Let’s get right into it, the reason Emery played Mikhi is because he didn’t know the player was heading out to Roma on loan. The player found out AFTER the game.
I don’t really care either way, why would you bring on Mikhi regardless?
It seems more and more like young kids are being pushed onto Emery.
Telling that the manager had to be convinced by the stats guys at Arsenal that LT was a better choice than Nzonzi. Great to see that someone at the club was taming Emery’s inner Tony Pulis.
Ultimately, there’s no point in trying to flog a dead horse. I understand why Emery would rather bet his house on experience, but for me, when that experience consistently lets you down, why not try something a little more unpredictable… something that actually has something to prove.
There are now no excuses for Reiss. He is going to have rough games, but he has to deal with that. He has to build mental toughness quickly and he simply has to take his chances. A few goals under his belt or an elite assist should have him on his way.
He needs to be the best he can be and leave himself no excuses come the end of the season. I guess the folly of youth is you don’t realise that a little more focus can have a chain effect on your life. I’d imagine the worst thing for an elite athlete is think they blew a football career because they were chasing babes in Basildon.
Same goes for ESR, Gabriel and Saka. Take those opps and make it impossible for the manager to ignore you… just like Matteo and AMN did last season.
Granit Xhaka had a message for the haters (worst turn of phrase ever).
“Of course critics are always here. The North London derby, I think we had a good game. I made a mistake with the penalty but if you saw the game, we could have won.
“We had a lot of chances but this is football. Nobody speaks about the chances, nobody speaks about how many we missed. They always speak about the mistakes.
“This is part of football.”
Come on Granit, the only reason we talk about your mistakes is because they are so regular.
I think we all understand that we’re overweight, slow and shite at sport… but come on, if Fat Dave in your Sunday League team did that, he’d be getting a bus back home and you’d piss in his kit bag.
What, too far?
Another player who made a mistake was Bernd Leno. It looked like he was caught off guard by the lacklustre pace of the Lamela strike and couldn’t change his palm to a catch.
‘I think the first goal was a little bit unlucky. I couldn’t catch the ball completely and then I tried to get up but Eriksen scored, it was unlucky but that is the life of a goalkeeper. For me it was then like the team, I had to stand up. It is not a big problem just because we conceded a goal, I had to stay positive and I thought after that I did a very good job.’
He’s a great shotstopper and he did a good job the rest of the game, but he really needs to have a few quiet games. He was bullied by Burnley and my worry is that’s an opening for teams like Watford to target him. The toughest thing for a keeper in the Premier League is the highballs, namely because you get charged down by thugs. He’s clearly a confidence keeper, I just hope he doesn’t have a dip like he did at his last club.
I have faith…
What I am wondering is whether Emery is going to persist with the 3 man midfield that looks basically like three holding midfielders. The decision to do that doesn’t seem to be paying any dividends. We give up creativity moving forward and we’re viscous through back. Quite incredible how easy our three holding players were to play through in the first half.
There needs to be a solution. I think having a more attacking threat could help. Still not quite sure what the best midfield is, but it’s looking more and more like LT, Matteo and Ceballos… though I wouldn’t be shocked to see Willock given more regular game time. Emery likes powerful players and you’d be hard pushed not to feel that Willock is stronger than LT.
We’ll see though… right, that’s all I have.
Big love to Alex Cutter from the comments. A laser-focused beast to everyone, always on the edge of a ban, long may that continue. x
For, in matters of sauce and philosophy, Pedro’s word is final.
Is it though lol. Maybe for you.
“You’re going OTT about losing the league to Monaco, there was no ‘one horse race’ there and you’re certainly smart enough to appreciate that cmon man.You’d be an incredibly harsh judge to pick apart his undertakings at PSG, that place may have all the ambition and money in the world but the structure is nonsensical. Neymar was bought and he instantly was a bigger influence than the manager.” Charles that post above was from you in 2018 You actually understood hat happened at PSG so i will ignore you on that subject now He had a two year deal at… Read more »
Words, if you think Emery has sauce, that is fine.
Taste levels can differ. Wouldn’t inspire me to make him a cup of tea
There’s not many football manager’s around that have that sauce anymore!
So Emery wasn’t out coached by Jardim, PSG won the league that year did they?
No they won the league setting some records along the way with a once in a generation group of players. Thoroughly out coached and terming his time at PSG as not successful I’ll have to agree with 2018 Charlie and say it’s OTT and incredibly harsh. I miss him far more objective
Receding
I can believe the influence of Neymar at that club ridiculous but it doesn’t mean Emery is without scope.
Explain the idea he simply “moved on”? Seems like you’re attempting to rebrand his time as a success.
Lol… poor old oil rich PSG. What was Emery to do after inheriting a title winning side that shipped just 19 goals the season before.
CC Im on am android so please endure the block writing. What makes you think that Nzonzi couldve prevented the last 5 matches downfall or the complete defensive capitulation in the EL final. Not reaching the CL was a team failure which you are saying couldve been prevented if we had Nzonzi. I dont see how. Nzonzi great in set pieces? Had 1 goal last season which is less than our CB Kos who played only half the season. Torreira is not a midfield dynamo yet. He csn still develop a lot. And he is faster than you make him… Read more »
Pedro
Waiting for that Nacho story of yours.
There’s not many football manager’s around that have that sauce anymore!
This is actually very true. Some harsh realities on the horizon for certain types when the next manager also doesn’t have sauce. I mean the candidates were Emery, Arteta and Vieira and I wouldn’t let any of them make me a sandwich.
Explain the idea he simply “moved on”? Seems like you’re attempting to rebrand his time as a success
7/10 is a success at any level, i know you like to pass off yourself as a man of high standards but that is success
I’ll tell you about sauce. 2 hours in the garden trying to undo about 13 months of neglect. Single handed I might add. I haven’t even touched the sides.
Saucy available (probably) managers:
1. Tuchel
2. Jose
3. Arsene. Mad but has sauce.
4. Arteta
5. Silva
6. Jardim
7. Viera
8. Ljungberg
Anyone but the anti-sauce Emery. Tonight, I’m going to have homemade stir fry and as as actor defiance, I’m going to have too much sauce.
Pedro.
Mourinho completely sunk the ship at UTD. So you still think he has the sauce, the X factor.?
And if your wish of sacking Emery was granted who would you want to replace him?
You constantly say Arteta has sauce, what evidence do you have supporting that statement an how are you so sure he can lead a room when he has not even managed one?
Anyway, my sauces tell me that Jose wants Arsenal BADLY. One season only. Then Arteta.
Wasi,
He has X factor for sure, but he doesn’t have the hunger or ideas anymore. Hence why he has no job.
Same for Wenger.
“7/10 is a success at any level, i know you like to pass off yourself as a man of high standards but that is success“
Success is relative, not what you deem it.
You know this already by touting 3rd place finished success at Valencia, EL victories and average league returns success at Sevilla etc.
If he was a success there why is he no longer there? Too much success? Seems unlikely.
Wasi
Arteta is a leader and by all accounts, pretty savvy when it comes to all things football.
Do not fall into this idiotic trap of “he weren’t a good midfielder so he’ll be a shit manager” BS. Nonsense.
He knows his shit and pep has pretty much said as much and basically green lit him for taking over the city job.
I have zero doubt that Arteta will be a very good manager in the next couple of years.
It’s a shame people are so dismissive of the achievements of that Monaco side in 2016/17 and just pass off their success as another individual’s failure. That team was incredible. Bernardo Silva, Lemar, Falcao, Fabinho, Mbappe, Sidibe, Mendy, Mourinho and Bakayoko have all left. 159 goals scored that season
Not really getting why anyone would put up the daily fight for a manager as dull as Emery.
Can’t be that hard to grasp the club undershot in hiring him, he’s simply mediocre at the highest level.
Marko,
You don’t recognise sauce.
Raul hopefully does.
He signed Edu. Saucier than Guns stir fry.
Plenty of saucy managers around, ridiculous assertion to say otherwise.
Would love Nagelsmann.
Wasi, what guns said.
Poch, wenger and Pep tried to hire him, pretty sure the guy has sauce.
We’ll see though.
The Monaco team that beat Emery’s PSG to the league was a one off.
Even Jardim has not been able to replicate anything remotely close to that quality once they were sold off.
Stop beating Emery with that moldy stick, it’s so stale now. It’s like Leicester winning the league.
*moutinho
Wasi
I think he’d have provided a lot more than we got from Torreira, dead simple. He addresses an issue we still have in the side, a combative midfielder able give us a foothold.
And no, I disagree about Torreira, he’s not remotely quick or capable at covering the ground well. Our midfield is void of a player with these qualities in abundance, Willock maybe most likely but his passing is suspect.
Wasi
Im not fortune teller. However, Torreira really struggled at times last season.. the latter half was not impressive as the first was.
Would Nzonzi help us make top 4? I dont know… but I do know he is prem experienced and probably loads stronger than lil Torr.
For sure, he is better than Xhaka… what did Xhaka do to us last year? did he help us get better down the stretch? Mr Captain Xhaka?
Jose shouldnt even be allowed near the Emirates. He spent loads at United and still couldn’t do anything.
Actually, Receding is not defending Emery per se
I’ve read him write that Emery has little excuses since we have a reasonably god squad now.
It’s hard to not challenge the proposition that Emery’s quality is like dishwater.
Is he as good as Klopp or Guardiola?… NO
Is he a good manager? Certainly yes.
Shit. I forgot Nagglesmann.
My view on sauce:
Someone who emits an aura and makes you believe in what they are saying.
Someone who can change a team on the fly without looking like they just read a manual.
Someone who can take a good team and make it better.
Someone who has an obviously visible style of football that represents the club culture.
Sauce.
There are but two managers in world football with sauce as far as I’m concerned. Pedro and Guns try as they might can’t convince me otherwise. I say try as loosely as possible
Someone who can change a team on the fly without looking like they just read a manual.Someone who can take a good team and make it better.Someone who has an obviously visible style of football that represents the club culture.Sauce.
So Mikel
We need a manager who berates a kid for sitting badly at a dinner table.
“It’s hard to not challenge the proposition that Emery’s quality is like dishwater.
Is he as good as Klopp or Guardiola?… NO
Is he a good manager? Certainly yes.“
Who is legitimately calling him a bad manager?
Only I referenced “dishwater” and it was with regards to what’s been served at Arsenal which I stand by. Saying his level is Sevilla or Valencia isn’t calling him a bad manager is it.
Poch, wenger and Pep tried to hire him, pretty sure the guy has sauce.
Mates of his and his current club were interested in him… unheard of really in football. By that logic Brian Kidd, Jesus Perez and Steve Bould have sauce.
I agree Nzonzi boy better than Xhaka. But buying him meant we would have had to play a midfield of Nzonzi and Xhaka. Now you guys tell me what good does it do to is. Guen would have had his games sure ,but he was up and down last season. Other option Elneny is even more bland than Xhaka and Nzonzi. I would also love to know how would he have impacted the last 5 games of the season and the complete defensive capitulation in the EL final. Torreira was a better investment and can be twice the player Nzonzi… Read more »
Yes guns that’s correct. But I still don’t think theres plenty of sauce managers out there.
Same
I bet we all said that when we hired Arsene back then, too. And no one was saucier than Arsene at his peak.
Allegri is saucy as…
Alex Cutter
Always found you a cuntpipe and proper funny in equal measure, veering more into each side depending on the topic.
Genuinely sorry to hear about your situation, hope you pull through it geezer and continue to annoy us for many years to come on here. Don’t tone down the prickishness just yet, plenty of us enjoy it.
Granit Xhaka two foot that cancer in the teeth lad.
I’m talking about the managers currently in the prem.
Does Brendan Rodgers have sauce?
Wasi, I hope your right! id love for Torr to be a much better player- and build on his strengths.
I do think Nzonzi would have provided us some more protection last season…
Getting our Midfield run over by
Wolves Palace Leicester and Brighton was too much. A experienced player might have helped us more. Who knows… I hope this season we do much better
Allegri.
This is why I don’t write a blog. My facts are off and I forget managers/players names. I also make stuff up.
I’ll carry on just being really good looking and a massive hit with the ladies and leave the blogging to others less fortunate.
My biggest worry about xakha now is actually his mentality after his comments in the media about mistakes being highlighted above the chances lost?? What?? If that’s how he is thinking after an appealing game defensively then he needs a spell on the sidelines. But no. Emery is actually feeding into it. Feeling the damned thing. Xakha really needs a few weeks on the bench now to reassess his situation and the way he’s approaching his game. The stupid fouls and positional sense. As everyone is aware I’m actually one of the few who sees what he brings to our… Read more »
Xhaka needs a good freezing out of the team.
Play him at home against easier sides only
Any good international matches today? Maybe Ireland – Switzerland coming up. Argentina – Chile much later tonight also.
PedroSeptember 5, 2019 17:15:01
Marko,You don’t recognise sauce.
The only sauce marko recognises is the brown sauce he puts in his team and sandwiches
“It’s da new ting sure”
“Everyone’s doing it”
In his tea and sandwiches (fucking auto correct)
For me the next manager has to be Naglesman or Alegri they are saucey special sauce managers
“Arteta is a leader and by all accounts, pretty savvy when it comes to all things football. Do not fall into this idiotic trap of “he weren’t a good midfielder so he’ll be a shit manager” BS. Nonsense. He knows his shit and pep has pretty much said as much and basically green lit him for taking over the city job.” Could agree with everything .But that doesn’t prove he can lead a dressing room until he’s done it. I heard he wanted power over transfers . Glad Raul didnt allow that. Would Arteta be able to pull Raul-esque deals… Read more »
Sf The man still has qualities to offer Nobody else pops off early forward passes like him in the team. His second half v spurs was actually very good offensively if you watch the game again but he’s just too careless going the other way and Charlie is spot on This comes down to shit organisation and a bad attitude. It’s emery’a job to do something about this He picks the team. Informs the players of their role. Sets the tactical framework and how to play If his CAPTAIN is behaving like this during important matches then what does it… Read more »
The meltdown on LG if Emery gets his third year activated will be epic to watch.
Cause pretty sure in actuality this scenario is not nearly as far-fetched as the discussions here would make it seem.
What about Vieira? He qualify for sauce?
Finished 7th in Ligue 1 (8th under Favre season before) with a Nice side that lost Balotelli, Plea and Seri without being given money to reinvest. Literally gutted his side of goalscorers.
Has started this season with 3 wins from 4 in the league, most recently beat league leaders Rennes away from home with a last minute winner.
Luteo
Id happily hand Emery a 3rd year granted he can close the gap to the top to 12-16 points. Unless Pep or Klopp want to come here . Unlikely.
Did anyone else hear the news out yesterday that the transfer window is going to close on the end of August/beginning of September like it used to before…
Frightening to think what more could have been done if Raul had more time…
WE
I don’t watch Ligue 1 ao cant really say. Definitely Viera could handle a room . Always had a personality. Does he have the tactical acumen. A philosophy ? Can he make split second decision in-game? If he can then he fulfills all the criterias granted he has white teeth.
“Sauce”….
is this just millennial codespeak for charisma?
Rate Poch as a manager (not as much as TR7 ha) but he really did embarrass himself these past few weeks.
Pathetic his bleating was, bitching and whingeing about unsettled players because of the market and deflecting attention away from their hapless form away from home.
Playing the tortured soul in pressers, really was cringe.
“is this just millennial codespeak for charisma?”
Ha ha, I’ve been thinking the same thing for a while. I have no idea what a saucy manager is. Saucy used to mean being rude 😀
UNNAI I think the point you are missing is that Xhaka is making the same mistakes chronically. He lacks speed, speed of thought, and cannot position himself in the right ways. He gets blown by constantly. Again a lack of mobility for him. Also, panics when inside the box. Lunges all the time. I have no doubt that someone has spoken to him, shown video etc. The reality is that his skill set is not helping us – and his weaknesses are hurting us. We need mobile CM- Willock, Guen Torr etc…. Im not sure how much Emery can change… Read more »
N5
You mean “saaaaauuceeee” don’t you? 😉
Leeds and N5, lol I thought annoying rappers with rainbow hair used that term.
My 12 year old who’s just started year 8 today and his friends use words like sauce.
I’ve seen Drake use it, who’s a good rapper but as corny as they come.
Haha thank god I’m not the only out of touch person on here. 😀
Haha I’m def still in, I’m too young to be out of it just yet N5. I think Pedros been having too much fun in NYC with his Metrocard listening in on the youngsters convos.
N5, you can have sauce working being charismatic. Sven G apparently one of the sauciest around.
Left
I know mate.
Leftside I’m only 40 you whipper snapper so I should still be cool shouldn’t I? If you say no I’ll take of these corduroy trousers and throw my pipe at you!!
Thanks for the explanation Pedders. Sven G though, is that for real or sarcasm?
SF yes but he can do better. We’ve all seen it. With Torreira behind him last year he was actually very good. So what does emery do? Move things around and put Torreira in front of xakha. Exactly what wenger did. And now look. Back to his old self. If xakha is going to play and we all know sure as eggs is eggs he will, then emery needs to do what he can to protect the weaknesses in his game Curb his attitude and rash nature and ensure the full backs and dm protect the space behind him so… Read more »
Rappers are all wankers who never grew up
Pull your trousers up, stop slouching
And learn to speak mongo. Having a gold tooth isn’t cool. Ian Wright did it in the 90s and it was as ugly then as it is now
Go near my daughter again and I’ll castrate you and your gang of inbred mates
These millennials Same, lol got me sounding like an old man.
N5, yeah your good. I’m 30 in November.
Weagle loves a brown sauce sambo
Unnai The issue isnt so much where Torreira is- its the fact that Xhaka offers hardly little cover at all not matter where he is. Torreira is only trying to mop up xhaka’s mistakes, which basically makes Torr a one dimensional player Torr can pass well too! I think Xhaka needs a league that is slower, more time and space- ditto Ozil. he does not track players nor keep an eye on them. Why all the lunges?? He is out of position becuase he is dense and slow as molasses. He is a conundrum that is not easy to fix… Read more »
Leftside, are you are a young man then, still currently in your 20s which is “saucy” I…… I think?
Ahh not Are
SamesongSeptember 5, 2019 13:57:15
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/heinz-baked-beans-one-bean-man-bristol-a9092346.html
This guy’s definetly got sauce!!!! think its Benny lmao
>>>>>
Lol! Not me. 😂
Sf
Maybe. I could t care less really. Tell emery. I won’t be the one picking him every week
Emery will. So he’d better learn how best to use him or expect more points to be dropped and another dull and lifeless season.
We got our arsenal back
Loooooool. Yeah. Arsenal from 93-95
In fact even that’s an insult
That team could defend. It had some flair.
I would describe Emery as a falafel with no garlic mayo or chilli
N5 yes, I think so. Lol i’m “saucy”, “drippin”
Cue nausea!!!
Cant wait for Tierney to come back- and hopefully NO set backs…
he and Bellerin should help the wings much more…
Yes Xhaka is the entire teams problem. Emery needs to have some cojones and drop him. He almost cost us all 3 pts last Sunday
Ha ha Saucy Drippin’ ha ha, do you mind if I use that as my male stripping name?
We need to sack Emery and appoint Freddie as caretaker rather than wait for the inevitable disaster
Northbanker
That is what I feel would happen if UE gets cut.
Freddie will be appointed. I think the club moved him to the first team as a contingency plan….
Sauce dripping from the hose after a little bit of excitement…some managers just jizz it up, others…..meh..like an underwhelming quickie.
A brown Sauce dripping from the anal cavity is what Emery serves up sometimes
Changing the subject slightly I just changed from iPhone to Samsung and I must say I’m loving the Samsung experience.
Samesong…funny…i always read you as “Samsung”…hmmm, well what do you know?
Dale 😉
Emery’s sauce is one his wife found in his fruit of the loom when she was doing the laundry right after the EL final…
HAHAHA Dale
Emery wife knows sauce fo sho
I couldn’t imagine moving from iPhone. It’s institutionalised in me now I think.
Can someone tell me what the issue is with Deschamps and Lacazette??
Gabriel Martinelli in his interview with Brazilian outlet Lance:
“The coach is a great person, and I’m learning a lot from him on a daily basis. I try to do my best in training so that, when I have the opportunity, to grasp it with everything.”
BuT eMeRy DoEsNt DeVelOp TaLeNt
Danny
I was a hardcore iPhone user. The camera on samsung does it for me.
Sliverhawk, would you really expect Martinelli to slag his coach off?
I want to see Martinelli getting more games.
The first Europa League fixture is tough as group stage Europa League fixtures go but he should be starting.
I have a couple phones and have used both iPhones and Samsungs simultaneously for some years now.
The difference is pretty much zero if you know how to use both operating systems thoroughly. There is literally nothing you can do with one that you can’t with the other, the methods are just different is all. It’s mostly a matter of preference at this point, since they are all so powerful now. Not that I need lots of functions to watch mobile porn in the bathroom.
Luteo
No one cares about how they work…which one has sauce, literally is all that is import.
Don’t want to hear about battery life, don’t want to hear about memory, don’t want to hear about apps.
Which has sauce?
Cesc
Martinelli looks a prospect not scared to run at players surely emery could bring in for last minutes when we are in a good position in game.
Cesc
S10 + has plenty of sauce.
Luteo
Samsung s10+ shits all over the iphone XS . Smarter display AMOLED 3 lens camera
Ceballos starting for Spain.
He won a penalty.