GOOD MORNING AND WELCOME TO BIG GAME SUNDAY.
Yes, we have to play Crystal Palace at home in a HUUUUGE game that is going to go a long way to deciding where in the top 3 we finish.
Spurs shat the bed when they played City for the 3rd time in 10 days. That’s great news for us because it gives the opportunity to move into third by two points. It’ll also be super funny to laugh at how their greatest ever season saw them potless and a place behind us in the league (dream big).
Chelsea are level points with us now, so things really are getting tight…
Palace has lost 3 of their last 6. They sit 14th in the league. This shouldn’t be an ordeal.
However, you have to be real. We just went away to Napoli and Watford this week, we’re going to be drained and Palace is about as exciting as a trip to B&Q with your da when you’re young. Amirite? Wasn’t that shit?
‘Be a real man Pete and pick up that brick for me’
‘Bitch, back the fuck up… I just want to play computer games. One day, people will sit on the internet and watch the best gamers and it’ll be a thing. They’ll literally make millions from the ad revenue’
‘Pete, no one is ever going to make money from gaming, now show your dad how manly you are by loading up 10 bags of sand onto this trolley you absolute pussy’
Anyway, my point is that Palace is a banana skin because they aren’t interesting. They also have a good away record at the minute, sitting 4th in the table over the last 6 games.
The manager isn’t worried, which is grand.
I didn’t use this excuse in my career. I worked a lot in similar situations in France and Spain. Here, we came back last night at three o’clock and we came in this morning at 10am. But really, today I am coming here with a small smile because the players worked very well and gave me confidence for Sunday.
The players who didn’t play yesterday, today after this travel, they were working good and with the focus for Sunday and knowing that today in training, some players are going to play Sunday. After the last match, some players need to rest or to do a rotation with them, or with one player like Aaron Ramsey, he is injured. Also, Sokratis continues to be suspended. But this is the spirit I want. Like this morning, after the travelling yesterday. How we trained this morning and how we can have confidence to use players against Crystal Palace.
That said, we have a terrific home record, if we win today it’s our 11th on the bounce which is a record for us. We are defending better as a team, since March 10th, the only person to breach our back line is Phil Jagielka (6 clean sheets in 7 games). We are a much better team than them and the players can literally taste top 3 blood in the water (that taste isn’t blood, it’s bonus money fam).
We need to see a strong start tomorrow. The fans are going to be a massive help to the players, and hopefully, we channel some of that fight we’ve been showing of late. The only real worry is the lack of a Ramsey, and the auto-inclusion of Mustafi because of the Sokratis suspension. Still, Mustafi was pretty safe against Watford. Also, you saw that clip of him being fancy? Do I like him now? No. But that was cool.
Just @MustafiOfficial magic 😱 @Arsenal pic.twitter.com/NFtPw99jR5
— 433 (@official433) April 19, 2019
Finally, some Wenger cucks were giving me grief about my post yesterday about Wenger cucks, a few mentioned that my traffic must be down. WRONG. Post Wenger traffic has been fucking amazing, more people are coming to the site than ever before… and to make things even rosier, the comments section is having a record year on a comments per day basis. You know why? People like football more when things are going well, which is all this site ever wanted.
Thank you for not abandoning me, I love you all very much, even the Wenger cucks that are desperate for us to fail. #MerciIvan
P.S. The Sun reckon we’re in for Joan Jordan to replace Rambo. Daily Mail reckon Edu is back on the radar… just wish we’d bite the bullet and nab Luis Campos or Paul Mitchell. Paul looks like a proper facking geezer. Not that that matters of course.
Let’s be honest we have the 6th best team in the league.(Man united players however are much less in form) We can debate tactics and managers but really what actually matters is wc to elite level footballers. We have glaring weaknesses in every element from defence to midfield to attack. We need to somehow emulate klopps liverpool build job. We need a team full of technical pace merchants. If you look at saleh, maine, firminho, fuck even shaqiri we could have and should have bought these players as we certainly coukd have afforded them. Also players like trent and robertson… Read more »
Lool all the usual cunts, excuse me…suspects are back from under their holes to celebrate a negative result.
uspects are back from under their holes to celebrate a negative result.
I will be positive. Thank you Mr Unai, may I have another?
We played to the best of our ability. the team is average and punched above its weight for a decade.
It was a bad result, luckily results elsewhere went our way too. So not all is doom and gloom. 🙂
“”CG are you being deliberately thick? Ramsey was fucking injured you thick idiot.Xhaka was fucking injured you thick idiot.Torreira is nursing a fucking groin strain you thick idiot.”” They indeed were all injured Bd.. All wounded in that needless non event Thursday…. but NOT FIT for purpose when it mattered …today The Premier League is a billion pound block busting global show. The Europa Cup is for losers,lightweights and the likes of Unai Emery. Emery will let YOU down (Ask PSG fans….) We could have gone third.. We could have gone above The Potatoes But Emerys ego kicked in… CG… Read more »
We could have gone third..
We could have gone above The Potatoes
But Emerys ego kicked in…
I forgot to count how many times Unai’s team failed to deliver when it mattered the most?
Bate borisov don’t count.
If you listened some thick cunts here, you would get the impression that Denis Suarez was Wenger’s signing not Unai’s.
“Let’s be honest we have the 6th best team in the league.(Man united players however are much less in form)“
That’s your take convenient take. We’re every bit as capable of top 4 as Chelsea, United, and Spurs, otherwise Wenger wasn’t underachieving finishing 5th and 6th.
Can’t have it both ways.
Can’t have it both ways.
Oh they will want to.
Just not long ago they were telling us that Unai will undoubtedly ‘improve’ these players.
“I don’t think Emery is interested in quality”
What a strange comment.
One hopes this car crash of a performance today puts an abrupt halt to the ‘ maestro ‘ rhetoric from our wonderful author PedRo.
And then – To laud Gazidas for the appointment of Emery- I am afraid makes him look rather trite.
I hope once – when he settles into his new abode – he becomes more circumspect with his OTT headlines …
With the greatest respect
This place is becoming really ugly, as Pedro don’t wan’t to do ANYTHING to get rid of all those trolls cunts.
Simple fact is this: If Sokratis wasn’t suspended today Mustafi probably wouldn’t have been on the pitch. If Ramsey and Xhaka weren’t injured today then the nightmare that is El-douzy would have been on the bench where they belong. Can’t we have some perspective? I’m pissed right off because instead of watching us live and willing us on I was at the in laws having what was a lovely Easter dinner but I would much rather have been home willing the Arsenal on. As soon as I could find a Twitter stream we equalised. Then it went down and by… Read more »
is mbappe really trying to rape his former club (Monaco) on his own?¿
4goals and it ain’t even up to 65mins
OMG… is neymar still playing for PSG? ¿
I understand the need to rotate players in a period of heavy load added with the suspension. However that line-up was a recipe for disaster. The Elneny- Guendouzi axis was an horror show at Everton. Why feature them together again? To compound that with Mustafi and Jenkinson is just asking for defeat. More than bad luck due to injuries and suspension today’s result is due to the poor squad management done earlier. Had we introduced U23 players to the first team during our positive run, we would not be relaying on Mustafi, Elneny and Jenkinson. Those three will only disappoint… Read more »
“” but let’s get some perspective.””
Hopefully …The same perspective the imperious Arsene Wenger got …
3 league titles
7 fa cups
20 Champions League qualifications
Zero Europa Leagues..
The only trophy Emery can win for Arsenal is this one.( Europa)
…
Truth hurts Bd…
Sorry to say….
Who let the cnuts out? Who! ? Who!?
Mustafi did!
weger had 22 years to achieve that Emery’s not had a season yet you birk
All this moaning about the manager or the tactics. The players are the ones who have to perform. The squad is full of good players capable of excellent performances. But we have seen over the years that they are inconsistent. And that’s because they aren’t top class. Even the greatest manager who ever lived can only do so much.
How many players do we have that are top 10 in the world in their position?
Here’s some perspective: 3 league titles – in 22 years and never once won back to back, unlike Fergie in the same period won 3 league titles, in a row, twice. Very poor. 20 CL qualifications. Never won even once and only one final appearance. Absolutely abysmal. Utd won it twice, Liverpool and Chelsea once in this same period. Embarrassingly shocking. 7 FA Cups, not bad, but seeing as our rivals were throwing it to win the league and CL, the achievement isn’t as grand as it looks. Mourinho won 3 league titles in a shorter space of time 2… Read more »
And Fergie won 13 league titles in that 22 year period.
Looking back, Wenger was sn embarrassment.
“That’s your take convenient take. We’re every bit as capable of top 4 as Chelsea, United, and Spurs, otherwise Wenger wasn’t underachieving finishing 5th and 6th.”
Wenger signed Elneny
Wenger signed Mustafi
Wenger signed Jenkinson.
Wenger signed Xhaka
Wenger signed Kolasinac.
We have no winger because Wenger didn’t buy one.
We have the 6th best squad because Wenger bought rubbish.
Valentin,
“What Willock has to do to displace a poor Elneny? Same question for Jordan Osei-tutu to be considered as right back/right wingback instead of Mustafi and Jenkinson.”
Good question, I don’t recall you asking this question of Wenger the last 2 seasons…. how odd….
“The only trophy Emery can win for Arsenal is this one.( Europa)”
And who helped put us in the Europa? And couldn’t win it last season. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Emery.
CG… @ chuckle Charlie.. you Muppet I’d take 3 successive Europa league over 20 successive appearances in the champions leagues…. who bloody cares about appearance, you miserable wench. arsenal are not better than Salzburg or malmoe ff when it comes to cl football, we (arsenal) are just there to mark register and say present sir, when they call them (arsenal) out on Tuesday/Wednesday night and then get smashed back to their hole 10-2. what a pity. Even inter who many kids given birth to in the last 15yrs wouldn’t recognise as a great club except they come out from the… Read more »
@Benny,
Why keep bringing Wenger whenever somebody makes a critic of Emery? He is gone and is not going back.
I have said before Wenger used to flog the same players despite them being in the red zone until they broke down and then act surprised. That does not excuse this season bad squad management by Emery.
the name Wenger is an embarrassment to humanity…. I can’t even remember the last time the name arse Wenger crossed my mind and I had a big small on my face.
3 league titles in 22yrs… I could bet my balls if sarri has..
tony Adams
Freddie l.
henry 014
viera
pires
g. silver
Ashley Cole
Dennis b.
+
jorginho
sarri would have a minimum of 7league trophies in 20yrs… + a cl medal.
for christ sake, even di Matteo won a champions league under a year.
on a serious note….
what are the chances of mustafi still been in arsenal come next season …
mine is 50:50
Wenger’s 3 league titles is ancient history.
How he managed to cling to power for 14 years without winning a major trophy is risible.
Valentin
“I have said before Wenger used to flog the same players despite them being in the red zone until they broke down and then act surprised. That does not excuse this season bad squad management by Emery.”
You’re attacking Emery for rotating and trying to keep players away from the red zone.
That is commendable squad management, nothing bad about it.
I admit that emery took a risk today and it fell flat.
I do agree that he should have given more youth/academy players opportunities to challenge the likes of Mustafi.
Wenger had albeit a very flawed way of playing that was 90% very ease on the eye.
Sometimes it was intoxicating. .
Statistically he was incredibly successful- playing his risky way
..
Please, please tell me what is Emerys modus operandi.????
What is his gameplan?
Am I the only one to think that we changed how we defended corner against Crystal Palace?
We used to play a mix of Zonal and man marking, zonal mostly with best header on the first post to head away and CB to man mark most dangerous opponents.
But today we defended corners with man marking and it was shambolic all day before finally conceding.
Was there a comment during Emery press conference or interview explaining the decision to switch from system that has been very good since last season?
Was Steve Bould at the game?
I just downloaded a clip from YouTube about mustafi’s comical defending @ arsenal… it’s was so f*****g funny,…
I couldn’t stop laughing…. when after watching the video, I saw play next” part 2″..
I won’t ever watch an arsenal match were I see mustafi and elneny in the startXI… NEVER EVER.
3 elementary mistakes cost Arsenal the game.
Goal 1 …Jenkinson was 2 years behind the defensive line , hence Benteke was played onside .
Goal 2 ..Mustafi….say no more.
Goal 3….we had 5f2f 5 in Torreira marking 6f2f 2in Scott Dann at the corner , a complete mismatch as Dann won the first header which led to the goal .I
It’s difficult to win any football match with such schoolboy errors.
Roy Hodgson is in his 70s..
His team has scored 6 goals against us this season…
What is the point of Emery if he is being outfoxed by Roy H?
I think by the end of the week.
Fans will be in shell shock…
The hungry Wolves
The furtive Foxes await…
@CG…
the same risky way barca are playing and they’ve won 4 champions league I’m 13yrs…. 7 LA liga in 10yrs… I won’t even talk about the copa dela rey, because the Spanish fa should either cancel that cup or just change it barca dela rey…
CG… be wise, or just use your brains.
I’ll prefer you change your moniker to arse Wenger… that way we understand the angle/perspective you are talking from… until then, all your comments are trash.
What’s important now is how we line up at Wolves.
Will Xhaka and Torreira be fit to start?
Will Sokratis’ suspension be over?
Will ANM be back in the starting lineup?
As long as the answer is yes to all of those questions we should stand a much better chance of getting a positive result.
The wenger losers come flocking tonthe blog.
Funny how no one is interested in giving wenger a new job 😉
CG,
What is the point of Pep Guardiola if he is being outfoxed by Roy H?
No leaders in the team to knock heads.
Emery will need to draw on all his wealth of experience and football knowledge to guide Wenger’s weirdo’s to the finishing line.
Bennydevito
“Let’s be positive and remember we are Arsenal fans, noone who claims to be an Arsenal fan should be happy we lost today just because they don’t rate Emery – you are not Arsenal fans.”
I agree , though I can’t remember you castigating the many wenger obsessives on Le grove who were willing The Arsenal to lose over the last few years , refusing to even celebrate winning 3 trophies in 4 years ….
reeks of double standards .
@Dissenter, I am not attacking Emery for rotating today. I have stated that I understand the need to rotate and I agree. The mistake was not bed the necessary youth players earlier. We are now throwing Mavrapanos in the deep end because we are desperate for a body and that is not the right time to do so. He is so eager to impress he keep making mistakes and conceding free-kicks. Had he been introduced earlier, he would be much calmer and less suspect. Emery is new to the league and obviously may not have realised the intensity of the… Read more »
How individual mistakes Emery’s fault gambon? Whole world can clearly see what is the problem here.
BTW Ozil clear MOTM lol
Terrible hypocrisy to castigate Wenger then applaud him when winning the comical FA Cups.
If we were to let Wellbeck, I would not min getting Olivier Giroud back at Arsenal on a free. Against team such as Crystal Palace, Watford, Wolves, Burnley he would act as a focal point an bring some physicality.
Pierre
Kudosnto your man Oil
He played his hearty out.
Win or lose, he was excellent today. I just wish we could rest him well for such performances.
*kudos to your man
“What Willock has to do to displace a poor Elneny? Same question for Jordan Osei-tutu to be considered as right back/right wingback instead of Mustafi and Jenkinson.”
Maybe because they are not ready.
Elneny hasn’t played all season so Emery playing him now means he has no choice.
You complained about Mavopranos not playing but now he has played and was not great.
Valentin
Yesterday I was talking about getting Mitrovich from Fulham since they are going down
He will give us that option you’re discussing. We don’t offer any aerial threat and have to play a certain way as a result.
I know it won’t happen since he will probably choose to go down to the championship with Fulham.
Fuck me Mustafi is shit. Iwobi is not far behind.
Mavros reminds of the Senderos/Djpurou level of defender.
I’ve never understood what the clamor was.
What was the clown Mustafi doing for that Zaha goal? Seriously? He cannot defend shit. Get him out of this fucking team now.
Mustafi at fault for all of Palaces goals. He should never wear the shirt again.
PierreApril 21, 2019 22:01:52 Bennydevito “Let’s be positive and remember we are Arsenal fans, noone who claims to be an Arsenal fan should be happy we lost today just because they don’t rate Emery – you are not Arsenal fans.” I agree , though I can’t remember you castigating the many wenger obsessives on Le grove who were willing The Arsenal to lose over the last few years , refusing to even celebrate winning 3 trophies in 4 years …. reeks of double standards . >>>>> Except that I actually did, so the only thing reeking is the shit spewing… Read more »
Champagne CharlieApril 21, 2019 19:31:32 “Let’s be honest we have the 6th best team in the league.(Man united players however are much less in form)“That’s your take convenient take. We’re every bit as capable of top 4 as Chelsea, United, and Spurs, otherwise Wenger wasn’t underachieving finishing 5th and 6th.Can’t have it both ways. According to transfermarkt Arsenal do have the sixth best roster in the PL . It’s not having it both ways. Wenger built this squad over the years and that’s why he lost his job. Emery on the other hand, inherited the likes of Jenko, Elneny and… Read more »
I see the Wenger loving LUNATICS are at it again..doing their comparison….. Unfortunately for them arsenal haven’t had an 8-2, 6-0, 5-1 trouncing yet. The team today was set up well unfortunately Emery felt he had to rotate players aware of the lack of rest the players will get.. In comes Jenkins on, a great arsenal fan but way short of quality. In comes mustafi, a defender that’s never reliable. It was a poor defensive display by us…..highlighting our Wenger built squad that lacks strength in depth. Emery took a risk playing these squad players and it backfired. He isn’t… Read more »
We have played worse than today (under Emery) at the Emirates, with sometimes puzzling team selections, and won or drawn. Not much more that I can add about the underwhelming performances of El Neney (nice guy, poor footballer) and Jenkinson (lovely guy, even worse footballer). Understand about the need to rotate, especially when Xhaka and Ramsey are out of circulation, but Guendouzi, who played well in parts of the game, does often look ponderous on the ball and needs to release it quicker. He needs to start fewer games and/or be brought on in games where we are comfortably winning.… Read more »
Chitom
You quote transfermarkt when talking squad quality, not value. Then slide in remarks about understanding?
I’d skip it.
Though the majority of the blame for today’s loss lies at the feet of the squad emery should be held accountable for today’s performance as well. I understand the need for rotating and I perfectly understand using Jenkinson as emery was prolly keeping AMN for 2 Europa and the away match. But using elneny doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. I mean surely smith-roe can’t be worse. Whatever we have seen of the lad (albeit against inferior opposition) says that he is atleast decent for a shot. Elneny neither gives us a forward impetus nor defensive solidity. Expecting elneny… Read more »
*seeing not serving
@Sid,
ESR is on loan at RB Leipzig, so he could not be playing for us.
With ESR going on loan injured and coming back from injury only last week, that was a pointless loan.
Like you said, he could have been helping us right now instead of having to play Elneny. However I think that a combination of ESR and Guendouzi would not have fare much better. Both are light weight and better going forward than defending especially set pieces.
Manager was in a damned if you do .. damned if you don’t situation. Have to compete in two contests.. and do well. … and don’t have a deep enough squad to rotate. I know who I blame for weak squad but that’s neither here nor there. Catch 22- need to rotate … can’t rotate. The criticism of not bedding in youth..earlier in the season I don’t buy.. Its Emery’s first season with the club… let me repeat because some don’t get it.. It’s the managers FIRST season with Arsenal. He barely had a preseason and I doubt he had… Read more »
Jenkinson was at fault for the first goal. Two yards behind the Arsenal line covering Benteke whom Koscielny and Mustafi had left going ahead thinking he was offside.
Emery got the job because he allegedly had a dossier on every players including our youth team player. Can’t use the excuse now that it is his first year and he doesn’t know the youth team player.
Willock has been tearing the U23 and reserve apart. If Emery is not aware of his talent, then he just needs to attend a game for the reserve to get the right idea.
@valentine Oh damn I completely forgot. Well that kinda puts another perspective to things. Who else we got for MF? can’t think of anyone else, maybe this is our lot, paid 10-15 million for elneny and he looks like a ligue 2 player. It’s quite amazing how we have managed to assemble such a paper thin team over the last 5 odd years, you have the starting 11 and then …nothing. Our recruitment has been horrendous. I hope the last batch was not all Sven as of the 4 we bought 3 have been quite good. We need that performance… Read more »
Elneny was at 7 million, now that I think about it.
Emery got the job because he allegedly had a dossier on every players including our youth team player. Can’t use the excuse now that it is his first year and he doesn’t know the youth team player ________ Not an excuse its the truth.. You have to rely on people in place when you take over a job, Emery got the job because he was deemed the most stable option. I realize you hate him for PSG. although not sure why .. could care less about PSG. Maybe you should be the youth team evaluator.. I remember lots of players… Read more »
Our transfer team would have to play a blinder just to ship some of the players off, the wages these guys are on would make it very difficult. Forget about a chunk of change for selling we should thank our stars if guys like elneny and mustafi find a suitor in the 1st place, willing to meet their wage demands.
Sid –
Yep.. It’s going to be tough.. Might be why nobody wants the job of DOF. Put in a situation that will be hard to be successful. Kroenke owns an MLS team.. perhaps they could use a CB and a Midfielder.
Valentin Valentin “Emery got the job because he allegedly had a dossier on every players including our youth team player. Can’t use the excuse now that it is his first year and he doesn’t know the youth team player.” Why did you keep writing this crappola with such gusto? Anyone applying for a £6.5 million per annum salary without a dossier is a numbskull. Anyone that does not demonstrably show to the interviewers that he has deep knowledge about the club’s playing staff shouldn’t even show up for the interview. Why do people keep basic established interview prep as a… Read more »
Having knowledge of a player is not the same as evaluating him.. either.Arsenal have youth team evaluators who work with these players everyday and make recommendations if they didn’t they shouldn’t be there. I’m hoping things aren’t the same as before where Wenger was making all the decision including promotions.. Anyhow.. Regarding Willock I still contend If Willock was this amazing talent at this point in his career he would be playing, probably getting starts for England as well similar to Rashford or Sterling early in their career. Maybe next season he will..
Midwest amen
23:22 post
Arsenal interview May 2018
Ivan Gazidis/Mislintat/Raul Sanllehí interviewing Unai Emery, Arteta and the other candidates
Question; What do you know about our playing personnel
Interviewee answering; actually I don’t know that much
That’s the end the interview
I mean who shows up for a highly well compensated job interview without preparation?
I bet Arteta and everyone else interviewed had a dossier too. That will be what is expected.
Despite 3.5 cocktails I’m still feeling quite upset at the loss and Mustafi
Emery got the cm all wrong
Other problems today were glaring
We need 2 new cb
One new lb
Left winger
Right winger
Attacking mid
Back up striker as we sorely miss a third striker to rotate
Ugh it seems so uphill and I feel for emery but he has shit to chose from can’t blame him too much trying to rotate
When is Sokratis back?
Ok sok will be back against wolves
We need a win badly now
Emery needs to play the best now
No jenk elneny licht etc
Rest Mustafi until further notice
Guns of sf
The night is still young on your end
You’ll feel better when you get another dozen cocktails
Sunday night blues here in Cali
We need to get this loss out of our minds and focus on Wolves. Im hoping this was a wake up call of some sort. Trying to find a silver lining
Middy great post @2322.
Clear as day isn’t? Elneny, Jenkinson and Mustafi are not good enough and Emery if he has any sense will never play them again. Hopefully this loss has a silver lining in that these three will go straight on to the transfer list.
I know I’m stretching here for positives but honestly how many times must we see Mustafi catastrophically car crash our season?
what a terrible, terrible result. When I saw the line up, it looked shit. After palace got the first goal, I knew we were in trouble.
I will be very disappointed if we end up 5th because we had the chance to finish 3rd in the league.
elneny won’t get into that CP team, if he’s Better than every one else at the academy, you know we have a very shit academy. How is suarez not starting ahead of el neny ? El neny is decent when we are dominating, when we are not, he is not the guy to look to. Classic flat track bully trait.
AlexanderHenry “The club needs to acquire those players if it wants to finish top four on a regular basis, let alone actually win thePL.” Agreed but Emery’s tinkering with the team was Raneriesque and just down right stupid with the midfield that has been proven before to be dire. Valentin This ‘new to the PL’ BS has to stop. You rightly said the Guen/Elneny axis can’t work in the PL and Emery has had enough games, such as playing each PL team at least once to learn their strengths and weaknesses as well as his supposed extensive VDO research. Emery… Read more »
Mustafi has joined the likes of Squillaci, Silvestre, Pascal Cygan, Seanderos and Stephanos on the paragon of illustrious Arsenal CBs.
He tops it all by having a transfer fee higher than the combined total of his predecessors.
I like Jenks really.
He has 4 qualities. Tackling, Crossing, lots of Running and Fan Loyalty.
Everything else is however dire.
Dark Hei
Wenger really had an eye for defenders, didn’t he?
El Neny and Jenks were wenger era gems Its laughable Just sums up how much wenger fell as a talent scouter I remember the hype around El Neny, and he scored some long shots in his first season but did not do a lot else. Still to this day. Loves to keep possesion and not much else. A game like this could have used another dribble in Suarez. We needed creativity and attack mindedness. Mustafi was utter shit. Today was the icing on the shit cake he makes I wonder what life would be like if he still had Holding… Read more »
Haha Pascal Cuban. Just thinking of that guy makes me smile.
Er Cygan
Dark Hei “He (Jenks) has 4 qualities. Tackling, Crossing, lots of Running and Fan Loyalty.” That made me laugh! He has no positional sense or understanding of the offside rule. He does do lots of mindless running. He’s greedy sitting out his bloated contract instead of going to another team to better himself with playing time. He’s only playing now because we have no one else for RB. Lict was a Wengeresque signing and not playable at all, which at least Emery recognizes. But…….. Ozil had a good game, a great goal and would be great if he could play… Read more »
The loss to Crystal Palace yesterday is a serious and costly blow whichever way you assess it. The cost could be failure to finish in top 4 this season and not qualifying for Champions League. The two games against Crystal Palace and Brighton should have been our bankers and it would have meant that it eased the onus on our winning more than one away game from the three against Wolves,Leicester and Burnley. Reviewing calmly yesterday’s team selections our starting X1 was not fit for purpose and highlights the inadequacies of the current Arsenal squad. The reality is that we… Read more »
This would be my squad lineup for next season:
GK Leno
GK Martinez
CB New Player
CB Sokratis
CB Holding
CB Koscielny
RB Bellerin
RB Maitland-Niles
LB New Player
LB Kolasinac
DMF Torreira
DMF Xhaka
DMF Chambers [utility]
CMF New Player
CMF Guendouzi
CMF Willock
AMF Ozil
AMF/RW New Player
RW Nelson
LW Iwobi
ST Aubameyang
ST Lacazette
ST Welbeck
I say its time to let Kos go as well. He cannot last another season without another serious injury Keep him in some aspect to help the club but not as a player We need to let Danny go as well… dude just cannot stay fit not worth taking another risk with him So add to that… we need a third striker, and another CB We need someone with size and speed as well…. Our back line is no taller than 6 ft bar Mavro. Holding is just over 6 I think we need to be ambitious with our targets.… Read more »
if monreal leaves, we will need maybe 2 players in that position if Kola is not trusted as a pure full back
Guns of SF
Assuming that we buy a top class CB I would keep Koscielny as a fourth string
option.
I would keep Welbeck on my books as a squad utility forward who can play
in any position along front line if required.
I think that you need to be realistic. Arsenal are not going to spend £200 million+ in transfer window and more to the point we are not going to make
wholesale changes to the squad.
4 new additions plus 4 players who are currently out on loan or in U23 squad
is already a material change.
ES “You cannot blame Emery for that fact,” Actually you can totally blame Emery for the extremely poor team selection as I have said in my earlier post. Emery had options albeit not great options but much better than Emery offered. It’s not rocket science ES if you have the rookie and untested Mavs and the calamitous and continually error prone Mustafi as CBs, you should play the strongest midfield possible to help avert any extra needless pressure from a quick, strong offensive team. Kola, Ozil should be sold as well other than that I can accept your player list… Read more »
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Coutinho is 60% Ramsey + 40% Ozil. Arsenal shd go for him, whatever it takes.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing and I could say Emery lost the game yesterday when he picked the team he did but I won’t. I liked his intention. To be honest when I saw the team news I was quite surprised on how positive, that is, attack minded, Emery chose to go. He effectively chose to go the same route that he went on Thursday that won the game for us but just chose his fringe players to fill the positions. The problem was, the fringe players like Elneny, Jenkinson and Mustafi weren’t good enough…although this isn’t from a lack… Read more »