EMERY BRUTALLY ENDS TWO PLAYERS

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The concept of the modern marathon was inspired by a Greek football fan that legged it from the site of Marathon to Athens to deliver a scoreline, the distance was 25 or so miles. The message was about an important game in which a Greek football team defeated a Persian one (they had good football back then). The messenger died, so to commemorate this heroic football nut, they have marathons around the world.

The point of my story is this… if Emery doesn’t achieve anything in his Arsenal career, but manages to shift on Elneny and Mustafi, I’ll name a special day after him. I’ll petition the club to give him a stand. I’ll get on the blower to the Pope and ask how you go about Sainthoods.

This is what Saint Unai said of the pair yesterday.

“They are very big players but for one circumstance or another they are going to have fewer chances to show their capacity or to be happy with us and the minutes they play in matches,” Emery said. “But they know the situation and really I am wishing the best for them. I think now the best for them is to be protagonists in another team and to get another challenge for themselves.”

“Last year with Mustafi and Mo, when they didn’t play they weren’t happy and I spoke with them a lot of times last year and this pre-season,”

“I think it is positive for them to leave and sign for another team where they can be protagonists and be happy and continue their careers.”

I firm up when I read vicious quotes like that. When did Wenger EVER talk that aggressively about his babies? Never.

I am also warmed to hear that the players like to play. Those two are too young to ride out a fat contract. By sitting on deals, they take themselves out of the shop window, their games get rusty and clubs around Europe frame them as a pair of Winston Bogarde’s. If you’re young, you should want to play football, even if that’s at a cost of a few grand a week.

To ride out a deal takes a special sort of person. Someone with a character big enough not to be impacted by the humiliation of being benched.

Both players have value. Mustafi has a lot of good going in his game. He’s played all around the world. He’s made of strong stuff. He just needs a really good defensive coach to beast him into not being so dim. Elneny is just at the wrong level of club. He needs to go to Italy or a middling club in Spain.

Both need to move off that wage bill.

In loan news, it was great to see Eddddddiiiiiieeeeeeee score his second goal at Leeds. I really think he could be a blistering talent if he’s given the chance. I love that he’s at Leeds learning under Bielsa. He’s going to learn to be more decisive, he’ll build confidence from the goals, he’ll get tougher under the brutal conditions of the Championship. It should be a very good year for him.

Hector Bellerin went OFF on the mighty Ceballos.

“I think Dani’s one of the best players I’ve seen in my career. I’ve played with him since we were like 18 or 19 years old. We’ve played in the under-21s, we get on really well off the pitch”

“He’s up for it & he’s a player who will go through thick & thin to do the best for his team. He’s got a great heart & he plays for everyone around him. I think he’s a great addition”

LOVE TO READ IT.

David Ornstein continues to drop beads of gold onto the newsfeed. Again, clarifying the authoritarian regime that Arsene Wenger ran.

Power really is a corrupting force. When you’re succeeding, the last thing you should do is build a team of yes men around you. That’s what Wenger did, then when things started to fail, he had no answers. He wanted to wear every hat. You do wonder what he could have achieved if he’d ripped out his back team and installed up and coming coaches. What would our trophy cabinet have looked like if he’d had a more powerful CEO next to him that insisted on owning the infrastructure?

Wenger could still be a player if he’d allowed other people to develop his ideas… but he didn’t, and now he’s watering the flowers in a very green garden in North London.

“The meetings used to be just between Kroenke and Wenger”@bbcsport_david on how changes in personnel at the top have made #Arsenal ‘more proactive in the transfer market’.

Right, that’s me done. Listen to this podcast before the Liverpool game tomorrow.

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Brutal but not before time, do wonder about making this so public. Conte was similarly brutal with Diego Costa and that had an adverse impact on his sell on value.

Zoran

Pedro, Not agressive enough for me. I miss Mhkitaryan in the list

Dream10

Unless we are certain to have a defender come in January, no way we should we sell him. He’s past his best, but he covers three positions, LCB, LB & LWB. With Chelsea and Man Utd capable of messing up, there’s a solid chance at CL football.

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@ pedro
The point of my story is this… if Emery doesn’t achieve anything in his Arsenal career, but manages to shift on Elneny and Mustafi, I’ll name a special day after him. I’ll petition the club to give him a stand.

Add ozil mkhi and xhaka to that list and we gonna write a petition to rename the arsenal stadium from emirates stadia to emeryte stadium…

Globalgunner

Mikhi and Ozil are not on the list because they are virtually impossible to sell or even give away. Xhaka will hopefully also be on the lame duck list by Xmas

Leftsidesanch

Our midfield selection tomorrow will go a long way to deciding this fixture.

Nelson

I think Klopp is going to put someone to shadow Ceballos. We need Guen to play along side him. Torr will be our DM. I like our midfield better than Pool’s midfield. Pool’s two FBs are way better than ours. It will be critical for our two wingers to push them back or at least keep them in check. We should send some long balls very early in the game for Auba and Pepe to run into. It would put some doubts in their FB’s mind. The game will be very interesting as long as we can keep the score… Read more »

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Words on a Blog

I like the approach:
First, at the beginning of the window, tell them, privately, that they are gonna be lame ducks if they stay.

Then, if they haven’t found themselves new clubs towards the end of the transfer window, tell the world that you’ve told them a long time ago that they are considered to be lame ducks and really need to find themselves some new clubs.

jwl

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Doomngloom

Thorough,Upemencano would be first choice.way b4 likes of kia havertz where his club is already looking for telephone nos ,something we def can’t afford. & slim chance of picking up caballos.therefore first things first I say.

The Kreonkes

if emery plays 3 at the back and still feeds in xhaka and guendouzi in the same starting xi, i am going to be emery out from tomorrow till emery finally gets the axe, even if it takes another 22yrs ….. except he manages to beat city to the league trophy

Nelson

This year, Emery has enough players for selection. He should focus on building an identity for the team. If Emeryball is playing out from the back and high pressing, he should select the right player for this tactics. If he thinks Xhaka is better than the other midfield options to play this tactics, then I would like him to explain this decision to the fans.

Guns of SF

Morning all.
Love hearing Emery coming out in the press with this.
It was not all blood and guts…. I think his assesment was spot on. They need to further their careers elsewhere are there are limited minutes for them. How can they now stay at the club after the manager says this?

Good for Emery to have some cojones

jwl

I wonder if Emery said this on his own initiative or was it collective decision with higher ups?

Singling out players publicly like Emery did if bosses disagree with coach’s assessment is bad idea, I assume there is group agreement that those two players need to be shifted elsewhere.

Receding Hairline

“Brutal but not before time, do wonder about making this so public. Conte was similarly brutal with Diego Costa and that had an adverse impact on his sell on value.” Nothing wrong with making it public This was even more brutal Wanyama has not featured this season and could leave before the end of the European window. ‘Football is not about yesterday,’ Pochettino said when asked about the midfielder. ‘It’s about today and you need to show every day. Victor was injured and others stepped up. ‘We are not a charity, not in this case about Victor, but we have… Read more »

Receding Hairline

“I think Klopp is going to put someone to shadow Ceballos”

I pity whoever it is then, Ceballos was giving the entire Burnley midfield the runaround, he has enough about him to easily shake a man marking operation

Gentlebris

That’s not Emery. Raul has his fingerprints all over that move, Emery just carries the parcel.
Emery too would get served if he failed top 4 target again.

Raul is the man.

Receding Hairline

A lot of cuddling has been going on at this club for long, not enough serving.

As long as someone is serving the under performers their just desserts i am fine

Champagne charlie

Pedro Have to partially disagree with you on the accountability angle re:Wenger, I don’t understand how you talk of authoritarian regimes and leave that at the feet of the manager? The continuation of that, and the enabling of such a structure is the biggest indictment on Arsenal FC. Always comes down to a very clear rehashing of past events for me, Wenger was a devil for having yes men around him and wanting control across the board. Absolutely no nod to the fact it should’ve been slowly altered along the way toward what we see of modern clubs today. We… Read more »

Receding Hairline

Well Klopp already expects Xhaka to start, over to you Emery, disappoint him.

Klopp: “Arsenal will make, I think, two changes? They will bring in Pepe, which will not make them weaker, and Xhaka. Good team, real pace, wow! But I look forward to these games.” #LFC

Receding Hairline

“Wenger would’ve either been the beneficiary of a system that served to extract the best from him as a football manager, ”

You cannot benefit from a system you never wanted or believed is necessary.

Receding Hairline

“Kroenke was meek, no doubt. Also didn’t have a clue what he was doing.”

Well Pedro if you purchased a club led by a god like figure i doubt you would want to get in his way.

I like how everyone acts like they would have been cool with Kroenke diluting Wenger’s power, something tells me it would have been met with protests a few years back.

Chitom

CC, before Pat Rice retired for health reasons as Wenger’s no 2 SAF had managed to go through five no 2’s at United in the same time.
I doubt he did that because of pressure from the United board to keep himself fresh and open minded to modern takes on football.

Receding Hairline

“The idea that Stan just had one true point of communication at Arsenal is quite a staggering indictment of his leadership.”

True

Why was Gazidis exempted from those meetings Pedro, wasn’t he the CEO? That guy was stealing a living here in someways

Receding Hairline

“CC, before Pat Rice retired for health reasons as Wenger’s no 2 SAF had managed to go through five no 2’s at United in the same time.
I doubt he did that because of pressure from the United board to keep himself fresh and open minded to modern takes on football.”

Exactly, you have to want change to benefit from it

Champagne charlie

Pedro I think expecting Wenger to police himself is a stretch, don’t recall too many scenarios in any walk of life where no accountability prospered. He was running the rule over all factions of Arsenal, guy was spread thin and the evidence of that is clear in his ‘2nd term’ if you will. Would’ve been great were he cognisant enough to do exactly that, but ultimately my overriding issue of that period was the manner in which we appeared to just coast as a football club. That’s a leadership failure, of which Wenger was complicit given his position as leader… Read more »

China1

The meetings just used to include wenger and kroenke fucking lol If I read this quote two or more years ago I’d be furious (tho unsurprised) tho with a new regime in tow and lots of positives in front of us, I hear stuff like that now and just think it’s funny What company does that? How many companies in the world don’t involve their CEO in half the meetings and just have a senior manager and major shareholder? Anyone who says that Ivan was ever trying is having a laugh. Any CEO worth a damn would never tolerate being… Read more »

Dream10

Leno

Sokratis Luiz Monreal
AMN Guendouzi Xhaka Kolasinac
Mkhi/Ceballos Lacazette Aubameyang

I think Mkhitaryan and Ceballos will be competing for one spot. Ceballos is the man in form. Mkhitaryan provides the effort and energy Emery likes. His quality is sporadic, but I think he’ll get the nod.

Champagne charlie

“You cannot benefit from a system you never wanted or believed is necessary.“ That’s why I said “either”, because either Wenger would’ve benefitted or he would’ve been replaced by someone to be the beneficiary. Either way Arsenal FC prospers above all…..which is the point. What Wenger would’ve adhered to or not is irrelevant, he had superiors. Chitom Fergie was a ‘better’, more self-aware manager than Wenger, i’m not sure pointing that out makes any dent in what Arsenal could’ve done different of the last decade. Wenger isn’t being held on a pedestal, I’m simply pointing out from my pov that… Read more »

chris

Gazidis hid behind Wenger, as CEO he should have been driving change. As has been said, he stole a living and to this day I can’t think of anything positive he changed at the club. Wenger didn’t want to change, his insistence of holding control of all technical matters even just a few months before it totally unravelled for him was telling. His stubbornness was part of his undoing. Stan should have realised this game before he sent Josh in to investigate. So there is blame to be had all around. However, we are on the right track now and… Read more »

Jamie

I’d bite your hand off for a point at Anfield.

We need a constant press and no defensive brain farts. Then a moment or two of magic from our strikers.

Receding Hairline

That was a nice read Olumide.

Especially the bit on that play between Ceballos and Guendouzi

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Dream10

Let’s hope that Emery doesn’t put out that XI, ever, then he deserves the boot.

No Pepe, Mikhi over Ceballos, Xhaka over Torreira, Monreal as CB in a back 5.

That’s just horrible on so many levels.

chris

At least Emery didn’t tell Mustafi and Elneny to find new clubs via text message. Still can’t believe Conte did that with Diego Costa. Shocking !

China1

The most frustrating thing about wenger doing everything was that it meant nothing got done We literally couldn’t sign players for the vast part of any window because ‘we are focusing on preparing for the pre season friendly in 2 days’ or the next game in January etc, or he was on holiday or whatever. We had zero value from any of our infrastructure because they were all redundant. Same for bould who started a promising n2 and was quickly relegated to a sitting egg on the sidelines and not much else. Then when wenger did get round to taking… Read more »

Receding Hairline

Jamie i really liked the way we played against them at the Emirates in the first leg last season, it was one of our best performances last season. The energy was there, the purpose.

Emery has had a whole weak to think about how he approaches this game, Liverpool have shown signs of weakness in all competitive games played this season

China1

Tbf Costa is the kinda guy who’d bite your face off if you told him you wanna bin him off to his face

chris

I’d love for someone to tell me exactly what Gazidis did on a daily basis.

I can imagine his old desk being full of notepads filled out with illustrations of murdered, decapitated women Patrick Bateman style.

China1

Ceballos’ most impressive quality is his balance He can carry the ball in a sprint, kill the ball dead, and reverse direction and accelerate up to a sprint in the reverse direction in the shortest time I’ve ever seen I’m not even sure how the initial forward momentum doesnt make it impossible lol. You don’t need to be blisteringly quick if you have the ability to drastically change directions in a split second without losing momentum. When you turn people like that your opposition get taken out of the game by their own momentum. It’s a rare and fabulous trait… Read more »

Guns of Hackney

Well, if I am as shit as Elneny and Mustafi, I would sit out my multi million pound contract that sets me up for life, then get a new club in a couple of years.

Once again, the players are not obligated to leave.

Good for Unai though. He’s showing leadership. He may be of some use this season.

China1

Lol Chris well I’d imagine a combination of that and making his boss arsene tea a couple of times a Day was about right

Struggle to think of anything else

Champagne charlie

Ceballos has a lot to live up to, dancing about at home against Burnley isn’t the acid test.

Our last win at Anfield? 2012 I think, when we won 2-0. Cazorla opening the scoring in his debut campaign. That’s the level.

Champagne charlie

Actually might’ve been Podolski in the purple kit that opened the scoring, Santi was just unplayable.

Guns of Hackney

As long as we don’t totally shit our pants tomorrow, I’ll be happy.

Receding Hairline

Liverpool finished 7th in 2012/2013 on 61 points, not really the same animal we are up against tomorrow. Even Cazorla would not “dance around” them at Anfield in 2019.

Champagne charlie

Receding

Don’t really care much for where they finished, Anfield has been a graveyard for us for years and they’ve been up and down in terms of overall league position. Takes a special player to rise to a game there, period. Arshavin, Santi, Ceballos drops another performance like last week and he takes a massive step towards proving his level.

Naturally that is lost on Mr.I don’t look for arguments.

China1

Guns they’re not obligated but they’ll look like total losers, waste a couple of years of their short careers and struggle to convince a team worth a damn that they’re worth taking a punt on for their next contract. It’s a false economy Imagine you’re 27 and earning 100k a week for example and you’re unwanted but have 2 years left on your deal. Another club comes in offering you a 4 year deal on 75k a week but you think I’m not obligated to leave so stay for two years on your 100k. That’s 50k extra for those two… Read more »

Sid

Dream10August 23, 2019 16:50:55
LenoSokratis Luiz Monreal
AMN Guendouzi Xhaka Kolasinac
Mkhi/Ceballos Lacazette Aubameyang

If he does this I will start taking tick tock seriously

jwl

Chris – I would love someone tell us what the supposedly workaholic Wenger did on a daily basis.

Didn’t due tactics/strategy during training, didn’t plan ahead to decide which players to buy during summer to improve squad.

I am mostly convinced Wenger spent last five or six seasons playing a lot of football manager on computer where his cockamamie ideas would still work.

Guns of Hackney

China

I’d take the cash and just relax.

China1

Also if mustafi ever had a hope of being a used player for Germany ever again he will likely have basically forced himself into international retirement if he sits out two years whilst the pipeline of younger better and hungrier players continues to work

Bang goes your chance of World Cup and euros etc

I don’t think it’s that hard to sell players on why they should leave, the benefits of leaving are clearly substantial

China1

lol that’s your call but like ozil, everyone would ducking hate you lol

Apart from Pierre 🙂

Pierre

Nice to see Ceballos have a couple of assists and put in a quality performance. Has to be said that the 2 “assists ” of Ceballos were exactly the type of assists that many on here never regarded as assists imagine if ozil had put a “meaningless” cross into the box for Lacazette to control the ball under pressure and slip the ball through the leepers legs….. or if he had accidently toe poked the ball to Aubalmayang 50 yards from goal whilst making a tackle , who then had to travel with the ball ,beat a defender and rifle… Read more »

China1

Also footballers are retired by their mid 30s

It’s not exactly a hard life is it haha.

Words on a Blog

GoH,

I’m getting slightly disconcerted by the positive tone of your recent posts….hope everything is ok?

Guns of Hackney

China

Honestly, I don’t think players have any scruples anymore. Cash is king and these players are multi millionaires many times over. I doubt they care about kicking a ball around in Burnley

Pierre

Its all about the first touch with Ceballos.

China1

Umm Pierre… how many tackles did ozil even manage last season in total…?

Gentlebris

‘Klopp: “Arsenal will make, I think, two changes? They will bring in Pepe, which will not make them weaker, and Xhaka. Good team, real pace, wow! But I look forward to these games.” #LFC’

This is where Klopp says it all:
‘Pepe,(WHICH WILL NOT MAKE THEM WEAKER, and XHAKA(WHICH WILL MAKE THEM WEAKER?)

Un na naai

Receding HairlineAugust 23, 2019 17:12:48
Liverpool finished 7th in 2012/2013 on 61 points, not really the same animal we are up against tomorrow. Even Cazorla would not “dance around” them at Anfield in 2019.

Rh

Come off it!!! Santi was a quality player, more than capable of running rings around this Liverpool midfield in his prime. He did it against city. Why not Liverpool? They are hardly defensive masterminds. You been watching them lately? Their high line is causing them all sorts of grief

China1

I’d even hazard a guess that Ceballos completed as many meaningful defensive actions or more in his first match than ozil did in the entirety of his season last year up until Christmas It’s hard for ozil to get credit for ‘tackle assists’ if he doesn’t tackle. Even harder to get such credit if he doesn’t get any assists all season. Even HARDER to credit ozil for tackle assists when you can’t even see him on the pitch and impossible to credit him for them when you realize he’s pretending to be sick so he can play fortnight But there… Read more »

Receding Hairline

I think a lot of revising has been going on about Santi of late, that is all i will say on the subject

Pierre

China
You seem quite intelligent so I imagine your comment of” how many tackles did ozil make last season” was you being deliberately stupid…

Guns of Hackney

“I think a lot of revising has been going on about Santi of late, that is all i will say on the subject”

This

Receding Hairline

China to be honest i never really considered those two actions as assists for Ceballos. I was more impressed at how he ran the game rather than the assists bit

Gentlebris

‘Ceballos has a lot to live up to, dancing about at home against Burnley isn’t the acid test.’

Dancing about?

If that was dancing then I wonder what footballing is.

China1

Receding likewise. I’ve raved about his entire performance from start to finish tho his tenacity for the second goal was great

Actually Pierre I am quite curious. Is there an available stat on how many defensive actions ozil completed last year?

Please don’t tell me he doesn’t have to do it because he doesn’t want to. If he doesn’t Ceballos doesn’t…yet Dani does it anyway… *x-files music plays*

China1

And Pierre your trolling is boring already, but you know full well that the reason why ozil doesn’t get a standing ovation for a simple pass to laca is that’s usually the bulk of what he’s actually contributed in the 90 minutes he’s played, whereas most players who get an assists also contribute an awful lot more over the course of 90 minutes

But you know that and have already admitted you come here to troll people. As you were.

Champagne charlie

“I think a lot of revising has been going on about Santi of late, that is all i will say on the subject“ Cazorla’s debut season for us in the PL alone he scored 12 and assisted 11, that was on top of the technical superiority people wax lyrical about now. Oh and our top goal scorer that year was Theo with 14, so he didn’t exactly have the talent we do now to support him. Apparently Ceballos has a different take on Cazorla too: “I think Santi Cazorla played some amazing football here and Cesc was the captain for… Read more »

Words on a Blog

Receding/GoH,

Revisionism?

Santi was one of the few true joys of the late Wenger era.

Beautiful to watch, beautiful person.

Receding Hairline

“Dancing about?If that was dancing then I wonder what footballing is”

Yes i actually found the dancing about bit weird too, like someone still isn’t pleased the kid had a good home debut, he was named in almost all teams of the week, didn’t know it was for dancing

But you all know i don’t like to argue

Gentlebris

‘China
You seem quite intelligent so I imagine your comment of” how many tackles did ozil make last season” was you being deliberately stupid…’

So asking to number Ozil’s tackles is stupid?

So what would you call it if I asked you to number his headers?

Can’t tackle, can’t contest for heading, pockets £18m a year playing football…..Like a top top pro driver who can’t reverse a car!

Receding Hairline

“But some revising has been done of late has it?”

Yes it has, i thought my post was clear

Jamie

Santi was our best midfielder since Cesc, no? Shame he never played with RVP.

Pierre

China
it’s very obvious what the point was that I was making …

I will leave you to your tackle stats , though I’m sure I could quite easily show you that Ceballos has made one tackle per game in the 2 games hes been involved in.

Really Not bothered about how many tackles he makes, if he makes one tackle per game for the rest of the season and puts in commanding performances like the weekend …that’ll do for me.

Champagne charlie

Jesus Christ, ‘dancing about’ is a reference to his play style and creative nature, have you never heard of a player dancing past a challenge?

What I mean is pretty obvious, turning it on at home against Burnley isn’t the test.

Gentlebris

‘I will leave you to your tackle stats , though I’m sure I could quite easily show you that Ceballos has made one tackle per game in the 2 games hes been involved in.’

Ozil would be fine if he made one tackle in five games.

Jamie

I wonder if Ozil will come out of hiding from under his wife’s dress for long enough to kick a ball this weekend?

Champagne charlie

“Yes it has, i thought my post was clear“

Clearly lacking any detail, just abstract bitchy comments against the usual names.

Gentlebris

‘What I mean is pretty obvious, turning it on at home against Burnley isn’t the test.’

You are a weak dick.

Did you have to lie?

Go check the context of your comment again and try to convince yourself that you were praising his dribbling skills again Burnley.

Dream10

Hope Ceballos can get to Özil’s peak level.
We’ll have a player on our hands.

Ceballos has a good energy off the ball.
He might look like a headless chicken at times. Having young CMs behind in Willock and Guendouzi will expose mistakes that he makes. Wonder if Emery will revert to Xhaka and Torreira in certain matches.

Seems it’s Xhaka/Guendouzi/Torreira/Joe
for two CM slots.

Gentlebris

‘I’d even hazard a guess that Ceballos completed as many meaningful defensive actions or more in his first match than ozil did in the entirety of his season last year up until Christmas’

What’s sad is that I don’t see any exaggeration in that.
Sad.

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