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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Paulinho
Come on nothing unlucky about that, he knew exactly what he was walking into.
Ramsey was iffy with the contract situation way before he set foot in the door and all of the horrible contracts were already signed up.
This Arsenal side cannot deal with a hint of pressure. It wouldn’t surprise me if they won the final three games to accidentally qualify for the CL now we’re being written off.
Elmo
Agree. Fairly certain we will surpass biggest title drought length since before the 30s. And despite all their nice pretty words the Kroenke’s won’t care so long as the Rams are challenging for the SuperBowl and making millions from their new stadium.
We definitely need changes in personnel . Mustafi, Iwobi, Kola, Elneny, Licht and Mikhi must be offloaded. I wouldn’t be averse to Ozil and Xhaka being offloaded too if we got good offers for them.
The squad is nowhere near good enough. It’s so unbalanced. Too many slow, sideways passers and not enough pace and movement.
Maybe Emery isn’t the answer. But the players he has at his disposal are just not good enough. Not many could I class as 1st 11 quality.
We have not progressed not one iota .
We win a few games and everyone gets excited as we we have been desperate for success for over ten years.
Emery bull shitted the board and got the job.
We have so much dross it’s hard to see where are going.
When Emery tries to defend Mustafi it tells us all.
Hopeless
Pierre
What did you expect Emery to say about a loan signing?
“Nah he’s fucking useless I’m off down the pub?”
Yeah agree with Weagle.
Emery has tried to be a bit too smart in being “Protagonists” and all that, ignoring the fact that he din’t have the players to do it.
He should have been a bit conservative in his approach but I feel that the unbeaten run gave him a bit of confidence in his methods. He is probably just understanding now that the PL is totally a different animal altogether.
When Emery tries to defend Mustafi it tells us all.
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So you’d rather he doesn’t defend one of his players and announces he wont play him again ever, is that what you’d prefer?
Be serious.
Give Rmery a break, 20 years of Institutionalised Wengerism in not easy to undo overnight
Trouble is, we haven’t got anyone upstairs to do a decent job at buying or selling players, or so it would seem at least.
Another fine mess Stanley
Pierre- Your point is? I suppose you believe politicians to when they exchange niceties.
WE – Yeah, he’s not going to turn down the Arsenal job on the basis of that, but he’s still unlucky he joined just six months after we handed ridiculous contract to Ozil, and Ramsey’s contract left to the last year and not being able to afford to renew.
Give Emery a break, 20 years of Institutionalised Wengerism is not easy to undo overnight
CC We hired a manager that had a certain football philosophy but we didn’t have the players to implement that philosophy, and the owner is not going to give Emery the money to buy the players to implement that philosophy . And that is why his appointment was wrong from day one …It was doomed to fail. There are a few of us who post on Le Grove who recognised this and refused to be fooled by the odd decent result. We took the criticism but we were right , we are in decline under Emery , the quality of… Read more »
We need to come out of this stupid intricate/possession based football.
Shit, give away the ball to the other team and counter attack.
Wolves are absolutely one of the best counter attacking teams now in PL and we played right into their hands today.
If Emery had a choice now it’s obvious he would reverse the roles, and throw that in with a sub-standard squad, I’m really not sure what people are expecting.
Losing to Wolves in the fashion we did is par for the course considering the circumstances.
“In an ideal world the following players need to be fucked off:All of them,Every single fucking one. I would sell the entire squad, and start with the youth team, then add senior players from there.”
Hear, hear. Excepting a very few of our younger players, AMN, Holding, Torreira, maybe Bellerin, I’d be just fine with not seeing most of this squad wear the shirt again.
So many painstakingly average to useless players in that squad
Iwobi
Ozil
Xhaka
Mikhitaryan
Kilasinac
Cech
Leichsteiner
Jemkinson
AMN
Montreal
Koscienly
El Neny
What manager would have this pile of crap and accept the job
Emery must have been an idiot for accepting the Arsenal gig without proper backing
Pierre
What would Ozil outlasting the manager do for the future of Arsenal football club?
Emery must have been an idiot for accepting the Arsenal gig without proper backing
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5 and a half million quid a year says otherwise…….
What quality?
Someone mentioned the other day that we should play route 1 shit against Wolves and I’m hearing we tried to do that possession base shit. What a joke.
Paulinho
“Walked into a situation where we are losing our best player by a million miles on a free transfer, and our worst player is on 350K. ”
I didn’t know Mustafi was on 350k /week. Or is it Xhaka? Iwobi?
Ozil, Mustafi and Auba = Out
1 CB, 1 Winger, 1 CM = In
If possible replace Jenks, Leich, Elneny with academy products.
We need 6 new bodies in. No doubt.
Solsjkaer has the same issue with United. Overrated trash squad and now there will be a load of people saying he’s not good enough.
Marc and Paulinho
You are defending the indefensible.
Emery cocked up over the Suarez signing when he could have brought in someone who plays in a position that needed reinforcing.
Saurez was always going to find it difficult to get game time , not difficult to predict was it .
Pierre
Emery isn’t going anywhere end of season, irrespective of whether I’d be fine with him getting replaced.
You’re being obtuse with those remarks about quality, he’s just not a good fit as I see it, nothing to do with trying to destroy quality.
Ozil should be gone. He’s another that’s simply not a good fit anymore, and I’m a huge admirer of his.
Frankly there isn’t one player indispensable to our side. If we can sell and improve it doesn’t matter the name as far as I can tell.
Pierre – He wanted Perisic. As soon as Inter blocked that we settled for Suarez.
And there was the small issue of having no money to spend.
Pierre
Also not difficult to predict that you spell Suarez’s name wrong every time you bitch about him.
Paulinho He could easily have turned the job down if he honestly felt that the gig was a loser with the personnel at his disposal and a lack of super-funds i.e Pep-esque to reinvest into reviving the club would be provided. His reputation if he fails miserably here will take a pretty significant hit and affect his ability to get top job offers elsewhere. It was pretty clear for anyone that watched us this past couple of seasons that major surgery is required for this squad to compete again, the odd 20m signing here or there will do very little… Read more »
I really hope Raul doesn’t do a Gazidis , settle in, spend his time sucking up to the power brokers of the club, and getting a nice easy life in the process.
If he is like that, this summer is not going to be fun
Ole did already fail at Cardiff tbf.
Solksjaer isn’t good enough.
He’s an absolute bum.
UTD have been outplayed in every single match since he joined.
“I always said Ozil will outlast Emery and I believe he will be gone at the end of the season .
Hopefully we will employ a manager who recognises and embraces quality instead of trying to destroy it.”
When was the last time Ozil played consistent, “quality” football? 2-3 years ago?
@samesong,
It was me and I was ridiculed for that by the usual suspects.
I was also advocating that Nkethia needed to play as a winger, because he would be a better fit in that position. And guess what he showed in the few minutes he was on the pitch that he was ready and was a better fit.
How do you honestly get rid of Ozil, Mkhitaryan, Aubameyang [at anything other than a loss], Mustafi, etc?
What clubs will be eyeing up that sorry lot?
WE – Emery might have known it was loser gig for the first season, but obviously his plan is over time to change the make up of the squad and hope Ozil fucks off at some point to facilitate that,
I have never ever seen a bigger wimp then Mesut Ozil he shouldnt be a professional footballer he has got no heart no fight nothing and the guy is on 300 grand a week it is criminal.
In our financial position, regardless of what happens to Emery, we need to get into the CL to have any chance of successfully rebuilding.
I think we all know we can’t realistically beat Leicester away from home. We have to get a draw, and hope that Chelsea lose at OT; that would put us in 4th on GD with 2 games to go (level on points with both Chelsea and United).
That’s our only chance.
“Losing to Wolves in the fashion we did is par for the course considering the circumstances.”
Give me a break. Rafa took Newcastle there and only a 95th minute equaliser prevented them taking all 3 points.
Arsenal were 3 down at half time, you’re becoming laughable with the Emery deflections.
The “circumstances” were the side being woefully ill prepared, and abject as a whole.
Weagle
We’ll probably take a loss on almost all our players to dispose of them but we absolutely must let them go….Still can’t believe someone sanctioned the transfer fee for Mustafi till date
Gambon – Their squad is still poor though. Incredibly similar to Arsenal in that you look at their players and know they are not capable of controlling games. Full of someone talented individuals with holes the size of the grand canyon in their games.
I rate our squad higher.
Paulinho “He wanted Perisic. As soon as Inter blocked that we settled for Suarez.” I follow Inter in Serie A and Thank God we didn’t get Perisic. Another aging footballer on huge wages who’s lost a step from a year or two ago. Definitely not what we need(ed). Same goes for Suarez. Why did we (Emery) settle for him? What is his position anyway? We could’ve gotten literally any CB from a Championship league and it would’ve been a better deal. LB, RB, or a speedy winger would’ve been welcomed as well. No money? Then don’t fucking bring anyone. And… Read more »
“Give me a break. Rafa took Newcastle there and only a 95th minute equaliser prevented them taking all 3 points.”
Talk about dumb logic.
Huddersfield beat them 2-0 there,and so your point is?
“That’s our only chance.”
Wrong. We’ll win the ECL.
Arguing the wrong point about Suarez surely..
Who the fuck else thought a winger was the priority if we could only manage to bring one guy in?
It was a defender all day long, Holding out, Monreal and Kos injured, Bellerin out. Huge oversight.
“Ramsey being injured was probably the worst thing that could happen to our season and that is no exaggeration.”
Agreed. Ramsey has been the heart of this club this season. Often the only player showing any heart at all this season. He’s proudly worn the jersey and I’ve been proud to see him wear it. So typical of the Arsenal of 2019 that he’s been shown the door with the club citing poverty, greed, and Ozil’s wages as reasons why he had to go, as Kroenke and co line their pockets and build a new stadium in LA.
Paulinho How many years would that take though? I mean he bought LT, Leno and Sokratis in and the latter is already 31 this summer, you can’t build your future around guys like that. Auba and Laca are our best two forward players and they will be 28 and 30 this summer. Ramsey has left. Bellerin will do well to come back the same player. We need at least 6-7 new players and most of them to be starters, spacing it out over the course of < 2 seasons. No chance we do this without some pretty heavy investment. Look… Read more »
“Hopefully we will employ a manager who recognises and embraces quality instead of trying to destroy it.”
lol lil’ Pierre who firmly believe Emery will be out next summer, it ain’t cute ??
Paulinho
No dumb logic is citing the first time Wolves have been up 3+ goals at half time in the prem as “par for the course” when playing arsenal because of “circumstances” to absolve Emery of any accountability.
I hate to say it, but realistically, we could have fared better with a Banega out there today than what we put out. Banega over Ozil… or Mikki
Anyone its water under the bridge
I think we will need a really solid game plan against foxes
We need a point at least
Man U will beat chavs- after 3 beatings in a row they are due for a win
Bati
Good luck with that, forget about the fees who the fuck is paying those wages?
Also, most of these young lads really good with trading London life for some quaint town?
Emery will get another season, he needs that before anyone can realistically judge him.
He needs to improve things in that time though
gambon
A few weeks ago you had Solksjaer on a pedestal declaring they were going to give us an almighty thrashing …..joke fan
Weagle
Sacrilegious how we got to this stage, amazing that we’re not even further behind than we are this season too…think our final league position might even flatter us as those around us have equally been shit
David Smith
What he needs more importantly though is proper investment I’m the squad, doesn’t matter who the gaffer is, we’re probably going to be having same kind of discussions this time next year if we keep fielding Iwobi, Mikhitaryan and Ozil as our creative players
Regarding personnel, I hope that Emery will suddenly believe in the bright young talent he has at his disposal instead of sticking with proven unreliable and/or médiocre players such as Mustafi, Elneny, Jenkinson, Mhikitarian.
We should beat Leicester and Burnley as long as we ditch that slow build-up possession based system. However I am pretty sure that stubborn Emery will stick with those tactics.
If so, Bar a miracle, it is Europa League again next season.
Also props to our strikers this season, they’ve barely gotten any decent service from those behind them but have managed to hit good numbers…..
Charlie – Did they score more then? Nope it stayed at three. Who cares when they scored the goals.
Sort of pointless stat only you could attach some significance to.
The circumstance/s which actually has some relevance is Wolves playing much better against top six sides with less expectation on them, and that top side playing four games in nine days with a host of injuries. Genius Rafa probably spent over a week preparing for Wolves in their historic 1-1 draw.
It’s alright lads, we’ll get 2 wins back to back and 90% of the fan base will be awash with optimism and there will be an Emery love in……until the next shit show. Why did anyone expect tonight to be different to the entire season away from home? Our one clean sheet was against a side that played with 10 men and our goal was hardly goal of the month material. Anyone who was at the Emirates on Sunday who had any doubts about whether Emery is the way forward should have finally had that definitive wake up call. 3… Read more »
Bati
Ha, we can only pray that some fat-cat from China reminisces over an Ozil highlight reel from 2011-12 and sign him up for silly money, otherwise we’re stuck with the worm.
Yeah not a good spot to be in, would honestly prefer to clean house at this stage as they are few players that I even want us to persist with next season, besides maybe Toreirra and Leno I’d be happy enough with chopping the rest up.
Wolves 3 Arsenal 1
Paulinho
There you go, off down your bitchy little road when your belief is questioned. Been Ramsey for donkeys, not Emery getting that special love.
Yeah I asked the question before and got some pretty weak responses about what Emery has really improved upon from AW’s record pathetic last season in charge.
When the ‘development’ of Iwobi is cited as one of the main improvements you have to laugh.
Weagle
Yea those two for me too, and maybe Lava but doesn’t matter who the striker is as there’s no support on the wings and all our no 10s are absolutely gash
Charlie – And yeah, how spectacularly misplaced my faith in Ramsey was eh.
Also we’re probably the only team alongside Chelsea with no goals coming from Midfield.
Yup we definitely need to hit the reset button on this football club
Arsenal have bigger fish to fry like winning the Europa league.
WengerEagle
As far as I can see both Torreira and Guendouzi have regressed since the beginning of the season and the latter is expected to carry the weight in midfield. I’ve never been a huge Ramsey fan but what is it going to cost us to replace him? Didn’t get in look in for the first half of the season and now his absence is probably the final push towards 6th.
WE – How much can you polish a turd though? On one hand you’re acknowledging how crap our squad is, then wanting examples of Emery significantly improving them.
WengerEagle
I can’t recall Arsenal losing 8-2 in Wenger’s record pathetic last season in charge.
The turnover we need for this squad won’t happen this summer. Last year we weren’t aggressive enough in really shifting the deadwood and I fear more of the same.
There are members of this team who aren’t good enough and cannot be carried along anymore. If we somehow win our final three and a result in Uniteds favour on Sunday then remarkably we will end up in the CL.
With this squad we’d do well to make it out the group stages.
Paulino
That squad can definitely be improved on, everyone agrees on that but it is capable of beating Palace at home and keeping more than 1 clean sheet away from home. to be fair WE, like me is struggling to find examples of how Emery has improved anything since Wengerball.
Paulinho
I’m not going to bother going there with you on Ramsey, you feel vindicated by a bosman contract. I tend to look at his decade long contributions.
Paulinho Well it’s one of the major markers of being a top manager, getting more out of a group of players than an average manager [Wenger]. Nobody was expecting Emery to challenge for the PL but we’re only 3 points better off than last season, by far AW’s worst at the club with 3 left to play and he did spend 70 million which isn’t exactly nothing. We’re conceding goals at the same rate, still losing away from home more often than not and have only a marginally improved record H2H vs the top 6, which was historically bad under… Read more »
Firstly, once again- excellent work by author PedRo for flagging up Luke and his uncle’s charity EAAA….. and well done to everyone who has contributed…. proper Arsenal fans look after their own…. A tumultuous evening back there in The Black Country- by the sounds of it.. But no surprise whatsoever- when I heard the score line. And I predicting by 3pm this Sunday – Arsenal will have shelled 10 goals within 6 days of Premier league soccer. Vardy, Maddison and Maguire will all probably be on the score sheet. Ironically all 3 players – should be AFC players buts that’s… Read more »
EL Gooner – And it was set to beat Palace until Mustafi effed it up.
Emery won’t improve anything to people’s satisfaction until the personnel is changed.
Guardiola came in to City, and appeared to improve things straight away, but they eventually stalled and reversed when they hit a wall due to lack of personnel in key positions, culminating in their passing game going to pieces away at Everton in a 4-0 defeat. He needed that following summer to regroup, buy again,and then go again the next season.
“I tend to look at his decade long contributions.”
And come to laughably bad conclusions.
We were set to beat Palace? First half I think we may have had one shot on target? First ten minutes of the second half were promising but outside the 2 goals and an Iwobi shot at the end there was nothing. Yes Mustafi, effed up but the Zaha goal came from classic schoolboy defending from Mo and Kos both jumping for a header and managed to put each other off. Sunday league defending. Agree on Pep but Emery decided to let Ramsey leave, chase perisic and Suarez and suspect Carrasco would have had similar luck to Suarez. Do you… Read more »
I really don’t understand Emery. We played so well vs Napoli and Spuds away. We let them have the ball and we played counter. Before today’s game, every body knew damn well that Wolves will play counter. We still walked straight into their trap. Furthermore, we played this slow buildup. They had lots of time to park the bus. How can you create anything if they have 8 men inside the box. Also, we don’t have winger to beat the defender and cross the ball into the box. Both Iwobi and Mikki were so timid today. They didn’t try to… Read more »
“We should beat Leicester and Burnley as long as we ditch that slow build-up possession based system. However I am pretty sure that stubborn Emery will stick with those tactics.”
I don’t see many in the squad who can play quick, incisive football. I see a lot of tidy players who keep it safe.
Ozil only turns it on now and again. Ramsey’s the only midfielder who drives us forward. And we have very little threat out wide since we got rid of Sanchez, Walcott and ox.
“Ozil should be gone. He’s another that’s simply not a good fit anymore, and I’m a huge admirer of his. Frankly there isn’t one player indispensable to our side. If we can sell and improve it doesn’t matter the name as far as I can tell.” Agreed. It’s possible to both like Ozil generally and think that he should go. It seems like there is generally a bipolar fan reaction to Ozil–either he is the single biggest problem at this football club (he’s not), or he’s Dennis Bergkamp 2.0 (he’s not). Either everything is his fault (nah), or nothing is… Read more »
El – Well Emery is the coach, and the people above ultimately control who comes in, but yeah I have faith in him knowing what we need to play his style more effectively. He’s not going to sit back and defend deep, his philosophy is always to be front-foot and aggressive, and you can’t do that with players like Iwobi. It’s like a boxer with no power coming forward throwing loads of nothing punches with no defence. It isn’t going to end well. Are there actually any players out there, for limited money, we can buy that will fit Emery’s… Read more »
WengerEagle trying to make out Wenger’s last season was Arsenal’s nadir when their were many nadir seasons under Wenger.
Emery is dim. Wait for him next match to totally revert to the same players that have failed him all season. Amaechi and Saka are tearing it up at U-23 yet our first team is crying for a winger and Emery has refused to look their way. He was going to ignore Nketiah today until he had no choice. Yet, our 3rd choice striker and makeshift winger still did more in 20 minutes than Iwobi and Mikny had done all game. If by week 34, Emery does not know the following then he probably will never get it: 1. We… Read more »
The kids at Arsenal are shit Iwobi being a prime example.
I think that tonight’s result against Wolves highlights just how weak Arsenal’s squad is in its quest for a top 4 finish. We do not have the playing resources once you lose five or six players to injury or suspension. The idea that Arsenal will have a net transfer budget of just £40 Million with the number of expected departures and limited incoming transfer revenue is plain ridiculous My guess is that next season Arsenal will struggle to make a top six place let alone qualify for a Champions League qualification unless there is serious investment in our squad. Does… Read more »
So glad Emery hasn’t fallen for the same trap which befell Wenger and Pochettino, in liking top 4 as a triumph
Wish I could be certain the owner actually cared ES.
Not sure I believe those figures, but if true, would explain the difficulty in keeping and recruiting the men upstairs
This game called for 2 strikers
Especially with their 5 man midfield
How bad are auba sinuses for God’s sake
Wrong time wrong time
Doubt he would have made a difference
At least he is rested
Need to win at 🦊
“4. WHAT IS THE POINT OF OIL?”
Well, without it Man City would still be a perpetually mediocre club haha 😀
Yeah, maybe Emery should have brought this group further along at this point in certain ways, but tonight is on the poverty of the squad. Monreal – not good enough anymore Sokratis – good not great Koscielny – good Maitland-Niles – not good enough Xhaka – not good enough Torreira – not good enough Ozil – not good enough Lacazette – good but not good enough Iwobi – not good enough Mkhitaryan – not good enough Leno – good If you look at everything a footballer brings to a match — technical ability, athleticism, intelligence, mentality — the Wolves first… Read more »
Mics
“4. WHAT IS THE POINT OF OIL?”Well, without it Man City would still be a perpetually mediocre club haha
Ozil not Oil.
So shite auto correct mistakes him for oil.
Leno mistake for all 3 goals .
Leno has issues with crosses which is like a surgeon having issues with blood.. not good
You were sucking the farts out of Leno’s arse on here very recently you little cretin.
Red
Not the first. That was on the wall if it was on anyone. It was a great shot, though.
One game against Man Utd ….big deal…
The coach should know that his players are not good enough to play a system, He should come up with a system that suit the players. We had a system that beat Napoli, Spuds, Manure, Chelsea. Instead, he uses a slow buildup procession based system that have been failed so many times before.
Second goal was on Leno. Came out and flapped at air. Very poor.
Which of our first XI players tonight would start for Wolves? Koscielny, Lacazette, maybe Torreira. Maybe. No one else, in my opinion.