Well, well, well… our favourite creator has only gone and done it again. He went and got married, and it’s just been amazing to watch Arsenal internet go into action.
The German World Cup winner had Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as his best man. Imagine the state of the stag-do?
Soho House in Istanbul, followed by some super dark activities you probably can’t by on LADSONTOUR.COM.
The banter was amusing though. Fans talking about him padding his stats for the dance where he hardly moved. Apparently, he took a seat for his vows, little to no intensity in pressing on until full-time. Just good times all around.
I love the idea of Vinnai, fresh from talking to the fans about the ‘proud of you strategy’, landing the memo about the best man. The closest thing to a dictator in Europe, taking a leading role at your most expensive players’ wedding… a lovely message to send to the world. But see what I mean about that vision? It’s subjective. We won’t hold ourselves accountable to it.
There’s so much transfer gossip on the table at the minute it’s hard to make any sense of it.
The most important piece for me is the news that Granit Xhaka could be off to Inter Milan. The reason that one sparks interest is firstly, he’d be very suited to that league. Secondly, despite what an absolute disaster he’s been for us, he still carries a lot of value in Europe, because he can control a game from deep if he’s given time. Thirdly, there’s a rumoured agreement about Champions League football.
Suits me people, the big worry is this… who do we bring in to replace him? Ideally, we’d find someone who was stronger, had more mobility, and preferably someone who could dribble the ball forward if needed. Xhaka makes us very one dimensional, we need someone with a more holistic skillset that would suit the high-intensity approach of the Premier League.
The hot story for players-in seems to centre around Joachim Anderson and Dennis Praet. Anderson is a tall ball playing centre back of 23 years old, with Dennis Praet looking more like a Ramsey like replacement without the goals or assists. I don’t know enough about either, my worry is that when you sign out of Italy, you’re forgoing any understanding of whether they will be able to deal with the intensity of the Premier League. Even LT, who looked like a beast, faded badly with the season. The bigger concern is Praet if I’m honest, his numbers are abysmal in terms of production, and for a club that depended so heavily on two strikers, you’d hope we’d be looking at players that can contribute more to the goal tally.
Then you move up to the wingers. Yannick Carrasco has apparently taken as much as he can of China and is trying to claw a way back. The Belgian comes with the attitude baggage of Mesut Ozil. The press constantly referenced his issues under Simeone, namely that he was a bit of a bitch about injuries. The mere fact he ducked out to China at 25 also tells as story. We all know a recruitment consultant that took a job in Dubai, right?
On his day, he’s scoring goals in the Champions League final. He’s had to play under a beast regime for Simeone. He has pace, trickery and he’s very technical. However, we’re not buying into someone who has consistently delivered. For me, he could blow-up now he’s hitting the latter stages of his career, or he could go the way of Nani.
I guess the challenge we have at Arsenal now is the offering is very, very Europa League. We have a manager that made the product offering less glamorous, the whole world knows that Erdogan’s boy thinks he’s not a coach, and there’s no guarantee you’ll get better at Arsenal.
The club is an exciting offering, but not under this regime. So you either end up with players that can’t be arsed, or players that you’re taking a huge talent gamble on. I have very little faith Emery has the sauce to make the right talent gambles. We all saw Suarez…
Now let’s talk about the new signing we know is elite…
ADIDAS!
Finally, some kits we can believe in.
Aside from the crest, that’s decent. Better than anything Puma have come up with and I’d say better than at least 99% of the Nike home shirts. pic.twitter.com/qSwZNatWCJ
— Highbury Harold (@BlackScarfAFC) June 7, 2019
Exclusive photo: Arsenal home, away & third kit for the upcoming season, manufactured by adidas. #afc pic.twitter.com/KTBpJLc7DL
— afcstuff (@afcstuff) June 7, 2019
I’m into all of the kits.
My gut feel is this. Adidas have held back on the away kits. They’re going to go big with bruised banana. From a marketing perspective, my guess is they are going to continue to ride the nineties nostalgia train as we move through our deal with them. No better sports brand in the world to be tied to these days. I am truly over the moon about those shirts.
On the exit list.
Danny W has been released. He never lived up to his potential, but he worked hard for us, scored some important goals. My favourite, outside watching him down United in Sydney, was the one he scored in 2016 against Leicester at home. That sweet moment when we thought we’d win the league. Ahhh, wonderful.
Cohen fucking Brammal has left. Remember the absolute HYPE when we signed him?
Cech, Licht, and Rambo… all gone.
There are strong rumours we’re ditching Ospina. NO NEWS ON JENKO. Stories that Hamburg are bringing in Osei-Tutu. There are a lot of big clubs sniffing around our youth players. My gut as an agent of one of those players would be to look at what Emery does, versus what he says. He is a man under pressure next season, he’ll have zero time for blooding the youth and it’s really not what he’s good at… players like Sancho are going to show the way, and I expect an exodus of the best kids from the Premier League this summer. A little like the time Spain lost a lot of elite kiddie talent back in the day.
Right, that’s my word count done for the day… see you in the comment! x
Those kits are absolutely baller….. The transfer links are not baller… Not excited by any of them.
Always loved Adidas designs… especially growing up… everyone had to have a pair of Black Adidas Samba shoes. And then that Run DMC song… came out..
Good memories…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNua1lFDuDI&t=28s
Peter Straight up…I’ve never heard of him. I’ll do my research before commenting. As for the Brexit party etc…history has always taught us that in times of uncertainty, generally we go more right or conservative. We as humans want to protect what we have and the Right always appears to be able to deliver on that promise more than the centre or left can. It’s not true, but we’re a basic bunch when push comes to shove. Someone I used to know said to me that the further left you go, the closer to the right you go and vice… Read more »
Wasi
All very interesting.
I lived and worked in the Middle East for many years, I’m therefore well aware of the Muslim culture/beliefs.
All the best.
GOH, yep. I understand that. Just hope it’s not out of control like the states
Peter
No chance. We, as Brits will always carry too much of that stiff upper and timidity compared to our brash gun toting brothers.
We’re not ones for the trouble. Now the French! Wooo. They love a bit of it.
Still absolutely loving the Corbyn debacle.
Not as much as I’m gonna love seeing Freddie on the bench this season
It was December when I said Emery was damned no matter what he did and I have been proved right again.
Willock played 6 games for the senior team this season and that’s excluding the Europa League final
ESR played 6 games this season and he went out on loan in January.
Mavropanos was injured for the first half of the season but played his first senior game of the season as a sub against City. He also started against Watford. The idea that he was thrown in at the deep end against Crystal Palace is a lie.
Azed,
Probably would have been a better story if you said he’d be damned if he didn’t meet his objectives.
You’d have been correct. We’d all be saying nice things about your incredible foresight
Your stance on Emery is beginning to appear personal Pedro. Objectivity left this discourse long ago.
This Mavros debate is emblematic of they warped nature of gooners
I’ve read hundreds of thesis on this blog about how to fix our defense for next season….and not one damn one mentions Mavros as one of the lynchpins for next season.
It’s almost as if he does not exist when people talk about the set-up for next season yet the manager is being blamed for his non-existence.
Have you considered the possibility that he my not be good enough? Since we bought him from the Greek 2nd division. He was a Hail Mary pass signing.
Pedro
If he didn’t meet his objectives, he would have been fired.
Balague in his arseblog podcast said he wasn’t expected to compete for top 4 this season but he ended up being an Aubameyang penalty miss from beating special sauce Pochettino to 4th place.
Azed, his objective was CL, Vinnai said so in the interview.
Has he been fired?
“This Mavros debate is emblematic of they warped nature of gooners”
Dissenter
It’s the Emery Out crew and their whatever Emery does must be wrong mentality.
If Emery convinces Stan to buy Mbappe, you can bet your mortgage that Pedro and Valentin would come up with a billion reasons why Emery is terrible for signing Mbappe.
Pedro
He hasn’t been fired because Vinai knows Emery did wonders with this squad.
Azed, I can assure, the vibe at Arsenal is not that Emery has done a wonderful job.
When your argument is so flimsy you have to say things like, ‘the people would hate emery if he cured cancer’, you should go back to the drawing board.
Objectively, there’s a limited argument for the continuation of Emery.
Emotionally, he’ll get the next year just because that’s the Arsenal way.
Pedro
It’s kind of funny when you’re writing extensively about transfer targets already when you spent all season arguing that the squad is good enough.
What’s the imperative or urgency in improving a squad that was good enough.
Yup. According to Pedro we should have got top 4 and won the EL with this squad. Why do we need wholesale changes?
One or 2 quality additions and we are league contenders surely.
The objective for Tuchel was progress in the champions league.. Has be been sacked?
The objective for Emery was champions league,he missed out by two points and cup final loss..his not been sacked has zero to do with emotions.. Nada.
And I bet emery’s objectives for the season just passed were ‘don’t be any worse than last season and stabilise the ship’.
This season will be make top 4. And I have no doubt he will.
Dissenter,
I said our squad was good enough for top 4, that proved out. You simply have to take to L there.
Not sure you’d be able to cite a blog post where I said the squad is good enough to not sign players.
At this point in Pep’s city career, the owners of Manchester city were about to unleash £225 million on Benjamin Mendy [ £52], Kyle Walker [£54m] , Danilo [£27m ], Laporte [57 million] and Ederson for £35m.
The Arsenal executives that assess Emery’s first season saw how close he came with the sappy players that his predecessor left him. They knew he was hamstrung.
Danny, that’s a lovely thought but VV literally said the objective was Champions League.
You can’t hope your way towards what the objectives were.
That you think anyone would pay someone £6m a year and set them a target of doing the same is quite breathtaking. Get some ambition man.
I mean people are still lambasting the manager for resting key players against Palace at home.
He played the people’s darling – Mavros and one of the famous British core who grew up with Arsenal paraphernalia in his bedroom. For that reason he must be sacked.
Basic fact is. Emery was 1 win away from getting us into champions league football.
The next step up from that is winning the league.
Our best expectation was champs league, and we missed by a whisker. Far far better than the previous season. So what exactly were people expecting?
Dissenter,
I’m pretty sure the Arsenal execs saw Emery spend £73m in his first season, finish worse than he started, tank top 3 from an absolutely glorious position, fail to improve the defence, fail to make a mark in the cups, then lose the final of his ‘safety blanket’ trophy in one of the most diabolical cup final performances we’ve ever seen.
We lost top 3 to some spectacular individual mistakes.
We lost the final to an individual making some spectacularly bad mistakes and a world class player.
Emery cannot be blamed for the current teams weak mentality. Almost the exact team we all slagged off last season.
receding, “So you cannot on one hand call him excellent and on the other say a game was thrown by him and two other members of the squad starting. Doesn’t add up” stop arguing blindly guy. the discussion point is whether mavropano is a flop or not but you had to find a way to involve your Lord Emery. if my memory serves me right, what I read here from some posters is that Emery priotised the Europa over top 4 even when we had the chance to Nick it. I don’t know how this is related to whether mavro… Read more »
Danny, for us to get more than 4 points from our last 18… after playing teams that were below is un the league.
Basic fact is this was our most competitive season in the last 3 years.
Danny
Mate…I was six numbers away from winning the lottery. One xy away from being a female. Two auditions from being George Clooney.
Lose by .0000001 of a second and you still lose.
Emery failed at the most basic level. That should have resulted in his dismissal.
Pedro
Where where you expecting arsenal to finish at the start of this season?
Danny,
Emery took all the credit for 22 games unbeaten. Tactically flexibility, better mental strength, more analysis.
‘No one said, hey, the players really pulled it off’
Then when his ideas settled, things went backwards, it’s all the players?
No the first half of the final was pretty even,we shaded it. Played to a plan.
Second half Kos loses his man but we responded well, then it became the AMN night of mistakes. That you haven’t even acknowledged individual mess ups throws objectivity out the window.
Plus Tottenham didn’t sack poch when he got 1 point from 15 did they?
Pedro Emery “spent” 70 million to use chewimg gum to fix gaping leaks on the boat. He was still forced to rely on overpaid and useless Mesut Ozil backed up by fat Mykhi. He was still forced to rely on a broken Kos once Holding was injured. Then you add that this was the first season for the good signings – Leno, Torriera and Guendouzi. Yes I can understand why any executive can realistically give Emery a cautious pass for the season. I also understand why an excellent blogger like yourself can be so passionate to oust the manager since… Read more »
Dissenter, if we had ruthless leadership, he’d be out.
We don’t, so he’ll get a pass.
I very much doubt we’ll see him past next June.
The club spent 63m not 73. Less than Fulham wolves and west ham. Slightly more than bournemouth, brighton and Everton. 2 of our starting defenders got injured half way through the season and the replacements are shambolic. We still have Xhaka acting like an airtraffic controller waving players by him in midfield. Why were you expecting the defence to improve based on that? Yes, we tanked top 3, but we were only in that position because we had over achieved before and Chelsea and Man U underachieved relative to their squads. Chelsea have much better players than us. Was not… Read more »
Danny, Poch made a CL final, lost 22 games this season and still finished above Arsenal.
Tee mavropranos still has quite some way to go to be referred to as a good signing let alone an excellent one . He hasn’t even played a dozen games for this club. No one called him a flop by the way so dunno why you are fuming.
And the lord Emery Nonsense is just that.. Nonsense. Shows you never had a point
Managers have been sacked for losing a single league game, let alone the stink fest emery serves up.
I keep saying it but emery will do better out of Arsenal than we will out of him.
He won the lottery when our bunch of clowns put pen to paper.
GoH, absolutely.
He was hired as a coach and he ended the season with Ozil saying, ‘you are not a coach’ on the sidelines.
He’s super bland. His next job will be Sociedad levels.
Pedro
But your pint was emery got 4 points in 18!
Poch went 1 for 15 and finished 1 point ahead of us!
How the fuck does that make Emery any worse haha
If you had a ruthless leadership you would have a technical director,a plan and money to spend.
And the squad overhaul last Summer would have seen a few more outgoings to facilitate incomings.
I wish I had the time to dig up posts where you preached patience and how difficult the job at hand was when you thought your man was getting the job.
And according to most arsenal have a far worse squad than spurs.
Danny, Poch has Spurs in the CL final with a net spend of 42m over 5 years.
Arsenal spent nearly double that last summer.
That’s likely the reason they’re not sacking him. He’s an outrageously brilliant coach
Pedro
‘Dissenter, if we had ruthless leadership, he’d be out’
Yes…but ruthlessness doesn’t stop at just sacking the manager.
Ruthlessness extends to having a coherent plan that does not rely on tire kicking in the January window.
A ruthless club would have shifted Ozil away the moment he publicly insulted the manager. Tevez was sold off for less than that.
A ruthless club won’t be scrounging on doubtful quality low cost signings.
Ruthless clubs don’t shop in Lidl/Aldi then expect Selfridge’s results.
What city did after Guadiola’s first season….that’s what you call ruthlessness, not just sacking a manager.
Dissenter, you won’t see me disagreeing with that.
Honestly Pedro, you are losing more and more credibility with your personal agenda against Emery, all because your man Arteta wasn’t picked.
This all started when you backed Gazidis fully and got made to look pretty silly.
A reed that doesn’t bend in the wind breaks. Remember that.
Goddam it. From Wenger ultras to Emery ultras. Can we not just get a manager that either does a good job or bad and is judged on that metric? As opposed to the weird way we look at our last two bosses.
Honestly, I bet Chelsea fans can’t even remember the majority of the managers they’ve had since Abramovich took over. And that’s a good thing!
We may as well just give emery a stand and a bust in the foyer right now and be done with it.
Blimey.
Pedro, Emery has had one season. You absolutely lambasted wengers flips for years. How can you blame Emery for them now?
And you have just alluded to why spurs are doing so well, because of how they have operated as a club over time.
Emery isn’t responsible for our board.
Who cares what Ozil says, is that the bench mark now? He’s been semi retired for 2 years now and anyone with any sense wants him to fuck off as far away from the club as possible. Chelsea has players like Willian and Hudson Odoi on the bench, players that would walk into our first 11. The only area we shade them is in the striker position but that doesn’t help if we don’t have the players to get it to them and we gift goals at the back. Pair that with a weak midfield that can’t control anything and… Read more »
I’m speechless.
Please tell me some of you don’t have driving licenses or at least live 10,000 miles from me.
Guns.
I’m not and Emery ultra. I acknowledge his mistakes over the season.
However! I fully believe he needs to be given more than just a season before we start slaggi g him off!
For me his tenure starts now. Last season was never going to be a miracle no matter who we appointed.
Danny,
I’m really sorry, but your opinion on my credibility when it comes to Arsenal carries zero weight.
Your truth is based on how you feel, mine is based on reality.
If Pedro didn’t keep contradicting himself it would be a sensible argument.
Pedro, are you arguing against how arsenal are run, or emery himself?
I’m confused.
Danny
He will have even less than he did last year to spend and look at what he DID get! Awful.
He’s lost Ramsay, Cech, Welbeck and Ozil. Auba is going and Laca will follow.
Nah. Emery will tank in a way that will make this season look like we won three world cups on the spin.
He’s a middle of the road guy. No pizazz.
‘He was hired as a coach and he ended the season with Ozil saying, ‘you are not a coach’ on the sidelines’
I’m not nitpicking but this statement is an indication of your deep bias.
That petulant outbursts from a dim player is an indictment of his stupidity, it doesn’t say anything of the manager besides that we lost a crucial game.
. I’m surprised that Emery kept his cool, an Italian manager would have taken off Ozil’s head.
Ozil played for 77 minutes and the absent Mykhi still posted a better performance in Baku.
We are all talking about emery and you are referring to Arsenal’s expenditure and pochs performance over the last 5 years.
Dissenter,
You won’t be nitpicking after this season is out. You’ll see Emery in his full glory and it’ll be a mess.
Danny, if you can’t follow your own questions, then I can’t help you tonight.
Guns
You are a very naive fool if you think we will spend less than 70m this window lol
And I’m 90% sure most of our signings last season were tied up before emery arrived and were svens boys.
Emery will have been told to cull the wage bill. That’s what he will do. And he will still finish top 4 in 2020, you heard it here.
Ramsey. Ow would you want him on 250k playing 50% games in a season?
Danny
You’re prediction will no go down in Le Grove history as one of the more bizarre statements ever written down.
We will be lucky not to get relegated, let alone finish anywhere near fourth.
Pedro.
Emery finished 1 point behind spurs, and lost a Euro final.
Spurs finished 1 point above arsenal and lost a Euro final.
Both had terrible spells
Emery 4 points in 18
Poch 1 point in 15
Yet you blow pochs cock.
Why? Because spurs operate on a much lower wage structure and expenditure than us? Is that Emery’s fault? Fuck no haha.
Spurs have a way better squad. And poch was barely separable this season from emery.
Suppose it’s emery’s fault he wasn’t in the final of the champs league eh?
Pedro
You won’t have to worry about the manager. His contract self-terminated in 12 months
I mean you’re using the petulant words of a player who was missing for 77 minutes of a key game to indict the manager. A player who was given a massive contact by Gazidis even as you were still backing the former CEO.
There’s a lot of blame to go around…and it’s not all on E,wry. You too have made gargantuan errors when assessing Arsenal [albeit from afar]
Where did you expected to finish at the beginning of the season? I expected to finish 3rd or 4th and I said so at the beginning of the season, because in my view we had the 3rd or 4th squad in the league. I expected us to finish ahead of Chelsea and ManUtd. Chelsea because I thought that Sarri would need time to bed his new players and new ideas into a team that had been used to play a more direct physical style of football for the last ten years. I also did not rate Morata as a finisher.… Read more »
Guns
I will fully take it on the chin if we don’t make top 4. I’m a pragmatist, but I’m fully optimistic about next season.
As I’m for is being lucky not to be relegated, that’s a bit out there but whatever.
receding, me fuming? I will advice you read very well before jumping into a discussion you don’t know the beginning. A poster championed regular use of youths in the team but another disagree by citing mavropano as a youth who flopped. then I came in saying he shouldn’t be referred as that becuase he just came back from injury. so, to say no one says he is a flop shows you just loitering around the blog to attack anyone who you think is against your lord Emery. it’s better you keep quiet when you don’t know the topic of discussion… Read more »
And I was in the mindset the whole reasoning from moving on from Wenger was to push club further up in quality and performance and wake the giant that was in the slumber of elite mediocrity under AW.
Yet here we are a season gone hoping we can again shoot for the outlandish elevations of the top four with a lil luck after missing out, a new set of ultras towards the manager blaming any and everything but Emery for the past seasons failures.
The irony is not lost.
Valentin
So you expected us to finish above Chelsea that has a much better squad and recent record in the PL than us, outspent us again this summer by a large margin (twice as much) because they changed coach again for the nth time?
We have a crappy, aging squad, spent peanuts and changed managers for the first time in 22 years and you expected us to instantly improve, overtaking teams that have outspent us for years ?check your expectations son.
I never expected us to get top 4. Because for me, except for a few players, the squad is pretty trash. I wanted more out last summer. Even during the unbeaten run we weren’t that good. And the collapse at the end of the season isn’t on the manager in my eyes. It’s the same thing these players have been dishing up for a few seasons now.
Danny, I am pretty sure that bar a miracle Emery will not be in charge at the beginning of the 2020-2021 season. In fact I suspect that he may not even finish the season and that Freddie Ljunberg will act as caretaker manager. Emery is a Cup type of manager not a league type of manager. League success requires different mindset. Playing the plucky underdogs and devise a plan to stop the opposition does not work when you are the top dog. You can be a Cup manager when your team is so much better than the opposition that even… Read more »
Sal No one cares if the manager stays or goes, there are no Emery ultras. Most of the people judging the manager after 1 season started doing it before the season even started because he’s not Arsene Wenger, some are in the delusional belief that our squad is not complete garbage and all we need is that special someone in the dug out to compete again. Then there’s the weirdest ones that have spent years lamenting Wengers poor buys, poor squad building and the decreasing quality in the team and now expects someone to just come in and wave a… Read more »
Sal
Many if us are honest enough to understand that we aren’t just going to break away from Wenger overnight.
Like I said after Pep’s first season, city were ready to unleash transfer spending higher than the defence budgets of one quarter of the world’s countries, just on the defenders alone.
It’s going to take a lot more than pizzaz, white teeth and style to break away from Wenger.
Valentin
Emery, Raul and Edu have a huge task to turn this club around from the cess pool of mediocrity we have become.
How ANYONE expected miracles in season 1 is baffling to me.
Pedro and many others slagged this squad off to hell in wengers last season. Yet last season we should have breezed to a top 4 finish. and emery’s 4 points from 18 isn’t at all comparable to pochs 1 from 15.
This is the season. Forget last season.
That’s likely the reason they’re not sacking him. He’s an outrageously brilliant coach
Pedro
1 in 15 is worse than 4 in 18. If Poch is brilliant, Emery is a God then.
How come you use a different metric for Emery?
Dissenter
If you were honest enough and you seem a genuinely smart character, you’d maybe entertain the thought that Unai isn’t everything you think he may be. And not the best route to move it forward.
The manager after Emery would get a better coached team that’s tactically astute.
We won’t have academy products asking “what formation mate we playing again’ because the predecessor was tactically inflexible.
There will be many managers after Emery’s short stay and it may take the 3rd or 4th managerial change before we get it right.
Dissenter, he never said that about Wenger.
Yes, I made errors, Ivan G being the biggest one. However, I hear enough about what’s going on at Arsenal to know this will be over soon. I have a better line of sight into the club at a playing level than I do into a boardroom.
I am in the kroenke out camp.
Next season will tell if Emery knows what he is doing or not and by then only an imbecile will back him if we falter again.
Pedro
Pedro.
Emery finished 1 point behind spurs, and lost a Euro final.
Spurs finished 1 point above arsenal and lost a Euro final.
Both had terrible spells
Emery 4 points in 18
Poch 1 point in 15
Yet you blow pochs cock.
Why? Because spurs operate on a much lower wage structure and expenditure than us? Is that Emery’s fault? Fuck no haha.
Spurs have a way better squad. And poch was barely separable this season from emery.
Suppose it’s emery’s fault he wasn’t in the final of the champs league eh
You’ve not answered this.
Your truth is based on how you feel, mine is based on reality
Lol….
Pedro your truth is based on your imagination. It’s why you think Arteta would be a great coach even though you have 0 data points to back it up.
Sal
I want a plan
I want a director of football to start with.
I want to[he club to spend money already in its coffered of the footballing product.
I’m not obsessing over a manager who has to recycle shit with one year left in his contract.
When you sack Emery, are you going to assure me that the club will move out those defenders that are only good enough for the salvage yard?
You’re focused on the wrong things my friend.
What is the point of changing manager if you expect us to do worst than under the previous one? This is fuzzy logic trying to rewrite history because Emery failed his targets. Regarding the age of the squad, we had a younger squad than Chelsea the previous year. In fact the reason why this season we had a squad of average age 27 years and Chelsea only 26.8 is because of the following players. Petr Cech (36), Stephan Lichtsteiner (34), Nacho Monreal (32), Lauren Koscielny (32) and Sokratis (30). You would have noted that two of those players (Lichsteiner, Sokratis)… Read more »
Valentin we have 2 world class (kind of) players in 1 position, a couple of decent ones and the rest either over the hill or never good enough. That’s the problem, not who the manager is. I never liked Arteta as a player for us, blandest since denilson, but if he was manager it would be more or less the same if we persisted with the same players. Probably a fair bit worse since he’s not actually a manager. Talk about playing style or philosophy as much as you want, when your squad is haphazardly put together by someone that… Read more »
**I want the club to spend money already in its coffers on the footballing product***
Freddie, there are EKBs for sure.
Wenger stopped waving the player buy wand a while ago.
Emery has had the same amount of time, or more with Auba, AMN, Kola, Mavro and Mikhi. He brought in 4 of players in with £70m.
With his added sauce of being a great coach, he did almost nothing to move the needle.
If the only way for him to advance the club was players, why did we hire him?
Valentin
How did we do worse than under previous manager?
Azed, watch it, you’re veering into Bamford territory.
Freddie L
Not true genuinely think most were glowing at the start and into the unbeaten run, questions arose with the freezing of certain players around the new year. The questions were answered with that atrocious final run to bottle fourth and solidified with the mauling from Chelsea.
This side got markedly worse under Emery as season progressed.
For me and many on here Chelsea was a 50-50, we went into that even on the head to heads this season and 2 back after a full season in league. Both on new managers.
Danny,
Are you really debating the merits of Poch vs Emery?
“If you were honest enough and you seem a genuinely smart character, you’d maybe entertain the thought that Unai isn’t everything you think he may be. And not the best route to move it forward.”
Dissenter has never said Emery would be the man to take us forward. Nobody has said that.
What has been said repeatedly is “If your summer budget is 40M, it makes no sense to spend 25% of that budget on paying off the manager and his crew.”
Emery has one year left, spend all available resources getting in players for the future.
dissenter,
are you saying Wenger was responsible for iwobi asking what formatiin we are playing?
I don’t think so. Emery kept changing formation like he never prepared at all for a match and this I believe is one of the problem faced by team as a whole.
if you take your time to study the team, you will find out that the players, sometimes, dont really understand Emery. He tinkers too much with formation.
Next season, he will need to explain better to them what his Match plans are rather than this chameleon tactics of his
Valentin
I think you missed where I said CRAPPY, aging squad. Not all old players are bad. Not all young players are good.
Keep whining about the manager and I’ll be looking forward to a proper culling of the playing squad, the one thing that can improve us at this point.
Pedro
Errm How do you compare poch to emery?
So far my only comparison is 1 season.
Let’s dissect that.
Emery finished 1 point behind poch. With a squad believed to be majorly inferior to the spurs squad.
Poch has had time to make the squad his own.
Emery has had 1 season
Honestly peter. You embarrass yourself more and more with each post.
Dissenter, We won’t have academy products asking “what formation mate we playing again’ because the predecessor was tactically inflexible. Is that not the role of the head-coach to brief his players so that they know which formation they are playing? There is a difference between a player unable to adapt to a different formation because his academy training has been poor or because he does not have the right level and a player who does not know which formation he is playing in. That indicates either a player who has not listened to the half time team talk or a… Read more »
Pedro ‘Emery has had the same amount of time, or more with Auba, AMN, Kola, Mavro and Mikhi. He brought in 4 of players in with £70m. With his added sauce of being a great coach, he did almost nothing to move the needle.’ Why didn’t Pep try to move the middle with Kolarof, Gael Cliche, Zabaleta and Sagna Why did he ditch Fernando after the first season? Why did city spend a fortune to fix problems. Truth is that he took a squad that had won two league tittles in the preceding four years as far as anyone could.… Read more »
All this warnings flying out to people with a different point of view is why I don’t feel comfortable posting here when Pedro is on the prowl.
Poch Vs Emery isn’t a debate, one has actually won things the other hasn’t and they are age mates.
Dissenter
“Gargantuan errors” would be a gross understatement .
How anyone could not see through Ivan Gazidis is concerning in itself.
The fact that it happened to be the host of the show just beggars belief.
Sorry, but I need to get a stiff drink.
If iwobi didn’t know what he was being sent on to do he should have asked the assistant coach who issued him instructions before taking to the pitch.
Players are given instructions before getting sent on. That he rushed on to the pitch to ask Xhaka is on him not anyone else. Where did he think he was meant to play.. In goal?
Valentin
That idiotic comment is an indictment of Iwobi’s footballing intelligence or lack of.
Any player on the bench ought to know how the team was switching formations. Maybe Iwobi has been gyrating to Davido and D’banj all night, who knows.
The player on the bench has a responsibility to follow the game too. That’s not on the manager. You obviously think everything is Emery’s fault.