Only two people can save Arsenal (long read)

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I did a little podcast with Matt yesterday, an Emeryista at the start of the season, struggling now. One of the items he touched on is the chat about our defence being 52 goals worth of bad. There’s a narrative going around that our defenders are uncoachable, and like so many meek takes, it just doesn’t rub.

Monreal is an excellent left back, arguably one of our most underappreciated defenders of the last few years. A warrior and perfectly capable.

Kola is an international and was left back of the year in Germany.

Kos was an international, would have gone to the World Cup had it not been for an injury, he is a very capable individual.

Sokratis has played for Milan and Dortmund. He’s not world class, but he’s been a hit this season and all his ex-teammates speak highly of him.

AMN is a solid reserve right back. Mavrapanos hasn’t had many games, but hardly the second coming of Stepanovs.

Bellerin is one of the best young right backs in Europe. Holding is excellent. A lot of people flag their injuries like that was the turning point for the defence… despite us clearly being on for conceding 50 goals when they were in the starting 11.

Then you have a keeper who has been in the top 3 this year. Much better than Kepa and I think it’s hard to deny he’s been better than De Gea this season.

Mustafi, who has been god awful, is still a World Cup winner. I know, I know, hard to fathom… but look, it’s not me that saw 4000 hours of him playing, wrote a prez about him being good enough, played him the most out of any Arsenal player in the league.

Anyway, my point here… players uncoachable? Really? It just doesn’t rub. Wenger didn’t give a fuck about defending, had a worse keeper who was making errors regularly, no defensive midfielder of note, no Sokratis and managed to do better defensively in a season most of the players gave up in January.

All players at an international level are coachable, in fact, they are the most coachable in the world, that’s why they made it, they listened and acted upon the wisdom. No one makes it to those heights if they can’t be trained. If they are failing, it’s because they aren’t being organised effectively, they don’t understand what they are supposed to be doing, or they don’t know what the vision is.

I found it amusing that many of the folk defending Emery yesterday were asking if we should have signed Brendan Rodgers. You are in a dark place if that’s where your mind is heading.

That said, it is hard to deny that he doesn’t have more pedigree in the Premier League than Emery. That team he set up for Liverpool played explosive football and he was a whisker away from something special. Leicester looked a match against City yesterday, only a moment of magic separated the two sides. Anyway, back to Rodgers, he’s a bit of a wally, isn’t he? How long before that carry-on would get a little boring if you were a player?

‘Guess what’s in my hand, boy?’

‘No Brendan’

‘I said GUESS’

‘Brendan, fuck off mate, I’m trying to leave…’

‘YOUR FUTURE, actually, as you asked, or it might be your past’

‘What?’

‘I messed it up…’

He does have charisma though, and he’s a bit of a boy I hear. However, I do think he’s found a good level. That’s a good hire for Leicester.

When thinking about a replacement hire for Sven Mislintat, we should look at the comings and goings at the Midlands club. They have a production line of unbelievable youth talent, as well as making very shrewd signings from around Europe at bargain basement prices. It all stems from having a longterm vision. Nothing they’ve done has been an accident, it’s all built on a plan, and executed with full accountability. As soon as someone fails to deliver what they need, they take action. Ranieri, gone as soon as things went south. Good decision. Puel, gone because they didn’t like the style of football. Good decision.

My hope is that Arsenal move in that direction. My view is that’ll happen when we bring in a technical director. Hopefully, that person is a visionary that will take time out to understand what we have to offer, map a blueprint based on a footballing philosophy they want to execute, then bend the club around an actionable plan.

That’ll mean one more season of Emery, but make no mistake, the new person will be spending the next 6 months working out how to move us on from this grim transition into a more stable situation we can build from.

Liverpool finished 8th in Klopp’s first season, however, after a rocky start to his career, and spending next to nothing in his first transfer window, Klopp went on a bit of a rampage, in his last 13 games in the league, Liverpool scored 31 goals (half of all their league goals came in those games). They reached two cup finals (one of which he lost to Emery).

Point here is this, though inconsistent, he was playing heavy metal football and it was electric (conceded less than Emery has this season). You could see what he was doing, and that was without a preseason.

His first summer he spent net zero, shipping out £70m and bringing in £70m worth of talent. He was selling absolute dross. Benteke, Ibe, Skrtel and Joe Allen. Don’t tell me our dross is worse than those names. There is cash on the table at Arsenal.

They made the Champions League on net zero transfer spend.

The next season they sold a HUGE name and reinvested that money in another net neutral year.

They made the Champions League final.

Once they hit the big time, they spent £130m net, now they are chasing down the Premier League with one game to go.

They have good owners. They have a vision, a belief system, a plan and they bring in the best people in to execute it. When it goes wrong, they make quick decisions, they don’t fester on talent that isn’t delivering.

Arsenal are struggling for good people, we hired a bland manager and we let him bring his mates with him (something Ivan wasn’t going to do). We have two major vacancies that could make or break our next ten years. The technical director is the architect of our future. The head of recruitment is the person charged with finding the talent to bring the future to life. We need to hope that that top dog is a person of extreme ability because there are a lot of bad actors at the club that need purging. We need to get into gear and really deliver to an elite-performance ethos.

We have two hopes of this happening. 

#1 Raul isn’t a fraud. I can’t help but stare that Denis Suarez deal in the face and wonder what the fuck happened. How could anyone of sound mind greenlight that move when our glaring issues were elsewhere. Who thought hiring in a characterless player that had no power, pace or record of achievement, was a good idea? £2.5m and £100k a week. Disgraceful.

Anyway, let’s pretend that was Emery. Raul has to make the right move with this technical director. It can’t be a hack. I don’t want Monchi. I don’t want someone from Barca. Give us an accountable leader that is here to make magic happen. Someone that is entitled, intelligent and truly believes we WILL become the best. A person that doesn’t believe in excuses and exits those that lean on them. A winner that looks under all the rocks and eeks out value from every penny, person and technology they have available.

A move can negate the bullshit… because it doesn’t matter how many people tell you STAN STAN STAN… if you hire a person who is a self-starter that has some fucking pride, you don’t need an owner to micromanage. People that blame the owner are the sorts that think religion stops you from murdering the drummer next door that fucks really loudly and keeps you up with his droning laughter then doubles down with his girlfriend that cackles like some sort of Wizard of Oz BITCH at youtube videos when stoned.

You think Beppe Marotta needs a to-do list to run a club well? No. Because he’s driven to succeed. Find the right person, give them the generous parameters Stan has afforded us, and they’ll make it work. Our wage bill is £235m. That is GIGANTIC. Our net spend is the 3rd highest in the league. We are the biggest opportunity in world football for the right person, they can literally live out their purest footballing fantasies at Arsenal. No one in your ear if you make your numbers. Fans will worship them. Amazing.

The second hope is Josh K comes down from the Super Bowl clouds and starts paying attention to Arsenal.

Get off the fucking yacht Josh, those babes will still be there next year.

KSE has made a lot of effort with The Rams, The Nuggets and whatever that hockey team is called. Huge turnarounds that have pleased the fans immensely.

Are they really going to ignore a billion dollar club like Arsenal forever?

I hope not. Why would you? Who is going to invite you to a super league if you haven’t done anything interesting in 15 years? There is always a chance that we’ll get some owner action at some point, because we are a high-value asset that is not doing very well… and I believe in patterns… our turn HAS to be coming.

So the long and short of it is this: Things aren’t getting better for at least a year. Next year will be another Emery bore fest, but we will absolutely have a Technical Director in place before the summer… so the pain will be temporary IF we get that hire right.

Then it’s all on that person because if we blow the next rebirth, I struggle to see how we make it back inside 10 years.

Over to whoever cares to make the next move.

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Ryan

Its time to sack Emery and get Arteta. We wasted a year already. I hope Arteta takes the job after how we humiliated him. He is the next Pep. Please don’t miss out on him.

Dissenter

CC “Expecting some improvement on that alone is fair, never mind the added influence of a modern coach thought to bring his highly analytical approach to a raft of players who’ve been without defensive tactics for a couples of seasons, some more” Highly analytical approach? Haven’t you read that Xhaka leads the charts for the most individual errors that led to a goal. Same as Mustafi and his penchant for the problem solving portions of his cerebrum to go blank at key moments. Emery got the selection of the Palace game wrong but his reset in the second half was… Read more »

Ishola70

RH

“That’s the fantastic signings Sven dropped before joining the power house that is Stuttgart”

lol he ended up there?

Well we should expect them to be a force in world football within five years then.

Receding Hairline

Ryan it’s always been Sven’s signings hence the hysterics when he left?

If all the signings were hand picked by Emery what exactly were you lot crying after Sven for?

@Pedro yes the signings haven’t been up to much bar Leno who has been fantastic

Matteo needs a loan, Torriera I am afraid may not cut it in this league, too short and doesn’t have Kantes build or athleticism, Sokratis is fine for a stop gap , tad expensive for 18m. Lich has been rubbish.

Did I miss anyone?

gunnershabz

Pedro

would you like us to make premier league signings only

doucoure of watford
mcquire, chilwell, kieran tierney of celtic
ryan fraser, ruben neves, diego tota, willy boly
mcneil of burnley looks like a hot prospect

we can easily get docoure and tierney thats two positions filled

we try to get players from abroad and well they do take time settling in and we know next season we got to hit the ground running

Liverpool have made a lot of premier league signings i.e. robertson the southampton boys

Dissenter

Pedro
Nope all the signings aren’t crap
We are just offering you the equivalent of the argument you made in your posts Since you go all out to prove they aren’t so bad, we are serving you a dose of your medicine.

Ishola70

Stuttgart could be playing 2nd Division German football next season.

lol @ Sven.

Un na naai

Pedro I’d see a therapist about your drummer neighbour before it’s too late, or get down to church…. Spot on post today though. We are rudderless at the moment with a mid league manager. We aren’t doing any better than we currently are with him at the helm. He had these players purring before Xmas and playing some scintillating football so he’s capable and is are the players. He had them playing like warriors against our rivals so it’s in there. He’s just lost the keys. For me the players look as though they aren’t sure about him and his… Read more »

Ryan

I will be back here on May 29 when Emery fucks up as usual.

Dissenter

Pedro never mentions that Lichsteiner was the product of Sven’s fantastic scouting

Nelson

The performance of the team in the last 6 EPL games really got me worry. We were playing more like a bottom 4 team. If it was just one or two bad games, one can still tolerate.
Now, I am all for a major surgery of the team, whatever it takes. Manure is preparing to pay half of Sanchez’s salary in order to get rid of him. We should do the same thing to renew the squad. No more paper over the crack.

Biggles

Even if I’m getting increasingly frustrated with Emery, I still don’t think Arteta is the answer. I can’t think of any top managers that got their start at top teams. Guardiola and Zidane don’t count, because they’d already managed the B teams and were known quantities within their clubs. It was also possible to see some evidence of their ability based on what they did in the league with those B teams. Maybe somebody can think of a decent counter example, I’m sure there probably is one. But Klopp didn’t start at Dortmund, Pochettino didn’t start at Spuds, ten Hag… Read more »

Dissenter

Yes Sven is so world class and blows hot coco chanel eau de toilette out of his arse that he ended up in Stuttgart Remember the comeback is the best part of the story I hate it when they credit Sven for the Auba transfer. It’s almost as if we paid for the transfer with toilet paper. BVB had a striker that they didn’t need and apparently no one else was interested in and yet we paid them £55-60 million along with a 10 million sign-on fee for that privilege. The Auba transfer was money talking, not the product of… Read more »

Ishola70

“He had these players purring before Xmas and playing some scintillating football so he’s capable and is are the players”

lol

Receding Hairline

Yes Nelson, the inability of this group to beat palace and Brighton at home bothers me no end. I still can’t believe it happened hence I can understand all the emotions.

Pedro isn’t writing from an emotional viewpoint though, he is selling the notion our players are good enough despite years of haphazard recruitment, irrational salaries and repeated let downs by the same group.

HighburyLegend

“Chelsea are finally adapated to Sarri.”

Yeah right, Ryan nose best…

Dissenter

Arteta has neurosurgical training it seems
He will plant a deep brain stimulating device in the brains of the players and turn them around.
For Mustafi, the device will keep repeating; think-think=think-think
For Xhaka, the device will …gawd I don’t know…I think his body will reject the device or the chip will just get fried.

HighburyLegend

“he is selling the notion our players are good enough”
…and that it’s only Emery’s fault…

Jamie

If Emery wins the EL, does that mean Ryan won’t ever be back here? Don’t tease..

HighburyLegend

Sorry, I had read “not good enough”…
lol

Ryan

Biggles

I think Arteta is a young Wenger or Pep in the making. He just needs a chance.

Dissenter

Arteta with new modern coaching will transform us unlike the relic Emery

Batistuta

The bit about our defenders up there is the most dishonest and agenda filled thing i have ever read. Bigging up our defenders, one which we’ve been crying for it to be changed for how many years now? Isn’t it telling that Sokratis who himself is nothing spectacular has come in and become our best defender? Plus no one seems to remember that because of our porous midfield, opposition players seem to have a free run at our defenders every single game but yea sure we should be doing better defensively with the most clueless lot I’ve ever watched

Ryan

Jamie

Lol Hazard will destroy us. Don’t be deluded we have no chance whatsover.

Receding Hairline

Missing Ryan already.. Please come back

Ryan

Batistuta

They are better than Newcastle defenders. Rafa benitez can organise a defence with relegation level defenders. Emery is a clown who can’t organise a defence.

Ryan

The Liverpool game was the most shameful game I have a watched. I cried after that. Thats when I started hating Emery.

Ryan

I hate Emery because he is bringing me pain. I am real Arsenal fan who wants the best for the club unlike you EKBS who want the best for Unai

Dissenter

Receding
Honestly Ryan isn’t so bad
We’ve endured worse trolls here. So long as they are Emery bashing, they get velvet glove-red carpet treatment.

Receding Hairline

I won’t be dragged into this Arteta nonsense…not worth the time. This belief that all we need is an untested manager or some hidden gem is what bred this agenda towards a man doing the best he can with very limited tools. Chelsea had an exceptional player like Hazard to drag them over the line, reason why Madrid might pay 80-100m for him. We had our 350k player hiding, our 55m striker missing sitters, just two home wins and we would have been sitting third right now and our adequate bunch could not muster it, failing when the pressure is… Read more »

DM

Supposedly, Edu it is, on a 5 year deal.

Interesting…

Don’t know enough about his tenure at Corinthians or the Brazil national team to pass comment really. If true, will be interesting to see how he pans out.

Champagne Charlie

Dissenter You’re making laughable claims once again, our season isn’t tin pot because of individual errors. In percentage terms Emery takes the cake as far as responsibility goes. There’s such a thing as mitigating errors and error prone players, you’re aware of this I know. That’s where the analytical approach comes in, I’m not talking the ability to deconstruct the opposition, I’m talking starting at home. But listen, if you want to chalk up our season to some errors then be my guest. We’ve played games against Palace, Wolves, Leicester, and Brighton without dominating any aspect of a match. We… Read more »

Dissenter

If it is Edu then the stories about Arsenal signing Gabrielle Martinelli [the 17 year old from Ituano] are true.
Edu is already planning the summer, it may seem.

RGG

Hear Hear!

I’d rather give Wenger the money to spend than Emery…..honestly!

If we continue to defend the way we are, get lucky in Europa or not, Emery will be gone by Xmas…..or the fans will be rightly calling for his head by then anyway….

Receding Hairline

DM a five year deal is pretty dim.

We gave Emery a perfect deal,two year with an option

HighburyLegend

“I hate Emery because he is bringing me pain.”
If he brings you pain, I can only imagine the 10 last years under wenger had been a real torture for you.

Receding Hairline

Yes RGG let’s give the man who signed Mustafi for 35m, Xhaka for 35m, Perez for 17m, more money to rebuild our squad. I like you as much as I like Ryan.

Keep em coming

HighburyLegend

“I’d rather give Wenger the money to spend than Emery”

He wouldn’t spend a dime of what you could gave him!!

Some comments are totally out of this world…

Dissenter

CC What type of error mitigating analytics will prevent Mustafi from making that mistake that changed the course of the home game against Palace. What type of analytics will stop Xhaka from doing the moronic thing he did on Sunday? The best evidence or excessive risk is a history of excessive risk. Sometimes you have to cut the player off and that’s what any big club would hav done. We cannot because Wenger’s egalitarian millionaire socialistic wage-structure won’t allow us to move them on. Any risk mitigating analysis will arrive at the same conclusion – GET RID OF THE SAID… Read more »

CG

Ryan “””Give Morrow the job he will sign good British players. We need more British spine in the team””” Well said-If Edu comes aboard- he will be another nonsensical hire, What his knowledge of British Players? ( in contrast to Morrow?) Has he got the power to terminate Emerys contract? Does he tell how the coach how to play? His start date is a fudge Has he turned us down previously? Has his passport problems been resolved? Everything Arsenal have done post Wenger- has been a total shambles. Raul and Emery have been an unmitigated disaster- and the expected hire… Read more »

Biggles

@Receding Hairline I’m not sure if a five year deal is a good thing or a bad thing, it all depends on the terms in the contract. What I would say though is that a Director of Football/Technical Director/Sporting Director/whatever is probably more important than the head coach and if he’s doing a good job you probably want him tied down more. It’s primarily his vision that would be getting implemented and you want long term continuity, not two years and then being bent over a barrel if he did a good job and is wanted elsewhere. Of course the… Read more »

Receding Hairline

Dissenter I can tell from the number of times you have mentioned it that the error from mustafi where he tried to shield the ball from Zaha without any knowledge of where Zaha actually works still hurts. Well you can console yourself with the fact he is a world cup winner.

Paulinho

Pedro – They’ve been terrible but why? Neville is arguing that the structure above is is the reason why top coaches, pedigree wise, have floundered or made their mark, and it’s hard to disagree.

Solsjkaer came in, made a superficial difference – “oh they’re playing with freedom” – and they’ve reverted to the bland mess they were before.

Dissenter

The good thing about Edu is that we can start tapping into new markets for cheaper players that we can move on for big money.
That’s the way to rebuild; buy low , sell higher like in retail.

gambon

Why are people so thick to believe Edu is only capable of signing Brazilian players?

Sven Mislintat is German, we made 8 signings while he was here:

Greek
Gabonese
Armenian
German
Greek
Swiss
Uruguayan
French

Receding Hairline

Biggles yeah I guess so. Just don’t understand what qualifies Edu for the job. We are all jumping on a man who has managed football clubs and has relative success doing so after one season yet I’m supposed to believe we have the patience for a rebuild.

DM

This site is becoming overrun with people who are, at best, trolling, at worst, total morons.

To the rest of us, who have the benefit of such luxuries as intelligence and logic, PLEASE do not bother replying to those guys, you’re just feeding them and it’s clogging up the comments with total shite (yes, I realise the irony of the “tr4phy” guy saying this lol). Ignore them and eventually they’ll get bored and move their crap elsewhere.

Champagne Charlie

Dissenter You don’t eradicate mistakes, you mitigate them. I’m not absolving players for making errors, it’s part of the game. But to surmise that our downfall for the season is on that reeks of desperation to absolve Emery and the total lack of a coherent plan. Sunday was equal parts down to our embarrassing one dimensional ‘attack from wide’ approach. Xhaka was left covering a gaping hole at RB, which ultimately led to him gifting a penalty. At 1-0 up maybe we don’t need Lichtsteiner playing like Arjen Robben? What do you think? Maybe, just maybe, we try some combinations… Read more »

Ishola70

Edu should be seen as a positive.

He comes from one of the best footballing nations in the world and as Dissenter suggested he looks to have links and knowledge of the players over there.

CG

We will not be able to sign South American players- because most of the players there are owned by third parties/hedge funds and shady finance companies- in contravention of Prem league Rules- post Tevez/mascernaho.

Since when have young South American players ever flourished playing in the UK?
Does Raul know he is working for Arsenal not Barcelona?
Absurd hire. Typical Raul. Bring a patsy in!

Dissenter

CC
I agree that you try to minimize risks but there are times when you just have to cut your losses.
Xhaka and Mustafi cannot thrive in the English game. They have to be put out of their misery.
That’s why Chelsea moved Bagayoko on very quickly.

Dissenter

gambon
‘Why are people so thick to believe Edu is only capable of signing Brazilian players?’

You must have misread the posts
No one is suggesting that he is only capable of Brazilian signings. All,we are saying is he will pivot away from just European signings and take us to places we never seemed to try like South America.

Dissenter

CG
‘We will not be able to sign South American players- because most of the players there are owned by third parties/hedge funds and shady finance companies- in contravention of Prem league Rules- post Tevez/mascernaho’

That was the bullshi* that Wenger force-fed you.
Isn’t that why we pay all these suits in the front office so much money. How have European clubs been signing South American players for the past 75 years?

You either go to the street dealer or go to the source in the Colombian jungle, which one do you prefer?

Champagne Charlie

Dissenter

Right, but none of that prevents having a plan, establishing a philosophy, dominating a game.

Errors and mistakes should undo good work. We haven’t done good work to undo, we’ve been laborious and in large parts awful + the mistakes.

I’m just not buying this idea the mistakes have been reason for our shortcomings.

Un na naai

Dissenter

Mustafi’s error to cost us one goal. Emery’s masterplab cost us the rest

Un na naai

How can you defend emery after the last month? The fella just isn’t up to the task. He bottles it wherever he goes.

Receding Hairline

I think we at one point had a home record second to City alone. At one point we had outscored Chelsea, spurs and united.

I daresay a lot of hard work was undone by needless errors over the final weeks of the season.

If you do not believe that fighting for a top three/four finish over the course of a season is hard work then I dunno what to tell you.

Receding Hairline

If I get the argument right

We competed for top four because of the players and lost it because of the manager.

And you expect to be taken seriously.

HighburyLegend

@Un ai ai ai ai : first, let’s give him one more transfer window.
2nd, if we win the ELC, I’m sure you will disappear from Le Grove for some time.

Un na naai

If you do not believe that fighting for a top three/four finish over the course of a season is hard work then I dunno what to tell you.

Dissenter

Funny how you’ve just cottoned onto this now. Yes. We were in a great position and emery threw it away with his insipid performances. He’s had the players purring this season and rightfully took the plaudits. Now he will rightfully carry the can for the awful current form

Un na naai

HL

Why would I disappear? What a silly statement

Micheal

“There is always a chance that we’ll get some owner action at some point, because we are a high-value asset that is not doing very well… and I believe in patterns… our turn HAS to be coming.”

Pedro, Pedro, please. I am normally a supporter and respect your passion and commitment.

But is our best hope seriously that “Our turn will come” . Imagine going to a bank asking for a loan on the basis of “Our turn will come”.

Dissenter

Un na ‘Mustafi’s error to cost us one goal. Emery’s masterplab cost us the rest’ Obviously you’ve never come to close playing football or any other sports competitively. Anyone who has knows about the ebbs and flow of any sports. There are key events that can ruin everything when they happen at critical moments. It’s like rivets that can bring down a mighty ship like the Titanic. We had been playing every 3-4 days for three weeks. We were down and equalized and were in the ascendancy playing at home…. then Mustafi does the inexplicable brain fart mistake and all… Read more »

Un na naai

Receding

Not dissenter

Marc

The rumours about a Technical Director seems to have gone quiet. Is it possible we have a deal in place for Overmars but Ajax have asked us to keep it quiet until their season is over?

Ryan

Come on WOBs, admit it that Emery is not up to the job. He is not the man. Even you can see we are just as bad as were under Wenger and after the Burnley match may concede more goals after 70m more spent? And Emery tactics of attacking with full backs has killed our creative players like Ozil and Mkhi. They barely even assist anymore.

Why should he stay when he hasn’t improved anything and world-class managers like Conte were available?

Are you just backing Emery because you hated Wenger?

DM

Marc

Where are you looking, mate? All papers etc saying Edu has agreed a 5 year deal with us as our technical director

Receding Hairline

Marc rumors are Edu has been appointed.

It is being reported by multiple outlets and has been said on here too

Dissenter

Marc
The search should never had been public
It should have been on the basis of once your name leaks-you’re out.

Ryan

It is time to start protesting to get Emery sacked. Emery had a golden opportunity with all other clubs bottling it and a free run at top four. Why are you all WOBs making excuses? Would you do the same for Wenger? We are bad as last year but Wenger almost the League Cup and Europa League. You might hate him, but Wenger had the stature to manage a big club like Arsenal, unlike Unai who has the stature for mid-table Spanish clubs. Also weren’t you against Arteta as well? That went well didn’t it. It is just ego for… Read more »

DM

** NEW POST IS UP **

Dissenter

I have to say Ryan has come to the blog of the faithful. All you need here is an Emery bashing megaphone.
Then you need an inside source in the PSG dressing room
Voila….you’re a star

KAY Boss

We are gradually moving into the direction of Liverpool of old.
Suppose we win the EL, does that mean Spurs won’t be in the champs league?
Some players are just beyond redemption.

CG

Dis ‘We will not be able to sign South American players- because most of the players there are owned by third parties/hedge funds and shady finance companies- in contravention of Prem league Rules- post Tevez/mascernaho’ I did emphasis Prem league clubs, Spanish /Italian clubs have different rules, HOW MANY – young south Americans ( especially Brazilian ones) have flourished in British football,? they are suited to Spanish football We should Have a British based recruitment policy, Best player on the pitch yesterday. Harry maguire ( Ex Hull) Best left back in the Prem Roberston (ex Hull) Our best player Ramsey… Read more »

OleGunner

I will add if you want a more nuanced take than Pedros bludgeoning and highly partisan podcast, take a look at Arsebog arse cast extra and Arsenal vision podcasts for better takes imo.

They both cover arguments for and against Emery in a deep but respectable way, as well as addressing the over arching executive decisions, club culture and finances impact on our season and future ones as well as those things impacting the coach.

Both great listens especially in comparison to what Pedro served up.

Valentin

@ddkingz,

It had been reported that Wenger wanted Martial in exchange for Sanchez . There was a difference of 10 millions valuation of Martial. So Management (Gazidis) refused to fork the extra and we settled for Mhikitarian who Wenger absolutely did not want.
The worse thing is that six months later we forked an extortionate amount for Aubameyang who Wenger used on the left. The exact same position Martial would have filled.