Unai’s f*ckin magic, he wears a magic Europa hat!

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Here we go. The big one. The Europa League final. The success of our season rides on this one game. Win, and it’s fancy players and the hope we can move up a level next season. Lose, we watch a Europa League manager do his thing on a budget all summer long. Those cold sweat Banega/Nzonzi/Gameiro nightmares will become Freddy Krueger levels of reality.

One of the biggest selection questions we have this evening is whether Petr Cech plays, the manager seems to be leaning in an uncomfortable direction.

“I respect him a lot. His career is amazing. First, like a person and second like a professional goalkeeper, I think he deserved us to trust in him. Not because I am saying to you here, but because his career says to us that he is a gentleman. Tomorrow he can start or cannot start. I am going to decide. But both for him is done with respect. Really, I think how can we not believe in him?”

I love a romantic story and I love Petr Cech. The greatest goalkeeper in Premier League history. He was such an outrageous pro back in the day. Literally a brick wall.

… but this is elite sport. Fine margins. 2% here or there. The reality of Cech is he’s our second best goalkeeper. The second reality is that he’s pretty much nailed on to be Chelsea’s new Sporting Director. There is no line of business that involves proper money and talent that would allow him to lead or present if he were already committed to someone else. It’s called gardening leave my darlings.

The manager kind of hinted the final choice wasn’t cut and shut.

‘I want to do something important with him in the last moment of his career – and this has been my conversation with him, playing or not playing. We want to win for us.’

There is no longer a decision to be made. Sentimentality didn’t win us the 2008 league cup final. We are not obligated to provide a romantic end to his illustrious career. If there is something nice to be done, buy a gold watch or get a banging Cookie Cake from Lakeside. Don’t risk the future of our club on someone that’s retiring to the enemy.

Football is the Serengeti, no one cares how many antelope you mauled, no one gives a fuck about the cubs you fathered… when push comes to shove, Scar is always going to be there, ready to shove you off the cliff into the abyss. Hakuna Matata is for meerkats, songful wild boar, and cucks… NOT KINGS OF THE FUCKING EAST AFRICAN PLAINS.

(Auba is west Africa, but my sources say he’d easily be adult SIMBA if he was part of my metaphorical east African Disney metaphor for ElITE football)

If Emery plays Leno and he rolls the ball into his own net, no one will blame him for playing one of the players of the season, and arguably, one of the best keepers in the league. Play Cech and lose, mistake or no mistake, people are going to gun for the manager. Cech’s very selection would be a black mark against Emery’s decision making and backbone.

Also worth noting that Cech slated the low-pressure environment at Arsenal.

“I completely disagree with people who say, ‘When you pressure comes, [you don’t win]’. No. I think we lose points where there is not enough pressure. So, we went to Everton [on April 7]. You know you win, you go third… you lose, you stay fourth. We lost. That week with Wolves [losing at Molineux, either side of defeats to Crystal Palace and Leicester], it was the same situation.

“There was always a cushion, there was always, ‘It is not such a disaster’. We should probably create more pressure on everybody because that would give people more to think about.

I agree with the above. Unai should show him what a high-pressure environment looks like because the above can’t all be on Wenger. Make no mistake, you can change a culture in a year. We need a strong call. Our new man needs to show his teeth, just like his heroes Pep, Simeone, and Jose would do.

They’d all pick Leno, no doubt.

I thought it was slightly odd for Emery to be talking about how he mismanaged Aaron Ramsey’s fitness (what did I tell you?), but whatever. We need to stop dissecting the issue and move on. We didn’t want to pay the money he was after, so we yanked the deal, let’s accept the consequences like adults and hope there’s a good plan to replace.

Chelsea news is looking spectacularly shite for them. Hudson-Odoi is injured, can you believe it, I even wrote about it a month ago, what a fucking dunce I am.

Total banter is Sarri seems to be having a meltdown about his future.

“For me, at the beginning of the season, it was really very difficult to understand my players, to understand the mentality. But, after a very difficult month in January, in February they started to change. Or probably I changed, I don’t know. In this moment I love them because I have 20-22 wonderful men and wonderful players. So now I’m really very happy with them. I have to consider the future. And I have to consider that I love English football, I love the Premier League.”

Hahahahah!

Very good. He also threw a tantrum at the end of his final session.

Sarri is understood to have been unhappy that the team’s final training session was open to observers, as per Uefa’s stipulation. A Chelseaspokesman said: “Maurizio’s frustration displayed at the end of training was not related to any of his players, but was due to not being able to practise set-plays in the final 15 minutes of the hour-long training session as it remained open to media.”

There was presumably exasperation, too, that N’Golo Kanté had been limited to around half an hour of gentle running with a physio. The knee injury picked up at Cobham on Saturday is likely to see him start the final on the bench at best. The midfielder spoke at length with the medical director, Paco Biosca, on the pitch before going inside for further treatment. Sarri had earlier rated his involvement as “50-50”.

This is either unreal mind games, or he’s just pissed the club will sack him if it goes badly tonight. The Kante news for me feels pretty real, he’s injured. Bench him and it’s bad news for them, start him and there’s a huge risk of doubling down on his injury (literally what Emery said happened with Aaron). Sure, he’s not playing his best position, but he’s still a World Cup winner they don’t have on the pitch.

This game is going to be huge. We have two of the most potent strikers in world football to feed. We have one of the greatest creators the game has ever seen, hoping to show that he cares. Laurent Koscielny, a great servant of the club, is likely manning his last ever major final for Arsenal as captain (god help us if we go super-cuck and give it to Petr). LT looks fit and raring. Someone has the chance to be a hero against Hazard. Unai Emery has the opportunity to take his season from ‘meh’ to, ‘ohhhh, maybe?’

If Arsenal approach this game like we did the Spurs match in December, we’ll be a huge problem for Sarri. If we head into this game thinking Emery’s success in the tournament somehow gives us a divine right to win, we’re fucked.

Regardless of your confidence, Chelsea are the better side.

… but this is a cup game. Last time we played Chelsea in a cup final we KNEW we’d lose,  we dropped an absolute classic of a game, and won like heroes.

We need some of that magic tomorrow.

This game is monumental for our future, our reputation, and our pride.

COME ON ARSENAL, MAKE US PROUD!

See you in the comments x

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Hitman

This club generates tons on money then wastes it on trash players. We aint getting a cash injection.
We need to cull. Slash wage bill and save cash.
Recruit upcoming younger cheaper players. As long as we don’t get relegated its fine. Forget Europe for time being. What good does it do?
Should be able to stash £200m warchest through match day and TV money by doing that in 2 years. Cant think of any otherway of getting back to the top. Its what Spuds and Pool have done over last decade.
Overpaying mercenaries doesnt work.

Dissenter

Cesc Appeal
…what are. you doing around these parts?
Have you met CG yet?

BacaryisGod

Well, that was a disaster. Iwobi scores a screamer to gice us a tiny amount of momentum and Ozil lets him get pushed off the ball like he wasn’t there to set Chelsea off on a break. Maitland-Niles was solid and positive in the 1st half and an absolute disaster in the 2nd. The only good thing in the entire match was Iwobi’s performance but of course it didn’t matter at that stage and maybe having no pressure allowed him to play so well. Aubameyang and Lacazett were given limited service but were ineffective in dangerous positions when they had… Read more »

Childish Gambino

PROMOTE ALL THE KIDS NEXT YEAR

ESR OR IWOBI IN THE HOLE >>> OZIL

NELSON >>> MHKI ON THE WINGS

SAKA >>> VIBRATING IWOBI

SELL: CECH, JENKS, MUSTI, KOS, NACHO, ELNENY, XHAKA, OZIL, MHKI.

Victorious

Never ever should you wish spurs to win the CL. That is absolute dick head behaviour. You are not arsenal fans’

You’re the bigger cvnt here

Watching spuds lifting the CL should be the least of your worries, Club is plummeting in to nothiness with the current management and coach and here you’re beating because a better run club has a chance for glory

We’re in dire need of a shock to the system and I hope Spuds obliges to put the icing on the cake

WengerEagle

Aye Sal, the Arsenal way of late.

Getting palatic on Saturday either way, absolutely surrounded by gobby Scouse supporters in Dublin unfortunately.

Emiratesstroller

RT

You are a complete idiot.

Do you seriously attribute blame to Cech for tonight’s performance?

That is not to say that I would not have picked Leno who is our first choice goalkeeper.

TH

Danny M.O

This whole 5 atb needs to go. The manager needs to go. 80% of that team needs to go.

Valentin

@Dissenter,

Nobody was supposed to cover that zone because tactically we were setup as a 3-4-1-2. So Torreira was supposed to slide in and Özil stay in the middle which he did.
Second half, Aubameyang was then tasked to float on that side, however as he stayed further up, AMN was facing Hazard and Emerson.

Like I said before the game, 3-4-1-2 is a stupid tactic against 4-3-3 with one of the best left inside forward.

CG

Chelsea 4 Arsenal 1.

Nelson

Now the club may have problem selling ST. If they go project youth, they may have to lower the ticket price further.

Leftsidesanch

Losing 4-1 in a final is enough of a shock to the system.

Wishing Spurs win a final is a wankerish thing to do from a piece of shit poster who genuinely hasnt had Arsenals best interests at heart.

Childish Gambino

DANNY MO.

5 AT THE BACK WORKS….LOOK AT WOLVES

Galaxygooner

@prvhc Emery has spent a grand total of 70 million or whatever . That is the about the same amount Liverpool spent on a goal keeper. A effing goalkeeper. What do you expect Emery to do to fix a club left to rot for 20 years under Stan Kroenke and Wenger. Hazard cost Chelsea $22 million at a time we still had a reputation of a winning club. Hazard just like Mbappe , Aguero were on the radar of the most casual of football supporters . But Wenger and Kroenke had their racket going . The racket – Spend as… Read more »

Guns of SF

This was just horseshit and Im glad we got whipped. The dismay and outrage better move the needle with Kronke This asshole needs to get us money somehow. somewhere Who the fuck is going to come here now? Looks like 18 year olds from 2nd divisions across the map. What you going to do now Raul? Who will you call? We will be a team of prospects. Maybe an Ajax lite? I doubt it There should be outrage across the board. Our defense needs to be sold, and we need a new midfeld Chelsea knew how to nullify Laca and… Read more »

Daz

Emery is not to blame had he got the chelsea job and we had sarri, nothing would have changed chelsea have a far better squad of players than us not even in doubt

salparadisenyc

Cesc Appeal

My thoughts are with you at this time, a family of Spurs supporters.

Stay strong amigo.

TR7

Cesc

Welcome back ! There is no way in the world Emery is the best we can possibly have. He is totally out of his depth.

Jay

Phd2020
Yep, basically the way i feel now.
This rot started a long time ago, week fanbase alowed it to continue.

tee

Joe, what were you saying about your love for Emery for saying he would rather win Europa to qualify for cl than making the top 4?

Arsenal ain’t going no where with that American owner.

end of.

izzo

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL What did you all expect??? I didn’t even need to watch the whole game to know we would lose because we’re shit and have been all season. The same culprits Xhaka, Ozil, and Mustafi are there so basically playing 3 men down and shooting yourself in both feet. I’m Emery out. I don’t see him being ruthless enough and playing Cech cemented that for me along with thinking he can keep Wenger’s players and improve. There better coaches and managers out there that should be given a chance at the job. Might as well write off next season because… Read more »

UK bubbler

I knew we were going to lose when I saw sky sports ticker tape talking about what time the parade would be.
Parade! Your having a laugh

goonerkitt

Our decline as a club since the stadium move is alarming but if you look at all the teams who have had new stadiums and follow the downward trajectory we are in serious shit street. Sunderland, Southampton, Bolton, Derby, Middlesbrough even mk dons have all been relegated after building new stadiums. Man City and West Ham got theirs for next to nothing. We were sold a dream and it has become a nightmare. We were fed the biggest pile of bullshit and we fell for it, £1000 plus season tickets, selling our best players getting spanked at least once a… Read more »

Cesc Appeal

WE Leftside Dissenter I’ve stayed away from here mainly because I think it’s gone to shit. Pedro in his over the top anti-Emery (thinly veiled pro-Arteta) diatribe has basically handed the comments section over to a load of pro-Wenger fans who are massively anti-Emery for that reason and seem to get away with murder on here with bullying, trolling etc purely because they prop Pedro up. I can see I’m not alone, a lot of former regulars have gone missing. Only reason I popped up was because I saw some old names here and thought misery shared is misery halved.… Read more »

Marko

Obviously Sarri had a much easier job on his hands. A legitimate world class player some very competent midfielders and a decent on their day defence. Only area they need work on is CF. Areas we need work on everywhere bar keeper and ST

Daz

Gary cahill would walk into our team nevermind any one else

Ishola70

This side are so ready to collapse defensively which we saw tonight.

What the fuck are the club doing with a deep lying playmaker in the side when the defence is so dodgy.

Chelsea were walking through the Arsenal midfield in the second half.

If this club don’t want to get serious and instead go on about competitiveness without actually addressing matters then fans will just walk away.

It’s been happening far too long.

Marko

Good to see CA back. If only for a little while

Guns of SF

Chelsea showed what wingers can do and also a true number 10, that can fucking dribble.

Emery and Co need to take a look at this very carefully.
Let the selling begin now

Dissenter

Valentin I don’t think any of the teams Emery beat in the EL final had a big game world class player like Hazard. Hazard nullified whatever plans we had for this game. He drags players =out of positions until they lose their position sensing. Hazard showed his class tonight. cest fini It’s hard to play in any discernible manner because out transfer business over the past 5 seasons has been haphazard. We are truly a Europa League team now. How many times did Kolisinac couldn’t cross a proper ball or cut back? How many times did Ozil make a forward… Read more »

Valentin

@Marko,

I see that you have been very quiet on the Willock performance. Do you still believe that he is unlikely go higher than League 1?

Cesc Appeal

Sal

I can’t even think about that right now.

I honestly don’t know what I’m going to do.

Start looking up Australian immigration laws I think.

TR7

I disagree.

But I really cannot be fucked to get into it in all honesty, mate.

I don’t think anyone can come in with this squad, the financial limitations etc and do any better.

In any event, with one year left on his contract it seems pointless to waste an eighth of our summer budget firing him.

If only that Sheikh fancied London and not Newcastle, ey?

Dissenter

We have to sell one of Auba or Laca
This squad imbalance has to end this summer

Jay

Welcome back cesc.
To greet you, we have a supposed arsenal fan wanting sp#%s to win the champs league.
Yep this place has turned to shit alright.

Mr Serge

Well said cesc appeal

Guns of SF

Kroenke should consider selling this losing asset.
I dont care who, but someone needs to buy us that loves this team and can invest emotionally and $ into the team.

Was Stan or Jr even at the game today?
What did their faces look like when they see the scoreline?

Marko

I see that you have been very quiet on the Willock performance. Do you still believe that he is unlikely go higher than League 1?

What are you talking about you cretinous arsehole I’ve never said that. I have said that he’s not ready or not an obvious option now. Which he isn’t. I believe you’re thinking of someone else liar

Alex James

GoonerKit

Absolutely

Cesc Appeal

Dissenter

Agreed.

If selling Lacazette to Atletico got you Ziyech, Sarr, Claude Maurice and Palacios (or near enough that lot give or take £10 Million) how can you argue?

Guns of Brixton

Worse part there is no light at the end of this tunnel.

No salvation.

Least Wenger effing off last season was a cause for celebration.

Now there’s nothing to look forward to.

TheBayingMob

Mid table mediocrity awaits … tonight was pivotal for our immediate future and after that abject humiliation we now know we have Laurel and Hardy at the helm.

Galaxygooner

@Cesc Appeal
Who is stupid enough to pay 40 million for Elnieny ,Chambers and Mustaphi combined ?
In the final 10 years of Wenger , We bought terrible players .

Catalyst

Am soul searching on how I ended up supporting this club. Guess am gullible and stupid. The worst part is I can’t let go despite the abuse and pain caused by the Arsenal.
Pretty sure I’ll be here next season cursing like crazy.

Dissenter

iF Emery’s continued stay is to keep supervising this nonsense then he has to go…and the fans should make that happen.
if he’s there to truly reform then he may have a chance.

I don’t care if we lose money getting rid of Ozil. just make it happen to set the tone. Two elite strikers in front of him and all he did was to hug the corner flag.

I think the club has contingencies for us not getting CL.

WengerEagle

Yeah CA we’re a mess from top to bottom and I’m with you, it’s too soon and depressing to get bogged down in everything tonight off the back of that. All I will say is that I’m one of those that thinks that Emery is out of his depth and isn’t the man to take us forwards. Sure there are plenty of other reasons for our struggles but that fact remains for me, two wrongs don’t make a right. Sacking him in the summer is only pointless if there is honestly nobody we could talk into reforming the club, still… Read more »

Duzie

I’m depressed.

Arsenal have ruined my summer.

Kamp

Sell them both dissenter. They’ll probably fetch 140m approx. And are on big wages.
They’re ageing assets and we need a rebuild on youth hunger and desire.
They were poor tonight and the longer we hang onto them the more likely ‘ozilfication’ takes place.

Nelson

Chelsea’s 4 3 3 formation outclassed our 5 2 1 2 formation. Our two wing backs were useless. We had two midfielders against 3. The few times we tried fast counter, we were 3 vs 6 because our two wing backs were too slow to move up.

Leedsgunner

Capitulation.

If there is any justice in this world, Liverpool will handsomely defeat Tottenham.

Oh, Emery out.

His bare minimum this season was Champions League qualification… and he failed despite having the easiest run in all the top sides.

We threw away 4th place for this performance? Honestly?

PaddyGooner

Worst arsenal performance since 8-2

Ishola70

People are still going on about offensive players.

Fof ffs this side needs a complete clear out from the defensive aspect and that means a much better balanced midfield as well.

Emirates Stroller was spot on earlier.

Kamp

We need to adjust our targets .there is no spine in that team, save the goalkeeper who didn’t bloody play.

Youth is the way to go. Raw physical and hungry

Cesc Appeal

Jay

I’ve seen what this place has become. It’s basically I covert Untold at times, arguing something slightly different but the place they’re coming from is exactly the same.

Mr Serge

Was going to say how’s it going, but that is a daft question tonight.

The club need to give us something…quickly as well, a signing, something.

Valentin

@Dissenter, But we had better players who could do the job. Emery did not trust them. I said before I would have a back four. I would have trusted Willock over Özil. I would have trusted Iwobi or Saka from the start over Kolasinac. Also today’s game put paid to Emery the master tactician. Tactically, it is demonstrated 3-4-1-2 does not work against 4-3-3 unless you have much better players and/or athletes. The main reason is that the opposition system either pushes back your wingback and you end up with a Back 5, or you have two players (wide midfielder+full… Read more »

Galaxygooner

Players we cannot get off our book has been a recurring fact at Arsenal . Remember Bendthner, Denilson etc .Good that Emery was able to get rid of Jack Wilshere. We now need to rid of Ozil , Elnieny and the other players stinking up the dressing room.

Elmo

Guns SF

Kroenke is not going to sell. His position is hoping to continue to ride the rising tide of ever-increasing PL revenues, largely driven by the very top teams spending huge amounts to concentrate the best talent in the world.

While the tide continues to rise, lifting all ships, there’s absolutely no chance he will sell, and any suggestion he would inject money into the club, knowing that we’re competing with United even for 5th,is a complete starter. Our only chance is a Dortmund model.

Guns of SF

Ozil is such a shit head
Willock much better than he is…
I cannot stand Ozil game…. he just putters around, slow, without purpose and tries to do something which only he understands.

He is so fucking pathetic
Fuck you too Emery for playing him that long…. should have pulled at halftime

goonerkitt

I’m going to give my season ticket up. There is no point in giving that cunt Kroenke a penny as he uses it all on his us sports franchises. If he was truly a great business man he would have made us the priority in his sports portfolio. The premier league is the biggest sporting entity watched by more people worldwide and we were a global power as can be seen by the size of our global fan base, social media following etc but he has failed to capitalise on this and we are going to be overtaken by the… Read more »

PaddyGooner

Midfield was useless, left back 4 exposed, and AMN and Kola weren’t good enough defending. Mateo isn’t the answer either, need a fast monster at DM.

Dissenter

It’s not the end of the world to be honest

Anyone who thought finding the way back after the doldrums monster led the club to is a clown.
Emery came short and has shown that he’s too flawed to entrust a big project with.
However, Arsenal in its current state is certainly not a big project. We are a ship just drifting in waters filed with icebergs.
Emery and Arsenal are a match made in heaven.

Cesc Appeal

WE

I just don’t know.

I like Nagelsmann but want to see how he does at Leipzig.

No one is coming into this side with what would then be a £35 Million budget and improving it by any significant margin.

I agree Emery look lost, not because he’s out of place in a big club, but he’s not equipped for the mess at Arsenal.

I don’t actually know who is.

The club is going to have to play a world class game this summer in terms of selling and scouting buys.

TR7

Only £40M to now play with. If it was up to me I would start with a clean slate – a new team with young talented kids nurtured by a manager capable of harnessing young players. We have years of mediocrity ahead of us anyway, we better take a longer but organic way back to footballing relevance.

Emiratesstroller

Arsenal are not going to buy 11 new players this summer and certainly not on the so called indicative budget of £40 million net. However, there needs to be a major clearout in our defence as a starting point. The club has conceded 51 goals in the EPL this season and we were torn to shreds in the second half of this game. Let’s be honest the defenders on our books are not going to get better. Messrs Lichsteiner, Koscielny and Monreal are on their last legs. Jenkinson is not good enough to play in EPL and Kolasinac and Maitland-Niles… Read more »

PaddyGooner

Hazard just said he is going so we won’t have to worry about him next year at least

WengerEagle

Problem is we don’t have any talented youngsters TR7.

Grand strategy if you’re Ajax.

Cesc Appeal

TR7

That could be an idea.

Go with youngsters and well scouted young buys like Saliba etc.

Maybe Nagelsmann then, dependent on how he does at Leipzig? Maybe see how the Wolves manager does next season when people are expecting things of him?

Valentin

@Nelson,

Tactically Emery was owned by Sarri. The worrying thing is that the issue that I have highlighted in my previous post are well known.

In fact they are the reason why Germany switched from a back 3 to a back 4 under Klinsmann years ago. Germany could beat minnow because they had better players and better athletes, but as soon as they were encountering better team, they were battered.

I don’t understand how Emery could not suss that out before the game. Sarri always plays a 4-3-3, so it’s not like he sprang a surprise on him.

PaddyGooner

I have to go to work tomorrow 😢

CG

If Arsenal continue to persist with this vulgar Emery Experiment next season…

Do not be surprised that we will be on the edges of a relegation battle next season.

We have the Worst manager in the Prem!

And we will also have to negotiate another 14-18 Thursday fixtures playing havoc with the domestic calendar.

No Rambo No Chance!

Tick Tock!

gunnermjj

So now we know when the season will start, and the budget. we were told this week that negotiations and plans were well underway.

when will the first transfers in / out be announced?

I bet it is not before July.

They have planned nothing, except that £25m is put aside for the stadium loan and £35m for KSE to repay loans so one tax-dodging owner could buy the shares of another dodgy prick.

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.

Majesticgooner

We can blame AMN all we like but we got the tempo of the game all wrong from the start, no hunger or desire to win the ball , I don’t want to sound as if I’m picking on Ozil , but we are basically playing one player short when he’s in the team, he makes token attempts to win the ball and he doesn’t drive the team forward when he gets the ball offensively. It would be better to find a team to take him off our hands even if it means paying half his wages, we could get… Read more »

Guernsey gun

A lot of chickens home to roost tonight, amn…forget it, torreira….lightweight not good enough. I could go on, fuck we are in a real mess.

Guns of SF

We need an offer for Arsenal FC
Kroenke likes $$$ and as soon as the banners go above saying Kroenke out, he might have a change of mind. The most absent owner ever

What happened to Dangote?

Anyhow, start the selling now. Ozil…. bargain… 10M let him go…. we pay a fraction of the wages just to get him out…. such a poor player he became

Dissenter

Valentin
“I said before I would have a back four. I would have trusted Willock over Özil.”

C’mon man be fair
Had Emery started Willock over Ozil and we lost then everyone will be asking for his head [ not that his head isn’t on the line as it stands]
Willock looked sharp and hungry, that’s the model we have to use next season.

\You’;re right that he should have had more opportunities and I think the club really has no choice now but to give the youth a chance.

Guns of SF

haha majestic
typed the same thing same time

Ishola70

Absolutely Emirates.

The focus has to be on the defence and the central midfield in front of it.

That is the only way to stop the rot.

I’m not interested in winning games 4-3. It’s bullshit . The team needs defensive improvement first and foremost.

Cesc Appeal

For me first port of call would be something like Aarons, Saliba, Tarkowski/Lascelles (someone like that) and Tierney.

Sell Mustafi, Chambers, Jenkinson and Kolasinac.

Was on the Konate hype train since last summer, that’s gone now along with Umtiti, Upamecano and anyone else obvious and class really.

Leedsgunner

Chelsea’s world class player turned up. Our supposed top performers didn’t.

To be honest, it was just like watching Wenger in the second half.

TR7

WE

We can poach young talents from other clubs, they won’t cost a fortune.

Catalyst

Kolasinac has zero IQ. Ozil is just a prick with little shame. Xhaka is an embarrassment. AMN is a pathetic joke.
Emery totally clueless. The bigger worry is does he know what he needs to fix?
Does he have the guts to fix the huge problems we have?

Nelson

Chelsea players know exactly how to beat Cech. You don’t need to shoot hard. Just aim the corner. Cech is too slow to stop those balls.

tee

can’t believe we messed up the chance to make top 4 for this show of shame.

Emiratesstroller

PaddyGooner

Chelsea without Hazard are still a significantly better team than us.

Mr Serge

Cesc I am depressed beyond belief we need to make sure we get rid of every player that is not young and hungry. That won’t happen though and it’s groundhog Day again. Glad to see you back hope you stay around some of the nutters on here kill me

Leedsgunner

*Wenger’s team

goonerkitt

Every year we spend out of the champions league will cost us the thick end of 100 million.
Every year we spend out of the top 4 will cost us players.
We will slip further and further behind.
In 5 years we could be Newcastle

Cesc Appeal

I’m not going to go on about it, because I’ve said enough about him and he frankly doesn’t warrant the effort, but Ozil is a disgusting player.

Anyone who still defends him…simply baffles me.

The only defence tomorrow will be ‘Oh, so Ozil was to blame was he?’ Which misses the point entirely.

Redbearer

Fuck me life seems very pointless now, we had an owner who clearly does not give a shit and a team of players who also care more about the money than their performances would suggest. I can barely support myself or a team which gives little value… the model is broken, how many English players do we see in the first team? This American prick Stan Kroenke breaks my heart, no investment, little opportunity! What is the point… we will all turn in our graves knowing how little our club was sold out for! It is the most embarrassing moment… Read more »

Guns of SF

i think the value of most of our starters just dropped with this performance.

i dont mind promoting our youth in attack/ midfield but our defense needs a new look, and we should look to buy… dont need inexperience back there…need solid 23-25 year olds holding it down

Leftsidesanch

Emery will quickly be out of a job if he doesn’t rectify the defence and fast. You could argue that the whole backline and Xhaka need to make way.

We can’t try to get by doing the bare minimum on the cheap too.

I’m not even sure I care all that much anymore.

Valentin

@Dissenter, That’s why Emery is paid the big bucks. To make the good big decision, and he failed to do so all season long. Had he really integrated the youth team, he would have been able to use phase Özil/Ramsey out with a younger, hungrier players. Instead he marginalised, refuse to gamble on youth and recall them. He played safe and his tactical way and it backfired on him. If I could made those statements at the beginning of the season and again in January, then surely Emery should have spotted the obvious problems. The fact that he could not… Read more »

Elmo

Leeds
“To be honest, it was just like watching Wenger in the second half.”

Bingo. Complete capitulation as soon as they faced any adversity.

Catalyst

To think these fucking dicks were prioritizing this fucking cup at the expense of the league is a disgrace.

Guns of SF

we came out with no energy in this game.
In hindsight, Iwobi and Willock earlier would have maybe done something.

And Im sorry but Lucas T has been a massive let down in this game. He seemed slow, not positioned well, and unfocused.
So cry all you want crybaby. You were to blame for this and im glad he at least knows it.

Jay

The buck stops with kronke. He took over this club in 2006. A year before we were champion league finalists. A year before, the first team to go unbeaten a whole season. Where are we now under his ownership? A mess. If he any ambition wenger would’ve gone 2010, but no he kept him on and only let him go once the champions league money dried up. Under his watch we have have degraded into the mess we are now. Will anything change, not likely. We’ll bitch and moan bout the manager, players, dof etc etc… Does he care? Nope.… Read more »

Cesc Appeal

Mr Serge I feel the same. I had a dream Chelsea comfortably beat us last night, I thought it would be tough, I worried about Ozil and Maitland Niles before the game, but 90 minutes…that was it, 90 minutes for £100 Million and UCL football and they serve that up. I don’t know how long I will stick around for, just popped up tonight because of how important this was (for all the wrong reasons obviously) and saw some old names here. This place is a shadow of what it once was. Some of the characters on here are frankly… Read more »

RodneyK

Arsenal have become a Europa League club. Fact. And we’re hardly ever the best team in the competition. Last year, we couldn’t get past an Athletico Madrid team who played most of the 1st leg of the semi-final with 10 men and had their manager suspended in the 2nd. How many of us truly believed we would get past Napoli when we drew them? Were most people not wishing for Frankfurt instead of Chelsea? And now we’re disappointed we couldn’t win the damn thing! The truth is we don’t deserve Champions League football just yet. This rot has been 10… Read more »

SUGA3

A signing? Fuck off. This club needs an overhaul. Top to bottom.

Kroenkes need to put up or shut up. If they cannot afford to compete in EPL, sell off to someone who can.

Words on a Blog

I’m indifferent as to whether Emery stays or goes.

But as far as the squad goes, particularly “stars” like Ozil, there can only be one solution:

Rip it up and start again

We are on a now accelerating glide path to mid table mediocrity, and if there really is no cash, just promote players from the Under 23s, and buy young players from all over Europe.

Wonder whether Edu will have any appetite for the challenge.

gambon

Disgraceful from Emery

I’ve been saying since May last year that we would lose the second we faced Chelsea.

He fucked the PL to chase a trophy he is obsessed with and still failed.

If we don’t sack him, the club is admitting that it’s strategy is just to keep playing EL football until we eventually win it.

Could take 3, 7, 10, 15 years.

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