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Well good morning. ALLEGEDLY, all is not well over at Spurs. I have sourced expert information from Twitter nobodies that suggests the Spurs camp is going through a very similar episode to the JT and Wayne Bridge saga from way back when.
Very amusing. No wonder they all look so miserable.
Hector Bellerin has been talking to The Guardian about how he’s so fucking woke these days, he actually gets offended by the things people could potentially say.
‘Pete, I’m really angry that at any point, you could say something awful that could upset someone’
‘But Hector, I didn’t say a thing?’
‘Pete, beyond the point. You ‘could’ (air quotes) say something offensive, so how can we be friends?’
Love that guy. Bit gutted he hates me in my imaginary construct.
He did let the mask slip though. He’s out here telling the world that competitive sport isn’t an alpha male endeavour, two paragraphs later, he’s heading out to a Ricky G show… a man who savaged disabled kids on a TV special way back when (Listen to this Sam Harris/Gervais pod, it’s great).
What we say on Twitter vs what we think in real life… that’s the next pivot in culture kids, the people are coming for over-wokeness and I can’t wait. Unai Emery will hopefully stop telling everyone that ‘defensive midfield is a social construct’ and we’ll have LT sitting at the base of midfield. Good times.
I do genuinely love Hector. I think he’s the modern-day superstar. He doesn’t care what people think. He’s a top athlete. He never gets caught up in anything obscene (bar some occasional fashion mishaps). I have to say, for me, he was the logical choice for the armband if the alternative was Xhaka.
He’s 100% a starter every game, he’s mostly always fit, he gives his all, and the fans universally adore him… bar a few of the ‘LEAVE MEANS LEAVE’ brigade who are still salty Jenks took his marching orders.
I do need to make a correction, I stated yesterday that I found it odd that Emery dodged the 5 captain thing. Apparently, I was incorrect. He did it. He still managed to fuck it up.
HE PUT MESUT ON THE LIST.
I was with my Arsenal friend earlier today and I couldn’t fathom the decision.
MESUT IS ON THE LIST.
That’s a bit like The Guardian making Milo their Chief Editor. Bernie Sanders making an exGoldman Sachs exec his VP running partner. Batman bringing in the Joker to run R&D at his Batcave.
A player the coach hates. Someone the club tried to move on all summer. Someone that can’t even make 90 minutes against Forest in the Carling Cup. A player that takes sick days to escape away days. Someone that can’t press, defend or turn up for big games. A player so bored of life, he’s basically a professional gamer.
Quite incredible.
Why do it?
Is it a troll? If so, that’s childish.
Is it an olive branch…?
‘Please don’t say mean things to the others about me’
Or is it just another bad decision that reeks of cuckness?
Most of the problems Emery has this season are of his own making, but at the core of it, the squad he has this year is much better. A great result against United this week will go a long way to restoring some faith in the Spaniard, then we’re off on a run of some very easy games. He should deliver enough good results to have everyone prematurely questioning whether people like me have prematurely judged him too early by December 12th.
The thing we have be careful of is 1) Spurs will bounce back 2) I think Frank Lampard is building something strong at Chelsea that might come good this season 3) ‘sacked in the morning’ might happen, and United might finally stumble upon a good manager.
We’ll see.
Short one today, see you in the comments. x
P.S. Get in the mood for the United game with this excellent podcast from the Mundial chaps.
lol Grealish another player that is shit off the ball.
Is it too hard to just want an accomplished player that is good both on and off the ball.
I don’t support any of the major parties these days Boris is only interested in himself though. I am fairly certain fame at any cost is his only persuit. In reality this will mean notoriety. The guy wants to go down in history and be remembered and there’s a good chance he will be. He’s an extremely clever guy who has been building up to this moment not through believing in any particular causes, but by being extremely savy when it comes to managing his public image and manouvreing himself into all the right places at the right times. He’s… Read more »
Boris Johnson is a liberal, the cretin wants an amnesty on all illegal immigrants!.
Yeah I’m more inclined for our next CM signing or two to be of the defensive variety. A proper DM and a replacement for Xhaka please not more of the same.
We going in on Boris? Complete and utter thick cunt. Speaks absolute volumes of Britain that he’s PM.
“a replacement for Xhaka ”
Can I ask you why ?
Is anyone still laughing at ny Leicester prediction. I recall commenting that the Leicester starting 11 [when we played them in April 2019] was better than ours. Their bench was also better than ours then. I bet it doesn’t raise eyebrows now when paid commentators say the same things- Leicester are a credible candidate for top-4. They are as good as Arsenal and Spurs. They are better than Chelsea and United Dissenter indeed I even recall myself saying this same very things only to be met with ridicule on here…am not sure when it was but I think it is… Read more »
“They are as good as Arsenal and Spurs. They are better than Chelsea and United“
On the strength of what? Because if it’s this season so far then I assume West Ham are candidates too.
All the Blairites in the Labouf Party should cross the floor and join the Tory Monster Loony Party.
You were taken down by Emery badly, now you are asking if we can prove something unprovable as a way to prove you are rational. Pedro this is embarrassing coming from you,how was he taken down by Emery unless I am missing something here…he never said Emery was coming to win the treble or something,unlike you who are basing your entire argument on probables.I mean,you said it yourself up there .”if we can prove something unprovable”..well there is your answer you can’t prove that arteta was going to play sexy football..Vincent Kompany(I know different comparison),for example,stink the place out at… Read more »
Marko,You get your info from google. I get mine from people that work in the game.
SMH here we go again
I think what people are laughing at is thinking any club other than City and Liverpool have top 4 sewn up after 7 league games..
Kind of like suggesting a tennis player in the Wimbledon Final should retire from the game at the start of the 2nd set (of 5, which went to a 12-12 tiebreak).
I’d hold fire until March before talking up Leicester as a genuine top 4 contender.
“I get mine from people that work in the game.”
How’s your ego ? Fine I presume ? lol
Someone can have elite ideas without yet implementing them as “proof” of said ideas. It’s literally the definition of an idea. You’re asking Pedro to prove his own belief because you discount everything associated to potential and live in the ‘he hasn’t done it yet’ realm. Others are more open minded and recognised the unique opportunity that moment presented. Quite something that approaching 18 months of pure wank and you’re still so defiant at the mere possibilities of another person in charge way back when. Suggest you take a pointed hat and find a corner of a room, and no,… Read more »
What’s with all the Leicester love in ffs ?? It’s still September and some posters are swinging their dicks like they’re mystic meg authorities on who’s going to finish where come end of the season ?
“I was right” syndrome reigns on le grove
Since we are going to down the route of deciding coaches are good based on their sitting arrangements,how about we appoint Mike Phelan,who sat beside the greatest manager in the world for like 5 years..
Beating a Newcastle tam one man down for the whole of the second half seems to be the stuff of champions on here. We have fallen as a fan base we now find even the most basic of things praise worthy
Now quotes aren’t enough? This feels a familiar path. You argue for the sake of it.
Pedro apparently Emery fooled the whole board by use of a PowerPoint presentation with empty words.How sure are we that Arteta is not the same?…I mean didn’t Henry say something bordering on the same entertaining football at Monaco?How did it end?
Receding
Yeh, it’s a shame that things have come to this.
I suppose a decade of false dawns and broken promises has affected us all.
It doesn’t take an Einstein though to understand that Leicester will be a major contender for top 4.
Definition of insanity repeating the same thing and expect a different result.Why do people keep trying to reason with Marko. He does not believe in coaching. It is always the player’s fault. He does not believe in the concept of potential. You can can only know if somebody will fullfil their potential after you have given an opportunity to do so. Until then you cannot prove it one way or another.He only believe in things that have been, so success or failure can be proven. Black or white. No shade of grey with multiple state.Imagine if Marko has been in… Read more »
Dani I think it’s you missing the point here, Arteta is touted as potential. Having a belief in that can be disagreeable as you like, but 18 months later into Emery’s tenure and there’s absolutely no high ground for someone to deride that belief given what the alternative has unearthed. So Pedro can believe that Arteta would’ve brought sexy football and sauce, there’s no counter to the point outside of conjecture. How successful he would’ve been implementing it all has never been claimed by anyone. “We can say what we want on Emery,he may be absolute shite as people claim… Read more »
“It doesn’t take an Einstein though to understand that Leicester will be a major contender for top 4.”
Major contender Graham? Far too early for that assertion
Graham you’re grasping firmly to the wrong end of Receding’s stick there.
Bamford
I meant keep a back 3 based on my line-up going forward, this is on the assumption that Xhaka is going to continue to start.
If we are not going to go back 3 then Torreira has to come in for Xhaka, Chambers moves across to RB and I would go for Smith-Rowe (if fit) ahead of Saka or Nelson for the left of the 4-2-3-1
DaniI think it’s you missing the point here, Arteta is touted as potential. Having a belief in that can be disagreeable as you like, but 18 months later into Emery’s tenure and there’s absolutely no high ground for someone to deride that belief given what the alternative has unearthed. So Pedro can believe that Arteta would’ve brought sexy football and sauce, there’s no counter to the point outside of conjecture. How successful he would’ve been implementing it all has never been claimed by anyone. “We can say what we want on Emery,he may be absolute shite as people claim here… Read more »
Sorry for the fucking typos
Danialtos,
“why am I not seeing Mike Phelan in the discussion?”
Mike tried his hand at managing and it was clear he was bad at it. Great number 2, but shit manager. Same with Brian Kidd.
That’s s why Mike Phelan is not talked about manager any more.
Why was Lampard, Gerard or anybody for that matter given a manager role the first time?
On potential. Why is this so difficult to understand?
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Skinnywill “They made a very good point on the Arsenal Vision Podcast over the weekend in that with 2 full backs that we don’t trust to defend the midfielders have been pulled wide to cover their deficiencies leaving Xhaka and the 2 centre halves exposed.” It’s a futile point .. I hope they went on to question our manager playing a midfield diamond formation which gives those full backs that we don’t trust….. NO COVER WHATSOEVER Now that would have been a good point to make instead of them making excuses for why our midfield is not giving the defence… Read more »
Mid is sitting too deep.