The Unai Emery rebuild has been drab; a touch like watching builders plaster your walls. Except it never ends. You’re waiting for the paint to go on so you can think about new furniture and all the sexy Ikea artwork you’re going to put up, but it never happens. The plasterer is still pointing out the mold, blaming Arsene Wenger for not looking after the basics from way back when. The Watford showing felt like us revisiting a familiar damp problem that never really went away.
The game was par the course for Emer-enger. We created very little. Our defence was porous. Our midfield couldn’t match up physically and didn’t offer any cover. Our transitions moving forward were fleeting and stingy. There was no leadership on the pitch. There was no style to speak of.
It was very Unai Emery, the ultimate footballing plasterer.
I am trying to offer up more balance to the way I report on him, but it’s tough. As you know, I was highly sceptical of the search and select process. The owners clearly didn’t do their due diligence / the job spec was wildly off. Emery struggled to control egos at PSG, he was painfully pragmatic, had no pedigree for building a defence, and couldn’t speak English in his interview. His hiring was about as rational as a petrol station birthday present run… NOW 47 in a plastic bag type scenes.
That said, I have to be fair, he had an excuse last season. He was picking up the pieces of a legendary manager that had lost his mind. The club lacked a winning culture. The professional footballers he inherited needed tactical education, they needed fitness, and they needed focus.
… he found the cure immediately and we all celebrated it. We went on a 22 game unbeaten run. The real issues came when Emery’s ideas settled and he’d beaten the last of Wengerball out of the squad.
It’s now been over a year. We can’t continue to make those excuses anymore. We have to judge what we see and we have to hold the manager accountable. So far, it’s very hard to excuse what we’re watching. Yesterday was a dark day.
Arsenal has conceded 96 shots so far this season. That’s the most of any club in the top 5 leagues. We shipped 31 shots against a team that was rooted to the bottom of the league. We have NEVER conceded that many shots in a game. Sure, many of those were speculative, but the reality is, no club should feel comfortable enough to rifle off that many attempts at your goal. No midfield should be gifting so much freedom to below-average players.
We created very little moving forward. Emery’s system lacks imagination and the players don’t seem to know what they’re doing. The brilliance of Auba continues to rescue us. That is not a sustainable plan. If it is the plan, then we need to be brutally solid defence so his goals from nothing count for something.
Arsenal were bullied physically. We couldn’t out-fight Watford for the full 90mins. It’s so simple to get at us, just pressure our defence and midfield. We struggle to play out of the back, our transitions are wildly inconsistent, and when things start going wrong there are no leaders on the pitch to drive us out of the mess.
We are still making individual errors. David Luiz had another poor performance, but look, how can you critique him, the midfield in front of him has no shape or structure. They let Watford bypass them all day, how are centre backs supposed to mitigate zero protection? The midfield was either in the backline defending too deep, or nowhere to be seen.
We are an absolute mess at the minute. Emery has picked up this season where he left off. He has better players, but he’s just as confused about the system he wants to play, and he’s totally out of his depth on how to fix our chronic issues. The job is hard, yes. But what top job isn’t? Did we not hire a coach? Did we not hire a master tactician who could outthink the opposition?
The reality is this: Emery lucked out landing the job at Arsenal. He is not top class. He’s an above-average manager – Everton levels at best. He’s a Quique Flores, a Marco Silva, or an Eddie Howe. He is not an innovator, he’s not a charismatic leader, and he’s not the next level we hoped for.
There’s no philosophy behind what he’s doing. There’s no style of play. We’re moving from game to game just trying not to lose. There’s a view that Arsenal fans can’t cope with pragmatism and that anyone of Emery’s mindset would face the same harsh criticism… maybe that’s true, but the reality is we’re suffering all the blandness of a pragmatic manager, but we’re not reaping the any of the rewards. We play 3 holding midfielders and we leak shots and goals. Today, we played a more attacking line-up and played like we had 3 holding midfielders. We are being slapped with stale football with the defensive rewards of a peak Kevin Keegan starting 11.
Allegri might play dry football. Conte might drill his teams in a robotic way. Peak Mourinho was cancer of the eyes… but they answered the critics with progress and results. Their philosophies earned clean-sheets, wins and trophies.
We’re a year into the new manager who has some beliefs.
No one liked the playing out the back thing last year, Emery persisted, then gave up. We’re back to square one again this season and he’s introducing the 2.0 version. It has been a tactical disaster and it cost us 2 points today. He’ll give up on it after a while, I’ve no doubt, because he doesn’t know how to coach this idea to success. Same with the pressing. Where has it gone? We don’t do it. We’re meek. Characterless. It’s so tough to watch.
Take the coaching out of the equation, let’s talk about what it takes to create a high-performance culture. To achieve this, you cannot have a single bad egg in the mix. One average person brings the entire place down. Elite talent is highly sensitive to shite. If they can smell it, and if it’s tolerated, it destroys the whole culture. That’s in the backroom team, that’s in the squad, that’s certainly in the first team.
If we’re truly trying to create a high-performance culture, tell me this, why is Granit Xhaka anywhere near the captaincy? The most important person on the pitch is the most error-prone, the most likely to throw a teammate under the bus, and the most likely to say beta male things in the post-match interviews. He’s even getting sideswiped by our best striker. Auba had this to say.
‘You could say that us attackers could have killed the game off and score a third goal, so I’m not going to say it is someone’s fault. It is a shame to concede goals like we did’
That is as subtly veiled as turning up to a Tinder first date wearing a condom on your face. When your captain and your best player are taking jabs at each other, it’s hard to believe the training camp is in great shape.
Xhaka is a mistake junkie, his skills are unsuited to the Premier League, and he is so far from high performance it aches my soul.
We still have the psychologist at the club that has overseen a cataclysmic decline in mental strength, we still have the motivational bus driver on the bench, the one that was banned for fighting at Palace, we still have all the bad apples at the club that were there last season. We collect average.
Having a good attitude and loving football does not make you elite. We need new ideas, we need an identity, we need someone that can communicate a vision, and see it through.
The start of the season has been bad. Objectively bad. Everyone excused Liverpool, but the warning signs were there. No one paid attention to Burnley having 18 shots because we won, but that was footballing equivalent of hearing rattles in the Utah lowlands (snakes Terry, snakes). We cannot continue to pretend that what Emery is doing is normal or transitional, because it’s just plain fucking bad. We’re struggling in a nice 26-degree heat to a bottom of the table team. If we don’t sort out our problems now, they will be amplified to a far more dangerous level when the cold sets in. This has to be addressed.
We’ve apparently spent next years money on delivering Champions League football, nothing else is more important than making top 4, the consequences for failure are unthinkable.
Over to Unai. See you in the comments. xx
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Absolutely dire yesterday. The sort of performance that was so bad I don’t even want to talk about it. So I wont.
Damn it Pedro, you were about the first to catch on to Emery. It’s brutally clear at this point that despite a hugely successful summer window, we’re going to squander it if he’s allowed to manage this team into catastrophic tactics and poor substitutions. Unless the next few games are completely disastrous, we should let him go at the end of the season and get the best manager available. Sorry, my heart won’t let me endorse Mourinho even when he’s lifting his skirt up for us. However there’s just many better candidates out there to leave Emery in charge after… Read more »
Emery out brigade:- I’m in.
Good ebening
Diabolical yesterday and very self inflicted. We have no control in games, horrific defensively and you can bet we will roll out with the same team and try to play the same way out the back in the next match.
Arsenal, a team that NEVER learns.
Bacary is god
Why give him a season mate. Dead man walking. Kick him out now
1. Cancer of the eyes.
2. In 3,000 words, Peter didn’t mention sauce.
Very good post.
Long-time lurker, first-time poster here. I don’t watch as many games since I’ve now been in East Asia for a few years (don’t worry, boys, I did go to live games back in the day when a humble Red level member like me could get tickets), but I feel like yesterday was a tipping point for me regarding Emery. We weren’t playing great but we were 2-0 up and I thought I could safely go to sleep with Arsenal likely to press on and maybe give something of a drubbing to Watford (assuming they’d be forced to come forward and… Read more »
Arsenal fans are like a battered spouse. We gave Arsene 10 years more than we should missing out on:
Pep
Klopp
Peak Jose
And many more…all because we thought a Arsene might change and stop the beatings. It didn’t happen. When social services finally came and took Wenger away, we were so broken, we would have taken anybody. We did.
We took on an absolute squelch of a man. Arsene had many flaws, but he could pull a rabbit out every now and again. Emery just doesn’t have sauce.
He’s got to go.
It seems the likes of Edu and Raul are doing their best to give the Manager every possible chance but Emery just can’t step up.
I think Marcelo Bielsa of leeds united would be a perfect replacement NOW for Emery.
Just listening to his pre match talk on TV tells you this guy is clueless. I have no idea what he was on about, he almost sounded like something in a cartoon. Talking 1000 miles per hour. If that is how he talks to the players then they have no chance. It was very clear after just a few months in, that he was struggling to bring any real direction to this team. My worry is that we don’t act fast enough to sort it. We are still very much in the fight right now so this is the time… Read more »
well put.
If the board has some ambition, fire Emery right now and make Freddie the caretaker coach. if he doesn’t perform, Mourinho, Benitez and Allegri (defensive coaches) are available. We could also look at Ralph Rangnick and Luis Enrique.. The next coach must be a good communicator.
We have a squad to not only challenge for the top 4 but to qualify for the CL. SALVAGE the season at the earliest chance. I am tired of Emery.
Our players are clueless on the pitch. I wonder what are the instructions.
Freddie now please.
If that goes pear shape, get in Eddie Howe.
Another thing, Guendouzi has the classic symptoms of Arsenalitis. Showing an ignorance and arrogance to those of us who know better.
The young lad needs a good thrashing.
The only bit of good news this weekend is that Eddie Nkethia is looking more and more like the real deal.
Scored Leeds first goal after coming on as a substitute and got the penalty that resulted in their second goal.
The kid could end up with the ratio of 1 goal every 90 minutes played.
Yes it’s hard to believe that the camp is united and happy with each other. Most players are very aware of social media. They will be aware like others that their captain is ridiculed on social media by Arsenal fans, mocked by other club fans on social media and pundits on TV regularly take down their captain as not good enough. They know it. We all know it. But Emery has decided to back this inadequate captain. Last straw for me with Emery was throwing the younger players under the bus to protect his senior players that are not good… Read more »
Thank you-I just don’t see them doing it this season if we’re still in contention for a Top 4 spot. I’m all in favour of an immediate replacement if one is available but I would rather we went full bore for Nagelsmann (or someone like him) in the summer.
Many words when all that needs to be said is the players have stopped playing for Emery as they (and he) do not know what system they are playing.
Prediction time – more poor performances to follow and Emery relieved of his duties during the next international break.
I would literally take ANY of the other 19 EPL managers over Emery.
Xhaka’s “scared” comment is for me the sign that radical change is needed starting with him and moving swiftly on to Emery. If I never see Xhaka in an Arsenal squad again that will suit me just fine.
Emery is just not up to the job in hand, the Burnley game was bad enough but this was worse by a long chalk.
They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome – that is where we are.
Maybe Merson was right, after all… and unfortunatelly for us.
I was a supporter of Unai from the beginning, but I must admits that his substitutions yesterday were, erm… John McEnroe would have said :
“YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!!”
I meant ratio of involved in 1 goal every 90 minutes at the Championship level when used as a substitute.
Not during his career. That would be Messi and Ronaldo level. 😉
Right now he has xG of 1.88.
@Matt : are you dumb enough to believe that he could be sack this winter ??
The “regime” has evolved, but not to this point…
Allegri is available Arsenal should bust their ass to get him….
Most teams resemble their manager.
With Emery we have a clueless and scared team.
His touchline antics and lack of confidence just transfer themselves to the team.
It could be interesting to count how many times the word “sauce” has been used since Emery is in charge. lol
@Ed : Allegri is probably waiting for taking the job at paris next summer.
Emery is not next level. We are treading water as long as he stays here. Hopefully we replace him unless he pulls a 180 sooner rather than later.
“In 3,000 words, Peter didn’t mention sauce. ”
A real, huge performance.
HighburyLegend,
I believe that Josh had made clear to Raul and the rest of the gang that failure is not an option. They won’t be able hide behind Emery if Champion’s League football is not attained.
You don’t survive multiple purges at Barcelona without a strong survival instinct. If he thinks that the situation could have a direct effect on his employment prospect, Emery will be pushed out of the door faster than he can say Good Ebening.
The more we learn about Emery, the more we learn about his previous team capitulation.
Check that tweet before complaining about Emery’s players.
https://twitter.com/Cerebrone/status/1173320990392295424?s=19
“the most likely to throw a teammate under the bus”
Just behind Mustardi.
“That is as subtly veiled as turning up to a Tinder first date wearing a condom on your face.”
At least, today’s quotes are priceless. lol
“That is as subtly veiled as turning up to a Tinder first date wearing a condom on your face.”
That made me chuckle lol
to think we all shoved the story of emery getting sacked in the dressing room at Spartak to the back of our minds … that was the reddest flag in the history of red flags
This man has to go now , no other manager would come in and keep xhaka in the first team – emery hasn’t got it in him to make the ruthless decisions needed at this level
How good is delofeu by the way
Every Arsenal fan this morning will be thinking the same thing.
Emery is clueless and has to go.
I’m fed up of the chin scratching at the side of the pitch and his incoherent mumblings.
Serious actions have to be taken as it is clear that we have a very unhappy camp.
Sorry Unai your time is up.
Frankfurt could be an embarrassment.
Pedro You highlight in your post Arsenal’s 22 game unbeaten run last season. This was followed by a progressive decline in our performance level. I would highlight the following factors to the material change in our fortunes: 1. Bellerin suffered a calf injury and came off after 45 minutes against Southampton and our next defeat came when Bellerin suffered his knee ligament injury and came off after 25 minutes. Since then Maitland-Niles has been his replacement. There is no question that Arsenal have been brittle on right side of defence. 2.Koscielny also came into team in December as replacement for… Read more »
Good post Pedro
Pedro, an excellent post indeed. It’s only a matter of time when Supporters start getting on his back. The club top brass need to decide soon if they want to persist with Emery till the end of the season. Paying him 6m or lesser is nothing when compared to the long term betterment of the club. Giving Emery an extension is out of the question. He is seriously struggling and the sad part is he looks lost. We do have some daft players but a coach earning about 6m a year should instill some cohesiveness in the most average of… Read more »
Not forgetting the Leno saves things could have been worse.?
Valentin Why don’t you address Auba’s thinly veiled dig at Xhaka. It looks like most posters acknowledge that Emery is not the man but you seem to be totally against a combination of the manager not being good enough as well as some senior players. Or is the notion that it is a combination too hard for you to accept. Papa not good enough. Xhaka not good enough. Kola not good enough. AMN not good enough Ozil not good enough Mustafi wasn’t good enough Mhiki wasn’t good enough Then there is just hope players. Fans hope that Torreira turns out… Read more »
Just embarrassing listening to his broken Engleeeesh.
Why was Guendouzi substituted when clearly Ozil was
cattled.?
Guen was our only energy in the middle was he saving him for
midweek if so a bad ploy backfired.
Emery is an absolute tragedy.
As someone posted on twitter, Peaky Blinders is coming to an end this week, and so should his garbage services to The Arsenal.
Valentin
That always struck me about the praise he gets for his Valencia stint, people really haven’t a clue the level of talent they had at the club at that point.
This really isn’t a players issue. Yes our CB’s are sub par but right now they look woeful. Emery isn’t even getting sum of the parts. Let alone getting above that. In 18 months I have barely seen one game which we have looked like we had real zip energy and creativity. We are feeding off scraps. Granit and guen mid has always been v dubious to me, Granit being the main issue but as a pair they are woeful. Outsourcing the sorting our issues by waiting for holding tierney and bellerin is a joke. It basically says players you… Read more »
“In 3,000 words, Peter didn’t mention sauce. ”
… or Arteta.
… or Oat Milk
Ceballos is Spanish which we know is a cold country and was taken off because he couldn’t handle the heat yesterday for Willock.
“Granit Xhaka says Arsenal were scared”
Most teams in Europe already knew that fact, but thanks anyway for the reminder, Captain Granit.
(sounds like a cookie brand)
(*that fact = we’re a team of pussies)
@HighburyLegend My gut instinct is we have an owner and execs with strong self preservation instincts and who won’t want a return to late Wenger levels of toxicity or aggro. It appears most fans and players aren’t on-side with Emery and I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s shown the door pre Christmas. The club has banked everything on champions league qualification. I wouldn’t say this was dumb but just a logical take on how senior execs usually behave. Let’s see how it pans out.
It’s painfully obvious that he is the most confused manager in the premiership right now and that none of the players actually believe in him to take the team to the next level. FFS even the bottom 3 clubs have an identity to their play. 18 months in and Emery still doesn’t know what formation and identity we should be having both home and away.
I’d sack him tomorrow and get Allegri in ASAP.
I’m tired of his aimless prowling on the sidelines, waving his arms mindlessly like a fucking zombie hailing an uber UFO. GET HIM OUT!
Speaking post-match, Emery said: ‘Today was very hot. We needed fresh players’.
…………..
Unai, it’s only going to get worse with global warming.
Get rid.
Can we be worse being managerless?
Sick of Emery facical expressions.
At this rate by December, we will definitely be in the wrong half of the table..
If Emery persist to give the armband to Xhaka – after what the moron Swiss has said – things could turn really bad for him…
(for Emery, not for Xhaka)
(but for both of them, that would be great)
In my eyes he has till jan to get it right or he’s gone.
Can’t play football he wants with staff he has
Luiz needs to go as does papa
Play youth in defence who ar3 comfortable with ball.
Our defence would be better with gus ceaser at the back.
“Unai, it’s only going to get worse with global warming.”
lol so true.
Our home form will save us but away from home the opposition will swarm all over us from the first minute and we wont be able to cope .
If we had remained positive when 2-0 up instead of retreating into our shell , we could have gone on to win by 3 or 4 and other teams would have been on fear of our
Samesong
“Sick of Emery facical expressions.”
lol that look he gives at most pressers when he is asked the first question from the journos.
It’s like he is taking a big log shit. Squeezing a big log out of his arse.
Seems like a decent honest man.
Good on him.
https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/gus-caesar-what-happened-next
Xhara…
Has to go.
Despised by 90 per cent of fans probably 60 per cent of players have lost trust.
Leno
Bel holding chambers tiernay
Wilox Torreira
Pepe callebos laca
Pea
Please
Allegri is available, Marcelino is available.
Fk me. Should have appointed Conte long time ago…
Pepe is worse then gervinho…. He’s a pound land Zaha
Freezing Torreira for the sake of Xhaka is a crime on it’s own. Then we have Pepe who hasn’t performed well, obviously Emery doesn’t know what to do with him.
But Emery’s biggest problem is that his players really look clueless in what they are supposed to do. Haven’t seen us more hapless and without an idea what to do versus a team of Watford’s caliber. Ever.
Haven’t seen us more hapless and without an idea what to do versus a team of Watford’s caliber. Ever.
……………
Raptora,
Do you remember the later years of Wengers reign?
Pedro Honestly that is the best post I’ve read from you “Going from game to game trying not to lose” sums it up perfectly There is zero plan. Zero self awareness. Emery doesn’t seem to have an identity. He’s just a man chasing shadows and trying to copy the next fad without the ability to actually grasp the ideas he’s toying with let alone able to implement them. It’s bad from top to back. Worse than it’s ever been in my eyes The club are providing top players for him and he’s fucking them. Champagne Charlie was spot on yesterday… Read more »
AMN was skinned alive by Deulofeu all game until Torreira came on and offered some protection. We had our best period in his reign when Torreira was screening the back four, but he is the fall out guy to a player where it’s hard to see his value to the team. Why is Xhaka infallible to Arsenal?
People wonder why Pepe is ‘struggling’ but he’s been shoehorned into this side and we aren’t even attempting to play to his strengths.
Pierre
Totally agree.
From 2-0 up what were we actually trying to do?
What was the plan?
Keep playing out from the back at a snails pace and leading Watford onto us?
Should have been releasing the ball quickly for Auba and Pepe to run on to. Push Watford back. Make them scared of our threat.
David Luiz already has that “I can’t be bothered look” about him. We all knew he was an accident waiting to happen. Obvious he didn’t really want to leave Chelsea.
If Josh is good on his word, Emery should be gone by lunchtime.
“Ah. One final detail.
Unai used to park the bus from the 50th minute,
with a 1 goal lead…against teams battling relegation…
At home.”
Says an Angry Valencia Fan on twitter
Cesc Appeal was spot yesterday when he stated that AMN plays like he’s stoned all the time.
I was not a follower of Emery when he was the coach at Sevilla and PSG but since he joined Arsenal, his utterances has shown that he is not the type of coach we needed to move away from Arsene Wenger level. Firstly, when he arrived last season, he said ” he want to outscore his opponents” and “impose his style” I knew there is a problem because no team in England will allow that to happen. They study your team and look for a way to out smart you. It is obvious at that time that we are going… Read more »
Papa not good enough. Xhaka not good enough. Kola not good enough. AMN not good enough Ozil not good enough Mustafi wasn’t good enough Mhiki wasn’t good enough Most of these players aren’t playing any more Papa, kolasinac and AMN can certainly play better than they are under emery. They’ve regressed because they are being given mixed signals Play from the back Stay deep His tactics are stretching our own team- NOT THE OPPOSITION!!! Why play from the back if we are so open and then only using the long out ball to the strikers? Surely we play from the… Read more »
How come Pepe has shrunk?
It says he is 1.83m( 6 feet).
Are those ice baths shrinking everything?
I cannot fathom the fact that we conceded a goal because of us playing from back.
there was a clear warning minutes ago when Guendozi almost gave a goal when he got tackled in front of the goal.
Emery doesnt konw tactics. all he knows is how he can play his version of football. somethign which is not even pretty to watch unlike Wenger’s . He is poor mans Wenger
Stroller Though I respect your opinion, to mention specific players as to why we are failing is just deflecting away from Emery’s poor tactical decisions. Our full backs have been dreadfully exposed in our last 2 away games, especially AMN…. He has had no protection whatsoever and would normally be facing 2 to 1….Pepe offers no protection for AMN. In the end the pressure would tell and mistakes would be made . It’s similar to our centre back situation, no protection. Surely it would be advisable to play two holding midfielders to provide some stability in the side. By playing… Read more »
Leftside
Hes wasting Torreira for xakha
Torreira needs to be our rock in the middle
Stay there.
Break up anything that comes though. Don’t leave this zone. This is your area. You get the ball, you go wide or forward as quickly as you can. If that’s not on then go back.
Limit his role and the space he covered and he will conserve energy
It’s not rocket science
He’s not our no10
Who the hell said Xhaka is going for paternity leave. Get the bastard out.
Gazidis’s parting gift is now making perfect sense.
Thanks Ivan.
Don
“Surely we play from the back if we are going to use possession in the middle of the field no? ”
Turgid slow possession is meaningless as well as dangerous in relation to turnovers and counters in most of today’s EPL.
Emery has very limited time to turn this around now. The fans have given him slack but the grace period is over. The squad still has issues, for sure, but there’s enough there to be doing much better than this. I don’t like this diamond formation rubbish, we’ve been desperate for a winger for a long time, we finally land one of the best in the world and he’s being played as a ST? A position he struggled to play in Ligue 1! I agree on the pressing. Where has it gone? Yesterday was so lackluster, only really Aubameyang and… Read more »
Yeah Xhaka really does not help. Ponderous, no sense of danger, no mobility and error prone.
Having him as the heart of your midfield sets the tone for the team.
But Emery plays him and has made him captain.
When your captain says you were, as a team, ‘scared’…jeez.
Get Wenger back. Atleast we were playing pretty football. Dont give him as much power as he had before. He is there only to coach and manage the team Period.
Get this dumbass Emery out.
https://arseblog.com/2019/09/watford-2-2-arsenal-second-half-capitulation-sets-alarm-bells-ringing/
Another perfect summary from arseblog
Everyone is on this now
Emery has to go
He’s lost at sea looking for a bit of debris to cling to.
Had we not already had Aubameyang and Lacazette at the club he’d have taken us out of Europe altogether last season and this season might be the one he actually does it
So much for top 4
EMERY OUT
The team will probably find Europa League again more to their liking than many EPL matches. Later stages of Europa League where name european clubs can be met.
This slow possession stuff in midfield dictated by Xhaka is less prone to being disrupted by your archetypal continental side.
In EPL more physicality, more press, more danger to the slow possession.
Someone mentioned global warming. Sheesh.
If you knew the history of planet earth and it’s roughly 12 billion year existence, we’ve had a few temperature fluctuations over the years. Some incredibly hot and some…well, the ice age. Man wasn’t responsible then, nor were machines or the Chinese.
True, we’re not helping but pull your pants back up and relax…the earth has been doing it’s thing for a long time.
I first went to Highbury in 1957 and have seen some pretty dire times since then. A number are from years ago, others more recent. I had never shed tears in all those tears over our performances, until yesterday. It made me cry to see how far this great club has fallen. It was so bad. We are the laughing stock of the Premiership, with a coach of George Swindon and Billy Wright ineptitude proportions. A club of our world standing and wealth should not be employing a coach as bad as him. And at least seven if the team… Read more »
Captain Laca was a big miss for us yesterday.
Not sure I’m on board with the slack Torreira seems to be receiving, what’s he bringing to the table exactly? Pashun?
“For me, I think that’s Xhaka making a tacit criticism of the way the game was managed from the sideline, and probably of how this team is set up overall”
That was my sentiment after watching the interview with Xhaka. Many run their hands at another opportunity to dig him out but what part of his assessment was wrong?
We were timid, playing 2nd fiddle, and set up to let Watford play. Second rate as it gets.
“Get Wenger back.”
Total nonsense.
Shambolic performance. One of the worst performances ive seen in a long time. Id say even the Liverpool game wasnt as bad.Emery’s persistence with Xhaka is unforgivable. When your soon to be captain is coming out saying he was afraid to ask for the ball is when you realise the depth of the hole you are in.Xhaka has only 2 positive qualities in his game. 1) Passing 2)Control. But if he is afraid to ask for the ball he cant do none of that.What a fool. Lets not mention the golden opportunity his slow legs missed in the dying minutes… Read more »
Emery out
Mourinho in
‘We cannot afford experiments now. The next manager should preferably be having Premier League experience and proven pedigree. It has to be Jose Mourinho. Sexy football can wait…..’ Jose’s mention has been roaming around my lips since yesterday. Jose is the right guy for this job for many reasons. Jose is a serial winner who became too confident as his success progressed, he has been fired twice in England and has been speaking humble for sometime now. He would be grateful for the Arsenal job. Jose won the CL with Porto and Inter, two teams with limited bling bling, that… Read more »
Also thank God for Auba and Leno. Where would be without these 2 players.
*Where would we be without these 2 players.
Once again random word generator gives us his thoughts after the game. If you can rearrange what he said into a coherent explanation you should be on Mastermind. This level of Basil Fawlty reasoning surely applies to his team ‘tactics’ as well. Random changes, random instructions, random substitutions. Luckily we also get random goals. Good article. I can’t disagree with a word. Emery reminds me of that bloke who went to the BBC and was unexpectedly wheeled on to a programme to give his expert opinion on some political issue. Turned out he was making a delivery or something. Emery… Read more »
We didn’t play out from the back against Spurs so why can’t he just give it a rest already?
Gentle
Even Emery wanted to prove that PSG was a one off and he too is a wonderful manager. Look where that has got us.
At this point in time id even give Freddie a month or two.
If it doesn’t work out then we should look at the likes if Nagelsman, Arteta.