Emery takes the captaincy issue… to the players?! Oh my.

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Nonsense never sleeps at Arsenal. The Telegraph is reporting that Unai Emery, a man suffering third-degree burns from his last democratic election (Xhaka for captain), is once again canvassing the squad for their opinions on whether to sack Xhaka as captain (#XhakaOut).

You couldn’t make it up.

Firstly, the players voted him in. They are not good decision-makers. If this were Manchester City, I’d understand, but Arsenal? Please. They’re not voting for what’s good for them. Secondly, does Unai have an advisor? An agent? A friend? Someone intervene and explain to this man what leadership is.

You don’t ask the team who should get fired. You don’t vote for promotions. This habit of sharing poor decision making is incredibly beta male and I have no idea why no one at the club has thought to intervene. Emery was doing it last season without oversight (motivational speeches from the fucking travel booker), and he’s at it again this season. Where is Edu in all of this?

It’s not a surprise either, all this information was out there when we hired him. This is the manager on power at big clubs shortly before he joined us.

‘I am of the opinion that PSG’s leader is Neymar. Or that he is currently becoming it. Neymar came to PSG to be the leader, to go through this process to someday become the best in the world. At Manchester City, Pep is in charge. At PSG, Neymar has to be.’

Distilled: The manager at Manchester City is the manager. The manager at PSG, where I was, is Neymar.

Quite an incredible statement to make public, but again, not surprising if you’ve paid attention to his behaviour over the past 15 months.

My prediction? I think something else Emery said in the same interview could be pertinent.

I think that I managed the dressing room quite well. My greatest satisfaction was that the team didn’t sink, after losing against Barcelona or Real Madrid. A few weeks ago for example, we had a horrible first half against Saint-Étienne, but after the break, with one player sent off, we reacted well and managed to equalise. One of my staff members told me, “Unai, today the players showed that they are with you. If that weren’t the case, we would have lost.”

And he was right. If the team wanted to end me, that would have been the moment to do so. But the team was able to react. That was my main satisfaction, even if this will remain something personal which won’t matter for much from an external point of view. Of course, I don’t control everything. Both round of 16 eliminations showed that. It is difficult to control the necessary elements with a big team, and I still need to improve in that respect.

Emery has very little control over the dressing room at Arsenal. His captain hasn’t apologised a day after his disgraceful actions. Lacazette is out here liking #EmeryOut posts on Instagram, then retracting when people paid attention. Players are leaking to the press that the dressing room is split. Ozil is running amock with his peaceful protests now the manager and Edu doubled down on making him a martyr. We have Liverpool, Wolves and Leicester next in the league

Blood is in the water. I am very much doubtful Emery has the resources to rescue this. I think the players might give up on him… then we’re in a whole world of trouble because according to Ornstein, Edu doesn’t have a contingency plan.

Not good enough. Our strategy, Champions League qualification, is an objective. That is no way to build a football club. It’s likely why we stuck with a bad manager. On paper, he has what we need in the short term. But paycheque to paycheque seasons is no way to build a winning machine and we’re seeing the fruits of that for the second season running. The big worry, as I said yesterday, is that a club with no plan will always opt for Jose Mourinho. A toxic has been with a jerrycan and a box of matches.

Beware the obvious choice…

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Tee

Graham 17:42:16

I didn’t mean Emery

I said the team is a top 4 team with a good coach which Emery isn’t one

Un na naai

Bamford You div. what are you saying? That a team capable of beating Chelsea, Spurs, Manchester United, Valencia and Napoli aren’t capable of beating wolves? You fucking idiot. How long do you think you’re bull shit is going to be tolerated before someone comes and mops the floor with you? Rodgers is the reason that Leicester are doing well. If it’s only down to players then why are we conceding more now than we were under wenger with £85m more spent on defensive players? Why are we scoring less with 2 settled strikers and a £72m winger? Why are we… Read more »

Tee

Red idiot
It’s like shamelessness is ingrained in your blood and mentality

This is the only explanation for your imbecilic comments

Un na naai

Bamford10October 29, 2019 21:54:32
Marc“he’s not performing”How do you figure? He’s in 5th and our defensive play is improvin

No it’s not you laughable tub of lard.
We are conceding more goals than Wenger’s last 48 games in charge.

Care to explain how getting worse is better? Only in your warped world.
I hope for your sake that you’re book smart because you got the slugs share when it comes to common sense

Graham62

RT

Nice to see you digging up a bit of classic Wenger.

By accepting second best he helped create the new Arsenal culture.

That’s why Wenger failed in his final ten years at the helm. No true winner would say such a thing.

Arsenal’s mistake at this time was to retain his services.

The rest, as they say, is history.

Un na naai

Bamford10October 29, 2019 21:47:04 Guns of SF“This is like end of last season again. Leicester and Wolves.”You mean when a very mediocre group of Arsenal players lost to a good Leicester City team that is currently third in the PL Mediocre Ok let’s do this chubby Aubameyang- golden boot winner Lacazette- player of season and £60m target of Barca and Athletico in the summer Ozil- £43m assist machine Ramsey- £50m rated midfielder. Juventus willing to pay £400k per week Torreira- £25m defensive midfielder. Playing extremely well until cut down by useless manager Kolasinac- German team of the year 2016 Sokratis-… Read more »

Bojangles

According to Ornstein, Nkiteah will not be recalled in January. Arsenal, it seems, are happy with how Bielsa is handling him.

Un na naai

Koscielney

France captain and would have captained them at the World Cup a year ago when they won.

Graham62

Hands up all those folk who think we’ll pick up six points against Wolves and Leicester.

Thought so.

Ishola70

Ndidi and Chilwell might feel a little aggrieved if Torreira and Kolasinac walked in and took their places right now in the Leicester team.

Ishola70

Graham62
“Hands up all those folk who think we’ll pick up six points against Wolves and Leicester.Thought so.”

Said before the Crystal Palace match that the three games of Palace, Wolves and Leicester could be troublesome only to be scoffed at by Pierre.

The Wolves home match is no different to the Palace home match. Any result can be envisaged unconvincing win, draw or lose. Leicester away they are favs with the bookies to win that. Says it all.

This is where this team is at right now.

Gentlebris

Anyone taking Bamford up on the nonsense he writes here must be surely immune to nausea.

Champagne charlie

“You mean when a very mediocre group of Arsenal players lost to a good Leicester City team that is currently third in the PL? “

Someone want to enlighten the thick yank that Leicester finished below us last season when they beat us – where they are in the table right now means sweet fa relative to that game.

Dissenter

(Sky Deutschland, via Inside Futbol); Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United have been in contact with the entourage of Borussia Monchengladbach’s Swiss midfielder Denis Zakaria, 22.

Xhaka would have helped us sign such a player since he’s Swiss and coming from Boria Mochen .

Ishola70

Denis Zakaria is not the answer to the problems of the Arsenal midfield at this present time.

He’s still suspect off the ball.

What Arsenal need is a more mature player than Zakaria who is sound off the ball.

Zakaria isn’t going to mend Arsenal’s defensive frailties in midfield.

Tee

“Ndidi and Chilwell might feel a little aggrieved if Torreira and Kolasinac walked in and took their places right now in the Leicester team”

Dry

Hope vardy, ayose, and chilwell will also be aggrieved if aubameyang ,lacazette and tierny take their place?

Dissenter

Bamford
I think you went too far when you wrote that “We are in 5th place in the PL and are four points off of a good Chelsea team.”
They are a club forced to rely on their academy players for the first time under an inexperienced manager.
Yes … they have tested young players due to the success of their academy and loan program but calling them a “good Chelsea team just” to talk up Emery smacks of cringe worthy propaganda.

Ishola70

Tee

Leicester look to have a better functioning midfield than Arsenal overall at this present time.

Arsenal have the better strike force but it doesn’t matter if Vardy weighs in again with a healthy amount of goals himself.

Leicester have conceded eight goals all season , Arsenal have conceded 14 so far.

Dissenter

Ishola
I bet you’ll be writing differently when the said player goes to Liverpool.
Zakaria has mobility, athleticism and tackling abilities…everything that Xhaka lacks.
Which 22 year player old is truly “tested”?
Even De Ligt and De Jong are struggling to adjust to the demands of serie A and La liga respectively.

Redtruth

Dissenter

You banana. …Chelsea have two league titles under their belts in the last 4 years and recently stuffed Arsenal in the Europa league Final.

Arsenal are way way behind Chelsea you melt.

Dissenter

Ishola
You forgot to add in your reply to Tee that Leicester has scored 10 more goals than Arsenal this season.
So much for our vaunted attack we keep yammering about.
Would we blow away a team reduced to 10 men in the 11th minute? I think not, last season Watford still outplayed us with one man less.

Ishola70

Dissenter

Good luck to him if he goes to Liverpool but he won’t be taking over from Fabinho anytime soon. They have their DM sorted. Arsenal don’t.

This is the whole point.

As for De Ligt he was being over-rated from a purely defensive viewpoint anyway. His goals from setpieces, corners made people forget that he was not the force defensively that people made him out to be. Of course he has scope to improve on that aspect.

Tee

What you are seeing today in Chelsea is the expertise of fat Frank.

He has a style which he enforced and it is obvious to all.

Ask Emery a** lickers what his style his style is and they will come up with sycho excuses

Redtruth

I’m not using our supposed vaunted attack as a stick to beat Emery over the head, because I never rated them.in the first place.

Redtruth

Emery’s style is to drain the swamp.of AKB’s.

Cesc Appeal

Xhaka to be offered counselling apparently.

Jeez.

Not sure if this is OTT softness from both Xhaka and Arsenal or OTT efforts at PR from Arsenal to say pwwwwwwwwwwease feel bad for Xhaka.

Club is looking seriously in all this. They’re neither backing Xhaka or the fans.

Just hoping it all blows over which sort of sums them up right now.

Tee

“I think not, last season Watford still outplayed us with one man less.”

And our strike for is responsible for this right?

Tee

*force*

Ishola70

Tee As you are around can we clarify once again that I’m not an Emery fan or supporter. You keep falsely implying this. When he first arrived I said I didn’t think he would do much at Arsenal. Then he was given some time to see if he could prove wrong. A few months ago after having these initial doubts about him I said on here staright up that I don’t want Emery as Arsenal manager next season and have continued to do so. Just because there may be doubts about some first team players doesn’t mean that this means… Read more »

Un na naai

Its like Bamford and Rt are actually enjoying us being this shit.

I take it back. Happy to see Bamford banned again. Next level shit talking since he got back on. Almost goading miserable arsenal fans

Ishola70

Cesc Appeal
“Xhaka to be offered counselling apparently.”

Club captain. Pathetic.

He’ll get a round of applause next time he walks out on the pitch by more than enough Arsenal fans as a sign of sympathy.

Tee

You are an Emery fan

You aren’t just bold enough to admit it which explains why other teams players are better than ours in your line of thought

Most of you that are now talking trash of Emery once supported to high heaven.

To you it’s always the players not the manager untill you are shown up.

Luteo Guenreira

It’s turning out to be embarrassing to have backed Emery in any form even in the reticent early stages of his tenure, what a joke this has all become. You can argue all you want about Emery’s actual ability in football management and the circumstance making the narrative all you want, but this kind of shit doesn’t happen to competent people. Forget Arteta or anything like that, what a prophet Pedro was about Emery this whole fucking time. Acknowledgement also to Charlie and WengerEagle and whoever else I’m missing that had him sussed out from the beginning. Raul and Edu… Read more »

Cesc Appeal

Ishola

100%

#Classenal #TogetherWithXhaka #MyCaptain #RoleModel #WeShouldFuckOff

Ishola70

No Tee you are incorrect.

A poster brought up a piece from me on here when Emery first joined where I said I did not expect much from him.

This implies to any mentally stable person that I could not be an Emery fan or supporter by saying such a thing.

You are the classic fan that only wants to see black and white. The players are great, the coach is shit.

Sometimes it can be a mixture of both.

Tee

If measures are not put into place to arrest our current condition then we can all agree that we have new sets of pussies as arsenal boards

salpardisenyc

Xhaka to be offered counseling, really its turned into a Woody Allen film FFS.

The intervention needs to happen further up the ladder.

First time I saw Pires play for Arsneal he was booed after a pretty poor performance. Not level of Xhaka booed but none the less, picked himself up and became a club legend.

Ishola70

Cesc Appeal
“100%#Classenal #TogetherWithXhaka #MyCaptain #RoleModel #WeShouldFuckOff”

Cringeworthy isn’t it.

And they all will indulge Xhaka again with their terrible guilt they have.

Tee

Yeah, I wanna see black and white.

The same black and white that are staring at us presently.

Anyways, whichever way we look at, we all want the best for our club .

If leceister end up not making the top 4 hope you will be bold enough to wax lyrical about their superb team cos Tottenham can still spring surprises

Ishola70

Tee

Leicester look a threat to top four.

No guarantee for top four.

Just like Arsenal have no guarantee for top four.

Tee

It’s left for xhaka to man up or act a p**at.

Can still remember the days of cr7 in man u after the world cup when he was booed but he shut them all up with is perfromance

But I don’t think xhaka can raise his performance because he is a limited player..

Tee

Ishola

I agree

Man City and Liverpool is certain barring any Miracle along the way but the two remaining spots are not guaranteed for any team.

Just hoping things will change.

Never say never

Tee

I’m of the notion that Freddie should be allowed to handle the team for the rest of the season if our woeful performances continue

Freddie can’t do worse than what we are presently experiencing

The earlier Edu and Raul started looking for a better coach with vision the better for arsenal

Bojangles

If banning a poster for talking shit was the criteria there would be few people left here to post comments.

Redtruth

This Emery bashing is a reaction to years of suppressed anger from AKB’s

Ishola70

As well as no apology from Xhaka to the fans Emery has not made a statement to say that Xhaka will be demoted.

Any strong manager states at the first opportunity that after such an embarrasing episode that action has taken place to demote the person involved.

Emery had his opportunity in his latest presser. He failed to do so. By this we can only infer that Emery will continue to indulge Xhaka. He may let Xhaka sit a few games but he will turn to him yet again.

The tragic comedy at Arsenal continues.

salpardisenyc

Ishola

Its gotten silly can only imagine what a few more poor results will spawn.
Do think the fanbase well be mostly together with the single vision of wanting change.

#prayfortorreira

Valentin

When you read some of the things sent to his family you can understand why he would want out of it. Some people definitely need to have their head examined and take Arsenal way too seriously.
What kind of sick individual would wish cancer on Xhaka new born baby and that his wife is raped and run down?

Bojangles

I don’t get people who say either a player or coach should be inserted because they couldn’t do worse. We don’t want someone that couldn’t do worse, we need someone that will decidedly do better.

Ishola70

salpardisenyc
“Its gotten silly can only imagine what a few more poor results will spawn.
Do think the fanbase well be mostly together with the single vision of wanting change.”

The no apology from Xhaka for his conduct is obviously him signalling that the issue is not with himself but the fanbase.

But any mature rounded thinkful person would look at himself as well into why he has been getting these reactions in the first place.

But it is unlikely Xhaka will do this. He sincerley thinks that he is a top footballer that is being unfairly victimised.

Champagne charlie

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2019/10/29/pierre-emerick-aubameyang-abused-arsenal-fans-granit-xhaka-meltdown-crystal-palace-draw-11008074/amp/

Jesus Christ there’s some inbred cunts that follow this club.

10 PL games after the summer we’ve just had is some time span to brew this sort of storm. Hats of to the leadership at the club, we’re actually a joke.

Luteo Guenreira

This Emery bashing is a reaction to years of suppressed anger from AKB’s

Red everything doesn’t have to be a dichotomy, regardless of whether it is or not is immaterial. There’s no reason to continue putting up the failures of the Wenger era as if it has any real bearing on the state of things currently. It doesn’t. It sucked then toward his end years, it sucks now under Emery. Pointing out the obvious of it sucking back then doesn’t make the current state any more palatable, not any longer.

Valentin

In the grand scheme of things, an apology from Xhaka will not change anything. He will still be boo by a large section of fans because he represents the current mediocrity of that team and is viewed as the headcoach’s undeserving pet. The only one who can make a real difference is Emery by selecting the right formation and the right players. Get a few good performances and a few good results and the “crisis” will be forgotten. Win convincingly against Wolves and Leicester and both will buy some respite. Lose to both or produce below par performances and the… Read more »

Ishola70

That Auba incident is just a few retards with low intelligence.

A mere few inbreds.

Things can get overblown.

By overblowing these incidents these pond life get more importance than they should.

They should be laughed at rather than being vexed over.

China1

If it’s actually true that xhaka is getting counseling and emery will let the players decide the captain again then I’m almost at a loss for words

I’d frankly rather xhaka spend his counseling time on the training ground learning how to be a less terrible football player but hey that’s just me

Only arsenal pick the worst club captain in modern club history then respond to fan anger by offering the player counseling.

Is this the next level is the next level wenger was speaking of?

Nelson

Val
“What kind of sick individual would wish cancer on Xhaka new born baby and that his wife is raped and run down?”

SPUDs fans can do that.

Dissenter

Valentin
“In the grand scheme of things, an apology from Xhaka will not change anything. He will still be boo by a large section of fans because he represents the current mediocrity of that team and is viewed as the headcoach’s undeserving pet.”

An apology will be the first step to some type of healing, probably will still end up with a nasty eschar.
Some fans will boo because they can but most fans want to just draw a line under it and move on. The boo boys will be silenced by the polite applause of the vast majority.

chef

From Guardian: “Xhaka feels particularly hurt because, from his perspective, his commitment to the club has been unstinting. He is frequently the first player to arrive at the training ground and the last to leave, even though he became a father for the first time earlier this month.” I agree he’s been rubbish for us except in the 22 game run. Points to what many are saying here – Emery is screwing things up tactically. He’s putting our players in positions where it’s harder for them to succeed. In man-management, it looks to me like Emery has also been keen… Read more »

grooveydaddy

Without an apology, I reckon he’ll get pelters from the home crowd if Emery is stupid enough to send him out on the pitch wearing the armband.

Tony

Looks like the fans are pissed at Auba as well. Xhaka’s antics seemed to have riled the fans at more than Xhaka’s poor behavioral discipline. Raul & co need to detox the toxicity within the club and make a statement to the fans, nit just offer Xhaka counseling as is being reported this morning. “‘£2,000 a year to watch s***… f*** off!’: Arsenal fans direct abuse at Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang after his Lamborghini Aventador gets stuck in traffic Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was driving home after Arsenal’s draw on Sunday Emotions were high after the 2-2 against Crystal Palace at the Emirates Granit… Read more »

Guns of sf

China good summary. We ruthless in cutting deadwood finally and now soft on disciplining current players. Like wtf

Xhaka if he has a brain would return the armband to emery but he is too dense to see reality

Xhaka is emery scapegoat as is ozil
Emery needs to have attention drawn away from him and both these losers are the perfect foil

Mics

Tony, I agree with your conclusion. I am a bit skeptical of anything daily mail, but jeez, who the hell are these wankers, accosting footballers while they’re in traffic!? Who does that!!

Emiratesstroller

Arsenal’s season sofar in EPL has been indifferent and we have been fortuitous to have got currently 5th place and 16 points on current performance level. The current situation is not down to one player so blaming Xhaka is not solely at fault for our failings either as captain or at DMF. We cannot blame individual players for poor performance whether it be Ozil, Mustafi or for that matter Maitland-Niles. The reality is that for all the investment made in the squad in recent seasons it looks unbalanced and dysfunctional and does not match expectation. On current form we are… Read more »

Dark Hei

Bamford

To carry on from yesterday, I think Emery is using his players as a foil to deflect blame away from himself, as neatly put by Guns.

And I find such self serving weaselly behavior particularly chaffing.

grooveydaddy

Tony

The woman in that video is Preciana Brown – a first class idiot by all accounts.

A training ground stalker who peddled fake ITK news all summer as well getting caught out selling fake autographed memorabilia. I reckon she asked for an autograph and Auba couldn’t he arsed – hence the vitriol.

I wouldn’t read too much higher into this particular incident.

grooveydaddy

*too much into

Samesong

Never a boring day at Arsenal!

Rocky

Good eben … oh …

Left Testicle

So Xhaka has been offered counselling as he’s feeling ‘down’. I would love to hear Roy Keanes take on this.

Guernsey Gun

Xhaka offered counselling FFS, sums up the state of society, football and Arsenal FC. Dragging this farce out when a tough manager would have simply stripped him of the armband and fined him 2 weeks pay or something and forced him to apologise. What a shambles this season is turning into. Full on banter mode.

Graham62

Aubamayang must also be thinking I’ve had enough of all this shite.

Has the Emirates become a time portal. You know a place where all the crap of the universe can travel to and fro on a regular basis.

Either that or we built the stadium on Salems Lot.

Gentlebris

‘Arsenal are not a club who will make rash decisions albeit there are now new
owners and senior management in place. Emery has probably a lifeline until
end of this season to prove himself.’

ES,

A rash decision is a decision taken too hurriedly with no particular merits. A decision that if not taken, no damage occurs.

If you agree with my definition above you will also agree that it would be far from being rash if Emery was fired immediately after the Palace game. Every PL game Emery plays is an axe on Arsenal’s CL chances.

Graham62

This is why people fall out of love with the game.

The world has become such a crazy place.

Maybe Xhaka and Emery should go together.

Graham62

Gentlebris

You are correct.

This has been building for some time.

Firing him after the CP game would not have been “rash”.

It would have been beneficial.

Chitom

Aubameyang- golden boot winner Lacazette- player of season and £60m target of Barca and Athletico in the summer Ozil- £43m assist machine Ramsey- £50m rated midfielder. Juventus willing to pay £400k per weekTorreira- £25m defensive midfielder. Playing extremely well until cut down by useless manager Kolasinac- German team of the year 2016Sokratis- £15m centre half. No nonsense and considered by you to be an upgrade an anything at the club at the time Leno £25m goalkeeper and again considered by you as a significant upgradeAll of these players WALK into the wolves or Leicester team Every single oneDon’t tell me… Read more »

Chitom

Let’s not forget Ramsey either who’s already had 3 different injuries at Juve.
It’s hard to “Walk “into any hard working PL club if you are barely fit to walk at all.

Graham62

The bottom line in all of this is our shite and inactive owners. In any major business the owning company would be on top of things if they knew their product image was being tarnished. I know football is unique but where on the list of priorities do AFC actually come for the Kroenke family? We are a moneymaking tool, pure and simple. Add our weak and submissive BoD’s and we all know things will never change………………….unless that is,the fans show a bit more balls when things go pear shape, as is happening under Emery. It worked under Wenger, even… Read more »

Graham62

could

Pierre

Ten games gone, so how are we doing , are we any better or worse or about the same. Let’s have a look at our progress this season compared to Arsene Wenger’s last 5 seasons in his first ten games, which has been acknowledged many times on le Grove and the media as being poor his worst period . Ten games played, This season after ten games Position…5th 4 points off 4th place 12 points off top. Season 13/14 after ten games Position 1st 5pts clear at top. Season 14/15 after ten games Position..4th joint 9 pts off top 15/16… Read more »

Graham62

Name me one club that would have allowed things to escalate as much as Arsenal have done over these past ten years?

You can’t.

Those fans who think booing Xhaka was wrong have to understand the real reasons.

I hate to say it but we have become an even bigger joke of a club.

If that was possible.

Pierre

200 million spent and regressing alarmingly.

Graham62

Pierre

Nice twist, trying to justify your hero.

Remember he accepted second best.

He helped to create this “trust in me” culture.

Nice try though.

Graham62

He may be insignificant based on the present state of affairs but he still stands proudly at the top of his pedestal of destructive carnage, created by years of self obsessed neglect.

What a hero.

Pierre

Graham

“Nice twist, trying to justify your hero”

Not at all…these figures are there to reflect how we are regressing even more than many realise.

Pierre

Graham
Dont allow your Wenger obsession to cloud what I am showing in those figures.

All you see is the name WENGER and you cant help yourself as it gets your back up.

Try to see pass your obsession.

habesha gooner

Arsenal fans are within their rights at this point to boo Xhaka. We’ve had three years of this: He can’t tackle. He can’t wriggle out of tight spaces or Burst away from any player – even giroud would catch him. He ball watches. He can’t dribble. He is very one footed so takes a while to turn and release on counters. He doesn’t block passing lines ala Carrick or ever intercept. He gives away penalties. He rarely scores. He can’t burst past people like Sissokho vs Liverpool the other day. He has the turning radius of an oil tanker. He’s… Read more »

guest man aka WW

Mob mentality will do just about anything their moronic associates will do in the crowd. Its called conformism and its a real psychological trait.
ten people BOO and 100 more will do it…theres no thought of the grey area between…just the knee-jerk reaction.
Its regrettable mostly but sometimes the mob mentality gets it right when it purely balck or white.
Partizan mob mentality crowds are a menace and football just attracts them like moths to a flame.

guest man aka WW

agree xhaka should start at arsenal. But that’s down to Emery, Yes?

Bamford10

“Arsenal won’t punish Xhaka for Crystal Palace meltdown at moment over fears for his fragile state of mind” Mark Irwin 30 Oct 2019 Arsenal will not take disciplinary action against Granit Xhaka because they have concerns about his fragile mental state. The Gunners skipper is refusing to apologise for telling supporters to “f*** off” as they booed him while he was susbstituted against Crystal Palace. A club insider confirmed that the 27-year-old has become increasingly dejected by the abuse he has received in recent weeks, both on the pitch and on social media. And Unai Emery insists that the question… Read more »

Bamford10

That Xhaka has of yet refused to apologize to Arsenal fans is a massive strike against him, more so even then his response on Saturday.

siddharth14

While Pierre’s defence of Wenger and Ozil is legendary, the points comparison above paints a very grim picture when extrapolated over the season. Considering our present situation and the prevailing factors, we are going to be worse come December, of that there is no doubt. There is unlikely to be a turn around for better going forward barring a miracle. The ownership is also showing the customary disrespect to the fans by not commenting on the serious issues plaguing Arsenal. The latest being the Granit Gate of Xhaka. Graham is absolutely right when he says that this sort of nonsense… Read more »

Bamford10

New post.

Left testicle

Mertesacker’s anxiety issues, Koscielny blubbing in a team meeting and now Xhaka has a fragile state of mind.

We also have ‘Lucas Torreira was in tears and inconsolable’. Ozil can’t be trusted and AMN wonders around stoned.

No wonder teams bully us.

Tony

Grooveydaddy
Thanks for the update; she sounds like a nightmare and makes you wonder why the police haven’t been involved if she’s been selling fake memorabilia.

The club needs to be distancing themselves from idiots like her.

Tony

Left T
Don’t forget LT’s 2 crying outbursts.

We need a permanent psychologist at the club not just for the players, but Emery, too.

Graham
I, too, wonder what the world is coming to.

So much violence in the news all the time.

Distant legrover

Sign of the times if fans really want Mourhino at Arsenal.

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