Unai Emery went on the record with an interview from yesteryear, leaning hard into a garbled narrative of someone looking to deflect attention away from the obvious: Things are getting worse.
“At Arsenal it’s maybe the first time I feel that I have the support to build up from the bottom in order to get where we want to be.
“That allows us to work more for the long term and supports the kind of work we want to do here. After my experiences in Spain, Russia and France, I believe that people at Arsenal see football from the heart in a very distinct way.
“The question of whether you win, lose or draw is still important but there is always a respect for the football beyond the result.”
“That means you can do a more progressive job building the club without thinking only about results, because sometimes a result can hide solid foundations.”
The Sun ran two puff pieces that were no doubt arranged by the club. The way PR defence works in football is very simple. A well-read tabloid is offered an exclusive with someone who will drive clicks and hard copy purchases. The interview is conducted by a friendly ear who will usually ask predetermined questions. This allows a professionally crafted narrative to be spoonfed to fans with all the relevant buzzwords that make people feel good about something shite. Remember, fans are not pragmatic, they are hopeful, they want to be optimistic. Arsenal are experts in feeding hope.
Step 2: A chief sports writer will drop an ‘opinion piece’ follow-up that sympathises with the said narrative as part of the deal. (here)
Emery essentially told the world that Arsenal is a little different to his previous clubs because they don’t put pressure on him to win. Which is exactly the opposite reason he was hired. He was supposed to bring an elite shift in mentality to a squad of pampered children. Here’s what said when he was hired.
Big players. Big ambition.
“This team is a big team, with big players, and we think we need to change little things – a few players.”
“The target is to be a candidate and to challenge for the title. It is very important for the club, after two years outside the Champions League, to work this way, to be the best club, the best team in the Premier League and also in the world.”
A focus on better attack.
“I want to create a team that know how to exploit the space, are able to counter-attack, or when there’s no space, calmly find a way to create openings. We are in that process: create an idea, a style, be competitive. We came to an Arsenal that hadn’t beaten any of the Top 6, and while we still haven’t done so yet, they also struggled to win away from home at all, and we have already improved in that area.”
Better defence.
‘You can only take care of technique and attacking freedom, losing your defensive structure. What I want to do is unite the two and become more competitive. Arsenal were falling. We had to stop that and start to lift them.’
A gym a smidge closer to the training pitch.
‘Only little details like putting a gym next to the pitch to make the transition from gym to pitch easier. Purely methodology. The same idea remains as before.’
Less juice for men who consume 4000 calories a day.
‘Together with the nutritionist and the fitness coach, we decided to get rid of juice with sugar, but that’s normal and what I do at home: eat without sugar, less fat, healthier food. That’s it.’
The foundations he referenced have gotten weaker across the board. The defence is porous, there’s no creativity, and the style is absolutely drab. Oddly, the gym and juice move appears to have worked against overall fitness.
I think Emery cottoned onto the mess he was creating for himself halfway through and tried to rescue things with a garbled stab at how he might get fired.
“As a manager, I have always put myself under the pressure of the necessity to win.
“You know that winning allows you to either continue what you are doing or find another project.
This is not what we signed up for. We were supposed to push for top 4, now we’re making excuses, and telling the world there’s more to Arsenal than winning. What was the point in sacking Wenger if the plan was another long-term transition where we’d excuse failure?
Sarri moved to Chelsea, a team that played 5 at the back for two years, before that they played under Mourinho, both offered drab pragmatic football. Sarri installed a style by October. Is it perfect? No. Can you see where it’s going? Yes.
Bielsa, a bat shit crazy manager, took an uninteresting directionless team from 7th, to 1st, playing the most outrageous and joyous football Leeds fans have ever seen (that from my Leeds supporting uncle (away days levels of fandom)). Sure, they have a big wage bill, but so do Arsenal.
You can compare Emery’s record to Poch, Klopp and Guardiola… but that’s spreadsheet analysis. Use your eyes. What do you see? A club on a path to better? Or a club regressing under a manager who looks out of ideas?
The manager continues to look inconsistent and indecisive on and off the pitch. After freezing Mesut Ozil out in the hope he’d leave, he’s now decided the give him another go. Here’s what he had to say:
“With Mesut it’s the same. He didn’t play the last matches but to me he’s just like any other player. This Saturday he can be with us if he’s OK. Now? He’s training consistently with his work over the past two weeks and I think he can be.”
This, paired with Ornstein’s chatter on the player makes for good reading.
“He has no desire to leave, Mesut Ozil, so he won’t be leaving in the January transfer window. I’m told he’s working extremely hard to get himself fit. Reports coming out of London Colney is that he’s now doing extra gym work and he has a positive demeanour. He’s determined to work his way back into the side.
“The word was he wasn’t doing a lot of the extra work most players were, and he is now. I’ve heard positive things about his behaviour, his commitment, his relationships with the teammates.
Commendable he’s now giving him another chance, but the whole episode reads like an ego-driven attempt at commanding respect. I also feel like bringing Mesut back at the weekend against Chelsea is as bad as dropping Ramsey into the starting line-up against Liverpool. It looks like a preplanned scapegoat move.
Anyway, it’s clear he’s been burned by his experience at PSG where he was bullied into handing over power to Neymar so he could stay in his job. This was penned last year by the GFFN folk for the Guardian.
‘Neymar demanding to be the centre of attention is hardly surprising but Emery’s passivity and his eventual solution of allowing the players to sort out the disagreement between themselves only played into the culture of player power. There is no fear of rebuke for poor displays or selfishness as a significant chunk of the first team will be picked no matter what. As a result PSG lack any semblance of rigour or discipline and players dally in possession and struggle to find any intensity.’
This is Mourinho on young people.
How the new breed of footballers differ from those of previous generations.#beINMourinho #beINAFC #AsianCup2019 pic.twitter.com/aroOGBVREb
— beIN SPORTS (@beINSPORTS) January 17, 2019
A lot of Arsenal fans dismiss the idea that Emery can be critiqued for his time at PSG, but I’d disagree. You need to work out a way of dealing with big names if you’re an elite coach (Enrique did, despite massive issues with Messi at the start). Communication is a massive part of any job. Young people expect to be able to communicate with their managers. They don’t believe in hierarchy. They have grown up in an access culture. You have to show love and as Mourinho said, ‘share power.’
Peak Mourinho lambasted Drogba in his prime for meeting Milan behind his back.
‘OK, seeing as we are not kids we are going to talk.
“I trusted you – I’ve done everything for you and there you are telling me you’re going to the dentist in Paris when in fact you’re in Milan talking over your transfer.
“You lied to me. You didn’t keep your word. Have you been badly brought up or what?”
He benched him for a bit, brought him in from the cold, then watched a 34 goal season unfold. Jose knew how to deal with huge egos. The man had so much sauce in his prime. We need some of that. Think about it, our two best players are our freshest. A helluva weapon going into the next 5 months if we can make it work.
Back to the original interview.
The PR team at Arsenal need to understand that their strategies of appeasement won’t be tolerated by fans in the new era. There is no bond with Emery. Long-term plans and painful transitions won’t be tolerated unless there is clear progress on the pitch. That interview was a disaster. We cannot fall into the doomed trap of ‘more money’ being the requirement for progress when Spurs are ahead of us in the league after spending ZERO this summer, and we’re being out-defended by Palace, Brighton, Newcastle, Leicester, Wolves and Everton.
We hired a coach, time for him to start delivering. If not, we should find someone new in the summer. Simple as that.
Don’t fall for the dark arts of the Arsenal PR machine. We are better than that.
P.S. This is how you run a football club when you don’t have a sugar daddy. (LINK)
Freddie I am not SA ( I spend British winters there) I do indeed want mainly British players at the club. For no other reason- there is real evidence- you have more chance to succeed) If you have man city’s largesse – irrelevant you buy. Out of interest. The Dortmund resurgence coincided with the German club having: A German Dog with an instinct for German soccer A German coach ( klopp) German young players . With some French African players.. I note they don’t have English administrators in charge ( and rightly so) Or SPANISH. Like we have been lumbered… Read more »
German Dof not dog!
Why are hurricanes normally named after women?
When they come they’re wild and wet, but when they go they take your house and car
German Dof not dog!
Your point came across better when it was dog
A manager can make a player look bad. Last game, Emery asked Auba to play on the right. Auba lost almost every ball.
For the good of the team, if Ozil is being used, I would like him to station in the middle just in front of Xhaka and Torr. Don’t put him on the right. He would disappear. I also would like Laca to move back just in front of Ozil to form a partnership. We need to form a bridge to supply the ball to Auba.
Un nai,
You’re on fire! 😂 Roy Chubby Brown would be proud!
The spell checker in the comments box drives me insane too!
Anyone see Aoaur’s no look goal?
Found it online but cannot seem to relocate the link…
Need him in the team
What do you call a French one eyed Arsenal manager?
Un eye Emery!
😂
Pedro
You cannot criticise a Head Coach/Manager if he goes 22 games undefeated
particularly if the games were mostly won.
I would remind you that there were plenty of games where we went undefeated under George Graham in similar fashion as was also the case more recently at Chelsea under Mourinho.
The reality is that Arsenal’s expectations this season were relatively low. Most
supporters did not expect us to finish above sixth place with team we have got.
Arsenal under Kroenke are not going to invest in a transfer window £150-200
million as both Manchester clubs and Chelsea can do.
“A German Dog with an instinct for German soccer”
Charlie George – this is best entry for joke friday. I have been laughing about Fritz, the german pure bred who has an instict for soccer and was instrumental in saving Dortmund, for past five minutes.
I actually think Xhaka should be benched. A 5 man midfield of Ozil front and centre with Ramsey and Torreira sat back as sweepers in front of a back 4 of Bellerin, Must, Sok and Kolasinac. Iwobi on the right and Aubameyang on the left with Lacazette up front.
Saka on the bench too.
The reality is that Arsenal are unlikely to buy themselves out of the mire which
was the consequence of poor management in recent years.
The club needs to rebuild by CAREFUL AND SELECTIVE transfer business plus
promoting young players from our U23 and Youth teams.
I am afraid that this process will take time whoever is in charge of team.
Everyone missed my joke from yesterday
So will not be posting another.
Germany changed their whole approach to football in the early 90s, different coaching and setups from an early age. That has resulted in much more technical players and a very successful national team. They don’t only have a handful of good players like the english team. Until the U.K decides to go the same way there is no way we’re going to be successful with a largely british team or staff, it’s just not happening. Thank your FA for that. It’s getting better but not nearly enough. That’s not taking into account that english players with even a shred of… Read more »
Freddie
They are indeed more expensive to buy.
Therefore they are more expensive when sold..
Plus there are always buyers of British players( they have the tv cash)
Very little buyers for failed overseas prem players..
Eleney
Xhaka
Mustafi
Sokratis
PEA
Lacactte
All equivalent of buying property with 15 year lease on it.
(Shrinking returns..)
You buy British
you buy the FREEHOLD.!
They are rebooting child’s play next year!! It actually looks quite decent but do t they all these days until you actually see them.
Some good films to look forward to next year though. Probably the worst year of cinema I’ve ever experienced. Gut wrenching let downs all year. Alien covenant, predator and venom being the worst offenders for me.
Charlie George
Everyone of those players could be cheaply replaced by a better british counterpart bar Aubameyang and lacazette
Until the U.K decides to go the same way there is no way we’re going to be successful with a largely british team or staff, it’s just not happening. Thank your FA for that. It’s getting better but not nearly enough.
Once we leave the Eu we won’t be as easy cheaply import journeymen
And the quality of football will drop. You 2 really aren’t the brightest.
It’s the stardust and technicality that the foreign stars bring that has made the premier league the most popular in the world, take that away and people will stop watching, forget about competing in the champions league as well. The national team would get worse as well when all the players only play with cloggers.
ES Agreed. As a club we are not a quick fix. There has been tremendous upheaval and to have more may set us back further. We have to have faith in what they are trying to do. To lose it after 6 months and be thinking about change already is premature. If we’re were lying in 8th or 9th in the table as a result of patchy results all season, then action would likely need to be taken come the summer but you can look at the table now and see that 4th is actually wide open, what with Chelsea’s… Read more »
Yes
Fair point..un an i
They could have been a devastating combination.
They could have propelled us to a title tilt.
With an unfussy coach with a nous of common sense.
No team in country has 2 like them!
Emery should be saying to them
Lads you will start every league game together.
Give me 70 goals this season and we can win the league!
“‘I think Emery has settled well in the club, the players like him, the way they are training, his philosophy of the game,’ Giroud told ESPN. ‘I spoke with some of them and they are quite happy”
Pierre
Seems some of the players(Old timers) support what Emery is doing at the club including benching Ozil.
Un
That’s the problem with halfwits like you, you think because the dirty foreigners are gone the strapping english lads are just automatically going to get better.
GOH ‘We’ll suck this shit up for another three years, no sweat.’ I have to disagree with you there. There’s already a lot of unpleasant noises coming from Arsenal fans- have a look on AFTV. Emery won’t be afforded the free pass wenger was in his later years. The thing is, the real problem isn’t him anyway – it’s Stan and fans are finally geting it. It’s plus ca change at arsenal. The remit for Emery is: Do exactly what Wenger did. Get us into the top four and do it self sustainably, just don’t ask me for any money.… Read more »
“Emery should be saying to them
Lads you will start every league game together.Give me 70 goals this season and we can win the league!”
And that’s not even the dumbest thing you have said today, amazing. I’m calling it a night now, it’s getting too stupid here
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-politics-46918009
Intersteding read!!
Fatwah on Emery if we lose tomorrow.
I expect the keyboard warriors on legrove to carry this out 🙂
Freddie I’m not saying only sign british players I’m saying that those players listed could be cheaply upgraded with brits Holding is certianly an upgrade on Mustafi is as coady and Maguire Robertson, sessegnon and chilwell could easily be an upgrade on our leftbacks Wilshere was at the club and is better than xakha and AMN is better than elneny who should never ever have been at the Emirates other than at the hot food counter. So before you go round calling people silly names like half with why don’t you read what people write you pansie. You wouldn’t fucking… Read more »
Un, less politics.
How about a nice chat about Arteta?
“Wilshere was at the club and is better than xakha”
Un
You do realize you have to be fit to be able to play football right?
If we win on Saturday we are 3 points back from Chelsea. Tottenham will Mikey struggle to replace what Son and Kane give to their team while they are gone.
Some here are acting like all hope is gone already, when I’m fact there is still plenty to play for.
Englandsbest There is a monumental difference between what’s happened at Arsenal and what Solskjaer has achieved at MU in just six weeks. For starters, all the players at MU were playing with the handbrake on. All they needed was a slight push from an individual geared to positive attacking Football. Solskjaer is a perfect fit after Mourinho. Secondly, they were used to disciplined and structured coaching, however negative it may have felt and, consequently, found it far easier to adapt to the positive changes brought in by Solskjaer. Finally, you have winners and natural leaders in the set up. Player… Read more »
Pedro
Knew that was coming
What took you so long?
Chris
Yeah and we couldn’t muster anything against West bloody ham. What makes you think we can beat the chavs?
Arsenal 2 Chelski 1……………I hope!
Azed
We kept him fit all year last year
Shad was obviously the man for the job.
I will say though that cmf is the position in which we are sorely lacking (England)
Mason is decent but we need more coming through. Seems lots of full backs and wingers get through but the where are all the quality midfielders? We’ve gone from becks, Scholes Gerrard Lampard Hargreaves and Barry to bloody lingaard.
Robertson, sessegnon and chilwell will be very expensive if we could even buy them.
Wilshere has been a nothing footballer for years, mainly because his injuries but also because of his attitude.
AMN is maybe better than Elneny, maybe. But that’s not really a high bar to set, he has plenty to prove and is more likely to end up in the championship in a couple of years than start for us.
Just calling it like I see it tough guy. You might think you’re intelligent but your posts proves the opposite.
I was holding off, everyone hating me today, had to lay low
Freddy
I don’t recall mentioning how intelligent I think I am. Odd
Robertson was bought for £8m. Sessegnon and chilwell will be a damn site cheaper than the mendy or Danilo
Wilshere is an upgrade on xakha. Wether you like it or not he’s the better player.
Nothing stupid about it.
Point stands
We could upgrade on our lesser squad players easily and cheaply with british players.
Pedro
I hear that. Welcome to the un na Le grove experience!!!
Freddie
Look at spurs
Kane-free
Mason free
Trippier free
Ali- £2m
Jadon sancho was £9m
We have esr and Nelson on our books already
All could easily replace Mkhitaryan and doa better job.
Winks as well
Well said Graham62; to compare Emery to Ole G is quite frankly ludicrous.
Unai
We are at home, have quite a decent record against Chelsea at home and the players/coach have everything to prove after recent disappointments.
Chelsea are also quite inconsistent and their coach is also struggling to imprint his ways upon them.
I am sure you can think of many reasons we can. Eat them but are wallowing in the negativity this blog is promoting more often than not these days.
You were so offended by me calling you a halfwit, which means you probably think you’re not. I think Xhaka is a shit footballer and should be sold asap, doesn’t mean I would take Jack back, he’s done at the highest level, we need better. Doesn’t really matter what Robertson cost before, he would be a lot more now. Sessegnon has been valued at 35-40m if I remember correctly, not exactly numbers we can drop on a fullback. We should probably get better at finding promising players in england before they break through though. But everyone else is trying to… Read more »
Chris
Yeah well . Hopefully we do put in a performance and get the result.
Freddy
It’s not the name itself. Rather the intention to belittle me for attempting a reasonable and daily polite debate. There was no need to try and put me down. That’s what annoyed me
Doesn’t really matter what Robertson cost before, he would be a lot more now.
It does matter. Beacuse it proves my point that we could upgrade cheaply
Spurs has got lucky recently and that has saved them a lot of money, hopefully we can do the same.
Nelson, Esr, Saka and Amaechi the most likely candidates at the moment, if 2 of those makes it it would be great.
alexanderhenry We all knew Stan was the problem. Look at it this way, what’s worse the core of the rotten apple or the parasites who feed off it’s fruit? In my eyes it was Wenger (and Gazidis) who were the real culprits in all of this. They protected Kroenke and the board by playing off against one another, promoting garbage values and philosophies that so many fans truly believed and bought into. Wenger and Gazidis were FOH(Front Of House). They were supposed to understand and put the fans interests first. Instead they tried to make us believe in something that… Read more »
We should probably get better at finding promising players in england before they break through though. But everyone else is trying to do that too… Freddy We are arsenal We should be attracting the best talent in the country If Leicester Burnley and Fulham can get these players through then we should be exceeding their capacity to do so as it’s cheaper for us We’ve dropped the ball st youth level . Hopefully that’s about to change with the current crop What happens to the supply line from Europe too Where are the meridas and the cesc sand the flaminis… Read more »
Freddy
I don’t think sours did get lucky. I think they’ve got a great set up and it saves them a fortune. Look at their wage bill. The less you spend on players like Mustafi and the rest and the more you focus on bringing through the youngsters then the more capital we will have to spend on the star players we need. If we didn’t have to waste money on Leno and sokratis then maybe we could afford a Pepe or a Lozano or a Dembele.
From what I understand if even by some miricle Stan Kronke decided to invest money into the club with financial fair rules say he can’t do that. The club has to be self sustaining. It’s the combination of letting players contracts run down plus the high wages that’s really put us in the crap.Ivan Gazides has allot to answer for and the previous manager goes for Wenger and the backroom staff that were there last season
Martial close to a new 5-year deal at United, shame Mourinho didn’t last the season.
The coaches can only work with the talent that’s there they can’t dna splice in qualities the players doesn’t have, only improve the existing ones. Don’t we have an uptake area for youths that extends 1 hour travel from the stadium or similar? Means we can’t just comb the country for kids. We are not that attractive a club anymore that we can assume all talented youngsters wants to come to us, that’s just delusion. Wenger killed that in the last 5 years, but like you say, hopefully that can get better again. Not sure we want any more Meridas… Read more »
Pedro, Nobody hates you dude – we all love you otherwise we wouldn’t keep coming back. You’re allowed your opinion and you’re allowed to air it as you see fit, you’ve earned that right because I genuinely believe we’d still be stuck with Wenger without you. You were years ahead of everyone regarding Wenger so who’s to say you’re not right about Emery? Not me that’s for sure. Afterall – this is the blog where you can have an opinion, not get one. It takes guts to write day in day out putting yourself out there for critism but you’ve… Read more »
Freddy
Mwe have to be more attractive than Chelsea beacuse they are far more likely to see first team football
We have to be more attractive than Fulham because we are a superior club
Flamini was great when he first came through if you remember. Ok maybe Merida was a bad example but he still looked great when he first joined
So when we clear the books of wages, and not being hampered by FFP, will Stan throw some cheddar our way then? Doubt it.
Player sales seems the only other way…
Bring in our youth and spend on the D, I like the idea that was said on LG
I would see if we could snatch Lozano, or another experienced young winger though.
Benny
Clean your tongue mate. It’s brown…..
I think no one is arguing that spurs is not better run than us or that they have a much better squad than us, it’s been like that for years, that’s the problem. And then there’s people expecting a new manager to come in and change that in 6 months.
And yes, they got lucky getting that many players through the academy at once, it doesn’t happen often for any top teams.
The main reason- Wenger started buying overseas players is because they were cheaper AND CLEARLY better than their British counterparts. Where We are going so wrong now ( and have been for 5 years ,I guestimate) Is we are buying overseas players that are not CHEAPER, nor SUPERIOR to their British counterparts. That continued policy (Suarez/Banega/mustafi/ eleney types) will see Arsenals continued decline. Copy what Dortmund have done But replace Zorc/Klopp with the British equivalent. It really not that difficult. When have Arsenal lost a penny buying a British player. (Jeffers?) We even sold Bentley for 15 mill We made… Read more »
Can anyone recommend a decent/recent-ish film?
Flamini had one good season before he fucked off. Was pretty shite the rest off the time. Hardly a success story, but I get the point. Problem is it’s harder now than ever to find those gems, everyone’s scouting has gone up a couple of notches since then and we’re still stuck with some of Wengers old relics
When have Arsenal lost a penny buying a British player.
Ramsey 😂
Freddy
Like I said. If Fulham Burnley and Leicester can do it then why can’t we? Nobody is saying not to buy class foreign players but if we have quality british lads coming through then we have more disposable funds to spend on the top shelf talent
Un
And do not get me started on that fiasco ..
That will be their legacy to us.
Ramsey free from Arsenal to Juve
Lichsteiner free from Juve to Arsenal
“When have Arsenal lost a penny buying a British player.
Carl Jenkinson
Francis Jeffers
Un nai,
Whatever. I actually see Pedro as a friend so I’m not that fussed what you say tbh, if I knew you for 11 years and you were getting roundly lambasted I’d stick up for you too.
Just how I roll.
Justin and Galvin Hoyte?
Mark Randall?
Frimpong?
Benny
Chill your herbs pal. Was just a bit of winding up
Axed
They never paid for those players
YTS players
So there are 2
We have only lost money on 2 BRITISH players.
So why not buy more of them!
Frimpong… gone too soon.
We even made a profit on Steve Bould!!
We sold him to Sunderland at 35 for £500,000
Bought for£ 350,000
I’m with Pedro
Arsenal have hired Wenger Mk 2
Pedro
Stick to your guns and instinct with Emery.
He is the wrong choice.
You will be vindicated.
Pedro As I wrote yesterday I do think that Arteta could still become Head Coach in the foreseeable future. I think that the job at Arsenal came a couple of years too early for him. The only proviso I make is that he may be offered job at Man City when Guardiola leaves. Emery has probably a couple of years to prove himself, but if Arsenal fail to make top four next season I think that it will be his last. Gone are the days when Arsenal will give a Manager/Head Coach too much time. I think that he will… Read more »
Graham52 ‘We all knew Stan was the problem.’ Not when I first starting posting on here about five or six years ago. A lot of people on here didn’t even know who he was. I’ve always identified him as a terrible owner and perhaps the single worst thing that has happened to Arsenal football club in decades. However, I’m not interested in gloating and we’re still not far enough into the post wenger era to write off arsenal.. If Stan puts his hand in his pocket and shows some ambition, I’ll be the first to praise him. If he pulls… Read more »
Some hard on for Emery Pedro. Absolutely protruding it is. As for the be more like Dortmund stuff well that’s all well and good saying that but at the same time you’re giving a manager 6 months and having the knives ready for Raul and whoever else because of a lack of instant success. But yeah be more like Dortmund. Oh that takes time? But I want you to be more like Dortmund right now
ES
“Emery has probably a couple of years to prove himself, but if Arsenal fail to make top four next season I think that it will be his last. ”
Emery signed a two year contract with a team option for a third. If we don’t make top 4 next season, he would be gone because his contract would be over.
This is a fair article:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/jan/18/arsenal-era-austerity-emery-finance-stan-kroenke-champions-league
Un na naaiJanuary 18, 2019 12:30:48 Bollocks. His five paragraphs were falsehoods and mildly insulting: He claimed that brexiteers or conservatives were a dying breed His own statistics proved him wrongHe called me a chav (big wow) and claimed I had a low IQ (incorrect again) if you think that’s stick then you live a very sheltered life. As I said I get worse from my brothers before breakfastHe’s clearly an elitist lefty who’s sore that his “egalitarian” views aren’t shared by the masses so seeks to label everyone and anyone who disagrees. I’m pretty sure his mummy and daddy… Read more »
Graham/Alex
Arsenal simply wouldn’t be in this mess with a competent and ambitious owner.
Vilify Wenger, bemoan Gazidis, lambast the players, but if it was led by the right guy then the competence would drip down to the football pitch. Shocking owner is Stan
Absolutely brilliant PhD. You continue to absolutely have Don’s number. I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone’s character so utterly and deservedly eviscerated on here
why do you call him Don? As in Trump?
MarkoJanuary 18, 2019 21:04:10
🙂
Un na naai is Don but Don got banned for saying some horrible shit so he’s back under a different name. It’s like his third or fourth name. I just find his interactions with PhD to be brilliant honestly.
Where is Joe? Did he get “binned”
This Don is too polite to be Uruguayan Pitbull or Northern- I remember that thing coming on here and putting the E in VILE
Donny boy— he should be happy with the same name as Trump
That is someone different SF
yea but I remember that thing coming on here
Alexander What a fucking farce. One, contrary to what someone said above, we don’t all agree that Kroenke is the problem. Indeed a number of posters have explicitly rejected this lazy contention, including Cesc Appeal and gambon, among others. Two, the notion of you “gloating” is fucking hilarious. You’ve gotten NOTHING right. Nothing. You’re the guy who told Le Grove, incorrectly, that Kroenke had restricted what Wenger could spend, and that Kroenke was to blame when we didn’t spend, not Wenger. This was complete and utter bullshit. You told us that Wenger only signed Cech in the summer of 2015… Read more »
It’s not Don. He doesn’t threaten people and generally likes to have fun.
Un na naai is Don Pedro. He’s just playing nice these days.
Un Na might have the worst takes of anyone who has ever posted here. And on every subject.
Football? The guy thinks 2019 Jack Wilshere is a world class midfielder and should still be in our XI.
Politics? The guy is a climate-change-denying Trump supporter.
Some people manage to get everything wrong; Un Na is one of them.
Marko, he’s not.
If he is, and he’s playing nice, bloody fantastic.
Bamford, Jack is a much better footballer than Xhaka. He just didn’t have the fitness.
… and Bamford, let’s not get personal. You don’t like it when people gun for you.
Pedro it definitely is him. I’m not saying it to get him banned or nothing like that I’m just saying that is Don and PhD has him in his pocket
Un nai,
I’ve just gone over yesterday’s comments and what PhD has just said to you is correct I’m afraid even though I think his inference of vote to remain and having a degree was the correct decision thus more intelligent extremely condescending he was going by statistics.
Fair’s fair and all.