‘NO Moura, less than two points’
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ONTO SERIOUS FOOTBALL STUFF 👇👇👇
How many articles did you read yesterday about the erosion of civil society because two dickheads ran onto football pitches? Our press LIVE for a moment in which they can condemn every living/breathing person and wrap it in a football narrative. Idiots are always a byproduct of something they don’t like. Social media, Brexit, porn, cats…
Dickheads have always been a part of modern culture and they always will be. Don’t try and make sense of it. Just let it be and make sure that if the person sitting next to you suggests running on the pitch, you demand they get naked or sit the fuck down. Do the same if the person next to you at work asks if you want a tea, see how that works out.
UNITED COLD TURKEY
As the joy subsides post-United, the stinging slap of reality has set in for some.
We’re back in prison, we’ve been locked in a cage with 3 other big boys, we’re now fighting it out in the #TopDog race, with a whole bunch of nasty weirdos looking to shank us along the way.
What I’m trying to say is this… let’s not get carried away thinking this race is done. Things have fallen into place very nicely over the past month. Spurs, Chelsea and United have all slipped in and out of ecstasy. Now we’re on high #Top4Life, but things could get testy very quickly.
I liken this moment to the Champions League semi-final when the club first gave us flags, we started waving them like lunatics, then CR7 stepped up and spoiled the party. Away form is our CR7 brooding over a free kick.
When you look at our easy run, you realise it’s actually not easy. It’s really hard. Our struggles have generally come on the road this season, and against the unsexy teams.
Everton, Watford, Leicester and Wolves are the big worry for us. They are Xherdan-Shaqiri-in-a-Borat-one-piece levels of sexy. They are tough, gritty, tiring games to play. This is where the weakness of our season has generally sat. BATE, Brighton, West Ham, Rennes are the games we should have won but didn’t
Is it a talent thing? No. I think it’s a focus thing.
Unai Emery has to take the same sort of attention to detail he had for Spurs/United and channel it into the games that aren’t as interesting. He has to keep the players interested. He has to make sure they feel the fire of importance. He has to make the end goal feel important to the players.
That could be super basic. Maybe a little reminder there’s serious money in it if we make top 4. It could be flashing the excitement of elite football next season. It could be the threat of getting booted out if the socks are not pulled up hard enough. Or it could just be the hit of adrenaline from United that carries us through.
Each game is now a Cup Final… but, before we turn the league into a cup, we have to deal with Rennes on Thursday.
We are more than capable of taking them down by two goals. The challenge is they are protecting a lead and as a counter-attacking team, what better position to be in than waiting for Arsenal to overextend themselves?
I’ve read some people say we should throw the game. I think that’s silly. Emery could really do with a cup win to bolster his rep going into the summer. It’d also be smart to keep both routes to the Champions League firmly open. I’d also personally like to see Emery give it some back to Ben Arfa for his premature gloating the other day.
The real work starts now. We have momentum with us. We have two routes to the promised land of Champions League football. We look like we’re firing on all cylinders.
Let’s make the run in something special!
£40m war chest. It’s not even a war wallet.
We’re failing on every front.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-6797143/amp/Why-Arsene-Wengers-fourth-place-trophy-no-longer-joke.html?ico=amp_articleRelated
Are you watching maaaaarkoooo
Thomas
That’s the catch. He will never go to trial. So he will never be proven innocent.
Personally, I am with LG; CR kind of raped a broad (counter intuitive)
But I don’t want to make light of the whole incident.
Both side do have their points going for them.
Valentin
I like Klopp.
Dark Hei
If a player is under contract , it is his choice whether to stay or leave whilst they are under contract whether it is Mhkitaryan, Kolasinac or Ramsey.
The club has no say in the matter .
Arsenal are not the only club who are in this situation
Great news about Laca being available. It’s going to be close, but I think we get through.
Dark Hei. Why the hell would we replace Ozil with Banega, let alone pay part of Ozils salary to do it. You put a ridiculous hypothetical to show why it shouldn’t be done.
We only let Ozil go if there is somebody willing to take on his salary. Otherwise he stays.
Same with Real Madrid finding someone to take Bale if his wages really are £650k/wk.
Pierre
We played on Sunday three at back with Sokratis, Koscielny and Monreal. Obviously Sokratis needs to be replaced presumably with Mustafi.
However, I would keep the team exactly the same as on Sunday apart from this change.
I would not play in starting lineup Mkhitaryan. I would play Xhaka, Ramsey
and Ozil with Maitland-Niles and Kolasinac playing as wing backs.
This worked well on Sunday against Man Utd.
It’s quite amusing how excited the former wenger obsessives are getting so excited about the race for the top 4 after years of them belittling our former manager for achieving this 18 years on the bounce whilst winning 9 trophies with 9 runners up in his 20 years at the club.I I have never got too excited about a top 4 finish but after 2 years of Europa league football I am missing the involvement and anticipation of champions league football. The obsessives will celebrate top 4 as if it is a trophy , it’s just a shame that it… Read more »
Who says we only have a £40m war chest?
Stroller
“Pierre, We played on Sunday three at back with Sokratis, Koscielny and Monreal.”
I know , hence my comment “but there is definitely an argument for staying with the wing back system that worked so well at the weekend.”
Difficult tactical decision for Emery tomorrow
Be attacking tomorrow night and play all of laca, Auba, mesut and Rambo again. Can tear them a new one if we really want to, and with a long break after tomorrow night why not try and get it done early.
Fancy 4-1 with laca and Auba getting a couple each.
@Emirates, I would keep the same team with the exception of replacing Mhikitarian for Aubameyang. Playing a 3-4-2-1 should allow to play between the lines more. Rennes is a counter-attacking team with pace on the wing using a basic 4-4-1-1. Their defense will sit very deep negating Aubameyang main strength his pace. Mhikitarian is likely to cause them more problems with his clever movements. out team needs to have their shooting boots on as mid range shooting is an area we should exploit. Any rebounds should be Lacazette. Also if we are leading and Rennes needs a goal or two,… Read more »
I meant replacing Aubameyang by Mhikitarian.
War chest??
It’s arsneal. We dont do war any more. Tiddlywinks chest
ES
Sunday’s formation is set up against a strong team. We let Manure have the procession and go for counter. Against Rennes, we don’t need 3 CB’s. Rennes will park the bus. We need more midfielders/attackers. We should just over power them
there aren’t many clubs in world football who can afford to give a player 650k a week. I think even messi is on lower than that. Messi is really the ultimate one club player. Good in a way but sad that we couldn’t see his talent in other leagues around the world. Maybe he’ll play for an Argentinean club in the future.
Valentin
By leaving Aubamayang out of the side it will negate Kolasinac ‘s most effective weapon , the ball across the six yard box for the tap in.
Lacazette is not normally a player to make that run , Ozil and Mhkitaryan will look for the cut back.
So if he plays a wing back system Aubamayang has to start.
@Nelson, We need 3 at the back because otherwise on the counter-attack Rennes will have 3v3 and I do not trust Mustafi to make a mistake. Also with a back 4, one of our fullbacks will push up and likely to be caught upfield. A simple long ball bypassing the midfield and suddenly we have their striker Hunou, conductor Ben Arfa and one of the wingers directly against our two CBs and one of our fullback. 3 at the back means that with only one wingback pushing up you have a 4v3 situation rather than a 3v3. Rennes 3rd goal… Read more »
Graham62
March 13, 2019
10:54:51
Who says we only have a £40m war chest?
according to The mirror and John cross.
I thought John Cross used to have some knowledge of Arsenal’s operations because he’s a gooner and was devoted to Wenger.
These days, it’s unlikely that he knows anything about our budget since the principal actors are new and foreign.
John Cross doesn’t know anymore that anyone else here about our summer budget.
@Pierre,
I would say that Lacazette is more likely to score from a cross by Kolasinac than Aubameyang is. Against ManUtd, Lacazette was the one who missed the target after 4 minutes not Aubameyang.
Aubameyang tend to hang toward the second post (which infuriate me as it is the least likely place to score) and Mhikitarian is better at arriving late in the box from the opposite side. In our defeat by Chelsea where Bellerin kept overlapping, our midfielders Mhikitarian and Iwobi were the ones who scored from cutback arriving late in the penalty box.
Valentin
You focus too much on their strength. If we have one more midfielder/attacker, we’ll keep more possession. Even if we lose the ball, we’ll press high and won’t give them time to make “good long pass”. That’s what I understood what Emeryball is about.
dissenter
I don’t know, last season the news was that arsenal had 70m for the transfer market and it turned out to be true. I’m thinking it’s the same this year, only exception being, if we make it to the CL then it will increase.
@Nelson, We used that approach on the away game and how did that go? Once Rennes realised that Monreal was pretty solid, they focussed their effort on our right with Mustafi. They then kept feeding diagonal pass to Sarr to run into from left to right behind our CBs. Sokratis got sent off on one of this run. Torreira was unable to cut the flow because he was afraid of leaving Ben Arfa on his own to directly run at our defense. Let’s play smart and not underestimate Rennes. They have a clear game plan and players perfect to execute… Read more »
Tony, from what I’ve seen of Spencer he is solid without being spectacular. Expect he’ll only play for 10 mins and it will not really matter! Would be v surprised if he makes it to Japan.
Valentin
Their game plan only work when we have 10 men and they play at home.
@Nelson, Their game plan worked in that they sent Sokratis into panic mode. Yes the referee was a homer, but there is no guarantee that we will not have a referee who favour underdogs. I am pretty sure that playing the same system with the same players in the center of our defense will yield the same result. We can always switch later in the game and use Aubameyang as a speed merchant late in the game if we need to. We need to be still with a chance with 10 minutes left. If they score 2 goals before, then… Read more »
It’s quite amusing how excited the former wenger obsessives are getting so excited about the race for the top 4 after years of them belittling our former manager for achieving this 18 years on the bounce whilst winning 9 trophies with 9 runners up in his 20 years at the club.I _________ Hahahah what amusing and ironic is that you have your head so far up Wengers’s azz that all you care about is his legacy.. Newsflash- It’s Emery’s … FIRST season…. it’s something completely different for your goal to be 4th when you have been at the club for… Read more »
Agree Midwest, context is everything. I think this season the challenge to finish top 4 is as tough as it has been. If Liverpool get through tonight that would mean half of the QF teams would be from the PL.
Bob-
It’s unreal how the man has warped the brain.. of many people who normally would be reasonable people .. I’m assuming.
Football is an art … my azz… if it was an art they wouldn’t keep score.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=OsPGJmPbUtw
I was an admirer of Wenger for all but the last 7 years. Such a shame he wasn’t removed when he wasn’t managing well. The minority who still supported him at the bitter end were unable to see reason- their support was cult like. Mind you I’ve got one very good friend who still wanted Wenger to continue but he’s a contrary s.o.b. !
Thanks Left — Papa Sok… is awesome.. hahaha that was hilarious.
Pierre Why bring up Wenger? Sorry but the only obsessive on here is you. Obsessive about Ozil. Obsessive about statistics. Obsessive at defending Wenger and obsessive at trying to prove to those that were desperate for change, that life wasn’t as bad as they thought it was under our former manager. I never got too excited about top 4, mainly because I knew we weren’t capable of competing when it came to the crunch. The reason so many fans are excited is mainly because, for the first time for several years, we are at least showing genuine signs of rolling… Read more »
Top 4 under Wenger was a trophy.
Top 4 under Emery is a stepping stone….
MidwestGun
Papa is a legend and Mavropanos is alive!
Pierre
9 runners-up lol lol lol…you fuckin idiot
Pierre
You do chat some very unreal stuff friend
I knew that would get you going mid West ..so predictable. Nearly as predictable as me defending Ozil…..thought I’d better get that in though it is amusing how Emery is pretty similar to wenger in that tactically he is found wanting but he just manages to pull a rabbit out the hat before the shit really does hit the fan. This season is basically a mirror image of wenger’s last 5 seasons except the football is not quite so good ….so much for change eh. Looks like Emery is going to have to rely on Mesut Ozil and Aaron Ramsey… Read more »
Top 4 became a trophy under Wenger because he knew, as we all did, that winning the EPL or CL was out of his reach , or, to put it another way, he wasn’t good enough.
We were runners- up in 2005 then fluked one more runners up during Wenger’s last 13 years in charge lol
Hypothetically speaking, where would we be now if Wenger had stayed?
Exactly!!
That’s called progress.
Arsenal winning with Ozil in the team is pure coincidence.
So frigging delusional.
@Pierre,
Looks like Salgado has the same view than us on the Emery Özil relationship.
https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/michel-salgado-unai-emery-a-special-manager-he-cant-handle-big-egos
Man management is the difference between competent manager and great one.
Same reason why Benitez who is a competent manager and tactically very astute has never been able to manage a team of star players for long. His treatment of CR7 at Real Madrid was text book how to alienate your best players and lose the dressing room.
Pierre – you’re on much stronger ground when you talk tactics than when you use rhetoric and dodgy stats (correlation is not causation) to defend the reputations of Wenger and Ozil.
When Ozil is selected and plays well, most people on here -even Ozil’s fiercest critics- are happy enough to acknowledge it
@Graham, Do you really believe that we are going to win the league next season under Emery? Talking about delusional! With the financial advantage that ManCity, ManUtd have on the rest of the league, I can’t see anybody else winning the league for the next 3 years. Sure we may finish second a year, but the following year one of the juggernaut will just splash an extra 200 millions to reach back to the top. Of course if ManCity is banned from Champion’s league for a couple of years because of FFP and most of their players leave then that… Read more »
gambon
Amazing stuff from Rapenaldo tonight.
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LOL
Bob- I have a few very very good friends who live in London .. Arsenal fans obviously and they are incredibly reasonable smart people except when it comes to anytime you mention Wenger. They prefer to place all the blame on Gazidis and Kroenke.. whatever. Wish It was that simple. It’s sad because Wenger just hung on too long.. Had he left after the Fa Cup win in 2014. I think it might have changed my perception some , I would still think he should have done things different .. but he is the architect of our current situation.. no… Read more »
Valentin
There’s nothing wrong with a system of great players, without egos who are ready to sacrifice themselves for the team
I do think every manager has to bend somewhat to accommodate exceptional game changers like Messi, Ronaldo…and maybe Neymar [to an extent]
Ozil is not that match winner, he’s the cherry atop the ice-cream. He does not deserve to be treated differently.
The Salgado article did repeatedly say that Emery is a quality manager, something that you have tried repeatedly to disprove.
I seriously have never seen Ozil play well.
On the rare occasion he scores a goal he’s hailed as an artist which sums up how low the bar his supporters have set.
Well Red.. you have never seen Messi.. play well either.. so not sure you can use your judgement to set the bar on any player. Just sayin . Although Ospina is a high bar to reach for any keeper no doubt.
Valentin – Manchester City are so dominant in terms of football philosophy/tactics, quality of players, depth of squad and financial resources that it is going to be very, very difficult to dislodge them – unless It’s taken Klopp four years to get Liverpool to threaten to dislodge them and challenge for the league, and he may yet well fail. Under late-era Wenger we were sinking from “elite mediocrity” (@Pedro) Wenger to mid-table irrelevance. With Emery on board, there are clear signs of course correction, with tactics, formations etc upgraded. I don’t think too many expect we’ll be challenging for thePL… Read more »
Valentin
Did I say that?
My perceptions were based on competing, which, as a fan, is all I ask for.
Wenger had more than enough time to sort things out, but he never did.
Sorry Valentin but you seem to have got the wrong end of the stick.
I see rolling the sleeves up as a step forward. Better than throwing in the towel.
Midwest
Stop being a dick…
You’d struggle to name a handful of games in which Ozil has played well.
Yeah Midwest, stop being a dick. What has poor Red ever done to justify that?
Lol…
The obsessives will celebrate top 4 as if it is a trophy , it’s just a shame that it has taken them until now to recognise what a good job our previous manager was doing Yeah we’re only going to celebrate top 4 after two 5th and 6th place finishes. I would have thought that was pretty obvious but it’s Pierre after all. Your daily Wenger/Ozil routine continues to be hilarious pal made all the more funny when you realize that in the summer it’ll be Ozil gone not long after Wenger and we can finally move forward as a… Read more »
Hahaha Red- And here I was loving the new positive Red.. Good to see you still on here.. Maybe you should bring back the MarbleHalls moniker .. I liked that one better.
See that Pierre is up to his usual tricks, just trolling away.
Comparing a manager with 20 years of total control over every facet of the club to a new manager trying to stop the rot of the last 5 years in his first season with a steadily declining squad to deal with. Makes sense right? Smh.
“The Salgado article did repeatedly say that Emery is a quality manager, something that you have tried repeatedly to disprove.”
Mediocre he called him
While suggesting we go for the manager of Rennes because he won a few games.
@Dissenter, Salgado thinks that Emery is a special manager. I just disagree on that assessment. To me man management is part of being a good manager. So when Salgado states that he is a special manager but that he can’t handle ego that automatically disqualify Emery from being a great manager. Also I think that he overestimate Emery’s tactical acumen. There is a reason why we have lost games against team that we should have easily swatted. Complacency and hubris. Against those teams, no proper plan or the incorrect one was put into place and then when things go bad,… Read more »
Wenger honestly shouldn’t be brought up or at the very least his last 10-14 years. We steadily declined under him for about a decade and his apologists and fanboys can’t rewrite history as much as they want to. He’s gone thank fuck let’s move on… maybe get behind the new manager?
“The obsessives will celebrate top 4 as if it is a trophy”
While we could have easily being in the top 2 race, such a shame, indeed.
Like i said top 4 for Emery is a stepping stone whereas top 4 for Wenger was a trophy.
Valentin
You think we are playing well because we returned Ozil back to the starting line up
I disagree. I think we are doing better because our injury crises has improved somewhat.
We have a full squad to chose from with the exception of Holding and Welbeck. We didn’t have that luxury for most of the winter.
Emery has handled Ozil perfectly and now has him putting in a shift because the spotlight is one him. We aren’t going to agree on that.
“Salgado thinks that Emery is a special manager. I just disagree on that assessment.”
As you are 100% entitled to. It’s your opinion, Salgado has his, everyone here has theirs ..life goes on.
The long post was unnecessary
Dissenter i don’t even understand how people talk about “special players with big ego” and lump Ozil into that bracket.
He is not a special player, hasn’t been for sometime now, he does not win you games out of nothing, he is not capable of dominating a game from start to finish. Why then should such a player be allowed to pull sickies and stroll around the pitch while others recover the ball only for him to have some “nice touches”
Valentin quick question before you bore the fuck out of me with your inane commentary for the day but what would you have done with a player who was playing poorly has been declining for the previous two seasons and then faked injuries and illnesses to get out of games? Do you then remove all evidence of balls and quickly draft him into the starting 11 or do you bench him? Know what don’t answer that I’m sure you’ll find a way to worm your way out of taking a balanced and objective view. What I don’t understand is how… Read more »
Top four this season would no doubt be a big achievement, league is at a very high level.
As it stands a team that has 1 loss may not win the title, i’m doing my part in burning the evil sage in hopes Liverpool flounder.
3rd and 4th are being fought out by 4 sides all within 3 points of each other if Chelsea get result with game in hand with 8 games to play.
@Receding, I said that if we can’t get the top manager then we should take a gamble on a young upcoming manager. Looking at his results since hr took over at Rennes, Julien Stephan qualify as an option we should look at. He has had good results, and his behind the scene has been praised by everyone. Brought the entire club together. Involved every players. Tactically flexible and innovative he has also shown good man management skill. For example he has been able to handle Ben Arfa (things that Emery could not do). Looking at our current situation, most of… Read more »
It could have been worse.
I came onto this site in 2017. If I’d known about it in 2008, when my trust and faith in Wenger ended, just imagine the flack I’d be getting.
@ Valentin
The mediocre one we have has us one point behind Spurs and competing for a top four finish.
You guys and your obsession with the words “young”, “Upcoming”, “Unknown”..it’s getting boring
No one, least of all myself, expects you to back down on your over the top criticism of Emery and his coaching career, so no need to keep doubling down on it. We all know what you think about him and frankly it’s getting boring reading it daily
We could not even rely on our star players to compensate for the tactical mistake because Emery had ostracised them. I assume that this is in reference to around and after Christmas where we struggled. Yeah the likes of Mhiki and Sokratis/Mustafi were injured. Ozil if you remember was on the bench at Bournemouth pulled a sickie for Spurs and a couple more games around then came back for the Brighton draw was criticized for making no impact and then pulled a sickie again. This whole ostracized nonsense especially with regards to Ozil has to stop. It’s Ozil who made… Read more »
Emery will crash and burn … no doubt.. how do I know this.. because every single manager ever .. eventually crashes and burns it’s only a matter of how long. Unless they change jobs enough where people forget the bad stuff. Pep is a good example. But I’m surely not gonna sit around and wish for it Emery’s first fockin year or try and be the first to say I’m right.. or to make the former manager look better. I don’t care about any of this.. I care about winning and how we are doing now. and top 4 finish… Read more »
@Receding, How do you know that he was faking injury? Because the Arsenal PR machine was telling us that. Emery himself said that he was not injured, but that for tactical reason he had not selected him. According to Ornstein, management wanted Özil out and he should not ever play for Arsenal. Same thing Ramsey that we seriously considered selling to the Juventus In January. Strange how after the BATE fiasco, suddenly journalists were briefed that Özil was now back into the fold. Arsenal management felt the wind of the bullet and got scared. They told Emery do whatever is… Read more »
For example he has been able to handle Ben Arfa (things that Emery could not do).
I’d say he handled him pretty well to be honest. Ben Arfa has been a problem player his whole career. Been at so many clubs and hasn’t come close to 100 appearences for any of them. That should tell you everything you need to know about the player
“The idea that top manager would ostracise a player of Özil quality is ridiculous. Mourinho found way to accommodate him at Real Madrid. ”
5 years ago in the Spanish league surrounded by superstars. Wonder why same Mourinho did not break the bank for him just a few months ago when he was available. Anyway i am bored with this now……………..
According to Ornstein, management wanted Özil out…that Özil was now back into the fold. Arsenal management felt the wind of the bullet and got scared…They told Emery do whatever is necessary to get us out of this mess. If that means eating humble pie and bring back Özil and Ramsey, just do it. I’m confused did he ostracized him or did management tell him to do it? Or don’t you know? Or are you just spitballing? No mention of his faking injuries or illnesses you won’t believe it. Mourinho found way to accommodate him at Real Madrid. And he is… Read more »
Valentin If you don’t think Ozil was faking injury, how can you then blame Emery for not picking him when he was on the injury list? Ozil needed a big jolting because Wenger set him up on a pedestal separate from the rest of the team. Emery confronted him…Ozil is stepping up to meet that challenge. Any new manager coming would have had to challenge that false equilibrium, disrupt things to regain control of the club dynamic. Pep Guardiola does the same as well. His problems with Samuel Etto and Zlatan are public knowledge. There’s ego … and then there’s… Read more »
@Marko, Ben Arfa was voted player of the year the previous season at Nice. That is why PSG bought him. He may be a nutcase but he definitely has bag of talent. The problem as soon as he find a coach who can manage him he shines and everybody want to buy him. He then goes to a club where the manager can’t handle him. That same pattern has been repeated along all his career. That says a lot of Julien Stephan that he can handle him. He has been able to punish him for some indiscipline without making a… Read more »
Mid West I wanted pep 5 years ago when he left Barca , it is one of my biggest regrets as an Arsenal supporter not to see him manage the club. If Arsenal ( under Kronke) had shown ambition to want to reach the pinnacle then he would have gone all out to get pep and promised him the world to get him to manage The Arsenal. Sadly we have an owner with no ambition and no idea about football ….I believe Pep would have come to the club as it would have been a perfect project for him,everything was… Read more »
@Dissenter, I am not the one who kept repeating Ornstein assertion that management wanted him out. My view is that management wanted Özil off the wage bill and Emery was only too happy to ostracise him. Their problem is that it backfired. The team started to lose. The football became dire and nearly unwatchable. With the added risk of not even meeting the expectation to at least reach the semi final of the Europa League (the new manager was not expected to do worse than the manager who had been sacked), everything looked terribly bleak. When your clients (that what… Read more »
Ben Arfa was voted player of the year the previous season at Nice. That is why PSG bought him. He may be a nutcase but he definitely has bag of talent. No one’s disputing his talent or him being a problem player either. It’s like with Ballotelli no one disputes that he’s talented but he’s such a prick that he’s wasting his career with his reputation. I bet he was player of the year for nice too. The problem as soon as he find a coach who can manage him he shines and everybody want to buy him. So once.… Read more »
Watford, Wolves and Burnley…these are three difficult away games.
I won’t add Leicester and Everton because he can thrive on those type of grounds with the style they play
We are yet to see a dominating performance from Ozil away from home, so all this attributing everything good about the season to him and everything bad to the manger is desperate to put it mildly
New post by the way
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/mesut-ozil/leistungsdaten/spieler/35664/saison/2018/plus/1#gesamt
I feel like this is a good indication of how ostracized Ozil was this season and perfectly shows up the player for what he is. Unfortunately doesn’t show the “illnesses” but there’s strong evidence of him being benched after the fake injuries. November 8 for example not in squad coincides with being benched for Bournemouth and then him pulling a sickie for the next few games. It makes for bad reading honestly
Valentin
Ben Arfa is a known trouble maker. I believe he was released from hi Newcastle contract if my memory serves me right.
PSG were wrong to sign him and are paying the price for the poor scouting.
Emery did to him what managers at Marseilles and Newcastle had done, nothing new there. A cun*ish player will always be a c*ntish player.
He is Balotelli’s brother from another mama.
El hadji diouf has to be the lord of all cunty players though
At least Joey Barton is looking for redemption and to better himself through a philosophy degree.
Receding
Why are you trying to soften the blow
They are only difficult games if your team is sub par
Arsenal haven’t beaten Manchester United, spurs and Chelsea this season and we unlucky not to have beaten Liverpool
Our goal tally is only just shy of Liverpool’s
We should be winning these games. Not always easily. But it shouldn’t be doubted that arsenal football club should be beating wolves Watford and Burnley
Three teams who have been promoted fairly recently and haven’t been swimming in premier league cash like we have for decades
On the ozil debate I watch this man play and I don’t see anything to justify his inclusion. But then you read that he dropped for chances created against United and think, WHAT? How did I miss that? The problem is that this team is sorely lacking creativity since we lost wilshere and cazorla and ostracised ozil and Ramsey for a while. Xakha and iwobi were our only creative outlets. If emery knew he had no cash to replace these men then why cut out 4 attacking players from your otherwise creatively bereft squad? He was either lied to or… Read more »
@Marko,
I could say that Emery has had problem with Özil and Ramsey in less than 3 months. Also it took him less than 3 months to ostracise BenArfa.
Ozil must be one of thd most boring players ever.