Is OGS having a more profound impact on the world than Jesus?

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Oh my, I don’t quite know what to do with myself… Thomas, we were, you know, a thing…

What the bloody hell did you do to me last night? In front of the whole bloody world.

I am HUMILIATED.

Now the Emery Ultras are saying mean things like…

‘Thomas Tuchel has very mild levels of sauce, like, ‘Doritos’ levels of spice’

‘Emery’s Champions League loss was BETTER than Tuchel’s, fucktard’

‘You backed a manager with a weak hairline. That weak hairline is your opinion’

Upsetting words, I’m sure you’ll agree.

PSG really tanked. It’s going to be hard to explain that one away to the bosses in Paris. United didn’t field a good side, they played like shite, and they still managed to turnover an unbelievably expensive PSG side. No excuses. It was shite. Tuchel’s boys went out far too relaxed. No fire. No aggression. No respect for the CV of a man backed by Fergie, Phelan and the class of 92.

You’ve shown me up, Thomas. Sure, Pep the FRAUD exited in the round of 16 in his first season at City with a 6-6 draw, but you sir do not boast the serial sauce of the master! This is a blight. I don’t quite know how to reconcile this?

YES I DO

In reality, it’s fair to say Ole G channelled a big fat dollop of luck last night after his teams nothing burger performance managed to extract an away win in Paris. It was never a penalty, VAR was a total shambles, but that’s beside the point. United weren’t that good, but they won’t care as they sail on through to the next round of the Champions League. They shithoused Paris. If that were an Italian club we’d all be celebrating a masterful execution that ‘only the Italian’s know how to pull off.’

My main worry isn’t the broken rep of Thomas T, no, it’s what we do on Sunday and how last night impacts the race for #Top4 supremacy.

The real prize of the game is a few fold.

Firstly, United will have exerted a lot of energy chasing after PSG all night. It doesn’t matter how smart your High-Performance backroom team is, it’s going to be tough to recover to peak levels by Sunday.

Secondly, United must continue their little adventure in Europe. That’s two tough legs against a no doubt very good team.

All these little advantages could add up for Arsenal. I’d be very surprised if Rennes make us work hard tomorrow night. They have some good players, but we should dominate them. We should beat them early. We should be able to do it with a fairly second string-ish team. I’m hoping their extended time off (last played Feb 27th) works against them (just like it worked against BATE, lolololol). But we’ll see…

Thirdly, it means United HAVE to sign up Ole G. It makes sense, he’s brought back a bit of buzz to Salford, the fans love him, he conducts himself well in the media and he’s brought the old team back together AND Fergie has been working some magic from a mentorship perspective behind the scenes. It’s the perfect storm.

People keep saying it’ll come unpicked at some point, but I think that’s more hope than anything else. The man knows the club, lives its values and he has enough respect from the world of football to work with top players. I’d prefer him in the role than Poch or Jardim… but I wouldn’t jump to conclusions that this is a flash in the pan. There’s far more to setting up a club than simply having a good manager. OGS understood that well and all I can do is applaud the output.

Finally, United rode their luck SO hard last night. That’s going to come crashing down at some point. So fingers crossed Emery is the man to deal that blow to their season. Bit of a shit point, but fuck it, why not?

SO, all in all… it’s been another good week.

Arsenal have to work their way through Rennes tomorrow, avoiding injuries and tight hamstrings… then we’re betting it all on a Sunday afternoon massacre. We have to be careful of the counter-attack, we have to play aggressively and make their tired legs an advantage, and we have to work our way around the CORRUPT FERGIE MAFIA THAT HAS NO DOUBT BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THE OFFICIALS.

Should be fun.

See you in the comments, I’m just going outside for a little walk… no… seriously, I’m ok. x

P.S. I looked up and saw Roma lost in the last 16. Face back down in the puddle.

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Guns of Hackney

Tuchel is exactly the kind of murderous looking bastard we need prowling the dugout.

Loads of managers. Lots of potential. Lots of established names. We went for the guy who had a PowerPoint presentation.

Enrique!!! His name just came to me.

Words on a Blog

Big Ron to Iwobi – you better get rid of that funny haircut.

Big Ron to Özil – stop that prayer thing you do before every match. Nobody wants Sharia law in the Emirates.

Charlie G would be in heaven.

salparadisenyc

Marc

Sorry some coming on here and seriously stating Tuchel’s events last night was a worse offense than Emery’s 6-1 at the Nou is so agenda based what else can it be labeled other than Emery Ultra.

Its mental.

Marko

you dismiss the idea Arsenal should have higher expectations without investing players costing more than 50 mil.

Short term immediate improvements that cater to the demands of fans like yourself yes I dismiss it. Not like you can be patient so if you want an immediate improvement to a problem area like the defence then yes it needs serious investment. You expecting 10-25 million signings to improve us drastically as opposed to gradually is something

Marko

You don’t disagree so your POV is he apparently can’t be taken seriously. You belong in a cupboard, mug.

Eh sure. That and he’s not a serious individual he’s a piss take a long running gag and the only time he got serious and passionate about what he was talking about was the time he talked about his father killing brown peasants. If he wants to be taken seriously how about he acts seriously

bennydevito

There’s no cult of Emery brewing in the slightest. What s brewing are sane people acknowledging the big job Emery has on his hands and those same sane people reserving judgement until the end of the season. Big difference. Also, most of those sane people didn’t want Emery in the first place, but he was the best of who were interviewed who actually wanted the job with the tight financial restrictions in play. Also, people were more than happy to judge Emery on going out of the CL with PSG and were loving using Tuchel as a stick to beat… Read more »

Guns of Hackney

No one has answered my question as to what happens if we don’t get CL football?

Receding Hairline

“Loads of managers. Lots of potential. Lots of established names. ”

Wonder what’s more established than a one time European coach of the year, holder of a record number of successive Europa league titles. 7/10 trophies won in two years at PSG……i mean this blind dismissal of Emery can get a bit boring

Guns of Hackney

Benny

Emery got a big pay rise. He isn’t doing Arsenal a favour, mate. He was coming off an embarrassing sacking.

Marko

Tuchel is exactly the kind of murderous looking bastard we need prowling the dugout. Loads of managers. Lots of potential. Lots of established names. We went for the guy who had a PowerPoint presentation.

Very serious individual. Didn’t take into account his stats his success or any of that it was his PowerPoint knowledge. Brilliant that.

Receding Hairline

Benny how about we just play the game facing us tonight and worry about United on Friday??

What happens if the players you want rested tonight are rested, we struggle and still don’t get a result against United??

I know Rennes are as average as they come but they did not get here by winning a raffle draw, give them the respect they deserve

Redtruth

We currently have the best manager in the World not propped up by money like Solskjaer, Guardiola etc…

Words on a Blog

Guns – what happens will depend on whether Emery’s target on signing his contract was to get a Champion’s League place in one or two years.

If it’s one (unlikely) he’s out, regardless of what the Grovers say.
If it’s two, he’s in, also regardless of what the Grovers say

gambon

“7/10 trophies won in two years at PSG”

I could win 6/10 trophies at PSG.

Wenger could win 5/10 and he’s senile.

Even you, Receding, would win 3/10 trophies, and youre basically unemployable, because you spend 24 hours per day arguing with people on a football blog.

Champagne charlie

“You expecting 10-25 million signings to improve us drastically as opposed to gradually is something“

I do?….or you’re saying I do to bolster a point you’re trying to make? I wonder.

Still peddling the idea a players price tag equates quality, I don’t know how many times that myth needs busting before you cotton on.

I expect to see improvement and progress when we buy better players, I’m not interested how much they cost as long as they’re better than what we have. Laughable how that concept can be reworked by you serve Emery and your ‘time’ mantra.

Receding Hairline

“Even you, Receding, would win 3/10 trophies, and youre basically unemployable, because you spend 24 hours per day arguing with people on a football blog.”

And you spend 24 hours a day monitoring the arguments and who posts what….you are obviously super busy

Marc

“Benny, if you have to stand yourself out as the sane one, you’re probably losing the argument.”

I know I’m sane the 6 foot talking rabbit told me.

Receding Hairline

“I could win 6/10 trophies at PSG.”

You have to get offered the job first, for starters Tuchel got dumped out of a domestic cup competition by Guingamp ….Guess you are a better manager than he

bennydevito

People need to get over themselves: Allegri or no other Elite manager wanted the job. I know it’s hard for some of the pea brains in here to understand but only Vieira, Emery and Arteta were interviewed and Emery was as the last minute too and wasn’t originally in the running. Emery was by far the best choice of who were interviewed. All this pathetic would you rather have a Ferrari, Lamborghini or a Twingo is irrelevant if the only cars you had to choose from were a Twingo, a fiesta and a punto. It’s not difficult: Emery was the… Read more »

Guns of Hackney

Words

This is the Arsenal problem. So what if he has a 2 year deal? If he isn’t the right fit, he has to go. And that would be the same for any Arsenal manager. I am not picking on Emery. He isn’t the right guy. That’s all.

Redtruth

gambon

You wouldn’t win any trophies with PSG because your talisman in midfield would be Schneiderlin….

HighburyLegend

“No one has answered my question as to what happens if we don’t get CL football?”

Wenger will be back.

azed

“Imagine someone said you can have any car you want and you went for a Renault Twingo”

GH

Arsenal’s situation was more like “imagine someone said you can have any car you want but you have to PAY for it and you went with a Corrolla”.

gambon

Redtruth

Would you rather play Ospina as a regista?

Champagne charlie

Benny

With respect you’re merely offering your opinion and trying to tart it up as fact.

I don’t think Emery was the best of those “available”, that’s an opinion. Sorry it contradicts the ‘truth’ as you see it.

bennydevito

Robertson cost Liverpool £8m and instantly improved their defence and attack.

There are loads of elite defenders who cost between £10 – £25m who are now worth more and there are no doubt others in the lower leagues who could make the step up in this price range.

We absolutely do not need to spend over £50m on each defender to improve us.

Guns of Hackney

Azed

I’d take the corolla.

Marko

I do?….or you’re saying I do to bolster a point you’re trying to make? I wonder. And you don’t do that. Here’s what I know you’re criticizing the manager for not improving things after 6 months and now you’re saying that he should be able to yield improvements with 10-25 million signings. Which one is it instant improvements or 10-25 million signings because you can’t have both. Still peddling the idea a players price tag equates quality, I don’t know how many times that myth needs busting before you cotton on. Is that what I’m saying? And not how about… Read more »

bennydevito

CC

Arsenal only interviewed Arteta, Vieira and Emery. If you think Vieira and Arteta with their zero trophy haul and minimal managerial experience is better, then I’ll have some of what you’re smoking.

gambon

Benny

Gazidis said about 8-9 people were interviewed.

Im not sure where youre getting 3.

Guns of Hackney

If emery fails in what must have been the quest for CL football, he has to go, right?

Otherwise, why sack Wenger? And before you all go mad, I was Wenger out since 2008/9.

You don’t sack manager A because he’s failing his remit to hire manager B who also fails his remit.

Arsenal lost £20m on Wenger. Potentiall nother £12m on Emery…for what? Replacing a losing manager for a losing manager?

We need to be more like the top euro sides and Chelsea. Keep a revolving door policy going. It does work.

Guns of Hackney

Benny

If it was a trophy haul that swung the deal…we should have got Brendan Rodgers. He’s just won 7 leagues and 54 cups.

Emery’s trophy haul is the equivalent of winning the FA Cup. And Wenger did that six times!

Emery was a boring hire.

Marko

I’m not interested how much they cost as long as they’re better than what we have. Laughable how that concept can be reworked by you serve Emery and your ‘time’ mantra. We’re trying to improve our defence and compete with clubs who spend 30-40 million on CB’s (United) 50 and 60 million on CB’s (City) 40 million on CB’s (Spurs) and 75 million on CB’s (Liverpool) and you’re saying that we should be able to find,compete and show drastic improvements with 10-25 million signings? Yeah I’d learn to develop a little bit of patience if I was you. Seems all… Read more »

Guns of Hackney

I could improve Arsenal’s defence for £0.90.

Marko

I don’t think Emery was the best of those “available”, that’s an opinion. Sorry it contradicts the ‘truth’ as you see it.

Our options were Emery Arteta and Vieira…so yeah sorry you’re wrong.

Receding Hairline

“Gazidis said about 8-9 people were interviewed.”

Gazidis is know as a beacon of truth too ….i guess you were one of the candidates considering your trophy haul at PSG

Receding Hairline

“If emery fails in what must have been the quest for CL football, he has to go, right? Otherwise, why sack Wenger? And before you all go mad, I was Wenger out since 2008/9. You don’t sack manager A because he’s failing his remit to hire manager B who also fails his remit. Arsenal lost £20m on Wenger. Potentiall nother £12m on Emery…for what? Replacing a losing manager for a losing manager?”

Guess you are beaming down at your keyboard now with satisfaction, in your mind you just rattled off a super post.

Marko

Gazidis said about 8-9 people were interviewed

I think he was lying. I’ve only ever seen us linked with the 3 but if you’ve seen anything that says otherwise I’m happy to be proven wrong. Were linked with one or two others but as far as I can tell only interviewed 3. Tuchel went to PSG Enrique had huge wage demands

azed

“I’d take the corolla.”

Emery is the corolla of managers.

Marc

“Replacing a losing manager for a losing manager? ”

Sorry I thought we were 6 points off last season’s total tally with 9 games left?

Guns I can’t make up my mind whether you are a troll on a wind up or a miserable cunt on a wind up.

azed

Emery is already half way through his contract so why the hurry?

Redtruth

I’ve just realised all tories are thick cunts.

bennydevito

PedroMarch 7, 2019    14:21:43

Benny, if you have to stand yourself out as the sane one, you’re probably losing the argument.

>>>>>

Not sure what you’re getting at here, whether you mean me personally or me as in anyone referencing sane is not clear. I hope it’s the 2nd one.

Marko

You don’t sack manager A because he’s failing his remit to hire manager B who also fails his remit. Surely 10 years of drifting doesn’t get addressed inside one season We need to be more like the top euro sides and Chelsea. Keep a revolving door policy going. It does work. Genius commentary as per. Sack the manager every season if he doesn’t make it to the Champions League even though what’s the point we have NO chance of winning it anyway so sack him for that also. All the while our meagre transfer budget gets wittled down thanks to… Read more »

gambon

I dont think any manager should automatically lose their job based on not getting a team from 6th to 4th in one year.

But no doubt, if we do miss out on CL, questions will need to be asked.

If Monchi comes in then frankly its a moot point – Emery is staying.

However people like Raul will be asking why the defence hasnt improved at all after 12 months with the squad. Why we are constantly changing formation, and why we are struggling so much away.

His answer to the first question will probably determine his future.

bennydevito

gambon,

Didn’t Pedro do a post saying only those 3 were interviewed? Maybe I’m wrong but I can’t find anything online that says otherwise.

I can numerous reports about who we were linked with but nothing about who was actually interviewed.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/0/next-arsenal-manager-odds-tracker-has-market-has-changed-now/

Receding Hairline

“However people like Raul will be asking why the defence hasnt improved at all after 12 months with the squad.”

Liverpool asked that question of Klopp too after some embarrassing defensive lapses, the answer to that was 130 million on two players.

Too much is made of our defensive issues considering the injuries in that department and that somehow Mustafi still plays for us….my opinion anyway.

Marko

Gambon are you not a little excited about the prospect of Monchi? Or do you just see it as a prop up for Emery? I dunno about you but if you told me at the outset of any of the transfer windows of the last 10-15 years that it’d be Monchi doing the signings over Arsene Wenger I’d probably kiss you I’d be that happy honestly. Whether or not you thought the sun shined out of Sven’s arse (I was a fan even though he was behind the Lichtsteiner signing for example) he’s gone now and moving forward it’s likely… Read more »

Marc

gambon

“I dont think any manager should automatically lose their job based on not getting a team from 6th to 4th in one year.”

Like anything context is everything. A manager taking over a squad that went from winning the title to sixth in one season without losing any players could be reasonably expected to turn things round quickly. Taking over a squad that needs severe work with a limited transfer budget is going to take longer.

Marc

Has Sanllehi ever worked with Monchi before?

Marko

Also I don’t think us hiring Monchi has anything to do with Emery staying. It could be Overmars or Edu or Ming the merciless taking on the position and I don’t think management at Arsenal are looking at replacing him after one season. 4th or 6th I don’t think so. If next season is the same then I’d say yeah there’s probably not a third season but I expect major improvement in the summer…for some reason

Words on a Blog

There’s also perhaps a 20-25% chance that Emery will get us into the CL, either through the too4 route or the Europa route.

In which case we Grovers will be condemned to discussing the relative merits and demerits of Emery versus various basement-dwelling German managers for at least another year

gambon

Benny

“We believe there is no position in world football that is more attractive than Arsenal Football Club and having gone through that process and series of references, and a good deal of analysis, we created a long-list, an eight-person list,” he said.

“All of those eight people that we approached, that we targeted, were interested in the position and all of those eight people took part in an extensive, in-person interviews with us and none of them at any stage withdrew their interest – they were interested right until the moment we informed them of our decision”

Dissenter

Maybe we can get Overmars to bring in his Ajax special sauce with Frank De Boer.
Frank De Boer is already stinking out Atlanta United with that Ajax pizzaz.

I hope we sack Emery and the club consults with Pedro to bring in the most debonair manager with shiny white teeth and impeccable English.
No experience needed for the Arsenal job, just pizzaz.

Marko

Marc no. Monchi was 17 years at Sevilla and 2/3 at Roma

Receding Hairline

“We believe there is no position in world football that is more attractive than Arsenal Football Club”

This was the giveaway….anything else that followed it was hot air

Dissenter

Marc
“Has Sanllehi ever worked with Monchi before?”

Does it matter?
The trio are all amigos cut from the same cloth.
They will open an account with Banco Santander to siphon money out and change the official language to Spanish.
I’m just channeling my best Charlie George

gambon

Marko Re Monchi – no i dont see it as a prop up for Emery. Emery will go if he isnt good enough, the club wont get held captive by a shit manager again after what happened recently. As for Monchi as a DoF, I like him. I have to say Sven has a much better record of signing players, but Monchi really does have a wider remit. My worry about Monchi is, is he yesterdays man? When we look back in 10 years at the best DoFs, I doubt we will be talking about Monchi, Berta etc. It will… Read more »

Guns of Hackney

Pizazz is the money!

Triple threat.

Marko

I don’t think there will be any of this ‘we are classy’ nonsense if they think he’s an incorrect fit. I agree and thankfully I believe gone are the days of the long term cosy manager at Arsenal. But we’re not about to determine if someone is wrong after one season in what is a transitional period for us. I would imagine 2-3 years and they’ll look at his progress and make a decision. I’d also imagine during the time that they’re judging his progress they’ll also be judging it against the progress of other possible attainable managers. Is Vieira… Read more »

Skinnywill

I am not sure whether Emery can take Arsenal to the level whereby they are competing for the top prizes, however it is my opinion that he is currently doing enough to warrant being given further time to see if he can. On the plus side the squad is fitter and showing more determination and resilience in games, performances (if not always results) have drastically improved in games against the other top 6 sides and we are becoming more tactically intelligent and less predictable. In addition we have seen tangible improvement in some of the players. On the negative side… Read more »

Marko

My worry about Monchi is, is he yesterdays man? When we look back in 10 years at the best DoFs, I doubt we will be talking about Monchi, Berta etc. We don’t need him to be good for 10 years we need him to be good for us now next summer and then the summer after that and the summer after that. One of the reasons I like him is not just any one specific signing he’s made the last couple seasons at Roma or Sevilla but the fact that he seemingly works tirelessly on ALL areas on the team.… Read more »

Jim Lahey

@Pedro –

I don’t know if people are trying to deflect any criticism of Emery, what people want is fair and balanced criticism. We can all agree that the football we have been playing under Emery is nowhere near some of the aesthetically pleasing teams we saw under Wenger. He also really needs to sort our defence out as we have been a shambles at the back..

But you decided early on that you didn’t want him at the club and have have spent months taking digs at him whenever you can.

Marko

We just have to hope the rumblings of discontent from Roma don’t carry through to here.

Hasn’t even started yet and you’re starting. He’s an excellent hire. United are sniffing around him that should be a decent indicator. They’ve pissed away millions in recent years and they think he may be one to change that

Receding Hairline

Who the CEO is matters to me more than the technical director and as it stands i have very little faith in Raul so the whole Monchi thing is wait and see for me, but i am excited to see what he brings

Alex James

PSG’s defeats to Barca and Manure we’re both down to scandalous penalty decisions. In the case of Neymar, what goes around comes around. He dived and now PSG go out on the eventual decision of a clot from Slovakia. Having said that, I hold no candle for PSG. It was the antics of their man Ginola that got Wrighty banned from a Cup Winners final. I hold grudges against any play or club that does The Arsenal down unfairly!

Dissenter

Pedro Is there a footballing administrator above Monchi at Roma? I ask because he’s going to be working under Sanllehi at Arsenal? Maybe the Spanish connection may help but this create situations that he may not be used to. Also the club will have to be careful to make sure that there’s transparency because you don’t want three Spanish speakers to linguistically lock out everyone else. The business of dealing with agents is notoriously slimy and can be easily corruptible. The club has to be careful. I hate to say it- they have to insist that English be spoken at… Read more »

Skinnywill

Pedro I don’t buy into the confused formation and no identity criticism I think they are arguments based on the modern trend to want to put everything into certain boxes. I think it is pretty clear that Emery wants his players to be tactically flexible and be able to implement different strategies based on the opposition we are playing. This will result in different formations and line-ups from week to week and is the polar opposite of what we were used to with Wenger. There is a really good article by Tim Stillman on the Arseblog site which looks at… Read more »

Chitom

“Imagine someone said you can have any car you want and you went for a Renault Twingo. You can keep the Lambo and Ferrari. I want a compact, easy to park car that does 75mpg.“ GoH Is that what happened then? Shit, I must’ve missed my postcard from Stan/ Gazidis asking my preferred selection choice. Or was it an internet thing and I failed to read my emails. Either way Emery wouldn’t have been my choice but since that’s who we got ,I kinda wanna see what he can do before I grab my pitchfork and torch. Also, the lambos… Read more »

Marko

Is there a footballing administrator above Monchi at Roma?

Yep

Marko

Also the club will have to be careful to make sure that there’s transparency because you don’t want three Spanish speakers to linguistically lock out everyone else. This is one of the more stupid things to say. What language is spoken doesn’t matter one iota if everyone does their job. Or do you see them working in a cafeteria huddled together in one corner ignoring everyone else? The business of dealing with agents is notoriously slimy and can be easily corruptible. The club has to be careful. I hate to say it- they have to insist that English be spoken… Read more »

Words on a Blog

Pedro – Tim Stillman talks bollocks sometimes, but in the article that Skinywill
refers to, he’s talking sense.

The “identity” is ultra pragmatism, with personnel and formations changing between games and intra-game depending on the opponent and how the opponent is playing.

If that gets us into the CL I’m ok with it.

Are you?

Marc

Pedro

Don’t tell Gareth Bale that!

Marko

I’ve heard mixed reviews of him.

Like???

bennydevito

gambon,

Who were the 8 interviewed?

Marko

Pedro I meant more in reference to getting signings done and in private discussions what language they speak is irrelevant. Anything in public yes I agree

Leftsidesanch

Strong starting xl tonight

Nelson

Arsenal: Cech, Mustafi, Sokratis, Koscielny, Monreal, Xhaka, Torreira, Ozil, Mkhitaryan, Aubameyang, Iwobi.

Subs: Leno, Maitland-Niles, Kolasinac, Guendouzi, Suarez, Ramsey, Nketiah

azed

1Cech
20Mustafi
5Papastathopoulos
6Koscielny
18Monreal
11Torreira
34Xhaka
7Mkhitaryan
10Özil
17Iwobi
14Aubameyang

TheBoyCornelius

Whether Emery is the right man to make us elite I’m not sure, but i think he is a good ‘head coach’ to get us moving away from the overpowering influence of a ‘manager’ like Wenger was in the end. He is a modern coach that’s the first if his kind we have had at the club. Its certainly a step in the direction we need to be moving with regards coaching hires. Its his first season, hes doing ok, i think we have to hold judgement a little longer. I would also same the same with regards Monchi as… Read more »

TheBoyCornelius

And as for a coach to keep an eye on for a future hire – perhaps Domenico Tedesco of Schalke. It all gone a bit wrong this season for him be he did work wonders for them. Depending on where they finish the season, he might have stabilized a shakey club at only 33 years old

RodneyK

Wenger has been talking and one of the things he said recently was that every manager needs “quality” players and the support of the club in order to succeed. That’s common sense anyway. Without a doubt, the football would be much better if we had better players. The defence would be much tighter, if we had defenders who knew how to defend properly and weren’t error-prone. For heaven’s sake Wolves have better football players than Arsenal! Perhaps, if they had a striker of PEA’s quality, they’d be in contention for top-4. I’m hoping that Monchi, or whoever we end up… Read more »

Marko

That’s a team that is taking tonight seriously and hoping to not repeat the Bate away performance

HighburyLegend

I’m sorry, but where is Sokratis ???

jwl

I don’t mind Spanish execs speaking Spanish with one another occasionally, having three people communicate in their second language is good way for miscommunication to happen.

I have no problem at all if Emery prefers to use a few Spanish words with his Spanish bosses when describing what kinds of players he wants. As long as English is spoken 98.23% of time, don’t have problem with a little Spanish if some clarity is needed.

Crimson

Would of liked to of seen Suarez get a start..

Receding Hairline

“Would of liked to of seen Suarez get a start..”

Me too ..in place of Iwobi, keep Iwobi for the weekend

Thomas

@Guns of Hackney

“If emery fails in what must have been the quest for CL football, he has to go, right?”

_________________

This is Arsenal we’re talking about here. He’ll probably get a new contract.

Champagne charlie

“We’re trying to improve our defence and compete with clubs who spend 30-40 million on CB’s (United) 50 and 60 million on CB’s (City) 40 million on CB’s (Spurs) and 75 million on CB’s (Liverpool) and you’re saying that we should be able to find,compete and show drastic improvements with 10-25 million signings? Yeah I’d learn to develop a little bit of patience if I was you. “ Can you drop me the names of these ‘better’ defenders for the big bucks? I never mentioned anything about “drastic” improvement, or instant this or that. You’re trying to percolate that talk… Read more »

Pierre

Solid back 4
4-2:-3-1
4 offensive players

Happy days .

Will probably go tits up now….

Marc

Pierre

Already getting the excuses in even though your god is playing.