? gambon? 😉

Get their popsicles out of your mouth, guy.

gonsterous

bamford

Everyone here would have done something different, but I think it’s clear they could have done more, could have done better.

yes, cause this is football manager, and the money is fake and we get what we want, and when we fail we can just undo everything with no consequences, right ?

It’s like everyone knows how to run a country but no one steps up to do it cause they actually can’t.

Sancho Monzorla

You might as well have placed your mouth next to a glory hole with that wink.

China1

Bamford Stan has everything to do with this because it’s Stan who agrees to hire these guys, pays their wages, didn’t fire wenger for such a long time and didn’t fire gazidis at all That’s his responsibility entirely. That’s like saying wenger isn’t responsible for chamakh missing chances. Well wenger thought he was good enough to buy and put him on the pitch. Same difference. The owner of a company is responsible for everything that goes on under him/her. Bad performances? Owner hired the wrong manager/recruitment guys. Bad financials? Owner hired the wrong business leaders. How could it not be… Read more »

Champagne charlie

Banford I’m fine with the idea of giving the new manager a season with the bulk of the squad to determine who fits and who doesn’t, but some decisions were already clear and required action. Ramsey and Welbz needed action, because of contracts, and Chambers, Elneny, and Jenks have offered little to nothing since being here which would’ve freed wages and some monies. Ozil, Mkhi et al would then have been at the discretion of the manager after a season of coming to terms. We’ve sat on our hands and lost out on 50-60 mil in Ramsey, and 20 mil… Read more »

bnsb

I hate to tell you this. We just got our Arsenal back

Upstate Gooner

azed
Where are you at, buddy? Still think Emery should get 100-150mil to spend on new players? He doesn’t know what to do with the ones he’s got now. Fucking Fraud.

Charlie George

Every other club sacks managers mid season
Watford sacked Marco Silva last season
Everton had 3 and finished a respectable 8th
Leicester will soon be sacking puel.
Real Madrid sacked one after 4 games.
Etc
This Emery will get sacked.
Accept it.
Take responsibility and sack him,now!
Get Freddie in charge until end of the season (like ole at man u)
Get Rambo Captain and LIFT THE GLOOM

Guns of Hackney

Chelsea. Real. Any Italian club. Most Spanish clubs.

All sack managers once or twice a season and some after bad games…most do okay.

Why can’t we sack the hapless Emery?

Stop protecting these people. He’s paid very very well and he’s doing a shit job. Sack city.

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Just watched the game

Absolutely shocking
No pressing whatsoever …

I’ve given up this season

Upstate Gooner

bnsb
You are correct, sir

azed

Upstate

Iwobi has 4 assists the season, Ozil has one. Explain how Ozil is better?

PS: We won away game all of last season with Ozil… Explain how that happened with the “magical Ozil”.

azed

“Where are you at, buddy? Still think Emery should get 100-150mil to spend on new players? ”

You are a pretty dumb fucker who still hasn’t learnt the Sven is in charge of recruitment not Emery.

Sven brought in Guendozi, Sokratis, Torriera, Leno and Lich.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/sven-mislintat-explains-matteo-guendouzi-13699508.amp

Guns of Hackney

Azed

Ozil is a billion times the player Iwobi is or ever will be but he can’t apply his talent.

Iwobi is a jobber, nothing more. 1,000 times more effort than Ozil but zero talent.

Arsenal have both on their books which is criminal.

Two positives and two negatives cancel each other out. We suffer.

Champagne charlie

Sacking Emery is a waste of time, then what mid-season? Rash decisions is the opposite approach we need to take. We should be strategising for the summer, hard. Then depending how the remainder of the season pans out, and particularly what sort of impact Emery has, a decision should be made. Arsenal need to go two ways: – Back Emery in the summer and make the requisite decisions. – Sack Emery in the summer, hire someone with a vision, and make the requisite decisions. This passive bollocks we’ve seen thus far isn’t bridging any gap to the top of the… Read more »

Upstate Gooner

azed
What does Ozil have to do with our shit performance today? Iwobi played almost every game so far this season, and he’s got a few assists playing in a very advanced position. Ooptiebeedo. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while. So what about that 100mil? Do we give it to Emery to spend on “his” players?

Sancho Monzorla

There’s no way the club will sack Emery mid season. It goes against the narrative. Whether he deserves it or not he will get the entire season at least. Most likely will get to see out his contract. If he is kept on when he obviously needs firing, if we keep another manager who turns out to be incompetent a day longer than necessary then that’s on the club. At that point I think I would feel too disgusted to watch for awhile.

azed

“I don’t think ozil would have done anything of note today. Yes he has the creativity and the talent”

16 year old Reece Oxford shut down Ozil.

Upstate what do you say about this?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/mesut-ozil-relentlessly-trolled-after-being-put-in-reece-oxfords-pocket-during-west-hams-2-0-win-10447536.html%3famp

englandsbest

I feel mighty sorry for Emery. Watching on Sky (I’ve never added a penny to Arsenal revenue since Stan took over) after the game the panel talked for thirty tedious minutes about Declan Somebody, and I thought maybe they’re giving Unai the time to prepare his resignation speech., Fancy being told that Arsenal have no money! It came as a shock to everyone, but most painful of all, I imagine, to Emery. No way did Gazidis tell him, why be honest when you don’t need to be and anyway he was off to Milan. Think about it. Emery had just… Read more »

Guns of Hackney

CC

I agree with you…which I’m doing more and more you crazy son of a bitch.

I can’t see this one lasting. Wenger was a darling…won stuff and changed arsenal fc forever. Sure he went bad, but deep down he was a mega star. Emery is the usurper to the throne and has zero credibility with arsenal fans.

Emery will be sacked at the end of this season. That’s my feeling.

azed

GOH

Ozil is a 100 times more talented than Milner but Milner is a far better player than Ozil.

Hard work trumps talent everyday.

Upstate Gooner

azed
No, you’re a dumb fuck for thinking that all those players were shoved down his throat. I suppose it’s Raul and Sven who want Banega and Suarez too, right? Moron. Yeah, let’s give Emery 2-3 more transfer windows and see how he fucks up our club even more.

Pierre

Azed
Have a day off and stop making a fool of yourself …

Emery has no option other than to bring ozil back or the Emirates crowd will destroy him the next few weeks.

Charlie George

Sancho
What narrative are u talking about?
HE was a Gazidas pick
Gazidas has disgracefully gone.
The narrative went – the movement he skadaddled off to Milan ( poor Milan, I add)
We need a new regime
We need to be bold, not timid!

Freddie Ljungberg

All the Wenger apologists out in full force again spewing their nonsense all over the blog. Sickening.

Sat on their hands while Wenger ran us into the ground and diluted the squad down to the luke warm, no creativity piss poor state we’re in now. Expects the new guy to fix it in 6 months.

Don’t give him any money to spend they say, totally ignoring that a lack of money is the problem in the first place and that it’s not him being responsible for the spending anyway.

I’m just sitting here shaking my head at the idiocy unfolding…

azed

“What does Ozil have to do with our shit performance today? Iwobi played almost every game so far this season, and he’s got a few assists playing in a very advanced position. Ooptiebeedo. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while. So what about that 100mil? ”

Iwobi 19 games 4 assists
Ozil 13 games 1 assist.

At this point, Ozil is the blind squirrel.

China1

Charlie George if we wanted to sack emery we’d need to pay him the remaining 2-3 years of his contract

Where’s the money at bro?

MGooner

@Kamp

A core of British players with work hard attitudes to set the culture on and off the field

Really?

Kamp

i just think we need to put our “best” players on the field and let them sink or swim. The position at year end will tell us who should stay and who should go.
You’ve either got to sell Özil for whatever you can get in the January window or play him.
Ramsey with Torreira as the middle two. Lacazette top, Auba wide left and wide right picks itself based on fitness (basically because nobody is owning it).
Sell anyone and everyone in the summer who isn’t giving 100% for AFC.

Paulinho

Bamford – In terms of tactics, it’s worth noting Emery is doing what the vast majority of LeGrove wanted last summer: two deep-lying central midfielders that wouldn’t move ahead of the ball, allowing the freedom for our attacking players to do what they supposedly do best: create and score. No more undisciplined, glory-hunting runs from central midfield.

Interesting that Kante is now playing very Ramsey-like for Chelsea, constantly in the box making off the ball runs. He is supposed to be just ahead of Jorginho.

Pierre

Azed
“16 year old Reece Oxford shut down Ozil.”

there is definitely a whiff of desperation in your comments….

azed

Upstate

For the last time you retarded fucker, Emery is a coach, he says what he wants, while Sven looks for and Raul buys.

Emery gives profile of the player he wants, he doesn’t give a name.

Banega link is newspaper talk.

Kamp

What’s wrong with that MGooner?

That is usually the core of any championship side in the EPL year in year out (barring Chelsea and city billionaires playthings)

Upstate Gooner

Freddie
Please, don’t tell me you would trust Emery with another 100-150mil to spend in the next couple of transfer windows. This is the guy who wants Banega and Suarez to replace Ramsey and Ozil. This is the guy who plays Xhaka and Iwobi week in and week out. This is the guy who seems clueless when it comes to team selection and formation. 3 CB’s against Soton and now West Ham? You’d think we were playing City and Chelsea.

Charlie George

China
U are making the mighty Arsenal sound like a corner shop.

His compensation check will be small change to the turmoil-that I fear will be coming.

Watford, Everton, West ham have better players.
We need to stop the rot,pronto.
Him,Raul have to get out of our club.
They are la liga specialists

Bob N16

But Paulinho, did Legrovers want us to play 3 CBS as well as two holding CMs?

azed

“Emery has no option other than to bring ozil back or the Emirates crowd will destroy him the next few weeks.”

Lol, Ozil would soon be in China and you can fuck off with him.

Ozil is so good he has the 1 assist all season. What a genius.

Kamp

Azed. Ozil is a better player that Iwobi. Many of those games Ozil is playing out of position.
Not that I am in any way defending his woeful return.

China1

No Charlie, arsenal are making arsenal sound like a corner shop.

Sancho Monzorla

CG.

The narrative that we are skint.

I agree about the need to be bold. Also just think you have to be smart and considerate of reality as well.

Champagne charlie

Goh The club is rudderless mate, prove me wrong with that statement in some way? It’s deflating. You’re spot on, Wenger was a star that burned out. Yes, he got too much leeway as time went on but that was largely because he’d done the business (and some) in the early stages of his Arsenal overhaul. So I don’t begrudge some fans for their wishful/romantic notions of him returning to grace. But he didn’t, he’s gone, and Arsenal need to be serious if we’re remotely interested in starting another era like ones past. Forget managers for a minute, the guys… Read more »

Upstate Gooner

azed
Grow up, dumbass. As soon as you start resorting to insults, everyone knows that you lost the argument. I won’t even bother addressing you anymore.

China1

It wasn’t me who sent a letter out to training center staff asking them to boil the kettle less often to save money, or switch the lights off in the toilets after you’ve done a piss

It wasn’t me who told Unai he’s the only manager in top flight of England who is financially incapable of signing anyone whatsoever

Charlie George

That narrative comes from the corporate lackeys
Vinai
Raul

Emery is a c rater
They have not got the balls to ask Josh for more money.!

Dissenter

Kroenke didn’t;t cause the transfer problems of the summer, at least not directly. It’s always possible to say that the buck stops on his table. We weren’t decisive in dealing with the Ramsey contract. He should have been sold and the proceeds used to fund incomings. I won’t knock Raul/Sven too much with that stick though because Gazidis’s foot dragging about his Milan exit would have been contributory. Raul Sanllehi wasn’t really in charge until after the transfer window was over, by then the damage was already done with Ramsey. Last summer was a transition too much – manager and… Read more »

Paulinho

Bob16 – It was the same with 4-4-2. Same midfield set up and same problems.

Poor attackers and relying on width from full backs for anything substantive.

China1

Emery’s remaining wages for the rest of his contract are probably in the region of 5-15m Sterling. So it seems we are literally financially incapable of firing him since we’re incapable of finding £10m for Dennis Suarez

For better or worse, get used to this

Dissenter

I don’t disagree with the summation on Emery.
What I disagree is that we are one excellent manager away from returning to winning ways under this climate.

It’s going to take time and a lot of failed trials too.
If Emery isn’t the gut then another manager comes in when his contract ends. This is not a change a manger-solve the problem issue.

Devon Gooner

Freddie Lungberg, can’t help but agree with you. This bunch of under achievers are Wenger left overs! Years of zero accountability – but hey it’s all the fault of Emery. He is not a top level manager but he has no money – players who have no quality oh and yes Ozil who hasn’t put in a decent performance against a top 6 team for years! Dream on Upstate, Charlie etc. Your great leader fucked this up not Emery!

Un na naai

The football men in charge of Arsenal overestimated the quality of the squad this summer, and they needed to do more this summer than they thought they did.This is on Emery, Sanllehi and Mislintat, not Stan Kroenke.

Not really true is it Bamford??

Because there was no more money available to them. None. Just as there is none available to them now.

Why do you defend kroenke? Some yankie affinity?

azed

Kamp
Ozil is a better player that Iwobi. Many of those games Ozil is playing out of position.

Ozil has not played defensive midfield.
Bernardo Silva, KDB, Eden Hazard, Messi, CR7 all play different positions and deliver. Ozil must be the only so called world class player that can’t play multiple positions.

Kamp

The financial mismanagement of the club cannot be ignored either.

On the verge of criminal. Wengers proud record of ECL qualification, record match-day revenue and Liverpool are signing 100m defenders and goalkeepers, after being out of European competition for years?!

Charlie George

As for diamond eye
A talented German scout now dictating Arsenal footballing policy.
What’s he know about English football?

Un na naai

Dissenter than why take the club private?
Why not sack Wenger and gazidis when they were clearly failing?

Why not secure better sponsorship deals?

He watched while our best were sold off and replaced with downgrades to balance the books. It did nobody but him favours.

What is it with the shermans defending this old sack of shite?

Even the leftie yanks can’t shirk their sense of dutiful patriotic camaraderie.

azed

Upstate

I’m tired of repeating the same thing to numb skulls like you.
I should you an article about Sven talking about scoring Guendozi right from Dortmund but you are hell bent on pushing the lie that Emery is the one responsible for summer buy.

Champagne charlie

“What I disagree is that we are one excellent manager away from returning to winning ways under this climate.It’s going to take time and a lot of failed trials too. If Emery isn’t the gut then another manager comes in when his contract ends. This is not a change a manger-solve the problem issue.“ Disagree with this. There’s no saviour per say of course, but we’re a big club with unreal potential provided the right decisions are made. With that said I think you could find one man to rally around, someone who could take us from our current point… Read more »

Freddie Ljungberg

Upstate I get that you’re not very bright, your every post proves it, but try to understand what a couple of posters have already told you: Emery is not in charge of signing players, he doesn’t have the power that Wenger had, thank fuck, that’s a terrible way of running a modern football club. Would I trust the current setup with 150m? Fuck yeah I would, I’m not even sure we have the 6th best squad anymore, the only thing that keeps us above midtable is that we have 2 very good strikers, the rest of the squad is pretty… Read more »

Bob N16

Not the same though Paulinho, by playing 3CBs our WBs have had more freedom to attack and are less likely to be exposed pushing forward but you lose a key link to midfield and attack, an AM.

Playing with 2 holding CMs, double pivot, should mean that between them they have a responsibility to cover FBs who are pushing forward.

I think we’ve played 3 CBS and WBs by default, because Kolasinac is too weak at LB to be trusted and our CBs have been less than steady.

Un na naai

Azed

He can’t eben okay his own position
He’s self centred, bug faced cretin. Never wanted him at the club. Di Maria was allowed to leave the same summer and we go for that steaming pile of worm shit

MGooner

@Kamp

those days are gone.

Bamford10

Un Na Actually they had some 70m to spend, and they could have sold players in order to generate revenue and free up wage space. Do you actually read other people’s posts? Do you follow the comment chains? You don’t seem to learn much from others here; you just make clueless, uninformed statements. As for Kroenke, as I have said a million times, I don’t a fuck about him and I don’t give a fuck that he’s American. I do care, however, about our establishing an honest and accurate assessments of what is going on at the club; some people… Read more »

Dissenter

Un na “Why do you defend kroenke? Some yankie affinity?” Maybe because he’s not afraid of bucking the trend and speaking his own mind. Why do you lot bash Kroenke so often? The billionaire owner of Spuds hasn’t spent a dime and they have locked in a CL space every season with Poch. He met self-sufficiency policy at the club, a policy that most gooners embraced proudly at the time. He does not intrude into the day to day functioning of the club. He lets the “experts” run it. He met Gazidis and Wenger at the club and kept them… Read more »

azed

Oh by the way Pierre what happened to Lacazette and Aubameyang play well together?

They were both horrible today.

Un na naai

Dissenter

I bash kroenke because he’s overseen the sharp decline of the most exciting team in Europe while Daniel levy has overseen the sharp improvement of our neighbours with smart appointments and even smarter transfer dealings.

Silly to compare kroenke with levy

Kamp

MGooner, don’t you think it’s wotking for the spuds/pool?

Anyway, the point is more about culture than nationality.

We want to clown around and do cool goal celebrations. Nobody seems embarrassed to be fighting for 5th place.

Charlie George

Well said dissenter
They have levy.
Who instinctively knows our game
Bit like our dein

We have Raul/ Emery who are more suited to Spanish football
That is it on a nutshell.

DivineSherlock

What a shit show eh . Emery really needs to bury his ego and bring back Ozil . Its Emery who decides the style of play , this style of play if we’re being honest would’ve been ridiculed if it was Wenger. No creativity whatsoever in our attack. Auba has to play deep cos no ones ever passing to look for him to get behind the defence. Wingbacks dont add shit to our wide play. All in all lot of shit to unfuck for Emery.

azed

Un
“He can’t eben okay his own position
He’s self centred, bug faced cretin. Never wanted him at the club”

Tell that to upstate and Pierre who think Ozil is the second coming of Christ.

Ozil is so good he has one assist all season. Even Iwobi that is so poor has 3 more.

Pierre

I can see Joe now ….baking his muffins with tears running down his face after watching that fiasco today …..he has nowhere to go now ,he put all his eggs in one basket…

” we’ve got our Arsenal back ” he repeated over and over again ..

Un na naai

Bamford

That’s rich?! Did you read my comment?

I said there was no MORE money to spend. Key word. MORE.
If there was more money there would have been more players coming in at a higher quality. But we didn’t have any more. So he had no choice but to be happy with his squad. That’s all he had.

Do you feel stupid?? You should do.
Bloody high school teacher. 🙄

Pierre

Azed
You need to press “play ” ….you’re on repeat mode….. ” One assist all season ” and repeat…

China1

Champagne Charlie

‘I like to think a club with our resources…’

What resources would those be? We don’t have money, top players, an academy that churns our stars or assets we can easily sell at a high price

I’m genuinely not sure what resources we have apart from a prestigious location and a bit of history. On the contrary we look more and more like a black hole akin to the current AC Milan setup

Dissenter

CC I m certain that you’re smart enough to know that one-liners [not from you] point does not do justice to what has to change at Arsenal. We aren’t a manager away from salvation. Really, no manager of repute with other offers will take a job lie Arsenal at the moment. We also aren’t a few player away from competing under Emery because his set-up is faulty. The fire and hire approach isn’t going to cut it because that costs money too I was dismayed last summer when we brought in Sokratis because it signified confusion as to what we… Read more »

Paulinho

“3CBs our WBs have had more freedom to attack”

So why would an 8 at centre mid make more sense than a 6 in the 3-4-3 than 4-4-2, if you were one of those fans calling for two deeper-lying midfielders instead of one?

If you’re playing three up top with full backs bombing on you shouldn’t need a central link if you don’t think one is needed in a 4-4-2.

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Azed Ok Pierre, upstate. I like your posts but you’re wrong on ozil. Weneger did everything he could to bring the best out of him. How much can a manager appease him before it comes back to the player and his lack of desire and application He was always a bad choice for us. I never liked him in 2010 before he went to Madrid either. Thought he was well overrated. I’ve never got the fuss on ozil. Gimme hleb or rosicky any day. Terrible terrible decision giving him a new contract If I had £10m as a fan I’d… Read more »

Dissenter

We have top get two exciting young attacking midfielder and start playing them.
Wee need to get two young wingers and start giving them exposure.
Same for defense, saviors and Holding ?

The current squad isn’;t good enough and we won’t amount to much until their contracts run out.

But like the Dortmund approach

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Pierre

That’s beacuse joe is a cunt of epic proportions. He will come out and defend this loss though and claim that it’s all on wenger. Beacuse wenger is a loser and he was arsenal’s worst manager and bla bla bla….muffins and dinosaurs and he man and millionaire playboy parties and super model girlfriends zzzzzzzzz

bunga party

Unai’s been found out.

He’s a shit manager. Nobody’s expecting him to title challenge with what he got, but to repeat the same mistakes Wenger used to make is unbelievable.

Bob N16

Agree with your last post Dissenter. If Kroenke doesn’t want to have a punt at accelerating improvement then the process will take a few years. If we go down this route I’m not sure Emery will be the man to be leading the longer term overhaul.

He was brought in to be pragmatic and scrape CL qualification- not exactly looking likely at the moment.

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Chelsea and untied next!!!

I want Joe’s predictions now.

Pierre

Azed? ” Oh by the way Pierre what happened to Lacazette and Aubameyang play well together?They were both horrible today. ” I thought they started off pretty good, as did iwobi , but the team as a whole lost their energy after the initial opening burst….after that it was pretty dire from the whole team , Ramsey looked pretty good for 15 minutes but his game also tailed off as we became more and more desperate. Maybe the team as a whole need to pace their game a bit more , they were like a boxer who was trying to… Read more »