Some BRUTAL watch-outs on the fixture list

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WHERE ARE THE PLAYERS, RAUL?

WHAT IS GOING ON?

Oh, it’s only early June… I see… calm down, right?

There’s quite a lot of work to be done this summer, my main concern is that focus has been on exiting someone from the business, are we still moving things along elsewhere? In business, is it actually possible to do more than one thing at a time… I’m sure we’ll learn.

The other worry I have is Edu hasn’t been confirmed, nor has he sacked in this silly job he has going on over in Brazil.

There has been a lot of conjecture about whether Edu will be able to deliver in Europe. From what I’ve heard, Edu is a very impressive character and he’ll be no Raul shill. He’s coming in as a technical director because he’s literally very technical. He’s not just here because he knows Arsenal, he’s coming in because he has a fantastic reputation, he’s a student of the entirety of the game, and he’s clearly obsessed enough about life after football because he retired rich and jumped into the next phase immediately and moved through the ranks. I also reckon he buys elite fragrances. Probably mixes them up as well. Definitely smells expensive. I’d be dropping a Joe Biden on him if I were let loose near him.

Brazil might not be dropping World Cups on the regular, but remember, they aren’t mugs. Bullsitting your way to the technical position over there is no easy feat.

What I like about the hire is it’s an unknown. I’d much rather take a punt on someone who could be the future, versus someone who was a big deal 5 years ago. I’d rather work with someone on the ascension, than at a crossroads (Emery/Monchi). I’m also happy that the technical director understands the DNA of Arsenal, and not from a 100-year past perspective, but looking at the next 100 years we desire.

Namely, we want to play beautiful football, win trophies and maintain all the bits that make Arsenal special as a football institution.

I want class to be a byproduct of how we operate, not an excuse for why we fail.

Anyway, I’m excited about Edu, I just hope we don’t fuck things up before he arrives.

The fixtures are in and they aren’t kind. Champions League finalists in the first 4 games.

Ooof…

  • Newcastle (A)
  • Burnley (H)
  • Liverpool (A)
  • Spurs (H)
  • Watford (A)

All three of those away games are problematic.

The real stinger this year is the mid-December onwards grouping of matches.

  • West Ham (A) (Dec 7)
  • City (A) (Dec 14)
  • Everton (A) (Dec 21)
  • Bournemouth (A) (Dec 26)
  • Chelsea (H) (Dec 28)
  • United (H) NYD

We’ve had a savage December run in the past, but the major concern this year is that we’re playing mostly teams with big squads over that period. The crunch is usually easier to deal with because the shit kicker teams can’t hack the pace because of the lack of depth, so they usually play weaker sides and take their chances on easier games.

The other challenge with the fixture list is we have a lot of our tough away games in the back half of the season… so we could very well fall into the same Emery trap we did this season… do the business at home then absolutely tank when it matters.

We’ll see though, let’s see what a reimagination of our squad does this summer. Let’s also see what a new Head of High Performance brings to the table, hopefully, it’s Shad and we don’t have to go through a complete rebuild of the backroom team and have to transition with people that don’t understand the league.

I also think Emery has to put the Europa safety blanket to one side this season and be realistic about cups. We don’t need to send our best players away to Quarabag. We don’t need to go big in the early rounds of the cups with key players, the rewards just aren’t lucrative enough to merit loading up fragile legs with pointless minutes.

I can forgive last years mistakes, but Emery will not be given the same chances this season… we have to hire in players that are fast, powerful and mentally strong. We don’t want Sevilla worker bees, we need to remember that this is the Premier League, we need exceptional talent that can grow. Not a bag of 28-year-old journeyman right out of the yellow sticker bin.

We also need to be careful with how head into the winter, because if we’re fucked like we were this year, we are in deep shit because that run of games will end our season.

Finally, Martin Ziegler has a piece in The Times that states an Academy Coach called a teenage girl reffing an under 9s game a ‘little prick’ and made her cry. He is still with the club. Is that Arsenal class? Does that behaviour make the fans proud? Fuck no. Where are you Vinai? The brutalising of kids on the sidelines is bad enough in Sunday League, but attacking a teenage referee is absolutely beyond the pale… that sort of behaviour from someone raising the next generation of kids should never be tolerated. I don’t care what anyone says, respect for referee should be absolute at all levels, so this sort of thing needs to be nipped in the bud.

Right, fun game we’re playing on Twitter.

Name Wenger’s 5 biggest mistakes:

  • Not leaving after his FA Cup wins, particularly Chelsea
  • Asking Zlatan for a trial
  • Waiting 2 seasons for Chamakh
  • Passing on Hig at £32m
  • Silvestre being ‘You will like my surprise’ of summer 2008

GO GO GO

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Bankz

Bankz is here for the tr4phy again

Bankz

Let’s do this again

Leftsidesanch

3rd

Bankz

Where’s DM?

Bankz

BOOOOOM.
Another day, another tr4phy

Leftsidesanch

4th?

Leftsidesanch

Guess not…

Graham62

Rainman

From previous post.

That’s the whole point.

They have no credibility.

Guns of Hackney

Anyone for 0-5 for Arsenal in their opening five games?

That start is reminiscent of last season when we blew our first two…but worse.

I just do not see Emery and his rabble getting through the opening.

HighburyLegend

lol the list of his mistakes would never end…
Ooopppssss, I hear Pierre approaching.

Guns of Hackney

Wenger’s top five in no particular order.

1. Losing the worlds best left back for £5,000. Cole.

2. Not buying anyone when we were a shoe in for the league.

3. Fucking up Suarez.

4. Keeping Almunia as no.1 for 1,000 games too many.

5. Selling RVP to United. Cesc for £35m!!! Buying a player with a broken spine.

How’s that?

Cesc Appeal

China1 Yeah I can fully see why you are as well. I was underwhelmed. But I saw him as a safety choice and that is how I still see him. I don’t expect the world from him. I see him more as a support structure for building work, scaffolding basically. This club has to get itself sorted out and undo Wenger and Gazidis’ total mess. Trim the squad down. Make sure we’re getting value for money (not giving £28 Million a year to Ozil and Mkhitaryan etc), make sure we’re wasting hardly any funds (sacking Burgess and anyone performing poorly/duplicating… Read more »

HighburyLegend

What Banks and DM would do without the race for the Tr4phy at every new post ??
They would probably commit suicide.

Jay

1. Letting Szczesny go
2. Buying only one player in summer TW (Czech)
3. Selling Gnabry for peanuts
4. Stopping at Arsenal for 10 years longer than should have
5. Being arrogant twat

HighburyLegend

“5. Selling RVP to United. Cesc for £35m!!! Buying a player with a broken spine. ”

That’s 3 mistakes in one, so you are cheating.

HighburyLegend

First, that’s 3 mistakes in one, so you are cheating.

Dream10

Leverkusen signed Demirbay and young Moussa Diaby from PSG to replace Brandt?
Decent business. Both of those players would have helped us

HighburyLegend

Almost a double post, f*ck me!! lol

Guns of Hackney

HL

They are all under the same terrible umbrella of bullshit…let me have it.

Kay

Emery out if we dont get a minimum of 10 or 12 points in the first 5.

Rainman

1. Being a cunt
2. Being a cunt
3. Being a cunt
4. Being a cunt
5. Being a cunt

Guns of Hackney

Kay

Lolz. 10-12 points. Lolz.

If we get 1, we will be overachieving.

Leftsidesanch

1. Relying on FFP to even out the playing field across Europe’s top clubs. 2. Finishing 10 points behind title winners Leicester and then retorting “There are 18 other teams who would love to be in our position” – sent out the wrong message. 3. Putting sub-par players on questionable wages before they’ve earned, therefore making it harder to shift them on. 4. Signing a GK (Cech) and no outfield player in the Summer of 2015. 5. Not resigning after the 8-2 loss suffered at the hands of Man Utd. Honorable mentions (some for LOLs): Wenger being asked what he… Read more »

Cygan

1. Selling Pascal Cygan for £2m and not retiring the #18 shirt
2. Signing Park Chu-Young
3. Signing Kim Kallstrom with a broken back
4. Signing Silvestre and giving him Cygan’s #18 shirt
5. Take your pick of selling RVP/Cole/Sanchez too cheap…

Leftsidesanch

We also must reserve a special shout of to Wenger’s caterpillar coat, probably somewhere in his mansion breathing a sigh of relief that Wenger doesn’t have to struggle with the zip anymore.

Guns of Hackney

Oh Arsene not signing Eusebio back in 1966. That sucked.

HighburyLegend

We’re still waiting for Pierre’s own list…

“Selling Pascal Cygan for £2m and not retiring the #18 shirt”
looooooooooooooooooool

Guns of Hackney

Hair pills?

Scrunching 12,000 water bottles a season.

Giving Pat Rice/Steve Bould/every fourth official and linesman tinnitus.

jwl

Not buying Suarez when we had chance to was easily Wenger biggest error, his last five seasons at club would have gone very differently if we had bought the Uruguayan.

Guns of Hackney

Having the balls to actually play Eboue in real games.

Guns of Hackney

However, jokes aside…Arsene was amazing. His best moment outside of the titles etc was giving the business to those Manc inbreeds at Old Trafford when he stood up in the stands with open arms after being sent off. Heroic.

CG

A wide ranging of topics touched upon by our versatile PedRo and I off course thank him for it…. If Edu is as talented ,diligent and conscientious as our author states( and he may well be right) – Why not just give him the Top Job.( Head Coach instead of Emery) (Now that would be an exciting Hire…) Surely- he would be wasting his time as Teck Deck( with all these impeccable credentials) Let’s not Beat around The Bush here- this Teck Dec position is really a nonsense. Does the European Champion Klopp have one( if he does – I… Read more »

HighburyLegend

Tick Tock.

Micheal

Why is everyone getting so excited about what Wenger did wrong years ago ? I know its close season and some people need to massage their obsessions. But get a life.
Wenger left a year ago. He’s gone, departed, exited, sailed away, left the room, disappeared, he’s no more…

Leftsidesanch

Genuinely painful reads from you know you, but I admire your consistency and brazenness.

KAY Boss

Wenger had more positives than negatives. His personal desire and glory was his undoing.
He had too much personal ambition and it ended up destroying him.

No one signed yet? Well, arsenal will continue to be arsenal. Only time will tell how we Come out of this mess.

Marc

Nice post Pedro – balanced, positive whilst taking on board the issues we face this summer and also taking a realistic approach.

Only another 70 odd of those and the season will be kicking off!

HighburyLegend

Considering our fixtures for the beginning of the season – and so for the end – I have a very bad feeling…

HighburyLegend

Is Valentin still upset ??

Micheal

The coach who abused the young female ref has been banned and fined by the FA. Not sure if AFC have also banned him.

Jamie

HL –

He’s looking at John Cross’ twitter feed for evidence that Emery sacked Burgess. He heard (read in the Sun, actually) from his source, Ian Tuckey, that it happened that way. Pedro says it didn’t. You choose who to believe.

Cesc Appeal

Fraser seeming to confirm he will be at Bournemouth next season, likely means we’ve got Carrasco then.

Jamie

Pedro –

Exactly.

Jamie

Wait, I read that wrong. John Cross isn’t credible. Far too many gaffs in his reporting.

Jamie

Or I read that right. I think. We agree John Cross is a bit of a hack?

DUIFG

Man that’s a tough question 1. Almunia when back them you could buy v good GK’s for pennies. 2. Supermarket sweep of 2011 post getting bashed by United (you just know he was happy with his squad before that) 3. Not buying hazard for 32 mil, we had the coin in the bank 4. Having prime ozil and a prime sanchez and not investing elsewhere, then letting both run down contracts to zero. 5. Waiting for ffp thinking he was somehow more worthy by actively not spending money, as if spending money was in some way abhorrent whilst overseeing a… Read more »

Dissenter

Valentin thinks there was only ONE review at Arsenal. The club will do their review same way I expect every head of department to conduct their own internal audits of how the season ended,especially the shambolic last month performance. It’s commonplace for the manager to interview every player on the way out to identify areas to work on. Valentin is assuming that the Emery inquest is the one that led to Burgess being fired. He is willfully ignoring the obvious; that there were other inquests held by the higher-ups besides Emery. That’s what happens when you think every post you’re… Read more »

Spanishdave

How can the Prem come up with 4 away games on the trot , there’s certainly some bias going on.

Jamie

Dissenter – Valentin posts some good shit every so often. It’s when he regurgitates and perpetuates the unsubstantiated nonsense he finds on newsnow as if he was sitting in the room when decisions at the club were made that is insufferably boring, and rather easy to dismantle; just ask for his source. The only one he doesn’t push back on is Pete. Everyone else gets the full force of hours of his online tabloid consumption. We read this blog because we respect the opinions and credibility of the author (agree or disagree with his content). If I wanted to read… Read more »

Biggles

I can’t see Darren Burgess being replaced. It seems like him and Shad basically duplicated each other. Might be a sensible streamlining of structure here. In the corporate world, I’ve seen a department have another manager brought in at a slightly higher level than a manager you want rid of, so that they eventually get sick of being undermined all the time and leave of their own volition. If Shad had been brought in AFTER Darren, then that’s what I would have thought was going on. However, Darren left and Shad didn’t… and Shad is the one with the better… Read more »

Dissenter

Jamie
It was obvious that there are several responsibilities at Arsenal being duplicated . There was no need for a “director of high performance” in the first place. It was all borne out of Wenger vs Gazidis cold warfare.
Shad Forsyth should have been allowed to quietly get on with the job from the get-go after Colbert was fired.

Jamie

Dissenter –

Well I heard differently. Emery conducted an internal review of what went wrong last season and consequently fired Burgess. Admittedly, my source is Valentin, but he also told me not to question the messenger in the comments of the past post.

Check mate.

Champagne Charlie

The Sun for 20p lol

Rather play blood knuckles with that coin

Jamie

Checkmate*

Jamie

CC –

Lost so much skin playing that game as a kid in the school canteen. Banter.

HighburyLegend

“likely means we’ve got Carrasco then.”

Bayern are aslo interested, so I guess we can wait a while…

David Smith

Wengers mistakes, where do you even start? Losing out on Alonso over a few hundred K, siding with Gerry Peyton over Szcesney, buying players he knew had serious injuries- time and time again, keeping his medical and coaching staff despite the evidence, not keeping Keown on as coach after he got us to the CL final, spreading a lack of ambition throughout the club, Ashley Cole, defending, Ozil wages, players contracts running down, Cahill, Gervinho over Hazard, management of Wilsheres injuries, letting players roll in late for training, tactics, coaches, not leaving in support of Dein, money obsession, playing Arshavin… Read more »

salpardisenyc

1. Not paying the asking for CR7, signing Reyes for more then stating after he didn’t pan out that “Despite the global warming, England is still not warm enough for him”

2. Not signing Xabi Alonso refusing the additional £3m.

3. Ibra trial smh

4. 2011 trolly dash

5. Bottling the 99 title loosing penultimate away to Leeds finish within a point of United on final day, coupled with loosing FA cup semi repeater week prior to United whom eventually went onto that fucking treble.

Champagne Charlie

Jamie

Tell me about it, set about with elite levels of stupidity cracking out the fifty pence piece like a right cool bastard

Henry Root

Bournemouth won’t be stupid enough to let Fraser run his contract down . Only one club does that ,possibly two now Gazidis is at AC Milan. .
I think Edu ‘s appointment may be confirmed when we announce the Martinelli signing. He needed an Italian passport . As I recall Edu’s passport was a problem back in the day

HighburyLegend

It’s easy to mock Arsène with those lists, but remember dear Grovers : he beat Leicester twice.

Chris

This isn’t so much a mistake but just a sliding doors moment with Wenger…

I wish he had kept Cesc on the pitch against Barcelona in Paris. Just get the feeling we could have controlled the midfield better and perhaps held on.

Mind you that’s only one of the things I picture went differently in that game. Henry clean through on goal when 1-0 up etc

Valentin

Dissenter,

Have you ever worked for a big company?
You just show your ignorance of how exit interview are conducted. Exit interview are NEVER conducted by the employee’s manager.
What is the employee going to say? I am leaving because I think you are shit! I am leaving because you’ve sacked me!
The HR department and/or sometimes the boss of the employee’s manager are the one doing the interview.

Chris

Also a top 5 list of things to bash Wenger with is a touch classless, in my view.

No doubt he made many mistakes. I do my best to remember the best decisions though.

I would just say he held on to the job for too long. As an intelligent man he should have seen the writing on the wall earlier and done the decent thing (after Hull cup final would have been a great time to bow out)

Dissenter

Valentin
You think there is only ONE review done in any company?
Maybe you’re referencing French practices but exit interviews are done by the departmental head of the employee in most places.
You still don’t believe that there are more than one reviews done at Arsenal?
In the real world, you get points for doing frequent inquests on your own practices, that doesn’t deter the organization from doing theirs.
You forgot to throw in a reference from the daily star.

salpardisenyc

Its banter FFS most of us loved, fought, bled and died alongside Wenger.

Eventually hatching many plans to move on from him when the time came.

DUIFG

Notable mention passing on Carrick when the deal was fucking done

englandsbest

Yeah, it’s only mid-June, plenty of time (we tell ourselves) but we’re all getting kinda nervous. Why? Because there’s no hard evidence that anything is happening back there in the Emirates. It’s like they are all away on a two month break or comatose in R & R,or maybe just standing around petrified by the daunting task facing them. Hopefully, it is none of those, they are simply gathering strength for the great leap forward. But if we are talking about transfers, more likely they don’t have any money until they sell players. The lull before the storm in a… Read more »

Graham62

“Wenger’s five biggest mistakes” Shite! Where do I start? 1. Him stating that not coming out and letting everyone know whether he was staying or leaving the club, had little or no effect on the team and club. Tosser! 2. Totally abusing, misusing and misunderstanding Theo Walcott(amongst others). Arshavin being another one. 3. Sidelining Gilberto in favour of Denilson. 4. Having zero tactical awareness when it really mattered, bearing in mind that between 1996-2006 he had the players to dig him out of so many holes. Once they left, he was frigging clueless. 5. Tolerating failure and sitting on his… Read more »

David Smith

not to mention wengers dithering cost us a £19m, near done deal for Juan Mata when we needed someone to replace Cesc
Mata went to Chelsea, and I believe he was quickly their player of the season.
Going on about values each time he messed up was another mistake

HighburyLegend

One name, four letters : OZIL.
lol

Chris

Sal

I get that but some of them are pretty desperate, like your no5 for example.

That game could have gone either way (Diawara could have had a hatrick).

Seems like you put it in there because you couldn’t think of a 5th at the time!

Like you say, bantz

Valentin

Jamie, I am the one who said that Burgess and Forsythe were at loggerhead because their domain overlapped way before his sacking. According to Dissenter, that non-sense. Now he accept that as truth. When I repeated what my sources told me that there was issue of conditioning too intensive training session. Dissenter was one of those who refused to believe me. Emery then conceded that he had to adjust the training session. When I mentioned that Emery was overruling the medical staff, according to him I was lying. Four months later Emery admitted so. The medical team had told him… Read more »

Ozilarsenal

I am really worried about no signings yet

salpardisenyc

Chris

Good Ebening, there’s a plethora of options for 5 spot my friend. The gift that Wenger left us, endless banter.

5. Not winning a European trophy with any of those glorious sides.

Dissenter

Valantin Quit fabricating stuff. You’re the blog’s Pinocchio When did Emery admit to overruling the medical staff?…waiting for your daily star reference. Everyone knew there was duplication of roles in the club and titles were being dished out needlessly. You didn’t break that story so stop your chest pounding. You categorically stated that Emery was responsible for the intensive training sessions that led to the team slowing down in the second half of the EL final in Baku. You read a story about Emery holding a review with his players in their way out for their annual vacations and concluded… Read more »

Chris

Sal Definitely a big regret that Wenger didn’t win in Europe. As I say for me personally I have so many different versions of Paris 06 in my head with different decisions having been made by Wenger. We just couldn’t get to grips with Larsson when he came on. Some bad luck with losing on pens to Gala/Lehman getting sent off etc but also some culpability, our European record was dreadful after 2006. Sorry to nit pick you about the Leeds game! I just think to say we bottled it is an exaggeration. We lost to a late goal against… Read more »

Chris

*after 2010 I meant to say

Thomas

1. Not fucking off in 2009.
2. Playing Toure instead of Eboue at right back when Sagna got injured in 2008.
3. Not signing an outfield player in 2015.
4. Fucking up the Suarez deal in 2013.
5. Giving Ozil the £350k week contract in 2018.

Valentin

Dissenter, Effective companies do not conduct multiple investigations concurrently on the same issue. That’s a waste of resources. I don’t know in which industry you work, but exit interview are not conducted by the employee’s manager. That’s the job of the HR department. Sometimes the boss of the employee’s manager also attend the meeting because he has specific questions. In my career, I had once a managing director attending my exit interview because he was concerned that the department was losing people at a much higher rate than expected. That has nothing to do with being French. That’s the way… Read more »

Leftsidesanch

Players are probably on holiday etc, we have two months and we know we must get business done by the 8th August.

Receding Hairline

Lot’s of I’s in that last post Valentin

You seem a bit too desperate for validation around these parts

Not everything you say is “fact”, especially if your sources include the sun who even i know are not a credible source

Just cool down and post like everyone else, I blame Pedro for your behavior though, it’s been a while one of your comments made it into his post and you seem desperate to rectify that

Dissenter

Valentin
I’n not going to engage you in a dick measuring contest as to who knows more about exit interviews.
Unless you’re a management consultant who specializes on teaching Fortune 500 companies how to conduct exit interviews, your opinions on this issue is null and void.
Back to football, When did Emery admit to over ruling the medical department?
You really are the proverbial gift that keeps giving. You cannot help yourself.

peanuts&monkeys

Is it true Arsenal will sell the only gutsy playwr in the squad -Torreira? OMG! Pl don’t sell him.

Dissenter

The dude lecturing people about corporate practices doesn’t understand that reviews occur at EVERY level in today’s world.
Professionally, people are trained and encouraged to frequently audit their work product from client feedback.
He assumed that because Emery held a review…then that review resulted in Burgess being fired.

James.wood

Convincing Ozil to stay.
Kaelstrom.
Selling Van Persie for silly money.
Playing Sanogo in the Champions League.
Keeping Diaby on such high wages for so long whilst injured.
Keeping faith with Walcott who was an embarrassment to the club.
.

Valentin

Dissenter, Emery just admitted that he was told (by the conditioning medical team, because that’s their job) that Ramsey was in the red zone and that he should not have played him. However Ramsey professed that he was fine and Emery let him play. How is that not admitting that he he had overruled the medical staff for spurious reasons? It was exactly the same under Wenger. The medical staff told Wenger that a player was in the red zone and should not play. Yet Wenger played him and then was surprised that he got injured. I don’t buy that… Read more »

Receding Hairline

“He assumed that because Emery held a review…then that review resulted in Burgess being fired.”

I doubt Emery has that sought of power at Arsenal

He is not hiring and firing anyone anytime soon.

Receding Hairline

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal/aaron-ramsey-rejected-unai-emery-s-advice-to-rest-and-it-ended-his-arsenal-career-prematurely-a4153241.html

The link you just posted clearly says even without reading it that “Aaron Ramsey REJECTED Unai Emery’s advice to rest” ….no way does it say Emery overruled or ignored the fitness team

Valentin

Dissenter,

You do realise that every statements you made about corporate practices were so wrong, it is funny.

Did you ever answer Pedro question about what you are doing?

Dissenter

The standard.co.uk article is headlines as “Ramsey rejected Unai Emery’s advice to rest and it ended his Arsenal career prematurely” That’s a long way from Emery overuled medical department The medical department’s recommendations aren’t usually set in stone. They only provide a task specific assessments based on the specific questions asked of them. If the manager asks, can the player play the full game, they may say no, but he may be able to play for part so the game. Not every thing is hard science, sometimes the player [who knows his body] can declare himself match fit and the… Read more »

Valentin

RH, So Emery had no say in the composition of the team. What is the role of a manager? If the medical team tell you to bench a player, you bench him. No but, no If. you bench him. No amount of whining by the player should change that. Emery can try to spin that as it’s not my fault the player wanted to play. Try that excuse as a parent after your child overdose on salt. My child is in hospital after eating too much salt. I swear officer that I told him to stop eating that salt, but… Read more »

Dissenter

Valentin
I didn’t answer Pedro because no one here reveals what they do. Bamford made a self-disclosure and was punished for it.
I can assure you that I am doing very well in what I do. Which is why I can keep replying you while being paid very well for doing not so much.

Remember what I said..unless your a management consultant….your opinion on exit interviews is null and void. Have you ever fired anyone in your life by the way?

Dissenter

Valentin
“If the medical team tell you to bench a player, you bench him. No but, no If. you bench him.”

Have you ever had to bench a player? You speak with such certitudes without having any experiential knowledge of what you’re professing.
Mr know-all.
I bet you’ve never sacked anyone in your life, before giving management treatises about exit interviews.

Receding Hairline

“If the medical team tell you to bench a player, you bench him. No but, no If. you bench him. No amount of whining by the player should change that.” Really..like when certain players where rested against Palace and you said the game was thrown? “Emery can try to spin that as it’s not my fault the player wanted to play.” Not a spin, player said he was fine to play “Try that excuse as a parent after your child overdose on salt. My child is in hospital after eating too much salt. I swear officer that I told him… Read more »

Valentin

Dissenter, ALL of your corporate practice statements have been wrong. Google “exit interview HR guideline”. Yes I have fired people. Except for once when the guy was a jerk who made life of my team miserable and I enjoyed his comeuppance, otherwise it is never a pleasant experience. A colleague of mine in the U.S. broke protocol and organise an exit interview without HR knowing. He thought that he was doing the guy a favour. The employee turned up with a gun and shot him. He spent months in hospital. At least in UK, you don’t run the risk of… Read more »

Receding Hairline

Valentin your use of analogies needs a lot of work

You sound very ridiculous whenever you try one, just like someone not versed in proverbs trying to speak in one

Graham62

A top manager would have never accepted the status quo. NEVER!!

Pep/Klopp/Zidane/Allegri/Simeone/Poch/Mourinho/ Ancelotti/ Ferguson etc etc would have been thumping on SK’s door demanding answers.

If answers were not forthcoming they would have forced the issue or,left the club. Irrespective of their £10m a year.

Then again, a top manager(which Wenger was not once we moved to the Emirates) would have got far more from the players over a ten year period, based on the infrastructure and resources at his disposal.

Just a shame Kroenke didn’t know that.

Marc

Can’t believe people are having an argument over whose fault it was Ramsey got injured.

If only there was a history of him being injured before, I don’t know something like missing months every season due to this pulled or that twanged.

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