I was going to write you out a Monday morning banger, then I realized we have two weeks until the next game… bad times ahead.
For blogging, it’s Dry January without anyone to listen to your empowering story.
Traffic wise, it’s like we’re Rolf Harris at next years Glastonbury.
The comments section becomes the part of Hyde Park corner where the soap-boxers get arrested for a excrement related offences (sorry guys, it’s true).
It’s so boring that sometimes I resort to courting attention by click-baiting certain fandoms with fake headlines.
OZIL COMPILATION THAT PROVES HE IS GOD
It’s desperate times.
So I’m saving all my prose up so I can spread it thinly enough to keep you interested.
In the meantime, I made a SOLO podcast for you to listen to. I figured people stomach ebooks for 19 hours at a time, you could easily do 35 minutes of me arguing with myself and ultimately resolving the differences.
Give it a go and I PROMISE that I will come back with real people for Wednesday morning. Also, know this… I finally worked out how to run Skype into my mixer. Gonna hit up some elite journos and industry people, only to be refused, and fall back on some failed AFTV personality from 2014.
Enjoy…
“Panics would have set-in. Xhaka would have committed one foul too many and get a yellow card. The circus act that is Xhaka, Sokratis, and Luiz would have combined to give away a penalty or a free-kick in a dangerous position.That is the kind of scenario that should not be remotely possible if Arsenal were properly coached.”
Valentin
Please tell us how Man City that are obviously properly coached lost to Norwich and Wolves because if we lost to Norwich and Wolves, you, Un and others would spend the rest of the week telling us how its Emery’s fault.
SAUCE!!
Congratulations to Xhaka for the newborn.
Liverpool wouldnt be top of the table without mane.
Having said that, Haka out!
Emery isn’t going anywhere and if we finish top four I’ll bet the powers that be hand him a new contract. So far, you’ve got to say he’s done OK. The football isn’t great to watch and the obsession with playing out from the back via defenders who aren’t really skillful enough to do it and his mystifying loyalty to Xhaka, are aspects of his management that I find difficult to fathom. However, we are pretty impregnable at home, have a lot of exciting young players and considering the changes post wenger, the team is doing better than expected. Add… Read more »
“The circus act that is Xhaka, Sokratis, and Luiz ”
I think it is more down to the quality of the players than the coach. During yesterday’s game, Bournemouth had three good scoring chances inside the box. Chambers saved two chances and Guen saved one chance. For all three incidences, Xhaka, Sokratis, and Luiz were ball watching. Bournemouth could have easily tied the game up.
Mane scores for Liverpool, its because of good coaching. Aguero scores for city, it’s bcoz of good coaching. Kane score for Tottenham, bcoz of good coaching. Even Teemu Puki scores bcoz of good coaching. Yet, Auba scores bcoz he’s talented and feeding off scraps and keeping Arsenal in 3rd and Emery in job. Now, who will ever be in job without better results? Just as I said before, some of you have allowed the media erase any sense of reasonable judgement and see everything Arsenal bad. Like they did to Utd fans to make Lukaku look bad in their sight,… Read more »
Azed
Why do you keep bringing up City every time? … even when a legitimate criticism is made of Emery
Guardiola has little to prove having won the last two league titles. He’s as proven as they come. Emery, not so much?
“Congratulations to Xhaka for the newborn.”
I hope he doesn’t pick her up – he’ll drop the little creature.
Kay, Arsenal had the best shots to goals ratio in the league.
Auba feeds of scraps statistically. He’s an elite talent, he’s always been an elite talent, if he wasn’t that good, we’d be in deep shit.
You could argue that Emery has coached a system to create less chances, but he focuses more energy on making Auba’s finishing better… but that’d be absurd.
Azed, Accidents like coincidences happen once or twice, if it keeps repeating itself it is the symptoms of systemic failure or lack of alternatives. ManCity had a system, Aymeric Laporte was an essential part of that system. Without him, Pep is trying to find a system that compensate for his loss and Ottomendi rashness. Keeping attempting to push a square peg in a round hole and hoping for a different result is literally the definition of insanity. Yet Emery kept pushing AMN who is not a right back into that position. It took AMN literally getting kicked out of that… Read more »
Xhaka in the past seasons was a complete liability like he is now + mentally unstable. He would pick up yellows on a weekly basis and reds on a monthly. Sure he is still fouling a lot but those fouls are further away from our goal.But the bottom line with Xhaka is that his natural slowness will never allow him to be the player managers want him to in the PL. Athleticism is the first trait a midfielder needs to have if he is to thrive in the PL. Lastly I wanted to add that his game has improved .… Read more »
I think performances like yesterday would be glossed over if they weren’t the norm. The trouble is they are more than not the norm. Yes a win and a clean sheet sounds great but it isn’t over reactionary to suggest trouble may be ahead unless performances start to improve. We have yet to see a Premier League performance where we have dominated and put a team to the sword. Someone made the point above that the thing to look out for is the continued excellence of the Europa/League Cup side and how many of them become integrated into the first… Read more »
Kay, The difference is that most teams goals come from a pattern of play. Something that can obviously be coached. Aubameyang goals are mostly the result of off the cuff individual brilliance. Even Lacazette goals against both Liverpool and Watford were made bybhis own work rather the result of planned team play. Mane and Salah will still score brilliant individual goals, but most of their goals come from brilliant interplay. Either with Firmino or with one of the fullback. Aubameyang goals: direct free-kick, volley, Solo run after an interception… None of them could have been prepared and worked on before… Read more »
Isn’t it strange that so many us are repeating ourselves daily on here.
“Everybody knew that AMN was not a right-back”
“Everybody knew that Xhaka was not fit for purpose”.
“Everybody knew that Torreira was not a box to box player”
“Everybody knew that……………………..(add your own).
Get the gist?
Yet Emery kept pushing AMN who is not a right back into that position. It took AMN literally getting kicked out of that position before the obvious better solution was tried
Bellerin is injured and before Emery, AMN had played lots of games at Left back.
Even Pep played Delph at left back when he had injuries there.
You still didn’t answer my question… We beat Bournemouth but you question our players coaching, City lost its because players are injured….
See the difference?
Jesus fucking Christ. Too many of Auba’s goals come from moments of individual brilliance? Clearly Emery should stop him scoring so many solo goals, and coach him to look for a pass for some extra cute interplay before walking the ball into the net (not Auba, obviously, but another player so we aren’t so dependent on our striker’s finishing). Why did we drop over £100m on 2 strikers if it wasn’t for their moments of individual brilliance? Auba the golden boot winner last season, and it’s being used as a stick with which to beat Emery. Incredible. Emery has so… Read more »
“Aubameyang goals are mostly the result of off the cuff individual brilliance. Even Lacazette goals against both Liverpool and Watford were made bybhis own work rather the result of planned team play.”
Against Spurs, pass by Guendozi
Against UTD, pass by Saka who got the ball because of the press.
Against Watford it was interplay (2nd goal)
Against Newcastle, pass by AMN
All Aubemeryang’s goals have been assisted but why let facts get in the way of an agenda?
“Jesus fucking Christ.”
Nope, Mister Unai Emery, at your service.
“Why do you keep bringing up City every time? … even when a legitimate criticism is made of Emery”
Legitimate criticism? We won against Bournemouth but people are going on ifs and buts?
If Pepe and Aubameyang scored against Liverpool, we would have been two up, I didn’t see Valentin talk about ifs and buts in that game.. We lost and that was the end..
We won with a clean sheet and the theme is if Bournemouth had scored? They didn’t fucking score, the rest is irrelevant.
Some people are highly skilled in man-management ,people skills and the art of reading body language.
I get the distinct impression that Mr Emery is not so hot in respect to these major aspects of team building.
Just a hunch.
Take out VVD, Robertson, alexander Arnold and firmino. From the bindippers Take out walker, stones, laporte and sterling from city. I wonder if the bindippers and city would be where they are now. Since we’re in third place and not had bellerin, holding Tierney three of our first choice back four and lacazette, I think we’re doing quite well. We’ve learnt how to win ugly again and shut up shop to secure the points. Yes it’s not pretty, but if it gets the points to put us into the champions league I can live with that. Xhaka continues to be… Read more »
“ManCity had a system, Aymeric Laporte was an essential part of that system. Without him, Pep is trying to find a system that compensate for his loss and Ottomendi rashness.”
Valentin
Funny how you disagree when people say Emery doesn’t have the players to play his preferred system.
Kolasinac had lots of space down the left yesterday but his cross couldn’t beat the first man.
How come Pep hasn’t rubbed his magic sauce on Otamendi?
Been busy with the tyke all day. What’s happening?
Looks like an Auba day.
Or a “if city/Liverpool/Barca lost x player…
1. Auba is a decent player who is now 30. Low hanging fruit and we picked it. He will cease to be useful at the end of this season. Fact. Should have sold in the summer. He’s a flat tracker.
2. Shoulda woulda coulda. And if mother had balls she would be your dad.
Wenger on Sky!
“Values”
“Twenty consecutive years top 4”
You can’t keep a good man down.
Jamie/azed,
How about this for a pointless hypothetical: if the Tottenham v Bayern actual result matched the calculated expected goals, Tottenham would have edged it and beaten Bayern 2.4-2.1
https://cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2019/10/1/20893762/tottenham-hotspur-2-7-bayern-munich-champions-league-serge-gnabry-rout-spurs
Valentin – Fergie said Arsenal were hardest team to play against during TH14 years because we didn’t have system and you never knew when or how Henry would go one of his runs.
“How come Pep hasn’t rubbed his magic sauce on Otamendi?”
Otamendi is just like Granité, a lost cause.
“How come Pep hasn’t rubbed his magic sauce on Otamendi?”
I think pep just doesn’t want the sexual harassment charge.
Too early for joke Friday?
Jwl
As a fan of Henry. And imo the second best player for arsenal ever…that’s bs. Henry was pretty predictable, you just couldn’t stop it.
Everyone knew what he could do and how he would do it but that’s the trick.
He wasn’t a Maradona. He was Henry.
Predictable in its unpredictability if you like.
Guns,
If Henry was your second favourite player at arsenal.
Who do you think was first.?
HL and Up 4. This is why you’re not wordsmiths.
Pep’s sauce can’t penetrate Granite.
Up 4.
Andy Linegan.
https://www.goal.com/en/news/wenger-feels-emery-has-it-easier-at-arsenal-while-pochettino-has-/og3mutje70id17bi97mbnh7rg
This cunt I swear
Guns, I was going for the cheap gag, I’m not that clever!
Azed, You are the king of whatabout ManCity. I am an Arsenal fan, not ManCity. Instead of trying to use them to deflect from mistake at Arsenal, answer simple questions. Since the beginning of the season AMN has been playing right back. So there was ample possibility to play Chambers or Mustafi there. Would you not have played Chambers or Mustafi there instead of continuing with the failed experiment of AMN as right back? Did I mention Kolasinac in any of my criticism? No. why? because with Monreal gone we have no realistic alternative at left back. None of the… Read more »
Lol guns, at least you didn’t say Gus Caesar or David hillier!
Bergkamp obviously.
Hands down. No.1. Made the modern Srsenal.
Adama Traore.
Starting to look pretty good under the proactive leadership of Nuno Espírito Santo.
Has to be the fastest player in the EPL.
Built like a street fighter.
Play to his strengths and you’ve got a gem of a player.
Jwl,
Like Guns of Hackney said, the problem was not predicting when Henry was going into one of his runs, it was stopping him getting into one.
Same way Robben is predictable run at left back, come in on his left foot and shoot on opposite top corner. Every defenders knew the scenario, but few were able to stop him in his pomp.
Most players are one trick pony. Great players have one trick so good it may be near impossible stopping them. Exceptional players have multiple tricks.
Guns,
Can’t split Henry or Bergkamp.
Both top quality for different reasons.
Unbelievable players.
Xhaka gone on paternity leave then? Couldn’t the kid have waited till after international break to be born? Thought he was supposed to go on leave for a month or whatever, that’s 2 weeks of games we could have not included him in the lineup.
Wenger is such an asshole.
Eriksen running down his contract means he’s been sidelined at Spurs, but players under Wenger’s watch running down theirs was ‘the ideal situation’.
He also forgets that he wasn’t sacked for consistently making the top 4, he was sacked because he couldn’t even manage that in the end and was slipping down the table year on year.
How’s the job hunt going, Arsene? Phone still ringing off the hook like it did in the good old days? Donkey.
Up 4
Bergkamp. Why? Two players became Arsenal legends while he was supplying the bullets. Wright and Henry. 100 goals plus. Not to mention the men himself scoring over a hundred and setting up around 300.
DB was a genius. A pleasure.
The quality of the goals that bergkamp scored as well was different class.
Henry and Wright both did well off bergkamp.
Could you imagine those three in a front line in their prime!
Guns of Hackney/Valentin
Henry would be much easier to stop if Arsenal had predictable style of play, Henry was genius who did what he wanted. My fav Henry goal was against Spuds when our left sided striker got the ball deep in our own half on right side and did mazy run to score. There is no preparing for that because it was unpredictable.
Jaime ignorance is bliss when it comes to the fucker. Guarantee you that to this day he doesn’t have a clue why he was sacked
KAY BossOctober 7, 2019 14:24:44
So Emery stays in job because Auba scores goals. Look some of are pathetic in analysing situations.
We won and that all fans want. We played beautiful football under the God of Arsene and we won zilch for almost 12yrs.
I’ll like us replace Emery end of season if he doesn’t perform well. But if we keep scrapping results by win like this am all for it.
How Utd’s and Spurs fans will wish to be where we’re now.
Kay
Loooooooooooool
We won cups in that time
Emery has won nothing for us
Nothing
Wengers right
Emery does have it easier
Wenger has to run a whole club. Emery can’t even coach the players bought for him . That’s all he has to do.
Couldn’t lace wengers boots
Couldn’t zip up his jacket
Could t put the lid on his bottle
Guns
Wright was a legend before bergkamp signed.
“We won cups in that time
Emery has won nothing for us
Nothing”
Compares 1 season to 23, smh.
you’re an idiot Don, nothing new there then.
Marko –
No doubt he blames ungrateful supporters for his demise.
The only club in Europe not to buy a single outfield player the summer after he choked the title to Leicester and he’s all “why you look at me” when he drops 3 places to 5th the next season.
Even a bang average Emery has managed to climb the table while Wenger is spending his days dishing out soundbites to Sky Sports.
In defence of Emery, he has had to deal with a structure that was not fit for purpose when he arrived.
I have massive doubts and concerns about Emery but at least I know we don’t have Arsene FC weighing us down anymore.
Thank god .
Freddie you ass licking cuck.
Wenger won more in one season than emery has. Pick a season.
Chelsea hull Aston Villa in the fa cup
3 cups in his worst last years
Emery can’t even compete with that.
Who’s the idiot? You can’t even fathom a simple point.
Graham62October 7, 2019 19:02:56
In defence of Emery, he has had to deal with a structure that was not fit for purpose when he arrived.
Graham
No he didn’t. He’s just head coach. Use the olayers given to you and coach them. He had fuck all else to worry about
Valentin
You need pace to play as a full back and AMN has pace.
Chambers played as a right back for Arsenal and was destroyed at Swansea.
AMN has two assists playing as a right back this season and playing Chambers.
PS:
You are the king of finding problems where there is none…
Bournemouth did not score, there’s no ifs and buts about it.
Un –
“Wenger won more in one season than emery has. Pick a season.
Chelsea hull Aston Villa in the fa cup3 cups in his worst last years
[…]
No he didn’t. He’s just head coach. Use the players given to you and coach them. He had fuck all else to worry about.”
Damning indictment of Poch’s time at Spurs.
Nothing more than a head coach by his on admission, hasn’t ever won shit. Counterfeit sauce.
Don
You should probably seek help for that tourettes you have, unhinged much?
It’s still 23 seasons vs 1, ridiculous to compare, so par for course for you I guess.
Quick, say something insulting about Sweden.
his own* admission
Adama Traore.
Very good player and elite physique. Could easily be elite but his decision making , final ball finish constantly let him down. Thats why Barca let go of him probably. Decision Making. Trait that cannot be easily taught and is vital at the top end of football. Same can be saint about Maximan at Newcastle. Built in the same mould as Traore. Got great speed. Same traits let him down.
The same trait even Mr.Emery seems to lack.
Marko–> The unemployed fat boy who ghouls Le grove all day, talking trash about Wenger –> A man incredibly successful in his profession, someone who’s landed a big job at FIFA at the age of 70.
Rambo ramsey
The man who is an akb and has his tongue up wengerd ass a man who make a laughing stock of the club who gave him his big break. The man who absolutely tarnished his repuation by putting his ego ahead of the club and the fans.
Good honest interview by our former manager .
Nice to be able to listen to someone who talks sense and with authority.
Of course , the Wenger obsessives are already getting their knickers in a twist because sometimes they can’t stand hearing the truth.
Marko saying to Jamie ” ignorance is bliss” is a classic.
I’m surprised Graham has been so subdued about Wenger’s comments…still time though.
If you take a look at the players that have actually layed for us this season it’s pretty easy to see why we are playing turgid, unflowing football, and it’s not sauce related in the slightest AMN – garbage, at best championship level, only playing rb because he has pace Sok – greek wrestler, poor defender Luiz – calamity so far, only defender we have good on the ball Kola – poor defender, gets into good positions in attack but horrible crosser Xhaka – captain crabtastic, terrible player Guen – one of our best players so far, still inconsistent which… Read more »
Un na naai
Very naive opinion.
Nice to be able to listen to someone who talks sense and with authority.
I implore all of you, don’t bite. Don’t fucking bite.
Arsene went 9 years without a trophy. One can assume that the same won’t happen with Emery because we have smart people now overlooking things. In many respects Arsene was lucky for many years there that we didn’t have smart people running Arsenal cause he likely would have been sacked years before and rightly so.
London gunner –> ‘Muscular cunt’ (Titled by himself)
Need I say more?
Wenger did a lot of good for Arsenal. Without doubt the best manager we’ve ever had. He grew old and lost his touch and took us down, got the warranted criticism and the punishment. However now that the the book is closed on Wenger’s Arsenal life, I see two options. Remember the good times or continue hating on the man. Easy to choose, though I totally understand others may not be capable of this.
Pierre
Under Wenger, we were set in concrete. After getting him out we had to dig up the foundations.
Under Emery, we are merely walking on uneven ground. Getting rid of him will be rectified with a heavy roller.
No comparison.
Pierre
Your comedy gold mate.
Wenger with authority and sense?
Like next level is the next level is the next level.
Or when he blamed hair pills for causing us to lose games?
Or when he used to always ramble on about not having spirit whenever we lost games.
Or when he said top 4 is a trophy.
Or when he talked about signing x y and z player but never did.
You chat so much drivel.
Rambo
Fair play. I can’t disagree with that.
For those that can’t count that’s our entire backline + our DM that are nowhere near the level we want, most of that will be fixed when injured players return, and Xhaka will get fixed when Emery gets a clue or gets fired. after that we have 2-3 players that were here last season, the rest are either new to the league and/or to senior football. And then we have fans expecting us to sweep all before us with swashbuckling football, smh. On another note, Saliba apparantly had a very good game against Lyon, good to see that he’s back… Read more »
I really wish Wenger has kept his mouth shut.
He did some great things for Arsenal but left a mess for his successor to unpack.
CL qualification is key to rebuilding the club, it’s a not the end of the clubs ambition.
You want to hope that time heals the open sores Wenger left behind but he keeps taking off the scabs.
We are still restricted by some of the landmines he lefts around, still tip-toeing around the expensive contracts he was giving out.
A bit worried about LT.
He seems lost… doesnt know his position, and has not mastered any position as of yet. He is got Ramseyitis as a result of UE tinkering too much.
I think he is off in summer. Has not really nailed down a spot and when he does play, seems to be on the verge of an injury.
I like the kid, but not sure he is going to really help going forward as much as I wished!
*had kept his mouth shut
Pierre going on about Wenger obsessives is levels of irony I don’t even know how to put into words.
Fred
You haven’t a very high opinion of our players have you .
Making all sorts of excuses for our poor standard of football.
Chelsea played with 3 young Englishmen away to Southampton , they are told to go out and express themselves and it shows.
Lampard will sort out the defensive side otf things,of that I’m certain, but will allow the team to play with freedom.
They play with Positivity not negativity unlike Arsenal.
All I hear from you is excuses.
Guns of SF
I was openly advocating that we sell Torriera last summer after news broke that he wasn’t settling in well.
He’s another one not suited to the league.
If Thierry Henry comes back as Manager, stinks the place out and leaves Arsenal in shambles. 5 years down the line, will you love him any less?
Exactly.
Un na naai
“Wenger won more in one season than emery has. Pick a season.
Chelsea hull Aston Villa in the fa cup3 cups in his worst last years
Emery can’t even compete with that.”
Is that the same competition where teams like Lincoln rest 8 first team players.
Excellent piece from football..london
Arsenal are a point off Manchester City and hitting their targets. So why is no-one happy?
https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/news/arsenal-point-manchester-city-hitting-17044803
Pierre On the contrary, bar the current back 4, Xhaka and Ozil I have very high hopes for this squad, still needs some tweaking but it looks promising, at the moment it’s all potential though and will reamin that way until certain players have adapted to the league. I don’t buy that it’s all the systems fault our defence is shit when our defenders are all individually crap along woth our DM, change those out and we will look better by default. Not excuses, this is the reality of our team atm, remove your agenda and maybe you can see… Read more »
Come on folks, let’s not mock Wenger.
It’s not ethical.
Azed, “You are the king of finding problems where there is none…Bournemouth did not score, there’s no ifs and buts about it.” Emery was hired for Arsenal to get back into the Champion’s League either by finishing in the Top 4 or winning the Europa League. He failed on both account No ifs no buts. That idea of using the results as proof that everything is fine is exactly why people got fooled by the unbeaten run. We won, so there was no problem. When the reality was that we were lucky and that all KPI such xGS and xGA… Read more »
Fred
“How is that working out for Chelsea btw?”
Well, they have won their last 4 games ..scored 15 and conceded 3.
So after the initial settling in period , I would say they are doing pretty well and playing superb football with young inexperienced players .
Pierre
I agree with you regarding Chelsea
He has drilled them into a definite pattern and they have started to turn good process into results. It’s like setting loose our Europa cup teams on the league- that’s what Chelsea are settling into now.
Before everybody jumped on Wenger’s back has people actually seen both interview for BeIn and Sky before commenting on second hand reports? A couple of weeks ago Wenger was alledged to vie for ManUtd job and every tabloids spread that misinformation. The Guardian and the Telegraph were then forced to indicate in later reports that he never did. I have seen what Wenger said on BeIn and that sounded pretty reasonable to me. Basically Pochettino got people used for Spurs to easily get into top 4. So now the fans are taking that qualification for granted when in fact he… Read more »
Pierre Are we counting other competitions other than the PL now because they lost against Liverpool a couple of weeks ago, they have 2 wins after that. If we include cups as well we’re looking pretty good too with the Forest and Standard Liege results thrown in. Harp on about the new manager that you never in a million years were going to give a chance no matter what all you like, I prefer focusing on the fact that our squad has transformed dramatically over a years time from a bunch of overpaid, aging, underperforming wasters to one full of… Read more »
Dissenter
Lampard has managed to put together a system of play within his first 2 months that is impressive.
He is brave enough to go with who he feels will do the job for him.
No pulisic
No Giroud
No Batshuayi
No Pedro .
“Emery was hired for Arsenal to get back into the Champion’s League either by finishing in the Top 4 or winning the Europa League.
He failed on both account No ifs no buts.”
Valentin
If Emery failed, he would have been fired but guess what, he’s still here….
As for xG’s and the likes, Spuds had a better xG, Bayern won by a 5 goal margin.
We both know which fans are happy right now.
https://www.arsenal.com/news/analysis-how-we-picked-cherries#
Fred
Shouldn’t Champions League be included .
That’s a strange one.
Freddie,
Before you start congratulating Raul and Vinay in the quality of the young players, please remind yourself that Bar Martinelli, the new structure put in place has nothing to do with the quality of the young academy players. They are just the beneficiary of the good works made by the academy staff in the last few years.
Personally I would like Kwame Ampadu come back at the academy. He is the one who has had the most influence on the life of most of them.
Azed,
“If Emery failed, he would have been fired but guess what, he’s still here….”
He failed but not a margin big enough for Raul to convince to pay for his compensation. Again who gave him a contract without clauses to be able sack him without compensation. Our genius Gazidis. However I seriously doubt that he will still be in charge of Arsenal next season.
Daryl Morey of the Houston Rockets went all in in Analytics in the hopes of beating the Golden State Warriors. The analytics team figured that taking a three point shot was better than a two point shot. In the 2018 final, the rockets missed 28 straight shots and lost to GSW. If the Rockets had not gone all in on analytics and instead of taking shots, try to get easy twos via lay ups and dunks, they might have won the Western Conference and gone to the NBA final. Statistically, a 3 point shot is better than a 2 but… Read more »
Ive said it before and Ill say it again We have no cohesive attacking style. Its mostly, give to an attacking player and pray that somehow we score. Pepe for example is lost. Does he know what he has to do? I think everyone including himself feels he needs to score to get legitmaized with his price tag but really, he needs to do much better with his distribution and positioning. Auab will find you but you have to be open! Very few runs into the box Overlap play is standard, but Emery needs to do a Liverpool and City.… Read more »
Val
I really don’t care who is responsible for it, all I care about is that it looks like we have a promising squad emerging. That’s all that reslly matters.
Pierre
include what you want, it’s your arbitrary list, so that’s 3 games in a row then, what’s the 4th?
“He failed but not a margin big enough for Raul to convince to pay for his compensation. Again who gave him a contract without clauses to be able sack him without compensation. Our genius Gazidis. However I seriously doubt that he will still be in charge of Arsenal next season.” As Guillem Balagué reported in the Arseblog podcast last year, Emery was far ahead than the hierarchy expected him to be. Emery’s contract extension would be determined by what he achieves on the pitch this season and having a defined style of play would not be one of the parameters… Read more »
Marko “Arsene went 9 years without a trophy” Really? ..why have you not mentioned that before …. oh, you have . The point Wenger was making is that Arsenal qualifying for champions league in every one of those 9 years , was regarded as failure. Whereas Emery making the top 4 will be regarded as successful. Also , if wenger had 100 million a year to spend on new players during those 9 years as Emery has had over the last 15 months (200 million) , then I’m sure he would have had more success. Wenger had literally nothing to… Read more »
I expect Pepe to come good but yeah he’s not looked comfortable at all. Seems like he is putting pressure on himself. But that’s what happens when you cost £72m, there are expectations, and he’s not come close to meeting them yet. That said the skill is obviously there, he’s had some good passes, another assist from a good corner yesterday. We’ll see. Feels like a goal or two from open play is desperately needed though. It’s a good think Saka has played well enough to deflect some attention away from Pepe, the spotlight could be a lot bigger. £72m… Read more »
Fred
You will only dig yourself into a hole if you want to continue to compare Lampard’s first 3 months with Emery’s first 15 months.
If you cant see the difference in how the managers are going about their job , then there is no helping you I’m afraid.