I am so BORED.
Yep, I’m one of those children this week. Someone tap me out of international week. What a waste of fucking time. The fact a team as ‘ok’ as England hadn’t lost a qualifier in 10 years until last week tells you what a total nonsense having an ‘everyone can compete’ qualifier is.
Anyway, AMN, fresh from bitching about playing in the wrong position / taking a red card to end the experiment… is talking about how bloody marv Freddie Ljungberg is as a coach.
“There’s quite a few things [I have learnt] really,”
“He knows me as a winger, so attacking-wise he’s helped my game a lot. Defensively, I go to someone else to help me because they’re two different styles that I have to play.
“Him personally, he’s pulled me to the side a lot and has shown me different techniques and ways of beating players, ways of crossing the ball and shooting. It’s helping me and I’m happy to have him around because he’s such a big figure in the team.”
If this is the first piece of evidence in the deep state conspiracy to overthrow Emery, the comments Raul made about Freddie are the makings of case, with David Ornstein’s puff piece on the man being the smoking gun.
You don’t need me to punch the numbers into your pocket calculator… I am not going to be vaccinated. Simple as that my friends. #FreddieIn
The pinch of ‘hmmm’ you have to take with these stories: Does Freddie look so damn good against Emery because he can do the basics really well… you know, like speak the language? Mad piece of intel is he’s learning Spanish so he can talk to the Emery. How mad is that?
It’s also not difficult to see who has more sauce unless you’re a weirdo on the sauce spectrum. He’s literally a legend in the eyes of those kids. They’ll have grown up on his partnership with Bergkamp, the flash of red hair, and all the trophies.
I remain sceptical, but it’s hard to when you keep hearing kid after kid going out of their way to talk about how incredible he is.
If I were Emery, I’d get on the double sessions of Rosetta Stone, because outsourcing communications is a sure-fire way to lose authority… I just pray he never loses that ‘good ebening’ opener.
In other news, can everyone jump online and celebrate this elite piece of journalism penned by the mighty Rob Smyth?
He works for a paper that truly believes Twitter is a barometer for what’s really going on in culture, if we create enough noise around this story, maybe The Guardian will rally around a ‘Save OGS’ agenda.
That’s something I could live with. #SaveOGSHeDeservesRespectAndLongDeal.
Right, that’s me done. See you in the comments. Listen to my podcast. Sound is a bit off for the first 9mins, but then it gets better because I fix the mic problem (turned it on).
LOVE YOU xxx
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Tr4phy
Gotcha you sneaky rabbit.
I knew you’d think I was asleep I
Haha, Bankz you sly dog! Who knew you’d be competing for this random one! Hope you’ve been enjoying my absences. Last set of Jewish festivals coming up next week so after that I’m back properly and I’ll be having my tr4phies, thanks 😊
Saka said this week that He cannot understand Emery & he goes to Freddie for coaching . I have seen Freddie coaching him during breaks of play at The Emirates . Emery doesn’t seem to mind Freddie doing that, so fair play to Unai for that Arsene would never have allowed that
Omg you two are tossers
Pedro Freddie is a good coach does this make him s good manager ?
Would we hire a non experienced manager like that ?
Pedro Maitland-Niles is neither good enough playing for Arsenal as a wing back or winger. Let’s be clear he is not a starting X1 standard player for the club and as I expressed many times this season he became a liability when he played in right wing back position and left us totally exposed at back. Chambers is not a first choice fullback but at least he is more reliable as understudy to Bellerin when he is unfit to play. Furthermore Arsenal are not short of understudy wingers at the club in Martinelli, Saka and Nelson who are better footballers… Read more »
Bielsa has really disappointed me. Nketiah, when he arrived at Leeds, was scoring for fun. He deserves a start in the Championship but he has stuck by his striker Bamford (who has struggled to score) because he says he wants someone more experienced in the league. If so, why did Leeds fight off other clubs like Bristol City for Nketiah? I’m sure our club would have made it clear he was being sent on loan for first team league experience. If he is being used as a Cup player, he should be brought back and sent on to a club… Read more »
I would give AMN a run out as a DM in cup games to provide support to Torreira but I would make it clear to him that he needs to step up or be prepared to move elsewhere. Given his age, it’s probably too soon to drop him completely yet but given his time with the first team he really needs to make a position his own.
Go to agree with you Emirates Amn is a squad player at best and as a HG player he has to stay but his is the least talented of the 6 kids
Saka,Nelson, martinelli, guendouzi, nketiah and Wilock the 5 at the club should all start before him
Leeds need to give Eddie a run of games for sure bumford is not in his class
Leedsgunner
AMN is not good enough to play in any position on the field least of all as DM.
Arsenal have on their books a number of promising young players coming through the system. Players like Willock, Nketiah, Saka, Nelson, Smith-Rowe
and Balogun.
One or two will make the grade and others will not. I am afraid AMN has had
his opportunity and failed. He falls into the same category as Iwobi and should
be offloaded.
Emirates we can’t offload him he is one of our HG players we have to have 8 registered
Martinez
Chambers
Bellerin
Holding
AMN
Macey
ESR
Wilock
Are the 8
I hope DM and Bankz end up retiring to the same care home and live out their lives trying to beat each other to the medication line every morning.
Again, I will go out on a limb and say that not only will United compete for top four this season, they will do so with Solskjaer at the wheel.
Yes, the whole world has written them off, and yes, the whole world has declared Solskjaer dead, but the whole world happens to be wrong on this point.
United were right to place faith in Solskjaer, and as long as they avoid serious injury issues in their starting XI going forward, they will compete for fourth by season end.
You heard it here first. 😉
I’d take Freddie over emery any day so long as he brings bould with him. We’re sorely lacking a defensive coach.
Shamford You are definitely on the sauce spectrum. Don’t worry, no one is going to take your credit if OGS pans out. You’re firmly the only one I’m aware of that is such a nuthugger for the United boss around here. Regardless, even if United do make top 4 this season it will likely be in spite of their manager, not because of him. Similar to Arsenal w/ Emery. With every top club aside from Liverpool shitting the bed so far, saying United will make top 4 isn’t nearly the risk you seem to think it is. It’s October. Pedro… Read more »
What amazes me is the number of people who suddenly are expert in Willock, Saka, Martinelli and AMN. If Freddie see something in AMN as a right winger, I would rather trust his judgement over keyboard warriors. Most have never seen AMN play right winger. AMN is a much better right winger most give him him credit for. He has pace, he can dribble and he can cross the ball and he has defensive awareness. He is 22 years old who has nearly never played in his favourite position at senior level. Yet despite being stuck at right back, he… Read more »
Vegas,
I am not sure that Freddie would need Steve Bould as a defensive coach.
Bould is a great individual player defender mentor, but all his youth team have been suspect at the back. On the other hand, Freddie’s team once he is able to instill his philosophy to his team they tend to be pretty solid defensively.
Last season, the U23 did not lose a league game for the last six months.
I think it’s fair to say that Clive Allen’s opinion of Wenger does not match those of a few fans at LG.
https://www.caughtoffside.com/2019/10/16/clive-allen-on-arsene-wenger-row/
Saliba will count as home-grown, so he can take AMN’s spot if we wish to offload him.
I also think that we should not rush to unload AMN. Unlike Xhaka, he is fast. With proper coaching, he can still improve.
Valentin says Emery is only puffing up his CV with the Europa and doesn’t care a bit about the league or what upper management expects of him….I believe Valentin because, well, he knows so much more than anyone else about the behind scenes of Arsenal and having earned his coaching badges is ready to take the helm of Arsenal with saucy Pedro in tow.
It’s a shame role don’t read the rules before making a statement. Mr Serge you do not have to have 8 home grown players. In fact you don’t have to have any. The rule is you can have 25 players over the age of 21 in your squad of which at least 8 must be homegrown. However, if a team wishes they can have a squad of just 17 non-homegrown players. At the moment Arsenal have just 6 homegrown players. Willock and Smith-Rowe are not yet old enough to be classed as homegrown. As for another comment about Saliba being… Read more »
Valentin AMN has been involved in the first team/squad over last three seasons and could have been selected to play wing in games during that period when we were short of players in that position. The reality is that there are better “prospects” at the club in that position. Also you should not forget that he played recently in RW position and his performance was average and he was subbed. My point is that when you introduce youngsters to first team squad they should be given a chance to prove themselves, but if they fail to perform to the required… Read more »
Golden Boy Awards.
Shit list.
Chukwueze out, how possible?
And Fati who wasn’t even part of the initial 38 makes the final 20.
The only consolation would be if Matty G wins it. Fifa is scum redefined!
Mr Serge
“Pedro, Freddie is a good coach but does that make him a good manager”
1. Speaks English fluently.
2. Knows how to conduct himself.
3. Superb at PR. We/The entire footballing world can all relate to him.
4. Respected by the players.
5. Good looking guy.
6. Tea ladies and all female staff will be happy.
7. One cool dude.
8. Knows the club inside out.
9. Knows what we want.
10. Would be the only manager in the history of the game that has modelled Calvin Klein underwear.
Freddie all day long!
If Freddie needs a defensive coach then I would look to Martin Keown who had that one season in that role for us when we reached the Champions League Final in 2006 without conceding a goal along the way, inc beating Real Madrid away 1-0 along the way
NB
Our back 4 then was Cole, Campbell, Toure and Eboue… A far cry from our current back 4.
Atif, “It’s a shame role don’t read the rules before making a statement.” Pot kettle…. In order to qualify as home grown a player has to be register for 3 years in an England club before the year of his 21st birthday. Despite sending him on loan Arsenal have registered Saliba in the premier League squad this season. So if they also register him for the next two seasons, when he will reach 21 years old he would have been registered 3 years in an England club. Hence automatically qualifying as a home grown player. So the idea that a… Read more »
Graham You do realise that if Freddie was made manager ,the first thing he will do is bring Ozil back into the fold . Let’s hope it happens before the transfer window or Arsenal could make the monumental mistake of letting Ozil go out on loan and have to pay 700 grand a week for the pleasure.. And all because of Emery……700 grand a week down the drain though at the moment its costing the club double that because doesn’t regard him as good enough to play even for our reserve(europa) side . The people running the club are a… Read more »
*700 grand a month ( not week)
Pedro Mad piece of intel is he’s learning Spanish so he can talk to the Emery. How mad is that? If this is really true, then he really needs to move on sooner rather than later. In management, one important factor is knowing how to communicate your ideas clearly and concisely. If you can’t do that then you’re fucked because no one will be on the same page. Sound is a bit off for the first 9mins, but then it gets better because I fix the mic problem (turned it on). This made me chuckle. Any sound engineer out there… Read more »
“6. Tea ladies and all female staff will be happy.”
He gay af.
“Last set of Jewish festivals coming up next week …”
Are you going to play Kick the Palestinians?
‘I’m going nowhere’ – Ozil vows to honour contract at Arsenal.
Music to my ears ….let the battle begin.
There are two ways at looking at Ozil’s most recent announcement. You can either take it on face value in which case it is utter nonsense for Emery not to include Ozil in team selections. The idea that the player will be cold shouldered and more or less redundant at a cost of £350K pw for the duration of his current contract is lunacy. of his contract is lunacy. On the other hand Ozil is playing cute and is looking for a massive compensation package from the club in order to move to Turkey on an affordable wage package. Whichever… Read more »
I’d take FL for one season to see how he does. In fact, sack Emery and let FL have the rest of this season.
Everyone nurses his obsession. The word ‘sauce’ wouldn’t leave Pedro alone, and Pierre dreams of Ozil’s football.
Blog of obsessions😊
The man has no pride. Rather sit at home as an overpaid nanny than make the effort to fight for a place in the team. Even Mustafi has managed to do enough to gain selection to the cup teams.
He thinks, as do some here, that he should be included in the team just because he’s Mesut Özil. Unfortunately he’s just a lazy, unprofessional faded star.
‘I’m going nowhere’ – Ozil vows to honour contract at Arsenal.’
I’m for giving Ozil play time but let’s face it, Ozil gives no fuck about honour. He just wants his cheques…..all of it.
If he doesn’t play till January and he doesn’t accept a transfer, then fuck him. He should be asked to train with the academy kids.
“This is my home. I’m going nowhere.”
The mofo loves the London life. Fuck me, he’s even harder to get rid of than Wenger was.
Paying 700k a month is better than paying 1400k a month.
Quick maffs.
I’m all for Freddie at some stage caretaking the squad if Emery had to go, but if we want an elite manager, we should be making sure we get him before United.
Reports in Italy Allegri has been offered £6.5million, but Allegri would prefer not to take over a club mid season.
Could be any number of reasons for the press stories not least propagated by Allegri’s agent.
Bojangles “The man has no pride.” It depends how you look at it. Is walking away from a situation that is not of his doing , having pride in himself . ( creating the most chances since Emery arrived tells me he is doing what he supposed to do , create chances) Or is staying at the club and fighting for his place having pride in himself. He will have his wages paid whatever he does so money is not the issue. Let us also not forget that without Ozil, the team has shown no improvement in any aspect of… Read more »
Thank you arsene wenger may you never come to harm, …
2017 letting malen go…
He can’t be forgiven for that…
Freddie gets the old codger G62 VERY revved up lol
Wouldn’t even need a viagra…
The fact that people think Ozil isn’t good enough for this current Arsenal side is more alarming than G62s Freddie crush and Tony the king of lady boys pinocchio existence.
I reckon it’s the Kelvin Klein’s that pushes him over the edge..
The fact that Freddie has so much input in the development of the young players is both great and worrisome. Great because his U21 teams have been great to watch and knew how to win both with beautiful football but also by grinding results. Worrisome because it looks like Emery can’t communicate properly with the younger players. So that lead automatically to the question: “does he communicate better with the older player?” because quite often the team seems pretty disjointed and unclear of what they are trying to do. The good news is that it really look like Freddie is… Read more »
Emirates “You can either take [Ozil’s interview] on face value, in which case it is utter nonsense for Emery not to include Ozil in team selections.” By “selection,” do you mean the first XI, or do you mean the team? If the latter, I probably agree; if the former, I don’t agree at all. Even if Ozil has shown a good attitude and level of effort in training, this doesn’t mean he deserves to be in the XI. He doesn’t do enough on either side of the ball to justify his inclusion in important matches — this has been true… Read more »
Pierre “The people running the club are a joke.” Nonsense. Sanllehi, Edu and Emery are serious and ambitious men who want to accomplish something. Fanboys who can’t see or accept that their favorite player is no longer what he once was are the joke here. “What other club in history has awarded a player a 350 grand a week contract …” Sadly, we used to be run by Arsene Wenger and to some extent Ivan Gazidis. They made many, many bad decisions, including the decision to give Ozil a new (and massively inflated) contract. “And the club (Raul) back the… Read more »
Pierre (Re: 8:46 post) And you know that for a fact? Has he actually said this? Where’s your source? Pierre you ALWAYS end up cutting your own throat. Is this a deliberate ploy to entice responses from other posters. Just so you know “the lunatics took over the asylum” long ago. I would say 10 years prior to Emerys arrival. Emery entered the asylum created and run by your master. Yes, he is not upto scratch but let’s be honest here, he took over an utter shitfest. Ozil is your only argument on here. You don’t get it with him… Read more »
Emirates “Where we are short is in midfield and defence.” Not to mention that AMN was completely underwhelming when he was played wide right in the Europa. He wasn’t terrible — after all, he has pace and he’s fairly skillful — but he demonstrated all of the traits that have made him a lackluster fullback, e.g., casualness, laziness, poor decision-making, etc. There is a part of me that looks at his positive attributes and thinks, “maybe he could help us in midfield; maybe if he buckled down, worked hard, played simply, helped us win the ball, defend, etc., he could… Read more »
Malen has scored 23 goals and assisted another 5 in 18 starts or 2100 minutes for PSV in Eredivisie and in the Champions League. That’s exactly a goal per game, and 1 assist in every 4.6 games. He progressed the way he did after landing 13 goals and 5 assist in his 1 year for PSV’s U21 team. That’s a player that was basically developed to a stage where he was good enough to be playing the seniors. Sold for £540k. Then there’s Gnabry. Just how good Gnabry was in his first season after we sold him – 11 goals… Read more »
Bamford “Provocatively low effort” What does this mean . Ozil sitting on a bench having a fag whilst the others are doing yet another circuit around the pitch. Ozil refusing to train Ozil Late for training Ozil Missing training . What do you regard as provocatively low effort. This is the recent quote from Ozil ” “It’s disappointing, of course. But as a professional footballer, I have to respect the decision of the coach,” “Not being involved, watching from home, makes me feel helpless. I want to be part of the side, I want to support my team-mates to succeed.… Read more »
Raptora I agree that Wenger and staff did not see in Gnabry and Malen what perhaps they should have seen, but I don’t think it’s because Wenger was in “preservation mode”. I think it’s because he just didn’t see players or the game very well at that point. After all, at the same time he was not seeing what he perhaps should have been seeing in the two above, he was championing Yaya Sanogo in press conferences. It’s not like he was not putting stock in young, somewhat unproven players; it’s that he was putting stock in the wrong young… Read more »
Graham
Freddie understands the game( unlike you, stick to rugby) …he will reinstate Ozil into the squad , guaranteed.
Bamford,
In the game against Standard Liege in the Europa League, we did not play in 4-2-3-1, we played a strange tactic which meant that in attack we were playing in a 4-1-3-2 with two strikers: Martinelli and AMN. In defensive mode we then played in Christmas tree formation in a 4-3-2-1. With Nelson and AMN the two.
So very difficult to judge him as a right winger when he did not play a right winger for most of the game.
Raptora
Oh, and I don’t think Iwobi could have been (or ever will be) world class. Unless you’re talking about going back to when he was twelve or so and developing him in a different and better way. Given the player he was, though, when he was 19, 20, 21, 22, I don’t think he was ever going to be “world class”. Not in my opinion.
Pierre
See a professional.
Bamford,
Gnabry was sold because he refused to sign a new contract, not because his talent was not recognised.
Malen was sold because of his off the field attitude. Same reason he left Ajax two years before. His talent was never in doubt.
Have to say that after reading David Luiz generous comments towards Ozil and the magnanimous way Ozil has reacted to his unfair treatment and words from Emery, it shows the character of the man.
No malice in his words whatsoever ….class.
Bamford
Explain provocatively low effort….
If you can.
Bamford
“Pierre
See a professional ”
Turning to insults is a clear indication that you have no words to counter my argument.
Explain what is ” provocatively low effort” ..
Nice one Pierre .
You didn’t answer my questions.
How do you know Freddie will include Ozil in the team if he becomes manager?
Actually, I note you said “squad”. Does this mean you’re also having some doubts about Mesut?
Yep, love all sports.
Golf and Football not a great mix though.
Ozil…”extra training ”
Someone’s telling porkies ….and I dont think its Ozil…
Raul.
“That is to try not to make any distinctions, play the ones who work hard in training and reward the effort “
Pedro
Can’t you draw up a post just for Pierre.
Something along the lines of ” The A-Z of Mesut Ozil”
A is for……….A#####E!
B is for……….?
Put us out of our misery………..PLEASE!
G62
Please step away from your computer. You are fudging embarrassing yourself.
Isn’t it time for your medicine? Or a nap?
All this poppycock and talk of Freddie is getting you all giddy.
Özil needs to be at a club that can afford to carry a passenger for 70% of the time in each game. Seeing as we already have to carry one player there is no way we can afford to carry two.
Maybe when the Albanian lump loses a week due to suspension there may be an opening for Özil to actually earn a week’s pay.
Valentin, Gnabry was sold cause we fucked up with him and he knew that. You don’t have a super/elite talent and treat it the way we did. Boy was a the Golden Boy 2013 nominee. You normally don’t get there if you aren’t a real quality talent. And what did Wenger and co do? First they stopped playing him, then sent him on loan to WBA?! Hello?! Gnabry was 100% in his own right to not resign and leave. Mind you that Gnabry had 1 year left on his contract. If Wenger believed that he was worth it, he would… Read more »
Everybody know that the issue between Emery and Özil is personal. Most of the argument presented by Emery apologists to justify Özil not even making the game squad are just bad excuses. For example the argument that Özil run less has already been shown to be bogus. When it was used Last season stats proved that in fact Özil was one running more than most. Now it is Özil does not train well. Strangely enough the Arsenal training media video is full of Özil training hard. Then it became Özil does not do what is asked of him. If Xhaka… Read more »
Go to the 8.15 mark for the bribery allegation
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c-tZLHylXsA#menu
If this was true they would have ripped up Ozil’s contract.
Pierre “Turning to insults …” I don’t mean the above as an insult; I genuinely think you have a problem and that you should see a professional. As for what “provocatively low-effort” means, this is self-evident. Do you remember when Ozil refused to acknowledge the away fans at the Etihad? When Mertesacker became irate with him and remained furious with Ozil for more than a week? Well, that was provocatively self-absorbed, whiny, pouty and disrespectful — to fans and to the club. That Ozil is capable of similar behavior in training, that he has engaged in such behavior recently and… Read more »
PierreOctober 16, 2019 21:50:29
Marc
To be fair , Danialtos is a bit of a prick , so take it easy on him.
Pierre if you havent noticed I have never called anyone names since I started commenting here so don’t start with me
Kevin Campbell on his YouTube channel, he must be desperate for views
Bamford 10 Ref: Ozil I am not suggesting that Ozil should be an automatic starter in major games, but surely he is good enough to be playing on a more regular basis than we have seen this season. Moreover affording him so little game time will make it more difficult to offload him should that be the purpose of what is going on at moment. It is inconceivable that anyone will pay him £100K pw let alone £350K pw when he is so underused as a footballer in last two seasons. Ref: Maitland-Niles I see nothing in this player’s performance… Read more »
MarcOctober 16, 2019 21:27:16 DanialtosIf you despise and hate what the English are / have done why don’t you fuck off and support a team from another more socially acceptable country?I’m sure that wherever you are from has never been guilty of any sort of issue. You should hold your horses.I never said I ‘despise and hate’ what the British are..am half English myself and I have lived in England for a while,Kent to be specific(don’t even get me started on the shameless amount of racism there and yes I have witnessed it first hand,dunno if it has reduced)…what I… Read more »
Valentin
Can you send me a link to those stats showing Özil run more than any other Arsenal player last year.
Valentin: “Malen was sold because of his off the field attitude.” ‘That I was sent away from Arsenal is certainly not true. I still had a contract for a year and Arsenal even wanted to extend that. ‘I don’t play football for the money. I never did that. Otherwise I would not have left England.’ ‘There are stories that I was not fit when I came to Arsenal. But I have never been too fat, that is really a nonsense story,’ Put the case to bed I would assume. He wanted to play, just like Gnabry did. Both left cause… Read more »
Valentin Not that any of your comments really merit a response, but are you seriously claiming that Ozil contributes just as much energy, pressing or tackling as a Ceballos or a Martinelli when he’s on the field? You can’t seriously believe this. Do you actually watch Arsenal? Do you even actually watch football? Some of the comments you post here make me wonder. And the problem, btw, isn’t just what Ozil gives you when you don’t have possession of the ball. He’s also low-energy and unproductive when you DO have the ball. What Ozil have you lot been watching the… Read more »
PierreOctober 17, 2019 11:32:17
Bamford
“Pierre
See a professional ”Turning to insults is a clear indication that you have no words to counter my argument.
Imagine my surprise when I saw Pierre complaining about insults
“As for what “provocatively low-effort” means, this is self-evident. Do you remember when Ozil refused to acknowledge the away fans at the Etihad? When Mertesacker became irate with him and remained furious with Ozil for more than a week? Well, that was provocatively self-absorbed, whiny, pouty and disrespectful” Nice try Bamford but of course you didn’t say anything remotely similar to that. Your comment was “there is absolutely no chance whatsoever that Emery has left Ozil out of the team entirely without Ozil having been provocatively low-effort in training” Sounds like you’re twisting yourself in knots if you have to… Read more »
Bojangles
No such stat exists. The “total distance covered” stat tells one nothing about how quickly a player ran, how good he was in his pressing or defending, how helpful he was, how smart or sharp or aggressive his play was. It tells one only what distance a player covered, not HOW said player covered that distance. He might have covered that distance in smart, sharp, quick, aggressive terms; he might have covered that distance in a lax, sot, weak, passive, largely useless and unproductive manner. The latter is Ozil, 90% of the time.
* soft
All this Ozil is not training hard is just smoke screen. Emery has singled him out to stay at home when the team traveled to Frankfurt. That is not team building. That is mean spirit.
Danialtos
I said , and I quote
” Turning to insults is a clear indication that you have no words to counter my argument.”
Which is not complaining about the insult, why would it bother me , if you read Le Grove you will see that no one is insulted as much as me.
Water off a ducks back .
I wouldn’t take it personally if I was you, I’ve seen your little snide comments directed towards me so stop trying to play the victim..
Never understood the fascination with wanting a former player as the manager. They crash and burn just as much as anyone else(if not more). Being a former good player doesn’t mean you’ll be a good manager.
For all the love in now he’d be pitchforked.
Bojangles, Stats such as Distances run, number of defensive sprints, number of interceptions, number of aerial challenges made, % of duel won, number of shot blocked, number of tackles, % of successful tackles, number of fouls conceded, number of cards received, number of penalty conceded gives a pretty accurate description of what a player does on the defensive side of a game. When your CAM has better number in nearly every one of those stats than your designated CM, you either have a magnificent CAM or an static, non-tackling of a CM. There are numerous sites with those stats per… Read more »
Danialtos yesterday
” The Brits the same people who went around the world terrorising people,raping women, butchering and outright stealing in the name of building empires?…Even more ironical is that they now cry about people coming into their beloved country and doing just half of the evils they committed against the world.”
Then posted this today
“You should hold your horses.I never said I ‘despise and hate’ what the British are..am half English myself and I have lived in England for a while”
Another one twisting themselves in knots.
#FreddieIn.
#Xhaka+EmeryOut.
A certain scepticism is due when young players fawn over a coach. It’s like when kids rave about their favourite teachers. Sometimes the strictest and least popular teachers are the best ones, and the ones who the kids come to realize, in later years, were the ones they needed most. I’m not saying Emery is the latter kind. But just because kids rave about a teacher or coach, doesn’t mean they’re necessarily teaching them the kinds of skills that will really help them grow and serve them well in the long-term. Sometimes you need a disagreeable bastard to instill some… Read more »
Freddie can do no worse than Emery.
He has more feeling for the club and as a player he rarely played badly for us.
He and Edu were in the Invincibles and know how to counter attack at speed.
We are slow in our play now .
Özil has given an exclusive interview to David Ornstein via The Athletic… definitely worth a read… he gives a good account of himself!
Ozil : “I have a contract until the summer of 2021 and I will stay until then”
Pierre just cum all over the place.
The attempts to make the English/British nation seem worse than all others are utterly asinine. Every nation in history has taken the opportunity to expand its territories when it has had the opportunity. Slavery was a fact of life in almost every human civilization up to the modern era, including within most parts of the non-Western world. Anyone who is sincerely interested in tracing the development of modern liberal rights can’t help but see that they have a close relationship with the traditions of the Western world, including, most obviously, with Britain. An empirical question: how many modern functioning democracies… Read more »
Valentin
I’m fully aware of the sites that show stats.
I believe Özil covered more distance than Leno but my belief ends there I’m afraid, along with the bs you gave to show where you got your stats from.
Bojangles, “my belief ends there I’m afraid” Another one, whose belief is more important than fact. Xhaka has been exposed as the field player who has conceded the most penalties since 2016 for the entire EPL not just Arsenal. He is also the outfield player who has made the most mistakes that directly lead to goals conceded, again for the entire EPL not just Arsenal. His rate of yellow card is ridiculous. For example this season he is already under threat of being suspended (4 cards) despite having been involved in only 7 games. Basically 1 card every other game.… Read more »
“ Ozil vows to honour contract at Arsenal.Music to my ears ….let the battle begin.”
You don’t say Pierre 🙂
Shouldn’t there be a different word than “honour” to describe this situation though?
If someone just landed from Mars they might’ve thought Ozil was on 100k per week and decided to stay even though Barca just offered him five times that.
What he probably should’ve said was” I’m going to continue bending Arsenal over and sticking it balls deep while they bitch and moan until the last day of my deal.
Hahahahaha!”