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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MidwestGun

On a positive note I found out I get the first preseason match on Monday on my Sat. TV network.. would like to see Martinelli play.. since that seems to be an Edu thing. I know you can’t judge much from a scrimmage especially against the Rapids who are terrible.. but give me something to do at least.

MidwestGun

Pedro- It might make sense to you… but do you honestly expect Edu to come in and appoint a new manager tomorrow.. because Kos is upset and the Saliba deal is messed up? I don’t see what changed in the last 2 days. For me Emery was always on a 2 year deal.. His mission was to get CL he failed.. he should have been sacked then. He wasn’t so clearly they think we can get by 1 more season.. so it’s how do we make the best of that.. Seems like a waste of energy to rail on Emery..… Read more »

Alexanderhenry

With the prevailing shit attitude at Arsenal, I don’t think the bigwigs have any Intention of firing Emery.
In fact, the way things are shaping up, I’d put a tenner on Emery quitting next season.

luke

Good thing Wenger hoarded all that cash for years while we needed to invest in our team to keep our best players happy and challenge for trophies. If he didn’t hoard all that cash we wouldn’t have been able to afford Mustafi and Xhaka later on.

Caligooner

Colorado rapids have been better in the last month or two. Even beat my LAFC who is a juggernaut in mls this season.

David Smith

Two completely different regimes, but the song remains the same, even worse if anything.
Time now to look at the real problem, and go right to the top. Yes we have had an assortment of buffoons running things, but the longer Stan has been here, the more he owns, the worse things get. That is NOT a coincidence, look at the way other his other clubs are run, maybe with the exception of his pet project in LA.
Make no mistake, Stan is well capable of relegating this club

David Smith

Alex H 2.01, you may be spot on. Wonder how long edu will stick it

Guns of SF

.Edusomethingggggg

Tony

So far Raul living up to all my previous posts about him being a waste of space and power monger:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/arsenal-make-hakim-ziyech-transfer-18194487

Sure Marko, CA and others will have comments on the above

4 weeks for Raul to prove his worth.

Graham62

David Smith

“Yes, we have had an assortment of buffoons running things, but the longer Stan has been here, the more he owns, the worse things get”

So so true.

asad

“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 is fantastic

Graham62

Arsenal have become “The Crystal Maze” of football.

Problems to solve at every corner.

Soul destroying.

Pierre

What this transfer window has told us is that it is very difficult to compete in the transfer market with limited funds unless you have very astute people behind the scenes who have the ability to recognise talented players around the world from an early age or talented players that have not fulfilled their potential at their respective clubs and need a new challenge. Sadly Arsenal have had neither since Wenger picked up players of the quality of Fabregas , RVP, Toure, Cliche,Nasri , .. Since that era , the recruitment, for whatever reason, has been poor….we have never been… Read more »

andy1886

Overpaid useless dross to work with. A management team who couldn’t close out a deal on a sandwich.

Yeah, it’s all Emery’s fault.

Gentlebris

‘Any? Scolari was the best they had and he was a flop.This appointment is absolute garbage and a complete waste of time.’ There was a job opening and they filled it with a guy whose character is agreeable, making sure things are not rocked for those pair in charge. Nothing ambitious about Edu’s hire, no statement there at all. I don’t think other clubs are saying ‘let’s sit tight, Arsenal have brought in Edu!’ Arsenal should be making statements with every hire now, and that’s why I don’t think buying unestablished players fit for now. Get out the cheque, sign… Read more »

andy1886

Cliche?? It’s Clichy , and he was pretty damn average at best. His main selling point was that he wasn’t Ashley Cole.

He had a major part in costing us the title in 2008, here’s what TR7 had to say about the penalty he gave away in the Eduardo game:

“I remember the Birmingham game and what happened to Eduardo. The lads were winning 2-1 but then in the last minute Gael gave away a really stupid penalty,” Rosicky told the Sun.

andy1886

And Nasri had six good months before deciding to crap all over Wenger and the club and orchestrate a move. We all know about RvP of course….

I’ll give you Toure, and certainly Cesc until he also decided to walk. Glad you didn’t mention Gervinho or any of the trolley dash heroes we spunked money on after the 8-2 at OT.

Gentlebris

‘Sadly Arsenal have had neither since Wenger picked up players of the quality of Fabregas , RVP, Toure, Cliche,Nasri , ..’

Pierre,

Sadly you forgot to mention great talents like Sanago, Mustafi, Xhaka, Perez just to mention a few.

Champagne Charlie

Arsenal had the quality enough last season to make top 4, people are always desperate to lose sight of that or plain flat earth their way around it. But the club knew Rambo, Cech, Welbz, Licht, and Ospina we’re going since January and we’ve done exactly nothing to mitigate those first set of objectives related to the squad. That’s before addressing who to actively get rid of, replace, or sacrifice to build toward a ‘better’ balance. We got business done early last summer and then it went stale and we looked into the season, we’ve burned bridges with Sven and… Read more »

TOLI83

The most important man in the club is Kronke.

If Edu feels Kronke doesn’t harbour the right ambitions or Kronke can’t comprehend he has given a load of cash wrongly to Gazidis and Wenger to waste then he won’t buy into it, because the management team of present are paying for it. Kronke made the wrong calls several of times, it isn’t wrong for the fans to think he can go above and beyond to rectify that.

The squad needs an overhaul, the buck stops with him. Fine sacking Gazidis & Wenger but far far too late.

Ishola70

Champagne Charlie “Arsenal had the quality enough last season to make top 4” No Arsenal didn’t have the quality to finish top four last season. That Arsenal finished so close to Spurs was because they had an absolutely abysmal last part of the season which was probably due to them having their eyes on their CL run. Arsenal finished not too far away from Chelsea because they had teething problems with Sarri in the first half of the season. Arsenal’s squad is not better than Spurs. Chelsea overall although they have regressed stil have a better squad all round. To… Read more »

Un na naai

We should have sold Aubameyang. He is hit shit right now being a golden boot winner and there is a dearth of quality strikers in Europe. We have two. Aubameyang is 30 now and will be useless in the Premier league by next season or the season after. This is short termism plain and simple. An additional £80m could have secured all of our targets with change to spare. Emery failed several times at the tail end of the season when handed chance after chance after chance and to compound it all was drubbed by Chelsea We have what looks… Read more »

Ishola70

And if Emery fails then the charlatan that employed him Gazidis who is long gone is to blame.

To bring in a manager that looks like he has no real capability to improve the defensive issues that have plagued the club for so long is just poor judgement from Gazidis yet again.

Valentin

Maybe the reason Sven was difficult to deal with was because he wanted things to be done quickly and efficiently, German Methodology.
No point in being nice and proper with people. Getting done and out.

Seems that Raul’s method is discussing things lunching, siesta, negotiating, going for dinner and let the minion sweat the details. Except that if you don’t have the pull of Barcelona, with that approach you never close deals.

Arsenal failing to conclude deal for Saliba and Tierney after spending most time on them, would be the proof of the sheer incompetence of our new overlords.

Up 4 grabs now

I think it’s time to bite the bullet and accept that the next few years will be tough. With little money to spend, and only a couple of players worth good money, we need a different approach. We nearly fluked it last season with nobody really wanting to cement a champions league place. Utd the spuds and Chelsea have there own problems so maybe that gives us some hope for this season? We need to go with youth, with some old heads and experienced players as well. Zaha and the high end transfers won’t happen unless Stan coughs up, and… Read more »

Graham62

We need two things to happen if we are to get out of this hole.

1. Aliens to land on our planet.
2. The Arsenal fanbase to unite and rise as one.

Chris

Valentin

Judging by Sven’s swiftness in Stuttgart in regard to a revolving player door I would agree. He has been a busy bee down there.

This summer has been as flat as a pancake besides an exciting Brazilian kid who we probably won’t see for months and a snazzy kit video.

Up 4 grabs now

Chris, Sven is probably moving on average players on low end salaries.

Unfortunately our duds are on premier league top end salaries and won’t budge.

Even mid table clubs who are minted would turn there nose up at our lot.
Nobody in Europe is clamouring to get the likes of Xhaka mustafi, eleneny or ozil.

Ishola70

Reports were that yes Mislintat was a difficult character to work with and wasn’t seen as fitting in with whatever PR image Arsenal want to portray. But from the footballing aspect he was a loss.

This Sanhelli has shown nothing so far and if he doesn’t buck up it will just confirm suspicions that he is in the jon because of who he knows rather than great capabilities.

Up 4 grabs now

Graham, there’s more chance of aliens landing on Concorde piloted by Elvis, than the arsenal fan base uniting!

Caleb

It is high time we realized that the cluster fuck at Arsenal took years, 10 to be precise, to arrive at. The moment we ended up scrapping for UCL after leading by 11 points in March that was enough for Wenger to walk and didn’t From them on the nonsense began, bringing in dross. I member the Reading game with Chamakh up top and I can’t stop thinking how horrible it a felt And as for you Pedro, consistently being inconsistent is not a trait so pleasing to the people that take time to read this blog. All of us… Read more »

Chris

Up for grabs I get that in terms of salaries etc the likes of Mustafi and Mesut are nigh on impossible to move on, however we still have Jenkinson, Elneny, etc stinking up the place and have taken an age to get incoming deals over the line. I get the idea Sven may have been more ruthless. Difficult to work with may also equate to actually getting things done for the better of the club rather than being afraid to upset people. Totally agree about the big earners though, they are likely to be with us for a whole yet… Read more »

Un na naai

Ishola

Anyone could see emery was not the man for us when wenger left
He is our David Moyes. We needed fresh ingredients instead we got stale bread

Ishola70

It’s telling that Chambers hasn’t been sold off in previous seasons with these loans out.

He like Elneny still has three years to run on his contract.

These two although not to the same degree as the first team players are still sitting on pretty wages in relation to what they have actually offered to Arsenal on the pitch.

Valentin

Looks like we are now looking at cheaper alternative to Tierney.
https://twitter.com/jeorgebird/status/1149712555922919426?s=19

Maybe because now we need to spend money on 2~3 CBs. One to replace the now non-coming Saliba. One to replace the leaving Koscielny. And one to potentially replace Mustafi.

Up 4 grabs now

Chris,

The problem is with the likes of jenkinson and Eleneny, they haven’t played much over the last two years and when they have, haven’t looked great.
Eleneny must be on 50-60k which for smaller clubs is still big money and European team’s don’t have the premier league money.

Sky are reporting that Roma are offering alderweireld 3.2 million a season.
That’s about 60k a week a player miles better than what we’re flogging.

T

Ishola70 Rauls responsibility is to be the watchman.. everybody else is accountable to him. The technical director is responsible making the grunt work of searching and hiring the coaches and players. the coaches are players are responsible of day to day performance on pitch. that is why raul and winai said in the big interview that edu is responsible of the clubs footballing identity in the long term while the coaches and players implement it in the short term. IE… if raul isnt happy with the teams performance next year he will pressure Edu to make big changes to either… Read more »

Chris

Ishola

The way things are going Chambers will have a much bigger part to play this season for us.

Ishola70

Un na naai “Anyone could see emery was not the man for us when wenger left He is our David Moyes. We needed fresh ingredients instead we got stale bread” What was needed was a manager that would change the culture. And changing the culture doesn’t just boil down to the players running around more although that in itself is not a bad thing more work rate in the side. It needed a manager that was serioously going to work on Arsenal’s defensive issues that have been a hindrance to the club for so long. It looks like Gazidis didn’t… Read more »

CG

Neil Lennon on Tierney. “””””He had the double hernia and he still has the Osteitis pubis problem”””” Stay Clear.Crock Alert! Imagine Unai trying to explain that injury to the press every week. (His new teeth would fall out…) Taking of Unai – didn’t he and Raul look rather fetching in their shades and shorts yesterday Stateside. Credit to Edu – shirt and slacks on . He at least looked ready to DO some work! The 2 Spaniards cant believe their luck. They are on a Jolly Up – at our expense.. They ,off course will have their backers on here… Read more »

Ishola70

T

So why all this nonsense about Raul’s big book of football contacts?

KAY Boss

I’m shockprise that almost 3weeks to the start of the new season and no signing of note made yet? Wow! Incredible! Perhaps we miss Sven. Say what u like about him but his first transfer window we moved and closed deals earlier.

OleGunner

Once again Pedro absolves Kroenke of EVERYTHING.

Pathetic.

You want Raul sacked-Kroenke has the power
You want emery sacked-Kroenke has the power
You want special sauce manager-Kroenke has the power
You want extra money for transfers-Kroenke has the power

Get your head outta your CG infected ass hole, wake up and smell the coffee and realise Kroenke having ZERO interest in Arsenal is what will kill us.

Spanishdave

I am lost who hires and fires the manager now.
We seem to be collecting directors more than players.
It looks like we cannot get rid of the dross so what’s the plan, they won’t be busting a gut for our club.

CG

Un “”””We should have sold Aubameyang.””” Maybe – there is a footballing argument to be made for this. But when you see the Fotos And we can only rely on Fotos. Because no one either doesn’t want to ( Raul) or cant( emery) do Press conferences. He is The only one always smiling. Imagine if he left the place….? If as PedRo states- the place is flat as it ( hardly a surprise)and like a morgue- one can only wonder what it would be like if the cheery Gabon and his ubiquitous smile left us.. I would imagine the Spirit… Read more »

Chris

Up for grabs The wages for those guys are smaller, even if they are still too much for the quality of player, but it might be easier to make deals for them which involves a slightly lesser fee Raul just hasn’t appeared to have done much at all, if anything. Sven may have been a hot head and maybe that’s why he didn’t fit in. He would have wanted to have got things done and been frustrated by the lack of desire by others around him to do so quickly. A lack of urgency is what has been apparent about… Read more »

Spanishdave

Kroenke being uninterested in the way the club is run, must be unique in football and we have to put up with it?
The fans have to turn against him by staying away from games and protesting.
I think this season will be toxic as now it seems the players have no direction or purpose.
What a mess

Emiratesstroller

Pedro The reality is that Arsenal’s transfer business has been a mess for a very long time. The priorities for me are the recruiting of management who know how to plan properly and then putting the house in order the next three transfer windows. I made the case many times that the first step is to offload the dross at the club. Realistically I don’t believe that most of the players who we wish to offload will generate much transfer income, because their wages are in many cases too high for their current level of performance. The first priority for… Read more »

CG

Well said Spanish

“”””The fans have to turn against him by staying away from games and protesting.”””””

And CG has the Solution.
It’s easy.
Like most things…

Why dont Arsenal fans boycott the Home Loosers Cup Group matches

That’s a start.
3 matches …… to get the ball rolling…
Get some momentum building

Who in their right mind goes to them anyway!!!

Walt perhaps!!??

Chris

If only there was a way to ‘tank’ like in American Sports ie Chicago Cubs and come back a few years later all guns blazing. This would be the summer to do that!

The reality is our dross are going nowhere but would you even trust the club right now to not extend the contracts of some of them? For example if Xhaka is made captain he will be a fixture for years to come.

Leftsidesanch

By the looks of it, the “big wigs” have travelled for the Arsenal USA tour. It’s not unreasonable to lean toward the thinking that no strides will be made whilst this tour takes place.

I keep on saying, the likelihood is that this Arsenal side go into the season unchanged from the previous.

This was once a prideful club to follow with genuine ambition. Lord knows what happened.

TR7

I would rather have Chambers in my team than Mustafi. Holding, Chambers, Sokratis and Monreal should be our 4 center back options if we don’t have money to buy a new CB.

TR7

We have Mavrapanos too.

Ishola70

Chambers needs to show that he has lost his soft aspect.

Nice enough footballer at CB but too many times soft.

Typical Wenger signing for CB.

China1

Arsenal are a shaaaaambles

Rambo Ramsey

“This was once a prideful club to follow with genuine ambition. Lord knows what happened.”

Kroenke happened, my man.

Kroenke happened.

Up 4 grabs now

TR7,

Chambers has had two good loans now playing at Boro, almost getting promoted.
And a relegation dogfight being player of the season at Fulham.

He’s got a lot more experience since he played regularly for us, would definitely rather seem him and the big Greek than anyone else at the moment. If he plays well holding can be eased in rather than rushed back.

China1

TR7 agreed

Chambers isn’t top class but he’s not one of our biggest concerns. He’s also a better backup RB than AMN so I’d be comfortable with him staying.

The only reason he’d be worth selling is that it would generate a bit of cash, but then we’d be weakening our already shite defensive unit for it. Not sure we really win in the end

Guns of Brixton

Chambers found his level at Fulham imo.

Remains to be seen if he can step up to the big leagues but there has been little evidence for it.

I would allow him stay because we are so desperate and he did do very well on loan last season.

Guns of Hackney

Look, the Arsenal hierarchy have decided that making money is where they want to be…and they are doing well. Think about it, we just signed a mega deal for kits…kerr ching. What did Arsenal have to do exactly for that deal? Not much. Tickets are always sold. Tv cash, in the bank. My god, Arsenal are the holy grail of any investment dream: low spend for high returns. The football is secondary I’m afraid. We have to have a team so we sort of do…I bet if Stan could avoid the actual kicking the ball bit, we would completely cease… Read more »

Guns of Brixton

Jenkison on the other hand …

Just kick him out. Terminate his contract!

TR7

Ishola

‘ Chambers needs to show that he has lost his soft aspect.’

Well it’s something which can easily be worked upon and improved. He is a better reader of the game than Mustafi and relies on his technique unlike Mustafi who goes sliding in all his challenges.

Un na naai

Ishola

Maybe not a complete culture change but to change the elements that needed changing. Work rate, attitude, defensive awareness, tactical awareness.

Ishola70

TR7J
“’Well it’s something which can easily be worked upon and improved.”

I’m not so sure.

It looked like he lacked toughness on too many occasions when in an Arsenal shirt.

Sometimes that can’t be resolved. It’s just in the person’s genes and is a characteristic.

Put it this way I don’t trust Chambers at this point.

Would have to show more steel in his play for me to be trusting of him.

Up 4 grabs now

Ishola, who do you trust more chambers or mustafi?
That’s starting to look like our opening day options partner for sokratis.

Graham62

Sitting up here on the fence overlooking the Emery reign, it’s not easy to put things into perspective. The daily squabbles on here prove that. However, there are a few things I do know that leads me to believe that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. 1. If Arsene Wenger and Ivan Gazidis had stayed, it would have been far far worse. 2. Fact. Emery inherited a total shitfest left by the old regime which has to be totally eradicated. 3.Fact. Kroenke is culpable in all of the above and needs to be pressurised to either… Read more »

Up 4 grabs now

Graham, you had me at

1. If Arsene Wenger and Ivan Gazidis had stayed, it would have been far far worse.

Guns of Hackney

Normally I would agree but…

Wenger still had power over current players and incoming players. Emery has zero pulling power. None.

I’m not defending Arsene but the man did crazy better than anyone.

Un na naai

Can’t believe Leicester got Tielemans
What a signing

TOLI83

Sell Aubamayang?!

He’s our top goal scorer and Tallisman.

Selling him would be the icing on the cake for a truly toxic summer, whatever money we get we have shown we are inept at converting it.

Top clubs don’t continually sell their best players.

As I said until Kronke is interested the lot underneath won’t feel the drive or the mission because it doesn’t look like their is one.

Ishola70

Up 4 grabs now:
“who do you trust more chambers or mustafi?
That’s starting to look like our opening day options partner for sokratis.|”

Well it’s not a good situation all round is it.

The likelihood is though that Emery puts in Mustafi ahead of Chambers.

With Chambers because of his past inclination to show brittleness you could get away with him against teams that don’t rough up in attack. Not really physical upfront. That’s if he hasn’t toughened up while away on loan.

chris

Graham Your point number one is bang on. They both had to go. I don’t think anyone here is pro Emery, I’d be amazed (and disappointed) if he was still here in 12 months unless he performs a miracle. He isn’t the biggest issue we have though. It’s always been Stan. He is a disease that needs to be eradicated but I honestly don’t see how. He is in it for the long haul, he thinks we will eventually end up in a lucrative European Super League which will be a somewhat closed shop like MLB , NFL and the… Read more »

Victorious

So links to a CB from Benfica, Ruben Dias? With just the paltry 54M as release clause then, lol.. Another deal if true when we likely end up get laughed at, when will this club stop embarrassing themselves? Clubs appear to be a total shambles this moment , I mean absolulely no plan and embarrassingly pissing off clubs by continuously low balling for players ,how does the budget of a newly promoted Aston villa completely blow ours out of the water? Absolutely not supporting this club next season if the likes of Mustafi, Elneny,Jenkison,and Xhaka are still a mainstay in… Read more »

Up 4 grabs now

Ishola,

At least there’s a chance that chambers may have learnt from his mistakes.
I don’t think mustafi can.
Would rather see chambers given a chance.

Just Another Customer

Yeah CG sound argument that we don’t want the 80m from Auba just his cute little smile from the cheerly Gabon lad to liven things up.

Victorious

So who gets the armband next season?

Obviously not going to be Ozil as the manager don’t like him

Hopefully not Xhaka or Sok. The former is a calamity whilst the latter will likely get sent off in just too many matches

So Bad is the situation currently we have absolutely nobody resembling a leader in the entire squad

I will chance my arm and make Holding the captain, couldn’t get any worse

Just Another Customer

Last summer looks all positive but this one is drab passionless turgid of all even Wenger gave us excitement with his last minute bargain bin shopping spree or the occasional Arshavin or Ozil.

If any of our strikers get injured I honestly think we’ll be in a relagation battle, that’s how bad we are. Hate saying told you so, but in regards to people who thought kroenke would be our abramovich….told you he’d screw us over

Champagne Charlie

Ishola

Please drop the ridiculous pretence.

We were 3rd with 6 games left against teams that finished below us, we quite clearly had the requisite quality

Neither Spurs nor Chelsea were spectacularly better/worse than the previous season. We failed our responsibilities, period.

We’re now showing absolutely no ounce of savvy to take steps forward.

Gentlebris

I don’t understand what Edu offers in scouting, football efficiency and overall pitch monitoring that Sven doesn’t offer double. Vinai and Raul must have ganged up against Sven for daring to shake the table, if they didn’t get rid of him he would have laid their gross incompetence bare for all to see. So they went to Stan: ‘Mr Kroenke, we think it might have been a mistake hiring Mr Minslitat. The man has other ideas that clearly don’t support the culture you want preserved at Arsenal. And now he thinks we should give him even more responsibilities. We think… Read more »

Ishola70

Charlie

To imply that Arsenal have a better squad than Spurs and Chelsea is as already said just peddling untruths.

It’s already been explained to you the reasons why Arsenal finished as close as they did to Spurs and Chelsea.

And yet you claim that Arsenal had the “quality” to finish top four.

Tell us these “qualities” of the team that should have ben top four.

Marc

I know I shouldn’t but I’ll bite.

CG – Your knowledge of Arsenal is pathetic. You mentioned boycotting the EL group stage matches – I already have for the last 2 seasons and so did thousands of other ST holders, have you not seen the attendance figures? Because the matches aren’t a sell out you also cannot put your ticket on ticket exchange so ST holders know they are throwing circa £100 quid away.

China1

Relegation battle?

Take a deep breath. We are shit by major club standards but still better than much of the dross in the PL even on a bad day

Marc

Someone referenced the post from 2 days before this one about Pedro going from “5 years till we win the CL” to utter despair. Just a point on this – what’s happened between the 2 posts. Kos has acted like a petulant child and gone on strike and there’s a rumour that the Spud’s are trying / have hijacked the deal for Saliba. So a player that many on here were saying is washed up or hasn’t been good enough for years has played a hand that means he’ll never kick a ball for the club again and a deal… Read more »

Marc

“Hate saying told you so, but in regards to people who thought kroenke would be our abramovich….told you he’d screw us over”

I have never heard anyone suggest or even give an indication that they think Kroenke would be our Abramovich.

Where do some of you get this shit from?

China1

We have a small budget because the club constantly thinks it’s being clever by self imposing dumbass financial restrictions on itself

And the times when it does loosen up a bit it’s absolute clowns left with the responsibility of spending it. No way it works out well

englandsbest

Pedro yo-yos, one post he is up, the next he is down, Just like the rest of us fans. Speaking of myself, I have always identified Stan as the major villain, raising the ticket prices sky-high in that first year at Emirateswas enough for me. People who focused 100% on Wenger misunderstood me. They thought I was pro-Wenger. Well. I have yoed-yoed a little on Stan. I wish he was gone, I wish he’d sold out to Usmanov, but that did not happen, He is here, and the season-ticket holders lack the will to get rid of him. (I sympathise… Read more »

Gentlebris

‘Absolutely not supporting this club next season if the likes of Mustafi, Elneny,Jenkison,and Xhaka are still a mainstay in the team, coupled with the clowns in charge, no way, thanks’

Then you are definitely not supporting Arsenal next season because Xhaka is contesting for CAPTAINSHIP as we speak.

Graham62

Even in our 22 game unbeaten run we flattered to deceive. I think we can all agree on that. We were close to top 4 because others faltered. What happened in our last six games came down to attitude. Both our players and our manager failed in their responsibilities to understand the importance of focusing 100% on every game. A unfortunate trait that we have had at the club for many many years. As for our squad being good enough, I’m not so sure. What I do know though is that the weight of having players like Mesut Ozil in… Read more »

Marc

englandsbest Without getting into a long drawn out debate on Kroenke I’d say he’s a hands off owner who puts people in to run the club and in general allows them to get on with it. Where we’ve seen him move away from this is when the value of his investment is under threat ie Wenger getting one season to get us back in the CL – when it became clear he’d fucked it up the second season he was gone. I’d be interested to know what Sanllehi and Venkatesham have given him as a plan for the short, medium… Read more »

Marc

Graham

I’ll meet you in Epping Forest – I’ll bring the shovel you can dig the shallow grave. You may have to dig it big enough for 2 though as I don’t think Pierre will let go even when Ozil’s dead.

Spanishdave

There were large protests at Man U and at Liverpool which did result in changes to the owners attitudes.
We will get protest but only when the soft core of fans wake up , and that will only happen if the results are poor and we become mid table.
I think Emery will go and Freddie will take over and that will happen before Xmas.
If moral is low Emerys pigeon English babbling will not motive them.
I think the players will not play for him now

Leftsidesanch

‘Absolutely not supporting this club next season if the likes of Mustafi, Elneny,Jenkison,and Xhaka are still a mainstay in the team, coupled with the clowns in charge, no way, thanks‘

You’ll have to watch as a neutral next year because they will all be here.

Leftsidesanch

We just need for Emery to come out and say Good Ebening in the middle of the afternoon as usual and tell us that Bellerin, Holding, Nelson etc will be like new signings.

Clown FC.

This club is indefensible, we’ve been patient for too long, too many excuses have been made. Call it for what it is.

Bob N16

In a parallel universe Graham your definitive statement that without Ozil we would have made top 4 could be proved or disproved. Without access to a parallel, Ozil-less universe I think the obvious focus of our attentions, should be on our defence. There is no way we will improve if we don’t bring in, a starting LB and CB. As ES and others have considered, it’s probably going to be next summer when we’ll off-load Mhiki, Ozil and Mustafi. With one year left on their contracts, they’ll be easier to shift. I know it’s unlikely but I would focus my… Read more »

Un na naai

Aubameyang is not our best player
Not even close
He turns up for 1-2 mins a game
He’s 30 and not needed. Time to cash in

Nelson

I wonder what is the moral of the team, seeing the captain got hung out to dry. No body approves Kos’s action. The way the board issued two short sentences makes me think that there is a story behind this. Some suspect that the club had given Kos a promise but didn’t honor it after the lost to Chelsea in the final.

I can also imagine those satisfying faces of the SPUDs supporters seeing how this club becomes a joke in the football world. I can’t see many sponsors would want to associate themselves with this club.

Marc

I didn’t realise this Arsenal team is so good it doesn’t need a 22 goal player.

Marc

Nelson

The main rumours are that Kos expected to be let go for free and is pissed off we want a fee. I’m sure if he’d been made a promise his agent would’ve had that all over the papers.