Huss, Raul and Vinai get mad + Ozil gets vindictive

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Charles Watts spent some time inspecting the faces of the Arsenal exec team. Pen and pad in his hand this is what he saw.

Fahmy shook his head over and over again, Vekatesham slumped in his chair while an ashen-faced Sanllehi soon headed for the exit. This was not the result anyone had been expecting.

The vision that has been set out from the top brass has been clear. Champions League football is a must and winning the Europa League is arguably Arsenal’s best route back into Europe’s elite competition.

I mean, they’re not exactly going to be doing cartwheels and I’m not sure how much we can read into this, but it’s mildly interesting to know that the Emery frustration goes deeper than just a few fans in the ground and on the internet. Can’t remember Ivan Gazidis giving away this much emotion in 10 years.

It’ll be very interesting to see what the club do in the summer. Emery wasn’t given any money in January, no one really knows why, but it’s clear we can’t be broke. Maybe the club wanted to see what Emery was going to do with the squad, after all, he not only promised improvements to the fans in press conferences, he had a legendary PowerPoint presentation that he’ll no doubt be held to.

I would hazard a guess, but I would imagine coaching featured quite high on the short term objectives. Remember how keen he was to invite the press to watch his sessions? The club made quite a fuss about the job title being Head Coach, not Manager.

This is why the people claiming that a lack of identity doesn’t matter don’t understand what they’re saying. If your team stands for nothing, it means there’s no belief system in place. It means the players have no north star. It means you have nothing to fall back on when things slip. It results in confusing bland football that is no doubt a bore to play. Think about it, what is Emery trying to achieve? Fluid possession-based football like City? Heavy metal? Electric counter-attacking? Or just finding Kola on the overlap?

The biggest worry I have is the fans asking for more time and money seem to forget that he moved to a club that was a title-winning operation with some of the most exquisite players in the world playing for it and he tanked the first season. He had to bring in Neymar and Mbappe whilst counting on the simultaneous destruction of Monaco in the transfer market to win the league in his second season. He tanked twice in the Champions League, he couldn’t foster a collective and then he was let go at the end of the season because the players didn’t respect him.

That brings me onto my next topic of conversation, Mesut Ozil.

Mesut Ozil making a huge power play, whipping his base into a frenzy of ‘OZIL WE LIVE 4 U, EMRY DIE’, with the above pearler.

Now, it’s clear that I’m not a huge fan of the German. It’s also clear that he doesn’t really have any love for Arsenal unless it’s the love a 22-year-old beauty queen has for her 72-year-old billionaire lover. This is straight up manipulation of the media and it’s caused a right old stink on the internet.

It was a cynical move. It is clearly designed to disrupt Emery’s season that is tanking. It is supposed to be seen by the players who are no doubt wondering why they’re being asked to struggle away without support from the start names.

I thought this comment from Sal neatly summed up the debacle.

Emery came in with a supposed dossier on each player having done the research, knowing full well his highest paid player was Mesut Ozil, his attributes, weakness’s and knowledge he’d have to utilize him in some manner.

That plan didn’t consist of freezing Ozil out of every competition hoping to shift him in the next transfer window, value having plummeted to rock bottom.

We all know Ozil’s limitations we’ve beat them dead on here since 2013, there many. But don’t tell me he would not of added something to the shit show on display in Belarus. Don’t tell me Lacazette wouldn’t of welcomed him into the side, arms open. Emery put Arsenal behind his Ozil agenda.

More bizarre with Ramsay not traveling.

Now have open ware fare on the social between Ozil’s team and Emery.
As funny as it is, thats a sad indictment of his handling of Mesut Ozil, total mismanagement.

Emery is the unpopular kid standing his ground by taking the ball home. It’s an inability to be empathetic. It’s a character flaw in the Emery machine. This piece from GFFN on Thomas Tuchel gets under the skin of the problem and spells out that what we are seeing is not a one-off, it’s part of broader pattern of damaging behaviour.

“There is no success without a real relationship with the players”. Right from the start, he has been making pain-staking efforts to create strong bonds with his players. For example, he went to meet Neymar before the Brazilian left for the World Cup. “That’s the great difference between him and Emery”, surmises Canal + pundit Eric Carrière. “The Spaniard saw players as “X”, like tools he could use to win. It is the opposite for Tuchel. For him players are human beings, with a name, a personality, a sensibility and proper characteristics”.

And to whom you must show affection through a little hug, a little text message or some extra holiday time. “His management relies on benevolence, which doesn’t exclude authority and discipline, just like Rabiot and Mbappé experienced after being late at the pre-Classique speech and therefore sent on the bench at the Vélodrome,” says Carrière. “The strength of this manager is his ability to unite. Today, if a player doesn’t feel the kindness or thinks it is fake, he won’t fight for you. And you can tell that it is not fake with Tuchel. It is way easier to win trophies with such a team… Emery was a good tactician but didn’t have this ability”.

This is football. You are only as good as the talent you have at your disposal. Currently, Arsenal is trying to chase Champions League through the Europa League back door and top 4. We are desperately struggling for creativity because our two outlets are AMN and Kola. Would any manager in the world not at least try and build bridges with one of the most sublime creative talents in the world, even if he is  lazy? Would you not try and work out a system that could protect against his weaknesses in some way? Could you not put your pride to one side to make some magic happen?

It’s even crazier that he can’t find a way to utilise Aaron Ramsey. The guy has his flaws, but effort and intensity has never been an issue. He can also score goals, run with the ball, open space and create. Yet we’re leaving him to rot on the bench? Make a mistake with one star player and I might be able to forgive, but to do it with two of them, when they’re both fit, as results and performances tank… well, it’s just negligent.

In allowing these problems to fester Emery has lost control of the media narrative. He’s allowed Mesut Ozil to play the victim with the fans, and no doubt his treatment in the face of a creative crisis will have the players asking questions. The worst part of all of this is the argument is affecting our ability to compete. We’ve struggled against Cardiff, Huddersfield and lost to BATE. We haven’t delivered a performance since Spurs in December. Things are in decline.

Emery needs a rethink. He needs to leave his ego at the Colney gates. He needs to show leadership.

See you in the comments.

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qna

Pierre: Lest we forget that we went 22 games unbeaten with Ozil in the side for the majority of those league games .It was Emery who decided to change the formation and personnel , not Ozil. It was also Emery who got us on that unbeaten 22 games, during which we suffered some huge injury blows. You can’t have it both ways. The truth is that both are true and points to being not a great manager, nor a bad manager. Ozil had one PL assist after signing his contract under Wenger. His decline was clear before Emery even joined.… Read more »

Pierre

Leeds
“Effectively Emery has driven himself into a corner where he has alienated his best player and given him the initiative.If Özil suddenly decides to turn it on from now to rest of the season, Emery will extremely foolish for freezing him out and Özil can basically say one way or the other I want him out or I’m gone… he’s liked enough in the dressing room that his opinion will unsettle our best players to back him…Emery has handled this situation very very badly.”

You summed it up very well.

Pierre

“Let’s just ignore the fact he demanded a champions league salary from a Europa league club while also wanting to choose the away games he turns out for and the ones to watch from the laps of Miss Turkey.”

Receding hairline following the same school of thought as Marko

Some people never learn do they .

Leedsgunner

Even if by some miracle Emery wins the Europa league I want Emery gone. He’s gone backwards since the beginning of the season.

Our defence is a shambles, we can’t create goal scoring chances in the middle of the park, he’s alienated our best player, he’s failed to convince Ramsey to stay, the development of our youth players seems to have stopped, what is he actually doing at the club?

qna

Leeds: At least with Rioch, he left us after a season after signing Bergkamp who went onto become an Arsenal legend. The difference being that Emery doesn’t get to sign players. That is now Raul’s job. So even if Guen and/or Torreira go on to be club legends, Emery will not and should not be credited with that. Can’t really compare that aspect any more. It is why I believe the most important job at Arsenal in the position we are in now is Raul’s. He needs to sign us another Berkamp among others so at least the next manager… Read more »

Leedsgunner

QNA

I’d rather be a bit more circumspect and say the powers that be at the club really need to stop being weak and indecisive and right this ship which is slowly sinking into mid table mediocrity.

Our club’s problem are so much bigger than a Bergkamp away in any case. If anything we need a Sol Campbell and a Tony Adams more than a Bergkamp.

Really, Özil could be a Bergkampesque player if he wanted and the manager could get the best out of him. No one is blameless in this.

gonsterous

I think the fans can be accused of having short term memory. Every time a player gets injured for a long spell or doesn’t feature in the team, we hype them up into something they are not. Happened with rosicky, happened with cazorla, diaby, wilshere. Hell I still don’t know if diaby is a talent or not. Now it’s happening with ozil. everyone is envisioning a player who will take the game by the neck and dictate play, someone who will be putting balls on a plate for the strikers. In reality though, ozil is a pansy who is so… Read more »

qna

Leeds: Our defence is a shambles Injuries to Bellerin and Sokratis of late. Losing Holding when he was our best CB have been huge set backs. Being given Licht as a squad replacement. Having Mustafi as your main CB. Having Kos, at his age, having to come back from a serious injury. Having Monreal out for large periods. Having to use AMN out of position because the only other option is a horrible Lict. All these things make it hard to implement his defensive strategy and drill it into them. All these are mitigating factors. However, the last two games… Read more »

gonsterous

don’t see what emery has to lose. Just give ozil a run of games and watch how fast the fans want ozil off the team again. The fans should be accused of over hyping absent players. They did it with diaby and Jack. With cazorla and rosicky, now they are doing it with ozil.

Pierre

Qna I believe Emery became a little too big for his boots ( similar to Wenger) at the peak of the 22 game unbeaten run ( Tottenham 4-2) . He felt that he was holding all the cards and rightly or wrongly decided to get tough on Ozil because he had a strop because he was substituted or dropped from the side. Emery also moved away from the successful early season 4-2-3-1 and for some unknown reason has never returned to that formation. Of course , the injuries didn’t help at all as we had a very busy period and… Read more »

gonsterous

Why is none of my posts showing ? 🙁

qna

Leeds: I’d rather be a bit more circumspect and say the powers that be at the club really need to stop being weak and indecisive and right this ship which is slowly sinking into mid table mediocrity. I agree with you. But that extends to more than just being willing to turn over managers. Getting the manager right is just a small part of the picture for us. They need to clear out a massive number of players. They need to invest. Somebody has to be willing to sack Raul if he can’t bring in the right players or sell… Read more »

Freddie Ljungberg

Leeds “Our defence is a shambles, we can’t create goal scoring chances in the middle of the park, he’s alienated our best player, he’s failed to convince Ramsey to stay, the development of our youth players seems to have stopped, what is he actually doing at the club” Our defense is a shambles because 3 of our best defenders has been out injured, only Sok will come back this season, the rest of our defenders are shite. We can’t create chances because our players are shite, simple as that, and no Ozil is not the answer, nor is he our… Read more »

qna

Pierre. You could be right about Emery reacting emotionally to Ozil’s tantrums. Managers need to deal with that. But I dont know of many that accept that kind of behavior. Pep, Mancini, Mourinho, Conte. In fact, Ozil wouldn’t get away with acting like that with many top managers. But your point is well taken. Emery wasn’t in a luxury position of having options at his disposal. He clearly didn’t man manage the situation. But I dont really see Ozil as being a huge factor in all of this. As I said, Ozil stopped playing in February 2018 and has had… Read more »

qna

*Pierre, I meant 1 PL assist under Wenger. Actually he has had 2 PL assists since Feb 2018.

Ishola70

I heard on the podcast that Ozil is an “elite” player. It’s a cheap way to bandy round the word “elite” Mesut Ozil isn’t an “elite” player. Elite players can be relied upon far more than Mesut Ozil can. Also the narrative has changed greatly from quite a lot of posters from the summer when Emery first joined. Then it was all understanding of the situation. Yes we would like top four, yes we could have a chance through Europa but let’s give the new coach some time because of the situation he came into. Arsenal had failed to make… Read more »

Freddie Ljungberg

If only taking the recent links into account and the lower end of the reported budget we could still have a very exciting team for next season if we’re being ruthless, that’s far more important than booting out the manager. If he fails after a successful window then fair enough but 1 window of plugging holes was never enough, we need massive upgrades in so many positions. In: Havertz AM, Troussard RW, Rabiot/Herrera CM, Konate CB, Grimaldo LB Out: Xhaka, Mustafi, Elneny, Mikhi, Ozil, one of Kos/Monreal, evaluate Chambers and see if he’s good enough for backup otherwise sell him… Read more »

Leedsgunner

Freddie
You and I will have to disagree about Özil and whether he’s our best player but hopefully we can agree he’s being mismanaged. However by that I’m not saying Özil is blameless btw.

Nketiah is a talent that should have been loaned. Why did Emery prevent him going out to Augsburg?

Denis Suarez is pointless if he can’t even make the starting line up for the Europa league and against Huddersfield. If he’s not match fit why sign him even for six months on loan? That still took £2m you know.

Emery seems out of ideas after 9 months!

David Smith

Well said Ishola.
He deserves time at least, he is up against a lot we know about and probably even more we dont.
A shame the Ozil situation has rattled the cages of the Wengerites rousing them again

David Smith

If Ozil had integrity, and cared about the club, he would just retire his heart clearly is no longer in it

prvhc

Agree with everything Ishola said.
Seems to be two types of fans who are after Emery
1) Wenger loyalists who want to prove no manager could do a better job than Wenger
2) Fans who were critical of Wenger but fail to understand the changed circumstances Emery is operating in.

Ishola70

Sensible post Freddie.

It makes you feel quite nauseous that posters on here would rather see the back of Emery after not even giving him one season and as you say a band aid one transfer summer window then see the back of the likes of flaky Ozil and traffic cone Granit Xhaka.

qna

Ishola: But now we get narrative from posters as if they are demanding CL football from Emery in his first season. That is probably directed to me. And I am guilty as charged because I did and still do believe that whoever took this job needed time. I didn’t even expect him to get us to this position and he has overachieved to get us here. He has had so many injuries that would limit any manager from drilling what needs to be drilled. But my change in opinion is just that the last couple of weeks, against lowly opposition,… Read more »

Freddie Ljungberg

Eddie’s loan was blocked because we only have 2 strikers and because we couldn’t get a wide forward in Carrasco or Perisic in the window we have to play both at the same time almost all the time, what happens when one of them inevitably breaks down? Suarez has been at the club for 2 weeks, a bit early to judge but he’s probably gone in the summer anyway. I’m not judging Emery on that one since we had to go hat in hand begging for players. Ozil has been bad for quite a while, not only this season, it’s… Read more »

Pierre

In the last 12/18 months Arsenal have had a massive turnaround of players and it shows in the way the team plays . Le Grove’s favourite past time is calling for all our players to be off loaded and you are still doing it . Leno, sokratis, kolasinac, lichsteiner, mavropanos Torriera guendouzi. Mhkitarayan , lacazette , Aubamayang , Saurez. That’s a whole team that have arrived in the last 18 months with only mhkitarayan having any experience of the premier league, so it’s no surprise that the team is not functioning well . Half the problem has been our 22… Read more »

prvhc

‘it could be said that out unbeaten run was partly due to the Arsenal players still having our previous managers DNA on the team’
That is some hilarious BS. I hope Wenger gets a job at some mid table club soon so Arsenal can get rid of ‘fans’ like Pierre and Charlie.

Up 4 grabs now

Morning people. So we didn’t control the game so much against huddersfield. We won and got the three points we needed though. They never looked like scoring. And we had to do it for them in the end. Maybe emery thought 2-0 up against the bottom of the league team lets keep it tight not waste energy the games practically won. I don’t know? Bate defeat wasn’t great but we should win the second leg and go through. Even Pedro said this. Conditions wasn’t great we rested players it wasn’t a surprise as we’ve seen plenty of games like this… Read more »

Ishola70

qna “But my change in opinion is just that the last couple of weeks” Do you think it is wise or even near fair to judge a coach because you are not happy with the football over a couple of weeks time period especially given that he has virtually just arrived at the club? I’m hoping like everybody else that we see much more from this Emery team over time just like you but come on give the man a bit of slack. Let’s judge the man after he has another window this summer and see the football next season.… Read more »

Alexanderhenry

Excellent post Ishola.

To get back into the top four let alone actually win the PL, arsenal needs better players.
The ‘no money’ approach won’t work under any manager.

Receding Hairline

It is indeed shameful ishola how fast they turned on the new manager. It has actually put me off all things Arsenal for a while. All the talk of supporting a new manager through a difficult transition was just hot air. A set of supporters supporting a Europa league team are now pretending they are anything more than that. Bayern Munich organised parties when they draw us in the last sixteen of Champions league football. We have been a bit of a joke for a decade and now we demand excellence… Even the ones who believe things would have been… Read more »

Graham62

I was shot down yesterday by Charlie George for stating that if Ozil plays next Thursday against Bate at the Emirates and shows negative body language in any form, ” he should be crucified by the crowd”.

He told me I was being vindictive and bitter, or something along those lines.

All to his own I suppose.

Up 4 grabs now

We all keep coming back to the same points, The spend last summer was disgraceful, we get a new manager for he first time in 22 years then tie his hands behind his back and wonder why he isn’t playing football like pep or klopp and being entertained. When your being outspent by some of the promoted and midtable team’s. Something is wrong. Especially as we are supposed to be one of the ten biggest clubs in the world. Emery didn’t inherit a squad that had won the league the season before, like Chelsea or city. He didn’t get a… Read more »

Graham62

Ishola70

Great post.

I have my concerns about Emery but based on all the shit going on around him, I’ll still give him the benefit of the doubt.

Thanks for putting things into perspective.

Receding.

You’re also right. “We have been a bit of a joke for a decade”

Up 4 grabs now

Graham,

I saw the pictures of ozil training so we know he’s nearly fit.
Maybe emery didn’t want to risk him but have him ready to start for the second leg.

But if he starts and doesn’t show up for the game then he deserves everything he gets.
If emery doesn’t start him then he is risking more abuse as creative wise we are struggling at the moment.

Charlie George

Listening to the emollient tones of PedRo on his Podcast. ( thanks Bd for flagging )- my first ever listening of one. Two things shone out. 1) once again- and I am in total agreement with this : Raul signed off the Ozil contract as much as Gazidas. Thats is a virtual given, now 2.) Ramsey contact was pulled by Emery . Emery doesn’t rate Ramsey. (Let’s think about that.) Rambo who is a hard working, respected, versatile ,goal scoring, assist making popular player of the highest calibre is not valued by our coach. And yet- the brilliant Allegri does… Read more »

qna

Ishola: Do you think it is wise or even near fair to judge a coach because you are not happy with the football over a couple of weeks time period especially given that he has virtually just arrived at the club? No. its not fair. I acknowledge that. But my number 1 priority is for us to be able to bring in good players through the door. Its much more important than who is the manager in the short term. I look at the football we put out the last 2 games and think, who is going to want to… Read more »

Ishola70

Graham62 “I have my concerns about Emery” I don’t think there is one poster that is totally convinced about Emery. But at the same time there surely has to be considerations regarding his short time at the club and the situation he came into at the club. This seems to be lost on some. Of course if the unimaginable happens and he somehow botches up against BATE Borisov then the dogs will rightly have their feast upon him. I for one though will look away while the savaging takes place. It would be totally ironic if he has a disastrous… Read more »

Up 4 grabs now

Charlie, how do you know emery pulled Ramsays contract? Were you at the meeting? Ramsay was hooked in game one because he was poor. Maybe that’s why he didn’t start in game two? “He clearly LIED at his interview- saying he was going to build the team around Ramsey and Ozil. Because both players were dropped very early in the seasonTo think Emery does not rate Ozil, Ramsey, Neymar, Laca amd perhaps even ERS but loves Suarez types is an astonishing reality” Ramsay and ozil have both been out injured for chunks of the season it’s difficult to build a… Read more »

prvhc

Sadly, aside from the fans who flip like a switch and a few sensible ones, Emery was always on borrowed time. At Arsenal,more than most other clubs,fans are very much part of the problem.’Fans’ like Pierre and Charlie who backed Wenger to the very end,and are now pretending it was all Stan’s fault for not sacking him,are all to common at our club.Everyone has some agenda when it comes to Emery,yet they accuse Emery of placing his agenda above the club.Pedro has been throwing stones at Emery since day one without ever suggesting a realistic and better alternative,because the horse… Read more »

Charlie George

Up for grabs.

Ramsey was poor in the first game – playing out of position.
Ramsey is proven- he always comes good.
You keep faith with him

Iwobi has been poor all season

He doesn’t suffer the same ruthlessness from Emery.

I feel after his PSG experience- Emery is so scarred with the big names – he favours the ‘Yes Men ‘ players

Anyone with a big reputaion- he is genuinely petrified- because of his PSG experience

And we suffering from his chronic lack of confidence.

He appears to be a nervous wreck on the touchline.

SUGA3

Somehow botches BATE? All they need to do is score one goal. Are we good for a clean sheet or three goals scored against them?

Not on the current evidence, we’re not 😉

Up 4 grabs now

Charlie if Ramsay is proven, why pull the contract. If he’s proven why is he not he first or second name on the teamsheet. Why can he not hold down a position or play any length of time without being injured or a drop in form. Iwobi has had a couple of good games but nowhere near good enough, but since Wenger left the squad to deteriorate so much and the board wouldn’t spend on wingers in the summer he is the only player that can play there which is why he plays so much. As for emery scared of… Read more »

Charlie George

Up 4 grabs He pulled Ramsey s contract not for footballing ability ( Juventus signing him- proves thats) And its The same reason he is ostracizing Ozil. He wants them both out. Sharpish! Even if costs AFC lots of goodwill and money. He wants to build upon his power base- GET his players- so he can attempt to stay longer at the club. ( earn more salary- Than his limited talents deserve) He wants a team of journeyman – devoid of color and a robotic style of play. He has not Arsenal at his heart. It’s all about what’s best… Read more »

Up 4 grabs now

He wants to build upon his power base- GET his players- so he can attempt to stay longer at the club. ( earn more salary- Than his limited talents deserve)

Are you talking about Wenger!

Up 4 grabs now

If emery doesn’t do the job he is supposed to do I have no problem giving him the sack. But not to give him the time or money to compete with the rest of the top six is a disgrace.

What are we becoming Everton?

bennydevito

CG, I don’t think you’re being entirely fair regarding the Ramsey contract for 2 reasons, 1 there was a contract on the table since around the time Ozil signed his contract and Ramsey has refused to sign it for months, and 2, Emery isn’t in charge of the contracts; he’s not the manager like Wenger was, he’s the head coach and head coaches dont do the contracts. Also Ramsey has not been frozen out he’s played a lot and the reason both he and Ozil didn’t travel to bate were to do with injuries and illness. CG, we know you… Read more »

Up 4 grabs now

I also say it again if emery has nothing to do with contracts how can he pull ramsays?

Up 4 grabs now

On ozil and ramsays form over the last year I would want them out as well if we purchased decent replacements.
Don’t get me wrong if they showed consistency then I would keep both.

Ozil wages are now a hindrance.

Ramsays contract demands was not acceptable for a player who isn’t consistent, missing a lot of games and apart from one purple patch a few years back hasnt done it enough, no matter how many cup final winners you score!

bennydevito

Charlie GeorgeFebruary 17, 2019    10:05:34 Up 4 grabs He pulled Ramsey s contract not for footballing ability ( Juventus signing him- proves thats) And its The same reason he is ostracizing Ozil. He wants them both out. Sharpish! Even if costs AFC lots of goodwill and money. He wants to build upon his power base- GET his players- so he can attempt to stay longer at the club. ( earn more salary- Than his limited talents deserve) He wants a team of journeyman – devoid of color and a robotic style of play. He has not Arsenal at his heart.… Read more »

bennydevito

New post.

Last!

😎

Valentin

If ManUtd can put clause in their manager’s contract, the argument that Arsenal could not because nobody wanted the role is a fallacy. Emery was desperate for the Arsenal job and would have signed with the clause. Moreover the clause do not state that failure to meet them will lead to immediate sacking, just that they are cause for early termination with reduced compensation. Same thing applied to Wenger. Either sign the contract with the clause or leave now. What was the point of renewing for two years and sack him at high cost after a year. Bad management from… Read more »

Charlie George

Bd

I think – deep down in those Arsenal guts of yours. You know – I am right.

(27 degrees today,) Come over– I’ll talk some sense into yet!

Charlie George

“”Apart from Suarez who at 25 26? Is hardly a journey man””

ok Bd – he is not a journeyman- he is a proven player – that will improve our lot.

For a bright lad- you are full of contradictions.

If Suarez does not fit the definition of a journeyman- I am Spanish!

bennydevito

CG, Lol! I’d love to living there tbh, sick of our cold dull weather for sure. I’m actually full of conflict tbh. I can see that long term Emery isn’t the heavyweight we need, just doesn’t have the charisma or winning personality like Wenger Pep Klopp or Ferguson for sure. Fans are divided on him already, not good, especially as after Wenger divided us bitterly towards the end I wanted someone coming in to heal the fans, not exasperate things further. I didn’t want Emery and was extremely disappointed in his appointment. I wanted Allegri, Ancelloti but really wasn’t excited… Read more »

bennydevito

I’ll copy this over to the latest post CG, reply there.

G8

You can’t reason with this dude CG and his buddies. twisting facts and inventing stories to suit their narrative….they are all out for a misson
Nobody’s taking them seriously
Only fools and horses

5am

In balance – Tuchel only wento over to see Neymar to give him tips on diving 🤦🏽‍♂️

Emery has definitely made mistakes and it’s a point about how warm his character actually is…

He needs to turn this around though to allow Ozil to play himself back into some kind of form. I’d take him producing 5 or so chances a game so that what he offers offensively is compensated for any lack of defensiveness. Just maybe o the rare occasion don’t use him tactically if you have no intention other than to defend in certain matches….