Well my darlings, here we are, JUDGE ME IN MAY has landed and the judgement is that we made a terrible mistake with the hiring of Unai Emery.
We have nothing to show for the season. No underlying improvement in positive statistics, no sense of style on the pitch, and no belief from the players.
Emery added £73m worth of talent last summer, mostly to the defence, and after a full preseason and a year with the players, we actually look worse.
For a manager that boasts of being the king of video analysis, I again find myself asking what the fuck he’s watching. We had no game plan for one of the most rigid managers in the league.
Emery regularly talks about passion and character, where was it yesterday? He couldn’t motivate his team to turn it on in a cup final.
He speaks of making big decisions, well, it seems like the biggest decision he made this year was binning Aaron Ramsey, but when it came to benching Chelsea’s new Sporting Director, a man that jibed the lack of pressure at Arsenal this week, he faltered. I love Petr Cech, he’s going to be a banging asset for Chelsea now, but that decision set the tone for the evening. Sentimentality over winning.
But be real people, Emery has said on two occasions this season that the reason he likes Arsenal is there isn’t the same pressure to win. He literally said it this week. That thought is a sporting atrocity that could only be said out aloud at Arsenal. I don’t like that anyone is comfortable enough to opine like that as a manager, to say it twice, the second time on the eve of a cup final is outrageous.
The game itself was bland. Both teams were shite. Yet somehow we were the team to concede 4 goals. The defence was utterly shambolic, we had no power in midfield, we created next to nothing for most of the game (two shots on target all game). Ozil hid in the shadows, not his worst game, but yet another example of how uninterested he is in playing for Emery, and how badly the manager has worked with him. Willock came on and immediately looked more dangerous. Chelsea seemed to let Xhaka have all the space he wanted, presumably because his searching balls were mostly feeding players not fit for the one-track system of findings players on the overlap.
The one highlight of the game was Iwobi who scored an absolute screamer. An unreal strike that deserved to be a winner.
So where do we go from here?
Emery finished 5th in the league. He bet it all on Europa glory, in my view, because winning four trophies on the bounce was more attractive for his resume. That adversely impacted our season. We blew games like Palace because of Europa. We took strong teams away to weak teams. We allowed Aaron Ramsey to play injured, because of Europa. We held our judgement on a poor body of work, because of Europa.
Now it’s all said and done, Arsenal have reaped what they hired. We shot for Europa League and we missed. We bottled our hiring policy last year, and we paid the price.
In football, there is no such thing as an interim manager. That’s a mythical crock of shit. You hire for what you aspire to do as a club. We hired in a supposed safe pair of hands that knows Europa League. When you aim low and miss, the consequences are thick, bland and tasteless. We should have hired someone with a vision, someone with ambition, some with charisma and firm grasp of the English language.
The only good thing to come out of yesterday is that Emery’s demise just took a shot of steroids to the arm. That failure was brutal. 4 points from 18 at the backend of the season was a world-class bottle job. 4-1 in a final to a team that’s been shite all season was hugely embarrassing. This was a Kevin Keegan-eque collapse. Tell me this, now the dust is beginning to settle, would any other club aiming to be the best tolerate what has happened at the tail end of the season when ideas are supposed to have settled?
Absolutely not.
Raul can talk about beautiful structures. He can point to a tepid vision of proudness. He can excite you with buzzwords. But the brutal reality of elite sport is if you fill that structure with average talent, you’ll always be average. Arsenal’s owners need to take a realistic look at what they are building and map Raul’s words to reality.
Do we have the best manager for what we’re trying to achieve? No.
Do we have a footballing vision anyone can believe in? No.
If stasis was acceptable, we should have taken a risk on a bolder hire.
If great football and results is what we’re aiming for, we should fire the manager right now and go all in on Allegri. He’s out of a job and nothing looks like it suits him right now. You’d be hiring in Juventus IP, a winner, a man of great charisma, a person that could address a defence inside a year, a manager that up until last year was making Champions League finals with free transfers and small transfer budgets.
David Dein would do it. This is our Bruce Rioch moment, except we’d not be moving on a manager that achieved his goals. We’d be course-correcting a mistake that’s been glaring since November.
Arsenal is at an important crossroads. We have no Technical Director, no Chief Scout, and an average manager we’re about to let loose with a small budget.
Decisive action needs to be taken, otherwise we’re heading towards a mediocrity that is going to become harder and harder to escape.
See you in the comments.
Interesting to see that it’s only now the majority of fans seem to be done with Ozil.
The arguments last summer on here about him were nuts.
I couldn’t hear it
What they do wrong ?
Players running down there contract
Wenger started it with Wilford…
An he finished it with Rambo.
Mystic
He hasnt really done any of that though.
Last season he just did nothing, played easy sideways passes every time he got the ball.
This season he hasnt had that much time on the pitch, and its been against absolutely shit teams.
I am all for developing the best kids that are basically too good for U23 football, but only the best.
First things first they need to go on loan and show what they can do,
If he cant get in the Charlton/Bentford/Hoffenheim team, what hope at Arsenal?
Pierre been really quiet in regard to Nozil For Ozil’s sake, he should leave- he is becoming more and more a disgrace and his brand will keep taking a dip. Now is the time for him to leave…. even if Emery leaves before he does, Ozil is not regaining anything… not that he had so much anyhow. He is 30, and has declined since age 28 or so. that is curtains for a AM. The English game is too much for him. Serie A is perfect. Slow, and plodding like he is… lots of time and space on the ball.… Read more »
“The arguments last summer on here about him were nuts.”
Yea, I had that arguement with you. Mostly on behalf of all our players. The AW rot ate deep in them and I thought some were genuinely good enough but had no direction or lost some spark.
I was wrong on Ozil. In as much as he was a magnificent player in his time, he’s past it now and need to jog on. I also thought there was hope with Mustafi but even he has given up on himself in the PL. Needs to go asap too.
We’re stuck with Özil for the next couple of years. Except, of course, fans give him enough grief he decides to leave.
Marko, the big win for Le Grove will be me not having to read your weird defence of Unai every day.
Where have I defended Emery? Me thinking infamous assistant manager Mikel Arteta wouldn’t do a better job than an actual manager isn’t me defending anyone. I’m sorry I’m not infatuated with an assistant like you.
Im not so sure we’re stuck with Ozil
I just cant see him playing for us ever again. Its over.
We can try and sell for £10m
If that doesnt work give him a free transfer
If that doesnt work offer him £10m to go
If that doesnt work tell him he’s going to train with the U12 girls for the next 2 years
If that doesnt work tell him hes going to Crawley Town on loan
Eventually he will accept its over.
Cesc – Only recently I read some on here saying his quality could be ‘unlocked’ if we bought certain players. There is NOTHING to unlock. We heard this tripe a couple of years ago in regards to having quick mobile strikers instead of Giroud.
His myth will never die. Fans over the summer will forget once again how useless he is, he will score a goal in pre-season, and all the blog will full of “Ozil looks fitter and hungry, this could be his renaissance year………”
“Where have I defended Emery? ”
Lol
You spend 90% of every day looking for any comments that are in any way critical of Emery.
bacary
I am inclined to agree, we need a tough no-nonsense manager like George Graham. His style of football never bored me. He kept on winning – until the BoD got mean with his wages.
Times have changed though. Nowadays a scary approach will only work on young players. But once the machine is oiled and working, the manager can ease off a little. Or do what Fergie and Cloughie and Morinho did: have players on the pitch to do the scary bits for you.
Gambon
You do know Ozil would relish training with the under 12 girls….
Pedro
‘Marko, the big win for Le Grove will be me not having to read your weird defence of Unai every day.’
… Not as outlandish as your obsession with Arteta.
The Arsenal fan TV last night was as embarrassing as usual at least he never said blud
Nah gambon I argue certain blames attributed to him when they should be elsewhere but I don’t care for the man why would I defend or deflect for him. I literally don’t have a preference on any manager in world football. I’ve got some favourite footballers some favourite actors I have no favorite manager.
Mystic Wasn’t having a dig, just remember it got intense sometimes. Always said don’t know why you bother, you put more effort into your defence of him than he has his entire career! Haha. Paulinho It’s nuts, there will forever be a ‘just get this for him’ for Ozil with some fans. It was world class STs, now he has those its suddenly wingers. Even his own fans will say he needs 2 CMs who basically do all the work for him. Hearing his biggest proponents say ‘this isn’t the game for Ozil’ always made me laugh, hearing them say… Read more »
You’re funny gambon.
James
“Joecome on mate you’re a clever bloke…. the same Emery had no say in Ramsey and no say in Suarez. Please.”
No he’s not, he’s gormless..
On look, it’s Ces appeal on his favourite subject….ozil bashing ..
“Just sack Emery” As I expected, and as Pedro intended, this blog and its comments section has devolved into an anti-Emery orgy. Lots and lots of people proudly saying I told you so. This summer or perhaps the next, Emery will be gone. This season, or perhaps the next, a new manager will come in and will be given risible management support and diddly squat financial backing to revamp the squad. He will fail too, and the cycle will begin again as we drift into mid-table. Arsenal risks becoming a kind of pound-shop Chelsea, hiring and firing managers, but without… Read more »
WOAB
Listening to Emery say he’s here for 3 or 4 years max makes me think the idea is to get this club back into some sort of shape, get the wage bill under control, get in some elite young talent, get back into the UCL in time for someone like Nagelsmann or what have you to take over as a ‘push’ type manager…to try to push us forward from that base.
Try and do a straight swap….Ozil for Yannick Carrasco
Carrasco has started the Chinese season on fire. 9 G+A in his first 10 games, putting up Neymar like attacking numbers.
Hes also used to playing in a hard working, defensive set up at Atletico.
It is good that Josh was at the game yesterday. Now he has seen first hand how shitty his players are, he maybe convinced for a hard reset.
Adidas must be regretting the deal. Who would want to wear an Arsenal shirt now? You may encounter a Chelsea fan on the street.
Club should call in ozil agent
Tell him to find a new club
With a fee of 10m
Or the Gambon swap idea
Marko, your comments are amazing.
Alex, I’ll take that wet towel to the legs… totally zinged me there.
CA, welcome back.
When you left, everyone thought I banned you. Thanks for letting that MALICIOUS rumour fester.
Gambon
I don’t think a money hungry lightweight is what we’re crying out for. The Chinese league stats are like Sunday league too
Arsenal fans, whom have led the way sabotaging and attacking their own club since 2014, are getting exactly what they deserve. Instead of cheering their club when they were title contenders, they put all their energy into Wenger Out and undermined their own players. Unsurprisingly, players don’t play as well when the fans are against them and their manager. Arsenal fans have expressed their stupidity and anger, and get to be the mid-table team they deserve. Wenger is gone, CL is gone, and soon all the top stars will be gone and Arsenal will be a team scrounging to put… Read more »
Cesc,
It’s a reasonable plan, and the wage bill, certainly relative to the football “output” is seriously out of whack.
Whether or not Emery Is around for another 2-3 years or so to execute the plan, I have serious doubts about the ability to execute the plan.
Who knows, they might just get there.
I guess I should resign myself in the meanwhile to Pedro keeping people preoccupied with his tedious Emery out campaign.
I really liked Yannick at Monaco.
Bit worried his attitude is a little Ozil, Emery not good with the difficult characters.
* Doubts about management’s ability to execute the plan
What was the jest of the aftv
Did they say anything wrong ?
Thanks Pedro. Carrassco has attitude problems? Like Aubameyang I suppose.
Raul has spoken about “outsmarting” the market.
So far that seems to involve focusing on young talents, players with one year left, players with clauses.
A homesick Belgian, in the Chinese league, who apparently can be got for £25m could also fit that.
I was sceptical when we were linked in the winter, but with us not having CL football we have to be creative.
Gambon, I was told that one of the big issues between Sven and Raul was over whether we should sign Auba or Malcolm.
Another broken player we could pick up for chump change.
WOAB I do think any manager like Nagelsmann who is interesting but not massively experienced in high pressure environments would have struggled in a club with a dysfunctional squad and off field set up desperately trying to enter the 21st Century. Have to see. The fact, or rumour at least, that we seem to have gotten on with things quickly with regards to Meunier makes me feel better. Pedro I was waiting for the first assassination attempt, then I would have popped up and said take it easy guys, maybe just a casual beat down and mugging in an alley… Read more »
Is ozil difficult or just not cut out for PL? Lazy uninterested.
Carrasco under Emery sounds car crash, differ gear altogether if we were talking about a manager that could light a fire under players and deal with varying personalities.
Ozil has flatlined, Rambo left in the cold, would shudder to think what we’d witness with actual difficult types.
Who wanted Malcom? Who’s fault is it we have two CF’s instead of a CF and a winger
Joe
I just think Ozil is not cut out for certain games and unfortunately for him the EPL has a lot of them.
The fact commentators are on Ozil watch most games, wondering whether he will actually add anything and then laud him for 6 out of 10 games tells you everything. He’s talked about like a precocious 18 year old talent with attitude issues and psychical limitations they hope will develop.
Where does the whole Carrassco being difficult stuff come from?
Cesc
I agree. He needs to play in Italy. Turkey.
Somewhere he can have time on the ball and cruise through games.
He’s never fit in the PL.
Same as
Mkhit.
Mustafi
Xhaka
It’s so sad reading about the plans we apparently had if we qualified for the UCL.
Upamecano, Zaha and Maddison to start. Apparently we’d spoken to the clubs as well.
Pedro
No hard feelings.
Woulda been better with Arteta?
Pedro
Its the same old 1 step forward, 2 steps back, & it won’t change under the current ownership IMO.
Ozil in China would work. Mega fan base there. Lots of brand marketing for his stupid hats and stuff
Good wages…. etc
Carrasco- sure why not… anything is better than this shit show we are right now.
He can take Mustafi with him…. package deal
Upamecano, Zaha and Maddison to start. Apparently we’d spoken to the clubs as well.
Two of those players play for midtable clubs they’d still join but they’re overpriced. I personally wouldn’t lose sleep on missing out on two of those players. I really hope that we still try for Upamecano
Cesc
Upamecano may still be possible.
You have to sell the dream to these guys.
UTD signed Bailly for £30m while in the EL and he had a similar rising reputation, signed Pogba while not a CL club.
We cant just give up because we arent in the CL, or we will never get back into it.
Maddison and Zaha were never going to happen.
Both clubs would come to us in a heartbeat, but they are stuck at their clubs due to silly valuations.
Maybe we sign Saliba, then loan him to RB Leipzig, and sign Upamecano.
Give him a 2 year loan, then he comes back at 20 and we have a top french CB combo.
Re Ozil’s forthcoming (please God) potential departure destination.
Can’t see see Italy happening – his wages would be too prohibitive, maybe even at zero transfer fee as there’d be no sell on value
Turkey – same constraint, an Erdogan-friendly Istanbul club would still need “dark money” financial assistance blessed by the blessed Erdogan
Maybe Qatar? – I’m clutching at straws here, but they could afford him
Gambon
On £40m??
Upamecano sees you bidding for him and offering up double what he gets at Leipzig and I doubt very much he’ll worry about playing in the Europa League for a year. I assume that he believes in his own ability to make a difference and to improve us.
Un na
I dont think our budget is £40m for a start.
Secondly, we could sell Mustafi & Chambers for £40m, that covers Upamecano without any net spend.
I’m not sure we have missed out on any player because most are from lesser clubs who don’t ever go far in the EL
They only way our lack of PL qualification throws up a signing is if there is a clause that says ‘can only be sold to a CL club’.
Gambon Sanllehi is going to have to give the best sales pitch ever, basically sell that he could be one of the players to make a once elite club elite again. It’s either that or give him crazy wages, as I said. Put Mustafi and Chamber’s wages together and say ‘here you go’. I’d like to see both Upamecano and Saliba arrive, maybe offer Mavropanos to Leipzig on loan for a season or even fully as part of the deal? The only good news are the rumours that everyone at Arsenal are aware we need to cut £50 Million out… Read more »
Nelson “””It is good that Josh was at the game yesterday. Now he has seen first hand how shitty his players are, he maybe convinced for a hard reset.”””” Good observation… (I hope he is contemplating hard …..on that arduous flight home Stateside) If he doesn’t sack the New Regime in the next 10 days. He will ultimately regret it…. These Spanish Cowboys will lose the Kroenkes fortunes and any goodwill they might have if he does not act. I know he has Arsene Wenger or indeed David Deins mobile numbers. Get men with integrity, competence and Arsenal affiliation in.… Read more »
The problem is, Maddison for example, Spurs are rumoured to want him to replace Eriksen. That’s the issue you have, sure we could offer more wages, but Spurs have UCL football and were UCL finalists.
Which club would you think were on the up if you were a young potential star?
How did spurs sign some good players when they were in the CL?
I’m not buying the the lack of CL will restrict us in signing certain players
I hope Pedro repeats that famous marketing pitch again.
We are Arsenal…big club in London…10th richest in the world…
Gambon
I asked earlier maybe you missed it, but what do you think our real budget is this summer? 40M is being bandied– but what about adidas? Does that kick in and what about other deals?
Help us understand Mr gambon
I know he has Arsene Wenger or indeed David Deins mobile numbers.
This made me laugh. David Dein is 75 btw
Cesc
Regarding Maddison, he’s an English lad who understands the history of Arsenal.
It all depends on how we pitch the club. Ideally we should have a club legend be part of the signing drive. Imagine if Henry called Madison and said I’m calling on behalf of Arsenal.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/9182320/arsenal-fans-blows-london-tube/amp/
Cor check these dickheads out.
Dissenter,
Lack of CL doesn’t automatically restrict us, but if a player has a choice between going to a CL team and us, they’d be most likely to go with the CL club, unless we offered serious wages…..and as we are regularly reminded , wage restraint is the order of the day unless we pack the squad with “shit” under-23 players..
Maddison is not even remotely worth what Leicester will likely demand. I personally would love those rumors linking Palacios to be true. From what I read the lad sounds like a 20 year old Banega. Likes to pass likes to tackle and has an eye for a shot from distance. His price is likely to go up after the Copa America
Dissenter
I think our only chance really is to sell to them that they will be apart of the rebuild and can write their own chapter in Arsenal’s history, one of the most important in memory in reestablishing us.
It’s so frustrating we’ve just been sleepwalking into this for 6-7 years.
We signed AUbameyang while in the Europa League, a far bigger name than Upamecano will probably ever be.
Players are always overhyped at his age.
At the end of the day, he has never even played for France. Hes just an U21 player at this point.
CIES values him at £25m
I remember last year with Soyuncu, hearing how he was going to either UTD or Arsenal for £30-35m, and in the end it was a £18m deal to Leicester, where he is usually on the bench.
We had to pay Wenger his £10 Million for this remaining year didn’t we? Obviously because he loves the club so much.
Was that taken care of in one lump or is that a wage bill deduction?
Plan? What plan? There hasn’t been a football plan since DD left.Or if there was, I never noticed. Someone please tell me what it was.
And whether it worked.
Does anybody buy the idea of a plan to have Emery as a 3-4 year interim manager, keeping the seat warm for his successor?
Gee whiz, there’s some strange mind-bending stuff floating around. Someone tell me where I can get some.
Liverpool was in the same position as us six years ago. They hired a head coach with a definite philosophy and track record and backed him.
What’s Emery’s philosophy?
Until Kronke goes though this is going to be a lot worse before it gets better.
Guns of SF
Its hard to say, but I think we will at least have the same budget as last summer, which was £60-70m
Its fairly easy to work out how much cash will be left over.
It will probably be about £110m unless we have any capital expenditure projects.
Take away things like agent fees, sign on fees, and I would say £70m is achievable,
We will need to sell however – as we will make an accounting loss if we dont.
Imagine if Henry called Madison and said I’m calling on behalf of Arsenal.
You come out with some beauts Dissenter.
Marko
“”This made me laugh. David Dein is 75 btw”””
Nelson Mandela was running South Africa In his 80’s
The American Presidential candidates are
Joe Biden 76
Bernie Saunders 77
The Queen-Our most famous supporter is 93! (And I know for a fact- she thinks Emery and Raul are useless too.)
Dein is a spring Chicken in comparison.
We desperately miss his expertise, instinct and competence.
Dein is a spring Chicken in comparison
He’s 75 compared to the 77 and 76 year. I’m sucked my mistake forget what I said
Gambon
70M is better than 40 for sure.
Throw in sales- that number might go over 100M barely for the deadwood
Can definitely add 2-3 high quality starters -possible combos of Ziyech, Sarr, Tielmans, a defender – others….
Throw in some youth… might be good too.
Leeds
Klopp has also spent close to 500m to implement his “philosophy”.
A lot easier to do when not working on the restraints of arsenal and havng no one to sell
You lot love your fantasy championship manager stuff. Seen a million names on here that nearly never materialise.
Anway, enjoy, catch you all in August.
Joe, Liverpool sold Benteke, Jordan Ibe, Martin Skrtel and Joe Allen from a team that finished 8th.
Let’s not pretend Arsenal have a worse squad than Klopp.
He had a shite team scoring 52% of its goals in the last 13 Premier League games. He is a better coach than Emery. It’s not even a question.
Words For Ozil to go to Italy, I think there would have to be no transfer fee, with us also subsidising £100k per week in wages. That would leave an Italian club having to cover £250k pw, or £39m over 3 years, which would be the equivalent of a £20m transfer fee and £120k pw wages, which is probably around what they might hope he could be worth to them. So to get rid of him, if he’s willing to go, we’re probably talking about no transfer fee and £16m pay-off, which is around what the wage saving would be… Read more »
A clarification: The papers, blogs, and all of us here regularly talk about a transfer fund/kitty/war-chest. I’m Arsenal’s case, we are told it’s around £40m. Most of us then go on to talk about transfers as if the £40m number is simply a cash sum available, and we’d add or subtract any cash incomings for players sold and outgoings for players bought. So, hypothetically, if we were to sell Mustafi for £20m and use up all our £40m transfer kitty, we’d be able to buy Zaha for £60m. And that would be it. No further purchases unless we sold someone… Read more »
Pedro
Unfortunately emery had to sell twice as many flops left over from the previous loser that was here and has to sell almost 60-80% of the starting 11
*we bought Mustafi for £35m….
Joe
Liverpool sold well. We need to start selling and stop buying players for the sake of it. We need to have a clear plan before we start spending the meagre funds that we have.
Leeds
We also need a supportive owner
Marko
I prefaced that comment with the need to have club legends involved with recruitment.
If we had club legends or ambassadors like Henry involved, he too would make calls to potential transfer targets
Joe
We do, but until we do we need to make the most that we have rather than always complaining about what we don’t have.
Liverpool sold well …because they had several middle tier players that smaller clubs would die for on regular wages.
We have a lot of shambolic or past-it players on above-market rates. .
Dissenter a club that needs former players to negotiate with transfer targets isn’t much of a club. What’s the point in hiring people for that sort of thing why not just get Tony Adams to speak to targets.
Pedro/Peter
“Joe, Liverpool sold Benteke, Jordan Ibe, Martin Skrtel and Joe Allen from a team that finished 8th.Let’s not pretend Arsenal have a worse squad than Klopp.”
If it were not for Arsenal’s outstanding record against undistinguished teams, Arsenal would be a midtable team below Liverpool.
Klopp was given £0 in his first window, and £30m in his second.
With that he brought in 5 of their current starting XI and also promoted one excellent prospect.
Only 2 of their current XI cost big bucks and Klopp earned the right to spend that.
Emery needs to do the same.
With a £30m net spend Klopp brought in Robertson, Matip, Wijnaldum, Mane and Salah.
We need to stop going on about money and start scouting good players.
Yeah, I hear every team in world football “Would die” for Benteke, Allen and Ibe back in 2016.
Lol.
Dissenter,
For players on high wage, even selling them not particularly well is of benefit to Arsenal.
If we sold Mikki, who I think is on £200k/week, or £10m per annum, for £15m we would add £25m to our profit and loss this year….
Marko
Are you aware that clubs appoint some players as ambassadors to perform roles that range from marketing to recruiting?
Many of the Madrid and Barca ex-players made calls to Neymar when both clubs were trying to sign him.
Sell big , buy small and smart.
Got it.
Marko,
The former players wouldn’t be negotiating – they’d be selling the dream
Gambon/GoH,
Small and smart, as long as it’s not little Ryan Fraser?
Pedro, Concentrate on Emery all you want and once again allow the real culprit to go unnoticed under the radar. Kroenke is the foremost and biggest problem for Arsenal now that Wenger isn’t around. I could care less if I don’t ever see Emery again, but good grief. That Arsenal team on display last night was Kroenke, Wenger and Gazidis’ idea of greatness. A Guardiola-Ferguson-Klopp-Allegri clone wont achieve fuck shit with this garbage team. Arsenal are in dire straits. First we need a total player revamp, then Emery can fuckoff if he doesn’t show improvement within 2months. The best scenario… Read more »
No Ryan Fraser.
Although clearly he’d improve us.
Are you aware that clubs appoint some players as ambassadors to perform roles that range from marketing to recruiting?
We have people for that. I just thought it was silly how you worded it is all. Bringing back Henry to make calls to perspective signings seems a bit pointless when that’s Raul/Edu/Cagigao’s job.
For over a decade Arsenal’s record against top sides has been appalling whereas it has been the complete opposite against humdrum sides.
Arsenal just can’t cut it at the highest level.