‘Move bitch, get off the plane, get off the plane bitch, get off the plane’
Was humming this as an old lady struggled to pull her heavy bag out of the overhead bin. Total nightmare wait, but I was amused by the internal soundtrack to the debacle.
You know what else amuses me? Watching Arsenal fans online. What a bunch of weirdos.
I love that after 10 years of mostly arguing over a single topic, we now create our own weekly subgroups of fandoms and anti-fandoms to get our fix of viciously polarised debate.
PEPE IS GREAT BELIEVE IN THE PROCESS vs PEPE IS GERVINHO WITH BETTER HAIR, the latest great issue polluting the websites.
Am I above this charade? Absolutely not.
I find it staggering that anyone is writing him off after 7 games. Dennis Bergkamp, our greatest ever big name signing was so bad, Alan Sugar claimed he wouldn’t wash his car with his shirt and he was a waste of money (did I make up the car washing thing?).
Thierry Henry had a shaky start to his career until he fizzed a screamer from 22 yards out at The Den. Freddie Ljungberg scored on his debut against United, but be honest, he was a mess in front of goal for at least a year. Then he found magic with the maturing Dutchman mentioned above. Even Bobby Pires, an absolute dream of a player, looked well off the pace during his maiden season. He was weak, he was unsuited to the league and it was tough to work out how a 6ft+ winger was going to adapt. I remember Wenger saying he’d be like Zidane and laughing to myself very quietly (AKBs were like Corbynistas on 2019 Twitter back in the day).
Pepe, or Pete as Sky fondly nicknamed him, is 24 years old, he’s come over from a slower league, and he’s trying to adjust to a new culture and language. It is rare that a talented player settles into a bad system immediately. I do not think we have to worry just yet. He’ll find his magic eventually.
The other thing I’ve noticed that is mildly amusing is reading the safe people of the Arsenal internet present concern about Emery as a risky opinion.‘You know what, I’m going to say it, something ain’t quite right about Unai’
Well I’ll be damned. Folk that took until late 2017 to determine Wenger might not make the much promised come back to the top, have sussed the new coach might not be up to snuff and they want to project it like a first to market notion.
So many of the people we lean on in the Arsenal community for sound direction on the club are almost always entirely off base, but because they deliver a bad narrative with ‘balance,’ they’re passed off as must-read intellects that know their stuff. I call it right and even my own friends don’t let me round their houses for prematch beers. It’s a disgusting injustice.
I guess yah just have to live with it.
Someone is going to write a highly intellectualised book about Arsenal internet one day and it’ll sell bundles. When you sit down with people and talk it through, it is actually weirdly fascinating. Remember QOS in the comments here? Told people on ACLF that I was phoning her home and abusing her kids? Remember the cucks feigning concern because they were talking to an actual woman? Her husband added me on LinkedIn! Turned owut it was a man with an online alter ego (his wife’s). That’s epic. Simply magnificent. Still not sure whose kids I was talking to.
Just kidding. I knew whose kids they were.
How about Arsene Wenger? Picking up an award I’ve never heard of. Begging for a job on LinkedBeIN.com. Complaining that people had expectations of him.
“Every year people want something more from you. I experienced that at Arsenal. We were twenty consecutive years in the top four but in the end it was not enough anymore. Today if you get into the Champions League people are very happy.”
It’s sad to read. A man who was earning £190k a week, complaining about expectations. I think he’s holding out for a major job, but no one is biting. The oligarchs and sheikhs have wised up and despite his prestige as a man, he really sullied his football rep by clinging to power like a deluded despot. He should have quit in 2008, taken a New York sabbatical, toured around some modern clubs, taken notes, then rebirthed at a big club when he had some of that 2004 sheen about him.
Knowing when to exit is one of the finest qualities a man can possess.
On that fine note, I’m tapping tf out.
Why don’t we reminisce about the weirdos of Arsenal Internet today?
p.s. Listen to my solo podcast you scoundrel!
DM
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Tr4phy
Damn. Good work DM. I have to change my default bowser.
Lol! Queen of Suburbia was quite the character. Her and Jaguar needed to get a room.
Great podcast again Pedro. You do a great job on your own and everything you said was again spot on.
Sixth is the new fourth
Except you were 7th lol
We have seen a few raw glances of Pepes speed and attack of threat but to date it has been in patches and not enough over 90 minutes Like Pedro I was thinking about slow starts from Pires, Bergkamp and Henry in previous matches As fans we underestimate the sheer difference in pace and power required in the Prem and this takes probably a full season As written prev this is massively exacerbated by the Emeryball painfully slow build up so that’s there is time to move when the ball eventually reaches him In spite of this imo Pepe will… Read more »
No time
I think you would be a in a strong position to write that book Pedro!
Blackburn George takes the biscuit still as far as Arsenal online weirdos go.
I used to find him unbearably annoying, but now whenever I come across on of his tweets on my timeliness? I find them ridiculously funny – pure comedy gold!
I might just have to unblock him….
My problem with Wenger is that he stopped trying to finish first, he was content to build a team that would finish top four but never win. It was two team league for five years then Chavs had cash, then Man City had cash, and Wenger decided it was impossible to now so he stopped trying to win league. Two horse league was ok but when more clubs joined the equation, Wenger introduced half assed football played by overpaid players. Wenger and his youth projects that never went anywhere, losing league to Leicester when our nearest competitors cocked up their… Read more »
Pedro Spot on about Pepe. It’s no surprise to me that the usual suspects are writing him off and quite telling. You just know these lot have never kicked a ball in their lives and just spout PlayStation football talk. Their views aren’t bedded in reality. Pepe will come good for arsenal. No doubt He’s got 3 assists already by the way whilst being off the pace so once he finds his groove I expect goals, assists and lazy runs galore. Not sure that’s going to happen under Emery as he prefers the ball in his own goal mouth for… Read more »
I am confident Pepe will come good, and let’s face it he isn’t likely to be going anywhere else. The club has invested in him and allegedly paying in multi year instalments. He may also have a new system and coach to work with next season, perhaps 😁
As written prev this is massively exacerbated by the Emeryball painfully slow build up so that’s there is time to move when the ball eventually reaches him
Northbank
Exactly!!! He’s isolating a £200m attack force.
Like I said. He prefers to keep the ball im his own area. Fucking odd
Wasn’t the story that Wenger kept Pires on the bench for a while so he could watch and learn and he was completely shocked by how English football was played?
Jwl I’m not sure that’s right. Wenger always wanted to win the league it’s just that he lost sight of the final prices required to get us there That 07/08 team was so so close to being complete Had he managed to secure a proper centre back, anyone but Gallas and a proper GK we’d have nicked it We were dominating the league until Eduardo got his leg snapped. Our football was unplayable. Same 3 years late with the rvp/arshavin/nasri/wilshere/Cesc side Some leadership and quality at the rear end of the field would have given those boys the platform to… Read more »
Writing off Pepe now is the definition of a knee jerk reaction.
Un na naai – I think as Wenger was getting older, he lost his drive/passion for competition and he was content to spend his days at serene Colney training players.
I agree that there were a couple different squads that were good after invincibles but there was also always players in defence and goal who were not good enough and it was fatal flaw that Wenger couldn’t be bothered to fix.
Emery is not making the best use of the speed in this side. In Auba, Pepe, Saka, Lacazette we have fast attackers with pace but Emery’s midfield selections in the EPL are making nothing of it. I know people are waiting for our first choice full backs to effect this quick transition, and no doubt that will help… but our we need our midfielders to get in the game more and link up better with our attackers. Only if we had a proven midfield pass master on our team who could pick out our attackers with that incisive pass… and… Read more »
Can’t agree. Sorry. Pepe is not a kid. He’s 24. He’s coming to a multi cultural city and club…this isn’t the early 90’s. He won’t be the only french speaker, not the only black man and not on his own. Football is football. Don’t make it out to be any different. Slower, quicker or more aggressive…it’s still football. Does a heart surgeon suddenly forget to heart surgeon when they move to another hospital or country? Absolutely not. Pepe is a flash in the pan. One season wonder and we’ve been royalty snaffued. Sums Arsenal up. Years of penny pinching and… Read more »
Remember Mourinho wrote off Salah and KDB…. and look how they turned out!
The grass is not always greener on the other side. Sometimes we need to make the best use of the players we already have.
Frankly I’ve lost faith that Emery can do this. He is too insecure and over cautious in the league.
Doing well in the Cups are all well and good, but good outings in the Europa League are pointless unless we win the whole thing.
Most people apart from the usual overly negative/attention seekers on here wish Pepe well and are willing to give it time.
Pepe is still shit.
Emery out.
Edu out.
The fanbase out.
Himmler in.
Raul out.
Danny Dyer in.
Wenger in.
Lolz
No they aren’t Left. No they aren’t.
Wish him well? Jesus, he’s an adult whose a millionaire. He hasn’t overcome a career threatening injury or gotten over an illness.
Fuck me.
“What a bunch of weirdos.”
Dixit the man who think that Arteta nose best.
Jwl I’d agree with that. He became more of an idealist than a winner. More driven by the legacy of the club and the football we play. He was always a bit shit at assessing keepers though. As Bob Wilson said it was his biggest blind spot For me where he really lost it was the development of players. That was the biggest weapon in his armoury and once he lost that he lost the ability to help Wilshire, Theo, ox and Ramsey kick on. A massive opportunity lost on those 4 and with the sale of RvP it was… Read more »
If you look at a few criteria — e.g., dribbling, quality in close spaces, cleverness in combination with other players, vision, quality of finishing — I have seen very little from Pepe so far that makes me think he has enough of any of these things. Yes, it’s early days, so he could look very different in a few months, but I can’t say I’m all that optimistic based on what we’ve seen so far. As for his being “isolated” on the right, this is nonsense. He has seen plenty of the ball and has had plenty of supporting players… Read more »
Hackney you’re wrong
France is a lot slower in football and the pace to life. Have you ever worked in another country? Just knowing the language or having people with the same colour skin as you in your workplace isn’t the defining aspect of a successful career
Concerning Pepe, Pedro tell us to be patient. Fair enough.
But considering the price we’ve paid for him…. you know what I mean.
Amazing how many people are now dismissing Wenger’s achievements now he’s gone. Don’t get me wrong, I was an ardent outer but I also did and still do appreciate that without Arsene, Arsenal would not be the club we are/could be.
I would t want some of you watching my back, that’s for sure. Creeps.
I’d take a 69 year old Wenger now than Emery.
Guns he plays for the team you allegedly support, so if he performs on the pitch then it can only be a plus.
You carry on though, got to stay in character.
Bam
Saka has plyed well vs Forrest and Legia
He’s found it tougher in the league
Pepe should have been getting minutes in the cups and he’s been played up front in front of a diamond for half his career at arsenal already with a non existent midfield
You talk so much shit man
All we need is the king of negativity Valentin himself and its the full compliment.
Guns
He’s a better coach than emery. If he was given the head coach role and nothing else we’d be seeing a far better iteration of arsenal with this squad than we currently are
I don’t want him back though. Time for something new. A coach we can say we are lucky to have
Not yesterday’s middle manager
Un
The point I was making about his skin colour wasn’t really about skin colour. It was more akin to saying he isn’t a pioneer…it’s been done. He has many people around him to help him.
I’ve never worked. Period. I kid. Collecting Dole is working.
Pepe is rubbish.
Left
I only break character after the DVD commentary is over.
I think Pepe is going to be fine. However, in my opinion he is currently worth the same as Saka, Martinelli and Neilson. He has had his chance in front of the queue, due to his price tag. But from here on out I think he should be placed in the same bracket. Now let the four of them fight it out. That competition for spots is what will make them. Don’t write any of them off. Bring in Balogun too if he is earning it. I don’t think pressure is a bad thing for Pep. Personally I think it… Read more »
“Arsene Wenger says he has turned down offers to manage in the Premier League because he is “too linked” to Arsenal. ”
loooooooooool
“I’d take a 69 year old Wenger now than Emery.”
@Guns : sometimes, you’re just a dick.
I do still think that in his mind Emery has a conundrum. He obviously favours the pressing game, the home game v Leige was the perfect example of how he wants the team to play. The catalyst for our pressing game and intensity was Martinelli and he kept this up for the full 90 minutes. This is where he will have the conundrum , as I truly believe that he puts more precedence on intensity than quality.. Would he want Martinelli over Aubameyang…. Against Bournemouth we played with intensity for half an hour, after that …nothing. Aubamayang , Pepe and… Read more »
Lol. Alarm bells would be ringing if I found myself in a situation where my opinions lined up with a couple of blokes that still want Wenger as the coach. Pretty much the opposite of everything they say must be true. 🙂
Leeds “He is too insecure and over cautious in the league.” Because why? He’s still starting Xhaka? I agree this is a bad choice, but the players did vote Xhaka their captain, so it’s not like Emery is all on his own in placing faith in this dud. Emery is starting the 18-year-old Saka in the league, though. Is that over-cautious? He is also starting Ceballos. That’s clearly an attack-minded decision. I think some of you are ignoring the fact that this is a process, that a manager learns more and more about his players as he goes along, learns… Read more »
Sometimes i fell i warched different Arsenal than many posters here during Wenger years. I felt need for change as much as any od You feeling toxicity of later years, but this blind blame for everything bad and making him Tony Pulis equal of football knowlege and coaching is Imo absurd. Gazidis is hardly spoken her in sense of epic failures while Ed Woodward is widely acknowledged as source of ManU downfall. Watched few newer David Dein interviews where topic is how he and Wenger worked in sucessfull years. It made me a lot of sense why Wenger was sucessfull… Read more »
QNA
Exactly. The same is true of anything Wenger says.
Un na naai – didn’t know Wilson said that but I would agree – Almunia in goal was beginning of banter years with Wenger.
Jwl
Yeah. Has to be the worst keeper to play for us in my time watching.
We went from Seaman, lukic, Manninger to almunia. Fucking atrocious.
You expect me to judge unai after coming from a different league, with a language barrier and a setup that have been useless for over 5yrs. U judge OGS after less than a year but forgetting it took Fergie 4yrs to get it right. And you expect me not to call Pepe a flop after 8 games? The world wants urgent results
Pierre
I don’t think Aubameyang worked hard vs Bournemouth at all.
He offers very little bar the final touch
Exactly like Owen post 03 when he lost his pace. Aubameyang still has his though and it should be utilised to greater effect for me. He’s got so much more to offer off the ball
Arsenal have not played well this season but have only lost one game in EPL and Cup Competitions. On the evidence of what I have seen sofar there is mileage in improving the team once Messrs Holding, Bellerin, Tierney and Lacazette are match fit and available for first team selection. Pepe has underperformed, but as Pedro suggests it does take time to adapt. I would not write him off too quickly. If he finds form then we have a powerful strike force. I am still underwhelmed about our midfield. There is still too much emphasis on holding midfielders rather than… Read more »
Jim Furnell tops my list as worse keeper.
Bob Wilson is up there with the very best at Arsenal….have never seen any other keeper as brave as him ,before or since, diving head first into the strikers feet when they were through on goal was his speciality.
Bum
No the arsenal fan base just wants to see an improvement
We’ve got e backwards since last year
Less points at same stage less goals scored and more conceded
It’s like the further emery gets his tentacles into the team the worse we get
That 23 game run was still a wenger team playing some lovely football to boot
That isn’t emery’s way
Since he got a hold of the team we’ve deteriorated
Look. I understand we play a certain way agaisnt top teams but vs Watford and Bournemouth at home we should not be on the back foot the way we are
This is emery’s vision
Players having difficulty adapting is not something new. It is in fact much easier for expat nowadays that it was when Bergkamp or Pires joined us. Pepe can take the Eurostar to Lille or Paris and spend the night with friends and family. I was raised in Lille and used to pop in on Weekend to visit my family, so I can testify that it it is much easier than you think. The family of Fonte the Lille CB is still residing in London from his Crystal Palace day. He stated he is closer to his family via Eurostar than… Read more »
Ivan You’ve said a lot there and much of it is reasonable. A few things, however. One, Gazidis didn’t determine who we signed or who we sold; Wenger did. So the quality of our squad during those years is entirely on Wenger. And the cries of poverty are nonsense. He had plenty of money at his disposal the entire time, especially from 2012 on. Two, Wenger had some good ideas. No question. But he didn’t evolve, he didn’t adapt, he didn’t learn. He just kept doing the same things. What worked in a previous era with one set of players,… Read more »
Un “I don’t think Aubameyang worked hard vs Bournemouth at all.” Harder than usual , especially in the first half hour , though he will never close down with the same intensity as Martinelli. For a start he’s not interested in any aspect of the physical part of the game. He rarely makes a tackle or a block as he has the knack of arriving just after the defender or keeper clears the ball ro avoid contact… very clever. To be honest, that part of Aubameyang’s game doesn’t bother me , he is similar to Ozil in that effect but… Read more »
Bamford, “however.One, Gazidis didn’t determine who we signed or who we sold; Wenger did. ” Not entirely true. Toward the end Wenger was pretty much isolated and a lot of deal happens without him knowing of it. Xhaka was an example as Wenger did not even know what kind of footballer he was. Mavrapanos another example as Wenger admitted not knowing anything about. He was ready to send him on loan, but was convinced to keep him after seeing him in a few training sessions. I agree with the rest of the points you are making. He did not adapt.… Read more »
Pierre
Furnell made some spectacular saves but I agree that he was not a great goalkeeper. McLelland who played in a defensive Irish Combination was also
a fairly dreadful goalkeeper.
One of the best goalkeepers that I watched at Arsenal was Jack Kelsey. That was because he played in one of the worst postwar Arsenal teams and possibly
saved us from relegation
Only if we had a proven midfield pass master on our team who could pick out our attackers with that incisive pass… and a head coach who was capable of putting his personal animosity and inferiority complex aside for the best of the team. IMO He is a conservative and for that type of a man inferiority complex matters imo. He is the biggest voice in the room and everybody knows it but he will still try to prove it to everyone. Aubamayang , Pepe and Saka will always struggle in this part of the game as it doesn’t come… Read more »
To be honest, that part of Aubameyang’s game doesn’t bother me , he is similar to Ozil in that effect but I do feel that , if Emery stays, Aubameyang will be gone next season as he isnt a good fit for a high intensity pressing game.
Are you kidding man. Auba is the reason Emery is still here .
Valentin
So you’re saying Xhaka and Mavropanos were Gazidis decisions, not Wenger decisions? What other players were this, in your estimation? Aubameyang? Please provide a list of players you think were Gazidis decisions, not Wenger decisions, and please provide a credible source or sources for this claim.
Wasi, What Dani Alves says is correct, but still Salah, Mane, Sterling, Mahrez make small movement toward and then away from the ball carrier. That forces the defender facing them to adjust and that potentially give them an opening. They also know when to make small lateral movement to open the space for themselves or the full back. Pepe rarely moves away from his position. Also when he moves toward the ball carrier to receive the ball, it is a vertical movement toward the right back. He rarely move laterally to allow the RB to overlap him. In fact against… Read more »
“only if we had a proven midfield pass master”
We have such a player: Ceballos. Guy is a fantastic passer. Fantastic.
In any other business if you had a manager who did not know how to use a company asset which cost the company £42.5m to bring in and over £36m to maintain he would be fired… this is not considering the money we paid him before we gave Özil his bumper contract. Say what you want about Özil as a player but a key performance attribute of a top manager is to get the best out of his existing players. Emery is not doing this. He is burying his head in the sand. I’m not defending Özil here, but I’m… Read more »
Bamford
I was being ironic and sarcastic.
Wasi Sterling is a better example than Silva, in my opinion, as the latter is so skillful and so clever on the ball that he cannot really be compared to a Pepe. Sterling is a decent example, though, because his finishing was so poor when he first arrived at City, whereas today it is excellent. One could say that Pepe might be going through something similar. The only thing I’d say to that is that Sterling is a better dribbler than Pepe — from what I’ve seen — and he is better in close spaces. Without these things, I don’t… Read more »
Bamford, Aubameyang and Mhkitaryan were Gazidis decision. Sven was involved in Aubameyang’s transfer to the annoyance of Dortmund. Wenger just toed the party line. In his later years Wenger was dithering on buying players, spending hours watching a player before changing his mind because of the price. The fact that during Xhaka introduction, he did not even know what kind of player Xhaka was should tell you that he did not spend any time scouting him. It had been well documented that Wenger wanted Martial as part of the deal with Sanchez. Mourinho wanted to get rid of him but… Read more »
Leeds
I’m not sure what remark you’re even referring to. But I definitely disagree with you re Ozil. Ozil was dead as a player long before Emery arrived; he is no solution to our issues, and Emery is not mishandling him, IMO. We are moving on from Ozil, and that is fine.
Wasi
“Are you kidding man. Auba is the reason Emery is still here .”
He would be the first name on my team sheet every week including next season.
Emery wont see it that way though …there is no way he’s saying to himself, thank God I have Aubameyang or I would be out of a job.
Pepe should be dropped for a few games as he has become a passenger and it reduces us to ten men which we cannot afford to do.
The classic equivalent was when Brian Clough brought Trevor Francis then the most expensive player ever, he put him into the reserves and told him to prove he was good enough to be in the first team. The rest was history.
Valentin Mkhitaryan I can see. Aubameyang I can see, to some extent. However, you need to provide support for the claim that Xhaka was a Gazidis decision, not a Wenger decision. Just saying that Wenger was unclear about what kind of midfielder Xhaka was proves nothing. Wenger was unclear about all kinds of things he was supposed to be in charge of. Wenger wanted Vertonghen to play as a CDM. Wenger wanted and thought and said all manner of curious things. You need to provide evidence that Wenger was out of the loop at that point (May 2016) and that… Read more »
Bamford
Of course we have shown improvement all over the pitch without Ozil, haven’t we.
Creatively.
Offensively
Defensively
Midfield .
Discipline
Composure
Intelligence
Possession
Wasteful.
Away form
I’m sure you can find a part of the game that we have improved without Ozil.
“As for what Wenger has to say, no one’s opinion could matter less.“
Imagine being Banford and saying this 😂😂
BBC 25 May 2016 Arsenal have signed Switzerland midfielder Granit Xhaka from Borussia Monchengladbach. The 23-year-old, who has won 41 international caps and captained the German club, joins for a reported £35m on a long-term contract. “I’m very proud to be joining Arsenal,” said Xhaka. “I cannot wait to move to London, represent this special club and play in the Premier League. “I will give everything to help Arsenal win trophies and make the fans happy.” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said: “Granit Xhaka is an exciting young player, already with good Champions League and Bundesliga experience. “We have been watching… Read more »
Champagne charlieOctober 8, 2019 11:42:20
“As for what Wenger has to say, no one’s opinion could matter less.“Imagine being Banford and saying this 😂😂
Hahaha
Are you saying Bamford’s opinion matters less than Le Senile old ****?
Unaai
I’m saying anyone who wants to weigh up how much another persons opinion “matters”, really ought to have water tight credibility themselves.
Then in waddles ‘Mr. 20 years to choose a team’ dismissing ‘Mr. 20 years manager of Arsenal’.
Unbelievable Jeff 😂
“ Does a heart surgeon suddenly forget to heart surgeon when they move to another hospital or country? Absolutely not.“ Lol, GoH, you should really stick to outrageous bomb throwing, at least some of it is mildly funny. Your attempt at a serious analysis of Pepe situation, as shown up top, is tragically inadequate. The best thing that has happened to Pepe thus far is that the other Arsenal target , Zaha, has been struggling this season as well. This has spared the comment section from countless gloating from “I wanted Zaha “ crowd which would’ve been annoying. I suppose… Read more »
‘Then in waddles ‘Mr. 20 years to choose a team’ dismissing ‘Mr. 20 years manager of Arsenal’.
👌👌👌
y themselves. Then in waddles ‘Mr. 20 years to choose a team’ dismissing ‘Mr. 20 years manager of Arsenal’.
Haha
#BamLivesMatter
Emery wont see it that way though …there is no way he’s saying to himself, thank God I have Aubameyang or I would be out of a job. Pierre Pierre , I am sure Emery will see it that way. He has never benched Auba and will never. When he wants to play with 1 striker be chooses Auba. When both Auba and Lacazette are on the field its Lacazette who always gets substituted even though he works harder than Aubameyang. Auba is probably Emery’s 3rd favourite after Xhaka and Guen. Bamford Pepe is very good in tight spaces too.… Read more »
Read somewhere that Ozil is the player with most chances created for Arsenal under Emery’s reign.
Wonder why we lacking the creativity this season?🤔
“If you look at a few criteria — e.g., dribbling, quality in close spaces, cleverness in combination with other players, vision, quality of finishing — I have seen very little from Pepe so far that makes me think he has enough of any of these things. “ Bamford, I suggest you rewatch his dribble that got him past Robertson again. This is not a skill you just find anywhere. His mistake was that he didn’t trust his right foot and brought the ball back on his left and allow Robertson back in on the play and then hurried his shot.… Read more »
There needs to be a bit more fluidity to our system.
We should have pepe interchange with the left winger.
Timing is sometimes as important with players transfers as anything else.
The reason I worry about Pepe is because Emery is under pressure this season and might not give him enough time to find his feet.
He’s already said Pepe needed to deliver more to justify his transfer cost.
Bad management.
Bamford, I suggest you rewatch his dribble that got him past Robertson again.
This is not a skill you just find anywhere.
His mistake was that he didn’t trust his right foot and brought the ball back on his left and allow Robertson back in on the play and then hurried his shot.
Chitom
Also the only palyer to beat VVD in a one on one since Jesus was young
Wasi
“Read somewhere that Ozil is the player with most chances created for Arsenal under Emery’s reign.
Wonder why we lacking the creativity this season?🤔”
Of course he is .
He’s already said Pepe needed to deliver more to justify his transfer cost.
Bad management.
Chit
Just another sorry example of why this man is not fit to manage a great club like arsenal.
Wasi, I know that a lot of people think that Pep’s ManCity plays a 4-3-3, but personally I see a 4-1-4-1 that moves a lot around. With Fernandinho or Rodrigo screening the defense, with the back 4 becoming a back 3 when both fullbacks are pretty high. That gives them a problem if the opposition has two speedy high places players for counter-attacks because without Laporte they have nobody with pace. However because they have so much of the ball and so high, the formation is more akin to a 2-1-4-2-1. ……..CB1………CB2 …………….DM……. FBR…CM1…CM2…FBL CAM1…………………….CAM2 ……………..CF I agree that our… Read more »
Wasi
Spot on about there being no support. They also aren’t being used early enough. You hit Pepe and Saka early and they will frighten an open defence on the back foot
Pepe tore VVD
He can beat anyone
“Say what you want about Özil”
SAUCE!!
Val
Correct on the 2-1-4-2-1
He over loss the middle to create copious triangles with inverted full backs
In the Graphs set out this season emery likes his team to play wider than any other team in the league.
That’s why Pepe is routed to the touch line but that’s no good without support
He’s being hung out to dry by an inept Buffoon chin scratcher
Pepe not zeppelin, autocorrect do try to keep up.
Reg Pepe , we have not seen his burst of speed and tricky footwork during his first game. That time his passing was poor since he didn’t know his teammates capabilities.
I guess uaii Unai tried to correct him with
Ole Pepe largas uno pelas culatras e voom
Apparently Pepe was left confused by what he meant and stayed disillusioned 😁😂😂
Val thats what i said. Advanced midfielders operating between the lines. In fairness we have only 2 midfielders good at that . One is Ozil who will make the side very weak defensively if player in a 4-3-3. Other is Ceballos . But he takes too many touches of the ball before deciding what he’s going to do next. Willock can learn to play that position . So right now we only have Ozil who can play that role. But unless he gives in to Emery i dont see it happening. + Emery’s conservative nature will make Emery go with… Read more »
I guess uaii Unai tried to correct him with
Ole Pepe largas uno pelas culatras e voom
Im sure he also mixed a few english words like Balance and imprroving.
Also its Pete not Zeppelin.
Danny MO
My sentiments exactly
No fluidity. No synchronicity moving forward
Too rigid and disjointed
Wasi I’ll re-watch that, but I’m not saying he has zero dribbling; I’m saying I haven’t seen evidence that he has enough dribbling to excel in the PL. For example, is he as good a dribbler as a Sane, a Mahrez, a Salah, a Silva, even a Sterling or a Zaha? I haven’t seen it. I could be wrong, though. I guess a comparison could be made between Pepe and Mane. Not because the two are all that similar a player in the end, but because both are wide attacking players, both have pace, and both have some, though not… Read more »
Worth a read during quieter Arsenal cyber time. Discuss Emery riding on analytics; and talk Pepe too.
http://7amkickoff.com/index.php/2019/10/07/arsenal-cruise-to-3rd-one-point-behind-man-city-so-why-are-we-all-so-miserable-plus-pepe-stuff/