Ain’t no party like a Thursday night party… was literally me until last night.
Overall, what a shite game that was.
The kids offered us up a prime serving of first-team-T-bone steak and it was not delicious.
Our midfield was porous, the defence was all over the place, and we made a pub team look as dangerous as the menace that was Sheffield United on Monday.
We went one goal down after 8 minutes. The familiar theme of having no midfield to protect the defence was apparent. Three of our ‘THEY’LL SAVE EMERY’ defenders conspired to give Edwards space to convert from 8 yards (Hector, KT, RH). Very embarrassing, but at least only 50% of of the stadium was there to see it.
You kind of hoped it was just a typical Emery start, that maybe we’d clunk back into gear and start treating the Portuguese outfit with the disrespect they deserved. We didn’t, we actually managed to make things worse. Zero shape in the middle, constantly exposed to the counter-attack, organisational chaos all around.
We clawed one back though, Kieran Tierney found the head of the Brazilian Kevin Davies, 5 goals for Gabriel. Sadly, it didn’t take long to gift the advantage back, AMN, sitting in centre midfield, turned into traffic, Vitoria broke against a weak damn and breached with a response within 4 minutes.
All I can say about the second half is the manager subbed in the correct players, namely, Nicolas Pepe. The much-maligned Ivorian showed his class with two brilliant freekicks from different positions. The first was from further out and curled precisely into the far left of the goal. The second was a rocket from closer range at the death from about 20 yards.
Majestic. BUT WHERE WAS THE GOAL IN OPEN PLAY?! Just jokes kids, I love Pepe.
So what did we learn?
Well, it seems clear that Unai Emery is losing the PR battle. He was booed fairly at half time by the 12 fans that bothered to show up to the game. His second string were as insipid as the regulars. We were a mess and my diagnosis is that the Premier League infection finally spread to the Europa League kids. We didn’t deserve to win, but we did. Last season, fans would have buried their heads in ‘BUT THIS IS WENGER’S TEAM,’ this season, I think people are wising up to the reality… performances matter and we’re still not delivering them.
The reality of the Emery is this: It doesn’t matter who he puts on the pitch, no one has a fucking clue what he wants. The gap between midfield and attack is so wide, it often looks insurmountable, the only option is a long ball… then when play switches, all our midfielders are behind the play. There’s no structure to our setup. Do we even bother playing between the lines? Our midfield seems offended by the concept, which makes our play incredibly one-dimensional.
Kieran Tierney, Rob Holding and Hector Bellerin all add a bit of quality to proceedings, but they can’t fix an average manager that lacks the basic skills… like, you know, communicating in English.
‘Language isn’t important’
Real debate last season.pic.twitter.com/lJ0swF0eHO
— Le Grove (@LeGrove) October 25, 2019
It’s quite amazing that I had to debate the merits of language last season, but it’s so fucking obvious, if you can’t master the native tongue, you’re going to fail. Above is Robin, one of the greatest Arsenal strikers I’ve ever witnessed, calling out the fucking obvious: Communication matters. Poor English is a barrier, but more to the point, even if you could speak Spanish, would the ideas be any clearer? Doubtful.
Can I just repeat: People challenged the view that hiring a coach that couldn’t speak English was a bad idea. Seriously. That’s the internet at its best.
Mesut Ozil continues to be a problem. He’s out here posting a picture of himself looking like your mum’s best friend Trisha who works in ESSEX TRIMS in Clapton and the internet has gone wild.
‘Babes, I’m like, Trisha Gandhi right now, frosted tips and non-violent protest always’
The whole internet reacted viciously to his omittance from the squad. A bit unfair, Mesut hangs out with dictators, probably injured himself playing computer games last season, and he seems to have a deeper aversion to a hard days work than that bitch grasshopper who fucked about all summer while the squirrel gathered nuts. Point is, only Emery could lose a PR war to someone that’s a dosser. To be clear, I’m on Ozil’s side for no real reason other than the slight suspicion that if Emery is for something, I should be against it.
Emery won the battle yesterday, but perversely, that was another savage blow on his effort in the mighty war.
A lot of Arsenal players liked that androgynous Ozil Instagram picture. That tells you something. Firstly, they have bad taste in pictures, secondly, the players are siding with their teammate. When things go south for Emery, it’s going to be a tsunami that strikes him… and it’ll be far more brutal than anything Wenger ever faced.
Why? Because the players know they can end Emery.
“Point is we do not need our coach to be a leader of men or whatever nonsense, he can just be competent at his job.“
Literally the same thing, you can’t be a competent coach and not be a leader. You’re just being your usual contrarian self because of the subject matter.
“Don’t need you to endorse my competence Charles, you thought Wenger was a competent football coach for years so who are you to talk about competence”
Wenger was you muppet, go for a walk…
Don
Those moments of brilliance were exceptions, not the rule, in those years. You may think of yourself as a “great Arsenal fan,” but you actually don’t see Arsenal very well. Sorry.
Fuck ozil!
G62
‘Was he subtly undermining him?’
You’re right on this. Bellerin was reminding the coach that the players want to play a certain way and keep true to OUR DNA not Emery’s DNA.
Blandford
You’re so far off the mark with all matters Arsenal it’s not even funny. Please stop trying to force your repetitive invalid shit opinion on people. We are getting worse and everyone bar you knows it.
“Literally the same thing, you can’t be a competent coach and not be a leader”
Yes you can. It’s there in the words.
Competent: having the necessary skill, ability or knowledge to do something successfully. (One can argue ability might include leadership skills but that is not a given).
Barcelona have had many competent coaches, same as Chelsea, but we all know where their on pitch leadership came from.
Now i think you should go for that walk Charles
Pierre Arsenal have always had intelligent footballers in their team and I suspect that is also the case now. You mention George Eastham. He was of course the catalyst whilst at Newcastle for material changes in players’ wages . He went on strike for a year and also to court over his contract. Liam Brady was also rated a highly intelligent footballer by the senior management, but most of his generation were rated by them as thick as two planks with no brains above the waist. Arsenal’s football teams under Graham and his successors showed a modicum of intelligence both… Read more »
“You’re right on this. Bellerin was reminding the coach that the players want to play a certain way and keep true to OUR DNA ”
I have noticed you aren’t very bright so this sin’t surprising coming from you.
The players want to play a certain way, what way exactly? Find their team mates with a pass? Isn’t that the whole point of football? What exactly stops them from playing the way they want to play? Why the errors and carelessness in possession? SMH
Normski
What’s going on, we’re agreeing on things.
It’s my round.
What can I get you?
Receding
No you’re just being daft with English once again, I’m clearly stating a competent coach is one that is a leader.
Name a top class football manager who isn’t a leader, who isn’t the centre to the success of the clubs football endeavours.
Spot on today Pedro
2 points
1 the players don’t know what he wants
Exactly. And this is after decades with a coach who asked his players to think on their feet and to express themselves
This man is supposed to micro manage yet the players have less direction than under wenger
2) the language barrier
It’s a fucking embarrassment that so called fans on this forum think that not being able to speak English at an English club is acceptable.
Usual suspects though
Bamford10October 25, 2019 11:48:21 DonThose moments of brilliance were exceptions, not the rule, in those years. You may think of yourself as a “great Arsenal fan,” but you actually don’t see Arsenal very well. Sorry. They were literally the Hallmark of arsebal under Wenger. And I’ll tell you one thing, they were a hell of a lot more common even at his worst than anything served up under emery Even his best attacking performances Leicester 3-1 and Fulham 5-1 last season can be attributed to wengaball. Note how once he got his claws into the team post Xmas the flair… Read more »
Receding Brain
Im not going to waste my time explaining nuances of the game to someone who is oblivious to the finer details of football.
Arsenals modern DNA was cultivated by wenger free flowing, attacking, possession based football.
Emery’s attempt at making us more ‘competive’ in his words is making us timid and reactive to our opponents, rather than dominating the ball against them. If we had Emery’s DNA we have fucking down syndrome.
Forgive me if I dont take as gospel the murmurings of a Nigerian internet scammer. Zero credibility even before you gave your game away.
A new manager please G
RH
I thought you said you’d got experience of leading a team of IT professionals scattered around the universe.
You remember that guy on Uranus, the one that mentioned to you that the new computer program installed by the company wasn’t up to scratch. Did it ever occur to you he was dropping a subtle hint?
Bob you must have had a very nasty encounter with a Brit.
The players want to play a certain way, what way exactly? Find their team mates with a pass? Isn’t that the whole point of football? What exactly stops them from playing the way they want to play? Why the errors and carelessness in possession? SMH
The managers negative and muddled instructions.
Pogba is alex song levels with fashion sense(less)
DanialtosOctober 25, 2019 12:03:25
Bob you must have had a very nasty encounter with a Brit.
Bob’s Mrs and sister got gang banged by an English rugby team on tour in Turkey.
Graham not my fault you cannot comprehend what you read .
Normski like i said you aren’t the sharpest pencil in the box, fellow says he is from Nigeria and works in IT, yea he must be a scammer, but then again didn’t expect anything remotely worth reading from you so as you were
Normski like i said you aren’t the sharpest pencil in the box, fellow says he is from Nigeria and works in IT, yea he must be a scammer, but then again didn’t expect anything remotely worth reading from you so as you were
RH
I think you massively overestimate your own intellect.
Bob“how has Martinelli outscored all the home grown British players at Arsenal?”Simple: Martinell is fucking dope.
Even more impressive considering we were told he is not a striker by Legrove hall of famers
“The managers negative and muddled instructions.”
Which are what exactly? Are any of you privy to the specific instructions the players take to the pitch with? By the way i thought the Europa league was managed by Freddie when the performances were good, guess Emery took over out of jealousy last night.
Jokers.
Lots to form a credible critique with yet you are getting caught up in the irrelevant and stuffs you just cannot prove.
“I think you massively overestimate your own intellect.”
You don’t say
“the players don’t know what he wants”
lol I’m not even sure that they know what THEY want.
Rh
Well clearly he’s asked them to sit a hell of a lot depose than any attacking team would want whilst offering slow transitions rather than speedy counter attacks.
All this while asking us to play in our own 6 yard box and using Xakha as our lynchpin and pushing Torreira forward when he uses him.
Constantly picking deep lying mids as opposed to unleashing the pace and flair in his possession.
13 scored and 12 conceded in 11 games speaks for itself
Graham Actually, looking at the full quote, I see that Bellerin meant something different from I said above based on your comment. I disagree with Normski’s take on what Bellerin meant, but Bellerin is saying something different from what I was initially thinking. He said: “There’s lots of things we’ve got to improve as a team. We’ve got to keep the ball better, that’s our trademark, when you give the ball away it doesn’t mean you stop playing like that, it’s in our DNA. You need to keep pushing and doing what you believe in.” So he was specifically referring… Read more »
If it was a pure language problem – easy solution get in a fucking translator and put on more English lessons for Emery.
My feeling is it’s as much the message isn’t right as not getting through. If that’s the case it wouldn’t matter if Emery spoke better English than Pedro if the message is bad then it all goes down hill from there.
I don’t believe Emery’s English is so bad that he can’t tell Torreira to stop pushing so high up the pitch.
Does anyone think that the constant team selection fuck up ie Xhaka is down to a language problem.
Oh sorry you said Torreira I thought you said Xhaka.
Deeper
Not depose
“Well clearly he’s asked them to sit a hell of a lot depose than any attacking team would want whilst offering slow transitions rather than speedy counter attacks.All this while asking us to play in our own 6 yard box and using Xakha as our lynchpin and pushing Torreira forward when he uses him.
Constantly picking deep lying mids as opposed to unleashing the pace and flair in his possession.”
Clearly
I think we have just about two players who can legitimately be called pacey and as for flair, who are these flair players?
Marc
Dies anyone seriously think that xakha playing is the biggest issue in our team right now?
Vs the likes of Sheffield untied and Watford??
As for the Torriera argument i will not be getting into it anymore.
One day the penny will drop.
I think we have just about two players who can legitimately be called pacey and as for flair, who are these flair players?
Aubameyang
Martinelli
Saka
Pepe
Lacazette
Bellerin
Tierney
All pace to burn
Flair?
Ozil
Lacazette
Aubameyang
Pepe
Guendouzi
Martinelli
Ceballos
Tierney
Saka
Did have Ramsey, Santi and Wilshere but it must have been too much footballing talent for emery’s greasy head
Un
It’s a sign of the manager making bad decisions and not recognising that it’s not working.
Would you start Xhaka in any important match? And yes I do consider all PL matches to be important.
Don i guess Holding being given the run around last season should be a wake up call to some of you massively overstating his talents due to absence. Having said that i think Luiz and one of Chambers or Holding should be our starting defense.
Sokratis is no footballer. I will take Mustafi before him. That ball from Mustafi to Bellerin for the Martinelli chance is one you will never see Sokratis play nor is he a better defender.
I don’t believe Emery’s English is so bad that he can’t tell Torreira to stop pushing so high up the pitch. Marc He’s clearly instructing him to push high Last season he was far better deeper and seems more than content to play that role. We all saw it. We all marvelled at him. This is what we’ve been waiting for and all that. So it’s one of two things 1) emery is Cunt and he’s asking our best dm to push up 2) emery is a Cunt and can’t stop his best dm from roaming Either way, he’s a… Read more »
Rh
When was holding given the run around???
Marc
Your point about Torreira being too far forward is indeed relevant.
Ok a mistake for their second goal could easily have been avoided but Torreira didn’t have the pace and more worryingly desire to get back to help out.
Receding HairlineOctober 25, 2019 12:17:59
As for the Torriera argument i will not be getting into it anymore. One day the penny will drop.
Hairline
Footballing sage, wasted in a Nigerian call centre.
That’s a very poor list Don, very poor and not well thought out at all.
This makes perfect sense and is in no way in contradiction to what Emery and co. are trying to accomplish. When Emery talks about being the “protagonist” in matches, he means three things primarily: one, dominating possession; two, pressing and not letting the other team breathe; three, striking quickly in transition.
Bam
How the fuck would you know?? 😂
The players don’t even know what he wants you buffoon
I can see that a lot have been discussed with different view points. Let me add the followings: – Tierney has a very accurate cross. Since Auba and Laca never uses header, we should field Martinelli in one of the three forward positions. We should also keep Eddie in the future to take advantage of having Tierney’s cross. – In the second half, Torr was playing like an attacker. He is useless in that role. – Last night’s game was a good workout for Holding, Tierney and Bellerin. One can see that they started to return to game shape in… Read more »
Don call center operatives do not have the time to post on football blogs, maybe you should stick with scammer
Rh
Expand or be silent you insolent fool.
That list offers pace, trickery, goals and flair aplenty.
Baldie, shouldn’t you be busy leading all those underlings scattered across the country on a working day?
“How the fuck would you know?? 😂”
Same question you have failed to answer. All you have offered as facts is pure guesswork
Rh
Whatever it is you’re meant to be doing you clearly do very little of
I see that Pepe has become Pele overnight in the eyes of some ignorant Le grovers after beating a third rate team.
“– I think booing is an universal language. Emery seemed to understand it and sat dejected there instead of his usual barking of commands from the sideline.”
Yep Nelson, he wasn’t a happy man last night and i like that.
We are overdue a controlled performance and the fans are letting him know that. Palace are the worst away team he can hope for after that and they are what he is getting.
It could get ugly on Sunday.
“Whatever it is you’re meant to be doing you clearly do very little of”
Says the busy man matching me comment for comment.
“Baldie, shouldn’t you be busy leading all those underlings scattered across the country on a working day?”
My team mates aren’t underlings, being the leader of a team doesn’t make the members of the team underlings but then again all you know is abuse and derogatory language so why do i bother
Marc
“I don’t believe Emery’s English is so bad that he can’t tell Torreira to stop pushing so high up the pitch.”
You and I were having this Torreira conversation at the end of December last year when I asked the question as to why Emery has moved him from the defensive midfield position….
You send we should send him to tenerife for a couple of weeks holiday, which I disagreed with.
What is your suggestion now.
Shite! I forgot its CP on Sunday.
Zaha out to get us again.
Gulp!
Don “emery is Cunt and he’s asking our best dm to push up … emery is a Cunt and can’t stop his best dm from roaming” Don improving the level of discussion here as always. I also love that guys like this think of themselves as model Arsenal fans; meanwhile he cannot stop calling the current Arsenal manager — a hard-working, earnest, honest, decent guy, whatever his limitations — a “cunt,” despite the man having done nothing to deserve such talk. As for Torreira, while I disagree with what Emery is trying to do with him, what he is trying… Read more »
Rh Ok so emery doesn’t want Torreira to press? Then why is he allowing it? He doesn’t want Xakha as last man back? Then why not give him support? He doesn’t want us playing football in our own goal mouth? Then why does he keep going back to it and persevering for so long? He doesn’t want us so deep and our forwards isolated? Then why doesn’t he change our style? He doesn’t want boring crab football? Then why not pick ozil and Ceballos and let them loose on the weaker sides at home when we have 65% possession? Either… Read more »
Who should we send to Tenerife?
Emery or Torreira?
Sorry, my meds haven’t kicked in yet.
“Emery needs to do this, Emery needs to do that”
He needs to be sacked.
@Graham : Xhaka will break Zaha in 2 – of course there will be a penalty, and we will finish with 10 men (or babies, like the other cunt love to say), but I’m pretty confident about the fact that Granité will solve the “Zaha problem”.
Love it how Ozil and weaker sides always seem to go hand in hand in a sentence.
And it’s weaker sides at home mind you.
Ozil the creator cannot even be trusted by his defenders against weaker sides away
Baldie, you sound more like a cuck than a leader. No wonder you spend so much time being a misery bore on the Grove, bet you can’t understand why all the important decisions are made for you.
How many weaker sides do we play at home in a season really? Are you all arguing we should build our game plan around a player who can only be truly trusted to perform against “weaker sides at home”
Sounds like a plan to me
True Leaders don’t use words like underlings kid.
That’s for internet tough guys like Rambo Ramsey.
Bamford
” We play disciplined, organized football now,”
A disciplined , organised football team do not allow a team as average as Vitoria 17 shots at our goal .
And let’s not forget that this was supposed to be close to our first choice back 4 and no xhaka , who you believe is the cause of our defensive woes.
“meanwhile he cannot stop calling the current Arsenal manager — a hard-working, earnest, honest, decent guy, whatever his limitations ”
Bamford, do you happen to know Emery personally?
2008- Arsenal need to buy a DM, upgrade their midfield.
2012- Arsenal need to buy a DM, upgrade their midfield
2015- Arsenal need to buy a DM, upgrade their midfield.
2019- Arsenal need to buy a DM, upgrade their midfield.
When will we stop pretending like our midfield hasn’t been our main issue for a decade now.
Torreira does not have the physical capabilities to be so offensive.
He’s a Makelele sort of player. Acts like a sponge and reads danger.
Don’t ask him to be a Usain Bolt if he’s only capable of doing a specific but exceptionally important job for the team.
Distant Le grover personally i am a bit puzzled I thought with the addition of Ceballos we will have more control in midfield and with Torriera and Guendouzi more legs and a bit of balance. Xhaka as a player off the bench doesn’t sound so bad, and maybe Ozil for the “weaker home games”. All in all in as much as we do not have very good midfielders at the club i don’t think Emery has experimented enough selection wise to find a balance. Selection, that is where he is dropping the ball big time. Not that i think that… Read more »
Also I think only one of Guendozi or Ceballos is needed in the midfield as they are similar. They both leave large spaces when they push up leaving the slow immobile Xhaka to try to imitate Jesus by turning water into wine.
Baldie, do you see a bit of yourself (struggling leader) in Unai? Is that what incites the deep love?
2015 we had Coquelin and Cazorla in midfield.
Best team for the calendar year. No need for a new DM. Need for backup for the existing ones. By the end of the year Coquelin and Cazorla got injured and hardly played together again.
Xhaka replaced Coquelin and it went downhill from there.
2018 we have a decent DM in Torreira. The problem is that whatever combination Xhaka does not have the required mobility to shine in the EPL. We need a more mobile physically dominant CM.
Admin · 2 hrs I wouldn’t give credit any credit at all.to Emery. Just because he waves his hands up and down on the touchline and speaks in a way no one understands, picks 5 captains then let’s the player chose the biggest liability as captain IMO Emery is clueless.Practically every game nothing changes whoever plays and we got really lucky last night as the performance was dire.Emery has had over 60 games in charge and despite several players leaving and others coming in, every game we play we never dominate for 90 minute especially in the PL> He isn’t… Read more »
Receding
I thought so too I was really excited to see him take our midfield to the next level. But as we all know our Coach refuses to do the freaking obvious. Playing Xhaka over Torriera don’t help. Playing Torriera in advanced position is dumb also.
And like I mentioned above, it’s bad enough that playing two similar number 8s in Guendozi and Ceballos is 2 players doing the exact same thing, but he’s got freaking Xhaka watching their back.
You bring nothing but nonsense whenever you are on here boy Ramsey, nothing but nonsense.
No Gay jokes today?
Kelsey, you can remove your sunglasses, we’re not in summer anymore
Pierre I never said send Torreira to Tenerife. He was clearly beginning to show the signs of burn out so I suggested he be sent to sit his arse on a beach somewhere warm and sunny ie Dubai for a week. When I suggested this he would’ve missed our 3rd round FA Cup match only. Wenger used to let Ozil have a mid season break I don’t remember you being so vociferous about Ozil being giving time to re charge? My suggestion now is maybe we should play Torreira in his natural position ie DM as a replacement for the… Read more »
“You bring nothing but nonsense whenever you are on here boy Ramsey, nothing but nonsense.”
Leave the Internet tough guy-ing to me
Distant i think Ceballos’s biggest limitation is pace, dude is painfully slow. If he was a tad bit quicker his influence would have been bigger. If he was faster he would also have combined better with Guendouzi because unlike Matteo he doesn’t look lost when he gets up the pitch.
I don’t rate 2019 Ozil but i still think Emery is handling it all wrong, making him a martyr and some misunderstood genius, play him in the tough games, let people see for themselves what they are clamoring for.
Valentin
Torriera is good at what he does but Arsenal has been crying for a Ndidi for 10 years. Remember our Coquelin used to make our flair players look so good in that Calender year ?
Coquelin and Cazorla were good together but it was short lived. Besides even when those 2 played well together, I remember people still complained and said we were still lightweight.
Receding
I swear all this talk about Ozil not training hard is doing my head in. We all know he’s no Debryune but this team is crying for a creativity specialist. But trust Emery to play Willock instead. I like Willock but he shouldn’t be starting over Ozil yet.
Bam
Yeah
Cos he’s a cunt.
Bamford
Also, you Cunt, I distinctly remember you calling Wenger a cunt and he delivered far more in 8 years to those of us who actually were arsenal fans before 08 than emery will to any fan throughout his entire career
Fact
“We play disciplined organised football”
Second day in a row I’ve spurted coffee all over my computer screen. can you please stop writing these classics or I’m going to get fired!
The fact that we are always bringing up the Leicester and Tottenham games from last season says a lot about how bad we got it at the moment. That’s 18 months. 2 games.
Valentin
“Xhaka replaced Coquelin and it went downhill from there.”
And Ramsey replaced cazorla.
Mr man
Loooooool I almost swallowed my toothpaste when I read that. Disciplined and organized ? This Emery Arsenal ? I thought he was referring to some Arsenal in an Alternate reality.
and Bendtner replaced Van Persie!
Distant, Idrissa Gueye who is now acclaimed at PSG would have been perfect for us. Even Doucoure or Capoue would be an upgrade on Xhaka. They may not have his long diagonal pass range but they more than make it by being more defensively switched on, more disciplined, more mobile and more athletic. Contrary to what many claims, replacing Xhaka and Torreira by more suitable players does not need to be expensive. In France, decent CMs who can take a ball forward on the half turn are common. In fact if you can’t do it, you don’t play there. So… Read more »
zero cohesion, next to no discipline, a strategy that not even the players seem to understand, bland football at its blandest. Its a real shame as I really wanted him to succeed and was excited about finally moving on from the professor, but the guy is seriously tanking and should go at Christmas.
RH
You clearly haven’t been watching this season
Guendouzi has markedly improved inthe final 3rd
Did you not see has pass to Aubameyang vs spurs or his driving run last night to win the winning free kick?
Ceballos has offered nothing to that level in any of his performances
If 15 minutes after seating at a poker table you can’t determine who is the patsy, chances you are. Bamford has been seating at the table for months and still can’t understand why people try to tell to stop.
pierre, ref the Ozil debate, there can only be 2 reasons why he’s getting no game time this year. 1) he has bad mouthed Emery in front of the players either in training or after a match and Emery has to show everyone who is in charge or 2) the board have instructed or agreed with Emery to marginalise him so he moves to another club and they get him off the wage bill. There is no football reason why you wouldnt have him as an option from the bench or play him in europa / carabo games.
Un na naai
Agreed, Guendouzi has improved.
As for Ceballos, he’s trying too hard to impress and is making mistakes because of it.
Maybe because he’s Spanish, Emery is saturating him with too much info.
He needs to relax.
Not easy when you have the Duracell Man pestering you all the time.
Pedro,
What have you heard to let you think that Freddie would be a disaster as a care taker manager instead of keeping Emery?
Some media people at the stadium were saying that the atmosphere at Colney is now really toxic. That some of the players are basically downing tools. Doing the bare minimum just enough not to get into Emery bad book, but that all respects to him had ebbed away. The relationship between Freddie and Emery is getting fractured. That Freddie was starting to snap at people.
Any truth in those comments?
Ceballos is struggling because he’s pony.
Debatable whether he’s better than Denis Suarez.
“Point is, only Emery could lose a PR war to someone that’s a dosser. To be clear, I’m on Ozil’s side for no real reason other than the slight suspicion that if Emery is for something, I should be against it.”
Sums it up really.
Mourinho was in an executive box at last nights game.
Interesting.
Mr man Re Ozil , all supposition… Would be better all round if Emery ( and Raul) tell the truth instead of making themselves look incompetent fools who no one ( except Bamford ) believes. The situation is a PR disaster for Arsenal football club and someone needs to step in as it is becoming an embarrassment to the club. I can guarantee you that players of the experience and quality of Aubameyang and Lacazette are looking across at Ozil and thinking wtf is going on, and the longer it goes on the less the players will respect Emery (… Read more »
“Mourinho was in an executive box at last nights game.“
There for Vitoria most likely, starting to think we might be a level below him 😂
Rambo nailed it.at last someone notices.caballos is indeed pony.highly overrated.Th@nk f** k didn’t buy him straight away.and any talk of a future purchase is madness .£30 million plus.seriously?a tidy player & that’s it.end of.but with the shit we’re being served up at present he almost looks a star.as others have pointed out.I would put Torreira in the same bracket but most of time in his defence he’s being played out of position.what we need is two top players there.A general whoever that maybe? & a an enforcer,likewise.
Uwot
I called this on Ceballos when he signed.
Somebody likened him to Joe Cole
Not a fucking chance. Joe Cole was largely a shoe pony throughout his career but he had more skill, trickery and vision in one toe than Ceballos