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Ok, I wanted to post today, but I ended up rocking a work drinks, then the peel off work drinks, then I went toe-to-toe with my team after that and I lost.
For the nightcap, I went to what I thought was a normal club. How wrong could I be? I witnessed someone in drag whip her chopper out for the crowd, then pick up a champagne bottle with another part of their body, before ripping the cork off and spraying the fans.
I also lost my bag. My ID. Two money cards.
Where did I lose them? That club. Always the way. Now I have to go back their sober at 11 pm. This is my punishment.
Thankfully, we weren’t really punished in the Europa League.
Group F #Arsenal, Eintracht Frankfurt, Standard Liege, Vitoria SC
The German’s will likely cause us the most problems. They have a bit of a following. Niko Kovac managed them before Adi Hütter took the reins. They’ll not be the same threat as they were with Luka Jović, but they’ll be well organised and they’ll come with enough tactical weaponry to take advantage of us if we take a complacent view of their talents.
Unai Emery has a huge opportunity to rectify the widely panned defeat from last weekend. We’ll see how much belief he has in his ‘play-out-of-the-back’ philosophy. So far, it’s looked distinctly shite, Burnley, Newcastle and Liverpool have seen the execution as an opportunity versus a threat. We saw a pretty similar thing last year before it was binned. We need to see a progression of the idea, because from where I’m sitting, it doesn’t look like it’s a practice issue… it looks like we do the same thing over and over so it’s predictable and easy to counter.
Spurs is a huge game. Fuck their form. It always means very little. The game will be thunderous and there will be a few players out there experiencing it for the first time.
We should be going toe-to-toe with them. We should be taking advantage of the possibility of their right being Sissoko. We should be hitting them out the blocks and leaning hard into the unsettled nature of their squad.
I think this is a huge game for Pepe and Ceballos. Both players have the ability to make a hero statement. Both are new to Spurs.
I also think it’s a big question of Unai Emery. Is he going to throw Xhaka back into the mix again know that Spurs will target his lack of ability under heavy pressure?
It’s also Nacho’s last game for Arsenal… wouldn’t it be something if he were the one with the winner?
Right, short post today, I’ll be spending the evening deciphering whatever Unai Emery has to say.
See you in the comments.
LuteoYou still haven’t bothered to check have you?
It wasn’t his joke goldfish brain. He doesn’t tell jokes like that.
I was talking about jwl dummy
It’s not jwl’s joke.
Fuck me this is torture
Where do you go to school Luteo? Your garden shed?
UnLet’s stop, we’re being rude to others. Difference of perception, chalk it up to that. Have a good weekend mate.
Fair point
You too.
Sal / Pedro
U on board…
Is Smithfield a good place in New York ?
You’ve just validated my point
So why play out from the back at all then let alone across our own 6 yard box? 🙄
So what are the other options? Hoof it towards the striker and hope for the best?
Azed No. The options are that we vary our approach. He’s meant to be the chameleon after all but the one philosophical element he won’t change his colours on is the one that is the most dangerous. If it’s too tight then go long sometimes. If there isn’t a short pass on. I’m not saying NEVER play it that short but when Liverpool and ,to a lesser extent, Burnley are up your arse then pull your full backs wide and if that’s not on then go long For lost of the match Liverpool had two back so why not hit… Read more »
Dennis Suarez looking Sharp since he returned to Spain,1 goal and one assist so far with celta Vigo….
Our forwards were isolated but so were their centre backs
Had we got the ball up early more often we’d have caused more problems
Should have had another goal or tie at least really with the chances we had
In
You do know Emery doesn’t plan every minute right of the game right?
You also know the players can decide to long if there’s no short pass available right?
What’s funny is people like you are the one that say Emery has no philosophy but now he’s trying to do something, you complain?
Somebody’s daddy touched their butt-hole!
It answers so many questions.
Azed
He had one tactic last year
The five yard cut back across our opponents box
This season it’s our own box
And no. The players and keeper don’t just decide to play themselves into danger and lose the ball in our own half more than any other team in the league this season. That comes from the top
Don’t kid yourself
That’s it.
The players and keeper don’t just decide to play themselves into danger and lose the ball in our own half more than any other team in the league this season. That comes from the top
Don’t kid yourself
If this is your believe, then you are beyond redemption.
Which Emery are we going to get this weekend ? The defiant Emery or the intimidated Emery.
Let’s hope he doesn’t complicate things too much. Think he struggles with this.
Hopefully we get some entertaining footy.
Felt compelled to share what I’m taking as a precognition. Had the strangest dream last night in which I returned to a house I’d moved out of and when I got there I realised I’d left some cats, including one that had delivered a litter of kittens, locked in there for a couple of weeks. Amazingly they were all still live because they had cannibalised another adult cat whose fishbone-like skeleton was still being picked at. I then fed the cats with some pork I’d brought with me. Six cats survived one was eaten – there will be 7 goals… Read more »
Literally a Win win against spud
Stuff the fvckers.. Good and fine
Lose and we’re a good step away of binning Mr Bland
Guy is so boring and plays shit football with absolutely no discernable pattern of play
Can’t even stick to a particular starting 11 for at least 2 games in a row, 500+ games and counting..
Hopefully we get some entertaining footy”
Wouldn’t get my hopes up, a 1-0 win with the goal going in off Kane’s smuggy face will do
We won’t see Arsenal play anything entertaining under Mr bland
He couldn’t do it with a star studded PSG team and was widely ridiculed for exactly that by the psg fans and French Media
What makes you think he’s capable of that with us? I mean this is same guy that took us to anfied playing like Burnley..Guy is a joke coach
Victorious
I agree with you re Emery. The guy’s football is just not very stimulating is it ? You would think Guardiola being his role model would have influenced some sexy.
Seems like a Mourinho type, only care about result…..
Azed
Ok. I’m beyond redemption.
We got rid of cech and signed Leno because? Ball playing ability
Luiz? Ball playing
Tierney? Ball playing
It’s been quite widely reported that emery wanted players who could play out from the back all last season.
He tried it from the first game vs city remember?
So now he’s at it again. This time even closer to goal.
But just you go on telling yourself that black is white and pigs fly.
The arsenal defence and keeper just decided to make their job a lot harder with no input from management.
What a doughnut
In Stop exposing your ignorance to the world.. Emery can tell the players to play out from the back but he can’t predict how our opponents would press… No manager plans every minute of the game because it’s impossible so a lot of time it’s up to players to make decisions in real time. That’s what separates great players from average players. That a manager says play out from the back doesn’t mean you should do all the time, players also have a responsibility to make the right play… Or do you think Emery told Ceballos to make a cross… Read more »
What are saying Az? That this new idea of playing out from deep in our own box was concocted by the players and the coach just lets it slide over two games? No questions asked?
Great reasoning.
Think it’s past your bedtime lad
Lukaku on Sanchez,
“Coming here was the right move, in a good dressing room, where the manager wants winners who can really help the team.”
Is there a suggestion that all may not be well in the Un**ed dressing room?
“Or do you think Emery told Ceballos to make a cross field pass against Liverpool?PS: I won’t be surprised if you think so.“
You do this a lot mate, it’s a defection tactic.
No, the manager isn’t technically responsible for Ceballos playing a square ball in his own box, but it’s a product of the instructions the team have received by the manager.
If a manager instructs his side to play from the back, or for the fullbacks to play high and overlap, then he’s responsible when errors continue to come from that tactic.
People need to calm down a bit.
Emery was just an auba lob finish and a pepe one on one goal away from a miracle result.
I just think that he over complicates things and digs his own grave.
Smash those buggers on sunday and things will be on track.
ManCity play from the back, but you can clearly see that they have spend hours practicing that. Players move in such a way that the ball carrier even under pressure has always two solutions one sideway one forward. I don’t think that their defensive players are better ball players than Arsenal, just that they have been coached better and for longer into that system. For example they have already adapted to the new rule with regard to opponents being allowed to intercept ball in the penalty box at a goal kick. Against Burnley, just before Guendouzi shot at goal, there… Read more »
“How exactly would me sharing a funny Dave Chappelle joke on Jussy smollet indicate my support for any prior pedo joke?”
Answer: “can’t beat Dave Chappelle “
We dogpiling on Emery? Fucker looks like Steve Buscemi. There.
Managers have to decide what is their preferred method of restarting after a goalkick: long punt, long pass or short pass. Quite often the medium pass into midfield is simply not possible because Guendouzi or Xhaka are shadowed. Ceballos and his dancing feet could be an option, but that would mean that he dropped too deep to be effective further up. Under Wenger, the goalkeeper out ball was a long pass to the fullback. Quite often it was Sagna who was quite good in the air. We retained the ball most of the time using that move. With Giroud in… Read more »
You do this a lot mate, it’s a defection tactic. No, the manager isn’t technically responsible for Ceballos playing a square ball in his own box, but it’s a product of the instructions the team have received by the manager. It’s not a deflection tactic, it’s common sense which some of you have decided not to have. Playing out of the back is a way of keeping the ball as we do not have a target so hoofing it up front is not really an option. When Leno gives the ball either Luiz or Sokratis, their first option is to… Read more »
For one I agree with Valentin… Fuck me.. the world must be coming to an end. The big negative for me is that I don’t believe that Xhaka can play into such situation without making a mistake. Emery has permanently benched Mustafi, but inexplicably he won’t do the same with Xhaka. My guess for why both Wenger and Emery continue to play Xhaka is his passing ranging. It’s my believe that they both think he’s the one person that can get the back from back to front quickest. Liverpool have Fabinho while Chelsea have Jorginho for that. I’ll rather with… Read more »
https://www.empireofthekop.com/2019/08/27/video-klopp-aired-xhaka-casually-fans-joke-about-arsenal-mans-failed-hug-attempt/?utm_source=rsn&utm_medium=rsn&utm_campaign=gac0041 Guess you gotta actually be good to get a Klopp hug.
DM’s take on the NLD Predicted line-ups Arsenal predicted XI: Leno; Maitland-Niles, Sokratis, David Luiz, Monreal; Ceballos, Torreira, Willock; Pepe, Lacazette, Aubameyang Tottenham predicted XI: Lloris; Alderweireld, Sanchez, Vertonghen; Sissoko, Winks, Rose, Alli, Eriksen; Kane, Son Arsenal manager Unai Emery: ‘For us to play matches like last week against Liverpool, this week against Tottenham, the two Champions League finalists is amazing, and it is the best test,’ he said. Emery says: ‘Every time is a good moment to play against them and on Sunday with our supporters, it is the best moment to play and enjoy with our supporters. ‘On… Read more »
The above predicted line up works for me, especially with no Xhaka, Ozil& Mikki. A bit concerned with Luiz in the back 4 – but Chambers sub and the freedom to move Luiz to DM is always possible if the game is passing the midfield, especially if Torreira starts to tire around the 70 minute mark. I hope Nelson & Saka make the bench and very happy if Sanchez plays as he’s our David Luiz . All immaterial, of course, because Emery will no doubt try to be creatively eccentric with the line up – or will he? As I… Read more »
I find it amusing how Arsenal supporters have so much time for Poch. He’s done well for spuds no doubt about it. Perhaps the best manager they have had but the last couple of seasons after hitting the dizzying heights of second in the Pl has seen a steady drop to third to fourth and the way they have started this season may well see them drop down further. Whereas we moved up a position from 2018 finishing just a poorly taken penalty kick from kicking spuds into 5th spot with a squad inferior to theirs. I truly never realised… Read more »
Tony
That lineup looks good to me too. I get the feeling that Xhaka will replace Willock though.
Bojangles
Don’t fool yourself
We picked up 1/6 wins in our last 6 matches. Emery threw points away time after time and the only reason spurs dropped the ball in the league was because of their monumental efforts in getting past Man City and Ajax in the champions league.
Spurs will drop this season due to poor investment and the coach’s head being turned
How many points did spuds drop at the end of last season.. their form was no better than ours
Un
Sorry but I do not accept the coach taking full blame for the collapse, the players have to accept at least half the blame.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1167519585995763713
Check this out. Fucking psycho man. I’d have killed her. Woman or not. Viscous cow
Bojangles
Then They should accept half the blame for not winning a title too?
Looking like Poch really is throwing the towel in at spurs
Great time to be playing them at home
ES & Bob N16
Going off topic for a minute I thought you would enjoy this interview.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-7411923/When-Sir-Clive-Woodward-met-England-rugby-star-Maro-Itoje.html
Un
I won’t argue with that.
Tony
Good artical. He’s a very confident an driven young guy. Maybe he could have a few words in Özil’s ear.
Probably more accurate to say Spurs lost so many games last season due to player unavailability and playing schedule as opposed to them ‘focusing’ on the CL.
Alli and Vertonghen are not match fit, Sanchez is a problem waiting to explode. We really need to capitalise and take the game to them tomorrow.
Tony, everything about Itoje is impressive, only 24 years old- a World XV player. Outside rugby he may also go to the top. Let’s not forget he’s also a Gooner!
Frustration is an itchy boil. Perhaps Poch scents descent down the other end of the Seven Sisters Road. Perhaps Poch is attracted to the redder grass on the other side of the fence. Perhaps Poch is dancing the first steps of that dance, whatever it’s called, where he fakes horns on his head and dances around Emery?
Real Sociedad sign Monreal official.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1171995/Arsenal-news-Unai-Emery-Liverpool-Anfield-Lee-Dixon/amp
Un na naai August 30, 2019 18:39:47
It’s a special type of creep who enjoys jokes on child molestation.
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Well, our little truce was fun while it lasted.
https://theathletic.co.uk/1170799/2019/08/30/tottenham-showdown-provides-a-timely-reminder-of-torreiras-value-to-arsenal/
What did I say? Emery is not a big fan of Torreira’s.
He’s been misusing him. Leaving him out. Making out he’s tired. Bla bla bla. This fella has to start. He’s out best midfielder.
Who knows, if he and lacazette start vs Liverpool maybe we get something from the game.
GunZ
Question is, will you be dancing if he does?
Jamie
Mwahahaha
I take it back. You know I’ve got a special place in my heart for you
Shitty joke though.
Un –
Fair enough. I’m not much of a comedian. Some land, some don’t. I’ll get my coat.
Don
“Bla bla bla. ”
Sums up your post nicely, most of them actually.
Torreira came back late, didn’t have a preseason and has to be managed so he doesn’t burn out after half a season again. Logic and common sense really isn’t your forte.
Nacho gone.
With Tierney not back in full training that’s a risk we could do without. It’s a shame to see him go. I know his pace has gone and he gets in trouble with balls over the top, but the rest of his game was reassuring.
Best of luck at Sociedad, Nach.
Jamie
I shouldnt have called you a creep. I apologise.
Bojangles
A good question from a good handle. I remember Bertie Mee. I remember Terry Neill. I remember George Graham. I am an old cunt. But would I dance too if The Poch pranced the cuckold around Mr. Emery? As an old bastard, you have to concede to me the grace of been-there-done-that. My gut, Mr. Bojangles, tells me Poch would be be a better fit than Unai, if for no other reason than he has a charisma that our incumbent lacks.
Un –
No worries, I’ve been called worse!
Freddie Really. Logic isn’t my forte? I’ll be sure to mark that one down so I don’t forget. Would hate for my lack of logical thinking to impede my day to day dealings with clients On to football though. The article clearly states that emery wasn’t keen and had to be convinced Further proof that he was after Nzonzi. Banger being another. Suarez being another. He just loves a West Ham level midfielder doesn’t he? Makes you wonder why he sold Wilshere after all. Too classy. You dont think that Torreira was fit enough to play 60 mins vs Liverpool… Read more »
Yes, but be calm. My decision in each moment is thinking about how we are. I think they can start together and they can play also during the match as all three, it depends how we decide our gameplan. But I am very optimistic for that situation, but not also those three players, also Nelson, Mkhitaryan, Willock, Ozil. We need to be able to make the best decisions, but above all, to have different possibilities with the players. Freddie ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️ Have a look bruh. The man is a tinkerer. Pay particular attention to the “it depends on our game plan”… Read more »
Gunz
I go back further than you…. George Swindon, Billy Wright… You can’t pull a oap with me mate… Lol.
From one old cunt to another, you maybe right about Poch but he ain’t coming here. So either dream on or come back to the real on.world where Mr Emery is what you have until the end of the season.
Don I think Torreira should start every time when he’s match fit, and Xhaka should be on the bench always looking after the real football players house keys since that’s his main quality. It was all the other bs in your post I objected to. I don’t think Torreira is best as a sitting DM, he should be deployed as a defensive b2b with another like minded player next to him, it falls apart when he’s partnered with Xhaka for obvious reasons. What is he supposed to say? Yes, those 3 will start every game because all our other options… Read more »
Bojangles
Fuck me, and there was me thinking I was the wrinkly bastard.
I can do Billy Wright (just) but I was probably over the North Bank honking baby spew over the blokes in front of my old man then.
But you got me on George Swindin. I was 4 months old when Billy Wright took over form him.
Good on you,brother.
I don’t understand why Monreal was not retained for this weekend’s game against Spurs. The deadline in Spain is the 2nd September. Nevertheless I was an advocate at the start of transfer window that Arsenal needed to offload both Koscielny and Monreal. It was fairly obvious last season that both players were in serial decline and no longer good enough to play in EPL games. My guess is that both Bellerin and Tierney will be close to match fitness after the International games break. When you analyse our current squad there is sufficient depth to play two different teams in… Read more »
Afraid Monreal leaving is another shocking decision by the club,
he’s literally the closest to a leader we have in the entire squad, a reliable and hardworking player
Could have provided a better mentor/cover for whenever Tierney is fit
Kolasinac is a disaster defensively and no way should he playing in a club vieing for top4
Goodluck Nacho!
When oh when are we going to hear news that some club has taken Mustafi off our hands?
Gunz
I was knee high to a grasshopper going to Leyton Orient with dad when some guy by the name Greytown (something like that) was there but my brother took me under his wing and started taking me to Highbury about the time Swindon took over. Been a gunner ever since. Been a rollercoaster ride too, as you know.
Bojangles Funnily enough, my old man (who was a Shoreditch boy) used to take me to Brisbane Road occasionally even though us three kids (all born in Hackney) ended up supporting different teams (me, the Arsenal, my brother, Chelsea, and my sister, Spurs). He even sometimes used to take us out to watch Gillingham play – don’t know what that was all about. I remember one time Orient were playing Aston Villa in a crucial game to win promotion. They didn’t. But what I do remember about Brisbane Road was a bloody good pie and hamburger outlet at the top… Read more »
Victorious
“Afraid Monreal leaving is another shocking decision by the club”
It’s Monreal’s decision to leave.
You think it is a good move to hold a player against his will do you especially one who has been a long servant at the club?
Unaai
What in the fuck is that video about? Just upped my blood pressure considerably, like who, how is that a thing?
10 year sentence for that? What a system
Guns
Saw Kelsey play his last game as well as VIc Groves
So not to far away..
Ishola
First Koscielny and now Monreal,makes you wonder why the decent enough oldies are all boating on Mr bland.i mean these are players who could still do a job for the team and are better than the available options.no?
falls apart when he’s partnered with Xhaka for obvious reasons.What is he supposed to say? Yes, those 3 will start every game because all our other options are shit? I don’t have a problem with having different game plans for different opposition, we’re not good enough to expect to dominate every game. Freddie No. Xakha and Torreira were actually very good together. Note our 23 game run occurred with those two as our mf pair and our form dropped when Guendouzi was introduced No. He said that he chooses to leave certain players out for tactical reasons. Like he did… Read more »
About all I remember of Brisbane road is mainly a sea of legs and raincoats…. and being pushed through them until I could peep over railings. Lol.. not sure everyone refers tothose times as the good ol’ days.
Was born in Hackney Hospital.. and lived in Upper Clapton until we moved to Australia.
I remember Stan Charlton and Vic Groves moving to the gunners from the O’s. Upset me at the time but was cheering them on a year later.
CC
Fucking mental eh!? The kid was fine but required surgery. Was in Georgia. She tried to do both children. Vile vindictive sick woman. I don’t care what condition she suffers from any person capable of such acts shouldn’t be allowed to live. That child was extremely lucky to have walked away from such a heinous attack.
Crap crap management, trying to tell us that they didn’t know back in May that Koscielny and Monreal were going to leave? Mustafi and Elneny too? So why wasn’t everything sorted by the start of the month? Same as with Wenger making a desperate buy for Mertasacker on the last day of the window we got fuckin’ Luiz. Expect to watch Emery’s bollock tactic of playing out from the back tomorrow when everybody on the planet knows we’re no good at it except him, it’s not just shit, it’s not enjoyable to watch, actually bloody painful. 25 seconds to reach… Read more »
Victorious
“First Koscielny and now Monreal,makes you wonder why the decent enough oldies are all boating on Mr bland.i mean these are players who could still do a job for the team and are better than the available options.no?”
There is no coincidence about it.
Both had expiring contracts and both had several seasons contracts offered to them by other clubs.
What would you do in their shoes? Stay one more season at Arsenal or get a three year deal at another club?
Unaai
Just don’t get it, what was the motive (however absurd)? She part of the god squad cleansing some bollocks or what?
Obvious nutter, I just can’t fathom how that’s a thing. I’d also have left my boys with mum and followed her to a point I could’ve seen her insides.
I’d hazard a guess Emery is very much unpopular with most of the players and you could see from a mile off they’re not enjoying their football
His tactics are confusing, poor communication skill and always look timid,
compare and contrast with the likes of Klopp and Pep and it’s obvious why he isn’t rated
Arsenal don’t get to the real top level until the midfield can all press without the ball effectively.
That Xhaka is being championed is hilarious when you take this into consideration.
Arsenal can beat run of the mill sides and take some better scalps in home matches by having passengers off the ball in midfield but they aren’t going to reach the real top.
“Arsenal can beat run of the mill sides and take some better scalps in home matches by having passengers off the ball in midfield but they aren’t going to reach the real top.“
Can apply this assessment to the manager, and we’d be much better off replacing the manager than any one player you’re levelling that criticism at. No prizes for guessing who of course.
I’ll take Emery with all his shortcomings over useless Xhaka any fuckin day. No contest.
Arsenal have more or less completed the offload of players this summer. The only other player who the club would probably have chosen to shift out of the club is Mustafi and that will probably happen now next January or Summer. Moving forward I don’t expect massive revision of our squad next season. I think that we will most probably consolidate. Players like Saliba and Nkietah will return from loan and perhaps Ceballos will be bought from Real Madrid. This will allow the club to perhaps promote one player from U23s e.g. Saka and then go and look for a… Read more »
Cc
Don’t know. She’s obviously got some condition. Paranoid Schizophrenic or something but yes, she’d have been on the floor In a heartbeat if she did it to one of mine
Even if I was a bystander and saw her do that to someone else’s child.
The world is choc full of nut cases
Only Mustafi, Mikhi Ozil and Xhaka left to offload between the January window and next summer. Have to admire Raul’s ruthlessness.
Bojangles
Sounds like we have fairly similar stories. I’ve been in NZ for most of my life now (was lucky enough to always have had the passport as the old man was a ten pound pom). But the Arsenal’s still in my blood. Can’t help it.
Ishola Your emphasis on the players and not on Mr bland on why we struggle to dominate games is telling of how strong your sentimental game is Monreal leaving is yet another testament that he’s successfully shafting personnels and bringing his own players That’s what 10 or 11 players we’ve brought in under his watch and we what, we’re still banging excuses after excuses for him that the players are culpable? Lol I think if Emery don’t slap bitch the scums tomorrow on our turf with them looking shaking on and off the pitch then we should look to be… Read more »
Vic
In Monreal’s case you are banging the drum for no reason.
Both players Monreal and Koscielny had expiring contracts and both players have done what is best for them financially which is to secure several seasons contract deals with other clubs.
Un “No. Xakha and Torreira were actually very good together. Note our 23 game run occurred with those two as our mf pair and our form dropped when Guendouzi was introduced” You are correct , also ozil playing ahead of them during that period . Emery thought he had it sussed during that run , he became too cocky and complacent. He decided to flex his muscles and it backfired on him. He took issue with first Ramsey , then Ozil and finally Lacazette for showing their displeasure at being substituted and Emery decided to marginalize them. That along with… Read more »
I’ll take Emery with all his shortcomings over useless Xhaka any fuckin day. No contest.
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WTF?
I mean I don’t like Xhaka but I think when he leaves he’ll still get a ‘big’ enough club to play for
can’t say the same for Mr bland.. He wouldn’t be doing better than arsenal considering his offerings here up to now.
Pierre when he’s staring at his Ozil posters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG5jnwg6FVs
Xhaka is never going to roll up at a club is he where CL title is demanded or at least the expectation to go close.
Emery had the equivalent as manager at PSG. Xhaka never will have the equivalent as a player.
Arsenal is as good as it gets for Xhaka.
The same posters are blaming Emery for playing bland football, at the same time championing Xhaka and Ozil when our midfield has been the main reason for our turgid, uninventive play. It’s not Emery out there on the pitch, it’s your darlings stinking the place up. Smg
The unbeaten run was mainly easy opposition both home and especially away, we never looked that convincing during that run either but at least we had options coming off the bench to get the results then until we started to get too many injuries.
Gunz
10 pound pom myself and British passport too.
Once a gunner always a gunner mate.
Ishola
The point is Emery looks to have hit his cieling here, arsenal is the peak and that’s as big as it can get for him
Arsenal gave him the chance to become elite after the PSG gig and he currently looks fumbling,if he fails again this season as per football experts then he would seem to have botched that chance
Inter Milan wanted Xhaka
Vic
PSG was Emery’s peak job not Arsenal.
And we are talking in terms of footballing expectations when he was there.
And that is no slight on Arsenal. It’s just the money that was spent at PSG and some of the high ranking players they had there.
That man utd team is definitely not top 4. It’s so bad, it’s unreal
“The same posters are blaming Emery for playing bland football, at the same time championing Xhaka and Ozil when our midfield has been the main reason for our turgid, uninventive play. It’s not Emery out there on the pitch, it’s your darlings stinking the place up.”
Ignorant comment. We’ve played better football was worse players.