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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5th is the new trophy. 4th is for losers.
Pinning our hopes on Josh K or the yet to be found/named technical director….
it looks like EDU is coming but after the copa america
looks like the summer is already doomed already, unless raul has a back up plan
Good post Pedro, just watched Gary Neville talk about United from MNF and it was chillingly familiar to the current state here.
https://youtu.be/dEjdfNwYiEM
Looks like the TD will be Edu – but not until after Copa America.
Anyone know his track record at Corinthians ?
Interesting take on our defenders, complete fantasy, but still… Kola is alright as a wingback but pretty crap in a back 4. Monreal is past it, Kos is past it but can still perform once a week and was injured half the season, Mustafi international or not is complete garbage. Bellerin and Holdings absences have been felt 1) because the backups are much worse (especially Mustafi) and 2) because although we conceded a fair few goals in the beginning that was still the break in period and it was looking better before the injuries the few times we had our… Read more »
“”He was selling absolute dross. Benteke, Ibe, Skrtel and Joe Allen”””” Another very entertaining &informative piece ( and excellent audio piece)from our peerless PedRo .Many thanks. The problem with Arsenal under the New Regime- is that they DO NOT sell players for cash. They give them away for nothing… To think -we allowed Fulham to have Callum Chambers for possibly a small loan fee- whilst we kept Lichtensteiner at Right back for the whole season? Letting Ramsey go for nothing is just unforgivable. How much will it cost to replace a player of his energy ,goal getting ability and drive?… Read more »
That said hopefully we can get something for Mustafi, Xhaka and Chambers, 60mil for the lot seems reasonable. That’s enough for a pretty decent CB and another CM. Konate and Doucoure for example or if the rumours are true and we’re in talks with Rabiot there could even be some change left over.
50m for Xhaka is pure lala land Pedro, you can’t seriously believe we’ll get anywhere close to that.
Kolasinac is god awful mate. Just because he had a good season at Schalke, doesn’t make him better than he actually is. He kills our attack offensively and is shite defensively. Probably wouldn’t start for any of the midtable teams let alone a top 6 one. Nacho, despite being everything he said he is, he’s also 34? The most important quality of a FB is his legs. Unfortunately his legs have gone. He can be a decent back up but he ain’t a starter anymore. Kos was out for 1/2 of the season and took another month or so to… Read more »
Already a new post from Pedro the specialist in hypocrisy ??
Well… I guess that’s still better than Untold.
Would it be worth cutting our loses if we have to, on the likes of Mustafi, Xhaka, Kola, Mikhi & Ozil and just getting in young raw talent. Take the hit for a season with inconsistency – at least it would be better that the consistency of shoddy performances form these old hands!!
Edu is one of us and he will work hard. But does he have the ruthlessness and drive to execute this rebuild. I’m very much apprehensive of this.
It seems we are again taking a safety first approach. He will be joining in July which means our Summer will be a big yawn.
When was the last time that we were excited by Executive level appointment.
Good times at Le Grove
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“The second hope is Josh K comes down from the Super Bowl clouds and starts paying attention to Arsenal. ”
Erm… in fact this is the ONLY hope, imo.
Is fantasy about the defenders. I agree that overall Monreal has been a good signing but you can see for the past few seasons he has been on the wane. Kolasinac is a poor defender who is cluleless regarding defensive positioning and doesn’t make up for it offensively. Koscielny is seen now as a bit of a club legend but he is so obviously past it. Even in his prime he had errors defensively in him and wasn’t a defensive rock. Sokratis is the right profile CB that Arsenal should be looking at that being more defender first but he… Read more »
CG
Why would you want to sack the best UEL manager in the history, mate. Despite our struggles, he still has us one foot in the final. Wenger never won anything in Europe mate.
Also I’m pretty sure Unai’s cup final record is better than Wenger’s.
Two very good consecutive pieces and the podcast, you are spoling us Pedro. Watching the game over the weekend just reinforced the issues with Emery. Forget points, league positions and cups, we are worse in the areas he was brought in to fix. The players he was supposed to help are poorer than ever. And, as is pointed out in the podcast, we have zero identity or evidence of a plan which is by far the most depressing aspect of his tenure. This to me is so much more curcial than how shit this player or that layer is, I… Read more »
Raul Sanhelli and potentially Edu in charge. Add a 40m “war chest” and very few sellable assets and you will agree who your manager is becomes irrelevant.
This is going to get painful.
Pedro I will listen to your Podcast today, but in the meantime I want to cover some of the other points you raise and also refer to my earlier post made on last t.hread. Our defence is despite what you write a complete mess. I have watched in the flesh enough games this season to know that the current backline is not only uncoachable, but ill disciplined and unintelligent as well. The problems are not just down to Mustafi who let’s be honest plays consistently like a headless chicken. I accept that he is quite good in the air when… Read more »
And we must remember all these defenders mentioned have a big handicap to them at Arsenal.
They have a certain Granit Xhaka sitting in front of them watching opposing players run past him and descending upon them.
Gary Neville’s recipe for Man U is ‘cleanse the dressing room, cleanse the club’, the same medicine that Arsenal needs.
The difference is that OGS has players other clubs want plus a big transfer pot – which Arsenal don’t.
Bigging up the defence now to have a go at the manager. Koscielny even at his best had a mistake in him.
Moving onto your point about Liverpool shifting out shit players and bringing in better players. You miss the key difference between them and Arsenal. Liverpool’s wage bill when Klopp first arrived was significantly lower than ours. They were not paying these players £100K pw . Arsenal’s current problem is that we are paying at least 8 players in the squad between £100 and 350K pw in wages. None of these players are remotely worth what we are paying them and when you factor in also that most are now in their late 20s to 30s that makes them almost impossible… Read more »
There was one difference though between the Giroud signing and the Xhaka/Kolasinac ones.
Giroud may have had one season of real stand-out football at Montpellier but in that season he actually won a league title with them. Not so the other two.
Looking at the ownership and management of the club. We have a distant landlord in Kroenke whose primary business interests are real estate and sports franchises. He is willing to invest in buildings and shares, but in contrast to most of Arsenal’s competitors is not willing to invest his money in the team. That would be fine if we had a Board and Senior Management who were knowledgable and clever negotiators with a “good eye” in transfer market. Sadly it has been blindingly obvious for a very long time that is not the case. Our transfer business has been exceedingly… Read more »
“You cannot blame Emery for our transfer business ”
Yes you can.
Ask Pedro.
Glad to see others bursting this hypocritical view we have “very good” defenders poorly coached.
Not to mention our so called “creative” hub of ozil, iwobi and Henrik… Two we can’t sell cos they are overpaid and play like shit.
Edu as technical director is another laughable appointment in my opinion, coordinates the Brazilian national teams doesn’t qualify you for the rebuilding job that’s Arsenal football club
Moving forward the Owner needs to increase the transfer budget of the club this summer. We do not have the resources out on loan or coming through the U23s to replace the experienced players who need to be offloaded. You might be able to find perhaps one or two bargains or players on bosmans this summer if you are lucky but not the 5-6 replacements needed. As I pointed out Barcelona are reputed to want to recruit Lacazette on an exchange deal with Umtiti. If we were to do a swap deal then I would prefer to recruit Dembele as… Read more »
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“”””Two very good consecutive pieces and the podcast, you are spoiling us Pedro.””””
He is indeed- compared to the dirge that is forced fed to us in the Telegraph and SportTalk- PedRo’s Forum – is the only enjoyment – I am getting out of supporting Arsenal these days.
The last few days-exceptional work.
And all FREE.
And nothing is free in life- except Arsenal giving players away .
Pedro The idea of Josh riding in on a white horse to save the Club strikes me as wishful thinking. On past performance he is a Walmart clone of his dear old dad. Nor does a comparison with Klopp at Liverpool make much sense. He had a side packed with players other clubs wanted (Coutinho for example). Emery doesn’t. Klopp had a squad of players on reasonable wages and workable contracts. Emery doesn’t. Best of all Klopp had a boss (the owners) who accepted the obligations that a top club brings, commitment to success on the pitch. Emery doesn’t. As… Read more »
the players are all international levels
i think individual errors leading to goals costs us but then some head drops
focus and concentration goes out of the window
I said it yesterday and it’s worth repeating. 1. Stan, the board and the players are making tonnes of cash for almost zero input. This is a win for them. 2. Our club is full of mediocre…everything. There IS NO drive to succeed from anyone because of point 1. 3. When Arsene was stinking the place out a lot of blame had to be attached at the supporters for allowing it to continue for so long…if Emery continues, it will again be on the supporters. When the idiots at the Emirates finally had enough, empty seats were everywhere and it… Read more »
Edu has been selected as the next Technical Director Pedro.
What are your thoughts on that?
gunnershabz
“the players are all international levels”
There are certain standards though of international players in themselves and the reputation of the countries they represent.
Club football tells us more about a player than international level overall.
i really think if we can afford it is get premier league proven players from Leicester, Wolves
mcquire, chilwell, tielemens, ryan fraser, ruben neves, diego jota
i am sure these set off players will improve us
i rather have ryan fraser instead of mkhi and iwobi
And Pedro you are over selling the quality of our defenders lmao
Can someone help CG put his head inside Pedro’s a$$???
Emiratestroller
To be honest a £40 million transfer pot for Emery would surprise me – I expect it to be about half that amount..
A ‘make good and make do’ policy will doom the Club to years of mid-table mediocrity. A couple of half-decent players won’t cure anything.
Far better the ‘cleanse the dressing-room’ method, provided of course that the backroom have a long list of the young and vigorous, who maybe CAN be coached into greatness.
If you had to pick an 11 aside team of the current Arsenal players to save your LITERAL life, how many would you pick?
but I do think Pedro is Right though…
is VVD better than mustafi?? hell NO, mustafi is a world champion and VVD has been in a European tournament bar the weak united nationals tournament or whatever it’s called.
koscielny is a euro tournament finalist and much better than VVD, Gomez and matip..
ozil is miles better than messi. as he’s the greatest assist maker, chance creator and pre-pre-pre-pre assist maker of all time.
xhaka is better that than fabinho, most liner and Henderson.
@CG, u think Wenger replaced Sanchez with mkhi????
I get the feeling Pep absolutely hates fulfilling his post-match media commitments. So many one-word answers. “Yes. No. Fantastic.”
OleG… non of them would I pick…
I can’t even trust aubameyang to score a sitter to save his own life…
Ddkings
“”””@CG, u think Wenger replaced Sanchez with mkhi????””””
But he did not.
Raul did, that deal
Wenger was opposed to this deal.
After the Leicester match, we should have swapped our full squad present at the king power stadium with those of Leicester city… then promise to transfer kitty to them as balance payment of the swap deal… or just make a direct wasp with all wolves players with those at arsenal.
“Good post Pedro, just watched Gary Neville talk about United from MNF and it was chillingly familiar to the current state here”
And yet the main sentiment of Gary Neville is that United have had ‘best of class’ in terms of coaches over the last few years but failed, because the structure wasn’t right above him. Yet apparently Emery is the big problem here.
“Can someone help CG put his head inside Pedro’s a$$???”
lol
CG…. are you for real???¿
If Wenger was opposed to the swap deal between sanchez and mkhi, how was Wenger planning to deal with the Sanchez debacle?? ¿
I think you owe everyone an explanation on this topic… because the only option Wenger would have left would be letting Sanchez run down his contract, of which you are against with how the Spanish Dracula let Ramsey go for free to juventus.
Would be lovely to see a post from Paulinho, Bamford et al that wasnt a thinly veiled desperate defence of Emery, or thinly veiled dig at anyone that doesnt rate Emery.
CG thinks Wenger was opposed to the Mkhi swap deal when he stated in public press conferences that he likes Mkhi and is trying to complete the deal.
Either CG is lying, or his hero Wenger did. Which is it?
Emirates stroller ‘There are many who post on here criticising Emery, but you have to ask the question how do you expect him to compete with any of the top 5 when we have such a dysfunctional squad with little prospect of generating sufficient funds to buy replacements’ That’s the basis is why I insisted that Emery be allowed to finish his contract. The club doesn’t have the resources to break his contract If we fire him this summer, we have to pay him off [as well as his assistants] – that’s about 10 million. Then we have to hire… Read more »
according to reports we already out of the deal to sign nicolas pepe of Lille
i got a feeling he is the new gervinho
£60m is too much of a risk to spend on him
Gambon – Charlie said the situation at United was chillingly similar to here – which I agree with btw – yet Neville blames it mostly on the structure above, and the dressing room that he would like to see ‘cleansed’. The manager comes after that, because he’s seen top coaches like Van Gaal and Mourinho come in and the difference in net impact has been negligible.
Paulinho I said similar, not same. What resonates with me is the lack of strategy and vision akin to what Neville describes as a “5-year plan” to re-establish United as the powerhouse of English football. We don’t have anything in place that you might consider a plan on how to scale Arsenal back up to the heights we were in the early 2000’s. You might choose to continually subjugate what’s posted on Emery, but he’s a huge piece of the puzzle as manager. Arguably more-so with the absence of a technical director and greater influence on the direction of the… Read more »
Enough of this nonsense. Emery is a fraud. I expected a title challenge after the unbeaten run but he took us midtable. Wenger was better than this clown. Emery out.
I started reading but quickly realized it was another one-sided our-players-are-good-enough rant…so I switched off. It was like ‘see you in the comments’.
I mean you start off with Montreal without saying that he’s past his sell-by date. That’s wearing your bias on a sticker pasted on your forehead.
I like the look of Edu as a TD
Ive seen a few of his interviews in recent years, and he seems to know what he’s doing, very keen to put in place a culture from a top down point of view, and hes an Arsenal man.
I would certainly rather an up and comer like Edu, that a tired old hire like Monchi.
Also, too many people parroting the £45m budget bollocks.
Its not going to be £45m. We arent spending 15% of our budget on a 17 year old Brazilian striker that plays in about the 4th division.
Pedro , just because most Arsenal players are internationals doesn’t mean jack. There’s a reason most people can’t stand interlulls and it’s because the level of football in most cases is pure garbage. “All players are coachable”, sure, to a certain degree I suppose although Mourinho who knows a thing or two about coaching clearly disagrees with you when he said Ballotelli was uncoachable. Listen , you don’t have to try to big up this Arsenal squad to make the case for letting Emery go. His Arsenal stats are quite pitiful first season and all. But trying to paint this… Read more »
Ryan
“I expected a title challenge after the unbeaten run but he took us midtable”
lol why?
Arsenal beat Spurs and Man United at home drew with Liverpool at home. The away wins were all against fodder teams lower level sides in EPL and europa league sides.
Why did you think that run would signify a title challenge?
Who did Arsenal beat away from home in that run which made you think the title could be on?
That said, Im not sure why Emery deserves any transfer funds at all.
He had £65m last year and delivered 0 improvement.
Why would you give him another £65m, or £80m, or £150m – the evidence suggests he will again deliver 0 improvement.
DDkingz,
yeah me too bar Leno.
That’s what I was trying to get at with my question, how much faith do posters here put on our players quality in a life saving game for them lol
I bet most wouldn’t pick more than 2 Arsenal players, but if you asked them to pick from Pool, City or Chelsea, they’d fill out the entire 11!
Gambon,
Sure in your mind he doesn’t deserve shit but Emery will be given a (paltry) budget so you might need to get over it mate.
What exactly qualifies Edu as technical director?
He’s doing a general manager’s job with the Brazilian national team, like running their operations at the moment.
What’s his track record in Europe?
This place is amusing when it’s just the sound of cattle hoot beats charging down a steep slope unto a cliff.
There used to be lots if dessent here, now it’s just back slaps and high fives.
gambon
“the evidence suggests he will again deliver 0 improvement.”
Could well be minus in regards to improvement if there is no changes in the first team and the right profile players are not brought in.
For all the talk about the imminent need for a technical director, surely if Sanllehi has anything about him at all, then he could successfully conduct our transfer business this summer. He was DoF at Barca for 10 years, and made the final calls in relation to transfer business and contracts. There were times he did well, and the latter years where it seemed to be bust after bust. Why can’t he run that side of things at Arsenal? Does appointing a TD below him just insulate him from accountability (manager responsible for on-field failures; TD responsible for off-field failures;… Read more »
gambon
Last summers spending wasn’t a quick-patch on the bicycle tire.
You think bringing in a 30-year old rash Greek defender, 23 year old Uruguayan, 19 year old French division 2 player, a 34 year old Swiss museum piece and Leno was going to transform the team?
“lol why?Arsenal beat Spurs and Man United at home drew with Liverpool at home. The away wins were all against fodder teams lower level sides in EPL and europa league sides.Why did you think that run would signify a title challenge?Who did Arsenal beat away from home in that run which made you think the title could be on??”
Ishola, I thought Emery is a world class manager like Klopp and Simeone who could overachieve but he isn’t just a spanish midtable manager.
Of course you like the look of coordinator of the Brazilian national team as the man spear heading our rebuilding. You will like it up until the point where he has teething problems and you will be back on here wanting him out.
That’s your forte Gambon, negativity, gives you a chance to practice your “wit”
Dissenter Arsenal are not going to sack Emery after one season. 1. We have qualified for the Europa Cup Semi Final and will probably reach the Final. 2. The team was still competing for a top 4 finish in EPL with two games to go. Last season we were miles behind the top 4 teams at this stage of the season. 3. As you suggest the club is unlikely to break a contract with a new manager after 1 season. They have never done so in their history. I have no reason to believe that they would do so under… Read more »
Dissenter
Transform the team? No
Deliver at least 1% improvement – yes.
Emery delivered 0% imprvement.
So lets say we triple his budget from £65m to £195m (net), tell me, what is 3 x 0?
Or lets say we give him £650m to spend, what is 10 x 0?
Ryan it’s no ones fault you were silly enough to expect a title challenge.
That’s on you and no one else.
Who’s going to sign Welbeck
Even the Everton and Wolves have passed his level. Maybe a newly promoted team.
That’s the type of players we stocked up on. Players no one wants when Liverpool can get £18 million for players they don’t even need.
We’ll be talking ‘net spend’ soon.
Edu will just waste money on Brazilian shite. Give Morrow the job he will sign good british players. We need more British spine in the team,
Get Fraser, Tierney etc in before liverpool get them.
“Ryan it’s no ones fault you were silly enough to expect a title challenge. That’s on you and no one else.”
Looking at his EL success I though he was a overachiever. But he even bottled top 4 never mind title.
Gambon were you competing for a third/fourth place finish up until the penultimate game of last season?
Did you head off to the second leg of the Europa semi final with a two goal first leg lead?
1% is such a silly number to keep parroting on here daily..
“You think bringing in a 30-year old rash Greek defender, 23 year old Uruguayan, 19 year old French division 2 player, a 34 year old Swiss museum piece and Leno was going to transform the team?“ Christ you don’t half have your insufferable moments. Nobody mentioned a transformation. And stripping them back to faceless/nameless pieces doesn’t hide the fact we recruited a better GK, better CB, better CM plus two added squad men to last seasons lot. Expecting some improvement on that alone is fair, never mind the added influence of a modern coach thought to bring his highly analytical… Read more »
Lol atleast Wenger got us 3rd in first season and won the double next season unlike Emery here who couldn’t even get us top 4 and probably next year as well.
Emiratesstroller beat me to it. It’s all about the money. Benteke was on £140k, Skrtel was on £75k, Allen was on £45k. That’s way less than what Arsenal would have paid them. Skrtel racked up 320 games for Liverpool across a number of years, including seasons when they were second – but was on less than Mustafi. Allen played 50 or so more games in the same time frame as Elneny and got paid £10k a week less for it. Benteke… well he was their top earner, but he was a coveted striker when they signed him and we were… Read more »
And we are not going to win EL. Hazard will destroy us and Chelsea are finally adapated to Sarri.
I actually think Sarri would have been a better hire. His philosophy is similar to Wenger and squad would play good football.
Tierney, Maddinson, Fraser, Rice, Maguire etc good british spine needed.
More posts Ryan.. We need more from you.
gambon
Yea, let’s leave the likes of Mustafi and Xhaka who are fully moulded articles to keep running amok in the Emirates next season.
Let’s not solve all the putrid mass of horse shite that was left for the manager; .33-35 year old defenders, £570k weekly wages on two attacking midfielders who are both crap, no central midfielders or wide players.
That will work for us, after all we spent £65 million last summer in Poundland.
Better still why don’t we have Emery pay us for the privilege of managing this great club that the world has never seen before.
Emery gonna last probably until December tops, he is just not good manager, that initial winning streak was nothing more then new manager honeymoon, he looked like amateur in last few games. Arsenal made terrible mistake with him.
It is still too early to pass judgement on Emery. After all, he might yet win the Europa Cup and thereby qualify for CL, which so many on here seem to rate so highly (shades of Wenger?)
But even if Emery does win the Europa my judgement on him will depend on what he does in the summer.
Lets see if this clown Emery can atleast win second rate EL or too incompetent for it too.
And we lost a good young CB, our first choice RB, a versatile front player who had a fantastic start to the season ( still has more goals than 48 appearance iwobi). Kos has been in and out, monreal in and out.. Yea let’s just ignore the players we have had to do without for large chunks of the season and concentrate on the fantastic five we added.
“Ryan” is Charlie George’s middle name for his moniker
Wenger was a genius. We were lucky to get him.
3 Premier league titles. 7 FA cups
League Title and French cup with Monaco
Avoiding relegation with Nancy with the worst squad in the league.
Emery isn’t fit to clean his shoe lases.
Arsene Wenger is a god and the greatest manager ever of Arsenal history.
If Klopp or Pep was managing our squad we would comfortably finish in top 4.
Torriera has been a non entity since December, Sokratis has been okay, Guendouzi has shown he is a ligue 2 player but I have been told its Emery’s fault for playing him, lich is finished, Leno has been great.
That’s the fantastic signings Sven dropped before joining the power house that is Stuttgart
Paulinho, United no doubt have massive structural issues, but I can’t agree that they’ve been signing best in class coaches.
Moyes, LVG, OGS and Mourinho have all been terrible signings.
Wow, now all the signings are shit. Unreal turnaround here.
Pedro
Arteta would have us overachieving and playing pep football. Shame we got Emery instead.
Mate its time for you to write how to identify a EKB {Emery Knows Best} blog
Amazing how its Sven’s signings and not Emery’s lol.