Well good morning, I’m suffering from WAKE UP EARLY issues at the minute, so I thought I’d bang out ANOTHER post for you because I am on a streak.
Arsenal has offered the role of technical director to Invincible, Eduardo César Daude Gaspar. I’d heard rumblings we were doing a deal, but my info was that the offer hadn’t been accepted yet, though the club were confident he’d do so.
So what to make of this hire… at the second attempt?
In short, it’s a real, ‘who the fuck knows’ moment.
His experience sits outside of the Premier League and outside of Europe. He’s currently the technical director of Brazil, and I’m not really sure what that entails. Their national team hasn’t exactly been a box of dreams over the past 5 years, and even if it had been, how do you affect a nation of players?
I’ll bang through some topline thoughts.
What experience does he have?
He’s 40 years old. He played up until he was 32 years old. He was then given a Director of Football role at Corinthians. He had a good run there, the club won the South American equivalent of the Champions League.
He had a stint as the Iranian assistant coach, who hasn’t, right?
He then took the role at Brazil in 2016. This is where some of his comments started to get me a little excited. As I pointed out in the post earlier this morning, I want someone to come to Arsenal that looks at the club from a holistic perspective, capturing the true essence of our being. First and foremost, they need to understand the culture, the heritage and the prestige. If you don’t understand the basics, you can never be a good long term fit.
This is what Edu had to say about taking on the role at Brazil.
‘Tite and I worried about the mentality,’
‘People were thinking about Brazil in a way we didn’t like. When people look at Brazil, they should respect us for our present and for our history. We were missing that. The team were not close enough to the people.
‘With all due respect, I don’t want to be the way English guys are. We are Brazilians. So let’s be Brazilians: friendly, laughing, talking. Some people cannot afford tickets for a game. So sometimes we open up training and let 50,000 people in for free.
‘Before, Brazilian players would not go into a hotel through the main doors. Why? Why do you want to go through the back door? People just want to see us. Now we go through the main doors.
‘A kid breaks through and wants to see his hero. Let him do that. As a player, I tried to be nice to people. Say “hello”, it’s not hard. We are bringing this back.’
Yes, yes and yes.
He is entitled. Brazil is an institution of football, that is how they should be respected and thought of. He’s thinking about the people of Brazil, their socio-economic situation and general perception. He is talking about exciting people, because at the core, that is what football is all about, right? He believes they should be at the top. All these folk that call Arsenal fans spoilt because ‘no one deserves to win trophies’ are not the types that drive things forward. Edu sounds like he understands that.
I hear that he’s an incredibly nice guy, I know that sometimes empathy can be seen as weak in football, but again, I think it’s an important trait. Especially if you’re looking at reengineering the focus around young players. Carlo, one of the great, was always accused of being too nice to his players. This is what Edu had to say on his experience of prime Wenger.
‘I was feeling sad. I lost my sister a week before I arrived. I was not in a good way. But I found a club and manager that worried about me as a person, rather than as a footballer.
‘Every day Arsene Wenger pulled me into his office. He wanted to check I was OK and check how my family were. He cared so much and it made me feel so good. He let my dad watch training. I come to London once a year and always go to see him.’
You might call the above snowflake millenial nonsense, but the reality is, the generation of kids coming through have different expectations. They demand more from the workplace and they expect to be treated well. You have to balance those needs, but someone with a human touch is important.
I also like the fact he’s fully aware of the talent in England and that he has ideas about unlocking it. This was 2017.
‘This is a big generation,’
‘But the Premier League is so rich. You have a fantastic young midfielder in Phil Foden at Manchester City but there are two or three fantastic ones in his position.”
‘So, how can you play? How can you develop these guys? You have good players but to get better, they need to play in the first team. Clubs don’t look to the Under 17 guy because they go to the market.’
Edu will have been in prime position to watch the best young kids from around the world. He’ll have met with the best coaches, seen setups from the major clubs, and had hands on experience with the biggest names to grace the yellow and green of Brazil.
Apparently, when he was at Corinthians, he did visiting tours of all the major European clubs to watch and hear how they did things. This is a guy that is hungry to lean into the experience of others, someone that is open enough to know he doesn’t have all the answers, with an Invincible attitude that means he’s a winner.
Are their worries about his hiring? For sure. He played under Unai Emery for a couple of seasons. That was over ten years ago, but he was operating under his management at Valencia. Will that cloud his judgement when he has to pull the trigger on his contract next year? Possibly. But I’d hope that he’s been around enough big decisions to not be influenced by matters like that.
There’s also the experience question. Going for explayers feels good, but is it always right? He’s being asked the run the operational side of the football at Arsenal. That requires a huge amount of skill and vision for someone that is basically only 8 years into working life. Risks are associated with that.
The big worry is that all his experience is based out of Brazil. However, that can also come as a blessing. Firstly, he knows England and Spain intimately because he spent a lot of time there. Also, something I’ve cried out for over the years is finding someone who can root out gems in markets that aren’t already saturated. We have an advantage here. It’ll be very interesting to see what sort of recruitment head he brings into the club.
Another concern is that the Copa America is in his home country. We literally don’t have a Technical Director until July 7th. That’s a long time to leave Unai and Raul at the wheel. A lot of bad pound notes can be spent in that time.
Everything is a risk, but ultimately, give me Edu over a hack like Monchi. He was yesterday’s man, Edu could be the future. He’s young, he seems of great temprement and hopefully he’s the sort of leader that wants to surround himself with the best people.
Also… how much sauce does the guy have?
Additionally, there can be no doubt whatsover as to the style of football he is going to enforce. He is Brazilian and he played under PEAK Wenger. Arsenal are going to have a clear vision when it comes to style and footballing philosophy.
I was a bit worried when I first heard this rumbling, but in the space of writing an article, I am now absolutely convinced this could be a very, very good move for Arsenal.
Fingers crossed he signs on and we can move on with the second reboot of Arsenal.
Dissenter-
Redtruth will be on later to break it down for you.. Pretty sure he has the Messi is shit Statistics … saved on his desktop file.
Can our squad,this particular squad play heavy metal football? Can Xhaka dominate a midfield? You guys really make ridiculous arguments most times yet spend time talking about players we should buy.
Why buy players when we can coach them to be world beaters? Why has klopp spent 440m? Why has Pep spent 600m? Why aren’t they just coaching what they met?
It’s a combination of things the manager and investment are part of it. One thing is for certain we are miles and miles behind this team
Is it the defined style or philosophy that’s beating Barcelona or the 440 million invested in the squad? Honestly you think they do that tonight without the 35 million pound Mane or the 75 million pound Van Dijk or the 67 million pound Alisson? Cause I have my doubts honestly
Marko
Again. We aren’t asking emery to beat Barca 4-0 without his two start strikers
We are asking him to beat Brighton WITH them…..
Watching the bin dippers second string frontline made me think – when have we played a game with a second string where the players are putting everything on the line? Our first team comes off looking like they have had a jog in the park. Congrats Klopp (whatever the result) – should have been a Gooner!
Honestly I’m embarrassed.
A gazillion years of CL qualification, and for what? We never won it, and inexplicably, we are skint.
And Liverpool are streets ahead of us. Streets.
Emery is a bust we need a whole change of philosophy and a ton of new faces
Malcolm is absolute shite.
Sergio Roberto is absolute garbage
Klopp pep proper managers with an indentity in the way they play unlike us
In retrospect, Liverpool were very unlucky to have lost that first leg 3-0 so this just seems right.
Only Liverpool would do that
Classic Uefa to give a PK to Messi any moment.
That was some performance by Liverpool
I don’t get hating Liverpool….they’ve done a beauty here and deserved!
Shame on Barcelona
Loosing a 3 goal lead in back to back knockout stages of the champions league.
Truly embarrassing by Barcelona
Wow, that’s unbelievable from Liverpool. Hate to say it but they deserve to win both the league and CL.
Mr Serge and a ton of money.
When was the last time you saw our players leave it all on the field like this. We have the wrong mentality type of players and we are here looking for a scapegoat. We have been rubbish for a decade now and some want to convince you its all on the man who has been here for months.
Change the record.
Nobody is asking us to replicate Liverpool RH you mongoloid.
Has Klopp gotten more out of the likes of Origi, Shaqiri, Henderson, Wijnaldum, Matip than other managers?
Emphatically yep.
Liverpool deserve to win a trophy this season.
Needed 4. Against Barca. With no reply.
Did it.
We could not breakdown fucking Brighton. And almost got beat.
Back to back finals….they came back again…..they will win it all, Pep can suck it….he may win the league but Klopp has the bigger cup
Pool’s team has GUTs.
Pep didn’t do this on ONE season
Can people just stop spouting crap?
Go watch Liverpool in the EL final of 2016
Hate Liverpool but respect what they did tonight.
An all English final in the offing ?
I’m sick. Liverpool are winning the CL this season, not a chance they don’t. Don’t give a fuck what Ajax are about.
As others point out, their top talent misses out but the backups still know their role in fitting in the Klopp philosophy. Painful watch
Again. We aren’t asking emery to beat Barca 4-0 without his two start strikers
We are asking him to beat Brighton WITH them…..
I thought we were asking for him to have a defined style and philosophy? Klopp has that. 3 and a half seasons and 440 million invested helps you realize that style and investment. Without it nights like this don’t happen
I hope Ajax beat them. Assuming they win tomorrow.
Wenger has done much wrong by this club, but among his worst is the pathetic self serving hanging on , when the likes of Klopp or Pep were attainable, assuming of course Kroenke would ever touch managers of such ambition.
Maybe because they have more to give eagle… What more do you want from mustafi, a new brain? What more can Ozil and Mkhi give you.
Why am I even responding to you sef
Marko and Dissenter, think you have to give it up… Liverpool just destroyed Barcelona with a guy in their side who was relegated with Stoke City last season.
BUT BUT BUT
There is no excuse for not moving our players forward.
Wenger eagle
“Has Klopp gotten more out of the likes of Origi, Shaqiri, Henderson, Wijnaldum, Matip than other managers?
Not the best question to ask because you ought to realize that every one of those players except to Henderson are Klopp’s signings.
SamesongMay 7, 2019 21:58:42
Hate Liverpool but respect what they did tonight.
THIS
Ajax knock the spuds out. Said it before, Liverpool v Ajax final. After that hard to call. Klopp has come second way too many times.
Dale
Me neither
They deserve massive credit as does klopp
We could have had that guy. We could have not offered wenger that contract and who knows where we’d be now. Only our owners are holding us back
That cunt Oxlade…lmao
RH you’re such a disingenuous git, never have heard you lauding Shaqiri, Origi, Hendo etc before as anything other than average.
Fuck me this is breathtaking to watch
The crowd
The players
The manager
The atmosphere
” Liverpool just destroyed Barcelona with a guy in their side who was relegated with Stoke City last season.”
The guy from Stoke was signed by the manager because he fits his identity of football.
Pedro
You forgot to add former Bayern Munich player, now Stoke reject
You forgot to ask they have players from related Hull city and Newcastle too
The work to get here didn’t happen in ONE season
This time last season, they were parading Loris Karius as starting goal keeper.
Well Klopp had a style even before he spent £400M on players and our manager won’t have one even if he assembles a team of galacticos.
Radio
I’m backing the yids
English final
Yes klopp deserves a trophy this season. Its been a phenomenal season for them.
By the way why isn’t Pep getting the best out of his players in the champions league?can klopp do more with those expensive players ?
Well done Liverpool.
Hats off, that was a brilliant effort. I only wish we could be like this.
Whoever ‘Pool get in the final, Spurs or Ajax, they’ll win it.
WE
Shaqiri is a very very good player. Totally underrated gem as is origi who I always fancied even when you said he was a nothing player.
I like you as a poster most of the time but yoi have been insufferable of late with your smug told you so posts to everyone. You get things wrong to buddy.
And i have to agree, Emry would have pissed himself with this squad….Looking at the lineup, Firmino and Salah have been stalwarts, out, 3 goals down….they got what was required with Origi, Shaqiri, Wijnaldum, an older Milner, and two lower league players…granted Allison was bought for an insane amount, but we paid 35m a piece for the pair of Xhaka and Mustafi…smh
Hey Marko…remember back in January when you laughed at me for predicting that English teams will dominate Europe for the next 5 years .
Expect a Liverpool v Tottenham final and a Chelsea v Arsenal final …..
I always enjoy when underdogs win, and I have no insufferable liverpool fans in my life, well done bindippers.
Football is a funny old game. Even the best teams can fall to pieces.
Bitter sweet seeing barcelona lose normally I am happy but just to think if we had got rid of wenger early and actually had a football first set up like pool we could be in their shoes now in the final of a cl.
Extrapolating this Lverpool feat to bash Emery after one season with one of the most disjointed squads in footballing history is just pathetic.
It actually shows all the people using this as a cudgel to bash Emery out.
Compare this Liverpool squad with the one that lost meekly to Sevilla in the EL final of 2016.
It takes time to get here…stop with the nonsense banter.
Our players are just dumb as compared to those Pool players. That corner from the right back was just unbelievable. You have to admire smart footballer.
A guy in their side relegated with stoke identified and paid for by klopp. He Bought him. But I remember you don’t want our manager buying players, you want a fancy TD with a history of low net spends doing it.
What you saw tonight, Klopp started implementing in his first year.
The style of play, the big game mentality, bought the likes of Sane & Wijnaldum.
11 months in and Emery has implemented nothing. We defend worse, we attack worse.
Ridiculous that people try to draw parallels between Emery & Klopp.
Klopp at his third champions league final Total legend No matter who wins this now it goes completely against the philosophy of marko and receding of just buying your way to victory All the power clubs are gone This is what football is about. Team spirit. Connection with the fans and the crowd. Local lads in the side too. Just beautiful to watch We have abodnoned what made us arsenal and we deserve to be where we are All that talk today of Brazil acting like Brazilians and understanding the history and traditions. This is what happens when you adhere… Read more »
One of my friends just reminded me Wenger almost signed Mane and Van Dijk. So I feel better now. 🙁
Can’t see spurs beating Liverpool but could see them beating barcelona.
My main wish is spurs not winning at all costs.
Extrapolating this Lverpool feat to bash Emery after one season with one of the most disjointed squads in footballing history is just pathetic.It actually shows all the people using this as a cudgel to bash Emery out.
Compare this Liverpool squad with the one that lost meekly to Sevilla in the EL final of 2016.
It takes time to get here…stop with the nonsense banter.
Dissenter…..agenda….what happened when he had PSG??? Go on, tell us…..
What smug posts LG? RH was being snarky unprovoked so I responded.
Shaq is decent when did I call him a nothing player? I said I didn’t want him as a first team player for us but he’s a squaddie for Pool. That was when he was at Bayern too when I said that.
The notion that Klopp had nothing to do with these lads wrecking Barca tonight is bollocks.
Origi an underrated gem 😂😂 the internet is class man
Hats off to Liverpool.
They’ve been on the front foot as a club, especially since 2010.
They’ve sold well, bought well and overall, have shown genuine ambition.
Still a lot to do for them in the final, but they’ll be favourites.
GS88 May 7, 2019 22:03:54
Well done Liverpool.
Hats off, that was a brilliant effort. I only wish we could be like this.
Whoever ‘Pool get in the final, Spurs or Ajax, they’ll win it.
******
What if Spurs win it?
Pedro
This the Liverpool starting 11 in the EL final of 2016
Simon Mignolet
Nathaniel Clyne
Dejan Lovren
Kolo Touré
Alberto Moreno
James Milner (c)
Emre Can
Adam Lallana
Philippe Coutinho
Daniel Sturridge
WHY DID THEY GET BETTER PLAYERS?
Why not just improve them with better training?
There is no excuse for not moving our players forward.
And I believe that the players have no belief what so ever in UE and/or just do not give a shit for our shirt (and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a bit of both). You just have to watch how we drew vs BHA in our last home game of the season at home. Why on earth were the players not capable of playing and winning our last game at home to show us that they actually cared?
Dale
Beacuse they’ve done it the right way. Against all odds they’ve come past inter, Barca, Dortmund, city and maybe now Ajax after spending nothing
With a team littered with british lads.
You’re talking absolute bollox if you don’t think Klopp being afforded time and major investment hasn’t had an effect on Liverpool. The random name drop of players to indicate what a great job he’s doing is pointless. Liverpool don’t challenge for the league title or go to the Champions League final without giving Klopp time and without backing him in the transfer market. This doesn’t even happen without the 67 million on Alisson and the 75 million on VVD. You think they win 4-0 tonight with Klaven and Karius/Mignolet in goal? Come on man. Paying the big bucks gets you… Read more »
So according to dissenter, we’ve gone from:
– it’s the players fault
To
– our players are uncoachable
To
– one of the most disjointed squads in history.
Literally ANYTHING to defend Emery.
What if Spurs win it?
Wash your mouth, brain and fingers fortyping that…..please no!!!
Dale
You know Emery beat managed the Sevilla team that beat Klopp’s Liverpool?
Klopp works for a great organization who have done almost everything right since 2010.
They have bought low and sold for high profits
They have moved poor players on
Gambon I thought you aren’t allowed to buy just coach. Why did he need to buy Sane,Salah,Georgino et all
Why didn’t he coach Benteke and co. Why didn’t he coach Karius?
Anyways well done Liverpool and Klopp. Those using it as an Emery bashing theme are best ignored. In Klopps first season Emery wiped the floor with him in a European final.
Goodnight
We really missed out massively on Klopp.
Could you imagine where we would be had we sacked Wenger much earlier and bought in Klopp?
One could only dream.
You kept awfully quiet about that Origi is an underrated gem from about 2015- tonight didn’t you London Gunner?
That’s why we all love football.
An unbelievable night at Anfield.
Liverpool deserve something this season.
Barcelona didn’t have an answer.
Ths time last year, Klopp was insisting on Karius
Lets enjoy a fantastic game of footie and not turn everything into a cudgel.
Dissenter, Liverpool were markedly better under Klopp after half a season. He’s a great coach first and foremost.
You’re kind of proving a point there, look at the absolute state of that starting 11 and he reached two cup finals with them.
Un na
You protagonist
I am no Liverpool dan but the game shows just how far we are behind them. They have spirit and power. We have Mustafi and thst clot in midfield.! I understand we could have had Klopp if the board had had the guts to sack Wenger! All we want now is for Ajax to crumble and our lot to go missing again on Thursday. That would complete a crap week for me.
After watching liverpool tonight, I have to ask who the hell was really responsible for scouting and signing our players? Who looked at Elneny and saw something good about him, or Xhaka and thought his pace would fit the premier league but all that aside tonight I saw a team full of heart, the last time I saw arsenal have a team that comes even close was the George graham years. None of the Wenger teams had it, sorry to say not even the invincibles, they gave me the impression of just doing enough if they had they would have… Read more »
Origi has a much greater heart as compared to Auba. Auba would never get dirty and fight for those 50/50 balls. Auba doesn’t want to risk getting hurt so that he can enjoy life like a prince.
Night night RH.
Dale
Rather them than city/Chelsea/Barca/real/PSG
All day every day. The sport is under assault and this is a victory for football
If he happy to see Ajax win it too.
It’s just the English players I want to see succeed
The better they get, the better the england team gets. I would love to have ya win the World Cup in my lifetime.
gambon
Why did Liverpool buy better players?
For nights such as this…simple
You think Kosh and Mustafi are capable of keeping out Messi even if Klopp manages them?
Ridiculous that people try to draw parallels between Emery & Klopp.
Totally agree.
What you saw tonight, Klopp started implementing in his first year.
True. Though worth pointing out the investment again played a big part in implementing his style
Zeus
Lol.
No chance they win.
Well at least I hope not. Could you imagine.
How does Coutinho feel? Suarez seemed excited to score against Pool….must be sweet
Hats off to Liverpool.
Also refreshing to know it won’t be Real or Barcelona winning the CL for the first time in 6 years.
Hope Ajax don’t switch off tomorrow now!
Pedro
‘Dissenter, Liverpool were markedly better under Klopp after half a season. He’s a great coach first and foremost.”
That’;s basically synthetic bollocks
Go watch them in the first European cup final Klopp took them to
You all are just having a good time it seems, just don’t go overboard with the facts
Liverpool were a big club before Klopp got there. They’re a big club in a way Arsenal aren’t. They still won the champions league when they were shit in the league.
Still cunts though.
For nights such as this…simple
You think Kosh and Mustafi are capable of keeping out Messi even if Klopp manages them?
Dissenter
We aren’t asking emery to perform miracles
Just beat Brighton
That’s all. Not Barca
Wow. Well done Scousers, brilliant.
Compare that to our performance against Brighton. OK, its not an UCL semi-final, but a lot was at stake. NO passion, no desire, no energy, no creativity, shambolic defending. Is all that the managers fault? I don’t know? How would we have fared with Klopp at the helm? Perhaps that answers the question as to whether it is the players or the managers fault.
A few weeks ago Aubameyang scored a nothing goal in a nothing game, and ran to the hoardings to get the batman mask he’d hid back there before the game in case he scored. I wonder if he will have it for the Burnley game on Sunday? That was this year’s selfie moment, at a club that has mediocrity running through its veins. Thanks wenger. Even if they had the talent to do this tonight they haven’t got half the bollocks needed for such a performance. We need the cold hard shock of a massive clear out and the signing… Read more »
Dissenter
That would be Koscielny who Emery chose not to replace
Mustafi that Emery chose not to replace
Kolasinac that Emery chose not to replace
Xhaka that Emery chose not to replace
Mykhitaryan that Emery chose not to replace
Iwobi that Emery chose not to replace
Elneny that Emery chose not to replace
Radio
We were the bigger than them for two decades
There is no reason why we should be competing at their level
Wijnaldum was angry he was benched, that’s heart…..Ozil or Xhaka woudn’t be able to move their arse if put in that situation.
Klopp with the F bomb!
Liverpool have these types of nights all over their history. This adds to the romanticism of the club.
We choked on our big night in 2006 when Henry missed thise two chances. That still haunts me till today.
Football was The winner tonight …Liverpool didn’t have to resort to diving and cheating unlike Louis Suarez who was an embarrassment.
You want Arsenal to have nights like that it’s going to take time and serious investment whoever the manager is. Yes?