GONNA MISS U xArsenal bowed out of the top 4 race to rapturous boos. The days of a good old Glorious Failure™ are long behind us, yesterday marked the crescendo of one of the meekest season finales since Lost. A total bottle job.
We couldn’t beat 17th placed Brighton. Say the Premier League has no easy games, tell me we were unlucky, you can make all manner of excuses, reality is, Unai Emery has taken 4 points from 18. That is appalling.
Before I get into this, there are two elements to the demise. Part 1: is that the manager isn’t good enough. There’s no hiding from this reality. I will absolutely not accept that it was an insurmountable challenge to improve the areas set out by the manager himself at the start of the season (better defence, be the protagonists, entertain the fans, mental strength). Part 2: we are clearly broken from a structural perspective. That also has to improve. However, I don’t want to wait a year to fix part one. Get a good coach in place and make sure next year isn’t shaped in a pricey manner by someone who isn’t the standard required.
Part 1: Emery has somehow managed the feat of regressing the team as the season has worn on. He has no real track record in the upper echelons of elite football. He’s a Europa League specialist, and that, unfortunately, is exactly what the football has looked like.
Unai Emery didn’t tank in an unfair fixture pile-up against Premier League powerhouses. He dropped points against Everton, Palace, Wolves, Brighton, and Leicester. Teams which he couldn’t motivate players he’s had a year with. Teams he couldn’t effectively strategise against.
When the early season celebrations of a 22 game unbeaten run (best since 2007) were being hyper-analysed, the general consensus was analytical coaching, no-nonsense beasting of fragile minds, and elite tactical genius. 5 months on, I’m struggling to re-up ‘the players have to hold their hands up’ excuse so many afforded Wenger. The squad wasn’t ever going to challenge for the title, but it was always top 4 capable, hence the undeniable fact that we were in it as of yesterday.
How do you look at the mess of Brighton and not wonder what we bought into? Where was the organisation? Our formation shape-shifted so much it was hard to grasp what the plan was. Once again, at the back, no one knew what they were doing. Brighton got in behind us with ease, if it weren’t for Leno, we’d have lost (RIP Cech, glad you didn’t start).
Going forward, our elected strategy seemed to be to attack from wide positions and whip balls into two extremely dominant centre backs. We hit 41 crosses into their box. We had 16 corners that all went nowhere. Why didn’t Emery switch it up?
The commentator mentioned that the manager and his team stay up regularly until 2am watching videos for analysis. What the fuck are they watching? Is he bingeing Ken Burns war docos, because I’m struggling to see the output on the pitch.
If he has a whole team studying back catalogues, why does he keep playing into the strengths of the opposition?
Did he not know Crystal Palace was a monstrously powerful side of bully boys? Why did he play a teenager and a journeyman in the middle? Why did he play a Championship player that wears Arsenal pyjamas to the office? Why did he offer up ZERO intensity for a tough but fairly standard Premier League game?
Did he know that Wolves counterattack?
Why did he give Leicester so much possession when they have highly competent players who can unlock defences?
‘But these are Wenger’s players!’
Let’s look into that.
Leno: Emery’s
Lichtsteiner: Emery’s
Sokratis: Emery’s
LT: Emery’s
Mikhi: Been with Emery longer than Wenger
Auba: Been with Emery longer than Wenger
Lacazette: Player of the season
Iwobi: Emery had greatly improved him (apparently)
4 of the starting 11 are his. 2 of them have been with him longer than Wenger. One of them is a player of the season that’s being linked to Barcelona. One was supposed to be the kid he developed into a real boy.
Outside that, are you telling me it’s beyond the realms of possibility to hope that the manager could have worked out a way to do something to coach the players? If we’re reducing the argument about him down to spending a bucket load of money, why did we hire him? Was that Emery’s pitch? ‘Give me cash.’ If it was, we should have hired in a better big club coach, or, you know, had some money.
If it wasn’t, where is the coaching? Which players are better? As a collective, why are we so limp wristed? Why aren’t we more intelligent? Why are we not moving the needle in defence, attack or from an artistry perspective? Watching Arsenal is like dealing with a thunderous hangover after 3 nights on the town with late 1970s Berlin Bowie. Our football should be the Bowie after party. It should set my heart racing on a Sunday, not have me dual screening ASMR videos of iceberg lettuce, enjoying the lettuce more.
Only one player up until today has started 30 league games this season, Mustafi.
Granit Xhaka has been an absolute joke for 3 seasons now. If you had watched 4,000 hours of Arsenal for a job interview, prepared a presentation for the ages, would anything you saw of the Swiss convince you he was the future of our midfield? Well, it seems he was integral. What was the plan for a player who can’t run, is immensely weak, and has the habit of dropping assists for the opposition when he’s bored? Why is anyone entertaining the idea of him being a worthwhile asset at 26 years old? He’s a fucking disaster. He’s the footballing equivalent of William H. Macy in The Cooler. You don’t stop being a dunce after 99 league appearances.
It has been clear for 3 years+ that the pair of them are not good enough. If you were a ruthless monster of a manager, why would you not go out in January and loan in two players to help? Could have been Gary Cahill. Could have been Tielemans, a player that started his career in a deeper midfield role. He’s athletic, talented and he’s been a revelation (11 starts, 3 goals, 5 assists for Leicester).
Who did Emery absolutely insist on?
Suarez. Giving Barcelona £2.5m and covering the wages of a player who looks like he’d have a breakdown if he heard you use the wrong gender pronoun at a party. It’s unforgivably bad.
Even worse, we spent the whole of January trying to shift on a player Emery had passed on from an ability perspective (Aaron), only to bring him back in from the cold to find out he was, in fact, our best player. Emery yanked that deal, he didn’t fancy him, that is what I heard from a very good place. Don’t believe me, answer me this, why did he drop him at the end of September? If Raul wanted to move him on, and Emery loved him, he’d play him, no doubt. Raul does not pick the team. I can see the merit in saying the Ramsey injury killed us, but at the same time, the same manager dropped him out of his 22 game unbeaten run. Also, do you really believe our collapse is related to one player? Naive, fam, real naive.
Part 2: Arsenal is in a precarious position. The club has been left with Raul, who looks like a total hack if I’m honest. We have a manager most people could see was an unambitious hire from the start. No sauce, no balls, no progress. We are basically on track to be a midtable team next season according to our xG points total, which sigh all you like, has tracked the demise of OGS and Emery, and has us in 7th this season. We don’t have a head of recruitment in place to course correct a ship that is veering towards the rocks, though I suspect we’re getting closer to a new TD.
There appears to be no love for the club at exec level. There is no leadership. There is no vision or plan to escape the mess.
But fear not, we aren’t Sunderland who dipped and never came back. Arsenal has everything needed to climb the heights again, however, it might take a few years before we realise the club is stocked with a lot of bad actors that have shite ideas and no talent to see them through.
Spurs might have lost 19 games this season, but they made top 4 without spending a penny, they are in the Champions League semi, and their wage bill is £80m less than ours. Dortmund has an electric setup and they keep making it better by being the best place for young players from around the world to develop. They keep the club funded by sourcing youthful gems and flogging them for massive fees. Outrageous that they sold Pulisic for so much, with Sancho easily looking a £130m player. Ajax… just look at Ajax, look at the beauty, it’s no accident, it’s a visionary plan that was executed with precision by people that give a fuck.
Arsenal has more to offer than both of those clubs. We have prestige, a heritage of winning, unreal facilities, we have class, a massive stadium, a London postcode and more money than any of the clubs doing BIG things on a budget. Remember, Atleti has spent £79m net since 2012, we spent that last summer. They have been to two CL finals, won a super cup, and the Europa League.
We just need someone to come and unlock the Arsenal HOT sauce cupboard.
We need to be led by a bold, forward facing visionary that didn’t win the lottery by landing at Arsenal. No, we need someone who feels they won the lottery and has a massive chip on their shoulder about success and legacy. Raul must have struggled to comprehend his luck when he met the softest CEO in world football and was offered a job. The equivalent of a Sultan opening his pockets at Covent Garden station and inviting the street urchins to plunder them.
He seems happy to plod along, not pester the owner, and make as much cash-money before he ducks out the back door for another desk job at Barca.
We need someone to reposition a new Arsenal. The fans don’t need gassy Ivan-like promises that have no substance, are weak enough to falter upon the interrogation of a 12-year-old lemonade stand entrepreneur, with no one accountable for delivering. We need to hear an honest appraisal of the club, a vision for who we want to be, and a realistic 3-4 year plan of how we’re going to get back to the top.
Arsenal basically has unlimited resources when it comes to hiring the best talent in the world. We just need someone who knows what sort of talent is required, and how to find the best of it in the darkest crevices. I don’t want someone coming in and bringing all their mates. I want a leader that knows the sort of football they want to play, then goes on the hunt for the right sort of team to deliver it.
I want best in class when it comes to pressing. Someone who has a visionary philosophy of what it should be and how to implement it. I want the best minds when it comes to defence, attack, and goalkeeping. Let’s take an NFL approach, it’s not like the Premier League hasn’t consistently borrowed from America, why not create specialist roles for areas that need specialist thinking? Charge those people with improving the output of the club. Bonus them.
‘Concede less than 50 goals and we’ll give you a Nando’s gift card’
‘Increase the number of balls we win back in the opposition half by 20% and you can take the training ground guinea pig home for a week, DON’T FEED IT TO A SNAKE YOU BEAST’
Let’s look at the support staff. Who is looking after the minds of the New England Patriots (John Sullivan)? Who is working with the All Blacks (Gilbert Enoka)? I want that person as our in-house psychologist. Fuck motivational posters on the wall. Why are we be rolling with the guy who helped Wenger crash the mental aptitude of this squad over 3 years? If Unai is high performance, can he please tell the fans what this guy offers?
Who are the best scientists in the world working in innovative new sporting fields that can help train our kids to think better on the pitch? What are we doing in VR? How well is our data being used? What the fuck is up with video analysis, someone take Pornhub off Emery’s PC and make him look at the actual games.
All of these challenges and opportunities can be addressed by understanding the real problems and designing our way out of them with the best bodies on the ground. But my key ask here is this: Do not hire in someone who is going to look at us like Sevilla. Do not hire in someone who is going to look at us like Barcelona-lite. Hire in people who are talented enough to look at our history, assess the tools and resources they have at their fingertips… and task them to create something epically beautiful.
Leadership. Vision. Talent. PLUS the hard work and the energy to see things through.
Arsenal is on life support even if we do make the Europa final. Champions League eases the money worries, but it doesn’t solve for the future. We’d simply be kicking the managerial can of reality down the road for another season.
We have chronic structural issues that if left to fester, will leave us an irrelevance in the world football for years to come. The owner has to act now, compounding bad decisions with more bad decisions will take Arsenal to a place that is going to be too hard to recover without massive expenditure. There are inexpensive options that can save us. We just need a vision and the right team of experts to deliver it.
The on-paper plan from Ivan was good. It hasn’t worked. Let’s hope Josh opens his eyes and makes some ballsy decisions this summer before it’s too late.
See you in the comments xx
Pierre I dont agree much with you, but I was wanting NZonzi too. 6’5 and with experience. Would have helped on set pieces and scored some headers plus can pass the ball etc. Xhaka has NO competition bar El Neny. Let that sink in. Rambo can fill in but still Rambo has more attacking instincts and bombs forward all the time I also think Banega would have done a better job than Xhaka. He and Torreira would have made a more fluid and creative center. But thats all water under bridge now. I do think we need more height in… Read more »
Arsenal need new owners, who love the club and will do everything to make sure the fans are happy. That’s what I feel the solution for arsenal.
Midwest
Why do you have Ozils eye starting at us in your profile pic? creepy
Valentin have you actually ever seen Osei Tutu play? Be honest
“Where did it get us?
41 crosses against Duffy and Dunk?”
You really think Emery told the players to just keep putting high crosses into the box?
Pierre
“We need solid defenders , Martin Keown , TA, Steve Bould types who hate conceding ,who will stick their neck on the line.”
They’d get tied in knots, the modern day offside rule would expose them.
Lol… I don’t know Pedro.. Think we can do better. Depends on the style we are gong to play too, though.. Are we going to continue to play out of the back? Because if so … The cloggers aren’t going to help us.
How’s the amount of crosses into the box get back to the manager by the way.
Guns of SF-
Well 2 reasons.. It’s the ironic eye.. hanging over the Club but mostly 2.)
I forgot how to change it. 😀
Transition season?
How does one make a profile pic? I have tried? Do you use a special browser? I use fire fox
Good to see many people finally coming round to the idea that Emery is not the man to take us forward. I hope the board and Josh too realize it soon enough.
Guns of SF-
It has to do with the Gravatar.com website. Sign up for a profile … I forgot my password though.. I might get it sorted if I have time.
Ideally we need CB’s who are atletic with pace and who aren’t dumb fucks. I’m not sure that Dunk is that or even Maguire for that matter.
MGooner
Thanks some guys here have no idea what’s happening to our club.
Money now buys assets which to the purchaser have no meaning.
Just a means to an end.
The Glazerers have done the same to Man U. The club is soleless now. Players come and go taking the money that’s all.
We are the same Arsenal is just a name to them.
Pedro
If a manager say Arteta gave Iwobi and Sterling the same set of instructions, who do you think would execute better and why?
Emery didn’t do himself much favors by not dipping into the reserves for players and permanently benching some of the under performers. Although I do understand the pressure he is on and you can see from some of the reactions he would have been torn to pieces even with the youths. Pochettino had time and no expectations when he started off, he could do a lot of trial and errors. The mood on here when Wenger left was that we would need a lot of patience and smart investments to become competitive. The man actually competed this season and is… Read more »
Arsene Wenger wanted to bring in Lewis Dunk prior to having his power scaled back and he’s the man responsible for the likes of Mustafi and Xhaka so read into that what you will
Grabs
“It’s always been poor. Look about at goals conceded the last ten years, always around about 45 last two years even worse.”
Not quite
Last 10 seasons goals conceded
37
41
43
49
37
41
36
36
44
51
This season 50 so far.
Difficult to defend isn’t it especially as our keeper has been pretty decent.
Marko
“Ideally we need CB’s who are atletic with pace”
Similar to Kosielny do you mean.
Is someone going to say it or shall I?
The emery apologists are out in their droves tonight.
Did Peter just write his best piece of the season for nothing? Wake up and smell the…what’s Spanish for coffee?
Emery and his band of terrible waiters are flipping awful. And before you bring up Benitez, that guy won the CL.
“Difficult to defend isn’t it especially as our keeper has been pretty decent.”
Koscienly and Monreal are 33 and on their last legs, Mustafi is Mustafi, Bellerin and Holding missed half the season.
Which of our current defenders would you buy if you were managing a club?
Marko
“How’s the amount of crosses into the box get back to the manager by the way”
Who was it who said Emery is our David Moyes.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/manchester-united-break-premier-league-6689087
GoH-
Café.
Similar to Kosielny do you mean.
He’s not that fast and he’s not that smart. I should also add some leadership qualities as well. Say what you like about Koscielny overall but he’s not that good anymore and even as good as he was it was never good enough
Decent start by Leicester, looking threatening.
Guns right on.
Emery is a dick! He’s delivered nothing and bottled the last three weeks.
Oversold himself to the board.
The board and owners are a bunch of tossers after Wenger this side of the club has not changed. Until some board members do the right thing a clear off nothing will change.
They are despicable they really don’t think they are part of the problem.
Totally agree. Emery is not good enough. Shame he’s gonna get another season.
TR7 I guess you would be happy with a change of manager as our sole change this season.
I mean whoever it is must prove that he can play without wingers, play with this exact squad and play breathtaking football while finishing third before any talk of investments.
G
Reference to your take on AM.
Yes, I totally agree, they are a top team but, when given the chance to progress, we fluffed our lines at home against them when they were down to ten men for 80 mins.
Let that sink in. 80 mins, playing at home, and we fudged up. Why do you think that happened?
Also, why compare us to MC?
Thanks Midwest
It works!
Pierre I don’t see any correlation between players unable to open up Brighton at home and crossing for the hell of it and it being I managers fault. You’re talking about two supposed great CAM’s in Mhiki and Özil and all we could do is cross? Why couldn’t the great Ozil create anything? Don’t answer that
Jamie Lanister. Playa.
Guns of SF…
Nice! No problem… Just trying to do my part to keep it the Blog of Lube.
Midwest with the linguistics.
Ta.
Cafe. Of course. Doh!
Man im so depressed about our sorry state.
Aside feeling happy about my new avatar, I think its time to watch some invincibles or TH14 youtube vids.
The real problem, as always is the punters.
A business will never change unless the customer changes or pipes up. That’s a full blown fact.
This isn’t football. It’s in life. Business. The bloke next door.
If you keep allowing it, it becomes normal. Arsenal have become normal.
Would love is to find a player of Maddison’s ilk from the lower leagues.
I agree with the view that there are diamonds to be found in the Championship and hopefully we are looking there as well as abroad.
I am also super depressed I don’t think we will win the Europa and like I said earlier gutted we let Aaron go on a free choked me up seeing him so sad, sadly whilst Stan is in charge we will always work on a shoestring RIP Arsenal
Even worse season ticket prices are extortionate I feel I am being milked for my love
Apart from Leno Auba and Laca there is no ounce of “special sauce” in Arsenal team managment or ownership. Emery should have done bit better. Win Europa and all is forgiven for now. If we fuck this up next year we will look fondly to top four dog fights of seasons past.
Leicester giving City a tough time at the Etihad. Something that we can only dream of at the moment.
Rollen
Auba and Laca lacka a bitta tallenta.
Good ole Mike Dean as the Etihad all at once singing “whose the scouse in black”.
Always one to have his say.
Receding
Emery out
Mustafi out
Xhaka out
Iwobi out
The 4 biggest liabilities need to go. Emery was never good enough anyway but he shot himself in the foot by sticking with Mustafi, Iwobi and Xhaka. For someone who supposedly had an in-depth knowledge of our squad, he showed very poor judgement.
I’m very impressed with Ndidi also.
In fact quite jealous about a few players Leicester have.
GOH- I hear what your saying but It’s very hard to get rid of a sports team owner.. would require 50k people/ season ticket holders to not show up for about a season organized. And then additionally it would require there to be a billionaire sitting about who wants to buy Arsenal and Kroenke would have to be willing to sell it to him for a mutually agreed price. To my knowledge Stan has never sold any of his sports teams . The city of St; Louis and the fans group tried to sue him …. to keep him in… Read more »
Again not responsible for who gets signed and who gets sold but gets the blame for Mustafi, Iwobi and Xhaka. Sven gets some pass for bringing in who he brought in and not doing enough to sell certain players
Also, why compare us to MC?…. Basically stating how difficult it is to win it
TR7 nah u don’t get off that easy
Emery out
Special sauce in
Rest as you were
Lets see the sauce
As for emery not being good enough, I already know who your top three manager in the world is so anything you say regarding managers is best ignored.
I have a feeling that’s probably why Sven didn’t get the technical director position in the end. They probably looked at the 70 million last summer coupled with the 55 million for Aubameyang and thought 125 odd million spent and honestly the overall improvement to the squad was minimal at best. 125 million gets you Lichtsteiner, Sokratis, Mhiki and that’s not good enough
City win this 1-0
TR7
Spot on.
Arsenal has to become a losing asset to Stan.
Loss of revenue
Bottom line
Even at that, he will send Junior to try and fix the problem
more changes to the execs etc
It will not work
Hopefully Dangote is still interested and makes a good offer.
Midwest
How interesting. That, I have never heard about. But…
If everyone immediately stopped buying iPhones, apple would go bust within seconds. We know this.
If every arsenal season ticket holder and fan stopped, arsenal would absolutely have to act.
I think we think too much. It’s really simple.
Marko
…you have a feeling?
I’ve been going off on rants all season long about how Sven’s work with us is mixed at best….and that’s being kind.
I moaned when we got Sokratis [whom I like] for 18 million when 21 million old have gotten us Issa Diop who just turned 22 y/o.
The Auba deal wasn’t necessary at the time because we had so many pot-holes to fill. That 55 million could have bought a wide player and a central midfielder.
It’s all hindsight to be honest.
Marco First of all, I don’t buy the theory that Emery had no say in our transfers. Very rarely do managers not have a say in transfer matters. And if he really didn’t, then that’s even more of an indictment of him as it shows he eitehr doesn’t have a long term vision of how he wants to build his team or he is not assertive. Secondly, say Mustafi wasn’t his choice and he somehow couldn’t get him offloaded. Why did he then persist with him for an entire season ? He could have at least tried a youngster. It… Read more »
Watching Mc’s game, it clearly demonstrates that if you play ball possession football, you need good wingers to open up a parked defense. Each time, the pass goes to Sterling or B. Silva, the game looks dangerous.
Although I feel Mike Dean has refereed quite well so far , I always have a little mistrust in our referees as I feel here is something within the system that makes it difficult for a team to win the prem in consecutive years..
The officials could have a massive influence as to where the title ends up .
TR7 “Secondly, say Mustafi wasn’t his choice and he somehow couldn’t get him offloaded. Why did he then persist with him for an entire season ? He could have at least tried a youngster. It would have been a tough ask even for a youngster to do worse than Mustafi. Had he tried a few new guys at centre back, I would have respected him for realizing the problems at his hand and talking bold moves to find a solution.” Which youngster?…name names Mavros is too raw or isn’t good enough. He too looks like a deer in headlights. He… Read more »
How can seriously somebody argue that Emery is not responsible for the tactic of keeping sending crosses to two non-sense CBs? Emery chose the tactic and the players are just implementing it. If they are implementing a different tactic, he should be then communicating that to them. If they still refuse to follow his instructions, then the responsibility is on him to put players who will follow his instructions. Iwobi does not tend to cross the ball, but on Sunday he kept doing it. So clearly that was something that he had been instructed to do. It is not possible… Read more »
Ndidi has been excellent so far. Probably the PL’s best defensive midfielder alongside Fernandinho over the last few months
@Dissenter,
The overlooking of Issa Diop, the Aubameyang purchase were just bad decisions. You and I called them at the time, so it is not hindsight revisionism.
We needed and still need a left foot CB to take over from Koscielny.
We still have no dribbler in that team who can unlock defense. I said at the time that sending Reiss Nelson on loan when that team is crying out for a wide player was tantamount to dereliction of duty and a professional fault.
Dissenter
Do you really think Emery has preserved Mustafi’s value by continuously playing him ? How much do you think we will get for him in this market ? Emery probably cost us £40M CL money by sticking with Mustafi, that’s more than what we can ever sell Mustafi for. I am also not sure how not being injury prone is anyway relevant to the debate whether Mustafi should have started. Vincent Kompany is the most injury prone CB in City team but when he is fit he always starts ahead of any of the fit defenders they have.
“Iwobi does not tend to cross the ball, but on Sunday he kept doing it. So clearly that was something that he had been instructed to do.”
This is another made up stat by you Valentin.
Iwobi has put 44 crosses this season, 90 in his whole Arsenal career..
Valentin
In Iwobi’s first season, he put in 8 crosses, in his second season, it was 18. The 3rd season, it was 20 and 44 this season.
If you think Iwobi was told to put crosses in the box yesterday, then you are clueless..
City need to put this to sleep … increase the depression rate in Scouseland.
I said from the beginning that Emery will fail in the management of the squad. He would not introduce any of the youth team and overuse some players. The result when injuries and suspension would force him to play them, they would not be ready. Mavrapanos is too eager as he is trying to impress the manager in the few opportunities he has been given. He is trying to get to every ball conceding too many free-kick and convincing Emery even more than he is not ready. Had he been given time earlier, 15 minutes toward the end of games… Read more »
“We needed and still need a left foot CB to take over from Koscielny.”
Emery stated we needed a new CB in January but there was no money to buy, would you also blame him for that?
It was also reported that we were in for Suarez, Perisic and Carrasco… Perisic and Carrrasco are dribblers but its unfortunate we ended up with Suarez but Emery did his part by identifying the needs of the team. Its left for Raul and co to find the money.
Midwest
Time to bring Sane on to finish this off
I don’t buy the theory that Emery had no say in our transfers. Very rarely do managers not have a say in transfer matters. And if he really didn’t, then that’s even more of an indictment of him as it shows he eitehr doesn’t have a long term vision of how he wants to build his team or he is not assertive. Sven was head of recruitment it was literally his job to sign and sell players. Much like it was Henrique’s job at PSG when Emery was there and further back Monchi’s job when he was at Sevilla. It’s… Read more »
Its all hindsight revisionism on here, having lived the Olivier Giroud years, PEA looked a choice signing that few questioned and most championed at time.
Overall a pretty disingenuous post there regarding Sven from Marko because Emery’s form has crumbled in league and were now left to question every aspect of whats gone wrong.
Love it the head scout taking a beating when the manager has taken this side on a historically poor run in league to close season out.
Same with Nkethia, why block his loan to Aufsburg when Emery has clearly no intention to ever play him.
Welbeck is injured and we needed a 3rd striker. You know how lucky we’ve been that neither Aubameyang or Lacazette have been injured this season. I’m just bringing logic here. So Valentin have you seen Osei Tutu play?
I.will cite a couple of more examples where Emery got it totally wrong. We all lambasted Wenger for signing Kellstorm when our team was crying out for a quality striker/midfielder. You tell me how is Denis Suarez signing any different from Kellstrom signing. In numerous games we have seen Auba and Laca struggle either individually or collectively as a pair. Nketiah is not at the level of either of the two strikers but there have been games in which Nketiah could have made a difference due to quality of his movement and good link up play. Emery in my view… Read more »
Barcelona bought a CB from Toulouse FC for 500k because he was in the last six months of his contract, same club WestHam bought Issa Diop.
Arsenal paid a fee of €5 millions for Suarez that could have been used toward a CB.
They were players available, on the suggestion of Emery the decision was made to go for a winger instead of a CB.
So Pedro
All this get behind emery from you was a ruse.
Well I for one am disgusted that you acted this way.
First you lease out your season ticket whilst away which is immoral an contravenes the club rules.
Now you use you4 platform to take the rise out of the man cos you didn’t get your arteta… your such a wenger lover all the shit you say is dihorea …
Sir your a fraud…
After that run Maguire goes for Van Dyke money 🙂
Overall a pretty disingenuous post there regarding Sven from Marko because Emery’s form has crumbled in league and were now left to question every aspect of whats gone wrong. How’s it disingenuous? It’s disingenuous when people try to blame the manager whoever it is for the players still being here and not being sold and for who’s bought that’s disingenuous. It’s also disingenuous as fuck that old diamond eyes is thought of so highly still when it was him who’s responsible for Lichtsteiner, Sokratis and Mhiki for example. I like the signing of Aubameyang I only added him to the… Read more »
“They were players available, on the suggestion of Emery the decision was made to go for a winger instead of a CB.”
Can you point to any source where it was recorded that it was solely Emery’s suggestion or is this one of your numerous made up facts about Emery?
Change the name to le wenger in honour of your beloved eh Pedro.
Give the man support ffs.
It’s easy
Leno best keeper in a while signed by dick
Michig signe£ by wenger
Who if he stayed would have resigned jack think of that Pedro.
Kompany of all people with a screamer. lol
Kompany shows hows its done.
Liverpool fans just pissed their panties.
Azed
Well said sir
Easy to slag off when all around is falling down it’s called joining a band wagon Pedro…
Mr morals.
My fat arse
Another way of breaking a park bus defense is shots outside the box. We don’t have those players neither.
With 10 men behind the ball… Brenda doing his best Mourinho.. was going to take a long range shot. But that was crazy..
Nketiah could have made a difference due to quality of his movement and good link up play. Emery in my view missed each of those opportunities…Emery has failed to.prove his managerial acumen. I’m not sure you can level criticism of the manager for not using Nketiah when it’s quite clear that he’s not good enough yet. It’s honestly pathetic commentary I keep hearing how players like Nketiah and Saka and Osei Tutu and Reiss Nelson and ESR and Medley and Willock and Mavropanos are ready and how it’s quite obvious and a major blunder on Emery’s part that they’re not… Read more »
Don’t think I’ve seen Tielemans complete 90 minutes for Leicester: suspect stamina.
City have been the better team all season
Liverpool have been as good but have had so many lucky breaks ; Salah dived his way to get several points, Jordan Pickford gifted them 2 points in the Merseyside derby and then they got that own goal against Spuds
City are indeed worthy champions.
I don’t understand how anyone can still absolve or deflect blame from Emery after what we have seen the past month. Nobody is saying the squad is where it needs to be–literally nobody. But the squad is plenty good enough to beat Brighton and CP at home. Our tactics were pathetic. Objectively we create less and concede more opportunities than we did in the worst season of Wenger’s 20+ years. And before someone calls me akb scum–fuck you, nice deflection. I wish he’d gone five years ago, but that’s not the issue right now, because he is gone. And the… Read more »
Marko
Twisting the argument yet again. Saying Nketiah and Mav should have got more opportunities doesn’t equate to saying they are definitely better than Auba and Koss respectively. You go on and on about how hopeless Mustafi and Xhaka are and yet you thoroughly rubbish the idea that a few youngsters be instead given more opportunities in their place. Amazing how certain you are that all our youngsters are not good enough.
@azed,
I did not say that it was solely the suggestion of Emery. However to say that he had absolutely no say in his signing is ridiculous. Why would Raul sign a player Emery would not want? Also all Emery had to say is to call Suarez and let him know that he is not interested in him. The agent will then reject the loan.
The fact that Raul insisted on the removal of the obligation to buy means that even he was not convinced.
Sorry to burst all the emotional babble sentimental BS
Eddie Nkettiah isn’t good enough.
The few minute she got …he always looked out of his depth.
Arsenal fans are so freaking sentimental about these academy players.
Put him on the koan market next season and lets see how many championship clubs come knocking.
Dissenter
‘Sorry to burst all the emotional babble sentimental BS
Eddie Nkettiah isn’t good enough.
The few minute she got …he always looked out of his depth.’
Says the guy who always jumps to Iwobi’s defense.
@Disdenter,
Once again, Nkethia did not need to be a world beater, just better than Mhikitarian.
“Liverpool fans just pissed their panties.”
And wait until tomorrow lol
Best Arsenal youngster I’ve seen this season was Emile Smith Rowe and that was when he was being played out of position and he couldn’t sustain it for 90 minutes he’d drift in and out of games. It can happen at that age. Point is he’s not ready
@RSPC at 21:23:19 : totally agree with you, a real shame for Pedro.
Diss
How can you say that about a player who ain’t got minutes…
Club needs to sell a striker to get in money …
No one else is worth owt
Valentin
They were 3 players who we were interested in(Perisic, Carrasco, Suarez). Our interest with Perisic so great, Perisic submitted a transfer request after our loan request was turned down.
Suarez was the only player we could get on loan. I can as well say we signed Suarez because Raul wanted to help his old buddies out(Its very easy to make up stories)
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/jan/27/ivan-perisic-arsenal-transfer-request