Mr Motivator

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Well good ebening my wonderful darlings, and how are we today?

Glad to hear it. Let’s crack on.

John Cross leaked the news that the travel booker at Arsenal is running team motivation exercises before the games. I’d heard that Arsenal do some sort of cringe David Brent huddle preseason, but the news that the responsibility is being passed to a guy who is making sure there are no sharp objects in Mustafi’s hotel suite was quite the revelation.

Outside the big fat bag of cringe this whole thing is, I have some questions.

Firstly, who came up with that idea?

Was it Dave Priestly, team psychologist to the meek? Is it one of his brilliant ideas he imported in from Saracens?

If it is… what the fuck are we doing listening to this guy. He’s here to improve mental strength and we’ve just lost three games in a row by 9 goals for the first time since 1966 (true, according to @AngryofN5).

Raul needs to sit this guy down on a bruised banana patterned bean bag and ask, ‘what have you done for me lately’ (Eddie Murphy accent essential here)? Does the team look mentally stronger this year? No. I mean, like, it did for a bit. But right at the season’s money shot, when you hope all those motivational chats would settle in, we’ve flunked terribly. They literally had a collective nervous breakdown. So WHAT is he offering up here? We are in mental strength regression. The LG team has see the motivational posters on the wall at Colney, but WHAT are they doing for the players? Nowt it seems. Maybe the posters could say better things, like…

‘DON’T DIVE IN’

‘LOOK BEHIND YOU’

’VARDY IS FAST’

‘RESIST THE PUSH IF YOU ARE IN THE BOX NEXT TO THE REF’

‘DO NOT LICK THE PLUG’

IMPORTANT QUESTION: What Mystic Dave talking to Mesut about? Is he digging into that childhood past. Asking him if his dad bullied him about being greedy at party buffets. Probing if his mum made him wear hi-tec Velcro’s BEFORE they were hipster cool. THOSE ARE TRIGGERS!

RAUL, the line of questioning he is using is psychological kryptonite.

‘When you see a long ball over the top, do you see your first childhood pet grinding under the wheels of daddy’s new Ford Focus?’

We need less players sitting with him. More help on the posters. Ultimately, maybe we need to bring back Arsene ringing the ‘MENTAL STRENGTH’ bell around Colney like that scary bitch in GoT.

Secondly, if this magical idea came from Emery, answer me this… why is he outsourcing it?

That seems a bit of an odd thing to do. It’s like he’s struggling to motivate these players, and he’s passing the buck. If you are going to make people do a David Brent, I can at worst understand letting the captain do it, but the guy charged with telling the players to NOT urinate in empty Lucozade bottles on the bus? Fucking mental. That’s like me getting my Uber driver to write me a pitch deck. Or my dad asking me to hold the steering wheel on the M25 when I was six because he dropped a Wine Gum under the seat.

I feel like this sort of carry-on shows you how little leadership is going on at the club. How is an operations guy getting charged for fighting in the tunnel at Palace? Who is nipping that in the bud? Who is paying attention to admin staff running the players motivational excercises? Who has a pulse on the training ground to stop bad leaks happening? Because the above reads like it was leaked to JC for a reason, maybe by the players who think this info needs to be out.

Also worth remembering, shared leadership ends in death or a lack of accountability. Where do you think Arsenal are?

EVEN MORE interesting that The Times say the players are frustrated by the tactics of Emery, and that the manager is more concerned with nullifying the other teams strengths than capitalising on what he has at his disposal. He was accused of this at PSG. Again, why do multiple journos have this? Looks like a choreographed leak by agents of players.

Also adds fuel to the thought I posed at the start of the season that he looks at Arsenal more like a small club like Sevilla than a big one. The big man needs to step out of that mindset, because firstly, he’s not doing a very good job of nullifying strengths of mid-table teams, secondly, WE ARE ARSENAL. Gung-ho or go home… pretty sure that’s what the Latin under our old badge meant.

We have Valencia coming up on Thursday, if there’s one pattern in Emery’s career that’s working in our favour, it’s the Europa League.

Valencia aren’t that bad. They went 2-0 up against Barca away and they beat Zidane’s Madrid. They’re also mathematically out of the running for Champions League spots. That makes them dangerous. What also makes them dangerous is we’ve been utter shite of late. Still, we have more quality than them and Emery comes alive in the Europa (kind of).

The manager has to save his season. I think people will struggle to defend him if we finish outside the top 4 and don’t make the final of the Europa. If he makes the final and loses, he’ll save enough to face give people comfort.

So basically, it’s a big game on Thursday.

Right, I’m done, heading to the work roof deck to practice my Arsenal David Brent special.

WE ARE ARSENAL
WE ARE ARSENAL
WE ARE ARSENAL

Damn, I could KILL A BISON RIGHT NOW.

Talking of killing things. Someone told me bears don’t kill deer… I was like, ‘bitch, stfu, they eat deer’… and she was like, ‘no way, bears are pescatarian’… I said, ‘check Youtube, bears do not have dietary requirements’… and oh my. Ruined my weekend and my dreams forever. DON’T LOOK (OR LISTEN).

P.S. Denis Suarez injured himself preening his beautiful hair. Gonna be sad to see him go. Nearly as many goals as Iwobi this season. Good luck. One of the most obvious terrible loan signings in years, and we have had MANY.

P.P.S HUSS MY MAN, you know this guy, get him in!

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Chris

Correct Pedro

Way too much doom and gloom here.

One thing to be positive about. Ajax will run rings around the Spuds tonight.

Marc

Just a quick question for the clown school, gambon etc etc so Emery get’s sacked in late May for not achieving CL football and your preferred candidate gets the job whether that be Arteta, Vieira or someone else.

How long should the contract offered be? What would be the minimum KPI’s for the upcoming season? What would be the consequences of not achieving those KPI’s?

Champagne Charlie

Benny Plenty has been getting said, you’ve been too busy cyber high-fiving other posters for challenging guys that have questioned your views. I’ll give you a task, go and find anywhere someone has mentioned changing Emery will lead us to the promise land of challenging City/Liverpool overnight. The bit you miss is that some think we should’ve seen an improvement 12 months in. The fact we haven’t leads some to believe we could do with a better appointment, perhaps before we go galloping down the wrong path. Be better to stem the poor choice sooner rather than later wouldn’t it?… Read more »

Un Na naai

Dissenter

Maybe it will take time. I’d still expect to see more than we’ve seen in the the previous 12 months from any new manager. Would you not prefer something fresh and exciting rather than tried and tested? Like a hot young babe with endless potential or dour frumpy wife material. Makes a nice sandwich but no good in the sack

Marko

There are lots of great coaches that’d eat up the Arsenal job and inject some excitement into the football, fix the flaws and give the fans a bit of excitement.

By fix the flaws and inject some excitement you surely mean and are forgetting to mention replacing half the squad. Unless you think there’s a manager who can do all that with what’s available right now?

Dissenter

CC
You think we were all that when Alexis was banging in goals left, right, and center?
How long id it take to get a proper defensive midfielder after Gilberto Silva left?

Mr Wenger “has no blame in our lack of identity”, the manager who controlled most of the footballing operations for two decades.

Redtruth

Emery 7 trophies in two seasons with PSG shows he’s a top class manager.

WengerEagle

Ha clown school, now that’s nice and biting. Witty cunt you are lad.

Nobody could do better you’re right. Emery is the pinnacle and we’re lucky to have him.

Champagne Charlie

“Yesterday Charlie C was scoffing at the notion that it will take a DoF 3-5 seasons fo the work to come to fruition. He doesn’t see the same scale of decay that’s obvious. He thinks we need a tune-up not a revamp.“

Speak for yourself, you have a hard enough time with that before trying to speak for me.

Un Na naai

Freddy

We have seen every single player perform several levels higher than they currently are. Yes I’d get rid of 6-7 players but to expect them not to perform is letting them and emery off the hook too lightly. We should demand more

Words on a Blog

Pedro,

I remember back in the (Wenger) day, you used to write eloquently about how the old man was actively thwarting a modern structure for the club, the use of analytics, proper scouting, proper transfers management etc etc

Do you see that management structure in place now?

Frankly I’d feel sorry for Arteta or indeed any other special sauce manager if he ventured to come in if Emery were to go/ get sacked.
Kicked out.

HighburyLegend

“PSG. He couldn’t make that work either. Emery is a fraud.”

@GoH : are you sure Emery didn’t win any trophy with PSG ??
What a strange selective memory…

Un Na naai

Marko

There are managers who could do a lot better than emery with what we have now undoubtedly. We aren’t asking for 49 games unbeaten. We are asking for improvement on wengers worsrt season and hats not what we are getting.

Marko

However, if you have an average manager, it doesn’t help things, which is our situation. It’s the least of our situation. The abject squad and silent owner is of bigger concern than the manager. A lot of doom and gloom here… I reckon we’ll sneak the Champions League. It’ll be a disaster, but I wouldn’t put it past him. A disaster alright. Better to lose the battle to win the war am I right Pedro. You know part of me wishes that we actually had hired Mikel last summer. I really do just to see how much worse it could… Read more »

Dissenter

Un na That option will come after Emery when we have cleared out some of the mess like Mesut Ozil who is a big black hole that 350k weekly is disappearing into. It will come when we have established a good backroom with a DoF, then we can take a risk with a good young manager. You don’t insert a young manager into the mess we have now. We can’t even sign a DoF at the moment. We were going cap in hand in the January window looking for loans like a ramshackle club. We have a lot to do… Read more »

salpardisenyc

Emery’s hands are clean.

Sven’s fucked the recruits up.

Wengers crop was useless had to be what the explicit player dossier stated in Unai’s hands upon meeting with Ivan and Raul.

Tactical juggling what was the last page.

Un Na naai

Benny Plenty has been getting said, you’ve been too busy cyber high-fiving other posters for challenging guys that have questioned your views.

This is true
Like the cobra Kai in karate kid you lot.
“Yeah, how do you like that laruso??”

bennydevito

WengerEagleApril 30, 2019    15:18:01 So I’m an AKB now Benny? Even though I’ve probably been calling old Weng’s head for longer than you. Lol fuck this getting nowhere with you, might as well be writing in Mandarin. You turn into a flute when you’re questioned, Shame really because you’re a decent poster a lot of the time. >>>> Sorry Wenger Eagle, I didn’t mean to say you were an AKB. I’m just refuting your claim that I’m defending Emery when I’m really not, at least not exclusively anyway. For most of the season my stance was to wait until the… Read more »

Marko

He’s not done that, so if the opportunity is there I’d be fine with going again on someone else that could.

Like….

Freddie Ljungberg

UN na “We have seen every single player perform several levels higher than they currently are. Yes I’d get rid of 6-7 players but to expect them not to perform is letting them and emery off the hook too lightly. We should demand more” I think you’re vastly overeating our players, even so, yes we have performed better this season, of course. My point is when fatigue, suspensions and injuries creeps in we have no quality to fall back on, we have no power, no pace and as bad as our first XI options are the alternatives are way worse… Read more »

Un Na naai

Dissenter

He’s doing nothing that wenger didn’t do in his last two seasons. Ok. He seems like a nice fella and all but I don’t give two shits about any of that. I’m not exactly dismantling the man’s character, I’m asking for a better manager at arsenal. Just like I have been for the past few seasons
Nothing has changed except a few new faces. Same old same old at arsenal.

Marc

Marko

I’m being driven to the same thoughts, once Arteta has fucked it up we can go for Vieira because he knows the club, we can then go for Henry with Pires as his assistant because Arseblog thinks he’s dreamy.

Marc

Un

Who is the guy?

bennydevito

Un nai,

I thi k you’ll find I’ve been challenging every poster that’s challenged me; you, Weagle, gambon, Pierre, CC, everyone who’s had something to say to me I have responded so I’m not really sure what you’re on about.

Marko

Emery’s hands are clean. Sven’s fucked the recruits up. Wengers crop was useless had to be what the explicit player dossier stated in Unai’s hands upon meeting with Ivan and Raul. Sal I used to think you were a lot smarter than just blame it on the manager but maybe I was wrong. The sark notwithstanding Sven was responsible for the signings last summer and he did inherit a piss poor squad. Whether you like the man or not or whether you agree or not is irrelevant. We need to rid ourselves of shit players with better players and the… Read more »

Champagne Charlie

Marko

Why? So you can spend an hour refuting and mocking hypothetical scenarios on any suggestion put forth?

I don’t need to have a plan for the environment to know climate change needs addressing.

Arsenal need a manager that can do what Wenger couldn’t. This one ain’t doing that, so another one maybe the way to go.

Marko

At the end of the day I don’t care who’s Arsenal manager (as long as it’s not Arteta) until the squad is overhauled nothing changes.

Redtruth

Un Na naai

What did Wenger do in thd last 13 years besides stale tippy tappy football.

Un Na naai

Freddy

Sir Alex won the champions league with a midfield of O’Shea and Darren fletcher

Wenger holds the record of cL clean sheets with flamini, eboue and senderos

Di Matteo won the champions league with Bertrand, kalou and mikel in midfield

Certain managers can find ways of making the collective stronger by playing to the strengths of what he has. Emery is playing to the strengths of the opposition in almost every game. The players apparently are getting sick of it. So are the fans.

Freddie Ljungberg

WE

Do Auba, Laca, Toreirra, Sokratis, Leno, Ozil not start for Leicester now over the course of a season?

One of Auba or Laca would start, because they have wingers.

Torreira would probably start but they could rest him more there because the alternatives are not as shite as ours

Sokratis would be on the bench

Leno would probably start

The Ozil of the last couple of years? No, I don’t think there’s any chance of him playing regularly, maybe at home against teams 12-20.

Not great when you consider we’re supposed to be a top team.

Un Na naai

Redtruth
Red

What has that got to do with emery’s performance this year?
To answer your question though…

Well he has us second in the league and playing entertaining football
He won 3 fa cups.
Reached a semi final of a shite competition and lost.

All of that is better than what we’re been served up this season so far.

HighburyLegend

@Unanana : if he succeed to bring us back in the CL, I guess you will come and apologies…

salpardisenyc

Marko

I’m not JUST blaming Emery, just sick of the sound of many absolving him from mistake. The same who along with me castigated Wenger for less and rightfully so.

We knew it was going to be a journey, ideally a short one if the writing was on the wall. For me it is.

HighburyLegend

Aaaaahhhhh…. ze so famous Prestigious FA Cup!!

The mask has fallen, you want Arsène back at the club!! lol

Marko

Why? So you can spend an hour refuting and mocking hypothetical scenarios on any suggestion put forth? No not really. Look if you say something and then can’t back it up then what’s the point in saying it. Make your case otherwise you’re complaining for the sake of complaining. Make a case for Allegri for example coming in and improving us so that I can make an argument for him only doing that through replacing half the squad with new signings. Arsenal need a manager that can do what Wenger couldn’t. This one ain’t doing that, so another one maybe… Read more »

Redtruth

Un Na naai
“Well he has us second in the league and playing entertaining football”

Celebrating second best….what a loser lol

Chris

What you’re all arguing about is moot. It’s highly unlikely Emery is going to leave anytime soon. He is and never was going to be a dynasty manager. There was more sense in getting upset about Wenger staying on because at times it seemed like no end was in sight. Let’s get behind the players and coach to win the Europa League because that is something that will stay in the memory, more likely than a 3-0 surrender to Leicester. And contrary to most people’s incredibly arrogant perception of the EL as a shit competition, or is our level and… Read more »

Marko

Sir Alex won the champions league with a midfield of O’Shea and Darren fletcher

Serial winners.

Wenger holds the record of cL clean sheets with flamini, eboue and senderos

Remnants of the invincibles.

Di Matteo won the champions league with Bertrand, kalou and mikel in midfield

A team of title winners.

Basically in no way comparable to what was left to a new manager last summer

Marc

“Well he has us second in the league and playing entertaining football”

Could someone remind me who we finished behind last time we finished 2nd?

Freddie Ljungberg

“Sir Alex won the champions league with a midfield of O’Shea and Darren fletcher

Wenger holds the record of cL clean sheets with flamini, eboue and senderos

Di Matteo won the champions league with Bertrand, kalou and mikel in midfield”

CL is a cup competition, not the same as a long league season. Football has moved on since then as well.

apart from that the PL is much stronger now, Chelsea had the strongest squad back then but today that midfield wouldn’t win them shit.

Redtruth

Un Na naai
“Well he has us second in the league and playing entertaining football”

Celebrating second best….what a loser lol
Entertaining football…8-2, 6-3, 5-1, 6-0..

Champagne Charlie

Marko

That’s where your juvenile tendencies come in. You’ve got to “back it up”? So can I not have a view on climate change without formulating some wild global policy? What a load of shite.

Same with this incessant drawback to Wenger. I didn’t criticise Wenger as hard as you I do Emery so I’ve no voice on the matter? By equal measure you criticised Wenger’s every move but refuse to touch Emery and offer him excuse after excuse. Should I start down that ridiculous path?

Marc

Highbury

The entire clown school want Wenger back. CG actually posted last week that we should bring back Wenger over seeing Vieira as manager.

Un Na naai

Marko

Did you see our 15/16 squad which finished second?
Flamini
Coq
Gibbs
Debuchy
Elneny
Arteta
Wilshere
Walcott
Ox
Chambers
Mertesacker
Paulista
Ospina
Welbeck
Iwobi
Sanchez
Giroud
Kos
Monreal
Bellerín
Cazorla
Ramsey
Ozil

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Marc

“So can I not have a view on climate change without formulating some wild global policy?”

Well as climate change is an agreed event by 99% of the worlds scientists then no you don’t need to make something up.

Champagne Charlie

Who the fuck are the clown school, and what absolute whopper coined that embarrassing name?

Redtruth

“Wenger holds the record of cL clean sheets with flamini, eboue and senderos.

Then reverted to type in the Final.

Marko

I’m not JUST blaming Emery, just sick of the sound of many absolving him from mistake. The same who along with me castigated Wenger for less and rightfully so. If it makes you feel any better I never thought that Emery would have us challenging or winning major honours. He’s strictly a transition manager for me. But you’re wrong if you consider criticism of him to be comparable to that of Wenger. It’s absurd to suggest that. One guys been making mistakes for months compared to another for years. We knew it was going to be a journey, ideally a… Read more »

Un Na naai

Freddy

The league is not stronger now
Not even close
Look how easily the top teams are beating everybody? Record points
You never had that amount of points being accrued in the good old days

gambon

“How long should the contract offered be? What would be the minimum KPI’s for the upcoming season? What would be the consequences of not achieving those KPI’s?” Improvement in performance is the KPI, simple as that. In Klopps first season, he took Liverpool from 10th when he took over, to 8th. However, behind that was improvement in the underlying performance. xG and xGA steadily improved for 2 straight years, and never stopped improving until now. Emery has taken over, and 36 games later we are defending worse, and attacking exactly as well as the day he took over. How long… Read more »

Receding Hairline

By the way Bamford, is ole still an excellent manager?

bennydevito

PedroApril 30, 2019    15:28:34 Benny, you sound a bit like the AKBs used to. ‘Who in the world could fix a defence! Who would take £10m a year! How could anyone else have an idea?!’ There are lots of great coaches that’d eat up the Arsenal job and inject some excitement into the football, fix the flaws and give the fans a bit of excitement. >>>> Fair enough Pedro. Name them. Name the great coaches that would est our job up that were queuing round the block when Wenger left? Allegri? Walked away when he realised we didn’t have the… Read more »

Marko

Did you see our 15/16 squad which finished second?

Yep. Behind Leicester never challenging for the title and who just pipped Spurs on the last weekend of the season after they lost to Newcastle. Excellent point as always but again proves that the squad was poor. Now had Arsene actually signed an outfield player we might have actually won the league

Un Na naai

Marko

Hahahahaha
John O’Shea was a Sunderland level defender
Kalou was a mid- Dutch league level wide man

None of the arsenal players mentioned were remnants of the invincibles but they were shite and still moulded into a mean defence by a man who “didn’t know how to defend”

Receding Hairline

If a manager standing still can still be in with a shout of a top four finish and semi finals of a European competition, I say give him a lifetime deal.

Ancellotti was supposed to murder us Gambon, what went wrong? Are u just using the anger of not being right over the Spurs,United and Napoli games to be as miserable as possible

Marc

Un

You’re just embarrassing yourself now. Making out 15/16 was some outstanding season. Not only did we finish behind Leicester but we only managed 2nd on the final day when the Spud’s somehow contrived to lose 5 – 1 at home to Newcastle with Newcastle down to 10 men when 3 of their goals were scored.

2015 / 16 was a perfect storm of ManU, Chelsea, Liverpool and City all having off seasons not one of them scoring more than 66 points – our current points tally this season which is a sacking offence according to you.

Receding Hairline

A month ago Gambon wanted us to “throw” one of the competitions in favor of another, wonder why he is ranting now

Marko

So can I not have a view on climate change without formulating some wild global policy? What a load of shite.

We’re not talking about climate change grow up will ya. Even though technically speaking there’s actually science and evidence to back up various proposals in that discussion. It’s not unreasonable to ask that you please give something more than replace Emery with someone who can do better

gambon

“A month ago Gambon wanted us to “throw” one of the competitions in favor of another, ”

We have since lost 4 of our 5 PL games

Maybe I was right?

Marc

“John O’Shea was a Sunderland level defender”

I always thought John O’Shea was a pretty average player but how many Sunderland level players retired having won: 5 Premier League titles, 1 Champions League, 1 FA Cup and 2 League Cups?

Receding Hairline

So why so miserable Gambon? Didn’t we throw them in a fashion that impressed u? You wanted the ladies team fielded?

Champagne Charlie

Marko

It’s a conversation that’s been had, and with all due respect you’re the last person I want to go there with because you’ve got the biggest fanny on here and you debate akin to a 13 year old.

Chris

Fergie won the CL with O’Shea and Fletcher?

Unused subs in the 2008 final against Chelsea.

Talk about clutching.

Un Na naai

Marko Still did better with a worse squad than emery is doing with German 2 World Cup winners in his side A keeper who’s won it all at club level 3 of dormund’s title winning and cL finalist side Previous French and German league golden boot winners Aaron Ramsey a £350 grand per week soon to be Juventus superstar 2x£30m central midfielders on top of Ramsey. The bundesliga’s left back of the year Barcelona wanted right back Another £25m keeper And a center half who would have been a World Cup winner had it not been for his injury (Koscielny)… Read more »

Redtruth

The season Arsenal fluked 2nd was probably our worse season.
Finished on a paltry 71 points defeated twice by a Chelsea side who finished 10th.
Knocked out of all Cup Competitions
Finished outside the top 4 the following season when the big boys got their acts together again.

.

Marko

How long do you allow a manager to stand still before you make a change?

I mean Klopp wasn’t judged after one season either and that helped. What happens if the next manager doesn’t show improvements inside months with the same inherited team? Change again? You think United are considering changing Ole already? Maybe we need to go down the path of 5/6 managers and counting before developing a bit of patience

Freddie Ljungberg

UN na Yes, City and Liverpool are a level above everyone else right now. I’m talking about the teams below us, they are much closer in quality than before, some of them outspends us in the transfer market so that’s to be expected, we don’t have a god given right to stay in the top, but because of mismanagement our squad is much closer mid table than we are Pool or City. That’s not on the guy being less than a year in the job and it’s going to take time and money to fix, I’ve said this since the… Read more »

Receding Hairline

Sad thing is Un nai thinks he is being clever bigging up our players

Pedro beat you to it months ago

Eriksen and Kane can fetch 200m

Harzard 100m

Martial and Pogba 200m

Can I know what player we have who can do the same?

gambon

Marko

So you dont think our defensive numbers should be even 1% better after a whole season, and £70m spent?

Not even 0.5% better?

The manager said the defence was an issue in his first press conference. 50 games later, £70m on mainly defensive players and we’re no better.

Un Na naai

Chris

Yes and O’Shea and fletcher started many of their games in midfield that season and in 09

Facts boy
Facts

Would you have either in our midfield today? Didn’t think so. But Fergie made them work

Champagne Charlie

Receding

It’s dead easy when you pull figures out your arse.

Who’s paying 200 mil for Kane and Eriksen? or Pogba and Martial?

Un Na naai

Rh

Ramsey? Ozil? Bellerín? Aubameyang? Lacazette? All well able to fetch £50m in the summer

Marko

Still did better with a worse squad than emery is doing with German 2 World Cup winners in his side

Just so you know you’re making a case for Ozil and Mustafi. Which isn’t smart.

A keeper who’s won it all at club level

Cech? Again not smart.

3 of dormund’s title winning and cL finalist side

Sokratis, Mhiki and Auba have never won a league title with Dortmund. They weren’t part of the Dortmund side who got to the Champions League final. Again not smart

Gbat

Pointless trying to convince some posters on here. They waited years for Wenger to go. And when he finally did go they hired someone they didn’t want. There’s nothing he can do or you can say to change their mind. Would Allegri/Arteta be getting so much stick in the same situation? Of course not.

Un Na naai

MarkoIt’s a conversation that’s been had, and with all due respect you’re the last person I want to go there with because you’ve got the biggest fanny on here and you debate akin to a 13 year old.

Looool 😂
Ol bucket gash got served

Redtruth

Winning the Europa league would be the biggest success story since winning the league title.

Un Na naai

Marko

Hardly stoke though is it??
Hardly Brighton or crystal palace is it

Marc

“Ramsey? Ozil? Bellerín? Aubameyang? Lacazette? All well able to fetch £50m in the summer”

Well Ramsey leaving on a free puts a small dent in that one. No one’s going to bid £50 million for Ozil with the salary he’s on and Bellerin’s coming back from a serious injury. I think the insurance company might just call that car crash a write off.

Marko

So you dont think our defensive numbers should be even 1% better after a whole season, and £70m spent? They should be he was probably naive to take the job on in the first place given the circumstances and the constraints. But I doubt anyone could do much better honestly with what’s there. Also it’s disingenuous to state that it’s 70 million spent on defensive signings which is what you say regularly. We need that alone spent on CB’S not across 4 positions The manager said the defence was an issue in his first press conference. 50 games later, £70m… Read more »

Chris

Un

Fletcher started one game in that season for United in the CL after the groups and one appearance as a sub. O’Shea made one sub appearance. Hardly integral to Ferguson’s plans in that competition wouldn’t you agree?

I might be nit picking though.

You made a point a while ago about preferring home grown sides succeed over oil financed ones which I mostly agree with, who would you rather see win tonight out of Spurs and Ajax out of interest?

Marko

Hardly stoke though is it??
Hardly Brighton or crystal palace is it

Don if that’s your response to talking shite and stating falsehoods please go away and let the grown ups talk

Receding Hairline

Charlie how much do you reckon Kane and ericksen are worth then? The 4m west ham paid for the serviceable Perez?

Dissenter

Champagne Receding isn’t just pulling out figures from his arse. Most of our rivals will do a proper squad rebuild partly funded from players sales Hazard will go to Madrid for a lot of money — invested back on players Pogba will go to Real for a lot of money —-invested back on players Ericksen and Alderweireld will be sold for a lot of money to be used to rebuild their squad Which player at Arsenal gives us the same opportunity? If ou squad was jst as good , who’s there of that calibre? The last one was Sanchez and… Read more »

gambon

“Which player at Arsenal gives us the same opportunity? ”

Klopp went to a Liverpool team ful of absolute shite.

He sold as many players as he could to raise funds.

Until the day he signed Van Dijk, he had a negative net spend.

Pochettino got Spurs to where they are with a negative net spend.

Marc

“Ericksen and Alderweireld will be sold for a lot of money to be used to rebuild their squad”

I can’t see the Spud’s picking up more than £100 or so million for the pair of them. Now I know that’s a lot of money but they’ve got to replace their most creative player and a good quality PL proven CB with that. All that assumes the Poch will be given all of the money from any sales.

It’s going to be interesting to observe what goes on at the Spud’s in the summer.

Marko

It’s a conversation that’s been had, and with all due respect you’re the last person I want to go there with because you’ve got the biggest fanny on here and you debate akin to a 13 year old.

Speaks volumes honestly. I simply ask you to give more than “Arsenal need a manager that can do what Wenger couldn’t. This one ain’t doing that, so another one maybe the way to go” and you can’t come up with anything other than I’m a fanny. It’s brilliant insight it really is.

Receding Hairline

Yea let’s just pretend Coutinho didn’t move for 100 odd million …Miracle by Klopp buying Allison and VVD and somehow not paying for them. Has anyone informed the selling clubs?

Marc

“Pochettino got Spurs to where they are with a negative net spend.”

I’d like to see the info that backs that up? He hasn’t had a huge net spend but I’m pretty sure that’s not correct. Happy to be proven wrong on that if you have something to back that up.

Dissenter

Marc
I think Poch has earned a lot of loyalty from their CEO and fan base.
He stuck with them through last summer and declined a chance to leave this year.

They will give him what he needs.

Champagne Charlie

Receding

They’re worth as much as a team is willing to pay, that’s how it goes.

How much is Chambers worth? Because Boro wants him for 20 mil, Elneny was wanted for 12 mil. We could sell Mustafi for 25 mil. There’s a further 60 mil and it’s on relative dross of the squad.

Champagne Charlie

Marko

It’s been had, I’ve already given reason why I’d rather not both. If you want to chalk that up to something else be my guest, but I wasn’t lying….you’re a fanny on these topics so you’re worth avoiding.

Marko

Klopp went to a Liverpool team ful of absolute shite.He sold as many players as he could to raise funds….Pochettino got Spurs to where they are with a negative net spend. Yeah all true but you’re also failing to mention the amount of time that they were given to put things right while you’re advocating sacking someone inside the first year. Also the net spending stuff is pointless Liverpool and Spurs were able to rebuild their squads after selling some major sellable assets while Arsenal under Wenger accumulated poor players some of which are running down their contracts and absolutely… Read more »

Marc

Dissenter I’m sure they’d like to but if you don’t have the money you don’t have it to give. You’ve got to remember that the stadium cost over run is almost the cost of the entire Emirates project and we had property to sell off after the event – they have nothing of the sort. If they are all OK why have they announced that a dozen players are up for sale including Alderweireld, Vertonghan, Rose, Trippier, Aurier, Wanyama, Lamela and Sissoko. Strangely Eriksen is not on the list and there’s no way they can afford to let him go… Read more »

Receding Hairline

Find the comparisons to klopp and pochettino (12 league losses already) pointless.

Are you all saying he should be matching their achievements already? None of then finished top four their first season, none has actually won anything. If you must why not compare him to Conte? And while you are at it compare the two to Conte too

Marko

Fair enough Charles you keep spouting your opinions and then go mum when challenged. I’m sure that won’t be a problem on the internet. It actually won’t there’s so many people spouting nonsense and outright falsehoods on the internet. You could probably get elected for it

Dissenter

Marc
‘I’d like to see the info that backs that up? He hasn’t had a huge net spend but I’m pretty sure that’s not correct. Happy to be proven wrong on that if you have something to back that up.
When they sold Coutinho for 125 million GBP, all the red became black again
gambon is just playing with numbers,

The Liverpool transfer team have been giving Klopp what he needs. It has little to do with him because their success predates Klopp.

Redtruth

gambon
“Klopp went to a Liverpool team ful of absolute shite.”

How many Trophies has Klopp the flop won since he joined Liverpool in 2015

gambon

“Liverpool and Spurs were able to rebuild their squads after selling some major sellable assets ”

Benteke
Joe Allen
Jordan Ibe
Mamadou Sakho
Lucas Leiva
Kevin Stewart
Martin Skrtel

You call these “major sellable assets”?

Klopp used the funds from this dross to buy Salah, Mane, Robertson, Wijnaldum.

Where as Emery decided that he didnt want to sell anyone, and he brought in Denis Suarez.