The HEAT is finally here, and football is over… so a straight swap out. Football for summer. I’ll take it. But only if the Champions League final goes the way of Liverpool… otherwise, I’m bringing the white walkers back and we’re going to destroy the world and plunge it into darkness.
Transfer rumours are hotting up, most of the rumours around the centre backs are kind of bland. We seem to be chasing down a lot of short folk. We had many back in the day when we struggled from set-pieces because we loved to hire Tommy V like players, who had a tremendous leap… or a Willy G, who loved to sit on the halfway line and tell everyone he was good at saving money. Wenger really only addressed height when he landed Per Mertesacker.
Umtiti is the really worrying link. He’s a fabulous player, a sublime talent on his day, but we are really playing with the red flames of Abou Diaby’s memory here. There is a reason that Barca is shifting an £80m player for £40m. He has a massive DON’T GO HERE sign attached to his knee. He’s missed 31 league games in the last 12 months.
‘But the medical team would call the shots’, very doubtful. Firstly, we signed Kimmy K with a broken back (spotted > overruled). Secondly, we’d sign him in the knowledge that he’s a massive risk. For me, it’d be like taking a punt on Ledley King back in the day (United thought about it). When fit, he’s going to win you the league, but you’d be cursing his issues every year with ‘what ifs.’
Fitness has to be a priority for Arsenal. We need strong hamstrings, a record of sustained on pitch play and nothing chronic in the closet. We do not have the money to be taking Kanu like risks of yesteryear.
… and be real, we already gave Barca free money for a player everyone knew would tank. Going back to make another very weird deal would offer incredibly poor optics for Raul. I don’t want our football guy keeping Barca sweet because of his DNA. You get me?
I’m hoping that Arsenal seek value in players that have buyout clauses or a couple of years to go on their deals. Julian Brandt is rumoured to be going for as little as £25m. Ziyeck is going to leave with a release clause of £25m, a fabulous player with outrageous pace and work ethic.
Players that have deals expiring next year:
- Ryan Sessegnon
- Thomas Meunier
- Eric Bailly (steer clear, like Umtiti)
- Nacho
- Dries Mertens
- El Shaarway
- Allain Sain-Maximin
- Raph Guerreiro
- Ryan Fraser
- EVER BANEGA GOD NO PLEASE
- Mario Gotze
- Moise Keane
- Rafinha
- Kurzawa
- Keylor Navas (#2 anyone?)
- Adam Johnson
Just kidding on the last one. DIRTY NONCE. You just KNOW some Premier League chairman that is a nonce sympathiser is going to pull the ‘society must forgive’ card and roll with him. North of Manchester, no doubt.
The two-year deal players are also interesting, mainly because they’ll all be negotiating new contracts. Good clubs will be exiting them if it looks like they won’t sign. There’s some tasty names in this category.
- Lio Messi (get on it Raul, we’ll let this one go)
- Mauro Icardi
- Thiago
- Casemiro
- Florian Thauvin
- Memphis Depay
- Seb Haller
- Zielinski
- Hummels
- Carlos Soler
- Ginter
- Alex Telles
- Grimaldo
- Sarr
- Vazquez
- Julien Weigl
As you can see, lots of options if we want to play this summer. I don’t even have the list of players with buyout clauses.
Point being, we don’t have to take massive risks on mates rates names that come with health concerns. This league will not absorb any weakness. It’s faster, more competitive and more relentless than any other. The only way you compete is having more of your first team players fit than others.
It looked to me like Emery tanked his fitness plan this season, blowing up the front end of the season with OTT training regimes that hit him hard during the mid part of the season. December 2018 was a flashback to the dark days of Wenger, who famously bemoaned the science of fatigue a few weeks ago. If you don’t remember, we had an annual injury pileup because Wenger trained his players too intensely and didn’t rotate. He blamed luck, hair pills, witches, the vision of a Trump presidency… until we hired Shad, who took care of the nonsense.
Someone accused me of being hipster in the way I think about the game, for me, that’s a bit like telling a doctor he’s a hipster for reading medical journals. If you believe thinking about the future to gain an advantage is hipster, you really should keep those thoughts to yourself. The future is here, you can’t unfuture what has already arrived. Calling it hipster just makes you look dim.
Anyway, Ralph Rangnick spoke to Coaches Voice (great site), casually sipping on a cream atomised, fluggenhoffled, Germacano coffee that I believe was brewed from a rare strain of Russian coffee bean that garners its taste from the musical notes of Mikhail Glinka…. and gave his thoughts on respecting the ‘athletics’ guys (Shad and Burgess).
Five years ago, I would have thought it impossible that an athletics coach would tell me how many metres my team should run today, and how fast, in training. But that’s what’s happening. In the past, you’d have to trust your eyes and gut feeling as a manager to find the right dosage in training. Now, it’s a bit like picking up a rental car: they will tell you how much is in the tank and what your mileage is.
The athletics coaches are in charge of planning the whole week of training in terms of the intensity on any given day. We take our cues from them.
“Musical tastes aside, I have a strong connection with my players”
If you want to increase the speed of your game, though, you have to develop quicker minds rather than quicker feet.
Improvement translates as taking things in more quickly, analysing them more quickly, deciding more quickly, acting more quickly. At RB, we work on increasing the memory space and the processing pace. We put players into the Soccerbot, for example – a machine that simulates previous games and allows players to relive key moments of matches.
It’s PlayStation football, but with your feet. The players enjoy it so much we have a hard time getting some of them to stop.
YES RALPH. Love it. Again, the above shows you how the powershift is happening in elite football. The days of an assistant putting out cones are long gone. Each role is essential to building an elite sporting machine. Football follows the path of American sports, they lead the way on many things.
Anyway, my prediction is that clubs will start to move more towards specialist roles, versus the current broad strokes approach to coaching. We’ve already seen clubs take performance super seriously. I would imagine that more and more outfits are looking at people with more specialists offerings in defence, attack, and pressing. Ralph mentions in his piece that his team are trained to take risks in certain areas that present great counterpress opps, there must be a group of people working together to work out where the sweet spots are. Do we have that? RB is strategic about where they lose the ball. It’s a different level of thinking and it’s working for them.
Pep G just won the league with the least tackles of any team. Off the ball movement is now an absolute art in the Premier League. There is so much information that has to be absorbed by the modern player, that it’s no wonder major clubs are trying to pioneer ways of fast-tracking information into players brains so they can make better decisions.
Point being… when Barry down the Black Swan tells you football is about FIRST AND SECOND, tell him to fuck off, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Lyon didn’t sign Arteta, as I suspected, the Spaniard is being earmarked for City when Pep leaves. However, Aulas has infuriated some in the French press because he allowed Juninho to pick Sylvinho (left back for us that had to be booted for having a fake passport) as their new coach. His coaching experience extends to the Brazilian under 23s. It is a BOLD move, but again, it’s low risk for Aulas and the future of football clubs isn’t about that ONE GUY who will cost £15m a season and bring 50 of his mates, it’s going to have a more evenly spread system of responsibility and accountability. Football is basically replicating the organisational structures of corporate America.
GFFN bemoaned the hire because… JOSE AND WENGER WERE AVAILABLE. Rationalising that Aulas wanted to win the Champions League. I love that site, but whoever was manning the twitter lost their minds there. Jose just spent £360m at United and tanked them. He’s a nasty man with spiteful tendencies. He also doesn’t care about success anymore, he’s done. Then you have Arsene Wenger, who tried 20+ times to win the Champions League and failed… not to mention his HORRIBLE record with spending money, his grim Barry like views of the modern game and science combined with his terrible approach to tactics would chalk him off any right-thinking owner.
Wenger still not in a major job… shocker, right? Where is that PSG rumour when you need it?
Anyway, see you in the comments x
Looks like he’s off to villa permanently after Bournemouth signed kelly. Mad he’s gone there when pool and spurs were after him
Jamie , nice to know you are in agreement with me …normally you are so far up Markos backside that it would be regarded as abnormal for you to have a different opinion to him .
Maybe, at long last you are coming round to my way of thinking ..
Un
Looks like mings has signed a new contract at Bournemouth until 2022 but his value according to transfermarket is low , 4 mill though I would expect him to be around the 15/20 mark if he was put on the market.
I have no doubt that the know nothing’s , Marko and Receding will be telling us why we shouldn’t touch him with a barge pole, but I prefer to go with what I see with my own eyes.
I think he will only go to villa if they are promoted unless John Terry has been in his ear convincing him to sign for villa.
Pierre
Can’t say I’m on either side on the fence on this one. They will say if he’s not good enough for Bournemouth bla bla bla
You will say that they’ve missed a trick. I can’t say without watching him and then it’s a question of translating his championship form to premier league and Europe. But VVD had a long road to a top club from humble beginnings so who knows?
Pierre –
Cool, so no evidence. That’s what I thought. Weak non sequitur; first it’s ‘Emery doesn’t have any say in transfers’, then an instant pivot to ‘I agree with everything Marko says’. Cringe, mate.
Hitman
Regarding city’s players, yes I’m sure they have a world class fitness team in place, but if you have two world class XIs to choose from, it makes fitness management a lot easier.
De Bruyne-arguably their best midfielder – missed almost the whole season.
Was it a problem? Not at all. Why?
Because they have other options in both Silvas, mahrez, Stirling etc.
There’s always lots of talk on here about behind the scenes stuff, but you need the players.
Kompany new player manager of Anderlecht
Pierre and his lies as per usual accusing people of statements they never made.
And still wants to be taken seriously.
Lol what a clown.
Tyrone Mings can’t even get into the Bournemouth first team and yet your championing to come to Arsenal lol based on one game. What a clown.
Vincent Kompany becomes manager faster than the fabled Arteta
Thoughtful,intelligent guy, as well as being a talented player and a leader.
Really hope it works out for Kompany in his first management job at Anderlecht.
Over the years it has always been the manager that is the most important person at a football club and nothing has changed.
Samesong
Actually be did make them and I do have evidence, I just like to humour him but you are too thick to see that .
Pierre
A good manager with bad players never works out, doesn’t matter how good the manager is……..Arsene was a good manager but surrounded himself average to poor players towards the end of his tenure and that was ultimately his undoing
“I do have evidence but I don’t want to show it!”
Oh, Pierre. You’re not at my level.
Kompany at Anderlecht. Im guessing Arteta turned them down. Just saying
Pierre is best ignored
He’s an ignoramus d-bag with a perma hard-on for Mesut Ozil.
I’ve never read anyone suggest that the manager does not have a say in any signing.
Having a say is not the same as suggesting that ‘Emery brought in ’ in x or y
Dissenter
it appears that you and the other know nothing’s are changing their tune now that our manager has been spotted in Spain looking for potential signings for next season.
Does that surprise me , not at all.
Dissenter Problem is it’s not only Pierre. Pedro’s allowed a click of AKB’s to get close to hijacking the comments section. They twist facts and reality to suit their agenda which currently is against Emery and to a degree Sanllehi. So any good signing i.e. Leno was all down to Sven, any bad signing is all down to Emery and if there’s even a tenuous link to a player in a paper it’s a reason to go to town on Emery fucking things up. The constant reinventing of Ramsey into this player who could play 70 matches a season is… Read more »
It’s ironic but Arsenal were always in the forefront of modern technology, pioneering such innovations as floodlighting and undersoil heating. We may be a tad behind now, though that cannot be blamed for the Club’s dismal decline. Technology has little to do with the three key components of an elite Club: personnel, management, ownership. Sad to say Arsenal are lacking in two of them, and possibly all three. We are light years away from personnel that matches those of the Elite. As for the ownership, it has been totally neglectful in allowing the Club to be so badly run. Whether… Read more »
Pierre I am going to re-post what I said yesterday about our recruitment process, as you are talking bollocks, per usual. ___ Emery was spotted at the Atletico v. Levante match and some are claiming that we might be interested in Atletico midfielder Thomas Partey. This brings us back to yesterday’s discussion about the role the manager now plays in recruitment, a discussion in which some people were disingenuously implying that the manager still plays the same role in this process as he did when Arsene Wenger was at the helm. This is false, and some of these people know… Read more »
Vincent Kompany has a better chance of succeeding Pep than Arteta.
Pierre you are shameless by the way,when you are not making internet love to Ozil you seemingly have nothing else to say.
Ziyech confirms he’s leaving Ajax (gentleman’s agreement) and previously stated Arsenal and Barca were two clubs that are a dream to him.
His football idol? Mesut Ozil.
Apparent release clause of 25 mil. Thinking what I’m thinking? Solomon Kalou late in the day 😎 lol
Pierre
It’s all good calling people thick but you of all people are the biggest liars on le grove show me the evidence where I said it was ok that your wife was abused by her dad which you accused me of?
If you cannot do that after all these months the guess who the thick one is?
You are a troll. Fact!
Waiting for your evidence.Mr troll.
Pierre is best ignored
He’s an ignoramus d-bag with a perma hard-on for Mesut Ozil.
From now on this rat will be ignored.
From twitter William Saliba of Saint Etienne is a target apparently. CB, 18 years of age.
Kike Marin says Umtiti and Hermoso are not targets. That we will be signing our CB from France
Receeding
Watch the trolls now claim he’s too young. In a couple of days we’ll be linked to someone who’s 26 and he’ll be to old.
Mystic Marc at it again, why do people bother posting? You know what’s coming already.
PierreMay 19, 2019 12:04:21 Over the years it has always been the manager that is the most important person at a football club and nothing has changed. >>>>>> Except there’s a huge factor that you seem to be missing: Emery’s not the manager – he’s the head coach, HUGE difference. Wenger was the manager, the CEO, the TD, the DOF rolled into one. He identified the players, he negotiated the contracts and he decided what the highest price Arsenal would pay. They have since moved away from that structure. Emery is NOT in control of the transfers, any of it.… Read more »
What Balague says Emery wants to do this summer: “What Unai is trying to do is add layers to the side,” “It will make much more sense as time goes on. “He will have the players that he wants, but he will get more training sessions for the team to do what he wants them to do. “What does he want them to do? To be flexible, not to look always the same, to adapt a little bit to the team and to the circumstances of the rival and to the circumstances of his own team. “That’s why he doesn’t… Read more »
marc “””””Sanllehi made the right call under bad circumstances – withdraw the offer and show to both our players as well as football as a whole that we won’t be fucked about any more.””””” An then proceeded to line the pockets of Suarez, Suarez Agents and his Old Club Barca to the tune of £5 million. Was that showing we are not to be messed around too? Seeing a top player – leave for nothing to Juventus – will never be the right call. It was corporate negligence on his behalf. Do other clubs give these types a player away… Read more »
I have read today that Bergkamp would like to return to England and one suspects that he would be interested in a job at Arsenal.
What role do you think might suit him if he returned to the club?
I doubt that he would be offered a job as a coach.
Batistuta “Arsene was a good manager but surrounded himself average to poor players towards the end of his tenure and that was ultimately his undoing” Of course , but you are only confirming what I said …it was wenger who brought in those players and trusted players like Bentner, ,schillachi, sanogo etc . It was wenger who never brought in the defensive midfielder that we obviously needed. The manager signed the players and kept certain players too long , he decided the tactics , he chose to allow Ramsey to play an ill disciplined role in a 2 man midfield… Read more »
Un nai, Great article regarding Bergkamp but did you read it? Did CG read it? You’re both clamouring for Overmars and Bergkamp but the article itself said Bergkamp didn’t get on with Overmars and they disagreed forcing Bergkamp’s departure. Let’s get Bergkamp but forget Overmars. You and CG then both go on to say Emery wouldn’t want ex Arsenal players there but forget he just brought in Pires as a coach, with Ljungberg managing the youth team and Mertesacker in charge of the Academy. As for Benega we’re not signing him and have NEVER even made enquires about him, it… Read more »
Twitter rumor – £40M plus Chambers and Jenko for Zaha
Why are we still scouting this late? Shouldn’t we have already our list of targets and start negotiating? Looks like either Sven left with his list and we just started wrote our own list or that he left the list but we don’t agree with his list. Either way the lack of a proper DoF at the helm is really hampering us. If Emery is still scouting, it could only means that we haven’t fully identified our targets and that without the counter balance of a proper DoF or Head of recruitment he has a much bigger say on who… Read more »
Marc I too think 18 is a bit too young. Although number of Senior games said players has Already had under his belt plays a part.
As always
Magnificent post The G.
Freddie, Per and Pires were already in position before Emery joined.
Pires may still have its nominal job as coach at Arsenal, but what influence does he really have on proceedings.
Steve Bould was in charge of set pieces defending, but lately that has been taken over by Emery Spanish assistant. Hence the switch to man marking. Steve Bould has now even less say on the coaching than when Wenger was in charge!
As the academy is quite successful, I doubt that Emery had enough clout to suddenly order their removal.
He’s got a good profile this kid from St Etienne.
But one of his weaknesses is listed as aerial duels which seems a bit strange given that he is nearly 6ft 3in
Interesting comments there from Balague
It’s all well and good talking about a philosophy but people forget outside a heavy press Klopp doesn’t really have much of a philosophy, his teams do try and win games anyway they can.
Only Pep insists on certain things and when you are manager of Barcelona, Bayern and City it’s quite okay.
We had injuries and players who can’t play certain formations yet we were supposed to show a clear philosophy.
Pierre The manager is still the most important person at the club, and he still plays a role in recruitment. Again, he identifies the kinds of players he needs, he identifies the positions where he has needs, and he gives the recruitment men an initial short list of players. He also continues to talk to the men who are doing the recruitment throughout the process, and he has veto say over any final decision. So the manager remains very important in the process. That does not mean, however, that you can point to a Suarez and say “Suarez was Emery’s… Read more »
CC
Before you nibble at me why don’t you answer my question from yesterday. Why as a season ticket holder were you commenting on here during the last home match of the season?
I’ve never said I can see the future although strangely this is one of those where you have a pretty good idea of the response = none.
Benny
I think having Dennis Bergkamp at the club as an assistant manager wouldn’t work well with emery. Better to wait for vieira
Overmars and Dennis May not get along but neither do many successful colleagues.
You may also notice that I asked if it could work? Come on Benny. Read the post
If we miss out on some fantastic player over £5 million this summer then CG would have managed to be right once on Arsenal. Suarez was a loan deal that didn’t work out.
Let’s talk about Ozil’s wages covering that amount every 3 months or so.
Bamford/Bennydevito/dissenter
With regard to the Suarez signing I assume that Emery Identified that he wanted him as Bamford said
“So to review the new process: the manager identifies (i) the kinds of players he needs, (ii) the positions where he has needs, and (iii) a list of players he likes at those positions.”
So he was responsible according to the comment above….just what I said all along …thanks for the confirmation.
“there is a chronic naivety about you if you think Raul gives two hoots about improving Arsenal as opposed to improving his own personal lot.”
No CG it is clearly YOU who is being naive.
For Raul to improve his personal lot as you put it, he has to improve Arsenal first because otherwise, guess what? If Arsenal don’t improve he gets fired!
How does he improve his personal lot then?
Your daily ramblings and absurd assumptions are getting more and more ridiculous each day which is an incredible feat in itself.
Marc
At least Ozil is contributing to the team , unlike Suarez
TR7
I’d leave that rumours as bollocks. Jenkinson’s contract is up in the summer so he’s available on a free.
Any ITK that doesn’t know that is pretty much full of shit!
Its rather fitting Real Madrid finished the season with a home loss to Betis. It’s been horrible season for them.
Zidane has a job on his hands, I think we will now be able to judge how good he really is.
Pierre
Not much though and certainly not good value for money.
Let’s hope he does something in the EL final at least then he would have gone some way to earning his annual salary.
Marc
Raul signed off the Ozil deal.
He signed of the Mikki deal
He pulled the Ramsey deal.
But according to you
We are not going to be messed around anymore…
Raul is a glorified football agent .
Since when have they acted in any but their own personal interests.
Please wise up. You are a bright chap….
You are clearly not an imbecille in the High Leg stakes …
Receding
I really think we’re going to see a lot of money spent by Madrid and a lot of movement in the TW.
Pierre bossing it today
CG
Raul signed off the Ozil deal. – No he didn’t he joined in Feb.
He signed of the Mikki deal – No he didn’t he joined in Feb.
He pulled the Ramsey deal. – Yes he did and Ramsey was stalling. Why didn’t Ramsey sign the contract when it was on the table?
Pierre, He doesn’t have the final say though so is ultimately not “responsible”. He has an imput, just like my children do in what toys Father Christmas gets them when they write what they want on their Christmas lists. They’re not responsible for what they get – I am. I choise what I think are the most practical and affordable toys on their lists and I make the purchases. They’re not responsible for what Christmas they get just like Emery isn’t responsible for the transfers. Do you get it yet? Have I made it simple enough for you to understand… Read more »
Pierre bossing fuck all today.
Marc
You’re forever telling of what would’ve happened in X or Y scenarios with absolute conviction. You even said as much yesterday.
We’ve been here, I don’t have to answer your myopic questions about me personally. If you think my purpose is to prove anything to you then you’re sadly mistaken. Think I have a season ticket, don’t think that, think I’m unemployed, don’t think that.
I’ll be over here not at all concerned with the judgements of a 46 year old who likes to talk shit on the internet.
With the greatest respect to High Leg!
Marc rumours of a 270-300m transfer kitty and lots of players up for sale at Madrid.
We are not the only ones with a squad we aren’t happy with. Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester United to name a few are all in that boat. Even Spurs….all this scouting by May business shows a club without a plan to me.
CG,
How many thousand times do you need to be told that it was Wenger and Gazidas who signed Ozil’s contract and Gazidas Mkhitaryan?
Serious question: do you have dementia? It’s the only logical thing that explains your demented ramblings. You repeat yourself over, and over, and over again even though you have been confirmed to be 100% wrong.
You should get yourself to the Drs quick sharp.
Did PSG under Emery play a particular brand of football? Yes. Did they play in a particular shape, in particular patterns, with a particular approach. Yes. Definitely. And not only did they play in a particular way, they played very attractive passing football. The notion that Emery is not capable of building a team on the basis of a particular approach or style or philosophy is nonsense. He has done so before and he can do so again. If he did not do this this season, this is likely because he determined that, one, he didn’t have the players for… Read more »
Pierre and your ilk , plz leave Winger out of any discussion for now.
He’s done his part and left. This constant way of trying to justify your points are doing the name of your idol (wenger) harm.
Emery is doing OK. If he doesn’t improve significantly next season, he will be gone.
If Emery scouts Partey then he’s scouting a very good player. He has always been my candidate to replace Ramsey for sometime now. A technically good and imposing player. Built technically and physically for the EPL.
Un nai,
Yes I did read the post and have already answered your question.
Would it work? No it wouldn’t as we’ve already seen at Ajax in the article you yourself posted.
LThe notion that Emery is not capable of building a team on the basis of a particular approach or style or philosophy is nonsense. He has done so before and he can do so again.“
Straw man Banford strikes again.
Nobody said he can’t, they’ve said he doesn’t have a philosophy like the managerial elites do. Slow clap for Emery getting the most expensive team in world football to play good stuff..
Didn’t do it at Valencia and Sevilla though, and were closer to them than PSG and a quarter of a billion pound front three.
@Benny,
Monchi left Sevilla for an Italian club on the up. A few years late he is back at Sevilla with more power and more money. Has he improved his Italian employer in order to get more successful? A lot of people would object to the characterisation of his work in Italy as a resounding success.
Raul may well be just weathering the storm before hoping to go back to Barcelona. In which case, not upsetting them and his Spanish contacts too much may be more important than being a roaring success at Arsenal.
Come to think of it wtf scouts Partey anyway.. He has been on the scene for quite sometime, an established starter at Ath Madrid, surely all that should be known about him is known already.
Let me just pretend the cup final is stopping us from moving the way we want to,let’s see what happens after.
Bamford one of Emerys strengths as a manager is his tactical flexibility, you really can’t say with any certainty how his teams are going to set up. Some consider that a weakness though so to each his own.
It’s funny how Sanllehi can be blamed for bad deals that were done before he joined but the Auba signing – a success – is nothing to do with him.
Managerial elite’s
What is Allegri’s philosophy?
What is Zidane’s?
What’s Conte’s?
This philosophy rubbish is just an ode to Wenger who didn’t even have any philosophy if some of the squads he built are anything to go by.
Benny Un Na is a troll. He is here to nettle LeGrovers, who he dislikes on account of their historical treatment of Wenger and erstwhile AKBs. He will say that someone is “bossing it” simply because he thinks this will nettle people here. He can be ignored. Pierre is here for similar reasons, btw. But Pierre is more committed to certain arguments. Pierre is here for the same basic reason, though: he dislikes WOBs on account of their treatment of Wenger (and Ozil and the FAC titles), and he is here to avenge these things as it were. He can… Read more »
@Bamford, I would not use Emery’s time at PSG to make your point on formation and philosophy. Emery tried to change formation during his first season. The players revolted and he quickly switched back to the PSG usual slow build-up from the back. Every manager tries to do that, but the influence of the Brazilians contingents and Zlatan before that no coach has been to fundamentally change their style of play. Tuchel has been trying, but that is still very much a work in progress. Tuchel’s main chance is that next season he will have a brand new midfield. Thiago… Read more »
CC
I made one certain prediction that if Wenger had stayed this season would have been even worse.
You are trying to find ways to have a pop at me because I’ve embarrassed you on here a couple of times.
Now answer the fucking question why would a season ticket holder be posting on here during the last match of the season?
If you don’t want to answer that then don’t address me. I have no interest in the comments of a serial liar who can’t count.
Don’t get why people keep bringing up suarez when we have worse players making a hole in the wage bill on a permanent basis.
Suarez is pocket change for a club like arsenal. We have spent a lot more for worse players.
Valentin
“Raul may well be just weathering the storm before hoping to go back to Barcelona. In which case, not upsetting them and his Spanish contacts too much may be more important than being a roaring success at Arsenal.”
Absolutely no evidence to even go there with that. Most people in highly paid positions have enough ego and pride to at least like they are doing a good job.
Receding Nothing to do with Wenger, that summarises your input on the matter. The best managers in the world look to dictate games and impose their football on the opposing side – with the odd exception who take a more stifling approach, but still are principled. ‘Switching it up depending on the opponent’ is precisely why the players inevitably haven’t a clue what’s going on, don’t know what their roles are, stick or twist, and is why we end up playing halves of football like we did at Leicester first half (making the fewest passes in a PL half ever,… Read more »
Before being up in arm with Emery scouting, I would be up in arm that we are scouting so late.
Other teams are already signing players, we are still at the stage of deciding who to go after.
That does not paint Raul in a very good light. Nothing seems to have been planned or organised. Indecision and muddled thinking seems to be the order of the day.
Gonsterous
It’s only being brought up by the anti Emery brigade as having a way to have a pop at him.
Marc
You’ve made several assertions about hypothetical instances that have no manner of proof.
Being called a “liar” and “someone who can’t count” (random) by you isn’t “embarrassing” me. On the contrary, if anyone’s to feel a bit embarrassed it’s the guy continuing to assert he knows it all about a complete stranger on a blog.
Keep on trucking Mystic Marc
It’s possible that Emery was looking at another player, or even had the weekend off decided to go home and catch a match at his old club with a mate.
The amount of supposition on here sometimes is crazy. If we sign the guy Emery was checking him out. We can then spend months listening to CG, Pierre, Un and CC tell how it’s a terrible signing.
CC
Are you at the Emirates now? Do you get free wi fi there?
Rubbish Man City were hailed for switching tactics three times in one half of a match alone. You ignorantly talk of a man having no philosophy yet his Valencia team had a particular style of play, they pressed as a unit up the field to force possession turnovers and attack from closer to the oppositions goal. I have posted more than one article on here detailing his philosophy from three of his clubs, that you pretend those articles weren’t written and then go “he didn’t show it at Valencia or Seville” is your problem, not anyone else’s. You are a… Read more »
CC
Oh year “You’ve made several assertions about hypothetical instances that have no manner of proof. ”
Another lie, I made one assertion which I mentioned above.
MarcMay 19, 2019 13:29:23 CC Before you nibble at me why don’t you answer my question from yesterday. Why as a season ticket holder were you commenting on here during the last home match of the season? I’ve never said I can see the future although strangely this is one of those where you have a pretty good idea of the response = none. >>>>> Marc, In fairness to CC I have to interject here. I was at the Wolves match and simultaneously posting on here at the same time. With mobile phones and the internet it is possible. Not… Read more »
Marc
I can afford a phone with a data plan mate. Living the dream for you I know, but we don’t choose how we’re born.
Charlie “Nobody said he can’t [impose a philosophy or approach]; they’ve said he doesn’t have a philosophy like the managerial elites do.” One, if he is capable of effectively instructing a group of players in a particular style or approach, who cares if he has settled on any one “philosophy” of the game? Two, how do you know that Emery doesn’t have some one underlying philosophy or vision for how football should be played? Have you spoken with him about this? Three, what if he determined what I’ve said above — i.e., that he doesn’t have the players for any… Read more »
That’s awkward Mystic Marc, seems someone else doesn’t subscribe to the “Season Ticket 10 commandments by Marc with a ‘c’ “
It’s almost like you’re projecting your narrow views out there as fact again. Weird that.
@Marc,
Except that in the only interview Raul did, the only thing he kept referring to is Barcelona. However Arsenal FC is not Barcelona not even Barcelona Lite.
If he really want to be successful at Arsenal, he will have to burn bridges with people from his previous life. He works for Arsenal now. They are his rivals now.
Receding
Good post immediately above about Emery at Valencia. Clear vision, clear philosophy, clear approach.
Liked the below too:
“You are a shameless Wenger apologist masquerading as a critic.”
Exactly.
Valentin
Just one thing and I’ve only just picked up this this myself the 16th May transfer window date is for the PL. We can’t sign overseas players until 11th June, obviously it doesn’t stop deals being done in principle and you’d hope we’d have targets lined up but we can’t yet sign any players in Spain etc.
benny
It’s different you were at an away match in the home fans section – you didn’t know anyone round you. You get to know the people around you when you sit in the same seat for any length of time – there’s plenty of banter and discussion with real people around you. You don’t have time to play on your phone bar the odd score update from another match and you usually find someone else has picked up an interesting result and passes the news on.
“ who cares if he has settled on any one “philosophy” of the game?” Me, others, any observer of football that’s interested in benchmarking him against the best in class. “how do you know that Emery doesn’t have some one underlying philosophy or vision for how football should be played?” His career to date is evidence enough of his managerial capability and nuances. It was absolutely straw man, you’re arguing a point nobody has suggested. Clear as day. In the instance you’re referring I argued against you clamouring for a safe pair of hands to deliver top 4 as you… Read more »
An amazing dichotomy has opened up with regards to the Raul/Emery double act.
On the one hand you have The bright, lucid and knowledgeable AFC fans and on the other hand the naive ,punch drunk ,and slightly backward AFC fans
Quite amazing….
What naive folk can swallow …
CG/The G/Pierre/CC /UN 1
Bd/marc/bamford/rh/Jamie/kay/gone 0
Raul and Emery ain’t Good for our Arsenal
In fact they are very very bad!
Truth Hurts
Nah, Benny, I’m pretty sure he’s lying. Go back to his original responses to Marc. They do not sound like a man who is telling the truth. I think Marc has caught Charlie out.
On s serious note if someone comes in for xhara
Club needs to play hardball
Don’t look to keen
Style it out rodders
Lmao see, Mystic Marc knows all it takes to be a season ticket holder. Everyone is just like him, no time for phones at games etc etc. Kicker being if you’re not like him, you’re lying. What a human.
I wonder if CC is flattered at being lumped in a team with CG and Pierre..
Bamford we never needed to compete for titles under Wenger as far as Charles was concerned.. It was either we couldn’t compete financially or who would we get that is better than Wenger.
Wenger leaves and he wants dazzling football and a title challenge all in one season, earlier in the season he usually said why did we sack Wenger then realized his mask was slipping and stopped that. I don’t take him seriously anymore, he is just a smarter Pierre, a troll out to exact revenge for Wenger criticism.
“Nah, Benny, I’m pretty sure he’s lying. Go back to his original responses to Marc. They do not sound like a man who is telling the truth. I think Marc has caught Charlie out.“
This should shock nobody. My responses have been dead clear, proving myself to someone incessantly trying to dismiss my views isn’t of any interest to me.
I was dismissed by Marc in his true arrogant fashion as someone who hadn’t been to a game so knew fuck all.
Bamford
Sorry but I need to correct your last post “I think Marc has caught Charlie out.” should be “I think Marc has caught Charlie out again”.