Arsenal came out of the West Ham debacle without a win in 5 away Premier League games. A truly miserable statistic that capped off another Emery disaster class.
We’re rapidly moving into a new territory where it’s not just the defence, the stagnant attack and the lack of style that are proving to be embarrassing. Now the big talking points seem to be centered around how badly he’s managing two of his best players. Mesut Ozil is no doubt a massive whopper behind the scenes, he’s tough to deal with, he’s precious and he can be incredibly uninterested (according to my sources). I’m sure that’s irritating, as it would be at any club, but that’s Emery’s reality. His most expensive player, who doesn’t want to leave, is annoying. That means it’s the managers’ job to work out a way of motivating him, to find a position that works and to get him into a side that is desperately lacking quality in the final 3rd.
Same for Aaron Ramsey. Our midfield lacks anyone who can run with the ball, it has no spark, it is essentially art free. Who gives a fuck if the Welshman is going to Juve? Give him a start. Work out a way of slipping him into the system. Can he be greedy? Yes. Does he infuriate sometimes? Yes. Is he capable of creating magic? Yes. Then fucking play him.
Emery’s stubbornness with his approach has gone from admirable to ignorant. That performance yesterday was the first time I’ve seen Arsenal feel sorry for themselves. The players don’t look like they understand the merits of the system they’re playing in and it’s absolutely clear whatever the coach is telling them isn’t working.
We are a slave to a system that doesn’t have the right players to work. Why would you not look at the best players you have at your disposal and build an approach that allowed them to flourish.
Lacazette and Auba don’t work in the same side together, or at least the way Emery is trying to work it. Guendouzi and Xhaka is the real axis of evil on this planet, it’s too ponderous, and it’s desperately lacking in power and pace. Our approach from wide positions is rank average. I know people think Iwobi is the second coming of Hleb (aim low), but his final ball and touch is not up to scratch. It doesn’t matter that he was the best attacking player we had yesterday, if anything, that compounds the issue. We have two of the best finishers in the world and they’re not getting chances in front of goal. Yesterday, we were clueless moving the ball forward, we started resorting to long balls. We couldn’t muster a single shot after the 67th minute when we were chasing a game.
The goal was ridiculous as usual. Granit Xhaka, the last man standing of our 5 captains opted to head the ball to a West Ham player from the front post. It wasn’t untypical of Xhaka to drop a fucking howler in a game, it was just unusual that it was so amateur. We can’t even offer style in our fuck ups.
LT and Rambo made a difference when they came on. The ball started moving up the pitch, we were more of a threat, West Ham sat back a little more, but it was to no avail.
Here’s the crazy thing about the West Ham team. Pelligrini took over an absolute shit show of a side. He’s given them a style and purpose, he had a group of shite defenders rocking an offside trap so tight, George Graham would have firmed up watching it. He had players pressing and taking individual responsibility. Felipe Anderson, a player who caused us issues all afternoon was doing loads of dogs bodywork. Why? Because the manager convinced him that the team was more important than his feelings.
We’re now 7 months into the project. Our shots per game average is the lowest its been over the course of the last 18 years, our defence makes Brexit look organised, and we’re still no nearer having a footballing identity. What makes this last month even worse is looking at the general intensity of the team, it seems like we’ve dropped off massively, there was next to no pressing yesterday and we simply didn’t look at the races. West Ham bullied us all game. Factor in the hike in injuries we’ve seen this season and the picture doesn’t look rosy.
The manager needs to sharply improve what we’re seeing on the pitch with the players he has if he wants to avoid serious questions being asked about his continued tenure in the summer.
Good coaching fixes defences. There is no excuse for what we’re seeing here, especially as he bought the keeper, the center back and the defensive midfielder (forget Lichtsteiner). We’re struggling with absolute basics like proper clearances and balls over the top. There are too many individual errors and not enough know-how between the players. This can’t continue.
We have no sauce moving the ball forward. We’re very one dimensional in our approach. We’re easily rattled with a press. We’re predictable. The opposition knows if the ruffle Xhaka, there’s very limited ability for us to move the ball forward. We have a shot at fourth, it’s a long one, but the manager needs to put his ego in his pocket and work out a way of integrating Ozil and Ramsey more often. We’re paying for caviar, and dipping our belini’s into Branston pickle. It’s getting ridiculous now. Make it work.
Emery needs to imprint a style on the team. That’s hugely important. Who are we? What do we want to be? What are the players supposed to be doing? What are the fans getting excited about? Even in Wenger’s darkest days, he was trying to offer something up. Remember that United game at home that we lost last season? Some of the most scintillating football of the last 5 years, a game we lost because of a De Gea masterclass. Emery should be able to give us more than 1 good game in a season (Spurs, fatigued). I’m not pining for him, I’m merely pointing out that there was an attempt at something even when we were shite.
It is not insanity to be talking this way. It is not taking a controversial position for the sake of it. It is making sure the expectations at Arsenal football club are always sky high, because you know what, we are in a fucking dangerous position as a club. This Emery tenure is going to be as bland as a ham sandwich, of that there is no doubt. The big issue is what comes next… the fans will demand a winner, just like they did at United, then we could quickly fall into absolute mediocrity with no way out. We have an owner who can see clear as day that it doesn’t matter what he does with Arsenal, commercials grow exponentially, so do gate receipts. There is no reason to act.
That shouldn’t mean we give up. Arsenal can’t spend the next 5 years leaning on the excuse crutch of Arsene Wenger and Ivan Gazidis. Time to put that shit behind us and time to take aggressive actions towards pulling ourselves back up to the elite levels of the game. That means making ruthless decisions. Cutting expensive players to raise cash, bringing in a coach with special sauce, and doing everything possible to make every fucking penny count.
We can climb again, but only if people are honest about where we are and what we have to do to climb to the top again.
… and here’s the thing, being honest with the fans is a fucking good start. Emery said there are no players, I bitched for 5 minutes, then accepted it. If the club came out and said, look, Champions League is a 3 year job, and here’s how we’re going to do it.
We’re going to slash the wage bill. It’s too expensive. That means you might see some of your faves go.
We’re going to build the greatest club on the planet to be at if you’re a young elite player. We’re bringing in the best 17-23 year olds and we’re going to grow them into superstars.
We’re going to hire in the most exciting developmental coaches on the planet. We’re going to play the football of 2027. These are coaches that will train their minds and bodies. We’re in the business of making superstars.
That means we’re shooting to sell these players so we can start investing in the team with bigger bets, just like Liverpool. Our advantage over them is we are Arsenal and we’re based out of London.
Would you get behind that? I would. It’d be better than attempting to fight with the big boys when you’re 5ft2 with a gammy leg.
Back to the now.
Emery has a lot of work to do. If he takes the club backwards after spending £70m in the summer, we should try something new, because this is Arsenal, not PSG. There won’t be an Mbappe and Neymar purchased to cope with tanking a season. We’ll be removing talent. Our manager has to show that he can improve what he was left, because though it wasn’t pretty, it was nowhere near the disaster made out.
We are better than this. We should not be writing off regression as part of the transition. The only way is up, always. Don’t accept anything less, because the dark demons of medicority are circling the club, and if we let them in, it’s a long fucking way back.
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Like it or not, a Mourinho-Pogba feud is brewing at the Arsenal dressing room with Emery and Özil.
And what’s actually funny is that the club might be backing the manager to get Özil to quit, thereby lessening the wage bill..
Either ways, we’re fucked.
Arsenal today is PSG 2.0 for Emery. Like Neymar Jr, like Özil.
These players have seen his ego clashes with Ramsey and Özil. They’re not happy, and they’re definitely not playing for him
Özil was fit, but he couldn’t even make the bench for “tactical reasons” …
REALLY?
Still Wenger’s fault?
And we have a owner who gives 0 fucks about the club’s ambitions. He’s just taking away money from the club.
Kronke’s investments in sports are all mid-table teams, go figure.
Some good points, Pedro, but I think you are underestimating the lack of talent and/or polish in the team that started the game yesterday. As I think Gunnerblog wrote on Twitter yesterday, there were three guys on the pitch at the end of the game yesterday who you would want in the starting 11 next season.
Also, disagree on Ozil. The club has to find a way to move him to another club, not a way to get him on the pitch. No way he is part of the long-term plan.
I was accused of scaremongering a couple of days ago but it’s true that we are not going anywhere with Stan as our owner and Emery as our manager. I am not in favor of snapping ties with Emery mid season but for the next season, we ought to look for a new manager. I was not convinced by Emery even during our unbeaten run and thought we had rub of the green going in our favor but that he is out of his depth at Arsenal is amply clear now. I have rarely seen a manager who has failed… Read more »
This performance wss so awful, I really dont see any way back. The manager loves Iwobi, who cannot tackle, cannot pass, runs into bliNd alleys and hardly ever scores. Elneny would be better, at least he has a football brain and positional sense. Next up Chelsea, a team lacking a striker, but is comprised of one hard buch of professionals, who will have no fear of us, how do we contain Willian let alone Hazaard, Pedro etc. The club is now middle of the table dross, Watford and Wolves are better.
I thought the poor header clearance leading to the goal was by Koz not Xhaka
Yes, we should play Elneny instead of Iwobi in a front three or as an AM, now I’ve heard it all…
Say what you want about Iwobi but sadly enough he’s been our best creative player this season, which is a testament to how fucking awful our squad is.
“That shouldn’t mean we give up. Arsenal can’t spend the next 5 years leaning on the excuse crutch of Arsene Wenger and Ivan Gazidis. Time to put that shit behind us and time to take aggressive actions towards pulling ourselves back up to the elite levels of the game. That means making ruthless decisions. Cutting expensive players to raise cash, bringing in a coach with special sauce, and doing everything possible to make every fucking penny count.“ A-fucking-MEN If you’re still having to dig out Wenger for a whinge then you’re broken, or just plain ignoring the current affairs at… Read more »
Looks like all my predictions on Emery are coming true. There will be a massive difference between what will be said before he start working, and what the fan will see in reality. Brilliant at explaining how he wants in team to play in interview, mediocre tactician in reality. Breath of fresh air with his early substitutions, clueless initial setup and then change for the sake of change without actual long term strategy. Excellent management and will alienate most of the players. Strong leader not afraid of confrontation, petty control freak ready to isolate his best players. Europa League winner,… Read more »
No improvement without better players Im afraid. Lets hope by February some loan signings do happen. Otherwise we will still see Iwobi running like a man imitating a dog swimming. How far can you chuck Xhaka and Mustafi? Lets build a catapult and find out?.
Pains me to say it but we are no better, and if it’s possible even worse in defense. Listening to dicks bullshit on motd it’s worrying.
Okay so Emery is fired in the summer, then what? Who do we get? Or do we cut all the Wenger dross from the squad this summer (or as much as we can) and give him next season to see how he can imprint a style on a team more or less his own. Yesterday was a terrible result and performance, no doubt about it and it isn’t acceptable. However we have too many players who simply aren’t good enough and one who is tied down to a ludicrous contract due to the previous regime. For me if we are… Read more »
‘Okay so Emery is fired in the summer, then what? Who do we get?’
Pelligrini, Jardim or Naggelsman are all realistic targets.
Chris
Depends how the remainder of the season goes. If we continue as is and there’s no CL then i’d replace Emery along with numerous members of the squad.
Arsenal need a plan, and a manager with scope to achieve it. I’ve been hesitant with Emery since day one and if he’s finishing the season on current track then it’s nothing other than a lemon appointment.
CC I would say that while it may not be immediately apparent on the pitch, there is a plan in place judging by what has happened this past 6 months. The club has changed massively in its management structure this year, and now has what appear to be experts in respective fields in place ie Sven, Raul. These changes should have some obvious effect in the next couple of years, but up till now is too soon to judge in my opinion. Whether Emery is that man capable of being part of it is up in the air, and I… Read more »
Pedro
I can’t get over the fact that you backed Gazidis all the way. You were 100% behind him as he destroyed the club from within. I recall telling you he was a snake oil man then and you shooing us away because you had inside information.
Let’s not even consider the pitching to appoint Arteta
Now you’ve shifted your anger to Emery. We will see where that leaves us.
Jardim has just signed a contract of 9 millions a year in China. May not be so available any more.
I doubt that WestHam will let Pellegrini leave without a right or at least a hefty compensation check.
Rudy Garcia is likely to leave Marseille at the end of the season, we may have a pop.
However unless AFC is willing to take a punt on a exciting but not necessarily big name manager, the pool of high level manager willing to work under severe financial restrictions is getting narrower.
Great post Pedro…
We obviously wanted Emery to be the Messiah but we’re drifting. Not sure what my expectations are anymore. We’ll have the same executive team choosing the next manager that chose Emery.
Unless Emery starts fashioning a cohesive approach to his team selections then I won’t be arguing for his retention in the summer. Is he another Rioch? If so hope for a new Bergkamp to arrive in the next couple of weeks and a shiny new manager in the summer!
Nice read .
I’ve given up the ghost.
Why should the fans care if the owners couldn’t give a fuck.
Nah … the promised land , my arse
Look we ain’t Chelsea … we won’t change the manage because….. we can’t afford to pay him an his teAm off…
Emery is too slow to arrive at his Euereka moment. It took Conte less than 10 games at Chelsea. It’s january and he’s still playing it ”safe”. He’s not inventive in trying to fix problems. He should have tapped into the youth set-up to switch things up. I don’t blame him for how he’s treated Ozil. It’s not his fault that we made the lest interested and laziest footballer our hugest earner. He’s dealing with a really expensively acquired bucket of horse crap. Auba misses too many chances that could have changed yesterday’s game. Laca was really poor too. I… Read more »
I’m pretty sure Raul, Sven and Emery didn’t realize how bad the finances were when they signed on. Gazidis would have hidden the true picture from them. That’s probably why Emery spoke out
Emery should go he’ll for leather last few months
Throw in mavaponuus n medley with papa
Play smith Rowe , Wilcox, Eddie,
He should be looking at next year.
Even if we come 9th … it don’t matter one step back for three steps forward.
Why can’t the club sack players .
Smokin* the hash… sack em
Stan won’t sack Emery this summer whatever he does, that will cost
Emery is fast becoming our AVB-ideas that don’t transfer from paper to grass. He has confused the players and he and his staff appear average coaches.
The club has been insidiously hiding truth and facts from the fans from the last 13 years…
Wenger was the main driver of this,
He’s gone the politics bewteen him an gazidis are over, leaving the club in ruins.
Time now Stan either delivers or leaves .
Spend some cash and see the club as a lon* prospect. Or the clubs dead.
“Pelligrini, Jardim or Naggelsman are all realistic targets” You don’t think they were all targets last summer, hmm? Who would want to take on this dog shit show? Gooners have to be the most deluded fans on the planet. It’s no wonder we are being seen as the new AC Milan even though that tile is undeserved because we don’t have the illustrious history of Milan. The idea that we are just one manager away from turning things around is lazy thinking. The new manager would stilhabe those chopsticks to eat an undercooked steak. Emery has to be judged along… Read more »
Ivan, who liked to put an overly optimistic spin on things to cover up his failings, said we needed to use Leicester as a model
https://metro.co.uk/2016/07/22/arsenal-chief-executive-hints-arsene-wengers-shopping-for-bargains-in-the-transfer-market-6021893/
The reality , of Ivan says Leicester, he probably means Newcastle.
At least Emery is being honest about things, others haven’t been.
In fairness, expect a clear out and money spent this summer, emery will need judging on that , but we will have a bit of a wait.
I suspect Emery has seen so much wrong, he is overwhelmed and doesn’t even know where to start
It won’t matter one jot who manages these players, you still can’t polish turds into diamonds. All this BS about starting Ozilch like he is some kind of saviour because we spunked 350k a week on his wages for 5 years and can’t offload him, who’s to say if he had started the game we wouldn’t have lost 3-0 instead of 1-0 ? Bench him until finds himself another club or better still, making him train with the reserves. To start blaming the manager at this stage is premature at best, judge him once we have removed the 20 crap… Read more »
Sorry, Pedro, but you most certainly would bitch if the manager was honest and told the truth because blaming the manager is your default position. Get over it, Wenger, Gazidis, Hill-Wood – the liars – they’ve all gone. In comparison with them, Emery has been notably honest. But 100% honesty from any football manager would cost him his job. But let’s imagine that he was totally honest and told us the truth. That he had inherited a deficient, disjointed, dismayed squad. That in almost every position they were not fit for purpose. That he lacked a playmaker, a winger who… Read more »
That’s correct Dissenter.
Wenger hid a lot, and sucked up to Stan for his own ends and survival, if they put ever up a statue for him outside the ground, I wouldn’t want to be the street cleaner around the statue
Englandsbest,
Spot on !
Champagne Charlie It may not be fair to say that we don’t have a plan. We will have to wait for the summer before we reach that conclusion. Last summer was a Herculean task bevause of the scale of transition, some of it uncertain at the very time we needed decisiveness. There seems to be a willful understating of how much Gazidis fucked up the summer with his ponderous exit to Milan. We had a CEO who was on his way out handling the Welbeck and Ramsey situation. Raul couldn’t have known the FULL financial situation until he was moved… Read more »
Imagine being the new manager of Arsenal.
You stumble to the second transfer window after your appointment and need to sign a player that can help you. The club tells you we don’t have money except for loans.
I’m sure there are other managers lining up just to get that same treatment.
“The club has changed massively in its management structure this year, and now has what appear to be experts in respective fields in place ie Sven, Raul. These changes should have some obvious effect in the next couple of years, but up till now is too soon to judge in my opinion.“ I don’t disagree with the fact there’s been changes, but I do disagree that those changes will take a couple of years to take form. There should be clear evidence of the changes from week 1 if you ask me, whether that’s in how we operate, the communication… Read more »
Emery has been honest. He might have, but for sure he has also been incompetent. His tactical choices and his treatment of some of our players have been poor to say the least. Against WestHam he starts with a back three and then move to a back four. Everybody knew that WestHam were going to start with a dense midfield and then finish by Andy Carroll and a lot of crosses and long balls. So start with a back four and finish with a back three. We started with a 3-4-3 against their 4-3-3, so that only two central midfielders… Read more »
BBC; ‘Arsenal have told Juventus they will have to pay £18m to sign midfielder Aaron Ramsey in January if the Italian club do not want to wait to sign him on a free transfer when the 28-year-old’s contract runs out in the summer. (Sunday Mirror)’
Makes no sense to ask for that much when the player has already signed a pre-contract. It’s better for both parties to end it now. I wouldn’t blame Ramsey for preserving himself, that’s what I would do,I fi were in his shoes..
Pedro As I wrote in aftermath of yesterday’s defeat Emery’s selection and the style of play was awful and incomprehensible. As I have previously indicated I am not going to judge until end of season whether he is the right head coach for the job. We know for a very long time that our defence is crap, but what is concerning me at the moment is the deterioration in our offensive play not least a lack of creativity. Arsenal still has on its books creative players like Ozil and yet the manager for whatever reason refuses to play him. Let’s… Read more »
“That shouldn’t mean we give up. Arsenal can’t spend the next 5 years leaning on the excuse crutch of Arsene Wenger and Ivan Gazidis. Time to put that shit behind us and time to take aggressive actions towards pulling ourselves back up to the elite levels of the game. That means making ruthless decisions. Cutting expensive players to raise cash, bringing in a coach with special sauce, and doing everything possible to make every fucking penny count.“ This is what happens when you allow a manager to remain at a club for 20 years The whole psyche of the club… Read more »
Dissenter With respect I think it’s pretty clear we don’t have a plan, there’s no evidence suggesting we do and it’s not something you can very well hide. Saying no to Ramsey on account of his inflated wage demands isn’t making a case for a plan, it’s arguably the most basic principle in football economics – don’t overpay players. Only plan that was evident from Arsenal was Kroenke’s plan to purchase the club in its entirety. He chose to do this mid transfer window if you recall, so I think there’s far more evidence to suggest we’re without any clear… Read more »
I’m comfortable with the Denis Suarez so long as it is a loan with an option to buy, not a loan that’s made permanent in the summer regardless of his quality.
That will be a dump job.
Ace write-up. At last somebody is saying what needs to be said, with most pussyfooting around the issue and making excuses for Emery. He has had long enough to give us an indication of what he is about and where he is taking us. Yesterday showed us. And it is pitiful – mid table mediocrity, an Everton of the south. I couldn’t agree more with you – his showdown with Ozil sounds like Mourinho and Pogba, with the manager talking tough and damaging the team while he postures on the sidelines. Losing Ozil and Ramsey when we have no viable… Read more »
CC
Actually saying no to Ramsey is stopping the previous plan-less approach of Gazidis. The deal was on the table and just waiting for Ramsey’s signatures. You don’t think it took some modicum of courage to withdraw it?
It shows that Raul isn’t settling in for running the club on cruise control. I can’t imagine that a true football person wouldn’t have a plan. They could have reluctantly allowed the deal to go though on “Arsenal values”
We will have to wait and see. Last summer had too much drama going on.
Dissenter ‘You don’t think they were all targets last summer, hmm?Who would want to take on this dog shit show?Gooners have to be the most deluded fans on the planet. It’s no wonder we are being seen as the new AC Milan even though that tile is undeserved because we don’t have the illustrious history of Milan.’ As far as I know there was no public disclosure on who were the targets last summer. So if you say Nagelsman/Pellegrini/Zardim declined us last summer, you are merely going by conjectures. All we that is Emery was one of the many potential… Read more »
Dissenter I don’t bow to reputation so easy, it’s noted but you earn your corn in your actions. Raul and Sven might have great CV’s (or not if you hear some pick apart Raul’s tenure at Barca), but it’s what they do at Arsenal trhat’s of interest to me. No, i’m not particularly in awe of them revoking on Ramsey’s contract offer because it would’ve been a tragically poor decision to splash that much money into a player that was frankly undeserving of it. It was withdrawn through sense and nothing more. That’s clearly a welcome relief to recent moronic… Read more »
You know things must be desperate when people start questioning the Ramsey situation like he is some kind of Andrea Pirlo !
We can’t move forward until we clear out all the old players from Wenger’s tenure.
2 or 3 seasons at least before this happens.
Ospina** not Ossian.. no clue
CC No doubt the only prospects of loans this window are depressing, but this is likely the outcome of what has been poor business previously. We are skint and it is because of poor contract and squad management in years gone by. Sorry to hark on about it but it has undoubtedly had an effect. Some of the players we have are just so poor that if we are going to now use this season to judge the squad then let’s see what the likes of Medley, Saka and Smith Rowe can do with extended runs in the side, alongside… Read more »
The problem was never that we did not have a plan, it was that the plan was flawed. A la Gazidis, Copy Leicester but expect better result. The new plan is the same plan than the old plan, but with different players. Players in the sense of active parties. The problem with that approach is that unless you have great coach, that plan will ultimately never make you reach the Champions’ league on a regular basis. Even Spurs know that without Pochettino the plan will fall on the first hurdle, hence the new stadium. Great players will move to winning… Read more »
TR7 You left out the Arsenal stump speech; ‘we are Arsenal…new stadium…6th richest club blah bah. Nagelsmann declined the Bayern job last summer, he said he wasn’t ready yet. Everyman and his dog knows he’s committed to Leipzig next summer———reasonable target You still haven’t explained why you think Pellegrini will leave Westham who paid off his contract with the Chinese club he was with last summer. The lure of managing a ‘big club”? Nope, he’s managed bigger clubs than Arsenal. Then you consider the issue of buying out his contract with Westham ——-no reasonable target here. Jardim? He’s in China… Read more »
“Here’s the crazy thing about the West Ham team. Pelligrini took over an absolute shit show of a side. He’s given them a style and purpose, he had a group of shite defenders rocking an offside trap so tight, George Graham would have firmed up watching it.”
Emery will last longer at Arsenal than Pelligrini will at West Ham.
A club holding on to it’s manager for 20 years creates bigger problems for any manager that follows.
Is emery the Spanish bruce rioch? He only lasted one season..
Yesterday’s game was the most dispiriting I’ve watched in a long time. We were second best in midfield, lousy in defence, and off the pace in attack. As others have said, there didn’t seem to be any discernible plan or style, and at times the players seemed lost. Right now things are so bad I’d welcome Ozil being given another run in the side, in that on his day he can provide decent service to our strikers. His omission right now feels like something that’s down to Emery’s obstinacy rather than a cool footballing decision. Going forward, it feels to… Read more »
Special sauce
Hot stuff
Avant garde
Pizazz
Explosive
There’s only one man for the job and he should have got the gig back in May. A to the motherfucking A.
If not. Go Vieria or go big with Allegri or throw £30m a season at Pep.
Arsenal are the slowest sinking ship in history.
R.S.P.C.ArsenalJanuary 13, 2019 10:45:00 The club has been insidiously hiding truth and facts from the fans from the last 13 years…Wenger was the main driver of this, He’s gone the politics bewteen him an gazidis are over, leaving the club in ruins.Time now Stan either delivers or leaves . Spend some cash and see the club as a lon* prospect. Or the clubs dead. ———- Yeah according to some insular posters like Banford et al.. Wenger was disingenuous and culpable…Gazidis was just towing the company line and Silent Stan’s only mistake was to keep Wenger for far longer than needed.As… Read more »
CC I get that but you must know that it takes time for any new team of managers to gel and start churning out results. I’m not suggesting we defer to big names. This management team is untested and we have to judge them on results. That’s one reason why we couldn’t have signed the likes of Allegri because managers can see through the BS. A management. team that can’t boast of any big item transfer success won’t hod the mustard against a good manager I was surprised we signed Emery to be fair because he would have had to… Read more »
It’s cowardly to blame Emery after years of stagnation…
Red
‘A club holding on to it’s manager for 20 years creates bigger problems for any manager that follows.’
Thanks Red.
Red
‘A club holding on to it’s manager for 20 years creates bigger problems for any manager that follows’
You were singing a different tune when we went on an unbeaten run. I guess Wenger’s legacy wasn’t an issue then.
Lots of emery apologists. Losers.
The major reason for Arsenal recruiting Emery was as far as I can see a willingness to work within a financial framework and his performance at Seville demonstrated also that he could win trophies without spending a lot of money. His performance at PSG offers a slightly different perspective, because the expectation there was obviously on a higher scale and the club was expected to win Champions League, which he failed to do. At the moment Arsenal are in halfway house. The fans expect the club to be competitive in EPL rather than perhaps in Europe and our spending capacity… Read more »
Guns of HackneyJanuary 13, 2019 12:11:51
Lots of emery apologists. Losers.
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Lots of Silent Stan apologists…Inbreds..
Dissenter
We will not be able to appoint any half decent manager ever post Emery going by your argument. I do not subscribe to the view. AFC will always be able to attract people managing West Ham or a Chinese Club.
‘Felipe Anderson, a player who caused us issues all afternoon was doing loads of dogs bodywork. Why? Because the manager convinced him that the team was more important than his feelings’ I’m not sure if this was a comment aimed at Emery getting Ozil to work but it’s rather easier said that done. Mourinho tried, Lowe tried, Wenger tried, Emery has tried. He’s a lazy pussy that just won’t do anything he doesn’t want to. If the club are adamant at this point they are selling him or doing something to get rid of him in the summer, fine, but… Read more »
If the club need to get aggressive, it is in moving Ozil on. I could live with him causing trouble if he put the performances in, but one decent show against weak opposition this season won’t make the difference.
We need to free up that £18m a year for someone that cares enough to make an effort.
I’m not changing tune, i’m 100% behind Emery.
CA
As I wrote many times the only way you are going to convince anyone to take
a loan let alone buy Ozil is if he starts playing well.
Both Ozil and his agent have said that he wants to live in London and play for Arsenal. Hardly surprising if you are being paid £350K for doing nothing and
there is no-one else on the planet willing to match that deal.
It’s insulting to write off a man in his forties when so many lifelines were given to a senile geriatric.
Be careful what you wish for bitches
China please. His army of fans could have a new experience and they might even pay him more.
Perhaps we could offer Ozil to Chelsea or Spurs if he wants to live in London ? I would rather pay half his wages and loan him out just to get rid of him.
Let Ozil rot. Can’t stand the man. What were they thinking offering him any for of additional employment?? And then they let wilsher Ramsey and Cazorla leave for free??
Hahahaha. Great management post Wenger. They still had some form of creativity there In 4 players and emery has found a way to fuck every single one of them. With no money to replace them all??!!
Hahahahahaha
What a buffoon
‘Perhaps we could offer Ozil to Chelsea or Spurs if he wants to live in London ? ‘
Neither would take him. Fulham might take a punt.
We have quite a strange situation where our highest paid player that is supposedly one of the best CAMs in the world is a player that no one wants. Or at least no club that can even pay half his current wages.
Even his agent only spoke about interest for China, when you think Ramsey had about 6 clubs lining up for him on a free.
Strange that.
Sorry
Make that no many to replace even one of them.
Cazorla is performing like a Don again at Villareal
While we scrape around for loan deals for players who couldn’t lace his boots.
Great work emery
Remember the upkeep of Ozil is enormous.
The botanical gardens are not cheap places to run.
Ozil is already posting cryptic “God is with us” videos like he did with Elneny yesterday.
Long may it continue. Squeeze him some more until he starts crying blood.
CA
Because he’s a wanker. Nobody in their right mind pays a sulky wanker £350k a week unless he’s electric on the pitch. Which he’s not.
Anyone hooking players off like Ozil, Mustafi & Xhaka before the 67th minute can’t be that much of a buffoon !
I’m not changing tune, i’m 100% behind Emery.
Rt
Then you’re a fool
Bergkamp
He’s come into the club with 5 talented creative midfielders
We now have none. And no transfer money from any of them.
Buffoon
Dissenter
Your comment earlier about Arsenal being the new Milan.
The similarities are so staggering just except no European history to begin with.
We can go through a million managers in a decade if we want but as long as the owner of the club doesn’t care, then nothing will change, it’s wishful thinking really hoping a new manager turns a 90% dud squad into anything other than the dud squad it is
Un You don’t need to tell me. Just like my critique of Wenger and wanting rid of him I was on Ozil’s back before it was popular. He’s a player that doesn’t work in the modern game anymore. The only way Ozil works is in a slower league where the team he plays for dominates the vast majority of that league aside from a team or two and the players around him are all superstars who also do the hard work for him and he can be removed at 60 minutes. Arsenal are a million miles away from that and… Read more »
I posted this on August 14th last year and I got ridiculed and slaughtered on here for saying it, and in my opinion the situation has not changed throughout the season. Pierre August 14, 2018 19:48:34 Considering we now have a whole load of people at the top of their profession at the club I find it a little strange that more thought had not gone into hiring a new manager . Let’s look at the facts.Emery likes to play the high press ….who do we have up front to implement the high press ..aubamayang , ozil ,mhkitarayan and lacazette.… Read more »
“He’s come into the club with 5 creative midfielders”
Who are they and what exactly are they supposed to be creating ?
We don’t have 1 let alone 5 !
Un nai
You’re used to playing the fool, you’ve had 10 years practice.
If anyone still has the posts from the day Ozil was signed, you will find me on here saying he was overrated and and a waste of money, Mourinho had already been benching him all season !
CA Same here I never wanted him at the club. Only 3 times have I been impress by him in his arsenal career. That goal where he looped it over the keepers head in Europe His first assist against Sunderland His game against Leicester this year. I never rated him for Germany in 2010 I never rated him at Madrid I never rated him at arsenal And I don’t rate him now To think we passed up on Cesc for him?? Sometimes, when I sit and think about such careless and catastrophic stupidity, I feel like ripping my left bollock… Read more »
Those players must be invalids if they can’t implement Emery’s tactics…
Rt
Alright dopey. You keep Shaking your little Pom poms for your avaerage team with your average manager.