Four things I’ve been thinking about intensely for a whole day.
The Squad is toilet commentary:
Sven Mislintat gave Emery 5 players last summer at a cost of £70m. He focused on mainly defensive players, with one player hired in for his FIRE mentality.
Bernd Leno: A massive improvement on Cech, can play with his feet, makes good saves. HIT
Lucas Torriera: Ferocious defensive midfielder that has a super instinct for the game. He’s a good tackler, he can pass and he’s comfortable sitting at the base of midfield. MASSIVE HIT
Matteo G: If you don’t love this guy, you’re dead inside. A bit rough around the edges, but he’s been very good considering his age. HIT
Sokratis: Beast at the back. A fighter, solid on the ball, good in the air and a proper leader. Should be our captain. Guy is so aggressive he told his ankle off for being injured. HIT
Lichtsteiner: 34 years old, was never going to be able to do it on the pitch, but he’s not shite, he’s just off the pace.
We have improved the squad. It is difficult to argue anything else. These are good players.
So why haven’t we seen an improvement to our defence?
- Wolves
- Leicester
- Brighton
- Palace
- Newcastle
Five teams that either share the same goals conceded, or have conceded less than us. Seriously man, Newcastle United.
Add to that the fact that we have two 25 goal a season strikers (£116m) that even the most miserable Arsenal fan can’t be unhappy with. Do we love Lacazette? Yes. Do we love Auba? Damn right we do, even if you don’t, he’s joint second in the Premier League for goals with Kane and 2 behind Salah He also has a banging haircut and a nice smile. He also has 7 more than Lukaku, who everyone is now pivoting towards being better than Auba. Bitch please.
Lacazette has 1o in all competitions and we love him as well. Chelsea would die for our frontline.
Emery has a world class player in Ozil he can’t motivate and he’s chosen to leave a player like Ramsey on the bench all year. I know Mesut is a being a little bitch, but come on, buy him a Balenciaga snood and make up already. Seriously, this has gone too far.
So in short, this idea that our squad is Stoke levels is more dramatic than the output of a mild Ospina collision.
United Tactics:
I thought the tactics against United were subpar, but as I am somewhat dyslexic when it comes to writing about them, I stole a piece from Valentin in the comments:
The most depressing of Friday’s defeat is that the manner of the defeat was predicted. Everybody knew the tactics that ManUtd were going to employ except our coach. Soak up pressure and let Arsenal have the ball wide but intercept any cut back and counter-attack at pace.
Arsenal left side via long balls over the top from Pogba or Matic. Emery did nothing against that. In fact his tactics and players selection played into their hand.
We needed a quick and decisive left back and instead of Monreal he played Kolasinac who is not the quickest nor the best at defending.
We needed a deep line with a compact midfield in front. Instead we played a high line with regularly our midfield and Kolasinac ahead of the ball which means that when they counter-attack they had one more attacker than defenders. 3v2 as for the second goal or 4v3.
We needed somebody to man mark Pogba and as far as I could see neither Ramsey nor Torreira were tasked to do that. The closest to regularly block Pogba was Lacazette !
Newcastle employed those tactics and it nearly paid off for them. With luck and better players (which we have compared to Newcastle) they could have won it.The worst thing is that on the sideline everybody could see that clearly Emery had no idea how to turn the tide.
Ole G, Mike P and Carrick just rolled out the same strategy Alex Ferguson used against us for years.
Emery apparently does more video analysis than a 14-year old who’s just discovered incognito mode.
What happened here? Did he miss the Spurs game?
Power:
Emery has helped see off Sven by basically blacklisting ‘hot youth talent’ e-mail suggestions, instead, favouring journeymen stars from Champ Man circa 2014, preferably with an agent Raul knows… what does that mean for our F5 Newsnow refresh trigger finger?
ARSENAL LINKED WITH IVAN PERISIC.
Holy mother of Mary. What a boner killer. Like ‘accidentally’ opening a really bad tab in incognito mode.
A 29-year-old who is 30 in a month. A player working in a much slower league, in physical decline, with a goals and assists record this season WORSE than Iwobi’s. 25 games (72mins a game), 3 goals and 5 assists. Did we learn nothing from the Mikhi disaster? Pepe over at Lille has 13 goals and 10 assists in 23 games. Wait for him! Save those loan pennies.
If this is the future, why does it smell so much like Everton?
What makes things even more worrying is we’re hiring in Spaniards at a rate of knots. Emery has been adding to his backroom staff over the course of the season and he’s even picking his mate as the Technical Director this summer, and look, I think Monchi could be a great candidate (5th with Roma, which is fitting), but it’s quite clear Ivory Towers are being built which could be problematic, and even worse, tough to break up should the worst happen.
Also, is there no search and select process for this? You know, even just to pinch ideas from the other candidates.
As Matt noted on the podcast, this is all happening because there’s no defacto leader at the club. We need a Bepe Moratta like figure, or a Michael Zorc. Someone who purposefully decentralizes power, sets the vision and makes people work smart to deliver a great footballing experience to the fans. Most CEOs wouldn’t want to create management cliques. That’s why you’d limit the power of the manager, take ownership of the staffing around him, and be very careful about hiring in friends. In football, an industry known for bullshitters, you really need to have your wits about you.
We just shipped out Wenger’s regime and now seem to be allowing a new one to form. This is all the more worrying because the raid is being executed by people who have little affinity for the club, which wouldn’t be a problem if we had a CEO and a strong board with business and footballing acumen (preferably people that have Arsenal DNA (Brian Marwood)). Just look at Ivan Gazidis giving himself a massive payrise in his final year at Arsenal despite achieving nothing on or off the pitch. That’s scandalous corporate greed. But who was there to overrule it? No one. That’s who. I mean, no one isn’t really a who, but you get what I mean.
Change:
The season should be judged on expectations.
My expectations, ok?
- Do we have a defined style of football?
- Are we better defensively?
- Are we better going forward?
- Are we technically a better outfit?
- Are the fans excited?
A very basic list. If nothing has improved and we’re still 6th, we should think about a different path.
Bruce Rioch picked up the pieces of George Graham era, was told to land European football, and he was sacked two weeks after he achieved his goals. Why? Because David Dein recognised he could do better.
Nigel Adkins took Southampton up from League One, he was doing well in the Premier League, and he was fired because they were able to bring in Pochettino (remember the reaction in the press to that!).
If there is no improvement this season then good leadership should course correct and make a change.
Can anyone disagree with that notion? No they can’t. They absolutely can’t.
Right, that’s me OUT. See you tomorrow when I promise it’ll be sparkles and rainbows.
Luuuuurve u x
He is in pursuit of an elusive dream and should be lauded for not taking an easy route to boost his CV. Yeah I dunno about that. I suppose Wenger too should be lauded for those 9 seasons without a trophy. Look he’s not going to win anything major with Spurs and that’s that. Passing up on jobs that he can is stupid. He’s got no great affiliation with the club. Same goes for Kane should he be lauded too if he stays at Spurs for his whole career without winning anything? Fuck no he’d be dumb as hell. If… Read more »
If it’s a loan with an option to but …then no problem
However these loans with an option to buy come with caveats. They sometimes have specific parameters to trigger an outright buy like say the player feature in 10 games or scores a certain number of goals.
He provides an option of playing away from flaky Mesut Ozil.
I just don’t see why Perisic would be turning in a transfer request for a loan move. It doesn’t seem plausible that this is a loan move.
Perisic has played 1314 Serie A minutes this season, and has only three goals and two assists.
Alex Iwobi, in contrast, has two goals and four assists in approximately 200 fewer minutes.
…makes you wonder but then Iwobi is widely derided by half of the people here so maybe Iwobi hate will drive them to this deal.
This deriding false narratives is beta-male commentary. Argue what’s said, not what fanstasy you invent someone saying. Not difficult
Quality stuff CC.
Batistuta
I’ve got a really low tolerance to being pigeonholed and misrepresented on here, and you’ve done that a number of times to me previously so maybe drop the pretence.
Marko go a day without nibbling at someone’s ankles, you act like this place is a playground. It’s weird
Am I the only one who thinks this has an agents finger prints all over it. One last big money deal and payday.
Low tolerance for debate bruh
Charlie
Pigeonholed and misrepresented…… Sorry don’t take anyone here that seriously and no one should take themselves that seriously too seeing as it’s a faceless forum.
Marko you’re a parody.
You don’t debate anything, you sit spouting your superficial views and then take every opportunity to mock others because they either hold you accountable for a weak pov, or have a different view altogether.
An example being your desperate Arteta comments at any given opportunity. But here you are acting up to that precise character, taking the piss out of a handful of posters you don’t like, and then using someone’s commentary to deride them once again. You’re a child.
People should stop this “Newcastle have a better defence” nonsense.First off, Arsenal football club and Newcastle fc have different ambitions.If arsenal football club played the way Newcastle are playing in the name of achieving clean sheets,many of you here would be saying its bland football.Second ffs,we are only 3 points out of top 4 and still in the Europa league,what the hell is all this fuss for?Apart from a probable spanking at City,I’d pretty much say we have a favourable remaining list of fixtures.
Perisic. Know him from his time at FC Brugge. Talented but temperamental, all or nothing type player. Not really a squad player. Not what Arsenal now need imo.
Didn’t watch the Chelsea game but I read that Higuain looked very tired early in the second half.
I’m not sure he’s going to take to English football.
Anderis Jonker revealing some damning stuff about our academy “When I was at Arsenal, manager Arsene Wenger sometimes called up a few youth players for a couple of games in the League Cup” “But when Arsenal had a league game a couple of days later, those boys were never in the squad. And in the next 50 games, Wenger would not pick them, either” “I would advise them not to go, play 100 games in first-team football on the continent first’: “I would advise them to stay AWAY from the club if they want to make it at the top”… Read more »
‘Better than nothing’ territory.
So much for giving the kids a go.
Dissenter, he’s a bit of an LVG type character from what I’ve been told. Power hungry, and a lot of talk.
Mind you, we’re hiring in Perisic. Probably some merit to what he’s saying.
Did you read what Jonker said? Don’t go to Arsenal was pretty much the gist of it
Those Poch comments…
Man needs to go to United ASAP
Dissenter
Beat me to it. I’ve also read that he’s got sour grapes that the players he earmarked for success were deemed sub standard by most others at the club. Say what you will about wenger but not giving youngsters game time is not some Thing you can realistically level at him
@Marko
Pedro won’t bin you. It is good for his blog to have fans with different opinions. On a boring day like today, it’s fun to read up some of the discussions. Keep defending your believe.
Anyway, this blog helps clearing my minds on Lingard’s moon dance and Sanchez’s I AM LEGEND poster. I start to hate Manu as much as Spuds.
Trust Arsenal to give relevance to nothing footballers like Lingard
Anything but a trashing when united come here in the league and I might just dedicate a few days running Emery is shit commentary
€5m loan fee with a $40m option to buy
https://gianlucadimarzio.com/it/inter-pressing-per-carrasco-candreva-nellaffare-e-su-de-paul
Ishola
On our recent signings, I agree.
Lichtensteiner was a waste of time, torreira has been very good and the rest have been okay.
Okay signings for okay money for a club that seems satisfied with being just okay.
Now there is ‘no money’ when we desperately need reinforcements and I’m not holding my breath for a serious summer splurge.
It’s just not good enough.
Maybe not ban. Randomly delete comments? Sure
Cahill would be nice before City
Pochettino- “We are going to create a debate that to win a trophy is going to help the club. I don’t agree. That only builds your ego.
‘The important thing is being consistently in the top four and playing in the Champions League.’
This guy won’t be leaving for United then. He’s found a good safe job for a long time to come.
Kos fractured his skull.
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“There was better news for Emery as the club also revealed that Laurent Koscielny did not suffer a fractured jaw after a collision with Romelu Lukaku. The Frenchman suffered “bruising and soft tissue swelling” to his face, with the statement adding that his fitness is being “reviewed on a daily basis”.
Pedro
€5m loan fee with a $40m option to buy
I’d rather we spent this money on Carrasco than Perisic. At Carrasco has resale value.
Dissenter, Fergie looooves Poch and he has a huge rep in the game. There’s a reason Oli Holt is up his backside, they know he’s going somewhere big
Azed, true.
If it’s a loan. Let’s do it. If it’s a buy, it’s utter insanity.
Exactly
Carrasco all day long over Perisic.
Pedro
You jesting right…
Cahill…
He was going to sign for Fulham but he wanted 150:000 a week..
He will expect that at arsenal……
Nothing to lose by giving youth a chance
Louis vg did it an got Rashford n linegard…
No more 30 plus knobs…
Poch
To Real Madrid..
Then when it flounders he will be back in uk at United…
AH “Now there is ‘no money’ when we desperately need reinforcements and I’m not holding my breath for a serious summer splurge.It’s just not good enough.” And there will continue to be “no money” or at least no serious money because the odds are looking like Arsenal will be out of the premier european competition for the third year running with a bloated wage bill and enough of these players that are hiking this wage bill not good enough. When we talk of no money or not enough we of course mean funds available to see the club compete in… Read more »
Asking when Pochettino actually starts winning things with Spurs is in no way downplaying nor ignoring the awesome job he has done at Spurs
But if this is their golden generation and all they have is champions league participation then I think questions need to be asked. And those who believe he needs to move to United to win things, well how does that benefit Spurs?
And I repeat he is not the second best manager in the league, take away Pep from this league Klopp turns it to Ligue 1
What a shambles the club finds itself in. All January we have been linked with mediocre and lightweight midfielders and wingers none of whom will make a significant difference to our team. What the club needs at the moment is to resolve our defensive crisis which has been the major problem all season. We have only one experienced centre back fit at moment and no decent right backs. We are facing Manchester City and Man Utd next month and the prospect is that we will be demolished by both of them. I find it incredible that the club has made… Read more »
To rub it in ..Inter are now apparently going for Carrasco
whoever signs off on the Perisic deal need their head examined. Perisic is not the fucking answer.
I mean, Inter should be kicking themselves that Mourinho didn’t gt his way due to their outrageous valuation last summer. At least that way, he’d be their problem, not ours.
I’d be very much in favour of looking at Rony Lopes from Monaco, Leon Bailey, Thorgen Hazard or even Neres Campo or Hakim Ziyech, Lozano or Bergwijn.
Maybe the breakdown in relationship between Sven and the Spanish duo is the case in point….Perisic
ES
“I find it incredible that the club has made absolutely no serious effort to bring
in at least one defender in this transfer window.”
One defender may ease the problem to some extent but it won’t solve the matter to any great degree.
When we look at the team/squad they will always be conceding too many.
The midfield is a joke as protection to the back four as well with the Swiss teapot continuing to turn out every week the teapot you seem to overlook continuously.
‘I’d be very much in favour of looking at Rony Lopes from Monaco, Leon Bailey, Thorgen Hazard or even Neres Campo or Hakim Ziyech, Lozano or Bergwijn.’
How many of the clubs would be interested in a loan with an option to buy and not an obligation to buy at some outrageous price? Would they even be interested in a loan?
The pool of talent we can pick from the January is minimal when the player has to be available on loan, no fee and only an option to buy.
Why would the player submit a transfer request for a loan move/
Something isn’ t right?
Ishola70
We have got defenders out with long term injuries if not the entire season.
The club needs to focus on priorities in January. Midfield may not be brilliant,
but we don’t have an injury crisis there.
None of the midfield and wingers linked with club are of the quality we should
be investing in. Its a complete nonsense.
Inter in for Carrasco on loan or to buy?
Let’s be clear Arsenal are not losing games, because we are weak in midfield and
attack.
The problem in last 2 years is our defence and we are now in crisis because of the injuries. That is the department, which needs urgent solutions.
Soares on loan to inter
ES “Let’s be clear Arsenal are not losing games, because we are weak in midfield” Too simplistic. The defenders or at least the majority of them are not good enough. But a team as a whole has to be geared to be defensively sound. You can get average defenders shutting out teams because they are getting adequate protection from other areas of the team. We have seen the Arsenal midfield get over-run too many times, This in itself leads to defensive problems/issues. Arsenal are weak defensively in midfield and this is a big problem. Torreira has improved and can continue… Read more »
I saw Edu mentioned today somewhere on the web.
He is co-ordinator now of the Brazilian national team.
He is an example of a player when he was at Arsenal who could play both sides of the ball. Could put his foot in and defend to a decent standard when needed and he was also very handy going forward from an offensive viewpoint.
I’m afraid with players like our Granit we see decent to middling on the offensive side and poor from a defensive viewpoint.
All adds up to being very susceptible defensively.
New decent full backs would sort out lots of problems in both defence and attack
IMO,
that wouldnt happen until the summer I suppose!
Sorry but the crisis is in defence and not in midfield. We have 3 CBs out plus Bellerin with long term injuries.
You can debate ad infinitum about midfield’s mediocrity, but we are not currently in crisis there.
ES
You are talking about a possible short term fix in one area.
I’m talking about how to improve this team when there is no injury crisis.
Arsenal can bring in one even two defenders now for this injury crisis and they will still not resolve the defensive issues to the required degree.
The team as a whole is not geared to be defensively sound.
‘I’d be very much in favour of looking at Rony Lopes from Monaco, Leon Bailey, Thorgen Hazard or even Neres Campo or Hakim Ziyech, Lozano or Bergwijn.’ Not one of those players are moving midseason. Ajax and PSV are fighting it out for the league Thorgan Hazard is being linked with Dortmund and Atletico in the summer though. To be fair I’m surprised nothing has happened to Leon Bailey who’s been in and out of a above average Leverkusen team all season. It’s firmly becoming Havertz team. But these players tend not to move midseason and not on loan. I… Read more »
Cahill? Can’t see Chelsea helping out a competitor. (Only Arsenal do that)
Cesc
Tbf, as I don’t envisage a top 4 accomplishment, thus, I’m not even sure I’d bother with this embarrassing poverty approach to acquiring a player this month.
I don’t blame Arsenal for trying to pull a sly one by getting a loan in, while pretending there’s even a remote chance of signing said player on a permanent in the summer.
That list of potentials, is who I’d be focusing on this summer. Something I should’ve made clear in the original post.
Looking at immediate mitigations to our, NOW, defensive crisis, I’d have to probably go with the notion that is Gary Cahill. I think he’s still a solid CB, who’d certainly help us till may.
Chelsea, though, have zero reason to help us, as they’re the 4th placed team who’ll likely experience immediate pressure from Utd, followed by us if we can get some kind of momentum going.
Do you all remember a time when we had players like : A. Cole, S. Campbell.,K.Toure, J. Lehman, P. Vieira, E. Petit.,N. Anelka, R. Lauren and T. Henry,R. Pires Arsenals , Pace, Power ,Penetration and aggression was the envy of European football. We would blitz teams . That little lot listed above ,cost less than the scheduled signing of Persic.. We must buy players of this prototype. Pace ! Power ! Penetration! Aggresion! I simply do not have one iota of faith that Raul / Emery know what they are doing. They are so far out of their depth –… Read more »
Marko
Malcom wouldn’t be a bad attacking signing, now that Barcelona have signed Boateng.
I don’t know what the current dynamics is like between Arsenal and Barcelona, after the Suarez saga, but i’d probably rather the compulsory option to buy with Malcom instead of Suarez.
Fornals, on the other hand, strikes me as a deal we should be looking to force through this month as he’ll have more suitors in the summer – when everyone has a better understanding of their financial position.
Arsenal s targets should be Zaha, H.Maguire and the Palace right back.
If they need to sell Torreira or Leno to fund they should unfortunately do that.
If they can’t get or afford this type of quality- they should keep their powder dry and buy NO one*
*except an emergency right back..
Well, well, well; P.och been on the Wenger juice now declaring 4th place is a trophy.
Incredible. Looks like he’s cracking under the pressure and realisation that he’s not winning shit at Tottenham.
Just goes to show that no matter how good you are if you lose a core of key players through injury or unavailability and haven’t got hundreds of millions to throw about the top flight of the English game is very hard to succeed in.
I guess Emery didn’t know what he was doing when he signed Draxler, Neymar and Mbappe?
Alrighty then.
Yes, I’d go for Zaha and Maguire. Chilwell, Coady, Lascelles and that Leeds right winger too.
There’s a lot of young talent in the lower tiered clubs we should be going after, players looking to take the next step up in their careers who we can sell on for big profits in 3, 4 or 5 yrs time should we ourselves not be league contenders.
Problem
Bd is – the Spanish Regime- don’t scout at Leicester or Molineux
They only have eyes for Levante or Madrid.
They don’t rate our boys:
Chambers
Ramsey
AMN
They think they know our league best.
Even though between them that have barely 1 years experience of it.
They should be back in La Liga – where they can excel.
@Carts “I don’t know what the current dynamics is like between Arsenal and Barcelona,”
I read that some EXE in Barc don’t like Raul.
Nelson
Ahh, wasn’t Raul responsbile for some shambolic spending during his tenure?
I mean, the Arda Turan deal still makes me laugh. Smells like some shite attempt of money laundering; and there are a few more similar transfer that he over saw.
Has Arsenal joined MLS?
We are actively going for 30+ players nearing retirement. Wha gives?
If we are really that big about saving $$, wouldn’t getting Ozil to work be a bigger cost saving than signing Persic (strikes me as the Ozil type but with less profile).
Unless of course the objective is only to pretend to improve the squad.
Perhaps Ozil is the impediment for the next big transfer for THIS administration.
You know, no transfer means no fees means no……..
Bargain buys with good potential ain’t going to excite anyone.
Don’t sue me!
Date PL Match 29/01/2019 Arsenal v Cardiff City 02/02/2019 Manchester City v Arsenal 09/02/2019 Huddersfield Town v Arsenal 23/02/2019 Arsenal v Southampton 26/02/2019 Arsenal v A.F.C. Bournemouth 02/03/2019 Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal 09/03/2019 Arsenal v Manchester United 16/03/2019 Wolverhampton v Arsenal 30/03/2019 Arsenal v Newcastle United 06/04/2019 Everton v Arsenal 13/04/2019 Watford v Arsenal 20/04/2019 Arsenal v Crystal Palace 27/04/2019 Leicester City v Arsenal 04/05/2019 Arsenal v Brighton 12/05/2019 Burnley v Arsenal 5 games of City, Spuds, manutd, wolves, and leicester are tough. So 9 out 10 remaining fixtures are must wins. Will 70 points be enough for 4th place… Read more »
Lol Charlie your trolling is such basement
Sell torreira, our best midfielder and sell Leno, or best goalkeeper.
Genius. Nothing less than genius
Mick Kartun
70 pts is a low bar. More like 75
Rafa Honigstein reporting that it is likely that Mislintat ends up at another PL club. Honigstein: “My understanding is that he [Mislintat] sees his future at the Premier League at a different club.” Honigstein: “He’s had a lot of offers before moving to #AFC so this should not seen as a result of Bayern trying to lure him away or doing something that turned his head. This is really completely independent & only is to do with his relationship with the other people at Arsenal” My money is on Mislintat ending up at Liverpool or Leicester. Liverpool because of the… Read more »
Dark Hei
What a conundrum, getting Ozil to play?
Based on injuries, a lack of quality and the way Emery sets us up, I feel we could struggle in all our remaining matches.
Desperately need an injection of pace from somewhere.
Is Usain Bolt still available?
Mick based on this season so far we’ll probably win a couple of those big remaining games so that takes an ounce of the pressure away, but I don’t really foresee us breezing many of the games.
We’re finding life hard right now
Graham We desperately need him to abandon his high line tactic and employ two holding midfielders in front of a makeshift defence. He’s been very unfortunate injury wise but he’s got to try make the most of it. Signing wingers and midfielders isn’t what we need right now. The defence was a shambles from the moment holding went and he needs to dip into the british market and find a centre half who can play to the pace of our league immediately. I’d rather Monreal and Mavrapanos at the moment over Mustafi being involved in any variation. He just goes… Read more »
We will really see just how tactically astute he is now.
If he continues with a high line with a makeshift defence then he’s every bit as inept in that department as wenger was. Maybe even more so as wenger managed to take a makeshift defence to the champions league final setting a record on our way.
Let’s see how emery copes
I think top 4 is pretty unlikely now if we’re being honest with ourselves Not only are we finding every match a slog (including the ones we win) but we need an implosion from two of the teams around us which I’m not convinced will happen I hope Chelsea and utd collapse but I don’t think either will. Utd now have momentum and are playing better with a better squad. Chelsea have a better squad and will pick it back up somewhat. Spurs could collapse and still finish above us, so that ship has sailed in all likelihood The problem… Read more »
Andries Joncker was a disaster as head of Arsenal academy. Bright guy full of ideas but unable to communicate with the kids and no real organisational skills. Here is an anecdote that I personally can attest to. He attended a presentation to inner city kids about football, tactics and what is required to succeed. He talked about triangle, isosceles, equilateral, equidistant points. When he finished, he was very proud of himself. The problem is that most of kids had no ideas what he was talking about. Once it was finished most kids went to Google what those term means and… Read more »
Why don’t we swap Özil for Perisic? Both 30+ years old
We win by reducing wage bill if Perisic comes in at £135k per week.
We then hopefully get one of Nkunku or Suarez on loan with option to buy?
Win Win for us
https://www.gunnerstown.com/arsenal/2019/01/27/the-emery-conundrum-his-mid-term-report-is-not-favourable-at-all/ This was indeed a great read and echoes nearly every concern I hold on the current manager’s abilities to manage arsenal properly. The biggest of all being his dossier on our players only to abandon our most creative players nearly instantly once the season was under way. The constant altering of his players and formation to me suggests he doesn’t know what he’s doing and cannot get the best from the players he himself claimed were of sufficient quality for him to excel in his new job. I also forgot that wenger finished above him in our champions league… Read more »
Win win for us
Tallest tiz
Except what we need most right now is central defenders
We have only Mavrapanos and Mustafi available. One is shit and the other hasn’t played since May.
Also Joncker’s judgment on players was quite often questioned internally. He was pushing for some players where others Wenger in particular could not see anything in them. For example he was ready to ditch Iwobi in favour of Donyell when Wenger personally intervene and put him in the first team training session. He favoured intellectual players with whom he could have a conversation over effective players. The problem is football intelligence and intelligence off the pitch and high culture are not the same thing. Some of the best footballers are thick off the pitch or at least you would not… Read more »
Conclusion:
Emery was always an uninspiring choice and for me, always the wrong fit for arsenal. If we are going pragmatic then let’s go for quality. Real quality.
What’s your take on Benitez
Receding
I wouldn’t want him either personally.
I want us to either go for a top top manager and give him the funds necessary to get us back into the champions league to begin with. Then from there (if he can) give him a further 2-3 years to see his approach and footballing philosophy direct us towards a real title challenge. I doubt it’s possible with kroenke. In fact I more than doubt it. That’s my ideal scenario.
Other than that then I’d plump for an up and coming manager. Someone with enterprise. Someone who we would hope is revolutionary in his approach. A trail blazer.
Other than that then I’d plump for an up and coming manager. Someone with enterprise. Someone who we would hope is revolutionary in his approach. A trail blazer.
Hope being the word that kinda gives it away.
Why live on hope when you have already given the job to someone with a track record but showing an alarming lack of patience
How patient can you be for the “hope” to materialize
Hope??
Is it not a feeling generally associated with new regimes of any sort.
Were you and are you absolutely certain of emery being a success at arsenal receding?
Hope is in short supply right now judging by his first 7 months.
I doubt we’d hope for long to see better than what we are currently seeing had we employed an exciting manager rather than a dullard
How patient can you be for the “hope” to materiali
Patience is more affordable once progress can be seen. At this current moment all I see is the club treading water. Are we all not hopeful that emery can pull a rabbit from his hat? Of course. I am.
But based on what I’ve seen from recent events I’m doubtful. We have no choice but to be hopeful as he’s being allowed to install his own power structure at the club, one very reminiscent of the previous regime.
So far there is less cause for hope or optimism this season.
Forget it
Not doing this to myself on a fine Monday morning
Rather eat hot Rice and stew, and get down to work.
Hope is a byproduct of every managerial appointment, you set out hoping your idea of what the manager brings materialises.
That said there’s a big difference between hoping a young upstart can hop aboard a sharp trajectory upward vs hoping a Europa cup treble winner can bag another to save the club pension fund.
Most troubling for me is that to put it quite simply, Unai Emery has an annoying face and irritating mannerisms with scratching his chin with a scrunched up face being one of the main cuplrits. If I barely get to see him and he bugs the hell out of me, then what about the playing squad that has to deal with him every day? I think that a high-energy Spanish manager coming in after the late years malaise of Wenger’s leadership made us all give Emery a wide berth. Some of the performances, tactical decisions and player management problems is… Read more »
Forget it Not doing this to myself on a fine Monday morning Rather eat hot Rice and stew, and get down to work.
Receding
Fair enough. You little capitalist you!!
Jan 28th and we have bought in no one. How broke are we ?
I do agree with Charlie that zaha would be a good addition to the squad, but if we have to pay premium just because he’s English, I would not buy him.
I feel like I’m writing the same thing everyday about the club. We need reinforcements to get top 4. Sadly arsenal is getting as stale as my comments.
“Why don’t we swap Özil for Perisic?”
I rather we loan Ozil out and save on the cash.
“We need reinforcements to get top 4.”
With this kind of injuries, I think we just hunker down and tough it out till the summer.
We need fullbacks, centre backs and a quality winger. Honestly that is too much work and too much cash.
Arsenal could call for Luis Enrique
Un na nai Yes I know. However, our build up play has been drab of recent because we do not have width to stretch teams. As a result we encourage our fullbacks to bomb forward and provide width. Hence we get exposed on almost every counter attack. This could have been solved with 3 at the back, but we do not have center backs for that as they tend to jam their heads not knowing who to do what at a particular time. Getting Perisic would first ease pressure on defence as teams will be more wary of out width… Read more »
We can also ship off Perisic to China or elsewhere for a fee in the summer, as against the possibility of shipping out Özil. Perisic’s wages would be minimal.