I’ve spent the last year getting hammered by you lot in the comments section for my rational disdain for our manager, now things are clicking for people, I’m being told that I have not had a consistent view on Emery. ARE YOU KIDDING ME! Someone was so angry they called me a melon shagger. Even our trolls are Waitrose levels of middle-class.
‘Pedro, you’re the sort of guy that secures the bottom button on a waistcoat. I bet you take Aldi’s ‘wine of the month’ to dinner parties and start a conversation piece about how the sommelier game is one giant margin driven ruse. You probably think Barolo plays as a wingback for Brescia, you ingrate bespawler’
I’ve had it with the internet.
I watched the horror show of Watford back again. I liken it to clicking a Whatsapp group chat video from your mates that are builders. Always deeply regrettable.
A few things stood out that could be fairly quick fixes.
Topline, massively oversimplified, but here goes.
Speed:
We are very slow. Did you own a Nintendo Wii with the tennis game back in the day? Did you ever give it to your Grandma to have a crack? When I watch us play out the back, that’s what we look like. We take an age to set up perfectly. Then we missile the control pad into the Baccarat Crystal and Bronze D’Ore Chandelier. Amirite, trolls?!
We transition the ball in a very one dimensional way. It’s almost too choreographed to work. We have good players, so the system will always create goals, but I’m not we’re optimising our approach. This squad, with the right system, should be delivering 90 goals.
We need more urgency in our build-up, we need to move the ball with more purpose, and we need to mix things up so it’s not easy to counter.
Variety:
We are easy to set up against because we do the same thing over and over. We shit the bed in the first half when Matteo lost the ball from one of those new-age goal kicks. Then we repeated the feat in the second half when Sokratis couldn’t even find a player on the edge of the box.
We are practising a new approach in-game and it feels like a brand new endeavour every time we try it. When Pep came to City, his ways looked clunky, 4 months in and it looked amazing. We are a year in, we’ve signed two ball-playing centre backs, we have a sweeper keeper and we have midfielders who should be able to create space and turn under pressure. The approach has never looked worse. I am not against new ideas unless those ideas are costing us goals and making us look like utter fustylugs.
Part of the reason it looks so bad is we do it over and over. We need to mix things up when they’re not working. Cleverly spoke to James Olley at The Standard and basically said they knew how we’d play, but they were shocked that when we’d been sussed, we didn’t change.
Structure:
Norwich are the hot thing at the minute. Who knows if their success will last. What we do know is they have a philosophy and a vision of what they want to do. Their passing out the back was brilliant at the weekend. They beat City’s press really well and they moved the ball at pace. They had a midfield that sat in front of the ball. Players dropped deeper in the box. Everyone knew their role. They play like a new Premier League team, and sadly, they are currently playing the way I suspect Emery would like to.
A few differences. Arsenal offered no midfield protection to the back 4 at the weekend. Xhaka was supposed to be the pivot, but he was all over the place. Matteo and Ceballos were not being led, they careened up the pitch, or panicked and dropped deep into the backline.
Where was our captain instructing them to occupy the space in front of the defence? How did management and the senior players not address the blitzkrieg of shots that showered our goal? It’s staggering how bad the on-pitch management was on Sunday.
Pressing:
When I first wrote about Emery’s hiring in two widely panned posts (day 1 / day 2)… now both classics, I wrote this pearler.
‘He’s a manager who makes players go to war for him, and I’m telling you, we’ll see a massive improvement in the effort, attitude, and footballing output.’
This felt true, especially during the first 4 months. The players ran further and appeared to have grown some balls.
Where has that gone? Our players look lethargic and we do very little pressing. I thought that was a speciality of his? Our players seem to be letting bad things happen to them. Watford was a disaster, we let them get at us and we collapsed. No leadership, very little fight and a capitulation. These are Emery’s players now, how they behave on the pitch is down to him, because if players weren’t up his standard, he’d have them out by now.
We need to get back to working harder, running further and being a menace on the press.
I’m not saying I have all the answers here, but I am pretty certain if he sorted the above we’d win the league.
Let me know what you think in the comments, melon shaggers. xx
P.S. Help a fellow gooner.
Afraid we have some shit news@GoonerTez was taken ill and is currently fighting for his life
We are praying he pulls through
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I mean 6m is laughable compared to Simeone who is according to different sources on 22 to 35m deal. How on earth would he come here? Ozil is on 15m, so Simeone could be on twice the money Ozil is on. He probably doesn’t know the language, and it could be a bad fit for the country as a whole. Imagine we’re stuck on paying his salary for 3 years or smth. The club would bankrupt…
Good to see marko has given up trying to defend the indefensible
Thought you’d slip under the covert 180 on emery eh? How fanciful
I would risk it with Arteta than Mourinho. I’d go with Howe even. Fk mouninho. End of.
I’d pay some money of my own pocket to see Conte as our manager. He’s my #1 after Pep obviously but ain’t no way Pep would come so yeah… Out of our newer generations, Vieira has been around for a while and he would be my choice. No Henry please. I’d prefer Sol Campbell to Henry. Had high hopes on my boy Bergkamp wanting to be a coach but oh well…
“I don’t think our players think on their feet. They seems to have been conditioned to blindly follow the playbook. Are they threaten to lose their place if they don’t? Are they just disinterested and refusing to take any responsibility? Are they lacking the ability to play what’s in front of them? For example can Leno see the chip to Xhaka, can he execute it without making things worse?” Valentin It hard to say professional players playing at the highest level can’t think on their feet. Obviously, we know of the players are morons (*Xhaka) but I can’t say that… Read more »
“Nagelsmann would be the best we could hope for.”
Pedro
I highly doubt we would be willing to pay compensation for any manager so unless Nagelsmann resigns, there little chance of him becoming our manager.
Thought you’d slip under the covert 180 on emery eh? How fanciful
Huh. I’ve always been reasonable and consistent in my views
‘CC, the people I speak to think he’ll last the season, but I have been told we bet the house on CL this year. I struggle to compute a continuation of last seasons dross with him making it past this December.’ Does anyone seriously believe things will show a marked improvement over the next few months. This Emery’s team and Emry’s tactics. After a handful of games, everyone can see there has been no improvement from last year – if anything we have gone backwards because all other teams know how we are set-up and playing. If we’ve bet the… Read more »
Great to see everyone coming round to the idea Emery is simply not good enough and needs to be binned. ‘Give him time’ , ‘ the squad is poor’ , ‘Wenger’s legacy’ and numerous other excuses were just those, excuses. Good managers may or may not produce big results instantly but you just know it when you see a top manager at work. Emery never was anything more than a nervous tinker man.
Un, I am over that idea.
He’d be a better caretaker than Freddie, but I also think he could override the leadership and land 4 years.
We need a progressive manager with new ideas. Watching Arsenal’s football descend further into hell would be awful to watch.
Azed, we paid 80m for Pepe and leveraged next seasons EPL money to get CL. We’ll go above and beyond for a great manager.
Bamford
Welcome back.
“CC, the people I speak to think he’ll last the season, but I have been told we bet the house on CL this year. I struggle to compute a continuation of last seasons dross with him making it past this December.“ That’s my fear, I think we’ve been daft and not paid close enough attention to last seasons deficiencies. Say what you like about Raul et al, but the warning signs were there with meek ideas of “progress” and being sure we have all the right people at the club as per Vinai’s internal comms. It doesn’t appear much like… Read more »
“I must admit I would tune out more often than not if forced to sit and watch hours and hours of video analysis”
Now I understand why our players have no chemistry among them. They spent too much time on video analysis. Our forward plays were so slow as if we were still in pre_season.
My biggest worry is that Auba starts to down tools. It would mean the end of this season.
CC, jury still well and truly out on Raul and Edu. Huge year for them.
Raul had a tough decision to make, he should have fired Emery… but without a TD in place, that would have been a very big risk.
I think it also works well for Edu, come in, see the mess, then make people beg for change… then make your move.
Welcome back, guy.
Thanks.
“Huh. I’ve always been reasonable and consistent in my views“
😂😂 err what..
Emery has been getting calls for time on top of time, with added time, plus 15 new players before he can be judged.
Sheesh, between this and Paulinho still adamant the players aren’t good enough it’s a welcome laugh away from the pitch.
This place is getting tedious with all the I-told-you-so gloating going on.
I have no regrets giving the manager that took over Wenger’s mess enough time to get it right.
He has proven he’s not up to the job and we will be playing in EL so long as he is manager. He needs to be relived of his job ASAP. We ought to be talking to Allegri right now to take over.
*relieved of his job
Pedro
I’d have to agree re: Edu, he’s not got a hard choice to make outside of identifying the right person to takeover from Emery. As for the decision for Emery to continue, that’s pretty much playing out in and of itself. Borrowed time and all that.
Still think we’ll be there come seasons end, I’m having none of it about the group of players not being up to much. Pulis could get this lot in the convo ffs, fully expect Emery to bounce back and deliver something – though he’s off regardless imo.
Our financial model cannot survive another season of EL, at some point we may have to start scaling back stuff. We are still being run operationally like a proper CL club.
Fire Emery – save Arsenal.
Dissenter, you and your motley crew have savaged people who called the Emery thing correctly all year. Not sure you’re in a position to complain that reality looks like its caught up with you.
“ at some point we may have to start scaling back stuff. We are still being run operationally like a proper CL club.“
We slashed the wage bill this past summer.
Poor squad or not, no excuse to keep making the same error again and again… like giving away penalties. The head coach has to be on top of that and enforce discipline to effect this.
Failure to do is this is his fault as the head coach and his alone.
Sorry to say this but all our current players at the back lack basic intelligence, they probably have a low IQ, you watch them , they are incapable of thinking for themselves on the pitch and making necessary adjustments. Why did they keep playing from the back after all the near misses? If they were smart they would have realised the vicarage Road pitch was smaller than the emirates and so was easy for Watford to close the spaces. If we continue with this bunch of defenders opposing teams would have another armoury in their game, deliberately kicking the ball… Read more »
lol
You lot do realise that as well as getting Emery out this team still needs surgery.
The over-rating of this team in pre-season on here before a ball was kicked was laughable.
Running away with third place indeed. Hysterical stuff.
CC, agree there.
I’m all for gloating about Emery, but the reality is it’s way too early to waving the flag on the new season.
My concern is that the underlying stats are all pointing towards either a confused manager, or a squad that’s not working for him.
We have great players, under the right manager, we’d blast our way to 3rd with no issue.
‘This place is getting tedious with all the I-told-you-so gloating going on.
I have no regrets giving the manager that took over Wenger’s mess enough time to get it right.’
I don’t think anyone is gloating here. If anything pro Emery guys have been calling his critics names and accusing them of having an agenda.
DM
: “Aston Villa team-mates Anwar El Ghazi and Tyrone Mings in heated bust-up against West Ham as winger thrusts his head into defender’s face after being yelled at for not tracking back”
This is how teams with proper coaching and leaders behave on the field. There’s accountability
Any manager than cannot foster this type of ethic should be shown the door. .
Nothing to see here… can we just discuss Allegri?
Pretty rich Dissenter.
TR7
The people you called “pro-Emery” are mostly posters who wanted to give WHATEVER manager that succeeded Wenger enough time to sort out the mess. It was a principled stance that based on common sense.
We always told you that we weren’t attached to him if you recall. I wouldn’t have cared less if he had been sacked in the summer.
Now he’s gotten enough time and the club did support him in the last window, so for me…enough is enough.
I don’t think Bellerin, Tierney and Holding returning will change anything.
Amen TR7.
I’ve had my character assassinated, my football knowledge questioned and my motives for going against Emery called out as agendarized.
I was told that he was a disaster even when he was winning, my info from the best places is usually pretty spot on. Pam the tea lady for the win again.
There’s no gloating from me, I want CL. I am surprised we’re so bad so early, thought we’d ride out the new player buzz until at least Xmas.
Emery has been getting calls for time on top of time, with added time, plus 15 new players before he can be judged. I know ridiculous isn’t it. Imagine not asking for him to be sacked inside 6 months or after every defeat. Again technically speaking not asking for him to be sacked but I can see some logic into it. Also the players aren’t good enough only a right daft cunt would think otherwise. Anyone expecting to see defensive stability with who we’ve got in defence is mental. People expecting to see better from our starting midfielders are sadly… Read more »
“My concern is that the underlying stats are all pointing towards either a confused manager, or a squad that’s not working for him.“ It’s the vision and philosophy argument laid bare imo. Nobody can tell me what the plan is, what the team is going to be, what we’re heading towards, all things a change of manager was supposed to bring forth (at least in some capacity, appreciating Pep’s don’t grow on trees….but it they did they’d look like Arteta lulz). We’re witnessing a lack of a fundamental plan that the guys revert to under pressure, it’s patently not been… Read more »
Sadly, we’ll not have our Arsenal back any time soon. Now that we have seen Emery for over a year, I wonder whether there is anyone who still thinks Emery Knows Best.
“There’s no gloating from me, I want CL. I am surprised we’re so bad so early, thought we’d ride out the new player buzz until at least Xmas”
Your vehicle is as good as the person who is driving it. if the driver is shit, there is nothing much the vehicle can do.
“Sadly, we’ll not have our Arsenal back any time soon. Now that we have seen Emery for over a year, I wonder whether there is anyone who still thinks Emery Knows Best.”
yes. Xhaka
“The people you called “pro-Emery” are mostly posters who wanted to give WHATEVER manager that succeeded Wenger enough time to sort out the mess. It was a principled stance that based on common sense.“ Just not true at all, that’s what’s considered a reimagining. Every single indicator flagged that we weren’t progressing was shot down and it was claimed the scorn came from petulance at not getting a hire one preferred. We embarrassed ourselves in the last 7 games of last season and it was firmly put at the feet of the players. So please don’t sit and play that… Read more »
You lot do realise that as well as getting Emery out this team still needs surgery.
Pretty much. Some people fooling themselves if they think we’re a manager away from being competent defensively and from having midfielders with a pair of balls.
Don’t think there ever was anyone who was an Emery knows best or whatever names you lot coin like 10 year olds… I think dolls just wanted to give the manager the benefit of doubt as it should have been.
Surely Emery gets until Christmas as long as were still in with a shout of top four, if that fades so will he.
With this squad and state of the league top four a must, so achievable.
Allegri would be fantastic, he’d certainly address our defense flaws with immediate effect but doesn’t seem realistic hire at this stage. I’m finding myself in the camp that thinks tomorrow’s man is the answer, Naglesman the most interesting followed by PV4. Push into the future with this season being the launch pad. Raul has much riding on this season, which gives me hope.
“Dissenter, you and your motley crew have savaged people who called the Emery thing correctly all year.”
I was part of the people who said Emery should be given time. If you want to gloat and rub it in my face, feel free you earned the right to that.
Bati, you’re sounding like that Isis chap from Oxford.
‘I just wanted to give it a chance’
Raptora
I’d rather Mourinho over Freddie or Arteta. We desperately need to get back to the champions league, no time for experimentation, we need a manager who’d come in and perform or get the best out of what still remains a pretty unbalanced squad.
Marko,
Arsenal were a top 6 side with squad capable of finishing 2 points from 3rd.
We were more than capable of finding a manager that could move the club forward by a margin in year one.
We hired badly. We forfeited a year. The only thing going for us now is a far better squad and the potential for United and Chelsea to implode.
Marko
Still wild that you flat earth the idea of proper coaching.
A competent manager makes us a better unit defensively, that is literally all that is being (and has ever been) stated.
Pedro
Whoever it was that came in, we were just giving it a chance with them especially with how much of a mess the squad was and now that patience has run out for most folks and rightly so. Absolutely nothing wrong in giving a manager a chance as fans of a football club
Lol thinking Allegri comes in and instantly improves the likes of AMN, Sokratis and Xhaka. Big lol. Huge in fact. Nah Allegri comes in and demands more of the overhaul to continue. He’s too expensive anyhow my hope is Vieira and he brings Atal with him and knowing a good midfielder when he sees one he instantly bins Xhaka. That’s my hope but that’s not going to happen until at least the summer.
The next few weeks should be interesting. Does Emery accept he’s wrong about the way he’s been playing and change it? Does he continue the horror comedy at the back? Does Raul sit back and watch Emery lose games and put CL attainment in jeopardy? The next few games should answer some of these questions.
But whatever happens the club must understand Emery is not brilliant enough for a top job.
Posters do realise of course that the team has a malfunctioning heart. Well most do.
But of course if Emery persists with having this malfunctioning heart in his team and even elevating this certain part of the team in his plans and ideas then that is a sackable offence in itself. He falls because of this certain persistence no doubt about it.
Bati, sometimes you have to be real about what you’re seeing.
He should have been packed off after the collapse at the end of the season. His communication was bad, the players couldn’t be motivated for a cup final, and his end of season collapse was shocking.
If you finish a season worse than you started, it’s normally seen as a huge warning sign.
Gentle
Emery going back to a 4-2-3-1 formation would massively help him.
Marko, great managers create systems bigger than the sum of their parts. You have a very poor grasp of what a good coach can do.
Emery can of course ride out this storm for a while because there are two winnable games coming up and they are winnable despite the obvious looking problems.
Aston Villa look ripe for relegation to me and all teams above Arsenal up to 3rd place have more difficult games than Arsenal do at the weekend so by next Sunday evening Arsenal could move up a few places in the league.
But will most probably be only a brief respite.
Will all kick off again after the Man United away match at the end of the month.
Dissenter ‘The people you called “pro-Emery” are mostly posters who wanted to give WHATEVER manager that succeeded Wenger enough time to sort out the mess. It was a principled stance that based on common sense.’ Principled stance ? How can a person’s stance on a manager not be based on genuine assessment of the manager but on a blind principle to back him until he has completed one season or whatever timeframe some of you thought was appropriate. Do we take a principled stance to not criticize our new signings until they have played X no of games for us… Read more »
Pedro
Well the powers that be decided otherwise, nothing we as fans could have done about that, Arsenal fans all over were always going to give the new guy after Wenger a chance, some had more time for Emery than others but at the end of the day, we’re all agreeing that he’s not good enough. There were no guarantees that anyone else would have got us playing better e.t.c.
Marko
If you think Allegri fails to move the defensive needle with whats on hand like Emery has I feel for you. It wouldn’t be sexy but then it isn’t now either is it.
It would certainly show result, pretty safe to say we would not be shipping a two goal lead at Watford with useless substitutions, needless playing out of back once sussed and i’d hazard a guess there would be something implemented in terms of game management.
Still wild that you flat earth the idea of proper coaching. I’m not flat earthing nothing I’m saying that a bad/average player is a bad/average player irrespective of the manager. We could have Pep Guardiola with Klopp as assistant manager and they’re not making do with the likes of AMN or Sokratis and Kolasinac in defence they’re binning them. This notion of miraculous improvement from certain types of players under a different manager is honestly laughable given everything. I mean how many years and how many performances are we going to have to witness before people realize that Kolasinac and… Read more »
Yea truly bizarre idea about Allegri not getting a different tune out of players named.
If that were true then what would actually be the difference between Allegri and Emery.
Is there a suggestion that they’re the same level of manager in that case? So much confused rhetoric in a desperate attempt to cling to an idea of pony players.
If you think Allegri fails to move the defensive needle with whats on hand like Emery has I feel for you.
I think he’d actually avoid it. He’d definitely think twice about taking on a job with AMN, Sokratis, Luiz and Kolasinac as your back 4. If he did take the job fully expect a couple defenders from Italy in January. Same with Simeone if somehow Diego Simeone took on this job I’d be absolutely shocked if you didn’t see him spend a Kings ransom on the defence alone and he probably brings Partey with him as well.
“This notion of miraculous improvement from certain types of players under a different manager is honestly laughable given everything“
Who stated this and where?
The rudimentary idea is that a better coach than Emery would take this same group and better their collective output via a clear philosophy, education, and pattern of play.
Marko
“I’m not flat earthing nothing I’m saying that a bad/average player is a bad/average player irrespective of the manager. We could have Pep Guardiola with Klopp as assistant manager and they’re not making do with the likes of AMN or Sokratis and Kolasinac in defence they’re binning them.”
Emery’s had a year and at this point, everything points to him.
Kolasinac spends more time as a winger than as a defender while AMN is too causal but Emery has had a year to work with them.
The buck stops at his desk.
Marko
One gets the feeling though that Allegri while he wouldn’t improve certain players would get us to be better organized and not so open in the middle of the park
lol imagine Simeone or any sound defensive coach working with Xhaka.
Better organization, a game plan however flawed due to personnel e.t.c. Victor Moses and Marcos Alonso all looked World class in that Chelsea set up under Conte.
No matter how bad they were going foward, United under Jose were hard to beat so i think that’s what folks say when they mention a new manager would improve us at least organizationally
“lol imagine Simeone or any sound defensive coach working with Xhaka.”
Repetition.
When you don’t have smart players, you pick two systems and drill them in that system till it’s ingrained in them them and they can play that system in their sleep.
Based on the players we have, Emery should have been training them in a 4-2-3-1 and a 4-3-3 system knowing that Bellerin and Tierny would be back by next month.
This is the main story.
Players that are absolutely shit off the ball well teams can sometimes put up with them and live with them if they are more advanced positions because it is seen as being less damaging defensively although this idea is even scorned on now because of team press.
Arsenal have a player that is absolutely shit off the ball sitting in front of the defence in a side that has been known to be defensively poor for so many seasons prior.
As they say you couldn’t make this shit up if you tried.
And of course the Xhaka angle is Emery’s biggest crime of all here.
His persistence with him. And even elevation of him now.
The stats don’t lie – Emery has neither the ability to install a gameplan in our defence nor the imagination or ethos to unleash the potential of the attack. A poor xG can be offset by a strong XGa or vice versa. When both are heading in the wrong direction after over a year at the steering wheel then its game over for the manager
Who stated this and where? Aren’t people saying that Allegri comes in and improves us instantly? Even you now are talking about a philosophy and pattern of play improving us almost completely disregarding that in this scenario we still have an absolutely shocking RB playing and defenders who consistently make mistakes as well as midfielders with zero character and influence. Allegri may have a philosophy (I’m not so sure about him and philosophy) but I’m willing to bet it can’t be fulfilled by some of the types of players we’ve got at Arsenal at the moment. I’d be willing to… Read more »
The odds on Emery getting the bullet have been cut to 6/4. (Ladbrokes)
Marko
So let’s assume Allegri is a better manager than Emery…
What do you think that statement means practically?
I think it means he takes 23 footballers and conditions them to output X amount of their collective potential whilst Emery gets Y of their collective potential. X being more than Y.
Just what are you saying?
‘The over-rating of this team in pre-season on here before a ball was kicked was laughable.Running away with third place indeed. Hysterical stuff.’
I don’t get stuffs like this, I don’t get it at all.
Are folks saying it’s impossible to finish above these ManU, Chelsea and Spurds sides with a proper coach in charge?
Oh!
Ishola
Xhaka is not the only thing that Emery has got wrong. Playing out from the back with Papa Sok at the core of the defense is another big mistake. Not one physically imposing midfielder in the entire squad -big mistake. He has not let any 1 formation or group of players to settle down and knit themselves in to a functioning unit. Absolutely no defined pattern to switch from defense to attack and attack to defense. The list is long.
It was embarrassing to see the bottom of the table club Watford steaming through the heart of the Arsenal midfield time and time again and running unopposed right to the edge of the Arsenal penalty area.
Emery doesn’t want to fix this issue.
He goes soon enough because of it.
TR7
I didn’t say the Xhaka angle is his only crime.
Rather it is his biggest and most damaging one.
Allegri is a luxury team coach and his success at Juve was built from Conte’s sweat.
Jose won the CL with Porto, and like I have been saying, Jose is reformed, eager and desperate to prove he still has it at the top level.
Jose is one opportunity we shouldn’t miss just because the man has not been lovely.
The Nagelsmans of this world are for the Evertons of this world.
We, of course, need a winner.
We’re taking about organization here, having a pattern that works in favour of the personnel we’ve currently got. Don’t think it’s out of place to expect that from any manager
Gentle
I’ve warmed up to the Jose idea, Allegri would probably need some time and his own players e.t.c but we absolutely cannot do another season in the Europa league hence why I’d take Mourinho short term. Knows the league, has worked miracles with a defence of Smalling and Jones before so there’s that
Should also be pointed out that its a fallacy to suggest Emery’s not been given the ‘right’ players. Right players for what exactly?, what’s his criteria, what’s his plan, how should we be playing?. After 12+ months no-one even knows what that is so you can hardly blame Raul & Co if they aren’t able to get the ‘right’ players for some unfathomable and clearly unproductive masterplan!
Come to think of it he finished 2nd and won the Europa league with Jones, Smalling, Shaw Young , Bailey, Darmain, Lindelof as his defensive options. Proper horror line up
Gonna cop some stick for my Mourinho love in but the agenda is what it is fellas
“lol imagine Simeone or any sound defensive coach working with Xhaka.”
The Swiss disaster would be kicked out from the squad before having time to put his training shirt
TR7
As for offensive play answer me this.
How are Arsenal ever going to emulate Norwich City’s quick evasion from deep areas from the Man City press the other weekend that led them to dangerous attacks when 95% of the time Xhaka receives and is on the ball in deep areas in Arsenal first phase?
Any ideas TR7?
I’m just tired of mixing it up on Thursdays with clubs like CFR Cluj, Astana and others like that.
With respect to everyone’s views and opinions I’m not going to say anyone is wrong, but are those of you calling for Maureen the same people wanting Wenger out? I just can’t understand replacing one egotistical dinosaur that refuses to change for another. He’s not the Chosen One anymore, he’s the stale, grumpy avoid at all costs one.
There are better options out there. It’s right that he does have an impressive history, but that’s just it, it’s history. We need to look to the future. #N5forBoss
N5
Leave my agenda be my man. #MourinhoIn
The Entertainment value alone would beat the blandness that is good ebening
N5, a very good point.
Batistuta – I think Mourinho best manager of his generation, better than Pep and Fergie, but he’s had his ten year purple patch and is not same guy.
Seriously though, if Eddie Howe is being mentioned then surely my Mourinho love in is allowed 😉
Ajax manager has to be in the mixer. His teams press in a ferocious manner.
Emery is not good enough for us; deflecting the blame to the players is just a petulant display of an unwillingness to backtrack.
“I think Mourinho best manager of his generation, better than Pep and Fergie, but he’s had his ten year purple patch and is not same guy.”
Mourinho is yesterday’s man. Arsenal should be looking to the future – a 4 – 5 year year project.
“The Nagelsmans of this world are for the Evertons of this world.
We, of course, need a winner.”
Finished 3rd w/ Leipzig and into Champions league for the clubs second time, early days but currently has them top of table this term, shifted to 3 CBs this weekend and drew with Bayern.
Seems like a future winner to me, at 32.
jwl
Eddie Howe or Mourinho?
Lolz but seriously though we have to get rid of Emery and fast too. I’d probably sack him on Thursday the minute the first pass from Leno to a defender in a crowded midfield is played
Batistuta – I think of entertainment value is well, I would love it if Mourinho came here and won bunch trophies while poking an opposing manager or two in eyes, I would love it but Mourinho is not same man.
Where’s Kwik Fit when you need him… and his FUCK off Mourinho’s chants.
GOLD
Sal, Honigstein said Leipzig are the best-coached team in the league over there.
He’s the real deal.
Favre, Rose, Fonseca, Ten Hag
Micheal
Do we really need another 5 year manager?
Chika
I said when Emery was first appointed that I didn’t expect much from him.
I also say now he should be got rid of.
But that doesn’t mean you ignore a damaging turd in your side.
A turd that is seen as the hub of the side.
To do so would be totally oblivious to the whole picture.
I wonder about Eddie Howe, he might have found his level that he comfortable with. I thought Moyes, when he went to manure, he looked overmatched/overwhelmed by job, I wonder if Howe just likes quiet life on South coast.