Wolves might not gamble on Arsenal tonight. I’m serious.

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Today is pretty much the Premier League version of the Europa Cup Final.

We head away to GIANT killers Wolves in the hope of securing a top 4 that’s been gift-wrapped for us.

Spurs won very late last night against a resolute Brighton (that f*cking sunk me).

Chelsea is a point ahead of us courtesy of that drab draw against Burnley.

Now we MUST leapfrog them into 4th.

Wolves are struggling. As Matt Scott pointed out yesterday, they’ve only 19 first team players in their squad and two of those are back up keepers. They have only won two games in their last 6 outings.

They haven’t had a great time since Watford beat them in the semi-final of the FA Cup after extra time. They lost 3-1 to Southampton and only managed a draw at home to Brighton on Saturday. Small teams with small squads aren’t usually that good when they have to play 3 games in a week. They have a revenge game in the league against Watford on Saturday, which is effectively a 6 pointer for them. There are 2 points between 10th and 7th, I would imagine Nuno Herlander Simões Espírito Santo wants the higher position because of his RAMPANT ego and the £5.7m additional prize money which goes a long way up North.

My strategic brain would say that if you were a TOP TOP manager, you’d probably fancy beating Watford away… so if you were to make rotation sacrifices with a tired squad, you probably SHOULD make them against Arsenal this evening.

No point in going all guns blazing against us tonight only to lose on Saturday. If I were Nuno Herlander Simões Espírito Santo, I would throw this evenings game and go big at the weekend (Wednesday client drinks VERSUS A FUCKING MAD RAGER on Friday in layman’s terms). I MIGHT be biased here… but even if I weren’t, I’d calculate that Arsenal rested big at the weekend, they lost in humiliating fashion and they’ll be coming with energy and purpose tonight.

So we’ll see… the counter to the above is we are usually shite away from home to counter-attacking sides and the Unai Emery press conference was a vigorous defence of a defender who is awful (and he’ll probs play). This was his defence.

“I want to protect the players, Mustafi is a very good player, a very good centre-back,”

“He has the habit – usually he is doing the sliding tackle and using anticipation against the opposition. He can win one, win two, win three, win four – but if he loses one he is the picture and if he concede a goal he is the big picture, Sunday was the same and happened with him.

“I have spoken to him: ‘You are young, you can improve and you need to work hard because you have a big quality for a centre-back.’

“He is young, he is improving and Sunday he is in the big picture because of the second goal. Who is in this picture? Mustafi – but it’s not his mistake. The mistake was tactical because we need to protect him with two centre-backs against (Wilfried) Zaha. I protect him because I believe in him.”

… err, Unai, the player is 27 years old. The same age Cobain died. The same age I am right now (it is TRUE). He’s not young, he’s in his footballing prime.

He then went on to ask a favour of the fans.

“I am going to say to our supporters, ‘Help our players.’ We need to take the criticism and be strong as players, as a coach, as a team, as a club. We need to improve knowing that.”

You can’t knock Unai here. He’s rallying the troops around a player who is obviously going through a really tough patch and I’d personally take that sort of management style over a Jose Mourinho lambasting him for being a disgrace to his mother. A manager c*nting a player might make you feel better, but it’s not good for trust. Mustafi isn’t trying to be average.

Let’s see what the Unai’s real intentions are in the summer when I have no doubt he’ll move him off to Italy or Spain.

Talking of the summer… lots of leaks and rumours that the war chest is more of a trinket this summer. The tiny sum of money that I reported way back in November looks near enough spot on. The more worrying thing is someone from the club mentioned there is a concern that the Champions League money won’t make it to the manager as an advance.

This does make sense though. We are a business and we can’t keep spunking money on players/wages without balancing the books. We have a £220m wage bill, we’re the 3rd highest net spenders in the league over 5 years, we’ve outspent Madrid since 2010 on a net basis… and we’re still rolling with Jenks in an decisive league match. I completely agree with the notion of ‘get your finances and squad in order before you come begging for money.’

There are lots of very expensive names we should be moving on, and we could see the cash benefit in wages and in fee in some places. Interesting that Sokratis, Auba, Ozil, Mikhi and Mustafi all have two years on their deals. Raul explicitly said something about not allowing players to venture beyond that juncture.

My big, big worry is that we’ll have to lose one of our stars because we didn’t make any money on Aaron Ramsey (who was foolishly allowed to pass the 2-year position in his deal). But if that is what has to happen, then that’s what will happen and we’ll just deal with it.

… there’s a sub concern that we don’t have a technical director in place or an experienced head of recruitment. I know there are folk that think that isn’t important, but then there are people out there that think tactics don’t matter… or underplay the importance of a manager, or believe the earth is flat, but rest assured, those people should be ignored.

Sven M came in for a year and nearly all of his signings have contributed to a more stabilised first season. We need someone who understands up and coming markets, someone that can give us a critical edge through tech implementation or someone with a very sharp eye, and we really need them in ASAP. I have deep fears handing over control to Raul and his backroom dealing ways.

… I also think Emery is hit and miss with players he likes (Denis is just a pretty boy). To be fair to him, there’s no way he’s going to have time in his day to scout effectively. I have no understanding of how the recruitment drive will be operating. Trust in Morrow and Cagiago I guess?

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bennydevito

That was fucking terrible! I’m sat in the corner Lacazette came in from and from 6 yards how the fuck did he sky that?!?

Danny

2 nil Wolves

Siddharth14

Game over !!

Radio Raheem

Lacacrap

TheLegendaryDB10

What an absolute crap attempt at a shot by Laca….. My oh my. Looks like we are in for a long night at this rate.

Jamie

Good night, gents. Enjoy the rest of the shit show.

Elmo

Hahaha. 2-0.

Un Na naai

Great ball Xakha
Great play Laca
Shit shot
Fuck sakes how did you hit it 29 yards wide from there

useroz

The shit show continues

Wolves 2 up

Poo poo defending.

Out attack looks so flat and toothless now.

Leftsidesanch

good thing my stream hasn’t been able to work at all, i won’t bother with it now.

zaco

ddkingz

“we would never get a result against wolves if we don’t attack them directly and force them to make mistakes..”

shit players pretending to be Xavi and Iniesta,

2-0
what a shame

Radio Raheem

Shitkratis

Jim Lahey

Can’t defend, can’t attack. Dog shit club

TheLegendaryDB10

What. The. Fuck. We are really having a shit night. Our defeat vs CP really is going to bite our arse tonight.

Micheal
Siddharth14

This is painful to watch really. We are getting our ass whipped here. There is no way we are going to score.

Our attack has hit a stasis.

Paulinho

Said it already a few weeks back, tank the league and rest up for Valencia.

We are not winning a league game without Ramsey except Brighton.

TR7

Emery is not the man we need. School boy defending in every single match. He hasn’t added anything to this squad either in defense or attack. I don’t care how others react but I am Emery out.

Un Na naai

Emery’s wonderful corner coaching at play again. Two set pieces
2-0 wolves
I don’t even know why we bother any more

Ash79

Felt like years ago we above spurs by a point…

Everton
Palace
Wolves

Thats 9 points in most seasons

MGooner

Match deciding PL crown

…and we are watching Wolves destroy Arsenal like poor people 😉

Un Na naai

Paulinho

Do me a favour
Rest up on the league
What the fuck are you on about
This is a humiliation
Not for the 4/5/6th time this season we’ve been embarrassed by lower teams.

useroz

Leno not determined enough to come and attack the cross. Just flapping like a fish out of water. Ugly.

No one pressed when the ball was crossed with all the time in the world.

Torreira covered 2 Wolves with Mikhi and AMN nowhere to be found.

Chrispy

Well at least 6th place is in our hands. Cunts

Danny

Might as well watch the derby, I mean what the fuck, we’re useless, but don’t worry lads, Emery will get us the Europa Cup, at least he’ll try.

TheLegendaryDB10

And all wolves players are offside as well…. as much as we need VAR … awful refereeing.

Rambo Ramsey

I’ve always maintained Laca is pony. Ffs Giroud had more grace on the ball than this donkey.

Samesong

Knew we would struggle to Wolves. Especially after the palace game.

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Get the yoot on

Leftsidesanch

An Arsenal side that can’t win away games doesn’t deserve champions league football. What was the fucking point effectively throwing the Palace game to do this?

BacaryisGod

Truly shocking for both goals. Mkhitaryan in particular is woeful today. Why were they two on one on the corner? How can we rush out when it’s obvious there will be players attacking the cross from an onside position ? Fingers will he pointed at Leno but he was left with no choice but to rush out and pray he gets there. God, it’s tough being an Arsenal fan.

London gunner

Game over.

Gane over.

We do not deserve cl football after what liverpool spurs and even city offer in the tournament.

Laughable to think that moving to emirates was going to turn us into the next bayern. Looooool more like the next everton scrapping with the watfords wolves and palaces of the league.

Wenger, gazidis and the board have damned us.

MGooner

Hmmm…. hard to get used to those sausages again, After 2 3 more years maybe, we’ll whine less. 😉

Jim Lahey

Doesn’t help when you have a complete bottler playing up front

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Danny
You can’t polish turd.

We are turd

Major clearout needed

gambon

Thanks god for Emery eh?

The Spanish Pulis delivering another masterclass.

We hear about his legendary preparation, yet every away game we looked terrified by the intensity of the play.

HighburyLegend

Europa league here we come!!

London gunner

Leno has been good this season but crosses is his kryptonite

Un Na naai

No pace
No flair
No creation

Just get it to the full back and pull it back
If there’s one donkey out there tonight it’s emery. Johnny one tactic

ddkingz

can’t even bother wasting my data and battery on this useless match…

like I said before, no way arsenal can get 3 points on this match…

now I feel the Everton and crystal palace match might hunt emery in his dream…

why play mustafi, elneny, jenks, guendouzi, mavro between those 2matches, that’s 6points thrown away when we actually needed it.

my question now is…. would you prefer the only way arsenal can get into the champions league should be a 90mins stand off with Chelsea?¿

that match is hazards parting gift to Chelsea and most likely sarri’s first trophy.

HighburyLegend

gambon : fuck off. Thanks.

Tomtom

what an absolute joke

Chris

Oh look we must be losing. Gambon is here.

London gunner

We needed a draw and are coming away with a loss. Serious bottle.

We needed to plag a composed tight game. We well and truly fucked that.

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

The club needs to out the theives at the club
Where has all the money gone.

Who’s had their hand in the till.

We are smaller as a club than we were 15 years ago

gambon

Wasted 9 months watching Emery create this absolute load of shit team.

Even if we got in the CL he would probably ask UEFA to put us in the Europa League, as thats the only competition where he isnt out of his depth.

Leftsidesanch

Gambon is a pathetic weasal, piss off.

Danny

Good goal.

useroz

Great. Fucking 3 down.

Fuck off.

azed

WTF?

London gunner

Un na

Emery has been very poor as of late but not as bad as wenger the incompetent.

luke

Hah, this is sad

Siddharth14

This is humiliation at it’s savage best.

Rambo Ramsey

Emery or no Emery, this is Arsenal’s future under Stanley- permanent mediocrity.

Dream10

We should definitely consider selling Lacazette this summer. He struggles to make an impact away from home. Physically limited and struggles to generate shots on goal. You just can’t have that from.your main #9

Elmo

3-0, and our GD advantage is all but gone.

Tomtom

I’ll be glad if we don’t make the top four, Kroenke has destroyed the club

Radio Raheem

Hahaha

Chris

Yes you are totally right about that Gambon, “ask to be put back in the Europa” lol

Danny

Siddharth
14April 24, 2019 19:17:05
We are getting a lesson in counter attacking football here. Can easily see us losing 3 nil.
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Try 4, 5 maybe even 6

TR7

Emery is all talk, no action. Keeps blabbering about tactics, work rate, discipline and other technicalities but when his team turns up on the pitch, football is nothing sort of embarrassing more often than not. Think of this- only one clean sheet in the entire league season and that too against a 10 men team who were still better than us on the day.

jasongms

Absolutely fucking disgusting

azed

Lacazette and Mkhi have been horrible tonight.

Radio Raheem

Where’s gambon and co.?

Un Na naai

Wenger out???
What a load of horse shit
Shove your modern arsenal up your arse

Paulinho

At least we have Xhaka’s ‘passing between the lines’ out there, and expert chance creator Ozil. Lol.

TheLegendaryDB10

This is just awful….

I was wondering whether we need a new team or a new manager. This is just crap. I don’t get how we are so shit away.

Micheal

Fuck off Kroenke – do us all a favour and fuck off

jasongms

And the thing is it’s so fucking simple.

BacaryisGod

By the way, Emery has been hapless this last week. Ripped the team up when we had the confidence for Palace at home (including fielding two blunt instruments in central midfield) and then plays a flimsy line-up when we should be getting a minimum of a point in a tough road game.

MGooner

Goodnight Gents.

azed

Xhaka has 2 assists for Wolves this season.

Samesong

Not watching the game but Lacazette and Auba are overrated. Neither are good enough for Arsenal.

Leftsidesanch

3-0 at Wolves, absolutely pitiful team with a terrible mentality and lack of ability which forever hurts us away from home.

Paulinho

Our team is trash.

On paper and reality no better than Wolves, Everton, West Ham.

Radio Raheem

Sokrashit at fault for two goals

Ash79

Summer surgery needed…mikhi etc get then fuckin out

Emery needs to look at himself too

Shambles.

1 clean sheet all season… unacceptable

Siddharth14

Have to say that AMN has been shocking in defence. He completely went AWOL for the third goal.

Let’s bring on the kids now. It’s Europa League or bust. And I don’t fancy us to reach the finals.

Ash79

We are an expensive Everton

Chris

Let’s face reality, we are a cup team at this moment in time. The best we can hope for from this season is that we add another, and a European one at that.

We obviously hope for better in the years to come but right now that is where we are at.

TheLegendaryDB10

TR7

I agree. All this talk about be string, being cinsustent and yet we show the complete opposite on the pitch. Makes you wonder what the fuck the players are doing in training.

Then again, we are being consistently shit away this season.

London gunner

Lol Arsenal has pretty much ruined my eveinga for the past couple of weeks coincides with spurs triumphs (bar the loss against city)

Spurs absolutely dominate teams we on the other hand play against them them as equals and scrap and flounder.

Spurs are far weaker financially and have a pathetic history compared to us but look where we are now an absolute joke of a team. Wenger has truly destroyed a once great club his legacy has left us in ruins.

We are 6th level team now.

useroz

Emery should just show the 1H highlights in the dressing room now.

Our forwards and attack play look (and is) slow and pathetic.

Danny

At home in November we nearly lost to this lot with a fluke equaliser in 86th

Leftsidesanch

And those saying to throw the league, for what? Because we’ll beat Valencia over two legs and Chelsea in the final. Look at what Wolves are doing to us for crying out loud.

Guernsey gun

Looks like it’s the ropey league next year, or win it this.

Champagne Charlie

Oh here we go, team is garbage, 6th best squad etc.

Emery is bang average, and we’ve not looked capable of defending all season long.

Guns of SF

Looks like its Europa or bust

DaveB666

What a fucking shot show of a team.

Un Na naai

3-0
Halt time
To fucking wolves!!
Emery the master tactician?? They’ve played rings around us
We are full and uninventive under emery. We have nothing but a 6 yard cut back.
What else do we have?
At least under wenger we were unpredictable in our attacking play. This is same shit but boring
At least we had flair before.

Kroenke out
Fuck kroenke

zaco

Ozil, Mkhi, and Xhaka should all be replaced with Nketia, Wilock and Guandouzi the young boys won’t be any worse and that would be the best response to their performances so far in this game

luke

Team just collapsed after the first goal really. I don’t know if I can handle watching another half of Ozil, Iwobi, Monreal triangles that go nowhere.

Doublethink

We’re fucked.

ddkingz

now I am laffing like a spurds fan… so funny been an arsenal fan.. on the weekend it was mustafi,.now it’s xhaka… I just hope the English FA gives xhaka the assist for that third goal, so lovely. instead of going forward with the ball, arsenal would always play in back into their own half… play wolves like you are Southampton or Newcastle and you would get a result, emery said no, he wanted to keep the ball possession. hope possession gives him 3points shit club… if only I can get to the emirate and poo at the center if… Read more »

Jim furnell

Utter Fucking Shambles

London gunner

Its insane. We need to not lose the plot we need to recoup and end the half two behind not three.

Emery has the team performing like wenger this is all to familar. The lack of composure, the lack of bottle and the complete naivety.

We played right into wolves hands after their first goal.

Dream10

Emery is not the manager to.make us a top side. No point in keeping him another season. Waste of time really

Leftsidesanch

I agree Zaco, worth putting them on as they can’t be any worse than these senior embarrassments

prvhc

I don’t think we’re going to achieve anything with this group of players.
Emery has to somehow motivate the shit out of them to win the Europa League and have a fire sale in the summer.We’re going nowhere without significant investment.
I’m watching City on the other channel and the physicality,technique and desire of their players and the intensity of their play is on another level.
Even our so called ‘elite’ strikers and playmakers have glaring flaws.

Un Na naai

My 3 year old wants to watch Iggle piggle.
Fuck it. It’s actually appealing right now