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’.
📲⚽️https://t.co/0kUniWPgQm pic.twitter.com/hYbAsfqO5M
— BBC 5 Live Sport (@5liveSport) August 20, 2019
Right, that’s me done. Listen to this podcast before the Liverpool game tomorrow.
We need a goal
It seems Auba was offside and the goal would have been called back, had he scored
Alex
Nice Pea of shit
Mayday Mayday!
It’s tactical issues here. Playing from the back does not work. Kick it forward.
Our midfield is too light. Guen was a D2 player in France, should never be anywhere near our first team.
Xhaka ducked and Sold and Luiz threw their bodies in line.
Comprendo ?
Even the academy Chelsea players ain’t this bad against Liverpool
Why is Sokratis holding his balls? It hit his back
Fucking wank
Pool going for blood can still counter them…. score one and we are still in it
Bob
Player for player we are well off the other top 4 teams.
Your dreaming if you think otherwise
“It’s tactical issues here.”
Was “miss sitters” part of Emery’s game plan?
We still haven’t recovered from the second goal could get ugly if we don’t wake up now
I can’t wait for Bellerin to return.
AMN has his attributes but he’s not a defender
This is like a five minute hockey power play for LP.
Subs need right about now
Luiz being Luiz…………………………why anyone would think a short trip across London would make him better is baffling
Told you
He’s a clown. He even comes complete with a stupid wig
Ah well
He has to change it really, especially that midfield
vickingz
Seems you’re trying to make a name for yourself here
Keep up the good work.
@Bap, of course, only that he’s not having a day off, this is what he does.
Aubameyang has to do better against the top sides. This was my issue with Alexis who didn’t score away to the PL top 6 for us.
8 points from 66 away from home against top 6 teams, that’s pathetic
We’re shouldn’t even be playing teams like Liverpool…they’re way too good and totally out of our league
Men against boys at the moment..
But early days for this team
Guendouzi being dispossessed and bullied off the ball too easy. Time for some changes. Torreira is he available?
The quality gap between us and Liverpool now is as big as between ourselves and Bayern or Barca in any of those humiliating CL nights. Just a complete different tier of club atm.
Luiz mistake again. Oh well.
Getting ugly Salah destroyed Luiz
GD will haunt us
save this post
Liverpool bit too much for Ceballos. Should not be kept to lose confidence.
Xhaka out of the ground. Lava in.
We are 3 down on spiral down something revolutionary reqd like youngster Saaka
Some defending
Fuck off D Luiz.
Luiz iz havingba shocker today
In fairness he couldn’t commit a professional foul there because he was on a yellow card already.
@ Dissenter, watch the game and don’t try bring me into this like i’m the one who prepared this team
Yup I’m out guys
hahhahha when you replace clown with a clown too
3😥
Commentator: new Arsenal, same result.
Maaaaan tough to.watch this
Lol lol lol…did you see Luiz the clown there?!?! Just like v Son last season at Wembley
I wonder if Receding buttcrack will be up here defending all things present Arsenal the next few days.
No Tomtom, Chelsea and Manu are certainly not better than us, Spurs debatable. Don’t get carried away about losing to Liverpool away.
3 goals down… nothing has changed from Wenger days. Poor tactics from Emery going in to the game.
Is luiz really better 5han chambers …
No.
I’ve switched off..
Fucking useless.
So easy…………I really didnt want this to be a messy away defeat but there ya go
Da is Luiz eaten for breakfast yet again
Where are you cc? Pedro? Marko you mong?
Emery fails with emery’s team
Now shit the fuck up and let’s get rid of Luiz and emery
Pepe could score this goal of Salah if he gets some confidence. Really early in our project.
Emery keeping Cellabos on is a joke.
Our build up play is ridiculously slow compared to Liverpool.
Oh well.
Bring Mustafi back into the team. The clown with the shit hair do is not upgrade. He’s fucking terrible., the shit cunt.
And that’s how you finish!!
Well played salah
Fuck off you Scousers
I don’t have to be a coach to know this selection and formation is self destructive. Are we even fighting for any ball?
Needed subs at half
From Twitter
“Well, this is classic Arsenal under Unai Emery. All the incompetence of the late Wenger era with none of the fun.”
Blown away in 20 minutes
Torreira in
Arsenal are passing for the heck of it, Liverpool is passing effectively. That’s all on Emery
Well i just saw that we are 3-0 down to pool of piss.
I fucking jinxed it all right. Goddamn it!!!!
I suppose hoping for a draw is too much to ask….. -_-
They just allowed a fifty yard worm-burner of a pass to one of the best scorers in football.
Great a idea getting Liverpool to kick to the Kop end 1st half….made a big fucking difference that has….loooooool?
Another trashing.
Luiz cunt again
Could be 7 here
new edgy look from Torreira
Too late Torreira
Emery has to look at himself. He’s giving us no chance with these tactics. Liverpool are a great team. Better than us. But we’ve made it easy in terms of space and lack of threat going forward.
Auba has been poor today though.
Energy levels apart his movements aren’t that great.
🤢 🤢
Emery and Luiz
Joke
xhaka is an asshoole
Gosh, emery’s a fool even with this sub, he just confirmed it
Everyone can now shut the fuck up about Dani Ceballos
Dani golden boy Ceballos… Ooh he’s better than Cazorlaaa
Embarassing.
Chambers would have been better than Xhaka in that midfield. And Torreira for Guen.
Its like driving a sports car on 3 wheels
Will they get rid of xhara.
Vaunt is to nice a word…
Worst plater at the club.
Salah la’ vie.
Chalk and cheese.
This game gives us more scope to see where we are exactly , more so than Newcastle and Burnley , this could be a lot worse , we’re building something and we have players still to come back to full fitness it’s not all doom and gloom. Every single person on here has seen us a lot worse against pool , with allegedly better players …
We are clueless
Why does every one of our defenders play tight to jump the man for the ball, meaning they can be turned so easily? All of them.
Our lack of pace in defence is brutally exposed at times.
Tierney and Bellerin will make a huge difference you’d hope. Emery is 2nd rate though I’m afraid, Liverpool are class sadly but this second half showing has been limp dick.
EL final II
Ceballos should have been off at halftime.
He doesn’t have intensity for this type of classic PL game.
@ Rambo ramsey, he’s indeed better than cazorla
Static play from the back vs Klopps team brilliant tactics.
Way too easy this
What’s the point of persisting with Xhaka??????? And as much as I want to like Guendouzi, he shouldn’t be starting these games.
Emery isn’t better than Wenger for all the bullshit chatting here
We’re getting the thumping we set out to avoid, this after £150m spent
just score one please
Good point m
Chamber in for xhara
Deffo
The tactics appear to be:-
“get out there and shit the bed lads, make it look like we haven’t got a fucking clue what we’re doing. I need you to play like clowns, enjoy yourselves boys”
I fucking despise Klopp. He’s a fucking cuntish wanker.
Pepe said has telepathy with Lava. Our Inferiority Complex Waiter will NOT bring Laca
The coach has to go. Clueless.
70 million on Pepe and he misses an easy chance, defense falls apart.
Emery should be sacked for not fixing the defense.
Klopp sees the obvious problems and fixes them, we don’t
Same play. Pepe didn’t score but the Pool did.
Thankfully we won’t have to deal with Santi-Ceballos debate anytime soon.
This is what happens when you play Xhaka and the likes of AMN. The sooner these two are out the team the better we’ll perform in big games. I never expected us to win cause I knew Emery would draft Xhaka back in the team. We have serious issues in midfield we need actual two serious DM (since this foolish manager won”t play Torreira there) and a CB. Sok and Luiz is not going to work against the big teams either. Nice attack and all but whats the point if your midfield is shit defensively and even shitter in defence.… Read more »
Laca is needed in the middle. Better late
Is amn improving
I don’t think so..
Very very poor player who gives the impression he don’t give a fuck…
Three years in and still as bad as he was.
I’m done with emery now.
Abundance of attacking options sets up this team uselessly. No aim, nothing.
I’ll make a statement that all season Pepe Laca and auba will hardly start together in games due to emery not knowing any system to play them in.
He has no idea how or what to do for us.
He isn’t taking us forward at all.
Good Ebening…..
I’d love to know where that overconfidence for AMN comes from. Because it’s unwarranted. And another game that’s passed Xhaka by.
I would have sacked Emery after last years disaster at Anfield. My opinion hasn’t changed. He’s fucking clueless.
world class striker Auba neatly in the pocket of the man mountain
@ TR7, hahahahahahaha
We need a Klopp like manager or we’re not getting anywhere.