Jose Mourinh-oh-no

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Good morning my darlings, a very short post from me today because I have NOTHING to write about.

The hot news that has the comments section in a fluster is the story that Jose Mourinho has said NO to Lyon. Why? He wants a job in England.

Some are speculating he’s looking to sneak the Spurs job, I find this one tough to grapple with. Daniel Levy knows he has a great coach (that is clearly under fire), one that’s not dealt with dark times in his Scum career so far, so I’d imagine he’ll see it through with Poch.

Interesting thing with Spurs is they haven’t been a well-run club prior to Levy. If anything, Poch and the generation of elite talent they cultivated has been the happiest of accidents. I am going to watch with a fascinated eye to see what happens next, because based on historical evidence, they could go back to type after this generation withers and dies. Poch has created the impossible there, he’s crafted talent, he’s spent very little, and he’s kept players so motivated, money hasn’t been an issue. That’s coming to an end, the dream was a potless one.

Anyway… bring back Harry.

The second Jose conspiracy theory is that he’s waiting on Unai Emery to fail. Mustafi ramped up the pressure. As I said yesterday, the German defensive expert was on the path to a Balon D’or before Emery took over at Arsenal. The Spaniard crushed his spirit, forced Arsenal internet to take up arms against him, now Unai is left with blood on his hands.

Will the board tolerate this? Who knows…

I do think everyone has a feeling in their bones that Jose is waiting for the guillotine to drop. His agent is probably telling Edu that Jose is a top 4 machine, Edu probably has a top 4 bonus planned. The agent might even be slipping him a presentation… not a powerpoint, like Unai did… no, a Google Slides, because he is a modern businessman willing to create in the cloud… the same place he crafted his Arsenal vision.

I do not think this is a good long term option for Arsenal, but contrary to some of the shrieks I hear, Jose would be a good stop-gap… and any man that cries that he misses football is going to be more than happy to take on our incredible squad of players.

Also worth noting the press hype…

‘Jose was right about United after all’

Those stories are no accident.

Right, that’s my inflammatory post for the day, see YOU in the comments where I will battle you with all my will. xxx

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Bankz

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GillespieRoadNoMore

Bankz is unstoppable

Valentin

First after bankz

Valentin

Oh no, second after Bankz

Leedsgunner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twgVAkT2LV0&t=1493s

Sometimes there’s a gem like this on youtube.

You can thank me later. Enjoy. 😉

Gentlebris

Hi

Graham62

If Jose becomes Arsenal manager I think I will emigrate.

Shite, was goIng to do that anyway.

Valentin

The issue with Mourinho is that nobody which one they will have if they hire now. The happy one or the malcontent? The team builder or the toxic one? I suspect that most chairmans would decide on a short term contract 18 months with option to extend but with explicit target clauses that if not met can lead to immediate employment termination without compensation. I don’t like the man, but I suspect that with the right environment he may move away from his ultra defensive approach. I think that he would also pretty quickly realise that Arsenal does not have… Read more »

DivineSherlock

He’s going to Everton lads , Everton . Thats his level . Pedro you can’t bait me into this one now .

Leedsgunner

For those wondering how Arsenal would play with Mourinho has manager… go and watch how we played again Bournemouth. Boring defensive football.

Mourinho would not better any better.

Words on a Blog

Pedro

“Mustafi….the German defensive expert who was on the path to the Ballon D’or before Emery took over”

GENIUS LINES…this is why I read the blog!

Leedsgunner

*as manager

Luteo Guenreira

Top banter post of the year so far.

Valentin

Leeds, Boring defensive football is when you know the opposition will have the ball but will not penetrate your defense. Under George Graham were sometimes boring, but were sound defensively. Conceding very few shots on goal excepts from far away tentative shots. Against Bournemouth, it was not boring defensive football. It was turgid, impotent attack and completely incompetent defense. Without great last ditch tackles by Chambers and Guendouzi and poor finishing by Bournemouth, we would have drawn and potentially lost the game. I don’t want Mourinho because I want to be entertained, but you can’t accuse his team of being… Read more »

Leedsgunner

““Mustafi….the German defensive expert who was on the path to the Ballon D’or before Emery took over”

This is what Mustafi says to himself before he sits down with his cup of warm milk and cookies at night before he is tucked up in bed. Bless him.

foreverinourshadows

Fuck off Mourinho, fuck off Mourinho

Words on a Blog

I’m nominating Pedro for the Nobel Prize for Literature after that one.

Leedsgunner

“Currently out of all 5 major European leagues Arsenal is the easiest team to shoot on goal against.”

Agreed.

Why is that? It’s because Emery is out of his depth and out of ideas. He is not the answer.

Gentlebris

Jose is the absolute right choice for us, so pls wipe your tears and do away with your cry baby reactions. Our defense has been a basket for years and you are here saying no to one coach who is well known for successful defense drilling? Jose won the PL, went away, came back and won it again then went away, in all this time we have won how many? Liverpool was struggling behind us for years, they got Klopp and won the CL and are on the way to winning the PL now. Jose two CL crowns, Arsenal how… Read more »

Chris

It’s an obvious no for Mourinho.

Aside from a feeling he would not be a success, his antics over the years and lack of respect for our club and Wenger should rule him out immediately.

I am still surprised Man Utd went for him in fact.

Pierre

“Currently out of all 5 major European leagues Arsenal is the easiest team to shoot on goal against.” There was a general acceptance on Le Grove that main protagonist for our defensive woes was Mesut Ozil. Apparently it is like playing with ten men when Ozil is on the pitch..This must be true as it has been repeated over again and again by the media and on Le Grove . This season, as we know , Ozil has rarely been on the pitch, and yet this Arsenal side concede chance after chance , the worst in Europe apparently. Ozil has… Read more »

TitsMcGee

I’d take Jose in a Heartbeat.

Gentlebris

You wanna hate Jose even more?

Wait till he walks into the Spuds set up and permanently make them the third best team in England behind Citey and Liverpool. Just wait while hating.

Steve

All the talk about Emery not good enough is bunkum. The years of aesthetic football was thoroughly enjoyed under AW. Such creativity drew us back in his last years. We called for change, the board got us UE. Now we want another change. What is clear about UE is he outhink the opposition. He does that very well. If Arsenal is easy to beat as many want us to think, we have played Spurs, Man United, Liverpool, Newcastle, etc, yet, we have lost only to Liverpool. To say if not because of a player or a goalkeeper we would have… Read more »

TitsMcGee

Regarding Mustafi:

I love when millionaires complain about criticism lol

*rolls eyes down the corridor*

Freddie Ljungberg

Don Ok, so we have the cluless, terrible devil incarnate Emery in one corner with a aging squad and a tiny budget. In the other we have the mighty Poch, who leaps tall buildings and rescues puppies in his spare time, that had 5 years to build a squad and plenty of money spent on it. Still only 1 point separeted the 2 teams at the end of the season, when everyone in the world except you of course acknowledged that Spurs had a far better squad than us, how do you explain it? Considering the limitations of the squad… Read more »

bennydevito

Jesus wept.

Change the record ffs the needle’s stuck.

Pierre and Ozil up a tree…

Freddie Ljungberg

“Ok big balls
How smart are you? Can we see an IQ test?
How much money do you earn? How big is your home that you 100% rent? How may homes do you own? Do you live in England and if so then what shot hole area do you rent a piss ridden shoe box?”

Didn’t want to let Dons carefully and lovingly crafted masterpiece of a comment languish in abandonment in the other post when it deserves to be seen by all and sundry to show what a magnificent and not at all deranged person he is.

Pierre

Benny
Which part of my comment was inaccurate..

bennydevito

Pedro you never fail to crack me up. You should write a comeback series of Peep Show.

Good post as always even if news is thin on the ground.

Word on the Manc vine is Ole’s for the chop if things go south after the International break.

Can’t see Poch walking at this stage so he’s out.

Allegri’s learning English so he’s probably favourite.

But you’ll never believe who the fans want and think Fergie could play a big part here…

There’s only one Arsene Wenger.

Seriously. That’s who they want.

Gentlebris

‘What is clear about UE is he outhink the opposition. He does that very well. ‘

He does that very very well. In fact we had to play against 8 inferior teams and winning 5 of the games would have qualified us for CL, Emery was so able to out-think the opposition that he landed us in Europa.

Guy you obviously have an incredible ability to close your brains while thinking.

bennydevito

Pierre,

That’s debatable but also irrelevant. My point is no matter what the post says or what’s raging in the comments, you always bring Ozil into it.

You could be right though, not trying to argue.

Gentlebris

‘But you’ll never believe who the fans want and think Fergie could play a big part here…There’s only one Arsene Wenger.Seriously. That’s who they want.’

Let’s face the fact Benny, that is actually thinkable.

Wenger became power drunk here and lost his way. We said Wenger was the reason our defence was so bad, well he left and our defence became much more horrible. A coach has not emerged who has been able to play Wenger creative brand of football on a budget, not one.

So if United ask Wenger out on a two year date, nothing horrible there.

Pierre

Benny It’s not debatable in the slightest and it is relevant . The club is paying a player 350 grand a week to sit at home , that makes it relevant. It’s personal from Emery , I would congratulate him on his wisdom of ignoring Ozil if the team showed improvement on the pitch without him. So until that improvement happens , I will continue to make his decision look a mockery . If it all goes tits up for Emery on the pitch the handling of Ozil will be the NO.1 topic. I believe he is making a big… Read more »

Un na naai

Freddie

IQ test

Let’s do one….

Un na naai

Freddie

Smart people usually do quite well in life

Good job, successful family, nice home, please try if holidays, down time.
Either reveal a little more about yourself or let’s just accepts you’re another traveling Scandinavian, renting a shit hole somewhere and taking the moral high round without warrant

Un na naai

Plenty

Graham62

I really don’t get it Pierre. Your fixation (obsession) with Ozil holds no bounds. It’s as if you attribute all of our negatives on the fact that Ozil is not in the team. This is a naive and ignorant perception because, as you well know, Mesut Ozil would only turn up for the occasional home game and go missing in all our away games if playing. On top of all of this his attitude stinks and he would be a major handicap because he is incapable of handling the physicality of the game at the top level. He is a… Read more »

Luteo Guenreira

From my experience in life, successful people don’t usually harp about the fact they own a home, as it’s unsightly and mostly a pathetic endeavor. Poor isn’t a financial state, it’s a state a mind. Un you will be poor forever.

Freddie Ljungberg

Don

What makes you think I’m going to indulge your little fantasy there? I’m sure you can make something up, it’s pretty much your thing here after all, that and being the resident bigot.

You really can’t stand any dissent to your stupid views can you? Must make for a great life for anyone around you.

We can do an iq test in our second languages, I pick english, what’s yours?

Nevermind, they don’t do one in neanderthal, let’s just skip it and you can move along being angry and unreasonable about something else. Buh bye

Marc

“ose brought home the Europa trophy at the first time of asking with ManU, we have gone there twice and came home with nothing!”

This isn’t about what Arsenal have haven’t done in the past. The question with Mourinho is what transfer budget would he need to operate and how long before it goes pear shaped.

There are better options out there than Mourinho.

Un na naai

Freddie

Don’t be a pussy
We can both do an IQ test and immediately post the link to results here.

I’ll even pay for yours
If you’re 100% certain that I’m stupid then take me up or I’ll always have this over you

GoonerDave

Talking of IQ,
I seem to remember one of the most narcissistic posters on here declaring that he had an IQ of 180… that would be a full 20 points more than A. Einstein! Not only that, he actually declared his IQ “circa 180” which really cracked me up.

Freddie Ljungberg

Don

Give it a rest, you’re just proving (yet again) what a fucking moron you are. I’m not going to do an iq test with you (wtf?) to satisfy your strange fantasies.

And yes, I’m 100% sure that you’re stupid, you prove it here every day, even if you somehow managed to ace an iq test because of a bug in the system it wouldn’t change anyones view on you, least of all mine. You’re an idiot, just embrace, you’ll probaly be happier then.

Marc

GoonerDave

Really who on earth did that?

Words on a Blog

Un,

You’re beginning to sound a lot like a low-rent British version of “high IQ/genius” Donald Trump.

Are you the Orange One in disguise?

Graham62

Jesus H Christ.

A so called adult on here wanting to do an IQ test to prove a point. How juvenile is that?

Why not do a common sense test?

Grow up!

Graham62

Un na naai

You’re coming across as a it of a Richard.

Graham62

as a bit of a Richard.

Wasi

Pierre Agree with your thoughts. Not completely but partially. Ozil was made out at as the factor of our defensive problems last season but even without him we are still just bad defensively and him being ostracized has also affected the offense of the team. Emery is banking everything on the full backs and if that doesn’t fix our chance creation while also adding defensive solidity and defining a playing style them IDK how Emery is planning to convince Don Raul to trigger his extension. Pedro Mourinho as a stop gap?. We already have a stop gap in Emery. Mourinho… Read more »

TheBayingMob

Jose as a stop gap. I don’t necessarily disagree, but i would ask a stop gap to what? If we have a clear vision of a young, upwardly thinking visionary manager who we have to wait a season for, sure, I can see that while Jose ram-raids us back into the top 4, but other than that it’s nonsense. Jose would sure demand a 4/5 year contract at a Wenger-esque level of pay per week (probably more as he would still be wanting to put one over Arsene even now), which would extinguish any notion of a stop gap or… Read more »

Marc

Wasi

A guy I used to work with favourite saying was “Leopard’s and Spot’s”.

People rarely change and even if they manage to smooth certain rough edges they soon appear when up against it.

Freddie Ljungberg

Ozil again. When was the last time he put in any sort of meaningful performance in any away game or against any of our rivals in the PL? Oh 3 years going on never, ok carry on then. He’s not the solution to anything, and the “treatment” of him is totally justifiable if as reported he’s now actually thinking about leaving the club, him and his wages is holding us back, that wouldn’t have been the case if he was this wonderful player that only Pierre sees. Our defence will improve when it’s not full of championship level players, not… Read more »

KAY Boss

So some will welcome Mourinho at Arsenal? Says a lot about the fanbase who want a man who became quite popular aside his trophies by ridiculing the club at the least opportunity in pressers.
Mourinho is past it and his sauce isn’t there anymore.

Words on a Blog

Nah, Mourinho as a stop-gap manager in Arsenal is not a cultural fit.

Project Youth 2.0 under Mourinho? Haha

“On-message” corporate speak from the Special One? Never.

Any player shorter than 6 foot tall? No way.

The next guy will probably be a person the Great Un na nai considers to be a “low IQ Scandinavian” poster from Le Grove who lives in a tiny, filthy rented hovel, surrounded by dark-skinned immigrants.

Step forward Freddie Lyungberg!

DivineSherlock

You know what will be comedy gold . Mourinho going to the Spurs on a four year contract and fuck the shit out of that place like he did with ManUtd or Chelsea or Madrid . Sells Harry Kane , Delle Alli and then proceeds to buy Matic lol. If Mourinho wins anything with Spurs I’ll consider him the greatest fucking manager ever.

Graham62

Did anyone listen to TalkSport this afternoon when they were talking( hypothetically) about Ozil going to MU.

One MU supporter came on saying that Ozil is a great player and scored a brilliant goal against them…….3 years ago!!

I rest my case.

azed

Our biggest problem is conceding goals and Pierre hasn’t explained how Ozil will solve that.

So Pierre please explain how Ozil would help us concede less goals.

Graham62

Kay Boss

100% agree.

Wasi

Marc People do change. I know this because even though i am very young ive already seen some of my friends change drastically. TBF Mourinho looks a humble man now. Also wanting to prove something to someone (in his case the world) is as big a motivation as any. And im clearly against signing Mourinho now . Only if he proves that he’s still got it , then we can have a talk. Also with age you get wisdom. He was a beast in the 2000s and if he can get even close to that you’ll have the special back… Read more »

Wasi

Azed
Pierre Never said Ozil gonna help fix defensive issues. He can help maintain more possession but the Main thing is he can create more chances for our strikers which will result in more goal.s

azed

Wasi

We were the third highest scorers in the EPL last season and we would still end up among the top 4 goal scoring teams this season.

Our biggest problem is defensive and unless Ozil would help us in that aspect, we do not need him.

PS: Have lots of possession didn’t stop Wenger’s Arsenal from conceding ..

Words on a Blog

For the last few seasons, Ozil has largely been an irrelevance to our attack, even if he bumps up our possession stats by a few percentage points.

Özil needs to rediscover his hunger for the game, which was lost once he’d signed his £350k/week gig.

Either he will decide to go, or (less probably) he buckles down, first in training, and then in matches, and shows he can make a difference.

Dissenter

Regarding Mourhino
Raul Sanllehi and Edu will be better off paying a 500 pound-man to beat their heads with a hemmer daily than to employ Mourhino.
It’s also disrespectful of Wenger who is still a special part of Arsenal’s history.

Dissenter

BBC: Netherlands manager Ronald Koeman has warned his players that they must be ready for “direct confrontations” against Northern Ireland.
The Dutch side host Michael O’Neill’s men in a vital Euro 2020 qualifier in Rotterdam on Thursday evening.
“They are fighting machines,” Koeman said of the Northern Ireland players.
“Perhaps they haven’t got the structure or quality technically but it’s very direct, direct confrontations.Talk about motivating your opponent.
The NI manager doesn’t need a team talk anymore. Just print out a blown up portion of that interview and post in the locker room.
Koeman is really a shitty manager.

Edu me a favour

Pierre

You use the Watford game to prove a point about Ozil ?

How many shots did we concede in that game ? 30/31 ? And you’re using that game to prove a defensive point about Ozil !!??
You’re not serious – surely????

Wasi

Azed But did our performances match our results? No. And such a return is unsustainable. Think about the start of this season or the whole of last season. One medium to long term injury to Auba would have completely changed our results. We are over-reliant on one player and are lucky to have him at his peak. Even I agree that Ozil with Ozil we might sometimes have to defend as a 10 man team and leaving Ozil out of such games unltil he shows willingness to defend is completely understandable. But completely ostracizing for personal reasons is mind boggling.… Read more »

Un na naai

Graham

Pipe down

Freddie

I’ve challenged you to an IQ test
Will you or will you not accept the challenge?

Dissenter

Un na
Chill out man
Why do you let people get under your skin. like this?
You know no one is going to submit to an IQ test which really means nothing to be honest.

Pierre

Edu
“How many shots did we concede in that game ? 30/31 ? And you’re using that game to prove a defensive point about Ozil !!??”

I think you will find that a good percentage of those attempts at our goal were in the last 20 mins …..when ozil was off the pitch.

You are basically proving my point because we capitulated in the closing stages as we were unable to keep possession of the football ….

Dissenter

Pierre
‘You are basically proving my point because we capitulated in the closing stages as we were unable to keep possession of the football”

Ozil’s style does not help us keep the ball.
Carzola … yes
Ozil…no, he operates on the periphery of the game, he’s not good at helping to control games. Even at his peak, he’s in and out and makes a few assists to make you Ozillian statisticians happy.

Bob N16

The cult of Ozil. Does a cult need more than single digit membership to count?

azed

“One medium to long term injury to Auba would have completely changed our results. ”

Wasi
One medium to long term injury to Kane, Aguero, Salah, Vardy would completely change the results of Spurs, City, Pool and Leicester.

Our biggest problem is defensive and Ozil has no impact on the defensive side of the game.

azed

Pierre

“You are basically proving my point because we capitulated in the closing stages as we were unable to keep possession of the football”

Funny how we capitulated when we still had Wenger and Ozil….. What was the excuse for that?

Un na naai

Diss

He’s not under my skin at all. The fact that he’s squirting over the concept of an IQ test proved that he’s not confident enough to back up his assertions.

I’m happy to settle the score
Post the results. Verify my balls.

london gunner

I don’t think Jose would ever get the club after calling the most successful manager Arsenal has had a specialist in failure.

Too much bad blood between Jose and Arsenal .

Bob N16

Comparing IQ is a bit schoolboy, ‘ I’ll show you mine, if you show me yours’.

Freddie Ljungberg

Don

“I’m happy to settle the score
Post the results. Verify my balls.”

Could you be more of a child?

You’re failing daily in proving you’re anything other than an idiot on here, you could be the world champion at taking iq tests and it wouldn’t change anyones perception of you, sadly you’re too stupid to understand any of this.

Diss

No need to get under his skin, the guy has a complete meltdown at least once a week, he’s a stable genius alright. Bet he knows all the bigliest words too

Jay

Un
You’re such a dickhead

Un na naai

FL

Pussy
Typical

Un na naai

Jay

Maybe
Rather that than a pussy

Bamford10

Don ruining the comments section. Yet again.

bennydevito

PierreOctober 10, 2019    18:15:57 Benny It’s not debatable in the slightest and it is relevant . The club is paying a player 350 grand a week to sit at home , that makes it relevant. It’s personal from Emery , I would congratulate him on his wisdom of ignoring Ozil if the team showed improvement on the pitch without him. So until that improvement happens , I will continue to make his decision look a mockery . If it all goes tits up for Emery on the pitch the handling of Ozil will be the NO.1 topic. I believe he… Read more »

Marc

“I believe he is making a big mistake because he is alienating himself from a large number of fans”

Pierre what fans are these? Real ones or your imaginary friends?

Marc

Talent without application = low output.

Bob N16

Last two paragraphs particularly worthwhile Benny.

Graham62

Un na naai

Sorry.

I should have said wanker!

Go and watch Play School.

That’s about your level.

Are you under the influence?

At least that would explain a few things.

Nelson

Ireland scored. Ha! Ha!

Nelson

Nederland was attacking all the time. They don’t have fast winger. N. Ireland packs the box and stops every attack.

Graham62

Pierre

Am I missing something here?

When did Mesut Ozil become this unbelievably great player that you speak of?

Nelson

Ireland collapses in the last 10 minutes.

Pierre

Graham
“When did Mesut Ozil become this unbelievably great player that you speak of?”

Have I said that ….no .

My question is and always will be , in what aspect of our play have we improved without Ozil.

Can you name one ..there is a long list to choose from.

Gentlebris

‘Says a lot about the fanbase who want a man who became quite popular aside his trophies by ridiculing the club at the least opportunity in pressers.’ Can you post one link here where Jose ridiculed Arsenal(Arsenal, not Wenger)? And the things we have all said about Wenger, Jose never said a portion in 20. Does that make us less of Arsenal fans because we said shit about Wenger? They think yes on Untold but in reality the answer is no. Grow above the sentiments, Jose is available and we need him. Someone was talking about budget, Jose won the… Read more »

azed

“My question is and always will be , in what aspect of our play have we improved without Ozil.”

Chance conversions

Arsenal scored with 21.5% of their attempts this season – the best conversion rate of any team in a single season in the Premier League since Opta began analysing the competition in 1996.

*excludes blocked shots
https://twitter.com/Orbinho/status/1127886900369481729

We might not be creating as much chances as before, but we are certainly converting at a higher rate.

I guess Emery’s plan of attacking through the wings is way better than Ozil floating balls aimlessly into the box…

Valentin

Here is our right back understudy Jordi Osei-tutu on loan at Vfl Bochum.

https://twitter.com/afcDW/status/1182348835978465280?s=19

UTarse

“Ok big balls
How smart are you? Can we see an IQ test?
How much money do you earn? How big is your home that you 100% rent? How may homes do you own? Do you live in England and if so then what shot hole area do you rent a piss ridden shoe box?”

Playground Bertie big bollocks, tasteless and classless post.

azed

Valentin

Cool down your praise for Jordi Osei-tutu. This was a friendly game.

Jordi has only played about two games in the league and he was played as a right winger.

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