Gooood ebening.
I love saying that. I say it in the office 7 times a day, in a Spanish accent, which some people think is racist, but then I say my Dad has a house in Spain so I’m technically Spanish, then people ‘get it.’
HOW ABOUT THIS FOR A FUCKING EXCITING STORY:
Nerazzurri looking at many profiles in the Premier League , even in midfield. The ‘Corriere dello Sport’ confirms the interest in Granit Xhaka , a player who can leave Arsenal . The Swiss is a profile that appeals, even if it is not considered a priority at the moment.
I will make myself available for references, I know at least 30,000 others that’ll do the same. This would be an EPIC move for him because, jokes aside, I think he’d be a machine in Italy. Less intensity, slow build from the back, the only person pressing in the entire country of Italy is going to be Rambo next season. He’ll be golden. They’ll love that leadership story about the spare key as well.
I also think we could look at landing £50m for him. Maybe more? But, what I truly hope, is we don’t fuck around like we did with Chambers. Move Granit off the wage bill, accept it didn’t work, open a Samaritans hotline for the apologists, who, once again have proved that it is they who ‘might not really get the game,’ and rehire someone that can do the passing bits, but offer up power, pace and real aggression in the middle.
YES. YES. YES.
Oh man, is it weird to say that the rumour is making me feel frisky? That is weird, I retract (but come on, finding that rumour on Newsnow was a little like opening your first ever saucy link circa 1996 on copper dial-up (kids, you’d wait 4 hours for 1 still of Pamela Anderson to load)).
The Baku nightmare seems to be deepening. Arsenal are struggling to sell their weak allotment of 6000 tickets because, well, I guess people aren’t comfortable dropping £2000 for a final that is far from a sure bet. I love all the UEFA wokeness about putting the big matches in countries that have bad football teams, but if you’re real, it denigrates the competition and it’s awful for fans.
A bit like extending out the World Cup to 700 teams. It becomes like those school sports days where everyone is a winner, which, to be fair, I fucking loved as a kid. I was literally shit at every single sport, but I’d still get a trophy for faking a hamstring injury 10m into the egg and spoon race. Thank the lord for the overwoke Brighton parents helping to make sure the chubbers felt like sporting heroes, you made me the soft trophy-laden failure I am today.
Baku to it (<deserved a trophy)… it’s a bit embarrassing. Apparently, the one England based Arsenal fan of Armenian heritage that had £2k spare for the flight can’t gain entry to the country. How fucking bad is that? Literally banning a nation they don’t like. Imagine if the English just decided they hated Europe and wanted to extricate themselves from the European Union. We’d all be up in arms.
Just kidding @BrexitJonny, I’m not drawing FALSE parallels. It’s awful. Poor Mikhi. Like when your pals have a banger of a party organised and invite an ex that destroyed your life, confidence and self-esteem. I feel you Mikhi, and fuck you Dave, I’ll never forgive you.
‘PEDRO YOU MENTALIST, HOW COME NO BIG CLUB HAS COME IN FOR ARTETA?’
Well my friends, it seems they have… Lyon, one of the most decorated teams in France, has put the feelers out for my main man of ELITE hair notoriety. They are a Champions League club. They are a powerful entity in France. Aulas is one of the shrewdest operators in world football.
No, no… please… a visionary? Me? Gosh, this is embarrassing. No… I won’t put my hat in the ring for TD.
NOW, just to cover my bases like the pro flip-flopper I am, who knows if he’ll succeed if he takes the job (I think he’ll stay on for City unless he’s really hungry to have a crack), all I said is the move is a clever one. Aulas is looking at what City are doing and he wants a piece of the action. Very smart. He’s buying the IP of the best footballing mind in the world. Uber did a similar thing when they stole trade secrets for driverless cars from Waymo by hiring their guy and making him bring his USB sticks. The Lyon owner sees an opp to hire in a guy with a great rep in the game, that is hungry, who could deliver unreal off the ball movement, beautiful free-flowing attacking football and maybe success. Worth a punt.
I could look silly for the above, but wh0 cares, glory is in the moment, internetting like a powerhouse is all about the hunting down of the win of the day… I just caught a 50 pounder and it has an overpowering smell of SMUG. If I lose later on, I’ll just delete this post and change my story.
Let’s end on some sympathetic lolz… Chelsea played a friendly and lost Loftus-Cheek to an injury. My Chelsea pal says he’s been their second best player over the past 6 months, coming up with goals and assists. What a terrible blow to their chances… never fuck with Unai in the Europa would be my learning, bad juju… but really, what a wildly shit decision by Chelsea to play a friendly at this time of the season. Mad, mad, mad.
Right, that’s me done. Meet me in the comments to kiss the ring and apologise for your insolence on Arteta last summer.
BIG LOVE x
P.S. Sad NYC Gooner news. Barleycorn closed down because the floor collapsed next door to it… and the Bling Pig also closed. O’Hanolons, Smithfield Hall and Roebling is where it’s at now. Where are people watching Europa? Let me know!
Mikel Arteta is next Rene Meulensteen, things are a lot different when you are in charge instead of being subordinate.
And I am not surprised that gooners not keen on Baku, it is expensive and long journey there and back all to watch match in backwater country.
Receding
Good of you to bumrush the comments screaming agenda.
Some players aren’t up to standard if we have aspirations of more than top 4, but they’re absolutely superior to a standard of conceding less than 50 goals. See the difference?It’s not some binary consideration that you’re desperate to make out.
If Simeone had been manager this season a few defenders would’ve probably been as poor as they’re believed to be, but there’s every possibility others would’ve had excellent campaigns playing in such a diligently drilled team.
Wenger to replace Poch!! lol
Banford
So I’ll ask a question you’ve previously dodged again…
If we win the EL, and Emery gets us CL football, do we change managers? Remit complete?
The way Ole G is going, he will be gone this November. Concluding the dreadful run with a draw and a loss to Huddersfield and Cardiff is epic. I know things are bad at Arsenal but one glance at Manu and it is a nightmare scene there.
Just think about it, Ole G, Carrick and Phelan in charge of Football matters !!
Receding (to Charlie)
“Your flip flopping when it comes to the quality of our players is amusing, they seem to all become top quality when you want to do your weird Emery bashing routine and poor quality when you want to discuss transfers.”
I might add that Charlie was one of those who said last summer that our squad was actually in pretty good shape. In reality it was totally inadequate.
Arteta to replace Allegri lol
Bati, he’d sort out defence. It was a joke question.
Charlie
He obviously gets another year under that scenario. That is not a question that is really even worth asking.
Samesong
Leave the back door unlocked for us before you leave 😉
H&L, try a real opinion, contribute to the conversation, you’re like Beavis sitting on the sidelines here.
“I might add that Charlie was one of those who said last summer that our squad was actually in pretty good shape. In reality it was totally inadequate.“
Inadequate for what?
We finished level on points with 4th place despite shitting the bed and up the walls the last 6 games of the season.
Also, I hear we missed Welbz and Holding like nobody’s business (your claim).
So sounds very much like the squad was adequate for the season.
At the time I agreed with letting Santi Cazorla go. He didn’t fit anymore into Arsenal midfield. Now in hindsight, all the game he could have resuscitated his old double act destroyer, creator. With Torreira instead of Coquelin. A triple combination of Torreira, Cazorla, Guendouzi would have been more efficient than Torreira, Xhaka, Mhikitarian. Especially in the away Games where Xhaka kept giving the ball away. If he still good enough to get called up by the Spanish team, he must have shown signs on the pitch. When you take into account the loan fee and the payment of Suarez… Read more »
Bamford,
2 points off 3rd and a Europa Final would indicate that CC was bang on the money.
There is no reason why Cazorla could not have extended his contract for another 12 months and completely out performed ozil this season. Was just poor management
“He obviously gets another year under that scenario. That is not a question that is really even worth asking.“
Why is it obvious?
If a managers remit is to make the CL and he makes it, then that’s job done. What’s the remit next season? Make CL again? Deja vu… remember how much you loved that scenario under big Weng?
I think people are missing out on the fact Santi wanted to go home.
EPL is not a place to recover from the sort of injury he had.
Valentin
Or a deep lying no 10 in place of ozil. Iwobi and Mkhitaryan have been deployed there this season when we had a superior option walk for free.
Baffling.
Almost as baffling as keeping Ramsey and ozil then binning them for 6 months
Cazorla nearly got his leg amputated ! Stop blaming the club and envisioning hypothetical scenarios. The club made the right decision.
Thank you Pedro
I think people are missing out on the fact Santi wanted to go home.
Don
Leave the back door unlocked for us before you leave 😉
“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
― Socrates
Pedro
I think you need to put the arteta debate to rest.
Pedro
“2 points off 3rd and a Europa Final would indicate that CC was bang on the money.”
Or that Emery has done well with an inadequate squad. And that United underachieved. Most observers believe this, not what you and CC believe.
Alex, touche my man, touche 😂😂😂
Pedro
I think if Santi was offered a contract from Arsenal and Villarreal he’d have stayed on. But it’s a moot point, we got Suarez, Santi erased from memory.
Jokes aside, not offering him a deal is all fine and well if you’re moving forward and going hard at a rebuild (as we thought). Reality however was that we didn’t, and in hindsight it was a dumb decision because he would’ve added some flavour to the drab over the course, even as a sub/cup player.
Bamford, underlying statistics don’t really point to him doing a good job with a bad squad.
7 more points than Wenger in his worst ever season after adding £70m worth of talent. Scored less goals, conceded the same, finished the season worse than he started… which would indicate his ideas didn’t translate.
CC, big mistake was not recognizing his value to the system and hiring in a really good replacement.
Pedro
Maybe he did but surely the smart thing to do would be to do what we can for a year extension? Players of that calibre don’t grow on trees. The alternative was ozil and Mkhitaryan who failed to provide the spark required
Imagine with him pulling the strings how Aubameyang and Lacazette would have played. Maybe they’d have scored more. We will never know now but the fact that he’s made the Spain squad is even more infuriating to the fans who never wanted him to be released in the first place.
Bam, ‘most observers’ is such a Trumpism.
Read this is you want to familiarise yourself with data.
https://theshortfuse.sbnation.com/2019/5/8/18536887/xgunners-judge-me-in-may-unai-emery-arsenal-stats-premier-league
Santi was already slowing down and not able to keep up with the pace of the PL well before his injury, spinning in circles was pretty much all he could do at the end, he almost never got away from his man.
Was 100% the right decision to let him leave.
We’re being linked with Lloyd Kelly again today for 15m, would like us to take a punt. Young, english, promising LB. If nothing else maybe CG would shut up for a second about his spivs and whatever else he rambles on about.
Un, I think moving on a player who nearly lost a foot is a smart decision.
“Or that Emery has done well with an inadequate squad. And that United underachieved. Most observers believe this, not what you and CC believe.“
Almost every metric indicates our poorer performance this season vs last season (Gambon has cited numerous).
Would be nice if you didn’t constantly appeal to consensus too, that’s flimsy at best. Tell us where Emery coached the life out of matters?
Pedro
you think we should get rid of Emery and bring in Allegri
I’m changing my wording above from “well” — i.e., “or that Emery did well” — to “reasonably well”. I don’t know if I think he did “well”; that is a trickier question. I do think he did reasonably well with what he was given squad-wise, though.
Pedro
This 70m spend is pure bs to bash the manager with.
We got outspent by all the teams around us (bar spurs) + 2 newly promoted teams, others were not far behind, we also have an aging squad with our 2 best defenders in the last couple of years falling off a cliff, along with Ozil that stopped bothering about football after signing his fat contract, why would that translate into more points and better performances? It was barely enough to stop the slide down.
Pedro
A player who’s just had his best season in 3-4 years and has played his way into the Spain squad? A nation crawling with top class playmakers?
Can’t agree there. I’d rather santi minus a foot anyway than ozil.
“CC, big mistake was not recognizing his value to the system and hiring in a really good replacement.“
Totally agree. But then we compounded it by not bringing anyone in and letting go of a guy that could’ve at least done a part-timers work.
Hopefully lessons have been learned and we will see Rambo replaced properly, Welbz mitigated, and plan for Kos/Monreal moving on either this summer or next. Foresight people! Can we see a little finally lol
Allegri leaving Juventus means either Bayern Munich, PSG or maybe Man United
those 3 teams are ruthless getting rid of managers
FL
Spurs and Liverpool in for him too. Why would he choose us?
@EnglandsBest, Seems that you have a problem with France maybe related to your father. The entire concept of unification by conquering war had been perfected by United Kingdom before Napoleon. Long after Napoleon was dust, the British Empire continued to impose its dominance on a much grander scale than Napoleon ever did. OBE, MBE and other Sir are just remnants of that era. The problem with the League of Nations was that it was too early. The USA did not see any interest in participating. Only after the WWII and the threat of nuclear annihilation did countries came to the… Read more »
Foresight people! Can we see a little finally lol
Charlie
We will see won’t we? Big summer for the new regime. Surprisingly a lot of interest in our “dross” squad so money to be made and hopefully reinvested wisely
Un na
you’re right, we should just roll over and die.
He would almost certainly be a guaranteed starter for us for one, we would be able to offer better salary than Spurs and maybe Pool, We don’t have Wenger holding the team back so there’s a chance of us actually getting better now. Plenty of reasons, pick one.
Pedro
.. Or maybe not.
More hypothetical articles designed to try and prove your own hypotheses are right is maybe the order the day.
“CC, big mistake was not recognizing his value to the system and hiring in a really good replacement.”
Simply put
The mistake was not replacing him with someone who offered similar. He was paid for two years ad he didn’t kick a ball yet we were supposed to renew….
Freddy
Who said roll over and die? My point is that we need to give him e reason to choose arsenal over the champions league winner and runner up.
Wenger was a big draw for wide eyed younsgters wether you’d admit that or not. Emery, not so much.
I’d happily take him though. Just the sort of lad we should be going in for.
haha! Yes Alex, YES!
I wouldn’t say Gazidis being linked with wanting Mustafi and Inter maybe wanting Xhaka if they can’t find anything better is a lot of interest in our “dross” . Nice if it’s true though, we’re never getting any 50m for Xhaka that’s for sure, I’d bite their hand off for half that.
Interesting to see who replaces Allegri and what type of football Juventus play going forward.
Also interesting to see where he ends up, i don’t think Bayern will touch him, one of the desperados (PSG and United) more likely
Shabz, I love Allegri and I’d take him over Bumery, but I’m not sure he aligns to our footballing values.
I’d rather someone bring flair back to the club.
RH, United would be a good bet.
Rh
Well our loss is Villarreal and Spain’s gain. The man has just had his best season in years and there are still people who feel we were better off without him.
It’s nit like we had alternatives outside of ozil, Mkhitaryan and iwobi.
Rumors Jonathan Woodgate will be taking over at Boro
Lot’s of ex-pro’s taking a chance rather than this being the force behind the force business
Pedro
even Bayern are thinking of getting rid of Kovac and he has been there for a season
if he doesnt match then get rid
emery doesnt have a long contract i am sure there some clauses
he really needs to step it up in the premier league next season if he dont we have to get rid
could Allegri takeover Poch
rumours Poch was a sabitical
“RH, United would be a good bet”
November/December 2019 after Ole has made a proper mess of things ..yes i see that happening
“Well our loss is Villarreal and Spain’s gain. The man has just had his best season in years and there are still people who feel we were better off without him.”
Think you will find gain is not a word you associate with the season Villareal have just had
i am happy for santi cazorla
wonderful footballer and person
Pedro/Peter
“7 more points than Wenger in his worst ever season after adding £70m worth of talent. Scored less goals, conceded the same, finished the season worse than he started… which would indicate his ideas didn’t translate.”
The problem was Wenger’s failures were holding us back.
Pedro I’d quite like some anti-Arsenal to recalibrate us. Also, I think Allegri as a defensive coach is overplayed personally so not sure it’s quite as can be made out. 77 goals in the league on average the last 3 seasons, we’ve averaged 74. Comparable returns, not taking into account other factors such as pace of league, style, dominance etc. You can draw your own conclusions as far as those influences go. But I tend to think the defensive jibe is a lazy one. In Europe I’d wager they’re more defensive because they know whilst they’re big dicks in Italy,… Read more »
Rh
Yes gain is the word i would use to describe a mid table club who’ve just gained a top class footballer for free. Regardless of how the rest of their team has performed, santi has had a very good season surrounded by lower quality team mates
Actually strengthens my argument
If allegri improves us defensively then it would give our attackers more freedom going forward
Pipe dream though
Villareal with santi …..14/13th place finish maximum 46 points.
Villareal without Santi….5th place finish on 61 points last season.
They gained nothing
His “lower quality” team mates did pretty well for themselves before he arrived
Receding Hairline
They lost a high quality player in Rodri (on his way to City), Cheryshev as well. Bacca is still at Villarreal, but is a shadow of the player he used to be. Scored 18 last year.
Lovely to see Santi back.
CC, can’t argue the numbers. I would like someone a bit more practical, and a genuine tactical genius. My hope is that we have a vision that exists above the manager and hire towards the objective. Manchester City are basically Barca. They’ll never hire in Simeone, they want to play a certain way, Pep is their Cruyff in setting that up… and everyone else will be trying to replicate and create the more modern version of that going forward. Arsenal need a footballing vision, then they need to build coaching, recruitment and support staff around that. Versus hoping one manager… Read more »
@CC, Maybe you are right with regards to Allegri. But 77 goals per season is little more than 2 goals a game. Even taking account that the Italian league is more defensive than the EPL, for a team that has been so utterly dominant in their domestic league that stats is not great. There is nothing wrong in being solid defensively, but could Allegri adapt his style to a more expensive style of play. Because if he could not, I am not sure that the natives would accept a return to the restrictive 1-nil and 2-1 of the old Arsenal… Read more »
Dream10
Do you also believe we should have offered a contract to a 34 year old who hasn’t played a football match in 2 years ….
That’s actually what’s being argued
No one has anything against Santi nor doubt his quality
@Dream10,
Hindsight is a beautiful thing.
Like I said in a previous comment, I agree that in view of how the season unfolded keeping Santi on an extra 1 year on pay per play with one more option would have been the better decision.
However at the time, there was some serious doubt whether he could play professionally never mind play at a competitive level on a regular basis.
Personally I would not mind seeing Santi back at Arsenal coaching our central midfielders. How to extirpate yourself from tight spot. How to use both feet to make a forward pass.
We are going to be bargain hunting in the summer even if we do reach the champions league.
Ryan Fraser instead of Zaha or Pep
Kannemann from Gremio to hopefully replace Mustafi
And a great midfielder ripping it up in ligue 1 with bordeaux to replace Ramsey or Xhaka is Toma Besic. All cheaper options and in the state we are in the best we can do to claw back the points difference to the city and Liverpool.
Receding Hairline
If we were not going to radically transform our CM unit, I think we should have kept him on for one more year. Torreira and Guendouzi have been up and down. Xhaka and Ramsey is the best pairing we have.
So, Cazorla would have been at worst our third best CM. But, I understand why he was let go.
Pedro I love today’s comic writing (even though you couldn’t resist the Arteta bit after being shot down on Twitter yesterday)..
you made me laugh today
Valentin
Agreed. Santi seems the type that will become a good coach. Having midfielders that can operate in tight areas and take the ball on the half turn is a priceless skill. And one the that we are sorely lacking.
Talking of midfielders on who are class on the ball, what a player Ndombele is. Where do you see him ending up?
Valentin It seems to me that you have a problem with the Brits and the Yanks. I suggest you read Candide by Voltaire (another Frenchman), a satiric view of the ‘best of all possible worlds’. It strikes me as naïve of you to believe that French meddling is altruistic, driven by the need to benefit the world. They do it to protect and benefit themselves. Just like ourselves. The difference is that the British way is pragmatic, not veiled in dreams. That is why the Commonwealth survives, for the benefit of all, whereas the IOC, Fifa, UEFA, Medecins sans Frontiere,… Read more »
“Personally I would not mind seeing Santi back at Arsenal coaching our central midfielders. How to extirpate yourself from tight spot. How to use both feet to make a forward pass.”
I don’t think this can be coached after a certain age.
“I don’t think this can be coached after a certain age”
You read my thoughts
It makes the appointment of OGS look even more foolish by the day.
United could have waited for a few more weeks and landed Allegri.
Agree with Bam 100%. This squad is very inadequate. Arguing that we were 2 points off 3rd spot or in Europa Final, therefore squad must be adequate is really stupid.
How far was this squad off Pool and City? That’s the barometer.
Ole’s appointment on a permanent basis before the end of the season summarized all that is wrong with Manchester United at the moment
They are so desperate to get back to the “good old days” it’s been one stupid decision after another.
Funny how Ole looks so different now his true level has been exposed (not that i was ever fooled), earlier he looked assured and confident, now he looks plain scared and has aged 10 years
“Agree with Bam 100%. This squad is very inadequate. Arguing that we were 2 points off 3rd spot or in Europa Final, therefore squad must be adequate is really stupid.”
Throw in the fact the team in third are a total shambles themselves and you don’t even have an argument to begin with.
City and Liverpool are the only standard for measuring a team in England now and even Spurs are very far off that level, let alone an outfit that has been run terribly for a decade
Are we realistic title challengers?
The mere fact that we lost a two horse race with Leicester when all our rivals were falling away is proof enough that we are nowhere near “adequate.”
NEXT!
I can see PSG, Bayern, Barca or Chelsea being interested in Allegri.
For a club of Arsenal’s standing, a more appropriate word for hiring Arteta would be “risky”. No one in their right minds would have described the hire as “visionary” because he’s done absolutely nothing so far to back that point of view up.
For his sake, I really hope he goes to Lyon or a similar club. That we’re even talking about a man who hasn’t managed a day in his life is epic in itself. Maybe we’re all part of a great journey that has barely begun, who knows?
Whatever way you look at things, UEFA made a mindblowingly stupid decision to hand Baku the hosting rights for the Europa League Final. Distance, travel irregularities, and general infrastructure scenarios were, it seems, never properly reviewed. Allocating a mere 6000 tickets to both teams is laughable. Only 18% of tickets allocated to the clubs is scandalous. Sponsors and the hospitality “vultures” should not be allowed to consume the game. Unfortunately, that’s the way it is with both UEFA and FIFA. You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. We’ll give you this if you give us that. Am I suggesting… Read more »
Tiago Diego’s assistant at Atletico is also rumoured to be in the running for the Lyon job. Not once have I heard him being mentioned as having “sauce”
@ points off 3rd place?. What about 28 points off 1st place. Thats 9 wins. Sheesh!!.
This place has been completely Wengerised. We were crap, so were UtdSpuds and Chelsea. They will all seek to improve next season. Will we?
“2 points”. I mean
Also I find it so extraordinary that Alexis Sanchez who is more or less in the exact same boat as Ozil as in 30 obviously declining and on ridiculous wages and yet he’s apparently managed to attract the interest of some clubs while Mesut hasn’t. It probably helps that Sanchez has a desire to play football that he’s willing to leave
Agent Gazidis
Fine work
Mustafi -£25 million
Xhaka- £30 million
Can we throw in Elneny for £15 million?
I will run them all to the Airport
This message will self destruct in 15 minutes
Marko. Everyone knows that Sanchez is a talent and he has indicated a willingness to take a pay cut. He just made a bad decision based on his utmost desire to leave Wengers Arsenal.
Ozil wont leave Arsenal unless we pay up his contract in full
Marko
My feel about Özil is he will do the absolute minimum for the reminder of his contract (including looking pissed when subbed of, while laughing inside)
I think he will pass on a well paid contract and signing on fee from the states or what ever when his contract with us runs out and just retire.
Streaming fortnite will keep his income flowing like if he need it
GlobalgunnerMay 17, 2019 14:50:39 @ points off 3rd place?. What about 28 points off 1st place. Thats 9 wins. Sheesh!!. This place has been completely Wengerised. We were crap, so were UtdSpuds and Chelsea. They will all seek to improve next season. Will we? ———— So true. People obsessed of just missing out on top four rather than how far/gap we was from the top two. We are so behind it’s maddening how far we have dropped with Kronke, Gazidis and wenger. You can’t do anything without leadership from right at the top and it is clear as day the… Read more »
We need Emery to stabilize us for at least one more season before we go with the “sauce”
I can see the club promoting Freddie to become manager after one more year of Emery. Hasenhuttl, Nagelsmann, Tuchel, Ten Hag will ask for more transfer control that from the Kroenkes that they won’t be willing to guarantee. Hope I am wrong
“Ozil wont leave Arsenal unless we pay up his contract in full”
Haven’t you read that “Ozil bleeds red”
All we have to do is get the likes of Pierre to donate some pints of red Arsenal blood … and Ozil Is gone.
We look around us and see ManU in the same shit as us. Major overhaul.
Chelsea loosing Hazard,transfer ban, sauceless Sarri, Spudz, Posh leaving? Eriksen leaving, Stadium debt.
Liverpool and City seems Untouchable for atleast 1 year
Expectation for next year: Fighting for 3rd and improve squad
I’m not a huge fan of the ‘we were good enough, just look how many points off 3rd we finished’ as an argument for the strength of the squad at the start of the season. I liken it to suggesting Leicester had a good enough squad to win the league at the start of the season they won it. The fact that they went on and did win the league doesn’t fully support the claim that would’ve been made at the start of the season. Them winning was more of a case of the rest of the ‘contenders’ shat the… Read more »
Graham
My initial reaction over the ticket allocation was the same but I got an email the other day asking me for a second time if I want to apply for a ticket. We’re struggling to sell the 6,000 we have – purely based on the issues of getting there.
Have you read Arseblog today?
I thought we might pip Spudz due to their no spending and fatigue from WC.
Posh has done exceptionally well with his squad imo
“Posh has done exceptionally well with his squad imo”
You can say that if you are looking at the champions league final thing alone in isolation
But if you look at everything in a whole , 13 league looses
We were a home win to Crystal palace away from finishing above them, that alone should tell you he did not do “exceptionally well”..he did okay barely
RH
What are yue arguing against?
Posh did “ok” to reach CL final?
Receding
We were a missed penalty away from finishing above them – which would also have meant 14 league losses.
Reaching the CL final is an achievement but means nothing if you don’t win it.
You just become an obscure answer in a pub quiz in a few years.
Jamie – I think Poch has underperformed last season or two, he has top quality players and won nothing. Ive said before I think Emery would do better job with Spuds squad than Poch has, he was making excuses for not winning anything earlier this year even tho he has world class striker and other quality players. Poch has found his level, manager of teams equivalent to Southampton.