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!
So, I’m still waiting for the names of the coaches who would come to us after Emery and who said coaches would sign with £45m we have and who would we sell to supplement that budget?
Or would we not sell or buy anyone because the Emery outers think we already have a top 4 title challenging squad that Emery is underachieving with?
Well? Which coach is it?
Receding
You missed the Poch stat of the week.
Guess who wrote that Poch is among the top-3 managers in the world?
Dissenter
You need to re read my comment – he said the Poch had got the Spud’s were they are an a negative spend.
“When they sold Coutinho for 125 million GBP, all the red became black again”
Youre completely lying here.
The day before they sold Coutinho, they Klopp had spent about £10m net.
Emery spent £60m more in his first transfer window than Klopp did in his first 4.
What an embarrassment that GoT episode was. The writers should hang their heads in shame. Cvnts
I mean I get what gambon is saying but because he’s saying it it’s ridiculous. He’s talking about Klopp inheriting a shite team and then selling players and then he’s only gotten it right really when he signed VVD for 75 million. But then he talks about sacking the Spanish Tony Pulis inside a season like it’s so obvious. I mean he inherited a shite squad why not give him time to sell players? Time to do anything really.
Dissenter surely Pedro, he loves him a Poch ode every now and then.
I fear for him the day the man actually you know wins something, he might explode with excitement.
I bet his Arteta infatuation has something to do with Poch rating him
So we can sell Walcott for 20 million and Aubameyang/Lacazette wouldn’t fetch decent transfer fees?
Righto haha. Yep not a single sellable asset here.
gambon,
Klopp also had the funds of Coutinho, Suarez and Sterling to work with too.
Coutinho £140m, Suarez £65m and Sterling £50m.
When Emery’s Arsenal lift the Europa league, he would have won more trophies in his first season than Klopp in 4 seasons with Liverpool.
gambon
Where did you think the proceeds of the Raheem Sterling and Suarez transfer went into?
Sakho went for 25 million
Jordan Ibe went for 13 million
Danny Ward for 12 million
Benteke for 28 million
Joe Allen for 14 million
sources from transfermarkt.co.uk
That’s some serious money dude
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/english-soccer/ken-early-football-s-new-age-neutralises-philosophies-of-the-past-1.3874358?mode=amp
Nice article highlighting how football has changed in game over the past decade.
I wonder where gambons conviction that Emery had the power to come in and sell half the squad comes from… Weird really
And the “he” spent 60m part, like Sven never worked for AFC.
If signings were left to Emery that would have been true but it was widely reported he had little or no say, the only time he made a loan acquisition suggesting a certain German hipster moved to stuggart
Yeah and how much of that did Bodgers piss up the wall on average players?
Net spend is irrelevant though gambian because we don’t have £255m to raise just by selling 3 players do we?
Klopp has actually spent near £350m in 4 years, that’s how much the players he has actually bought, cost. He wouldn’t have been able to do that I Liverpool didn’t have £255m worth of players to sell would he?
RH
Half the squad?
He didn’t sell anyone…
Receding
It was TR7
… he defends that claim to this very day.
Pochettino…the trophy-less 47 year old after 11 years as manager is one the top-3 managers in the world.
Pretty sure we all know the rest of the story for Emery. We won’t win the Europa League (I’m guessing Chelsea but could easily be one of the other two teams) and we’ll clearly miss Top 4. Emery has quite possibly lost the dressing room after the Palace debacle. The players have worked hard all season only for him to pull the rug out from under them in a critical home game. As a result of missing the Champions League, we’ll have a limited budget. The form we ended this season in will carry through until next season. The player… Read more »
Benteke Joe Allen Jordan Ibe Mamadou Sakho Lucas Leiva Kevin Stewart Martin SkrtelYou call these “major sellable assets”? He got about 30 million each for Sahko and Benteke you think we can get similar for Mustafi? Again you’re being disingenuous the 100+ million for Coutinho went a significant way towards their current success and investment. It’s okay spending the amount that they did on Salah for example knowing full well that they were getting 100 million for Coutinho Emery spent £60m more in his first transfer window than Klopp did in his first 4. Again he’s not responsible for the… Read more »
Marko Klopp took liverpools average xG from 1.2 to 1.8 per game in his first 29 games in charge. Their xGA stayed the same at about 1.05 per game. Tanglible improvement without any pre-season, and without any signings. Emery has taken our average xG per game from 1.89 per game to 1.71 per game, a notable decrease. He has taken our xGA per game from 1.29 per game to 1.68 per game, a notable increase. This is with a full pre-season, and £70m spent. Emery has done absolutely nothing to suggest we are travelling in the right direction. Unless you… Read more »
“Emery wasn’t afforded that”
He had a 234,000 page dossier on every player thats ever played for Arsenal.
He had all pre-season, and then decided to let everyone have a chance.
WE
“Yeah and how much of that did Bodgers piss up the wall on average players?”
Actually Brendan Rodgers helped to improve the value of Sterling and Coutinho which helped with the later transfers.
Dissenter you should know by now TR7 is prone to such fantastic claims.
Apparently once he “rates” you, you can do no wrong
Righto haha. Yep not a single sellable asset here.
Did someone say anything like that? Do we have anyone that can fetch the kind of money Liverpool and Spurs got for Coutinho and Bale? I don’t think that’s even up for debate. It’s all irrelevant though when you consider that the argument is for getting rid of the manager inside a year and improving without significant investment. In that regards it doesn’t matter who gets sold or what Klopp or Poch has done. We just sack and go again
Oh God; I’ve just rralised the Spuds are playing tonight so this blog will be filled with Spuds fans like Charlie George, Ddkings and Un nai going all screaming boyband groupie about how great Spurs and the trophy laden Poch is.
Think I might give it the swerve and come back later to see if anyone has finally answered my question as to which coach will want to come us to spend the £45m to turn us into title challengers over night.
Will probably still be waiting this time next week.
He had all pre-season, and then decided to let everyone have a chance.
Again not responsible for the buying or selling of players. You’re really struggling with that point or purposefully ignoring it. He’s not responsible for Auba or Lichtsteiner and he’s not responsible for Xhaka and Mustafi.
“He had a 234,000 page dossier on every player thats ever played for Arsenal.” Who doesn’t prepare for a 6.5 million yearly wages job interview Every candidate that was interviewed by the Arsenal panel would have pressed an in-depth understanding of the squad. Arteta and everyone else interviewed would have said the same thing. Managers have agents who have staff that can do research. There are even proprietary software with AI inserted that can do this research. I just wish people will stop using the proper prep for a job interview as a cheap jibe. I can imagine gambon at… Read more »
gambon
“Tanglible improvement without any pre-season, and without any signings.”
It should read:
Tanglible improvement without any pre-season, and without any signings and trophies thus far.
Nobody stated that Benny, you’re being silly again.
And where does the 45m figure come from?
“Klopp went to a Liverpool team ful of absolute shite.”
Clyne, Skrtel, Sakho, Toure, Henderson, Lallana, Emre Can, Milner, Coutinho, Sturridge, Firmino.
Not exactly full of shite. Full of decent players more like.
Marko
So am I correct in saying that you are basically hanging on the hope that Raul Sanhelli turns this club around with his investment strategy given that Emery isn’t involved?
Well Denis Suarez was an encouraging start I must say…
Emery has done absolutely nothing to suggest we are travelling in the right direction.Unless you think he has control of luck.
So no time to fix things. I get it. So we bring in a new manager he improves our xG by .6 and hope that Raul and the new technical director buy and sell better players than they did in the first summer. Seems reasonable. I factor in that .6 of an improvement on xG that is enough to warrant more time costing us about 12 million pounds to sack Emery. Seems smart to me.
Liverpool are in the last chance saloon, if they don’t win the title this season then they never will….
Gambon in his rage has wiped out the memory of Sven
To his credit he started using the “he spent 70m line since the start of the season” ..he planned ahead for his misery.
So am I correct in saying that you are basically hanging on the hope that Raul Sanhelli turns this club around with his investment strategy given that Emery isn’t involved?
There’s very little hope in that it’s more hope that a new DOF comes in with a bright plan. You understand then why I argue against the idea of sacking the Spanish Tony Pulis being enough since it’s utterly pointless who’s in charge unless there’s a turnover of squad
Don if that’s your response to talking shite and stating falsehoods please go away and let the grown ups talk Marko So you don’t have an answer?? Yet you try to lambast others for perfectly dissenting your attempts at defending the current non entity of a coach You’ve had it laid bare for you over and over and over This team is much better than they are showing over the last 5 games and you know it. You’re another who’s doubling down and is heading for eggsville, population your face You’d be better admitting you were wrong now. It isn’t… Read more »
There’s very little hope in that it’s more hope that a new DOF comes in with a bright plan. You understand then why I argue against the idea of sacking the Spanish Tony Pulis being enough since it’s utterly pointless who’s in charge unless there’s a turnover of squad There was very little point in hiring the Spanish Tony Pulis in the first place though marko. It was a poor decision. A better coach would have us home and dry by now with our rivals faltering so frequently yet even now he’s unable to capitalize which doesn’t bode well for… Read more »
Un Na naai
April 30, 2019 14:51:56
“Dani
Yes and with your mentality that’s how we will stay. Some of us actually want us restored to our former glory. Which will start by employing a manager capable of doing so.”
As long as this new manager has a solid foundation to build on. Wouldn’t it be nice if he came in and inherited a “solid back four”, for instance, and a player in the mould of DB10?
Ah Mr Emery sir,
First day in the job, we know a major rebuild is required as the team has been allowed to deteriorate over the last 6-7 years, under the previous manager.
you need 8 New first team players. And probably 2-3 squad players.
You can do all that with 70 million can’t you?
What do you mean the rest of the teams around you are spending that on one player!
Or have been at there club 4-5 years and haven’t won a trophy.
Just pretend it’s 1990 good luck!
Emery painted himself into a corner.
He got the job by saying he could get more out of the players.Therefor he sold nobody . It was bullshit to get the job, so he now has been found out, we have an overpaid squad of wannabe johnnies.
So now the only way out is to sell the crap and try to get out of the hole.
He’s not the man for us
Yeah cool, Liverpool definitely didn’t buy Mane for 30m, Salah for 35m, Wijnaldum for 15m, Robertson for 8m, Matip for free (compared to Lichtsteiner for us), Shaqiri for 12m did they?
They all cost 70m each…
As did Keita and Fabinho, not 45m buys.
70 million gets you one top player as Liverpool’s return represents (2 players in their entire squad, one not even an outfielder).
Rodney “As long as this new manager has a solid foundation to build on. Wouldn’t it be nice if he came in and inherited a “solid back four”, for instance, and a player in the mould of DB10?” Exactly What did Emery inherit? Maybe, two solid strikers…besides that nada I’ve heard Klopp praise the Liverpool back room staff about the work they did befoe he came on board. He was amazed they got Firminho and that was one of the reason why he was convinced they had his back. “”When I knew I was coming here I knew I had… Read more »
So we’re pretending that 70 mil is a giant spend in this day and age and ignore that all teams above us (bar spurs who still have a better squad than us) and 3 teams below us outspent us last summer?
We didn’t spend that money in a vacuum did we? Our rivals spent more, we also have quite a few players that are getting too old (Cech, Kos, Monreal) or have just given up as footballers ( Ozil, Mikhi). We need a lot more investment regardless of who the manager is.
When tasked to work with those players he claimed to have a dossier on, he mis-evaluated nearly all of them.
Underestimated the importance of Ramsey and Özil to the team.
Overestimated the ability of Mustafi, Mhikitarian and Iwobi.
Clearly the dossier was not worth the paper it was written on.
There is a difference between preparing for an interview by doing your home work and bullshitting your way into a position so far out of your ability level.
Unfortunately Arsenal and its fans are the one paying for that farce.
No FL but it certainly gets you 1-2 players of the kind of quality that you can build around going forwards.
Who out of Emery’s signings are getting near Liverpool’s XI?
Lol @ so far out your ability level. This from a poster who thinks the Rennes manager should be appointed next but the ex boss of Valencia, PSG and Sevilla is a fraud for making the Europa semi finals and keeping up with other lame teams vying for a top four spot (managers I’m pretty sure he rates).
The only sin Emery has committed in Valentins eyes is the cardinal one, he personally doesn’t rate him. Talk about delusions of grandeur
Eagle they are not Emery’s signings ..enough with this pretense
Sven picked every single player we signed bar Suarez…why the need to lie just to make a point if you are so secure in the point you are making.
“When tasked to work with those players he claimed to have a dossier on, he mis-evaluated nearly all of them.
Underestimated the importance of Ramsey and Özil to the team.
Overestimated the ability of Mustafi, Mhikitarian and Iwobi.
Clearly the dossier was not worth the paper it was written on.
There is a difference between preparing for an interview by doing your home work and bullshitting your way into a position so far out of your ability level.”
Have you read this dossier? No. So how do you know? That’s right, you don’t.
WOAB ” a modern structure for the club, the use of analytics, proper scouting, proper transfers management etc etc”
Can we find out the structure of the Ajex football club? I don’t think they spend much to become so successful.
Valentin
“When tasked to work with those players he claimed to have a dossier on, he mis-evaluated nearly all of them.
Underestimated the importance of Ramsey and Özil to the team.
Overestimated the ability of Mustafi, Mhikitarian and Iwobi.”
Glad to know you were the scribe in that interview room
The resident ITK expert
Did you show up for your job interviews unprepared?
Emery isn’t blameless this season and has screwed things up a couple of times. Especially in the last few games, but there’s plenty of blame to go around. Auba misses the pen against the spuds not emereys fault. Everton wasn’t great but a lucky deflection for an open goal and its a whole different game. Not emereys fault. Mustafi gifting palace the lead in a game we were dominating. Leno Xhaka and the whole defence gifting wolves a three nil lead of errors. Leicester was poor, and fully down to emery, we were dominated in midfield and sat back to… Read more »
WE – Who are we giving credit to with Liverpool’s signings though?
Honigstein said he wanted Brandt instead of Salah but relented and went with Michael Edward’s choice of Salah. You wonder how many signings are actually Klopp’s choice.
RH
I’m not lying, I don’t believe that he doesn’t have serious influence in who we sign.
If he doesn’t why even take the job with the sorry state we were in last season?
Hmmm, shit personnel, I’m going to now trust Sven implicitly while I chill out for the summer with a thumb up my hoop…
Paulinho
Some of the best signings were fortuitous and were stumbled unto by mistake or were the second choice.
That’s one of the fall-outs of scouting.
Eagle you are indeed lying
Emery didn’t do signings at any of his previous two clubs so I don’t get why you are struggling with that fact
It was not even a secret , Sven purchased and Emery coached. That you dispute this doesn’t make it untrue.
@Receding, The Rennes manager just won the French FA Cup against PSG. He has the second best points per game return since he has been appointed in the French league. All that with a team of very bad players according yourself when we played them. I am willing to bet that in 3 years time, Julien Stephan will be in charge of a bigger club than Emery. One has been found out and reached his ceiling a Europa League. The other one is just starting a great career in management. If you are a smart president, you chose the manager… Read more »
I see tuchel lost the cup final to rennes and got booted out the champions league. It wasn’t long ago people were saying tuchel should have been the next arsenal manager, instead of emery.
I,thought tuchel had the sauce?
You don’t get any prizes for improvement, style of play or being savvy in the trsnsfer market
Klopp the flop needs to deliver a trophy.
@Valentin
For your mind now you made sense abi?
Do drop some lottery numbers while you still have the crystal ball
By the way for a man who was bigging up Tuchel earlier I’m surprised you even mentioned the lost cups.
Rennes beat PSG in a cup final?
I thought PSG were made as soon as Emery was sacked.
The ghost of Emery must still be lurking around the premises of PSG.
Troubling the amount of people still defending Emery,got to feel for them as they’re rightly going through the five stages of defeat: Denial,anger,bargaining,depression and acceptance Frightening thing is this people are still stucked in stage one DENIAL..they’re literally willing to throw anything in the face of reality to reassure themselves they’re doing the correct thing Won’t be here for anyone once depression kicks in.. Even though a good many of us made known of our indignation of the hire from the off,we were cautioned by the lot to give the man a full season before drawing evaluation which we succumbed… Read more »
Its also sad you learnt notching from the Ole debacle Valentin.. Second best bla bla bla…we have heard that all before, let’s wait and see if he is actually on the up. Many a managers have picked up penalty cup wins here and there and still remain mediocre
Paulinho
I’m not saying the gaffer has complete carte blanche when it comes to transfers, but to sit here and say that they have nothing to do with the process is laughable as some are trying to make out.
Brandt is an quality player in his own right, wasn’t like he wanted some scrub over Salah.
And Liverpool have brought in over half a dozen top notch players in addition to Salah, I’m not buying that Klopp didn’t have his fingerprints on any of them.
Victorious go power on your generator and watch TV
You make more sense when you post nothing.
Honigstein said he wanted Brandt instead of Salah but relented and went with Michael Edward’s choice of Salah. You wonder how many signings are actually Klopp’s choice.
Yeah I heard as well that after Southampton refused to sell VVD to Liverpool in the summer before they got him Klopp wanted someone else brought in but whoever does the signings only wanted VVD
RH
Well it’s not a fact is it? You saying something is factual means fuck all to me.
And if he has no say in recruitment and fails miserably at improving players he works with, he’s a bit of a pointless appointment then isn’t he?
WE – Yeah, but it’s interesting Klopp was overruled. Klopp would carry far more sway amongst the suits at Liverpool than Emery at Arsenal, so it makes one wonder the extent to which Emery is being thwarted, if he is at all. I think he would’ve taken Banega over Guendouzi without a moment’s hesitation, but that’s just conjecture.
I’m not lying, I don’t believe that he doesn’t have serious influence in who we sign.
You do realize that’s how it is at most clubs these days. The opposite is also why we were held back for so long in the transfer market. It’s better this way I wouldn’t trust Emery with signings anyway
I believe it was Klopp who brought in Karius from Mainz in 2016.
This was done against the wishes of the transfer team who wanted an established top goal keeper
In the end Klopp only relented after the debacle of the CL final.
Eagle you should know all about pointless things
80% of what you post here qualify as pointless
@Receding, You are the one lying. Emery did influence the purchase of players at PSG. When he arrived, outside of the big star (Neymar, Alaves, …) the president gave him a near carte blanche to buy whoever he wanted. The result Krikowiak and Jese, who both were utterly out of their depth in Ligue 1. They were so bad that within a year they were loaned to Stoke and West Bromwich helping them getting relegated. That led to big arguments with the newly appointed DoF Henrique who overruled every one of his suggestions. Emery has some pre conception on leagues… Read more »
They always forget Klopp and Karius
Here we are with a handful of games to go and are playing the worse football I’ve seen us play in all my years supporting the club and raking in some absolute embarrassing results to boot. Vic your talking about Wenger right? Maybe we finish fifth and get knocked out of the Europa this week/next week? Or maybe we win it and qualify for the champions league. The only thing I know is, if we’re in the same position next year then emery has to go zinc there’s no improvement. And we look to the next manager, but the guy… Read more »
Klopp’s a loser
Mourinho, Pellegrini and Giaurdiola all first won the League Cup before going on to greater things
Valentin
“have supported him and his decisions to date because we all love the club”
Are you trying to do a funny here?
Bye, no one here is a die hard Emery fan, it’s not the same as thinking Wenger watered down the squad on a yearly basis until we were left with a shite squad that needs a complete rebuild.
The Rennes manager just won the French FA Cup against PSG.
Yeah Tuchel might be on the way out already.
Cheers RH, always rated your dribble too.
Dissenter – Even Guardiola has dodged a few bullets and been struck by a couple in Bravo and Mahrez ( a player hyped up by certain posters here as a must have signing).
I get tired when guys say that ‘ how many trophies have Spurs or Liverpool won.
They are in the mix to win things, we are not, we are just bystanders now.
When will we be in the Semi finals playing Ajax? May be 10 years from now.
“Unfortunately Arsenal and its fans are the one paying for that farce”. Ever heard of the English saying: “As you make your bed, so you’ll lie on it”? If fans are paying for anything, it’s not addressing the issues that had clearly plagued the club for many years on the playing side. It’s not all on Emery as you and others would have us believe. Wenger/Gazidis left a bed of thorns for the current regime. We only have to look at Liverpool to see how long it would (hopefully) take for us to build a formidable team that will take… Read more »
Name me any manager who can work with flops.
Guardiola would see Arsenal languishing in 8th had he the resources that Emery has to work with
WE
No, none of them would start for Pool, we’re nowhere near Liverpool atm and being in the EL we don’t have much pulling power either.
would have been nice if we could have spent the whole massive 70m budget on 1-2 players but we’re miles away from being able to do that, we have so many gaps to fill it’s just not realistic right now.
Paulinho
Maybe and I’m a fan of Banega, not a long term option but would have made a big difference to the midfield in the short term.
Was laughed out the gaf here by the same muppets that were stroking it over Guendouzi’s floppy hair.
Paulinho
You only have to look at how Guardiola dodged Alexis Sanchez, by sheer luck and the most abject Wenger stupidity. He then ended up with Mahrez who will certainly be moved out soon.
There’s a lot of luck involved with transfers.
There’s a spread sheet and all that but eventually comes down to more intangibles than tangibles
When he arrived, outside of the big star (Neymar, Alaves, …) the president gave him a near carte blanche to buy whoever he wanted
That’s not true you are lying as per Valentin. Krychowiak was highly rated at the time and Jese too at Madrid. It was honestly not too dissimilar to PSG picking up Di Maria from Madrid or now Herrera.
@Receding,
The difference between OGS and Julien Stephan is that the resurgence of his team has not been build just on feel good factor and players picking up the tools they had down with the previous manager.
He has also brought a sense of organisation. Most of his tactics have been spot on. He knows the style of play he wants to implement.
You can’t seriously argue that Emery has brought a sense of organisations or a precise style of play.
FL
What gaps have Sokratis and Leno filled?
40m and replacing Cech in the line up who was comically bad last season.
And we’re going to need 2 sheets to close out the season to better the 50 goals conceded last year.
Clean sheets*
Isn’t this the same Rennes that we played after they got a weekend of rest
There was NOTHING special about Rennes. They looked good against us because PapSok was sent off.
I remember them being one of the most pathetic divers I’ve seen recently
Is diving the “organization” that the new manager brought them?
Pedro
“Holding and Bellerin are important, but I doubt they’d do much for the mess on the field.”
Huh? Better defenders wouldn’t make us better defensively?
Sorry, but this is nonsense. Bellerin would improve us because he is a much better defender than AMN, and Hokding would improve us because he is better than the liability Mustafi and a tired, overused Koscielny.
We
Bellerin and Holding out after less than half the season, Monreal and Kos on their last legs, did you seriously think 2 average to good signings were going to fix 10 years of neglect of our defence?
We need a left back, a centreback, a defensive midfielder, a replacement for Santi and two wingers. And now a replacement for Ramsay.
Seven players.
We needed that and more at the start of the season and had a 70 million budget.
You can get lucky and maybe pick up a few bargains but not seven!
At the end if the day Liverpool have spent a huge amount of money but then so have we on some of our players. Liverpool bought Salah and Mane for £37m each whereas we bought Lacazette for £50m and Aubameyang for £60m Who has the better players? Liverpool paid £55m for Keita and £45m for Fabinho whereas we paid £45m for Ozil and £35m for Xhaka Who has the better player? Liverpool paid £25m for Wijnaldum and we paid £35m for Mustafi Who has the better player? Liverpool every time. This proves beyond all doubt that we have squandered our… Read more »
Still waiting for Mr fact check himself to show me the undeniable evidence that Emery has never had anything to do with the recruitment process…
Suspect that you’ll have a barnet like Guendouzi by the time I get that reply.
Wenger was doing nothing different to when he first joined Arsenal.
Inferior players year on year culminated in Arsenal finishing 6th
words on a blog
I agree entirely. The main problem is Stan.
There is no problem getting rid of him (or making him change his ways) but our season-ticket holders seem disinclined.
They should take a leaf out of the Liverpool book. Or maybe they prefer to sit in their seats and moan.
That Spurs bench isn’t going to help much offensively. Come on Ajax
@Marko, No Krikowiak was not rated by the PSG scouting staff who had already refused to purchase him the previous year and that summer before Emery arrival. Their views that was published later was that he was technically poor and that his lack of mobility and dynanysm meant that he would be a poor fit in Ligue 1 and for PSG. Imagine replacing Veratti with Krikowiak. The Jese debacle was even funnier, because when he was first mentioned, Emery championned him. The DoF left the press conference slamming the door to make everybody understand that he was against the move.… Read more »
Said this earlier FL, we’d already conceded 32 PL goals by the time Hector was crocked and 20 in 15 matches by the time Holding was, couldn’t keep a clean sheet to save our lives.
These weren’t prime Sagna and Koscienly that we were losing, they were two players that most wanted replaced only a year ago and have been criticised for ages.
I wonder who at PSG was responsible for Eric Maxim-Moting.