More bad news leaks. Edu job looking disastrously tough

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Ohhhhh boy.

Everyone has just realised that we are in a tight spot with basically everything.

Ornstein echoed a bunch of the things that I wrote yesterday and none of it looks great.

Mustafi ain’t going nowhere because he loves his deal, but he now knows the manager thinks he’s shite.

Chambers wants to stay, but knows the manager thinks he’s average.

Koscielny is on strike, and we’re actually upset that a 33-year-old defender is not on the plane to America because he’s one of the best we have at the minute.

The only defender available for the first game of the season is Papa. Meanwhile, Villa have dropped £50m on 3 centre backs this week alone.

We can’t even organise next seasons defender. Stories emerging that Spurs are about to gazump us for Saliba.

Bad times indeed.

I can’t make this any better for you. I have heard from a lot of very good people that the club is in an incredibly bad space. The manager is a farce, we have no leaders at the training ground, and our approach to transfers has been so bad this summer, that we’ll likely end with very little to show at the end of the window.

It will have to get a lot worse before it gets better.

Edu isn’t coming in to make light tweaks, he’s going to have to come in with a wrecking ball. The job is going to be to flatten the whole thing and start again.

New vision. New manager. New squad. New energy.

This season is a write off before it’s even started. United might not have a world-class manager, but Mike Phelan is a great coach who has built winning machines before. Pogba now appears set to stay, they’ve added some good players and they already had a pretty good squad.

Chelsea were 4-1 better than us in April playing terribly. They have a young manager who knows the players, the club and the youth. He might not be incredible, but despite the transfer ban, he seems to be having a far calmer summer than us.

Spurs are adding good players to an already great squad.

I don’t need to go any higher up than that, do I? Could go lower though. West Ham are having a good summer, so are Leicester.

We don’t even really have a coach. People still bemoaning Wenger’s squad of players forget that those same players took us to 22 games unbeaten. The more Emery’s ideas settled, the worse things got. This season, he doesn’t have the new manager good will he had last year, he also doesn’t have political capital with the players, and he’s burned bridges with a fair chunk of a squad he’s likely going to HAVE to use.

That end of season review session looks even more nuts by the day.

So where do we go from here?

I have no idea. Edu; looking ragged already, is going to have to put plans in place very quickly this season. He really, really, really needs to be a good leader. Someone that’s here to succeed, not sit out a cushy highly paid job. A total driving force for Arsenal. Really, we need to hope he holds himself to a high standard because Stan K certainly isn’t going to.

A lot rests on the man from Brazil.

I have faith, because if I didn’t, we’d have absolutely nothing to look forward to.

See you in the comments x

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Nelson

Marc

It could be a verbal promise.

Nelson

Marc

I just can’t see that Koc would act like that without being treated unfairly.

Marc

Nelson

Even if it was verbal if it had been made they’d have leaked it. It would divert blame from the player onto the club.

Paul Drakes

Not one mention of the whole orchestrater of this whole fiasco Stan Kroenke in your piece today.We could have a double management team of Guardiola and Klopp and we’d still struggle.We all know Emery isn’t the right man going forward but the whole foundations at Arsenal are on quicksand.A decade of mismanagement by gazidis,pacifism flouted as ‘class’ by the fanbase and indulgence in a egotistical Wenger is not going to be erased by one manager.This is going to take a long time to rectify if at all.We are heading towards the football wilderness if we aren’t already in it.Kroenke is… Read more »

Marc

Nelson

Well this is a player who admitted he wanted France to lose the World Cup final because he wasn’t there.

Not really a guy who puts other people first.

Dissenter

Football wise, we lose nothing by ditching Koscielny
Koschielny actually helped the club with this silly tantrum. Emery was very silly to even ask him to stay another season, at least now we have to sign someone to take his place.

It’s not all gloom. The rest of the squad travelled and are apparently enjoying the preseason.

Dissenter

This persistent bitching is also kind of silly.
It’s not like anyone here is going to walk away from Arsenal. Is it?

CG

Newcastle United v The Arsenal is a Relgation 6 pointer- if Emery*** stays the season. We may have better players than the lower ranked mid table teams- but they will have a team spirit and a BETTER coach and without the distraction of The Loosers Cup Every player currently at Arsenal probably with the exception of Iwobi and Torr The Myth sees Emery as figure of Fun. Arsenal have lost 50% of the last 10 games We could not beat the 4th worse team Brighton ( home or away – Take Your Pick) That will get you relegated in any… Read more »

Marc

Dissenter

We can only hope some do.

Champagne Charlie

Auba is an elite goal scorer, there’s definite risk when considering his sale. But his conversion rate was top class last season despite his misses, so you could argue if it drops then his worth falls off a cliff.

We’re a better side with Laca as CF, a wide player like Ziyech/Fekir, and a competent CB, than Laca/Auba squeezed up top.

Dissenter

It’s going to get worse before it gets better, that’s unavoidable.
We can’t move some of these players on because if the stupid wages that they are on. No one else will buy Mustafi when he’s on 120i weekly.
We will be shit average for 1-2 seasons then we won’t be so hamstrung.

The good parts to this situation is that it takes the veil off how bad the club was run until now. Hopefully, Pedro is right about Edu.
Woke up this morning and I’m not angry at Arsenal.

Dissenter

It also show how bad this tabloid rumor generating mill is.
Most of these Arsenal related transfer stories are 100% false, yet they appear on the pages of “newspapers “

Marc

Dissenter

It sells paper and gets clicks. I’ve been saying for weeks ignore it.

Samesong

It’s going to get worse before it gets better, that’s unavoidable.

Your greatest statement on Le grove!!!!

Cesc Appeal

Saliba is going to be an important moment for the new lot, if he picks Spurs then I can imagine he fan base reacting angrily. It won’t be so much about the player but more that this will be a symbol of everything going wrong. Spurs offering more money up front than Arsenal and a player thinking Spurs is more desirable.

Dream10

Champagne Charlie

Lacazette is a forward who has fantastic shooting technique. Get into his feet and he can pick the corners with little trouble.
However, struggles to hold the ball up, at times doesn’t have enough speed to separate from a defender to go thru on goal and doesn’t generate enough shots. We’ll need a player who gets 20PL goals on one side if Lacazette and Zaha are in the front three

Dissenter

Samesong
Anyone who say how the club was wrong had to have seen this coming.
That’s why Pedro’s special sauce theory didn’t make any sense.

Dissenter

Cesc
I think to any 18 year old player who didn’t grow up in north London, spurs are just as attractive as Arsenal.
New stadium, great training facilities, very good manager, good young squad etc.
Anyone upset at the prospect of Spurs being as attractive or even more appealing than Arsenal must have been in a lengthy hibernation for a while now.

Un na naai

CC

I don’t disagree but he’s worth £80m, he’s 30, he gives the ball away too much, offers little on the ball and really only offers tap ins. If we use the money wisely then we are a better team without him.
We’ve also finished 6th and 5th with him in the side so while his personal goal tally may be Impressive it would appear it is to the detriment of the team rather than enhancement

CG

If Wenger was DoF – Saliba would be in The Bag!

Marc

Cesc The problem isn’t Saliba picking the Spud’s over us – what if we sign him what does that mean for the Spud’s. The problem is we aren’t bringing in other signings. Some years ago Vertonghen picked the Spud’s over us, he’s into the last year of his contract and won’t sign a new one so there’s a decent chance he’ll be sold this summer. If not he’ll do one more season and then move on. Precisely what has he won at the Spud’s? Fuck all, what can he tell his grandkids in 30 years time – I might have… Read more »

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Sorry Pedro

I have no faith…

Spurs nicking Saliba is the final straw

May they started talking him up mid July we lose it…

Clubs dead
Games dead.

Only wAy forward is to sack players.

And replace with youth.

If it’s bottom half of league so be it..

We need to root out all the wrongs at the club playing side.

Serious

Where has all the money gone

Tv money
New ground money
Flats sold money
Sponsorship money, ok Adidas not till next year.

Some cunts had their hand in the till

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Oh an the slaughtering by spurs on sept 1st

Life ain’t grand…

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Cg

Guessing ain’t needed now.

That chapter of arsenal
Has ended.

Ishola70

Newcastle are in absolute turmoil.

No manager, no signings and fans threatening to boycott the opening match against Arsenal.

Could well be that Arsenal have a nice opening fixture there.

Samesong

Could well be that Arsenal have a nice opening fixture there.

Imagine Arteta getting the Newcastle job and playing us first game lol

CG

Ish

“”” Newcastle are in absolute turmoil.No manager, no signings and fans threatening to boycott the opening match against Arsenal.””””

That means they will have a better manager better than us then.

No manager v Emery?
Who wins Out?

Every foto you see of our one- he is holding a bloody clipboard.

I wish some one would tonk him over the head with it!

What can possibly be on it!!!!??

Ishola70

Samesong

“Imagine Arteta getting the Newcastle job and playing us first game”

He’d have to be a maschoist to pick that gig first up.

Stevie Bruce is the fav to get the job and the geordies ain’t happy with that at all lol.

No reason why Arsenal can’t get six points up on the board first two games but then looms Anfield.

Ishola70

sic masochist.

Batistuta

Dissenter

It’s a public forum, people are allowed to bitch and moan at how badly the club is being run by the owner and CEO. Stop policing people

Batistuta

Raul Sanhlehi is just as clueless as Ivan Gazidis.

Statue for Wenger, gallows would be better the cunt. Oh and also, fuck kroenke. Fucking diseased parasite scum

Marko

Any signings? Can’t even be arsed with getting excited about links to Diaz. Links won’t save us. As for Tierney honestly I’d walk away it’s a pain in the arse at this stage and apparently he’s in pain when he runs something about his pubis. My pubis is fine I saw it last week. Move on and haggle with the next one

Just Another Customer

Would rather spread those goals between interchangeable players that play well together rather than just relying on a 30 year old tap in merchant with sparse involvement to the play of the match. Might as well profit from him now – he’s our Suarez/Coutinho or whoever else.

Mr Serge

So have we been gazumped on saliba ?
Or is it just paper talk?

Marc

Serge

So far it’s paper talk. As is 99.9% of what is out there about any team at the moment.

CG

Bat

“””””Raul Sanhlehi is just as clueless as Ivan Gazidis.””””””

They Are Buddies!

Ivan got Raul The Arsenal Gig!

And my Golly- we are paying the Price for it!

Marko

CG don’t take this personally but I really hope you drop dead. You’re that annoying

Marc

Marko

Now now – it’s die in excruciating agony.

Champagne Charlie

Dream Disagree about Laca with his back to goal, he’s miles better than Auba in that regard and I wouldn’t offer Auba being a threat in behind as a counter balance because his threat as that goes hasn’t been prevalent at all since he’s got here. Of the two I’d have Laca and feel confident his goal tally would improve with support (but he has age and more of a game over Auba for me). Unaai Know what you mean, I’d cash in on one of them if it meant a fresh impetus. Can’t explain or offer an idea of… Read more »

S Asoa

Valentin

Read you for the insight
But
“ meeting.What is Raul going to tell Kroenke? I nearly sign a player on which we banked the future of the club, but then because I tried to be too clever I lost the deal to our rival at the 11th hour.What is Edu going to say? Hi my name is Edu, I started yesterday. I used to play in the great Arsenal team, but now We really are in shit without a paddle.“
Going in a shit without a paddle is absolutely LoL.Classic

KAY Boss

Can we go for DELPH? Experienced pro and solves a problem area which is CM and he’s mobile of course. He will provide that needed experience and a good mentor for Luca. At the price of £10m and our financial constraints we should be all over the
deal and gazing eveerton to it.

Champagne Charlie

Kay

Hot no to that one. You act like an Everton and soon you’ll be one. We should be following the approach of Ajax, Dortmund et al.

Mr Serge

Marc as fellow ST holder the other day you said as long as you are not in the north bank . What did you mean by that ?

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Raul n Vinnie are the worst double act we could have wished for.

Dead club.

Un na naai

Cc

There’s nobody to get bums off seats next season

Maybe Nelson or another youth player can have a Michael Owen-esque effect. One can but dream. We need something to excite us. Just shows how spoiled we have been since 1996 though eh with the quality and skill we’ve been exposed to regularly at Highbury and the Emirates.

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Un

Even if Nelson or Eddie or Wilcox bosses it from the start, won’t be enough .

Company should pay off
Ozil
Mustafi

Most deflated approach to a season I can ever remember

Even under terry o Neil n don Howe there was a bit of optimism…

Soulless
Heartless
Clueless

I couldn’t care less …

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

The arsenal ashes …

Are available from the club shop in a Kroenke egg cup

Dissenter

Batistuta
What’s up man
Cheer up. It’s not like we are battling for relegation😀😀😀

I wonder why we didn’t try to get Delph. He’s going to be another steady reliable. no-frills player, like Milner had been for Liverpool.

Dissenter

Let Koscielny go for £2-3 million or let him by back the last year of his contract which is worth £4-5 million.
Bring an end to this silly standoff. Everyone knows he’s leaving this summer, whichever way it ends.

Dissenter

*buy back

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

The death of arsenal football club

Obituary will be in Monday’s times.

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

I remember reading last year that kos said this is his last yeR.

So not new news