3 games against teams outside the top six. Three defeats. 9 goals conceded.
An abrupt end to our top 4 hopes you would think.
A pretty horrendous day out in general. It looked like we setup to give Leicester possession. We were totally overrun in midfield start to finish. The players were afraid, they sat deep, they dropped off and they allowed themselves to be bullied.
AMN found himself sent off for two pretty innocuous fouls, but hey, that’s Michael Oliver. We’d given up 71% possession at that point, hardly like that sending off was going to save our bacon. We were always going to lose.
Arsenal scrambled into halftime, a real low was seeing Papa point to the clock to sooth the nerves of his nervous players. Players begging for halftime. Scrambling against a mid table team like it was a City masterclass they were hiding from. Really embarrassing.
Second half saw the intro of Kos to stabilise the defence. We looked a touch better, but then the floodgates opened.
There’s no point in going through it goal by goal, needless to say that being easily beaten by a side that KNEW they’d take us down, was not good.
Emery has a tough job on his hands. There was only one player out there I’d keep on next season, and that’s the keeper. Everyone else is expendable.
The manager is culpable. He was gift wrapped top four this week and he’s flunked it badly. His selection against Palace was baffling, his game plan at Wolves was awful, and he made mistakes again yesterday. We have bottled the top 4 against much weaker teams.
“Our gameplan was to be strong in our defensive moments and in our attacking moments, to take our chances, attacking their back four,”
With a game plan so complex, it’s hard to fathom why we struggled. A few brief thoughts. We played Mustafi again, I’m all for charitable suppprt, but he’s finished. Bigger thought here is this: if the young players can’t oust someone so utterly broken, do they really have a future?
Xhaka and LT had no control of the midfield, both struggled hugely under the physical pressure placed on them. The Swiss is 80% good, 20% awful. That awful shows up too often. He’s like a fancy orchid, you need to find the absolute perfect conditions for him to thrive, that’s not good enough at Champions League level. LT just looks shot to pieces. How long will it take Arsenal management to realise that power and pace is what it’s all about in this league?
Our wide players offered nothing. We have to be real about Iwobi. He’s limited. He’s not improving. We are chasing the ‘he’ll make it’ dragon. He doesn’t assist, he doesn’t score, he has limited locomotion, and he loses the ball under pressure. Mikhi showed signs of promise for about 10 milliseconds, but it’s over for him. He just doesn’t cut the mustard. Very disappointing. So much talent, very little application.
Our strikers were poor outlets and offered nothing. They’ve given us so much edge this season, but in games like yesterday, where brute force and hard pressing is on the menu, those two are lost. By the way, Leicester have some brilliant young players. Maddison and Tielemans were so good. I also enjoyed the performance of Choudhoury, super intense, aggressive and effective. How has Leicester found these players? Why isn’t our youth setup producing talent like theirs?
That was a nothing game. The reality is that Emery is just here as a transition. He’s solid and dependable, but there’s no next level. He’ll have good days and he’ll have bad days. But the simple reality is he’s made a very limited impact on us being protagonists. We literally approached Leicester like we were playing Barca away. The defence has gotten worse, we have no consistent style, our away form is diabolical and we are still soft. He’s also been incredibly lucky this season. Our conversion rate is the best it’s ever been, that won’t last.
We are better against top 6 sides, but what’s that worth if you blow the top 4 with 6 games to go against cloggers?
Still, he’ll land another year where he’ll be charged with rebirthing the squad with new blood and I think you’ll be disappointed with what it reaps. You can’t have an ok manager and bad recruiting, but that’s the reality of what’s about to happen. Raul hasn’t hired a technical director, he didn’t replace Sven M, so we are going into the summer either using Sven’s old list, or with an exec that passed on Tielemans to bring in Denis Suarez.
With better coaching, we’d have seen those three games out. It wasn’t to be, and now we have to beat a solid Valencia side and cross our fingers Chelsea don’t show up.
… and don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying fire him. I’m just saying what I’ve said all season. We have made lots of bad decisions with recruiting and they are going to bite us hard over the next 3 years.
Still, despite all the AKBs enjoying this… I’d not have changed out this season for another with Wenger under any circumstances. That attitude is loser talk my friends.
A miserable week. Bring on the Europa. Pray United and Chelsea draw. Hope Emery brings the Habanero on Thursday. Xx
I don’t think Laca will wait out another season in the EL if a big cub comes calling.
I could not give a fuck if he pissed off. Never met such a moody twat in all my life. And it’s not like he’s playing that much better.
If we dont win EL, I would be okay with Simeone or Conte.
Our players need steel in their bellies.
“Never met such a moody twat in all my life.”
Lol, the irony
Players wanting out should be shown the door pronto.
Need to clear out as much as possible.
If Klopp, Guardiole or whoever worked with peanuts, you would expect them to get monkeys.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2019/04/28/unai-emery-breaks-arsene-wengers-unwanted-record-arsenals-defeat-leicester-9331034/amp/
Pedro You can’t say a manager isn’t up to it and then say “There was only one player out there I’d keep on next season, and that’s the keeper. Everyone else is expendable.” “His selection against Palace was baffling” er more down to injuries etc. ” LT just looks shot to pieces. How long will it take Arsenal management to realise that power and pace is what it’s all about in this league? ” Torreira looks knackered and with a world cup last summer and no mid season break it’s not a surprise. Torreira is not the problem. Emery isn’t… Read more »
Charlie me being moody is acceptable because it affects no one. A footballer on a football pitch in a team sport is different. Come on man
Un’s actually looking for reasons to slag off the club as if we need it today.
Wenger’s never coming back and real fans will always celebrate when he went – the clown school need to get that through their heads.
Marc,
The manager couldn’t see off 3 teams he’s outperformed all year.
The players are part responsible, but the manager has to take a large chunk of that. Poch would have seen that out. Bad tactics, bad selection, and shabby rotation.
He’s just not that good.
“No spoilers please
I’m waiting til the end of the season to binge watch it”
Kudos to your self control bruh
Marko
Laca is clearly loved by his teammates, I thought that was an obvious one? You’re reaching if you think he’s causing any rift or whatever.
That said, we don’t have a player that we desperately need to keep so they’re all up for sale if the price is right
Not sure why people are still banging on about top four
We would not make it out the group stage of CL
But in the words of the great Jessie J
It’s all about the money money
Who fvcking cares about mediocre Arsenal when Winterfell battle episode is coming up in a few hours?”
Hahaha,can’t wait, bet a scene would be more interesting than anything Emery’s Arsenal could come up with this season
Can’t waste a second on these cunts anymore this season
Telling that his most ardent fan on here(Joe) has given up on him already ,Guy has been found out
Getting beat by 3 midtable teams in a row and conceding a total of 10 goals..hahahaha
What a shite manager
Pedro
The Poch had has 4 previous seasons to put a squad together and is 4 (that’s four) points above us.
Our squad needs a major revamp and yet the special sauce manager has managed 1 win and 1 draw better than us so far.
Today is not the day to let emotions decide what player stays and what player goes. We all know the first players who need to be out the door and it’s nothing to do with today.
My major question is what players would the Poch have picked today from who was available?
““No spoilers please
I’m waiting til the end of the season to binge watch it”
Major kudos.
Evening Grovers, Good post Pedro but a couple of points I disagree with: 1 – The selection against Palace really wasn’t baffling at all. Ramsey and Xhaka were injured, Torreira was nursing a groin strain, Monreal was recovering from illness and Sokratis was suspended. Who else could we have played instead of those who were forced to come in? 2 – you question the logic in giving away 71% of the possession against Leicester yet against Wolves we had something like 73% of the possession, lost 3 – 1 and had only 1 shot on target. Possession or not, we’re… Read more »
Anyone else have Kodi??
What is the point of a new manager if you are only going to make incremental adjustments..
May as well kept Wenger and indulged in my fsvoirite pastime of Wenger bashing.
Kudos for what season 8’s been shite. You wait two years and they tell you there’s only going to be 6 episodes and then they offer up that as two episodes
Also doesn’t matter a jolt what chavs or united do with their remaining fixtures
We’re still likely to fvck it up, would seriously be amazed if we don’t get beat by both Brighton and Burnley
Both teams play better football than us
We ain’t getting CL footie next season because quite simply we’re not good enough and don’t deserve it
Our Players are dog site and now seems to have given up on the manager already, that’s a recipe for disaster
they don’t want him anymore than we do
@Vic
Joe isn’t the most ardent.
That is reserved to Red/Marble
How many league games has the great Pochettino lost. ?
Marc, the special sauce manager didn’t buy a player last summer, had a WC depleted squad to deal with, is in the CL semi final and will finish 3rd.
He’s special sauce on a different level.
Emery won’t ever take us to those levels, he’s not good enough.
Benny,
You are right, it’ll be tough to get a manager to make fast changes, trouble is, we’re not on a journey to anything under Emery. He setup against Leicester like we were parking the bus at Camp Nou
How many points did Pochettino take off Arsenal this season ?
I would take Benitez as interim with Vieira as his side kick for two years.
We need winners and tougher management to rattle the clubs cages.
Starting to worry that Valencia aren’t as bad as I’d hoped
Pedro
Will you give emery some good will until Jan at least. He deserves the TW and he may still win the Europa
Would Europa be enough for some leverage?
Pedro
Even if we hadn’t parked the bus, we would have lost. It happened against Wolves.
Victorious. That’s about it.
The players seem to be on the beach already
If he can’t motivate the players to fight for CL. Something they all love to play in then he doesn’t have it.
Same as wenger. Doesn’t seem to be able to make lemonade from lemons
Spurs are 3rd because the league is bog standard.
Spurs are 3rd because emery couldn’t get hah players to man up at most important time of the season while the other 3 teams are shitting the bed.
The real issue is the lack of belief in the team
3 losses will do that to confidence
We need that back… i hope we get it done the next 2 games at home. We need to win those to get the belief back
Our mids have been woeful, we cannot create shit even from the wings
If we have to get all archaic again so be it
Play the long ball!
6th place Valencia lost to 10 place Eibar 1 nil at home today
so me thinks….. we can do this
Look how many points Liverpool and Man City have accumulated. The standard of competition in the league is dire.
The most owrrying thing is that we are finishing the season worse than we started it. That completely negates the whole “its his first season” argument. I would have been more than happy to give Emery more time if we were seeing progress. We’re not seeing any progress at all, we’re seeing regression. £70m, 10 months of daily training, and we’re seeing nothing. Even basic pattern recognition leads you to the conclusion that next season we will concede c50 goals, and lose most of our away games. Emery will get another season, mainly because the club has a cluster fuck… Read more »
It really is going to be Arsenal vs Chelsea in the next few weeks.
We will likely go into the last PL game with a shot at beating them to 4th place.
Then we will probably play them in the EL final.
I expect us to fuck both up.
Didn’t you get the memo gambon, what is a manager supposed to do make players perform better?
Next thing you’ll be telling me that strikers are supposed to score goals.
Has anyone seen this?
Check out @Holdini_16’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/Holdini_16/status/1122200214918578182?s=09
This single handedly redeems Merson for all his terrible punditry! 🤣🤣🤣
It’s brilliant.
Joe, I speak to people at the club. It’s not getting better. Emery is a hard worker, but he doesn’t have it.
Gambon laid it out perfectly.
Valencia is no easy tie toying with 4th in league, 3 points back and into the Copa del Rey final vs Barca later in May.
Sell Mustafi bring in Boubacar Kamara from Marseille.
Have to get rid of these Wenger defenders including Kos who is shot now.
gambon
“He is just tinkering for tinkerings sake. He is treating us as an experiment, because he doesnt give a fuck about league football, he is absolutely obsessed with the Europa League.”
Won a league title with PSG lol lol lol lol lol lol
sal
I think we’ll be OK vs Valencia.
Its PL teams we struggle with.
In fact it just seems to be any level of intensity. We stroll through games.
The only time we up the pace is against slower opposition. The second a team picks up the pace we clearly wilt.
Hence why we can beat Napoli, and get destroyed by average PL teams.
Also hence why we are so different home and away.
Teams that arent Man City or Liverpool play with far less intensity away.
You like Konate Ishola?
“Won a league title with PSG lol lol lol lol lol lol”
Also lost a one horse race the year before.
I like Konate.
Probably prefer his partner, but dont think Upamecano will be sold.
Wan Bissaka, Konate and Chilwell would be my choices to improve this defence. Another CB as well.
WengerEagle
You like Konate ?
Very strong isn’t he and he is decent player good at intercepting but I think he jumps in a bit too much at times.
I think this Marseille kid has a higher ceiling and has better temperament than him as well.
I’d be okay with Vieira in the summer. But again all pointless unless there’s significant squad turnover
Pedro
The people at the club. What do they say? Emery gets the full season? Short rope?
gambon
“Also lost a one horse race the year before.”
Lost to Monaco who reached the Champions league Semi-Final lol
“Lost to Monaco ”
Where are Monaco in Ligue 1?
Not sure we have enough money to make many changes in the squad. Can’t see a way out of the quagmire we are in.
Didn’t Valencia go two up against Barca at their place and beat Madrid?
Hoping they are lightweight like Napoli
Joe, Emery stays whatever happens. No TD, no chief scout, and he has a 3 yr deal.
I don’t think it will get better, but Raul will stick with him unless he loses his mind and finds his balls.
bennydevito
April 28, 2019 19:18:12
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Thanks for that.
Slightly eased the pain of today’s display.
They’re shit Pedro, they have that scrub Marcelino as their gaffer.
Confident as well that cup manager Unai will get past Valencia, although first leg being home not ideal cause theres little doubt well loose the away leg need a decent buffer.
“Not sure we have enough money to make many changes in the squad. Can’t see a way out of the quagmire we are in.” Firstly we have absolutely messed up the last week. With CL football we could have a huge budget. Secondly we need to be ruthless and sell well. I said last summer we shouldve sold Lacazette and bought a top goalscoring wide player. Still think that. We may have to sell established players like Xhaka, Kolasinac, Iwobi, Lacazette. No sympathy, no sentiment, just leverage the squad. Sell Maitland-Niles and buy a better RB Sell Mustafi, Chambers, Mavropanos… Read more »
Ishola
Marseille have a decent team of late, Balotelli has settled in well so now they actually have a pulse no longer relying on Germain as the CF.
Not sure we have enough money to make many changes in the squad. Can’t see a way out of the quagmire we are in.
So screwed either way irrespective of who the manager is. My sentiments exactly.
Sell Maitland-Niles and buy a better RB
Sell Mustafi, Chambers, Mavropanos and buy 2 CBs
Sell Kolasinac and but a LB
Sell Xhaka & Elneny and but 2 CMs
Sell Iwobi, Mykhitaryan, Lacazette and buy 2 wide goalscorers
Yup
gambon
“Where are Monaco in Ligue 1?”
Where were Monaco in Ligue 1 2016-17 ?
Vela is practically at Messi level in the MLS, guy’s on rocket fuel lately.
Such a waste of talent, should be playing for a top club in Europe. Would moonwalk into our forward line.
“Where were Monaco in Ligue 1 2016-17 ?”
Ahead of the Benidorm Pulis, thats for sure.
Benidorm Pulis was too busy putting Chorizo oil in his hair.
Gambon
I’m not opposed to a radical flushing of talent for new purpose built talent, but the guys running the show aren’t capable.
Or at least nothing they’ve done in the last decade shows their capabilities. Disagree?
I’ve always advocated a “make your worst player good” type approach and I think that would work with us. Inconceivable having half a dozen guys kicking about at the club offering ZILCH come matchday.
The club have got to start bringing in some young hungry players from real established football nations that are of a certain standard and will improve with the team as a whole.
These so-called seasoned pros from toblerone countries won’t do anymore.
Gambon
Yeah, I would not mind selling anyone at this stage to generate funds for new players. If we don’t get CL, give or take we will have £50 M to spend. So, we got to sell to buy but again not many players in the squad who we can sell for hefty sum.
Whoever bought Licht for ‘experience and leadership’ should not be given any responsibility to sign new players. Complete waste of wages and a squad place which could have been used for giving opportunity to a kid from our reserve team.
gambon obviously doesn’t rate players like M’bappe who led Monaco to a ligue 1 title.lol
I’ve always advocated a “make your worst player good” type approach and I think that would work with us.
It honestly explains so much. Not interested in a scrap but that would explain so much about your opinion on the state of Arsenal’s squad
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iUAxqig6GQE
Anyone see this at Leeds villa game today?
“Whoever bought Licht for ‘experience and leadership’ should not be given any responsibility to sign new players. Complete waste of wages and a squad place which could have been used for giving opportunity to a kid from our reserve team.”
That was Mislintat
He is not with us again.
League tableEditPosTeam
Ligue 1 table 2016-17
1. Monaco (C)38 30 5 3 107 31+76 95pts
2. PSG 38 27 6 5 83 27+56 87pts
gambon’s definition of a one horse race lol
TR7, I heard that hasn’t worked out at all, on any level.
“I’d be okay with Vieira in the summer.”
Some folks here really needs to wake up….
Benny d
You don’t roll with Bristol antifa by any chance do you?
Some scenes at Leeds
Amazing to see that we’re still in the mix for the 4th spot despite this miserable week…
I guess we’re not the only ones who “bottle it”…
WE
I loved vela
His one touch chipped finished were sublime
I truly thought he was going to be our next big thing when he was with us. Head and shoulder above anyone we came across in the cup competitions at 18/19 and other premier league teams.
The same clowns who want Vieira also wanted Henry.
Pedro
Not surprising, a guy who mistakes shouting and gesticulating for ‘leadership’ can’t be of much use. Kola too another free signing which turned out to be a costly signing in the end.
Sadly imo this is going to be the norm for the Arsenal. With the Gutless Parasites
KREONKE CLAN running our beloved club.
We will probably never compete for years and with the noises coming out of the club about a poxy 45m budget only seems to strengthen this. Sad times. KREONKE SCUM OUT.
I’d be tempted to see Vieira just to see another manager fail with the same players. Cause of course it’s the manager these players are good enough…
“”””Arsenal bottle it, again””” A much more reflective post today from the cack that was posted yesterday from the highly respected and admired PedRo. As passions run high- I think – we should allow some leeway to our author PedRo- remember he supplies a neutral platform to spent our Arsenal fury and passions- and he does a superlative job. So, I would like to thank him for his post today, ( and i hope he continues to post with the same frequency as he has been doing) Basically- our problems that we are currently facing- are because we BOTTLED the… Read more »
We need a strong, powerful, but dynamic central midfielder. Tanguy NDombele of Lyon at 60 millions would still be a steal. Let’s get early, because once Lyon has sold some of their players he would be deemed untransferable by his club. Sell Xhaka, Elneny plus 30 millions to fund that. Sell Mustafi and buy one of the two RB Leipzig French U21 CB for the same price. Assuming that Reiss Nelson come back and is integrated in the first team, we still need a strong dribbler. My head says that there is no way we can afford Pepe when Lille… Read more »
Vela should have had a great career, he had all the talent and vision of Aguero but the problem was that he was unprofessional.
The only things he showed any real application was in partying. When at Arsenal, his parties were legendary, calling the following day as sick because of the English weather. He was a professional party animal.
This is the player who was banned from the Mexican teams for bringing prostitutes and alcohol the night BEFORE World Cup qualification games.
Emery may as well walk because he’s wasted at Arsenal.
Arsenal need to hire a miracle worker to get out of this slump..
Just because other teams are bottling it doesn’t make it ok for us to do it
Replace Emery with an innovative coach who play the type of style more adapted to the premier League.
Who’s that?
Pedro There is one question that I keep asking myself and that is why Kroenke wanted to own Arsenal and what exactly is his ambition for the club. Surely the purpose was not to buy a stadium [piece of real estate in Islington]? If he wanted to buy real estate it would make more sense to buy it in the USA a market he knows well. Kroenke knows absolutely nothing about football and so far as I can see he has absolutely no interest if turning up a couple of years is to judge him by. I am sure that… Read more »
“We will probably never compete for years and with the noises coming out of the club about a poxy 45m budget”
Emery could have had a £100m budget if he hadnt completely bottled the last 5 games.
Marko – Sam Allardyce.
That French kid at RB Leipzig who is playing up Augustin has some serious talent.
Bad attitude apparently and they want rid. If he can be tamed he could really be valuable to a side. Talent is all there.
The canny Portuguese Wolves manager has been reported as interested in him.
Inter favourites to sign the Argentine kid Exequiel Palacios in the summer from River Plate.
He ticks all the boxes for a midfielder at 20 years old.
I think they are playing like shit deliberately: if we happen to qualify for CL, it’s purge time with some £££ to play with,
Why would they give away the glamour of playing (or not, even better) for a top club for actually needing to bust a gut for less money at some shithole club in Turkey where they all belong?
How much would Guardiola need to make Arsenalchhampions and bottlers in the Champions league.