We won.
We’re 3rd, 1 point behind Manchester City.
This should be a joyous occasion, but it’s not.
The table is a liar, she did it to us last season and she’s doing it to us again. We’re not very good, but we’re falling up the stairs. The ‘on-paper’ monkeys can point to ‘the only reality that matters is points’, but as a casual reminder, this is what happened last season.
You cannot continue to ignore what your eyes see week to week.
Unai Emery cannot find a performance. He cannot find a balanced starting 11. His in-game decisions lead me to believe he doesn’t actually see what we’re all seeing.
Winning ugly is not a sustainable strategy for a club that can’t defend or create chances.
Bournemouth are a terrible side. Their position in the league is also very kind to their reality. They don’t press, they don’t create meaningful chances and they leak shots. Rounding up, they’ve conceded about 17 shots a game this season. They are relegation fodder unless Eddie finds some magic. Perfect opposition for us.
The first half saw exactly what we all expected. A bad team struggling to find confidence away at a big club. They didn’t press, they looked nervous and they offered us up oceans of space to enact whatever the Emery vision supposedly is.
We offered up very little. Arsenal were comfortable, some fans celebrated that as a positive, but if we’re honest, Forest would have given us more of a game. We managed 2 shots on target in the first half, one was from a setpiece. There was no magic in our attack, we played like there was no real plan, and there was a real lack of energy in the middle of the park.
At the half time mark, I kind of hoped the manager would remember the Villa game and react, but he didn’t. We stuck with the same players, we created very little, but we allowed Bournemouth to get a foot in the game. They were bad in the final third, but they certainly created dangerous moments.
So what did Emery do? He subbed off Nicolas Pepe on 60 minutes. I understand that his performance wasn’t up to much, but the lack of attempts on their goal wasn’t really in his responsibility domain. The decision was a stinging rebuke, and really, not smart management. He’s our most expensive signing, he was playing against duffers, he should have been given the minutes to play his way back into the match.
… that’s not to takeaway from Gabriel, the kid deserved to play, I just think the signal the sub sent wasn’t a confidence builder and I think it was a misdiagnosis of the problem.
Things didn’t improve anyway, even with the electric Brazilian on the pitch, because the problem wasn’t the front three, it was what sat behind them. The manager took off Ceballos for Willock, which added a little more energy, but not much purpose. Again, rotating like for like wasn’t going to shake the game.
It also didn’t stem the flow of Bournemouth, we ended up forming deep banks to protect against their growing confidence… then the icing on the cake, Emery took Saka off for Lucas Torriera. Hard to work out what he was doing there, was LT a DM, a #10 or an auxiliary winger? Either way, it didn’t do much for our structure. We only started getting chances again when Bournemouth threw everything at landing a point, that created counter-attack chances and we did manage to hit the post late on after the impressive Cal Chambers put Auba in.
So at home, against one of the leakiest teams in the league, we managed one shot on target in open play. That is as strong an indictment of Emery as I can muster. Edu, sitting in the stands, did not look happy. How could he be after sanctioning such a big spend this summer, we have not moved forward.
A lot of fans will point to the omittance of Mesut Ozil as a glaringly obvious fix. Again, I cannot repeat this often enough, he’s really not my cup of tea. However, it’s hard to argue that the German couldn’t have influenced a game like today. The players will know that, and this sort of treatment will build pressure on Emery.
The manager is making a martyr out of the German in the same way he did with Ramsey last season. The longer the player sits in metaphorical prison on hunger strike, the louder and more appealing his silent message becomes. None of this would matter if Emery had made this decision in preseason and not shown the player to us. None of this would matter if he hadn’t given him one of the five armbands. None of this would matter if the alternative was 20 chances a game and electric ‘I DON’T MISS OZIL’ football.
To make matters worse for the manager, the pregame Twitter banter has a magical moment from Ozil at training. It also has a damning video of Xhaka gifting Auba a goal after a mistake in training.
If Ozil is a political prisoner, then Granit Xhaka is a sham President after a stolen election. He doesn’t speak the language of the people and his football policies stink. He was mostly ok today, but that’s all he ever is. His best trait is arguing with the referee. He doesn’t drive the team forward, he doesn’t inspire and his presence flattens the energy. Today offered up perfect conditions for him to thrive and he still couldn’t muster a worldy.
Unai Emery is a bad artist. He has the water paints, the canvass, a perfect view on the Amalfi Coast, and he’s out there painting dick pics and wondering why his funders are pissed. The perfect conditions for his system to flourish appear to be Championship sides or Europa Cup ties. We’re 11 games into the season, there’s no style and the philosophy seems to be ‘hope to nick a goal then defend like we’re in the last minute of a Sunday League Cup Final.’
There is no excuse for drab football this season. There is no excuse to defend a 1-0 lead at home against Bournemouth with defensive subs in the last 10. What we are seeing on the pitch is bad… but as I said last week, Emery can point to the table, that’s his safety blanket until things get tasty in December.
Roll on another week.
Enjoy the win, savour being 3rd in the league a point behind City… but don’t count your chickens just yet, because until performances start to arrive, this is all a big lie that will correct just as you start to believe.
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Bankz is here for the tr4phy again
I know everyone seems to hate Emery but he’s slowly racking in the points
Where’s DM?
BOOOOOM!
Tr4phy secured
As I said earlier, we’re 3rd and 8 unbeaten.
I still hope Emery fucks off sooner than later but the facts are the facts.
It’s obvious by now Emery isn’t the saviour. Maybe he’ll eeek his way into top 4 but we are currently falling azz backwards into that position.
Early in Klopp’s tenure you could see what his vision was, they needed better horses but he had a vision. I see nothing of the sort from UE. No cohesion in attack or defence. Just a completely randomised free-for-all.
At least we know he won’t be here for a decade with this mediocre style and we can mix-match.
It’s kind of like the season we finished 2nd and the AKBs were celebrating like it meant that we were somehow trending upwards towards the end of AW.
We all know how that turned out. This too is a Mirage helped by MC, Spurs and Chelsea not playing up to their standards.
“Unai Emery is a bad artist. He has the water paints, the canvass, a perfect view on the Amalfi Coast, and he’s out there painting dick pics “
Lol
We are atrocious.
We look like epileptic in space.
I hope I’ve watched Kolasinac for the last time in the Epl.
If we’d lost we would have had no complaints.
Cesc Emery probably sees most of the bad things that we see; the problem is he sees Xhaka as “a vocal leader,” a guy who plays “with his heart on his sleeve,” a player of “blood and guts”. This is all bullshit, of course, but it’s for these reasons that Emery thinks Xhaka is necessary to the XI. Xhaka is the guy screaming when they huddle in a circle, etc. etc. Further, Emery has the players’ captaincy vote, in which they unfortunately affirmed this stupid fucking view. As I said before, we have to hope that Emery either comes to… Read more »
Very good article..
This Emery rubbish is not sustainable
We will end up fifth at best
Get Rid of this Emery guy before Christmas. He is junk.
“Painting dick pics”. 2000 words and I pick this out. Sorry, Peter…excellent post but if you keep throwing these Easter eggs in, people like me with childish humour will keep finding them. Well played!
I could t see the game but based on the score line, write up and general feeling, one could imagine we stunk up the pitch again.
Also…£72m and getting hooked on 60mins is criminal. This lad is a total Trojan horse. Sorry, but this guy is a bad Apple. Lille must be laughing all the way to the vineyard.
Bad scouting again.
To reiterate, it’s pretty simple, actually.
First, we need to replace today’s back four with Bellerin, Holding, Chambers and Tierney as soon as possible. Like tomorrow.
Second, Xhaka must lose his place in the starting XI immediately. He is a terrible weakness for us in the center of midfield.
The first change should more or less take care of itself, though I think there’s a chance that Emery will continue to start one of the two older CBs.
If Emery doesn’t make the second change soon, however, he should be replaced. Sooner rather than later.
Arsenal made Bournemouth look ordinary which is some feat considering who our Captain is..
On the subject of dick art. What ever happened to the ubiquitous ‘spunking dick’ that adorned many a bus stop? Maybe I’m dating myself here but, nothing said 1980’s like spunking dick pics and glue sniffers on a bench.
Good post and hard to disagree with it’s main point but it a conundrum. Emery is a pragmatist, he is currently getting results. It is hard to sack him based on what might happen in the future. He deserves to continue but we may have to get used to these types of performance. Make top four and it will have been worth it.
From previous
But RT
you just said that the majority were behind wenger.
So what does that make you? The rare arsenal fan who only wants the best for arsenal
You are a little trooper aren’t you!!
The last bastion, Fighting against all odds to defend Emery.
A man who’s only as good as Wenger was at his lowest ebb. Even Pedro has laid out those stats and he was leading the charge for Wenger to go.
Pepe is struggling with the pace of the league and should be used a a sub for the next few games. He takes too much touches of the ball at times and his passing us woeful. His shooting also is not what I expect from his YouTube videos lol That assist today was from a corner. I wouldn’t get too excited about that. Side note We are the best team at changing our attack to the opposition attack in record breaking time. Chambers did a few critical blocks today but he still gets ne nervous when I see players running… Read more »
What’s all this rolling about in agony to try and influence the referee . It embarrassing and is getting worse week on week . Guendouzi, Torreria, Ceballos Sokratis and even Kolasinac made fools if themselves today with their over reaction to the faintest of touches . Most of the time they were holding the wrong part of their leg where they had been touched. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that this sort of behaviour is encouraged by the manager as it has only started since the beginning of last season . It also slows the game down and ruins… Read more »
Emery is so negative as a manager , I can’t stand his lack of style, his crap formation, his pointless interviews, he really is dross.Xhaka another mishap who should be moved on, we were awful today, no cohesion, no balance, then bringing on Toriera on the wing, the man is a fool.I have started telling mates Emery out, but they won’t listen, too scared by the Wenger hazard, but sooner or later they will see what I am seeing, a clueless manager out of his depth
You accurately sum up my thoughts on Emery and our league performances so far this season. The team is crying out for creativity. Emery is a coward and how he’s handling Ozil is a big shame. There’s no way Ozil doesn’t improve this team by miles.
Never buy from the French league. I’m telling you, Pepe is a bloke that was okay on a 5 a side pitch, could do 100 kick ups and his mate made a video, trawled it around some clubs and he got lucky at Lille. Scored a couple and made a few and here we are.
He’s 24 years old. This is NOT young as a footballer. Kind of middle aged. This guy should be smashing it. We were robbed. Pepe is the car you buy and find out it’s full of newspaper and dreams for bodywork.
Utter shite.
Ozil’s problems are all on Ozil. It’s laughable when Pedro says Ozil would have influenced a game like this.
When is the last time Ozil influenced a game?
Emery will be sacked and his appointment has Bruce Rioch written all over it.
Edu is not going to put up with dreary football and missing out on the champions league again this year.
He is a terrible tactician and a cup manager. There seems to be no philosophy or style and the players looked bored.
I would appoint either Arteta or a more experienced manager with an exciting style.
Guns of Hackney, Lille are just laughing all the way to the bank… The scouting was not necessarily wrong, but the two things that were wrong were the price (way too high) and the perception that Pepe was already world class. Pepe himself said that he was going to move to a club on the second tier of Europe to improve and learn more. Yet most people were assuming that Arsenal was buying the finished article because of the price. What was incorrect in the scouting is the fact that Pepe is very one dimensional and that if Arsenal were… Read more »
Pierre
Imagine Sokratis on a rugby field with Mick Skinner bearing down on him
Pierre Agree on the rolling around. It’s disgusting and it’s gone up several notches under emery He’s Jose but without the charm, trophy and win record. He’s sucked the joy from arsenal completely in less than a season and it’s only getting worse and worse. Please god I hope edu and Raul have something exciting lined up in June. Thanks but no thanks emery. You will not be remembered fondly. Even wenger’s final 3 years brought a couple of trophies and a second place finish We beat chavs in the FA cup and community shield convincingly. Emery got tanked by… Read more »
Pepe is trying to adapt to the toughest league in the world under a coach who doesn’t know what he’s doing.
You think it’s easy to pick it up under a negative manager who thwarts his best at king players before they step onto the pitch?
Dissenter “When was the last time Ozil influenced a game .” Some stats from Arseblog on that last match Ozil played (for 70 mins) Looks pretty influential to me, he hasn’t played one minute since despite being fit. 6 – Key passes by Mesut Özil, led all players 14 – Very deep completions (passes within 15 meters of goal) for Arsenal, compared to 0 for Nottingham Forest. 4 – Very deep completions by Mesut Özil, led all players. 192 – Passes completed in the final third for Arsenal, compared to 31 for Nottingham Forest. 37 – Passes completed in the… Read more »
If Pepe does well, then that benefits the team some of you claim to support. Twats.
Nothing wrong with players holding their leg just to make sure they get the foul.
Arsenal to finish 2nd in the league at worst, we might get lucky and ein it, the gegenpress is not sustainable pool collapse
You heard it here 1st!
A decision I find strange is that Ozil was named as one of five captains even though he is nowhere near Unai’s thinking or plans this year. Everything comes across so incoherently.
Rt
It’s pathetic. We were at home to Bournemouth. Not running down the clock in a CL semi final
Pedro I think you’ll find we don’t have the players to play good stuff at home to Bournemouth…..or something like that. Still poverty o’clock on the squad front if you listen to the excuses in the wind. Never mind the reality, which was Wenger had us playing better football with shittier players more consistently. That’s an ouchy. We were peak flat track bullies under him in the end, and woeful against top 6 sides and beyond – this with the usual whipping boys nipping about too. Now we’re clinging for hope outside of Notts Forest and SubStandard Liege, this with… Read more »
Pierce’s undying loyalty to Wenger and support for a second tier trophy like the FA Cup has put Arsenal back years.
Emery out.dull boring useless coach
Waaay too early to be writing off Pepe. Way too early.
8 games into a new league which has a rep for being the toughest.
There was actually whistling for the final whistle where I was today. At home against Bournemouth, I mean I get scrapping out a win fair enough, but that’s not great.
Pierre’s undying loyalty to Wenger and support for a second tier trophy like the FA Cup has put Arsenal back years.
Back home and watching Newcastle v ManUtd. Both teams are dire. Rennes v Reims has more quality.
I gave up after the first couple paragraphs. All I can ask is what do you propose then Pedro? No one’s mincing any words when it comes to the performances but you’re absolutely deluded if you think anyone’s getting sacked with us sitting in third place. Unless things get really bad it’ll have to wait until the end of the season. Do you think you can wait that long?
Zaha was certainly my preference in the summer, but Pepe will come good imo. He’s not getting much help with adaptation though, I personally felt he should’ve been kept for EL and cup games, with now being his league intro.
He’s had to stumble through some better sides with little joy and it seems to be weighing on him to get that all important involvement etc. Should’ve been our main man against the peasant sides and given him a leg up before letting him loose on the league.
“Unai Emery cannot find a performance”
Post title says it all, this season is headed for a carbon copy of the last.
Except this line above I agree with everything. Unai has found a performance, in what one can only assume his preferred competition the cup tie’s. For whatever reason he reverts to type in the league and were living in this continual Jekyll and Hyde existence.
That said we’ve faced some dire competition in the Europa league, cannot see Unai taking us to ze next level with the league hand break on.
Now we’re clinging for hope outside of Notts Forest and SubStandard Liege, this with some proper talent added, and some slack on the rope to go do the thing vs bannersaurus mong ready and waiting.
Difference being Xhaka didn’t play in those games and we had proper players in defence. If you’re asking me how we can’t perform better with Xhaka and the likes playing I couldn’t give you an answer it would be purely conjecture
Last game in which Ozil played:
Arsenal 5 goals
Ozil 0 goals
Ozil 0 assists
Chambers 3 assists (one from LB, 2 from RB)
Ozil wages since that game > wages paid to Chambers, Holding, Martinelli, Saka, Willock, Torriera, Guendouzi, Ceballos.
Can’t wait for him to fuck off.
Champagne “But the fan base isn’t ‘fragile’. There’s not a current of discontent whatsoever. So I’m told by Bamford.” Except that I never said that. What I actually said was that there is no consensus at the moment, which is what I believed you asserted. Some think Emery is incompetent and a disaster; some think he is a competent if unspectacular manager who has gotten or is getting a few important things wrong; some seem still to think that he might be the right man for the job. If your point was that most Arsenal fans are in one of… Read more »
Marko,
Generally, as a rule of thumb, I’ll only engage with your ignorance if you read the post.
Valentin, harsh on Pepe. Think he’ll come good but it’s tough to make an impact with poverty service. Not sure we thought he was world class, but we hoped he had a higher ceiling than Zaha.
“Difference being Xhaka didn’t play in those games and we had proper players in defence. If you’re asking me how we can’t perform better with Xhaka and the likes playing I couldn’t give you an answer it would be purely conjecture” We played better football under Wenger in the league, your fave pet hate played then. Think the reason we play better in those games mentioned is the level of opposition. Literal levels below us and thus we look like a football team. Still embarrassingly numb to what was being labelled conjecture, but don’t let that stop a shit attempt… Read more »
What a beauty from the beast
Great goal Newcastle!
“If your point was that most Arsenal fans are in one of the first two groups, i.e., are not completely satisfied with everything they’re seeing, well, then, sure, that’s true.” That’s it pal, walk it back with your trousers at your ankles. “I thought I was responding to the claim that most Arsenal fans agree with the likes of you, Pedro and Pierre about Emery. That is not true; that was my point.” Maybe take some of that advice you dish out and read what’s written, absorb what’s being said, clarify if needed, and then responded. ““The consensus is unrest”?… Read more »
Great goal.
One shot on target in open play against a listless Bournemouth – the buck stops squarely at Emery. I read a transcript of his pre-match interview and all he talked about was intensity of ‘off the ball’ play which basically is an euphemism for stopping the opposition from playing. This is Bournemouth we are talking about, not Barcelona, City or Bayern.
Jesus Utd are shit!
I’m not so sure about Pepe. I think he has pace and that he can score if given a lot of space to run in. As for being a good dribbler, or good in close spaces, or smart in combination with other players, or even a quality finisher, however, I’m not seeing any of that at the moment. And I’m not buying that he’s not getting the ball enough. He’s getting the ball plenty; he just isn’t doing anything of quality with it. Obviously it’s still early days, and he might come good, of course, but I can’t say that… Read more »
We played better football under Wenger in the league, your fave pet hate played then. Yeah that’s totally and utterly subjective. There are those of us who think that we’ve actually played poor football for a number of years now. Plus for all the supposed better football and Unai worse with better players the goals for and against is one less scored one or two less conceded so I’m not sure I buy the whole better football under Wenger shite that you’re peddling. My opinion still stands it’s no surprise that in some of the recent better performances we had… Read more »
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2019/10/06/why-unai-emery-is-responsible-for-nicolas-pepes-sluggish-start-at-arsenal-10856149/amp/
Pedro,
Both Galthier and Bielsa said the same thing about Pepe. He needs a lot of coaching to adapt. Both had extra session where they literally showed him the runs they were expecting of him.
That’s not Emery style of coaching. He does a lot of video analysis, but very few on site repetitive exercises.
There is a reason why before both Bielsa and Galthier he has been mostly playing in Ligue 2. He is a trickster, but by default a very static player who rely on his dribbling ability.
don’t let that stop a shit attempt at a burn. good lad Hahahaha
Would you stop you’re a grown man calling people dairylea dunkers and thinking you’re hilarious. Between that and McMuffin I can only assume that you’re a dullard fatty
Steve Bruce looks like a bulldog chewing a wasp
If some of you could write to the FA to deduct points from your team you will. What a bunch of moaners. I guess its the classic “I prefer we play better football than win” stuff.
Well united aren’t playing good football nor winning, just a few months ago some on here said “at least we can see what Ole is trying to build” bla bla bla. If you think anyone is sacking a manager who has lost one game all season because he isn’t playing expansive football you need to see a shrink.
Generally, as a rule of thumb, I’ll only engage with your ignorance if you read the post.
Ah just assume that I generally peruse the post if it’s Emery related because it’s a broken record at this point. I’m just trying to gage if you’re making a case for sacking now or if you can’t wait until the summer? Do you think we’re going to sack someone sitting in third one defeat on the season despite all the obvious troubles that exist? Cause I don’t
Rashford hasn’t looked fit for a little while
Fred is so poor.
“My opinion still stands it’s no surprise that in some of the recent better performances we had no Xhaka or Kolasinac or Sokratis playing or AMN as a fullback. it’ll dawn on you and Emery eventually that we actually function better as a team without certain types in there. Xhaka being the obvious one“ Yea, just like the 3 clean sheets with last season public enemy number 1 Mustafi. I guess he must be the pathetically weak causal element of our rock solid defence in those games to follow on from your logic? Or…..mind bender…..we could just be talking about… Read more »
For those claiming we played better football under late Wenger and that we were successful flat track bullies then just no. We played awful football and struggled in most matches, especially away, hence the 5th and 6th placings. I’ll take the results with crappy football while the new players and the youngsters adapts and our first choice defence gets back from injury. We have a much better squad on paper than last season but it’s all potential atm, Pepe and Ceballos are bound to get better and that will make our attacking play better and make us more attractive to… Read more »
Marko, read the post, that’d be a good gauge of what I’m thinking. Probably quicker than posting twice.
He needs a lot of coaching to adapt. Both had extra session where they literally showed him the runs they were expecting of him.
That’s not Emery style of coaching. He does a lot of video analysis, but very few on site repetitive exercises.
Woah woah woah what about all that overworking double sessions shite being peddled all last season? Again it’s the consistency I like
Problem is nobody is forcing Emery to field Xhaka, Sokratis or anyone else, he’s been soooooo decisive on Ozil one can only assume those are his first choice players as league has to be the goal, barring the full backs who are gaining fitness and working their way into the starting XI.
That said, Chambers was very good today.
Wonder where the joy was that Pedro spent years calling for change Don. The joy only left for you when Emery was appointed then, seems your joy had nothing to do with football nor results
The last few years under wenger was absolutely miserable
Emery has clearly not managed to inject any joy into the club but he certainly hasn’t sucked life out of it. You can’t suck life out of a corpse that’s been decomposing for about 5 straight years.
Unless you mean sucking life out of the maggots!
Awful today just awful. Emerys Arsenal just reeks of his tepid pragmatism, and safety first attitude which runs so counter to the values of the club and the abilities of the team. I would generally take missing out on the top 4 if it meant he would sod off and take his awful footballing ethos (or lack of) with him
Yeah no I read it Pedro and it’s more of the same. I’m asking you do you think that they’re going to sack someone sitting in third? I know it’s what you want but I don’t think that comes into their thinking. Can you not wait until the end of the season is the other question
First thing I would say is Pépé hasn’t looked good but he deserves time. Ironically though, most of the fan base were desperate to sign a top winger and this season so far we’ve had Saka, Martinelli and to an extent Nelson all performing better than our new signing. In two weeks I would hope Tiernay, Bellerin and Holding start playing PL. Hopefully Laca will also be ready. Then all we’ll need is Xhaka to get his 5th booking and Emery by default pick a balanced, dynamic midfield combination that doesn’t get overrun by the likes of Bournemouth in the… Read more »
“Would you stop you’re a grown man calling people dairylea dunkers and thinking you’re hilarious. Between that and McMuffin I can only assume that you’re a dullard fatty“
You’d be about as right as ever. Also, you call folk wanker and dickhead so excuse yourself for thinking you’re fucking grown up or elite for such a thing. Be more original you fucking lychee
Valentin, he looks like he’s lost his confidence to be direct and the system he’s in is giving him scraps to feed off… or asking him to collect from deep. Not great when you’re trying to adapt to a new league and culture at the same time.
Still think he’s shown exciting flashes.
Bamford Pepe has two assists and has created more chances than any arsenal player with 11 this season. With one goal. He’s also only getting starts in games that emery shuts us down. He’s had some close chances with some good saves being made against him. He’s getting pulled from right wing to part of a two man strike force with no midfield behind him in the toughest league in the world. He’s played 9 games. He’s already doing better at this stage than Pires did. Not that you will remember any of that I wouldn’t worry too much just… Read more »
Marko,
You can double session of training that are physically draining without doing repetitive session of the same movement.
George Graham used to put the back four in repetitive exercises to develop automatism within the team. But that works only if you have a defined philosophy/tactic. Emery wants to adapt to every team, so every session will be tailored to that effect. So no chance of repetitive automatism developing.
That is a reason why the young academy players who have developed together seems to have more collective understanding than the first team.
Funny thing about you Pedro as well is you do this thing where you’re basically calling for his early dismissal and then you’re cautioning the possibility of Jose Mourinho getting the job which is quite funny considering the latter is only more likely after the former.
Marko, what’s funny is that Emery is so average, most Arsenal fans would jump at Mourinho in for a season.
“Marko, what’s funny is that Emery is so average, most Arsenal fans would jump at Mourinho in for a season.”
I laughed at this then realised the truth to it 🥺
It’d be more entertaining in some aspect for sure.
Sit down for a second and imagine liver pool without their full backs.. How exciting will their play look?? People keep talking about Ozil as a chance creation machine yet when he plays apart from clever balls into the much derided full backs we are accused of using too much under Emery what else does he do? He can’t beat a man,he rarely shoots, he doesn’t press anyone. Tierney and Bellerin need to return to the first team squad, Xhaka will Still be Xhaka but those two fit and firing will change the dynamics of our play. But we still… Read more »
“PaulinhoOctober 6, 2019 16:25:38
The legendary Longstaff brothers are about to open up a can of whoop ass on United……”
The Longstaff brothers. Coming to a ground near you soon……..
OGS is so bad, it’s spectacular.
Really think he deserves the whole season just to be sure.
Pedro –
Mourinho in? Not me. He’s disgusting.
I’d sooner give Freddie the gig. Internal solutions and all that.
Yea, just like the 3 clean sheets with last season public enemy number 1 Mustafi. I guess he must be the pathetically weak causal element of our rock solid defence in those games to follow on from your logic? I mean you can probably get by with one maybe two but not 3/4/5. You’re not making a good case for Xhaka by bringing up another player. I smell some of that agenda of youre genuinely going to go to war against the idea we played better football winder wenger. I never said all the time, and I certainly don’t mean… Read more »
Receding HairlineOctober 6, 2019 18:18:07 Wonder where the joy was that Pedro spent years calling for change Don. The joy only left for you when Emery was appointed then, seems your joy had nothing to do with football nor results Erm no. My joy came from thrilling football, world class goals, our identity as a footballing entity and the trophies delivered. That Wenger dropped the ball post 2012 doesn’t let Emery off the hook for dropping a record equal to or less than Wenger’s worst 44 games as arsenal manager Your little go to holds no weigh hairline. Not when… Read more »
Be more original you fucking lychee
Gas. I’m pretty sure you’re just stealing either your little nephew’s insults or those kids who tell you to fuck off everytime they kick their ball in your garden
Everton , Southampton and watford in the relegation zone after 8 games is just as surprising as arsenal sitting on third
Jamie, not for me either.
Allegri has been learning English, but ruled himself out.
Wouldn’t be right to put Freddie in the mix.
Not sure where the club would go… but CL is an absolute priority because we’ve spent all the money… so if the correction comes and it’s bad, I can’t see how they could avoid a big decision.
Currently 3 points seperates 3rd and 8th. Not sure I’m buying into the league position hype… totally gutted we failed to turnover Spurs and United considering.
It’s going to be a long two weeks for a lot of Arsenal fans. Third place, one point behind City. Horrible times.
Hopefully after the international break we will drop a few points and the Emery out campaign can be re-ignited full bore.
“I mean you can probably get by with one maybe two but not 3/4/5. You’re not making a good case for Xhaka by bringing up another player.“
I’m not making a case for any player. I’m saying quite clearly that our best “performances” have come because of the level of opposition.
Really? “3/4/5”? Go ahead and name the 5 performances we’ve bossed specifically because of no Xhaka.
There has been an argument that the fans are not sure what Emery’s philosophy is . I believe now we are seeing what the manager’s style of football is . Pressing , intensity , closing down the opposition, work ,work and work a bit more is the philosophy . To play like this consistently in the premier league requires tremendous fitness and endurance . It could catch up with the players in the end. It caught up with us in the last half hour today and alalaso against United. What we are seeing is a repeat of last season ,… Read more »
Much as I think Emery is bang average, I shudder at the thought of Mourinho being at our club. As I’ve said before, I think Freddie would be the caretaker coach only if we are in the final say 6/8 weeks of the season and it’s looking like we might not make top 4.
Of course if we tank in the next six weeks or so then something could happen before the transfer window in January but I think that’s very unlikely as our back four should be a whole lot better. Tiernay will especially make a real difference.
To be fair to Ole, he doesn’t have that talented a group of players as some believe, and is also dealing with injuries to key players. They didn’t do enough in the summer.
Marko, what’s funny is that Emery is so average, most Arsenal fans would jump at Mourinho in for a season.
Yeah cause he’s going to sign up for a season. Please Jose help us with this bore and come in but just for the rest of the season while we wait for (insert name of manager we really want).
Also good luck seeing better attacking performances from Jose fucking Mourinho
G8 –
It’s Watford, Norwich and Everton in the drop zone.
But yeah, we should be playing more like Norwich, have calves like Watford’s squad, and not have allowed Everton to leap-frog us a year ago.
What’s funnier is watching Marko squirm after every awful performance under emery, struggling to maintain a defence.