So I basically caused a revolt in the comments section with my ‘crazy’ views on Unai Emery last season. I called out the basics like language issues, the negative football, and the fact he lost a one horse race at the richest club in the world. I highlighted his dismal defensive record at all his clubs , I found damning quotes from his explayers, I brought ‘sauce’ into the common vernacular… I’ll cut to the point, I basically did the due diligence Arsenal failed to do on our bland hire.
Every melt under the sun abused me. Two of my London friends pulled me to one side last Christmas and told me to behave because I was taking the criticism too far.
‘Emery is good, look at the results. I think there’s something wrong with you?’
Now all of a sudden, the world has realised that I was correct (again), but are they talking about Le Grove? No, they’re talking about some handsome ESPN journo who strung some tweets together in 2018 at the same time… like he was the lone voice.
‘Isn’t it spooky how accurate this obscure handsome man is’
It’s a fucking disgrace. I now know how Xhaka felt on Monday. At least when he was being booed, it was for slow-walking and telling the fans to fuck off. I’m serving up 30-yard football insight screamers, people are seeing them, criticising them for being tap-ins, and… hold on, I’m lost here. Basically, the internet is shit. Everyone was there to call Le Grove a DISGRACE during the unbeaten run, but no one is there rolling out the OH BOY YOU WERE RIGHT RED CARPET now I have been largely proven right.
I don’t even like high praise anyway, fuck you. Fuck you.
*throws shirt to ground and storms down the tunnel*
No, I will not fucking apologise Unai, you cheese on GOOD EBENING toast melt.
Talking of Xhaka, Sami Mokbel said Arsenal are offering the Swiss counselling. I really don’t know where to go with this sort of commentary. If he genuinely has mental health issues, I’d leave this alone, but we live in a culture of amateur psychologists (thank you, Mr Ganesh), so it’s hard to tell what is real and what makes for a trendy headline. We all go through rough patches when we’re performing badly at work, is that not just feeling shit about being a bit shit? Does it always have to be something deeper? I’m honestly not critiquing mental health here, but I do find people’s amaeteur diagnosis and assumptions as damaging as ignoring them. Everyone cited Ozil as being depressed last year and it was totally made up.
Anyway, dealing in facts, the player has entered day 3 and he’s refusing to apologise. He also took time out to rile the fans by changing his Instagram profile picture to one of him in a Swiss shirt. I have to say, that was a zinger, our group chat went wild over that one.
The overarching feeling is the player is acting like a 14-year-old.
There are a lot of people claiming we shouldn’t need an apology as fans. You’re right. I fucking hate apology culture. It’s a real leftwing pass time in America, people love a ‘THEY MUST APOLOGISE’ outrage, then the apology comes and some obscure charity that campaigns for the rights of people that work as Christmas elves tweets ‘NOT GOOD ENOUGH’… I digress. The apology isn’t for the fans, it’s for the manager.
Unai Emery, to be fair to him, has mostly done this by the book. As Matt on the podcast pointed out, his poor English maybe lacked some finesse, but overall, he condemned the action and said it was wrong. The fact Xhaka hasn’t come out and apologised has made Emery look weak, and that’s unforgivable from a captain… especially when the manager put his career on the line by giving the armband to him in the first place.
The apology is also for the club and the people that pay him. We’re a community-based club. We have values. We preach class. Xhaka telling fans to fuck off is not a good look for the brand and it’s not a good example to set to kids (think of the children!). Shit is going to happen in your life, tantrum-ing like a kid and telling everyone to fuck off is embarrassing and it shouldn’t be passed off as ‘he’s just human.’
Do that in a client meeting when you’re told your ideas are a dumpster fire of human excrement, you’re out the door. There are literally no arenas where that sort of workplace prose is tolerated in front of clients. I have to say, when you work in a factory, you can say what you like to each other and ‘banter’ is always a mitigating circumstance, but still, not in front of clients and it’s important to note, this was not in a factory.
As for the fans making out this is going to cost us players in the future, bitch please. Arsenal is in north London, we have a sweet stadium and whatever sympathy you feel towards Granit, recognize he’s earning more than you and he thinks you’re a peasant. Fuck it, I think you’re a peasant just for retweeting that handsome man’s super great insights THAT I ALSO HAD BUT WITH MORE DETAIL.
Back to my point. The apology issue is now an Emery issue. A hot-headed moment might be forgivable, an insolent refusal to rectify the mistake and change the news cycle is not. The manager now has to act, and I’m afraid he’s going to have to remove Granit from his duties or look even weaker than he already does.
… and seriously, if you were any other manager in world football, you’d be doing cartwheels if there was an easy out for removing Xhaka as a captain after a month. It’s not even controversial and it’ll make the team better.
Second part of the equation here is this: Forget the ‘players ran to his side’ nonsense. They all know that Granit’s behaviour was unacceptable. If Emery lets this slide, he will be letting a squad that’s out of control know that he’s there to be rolled. He might as well put the gimp mask on and hand the dog chain to whoever is kinky enough to parade him around the training ground.
The notion that the manager is worried about a revolt is pathetic and actually aligns to the sexy ESPN man’s insights about how players of his past teams saw him as meek and easy to dominate. Emery should take control of the situation. These player report into one man and one man alone.
Also, imagine fearing the personalities in our squad? It’s a group of very nice, well-meaning guys. This is hardly Chelsea at its peak under Jose. Bar Kola and Luiz, those two could be dangerous.
Right, that’s me done. Please listen to my podcast. I did it via Skype and I’m very proud of terrific output. You also owe me, so cough up with your ears.
DM
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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 after… Read more »
Tr4phy
Pedro
Xhaka is not showing Emery “who’s boss” by not apologizing; he’s showing himself to be an arrogant, self-absorbed twat who should never captain Arsenal again. Nothing more.
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.
Xhaka wants a tissue for his issue.
Pedro
The “revolt” you refer to only occurred because of how unfair, unreasonable and agenda-driven your criticism of Emery became. It was not simply that you were questioning or criticizing Emery. In fact, if you review the record, when you first began to question Emery, I and a couple of others — who later came to oppose your narrative — were in agreement with you that there were questions to be asked. Anyone who doubts this should review the Le Grove history below.
https://le-grove.co.uk/2018/09/24/frankenstein-squad-winning-games-not-fans/comment-page-1/#comments
https://le-grove.co.uk/2018/10/01/arsenal-riding-the-luck-train/
https://le-grove.co.uk/2018/10/02/emery-hitting-the-incremental-good-vibes-right/comment-page-2/
Saying this for the 10000th time that Unai Emery’s annoying obssession with playing Xhaka eveytime [and making him captain!! shocker…] will lead to his downfall at Arsenal
You can’t assess a season or a manager or a team after 10 games, especially if three of their four starting defenders have been out injured.
And in Emery’s first season at Arsenal, he improved on the previous season (of Wenger’s) by seven points and one place in the table.
Emery has his limitations, but he is a competent, hard-working, modern manager who is doing a competent job.
Well Bamford.
You keep repeating how we have improved in many areas of our game.
It doesn’t look like its transmitting into our results and performances does it, even with a couple of hundred million spent since Emery arrived.
Why is that ?
Xhaka is being arrogant, he is not calling the shots. And people who have arrogance end up on the dark side unless they retrace their steps before it is late.
I think The club should react with a statement regarding this behaviour. Isn’t there a clause regarding behavior in a player’s contract?
Bamford
There is no getting away from the fact that with vast amounts of money spent , we are regressing alarmingly .
Bamford blindly defending Emery even when all evidence points to him tanking the team.
Who would have thought? How times have changed
Pierre
😄😄😄😄
We all know that we are regressing Pierre, it’s doesnt need your predictable data analysis to point that one out.
In case you’d forgotten, the regression has been progressive for many many years.
Emery’s fault for 18 months.
Arsene’s fault for about 120 months.
Just a wee reminder for you.
Cheers.
Drey
Actually, there is nothing “blind” about what I am doing at all. I am relying upon facts and data, not emotion or loyalty, and I have questioned and criticized Emery aplenty. Your take is wildly off base. I don’t even rate Emery especially highly, but I do think he’s a competent manager doing a competent job.
Drey
You are correct.
It’s written in the stars.
“We all know that we are regressing Pierre” There is literally no evidence of this whatsoever. Again, in his first season, he improved our points total and place in the table. He has also brought a modern tactical approach, real structure, genuine organization and high-intensity on both sides of the ball. This is a transitional period and a good deal is going on, so you are not always going to see straight-line positive results in consequence of these things. The notion that we’ve “regressed” in terms of the manager or the club as a whole is laughable. Perhaps the players/squad… Read more »
B10😁😁
Do you actually read through what you post before clicking the “Post Comment”?
“I don’t rate Emery especially highly, but I do think he’s a competent manager doing a competent job”
I mean what are you talking about?
You don’t rate him but you think he’s doing an ok job.
Bloody hell, your students must really love your lectures.
Reports that Arsenal, Liverpool and United have contacted Monchengladbach defensive midfielder Denis Zakaria’s agent. Yes, please.
Graham
What’s wrong with what I’ve said there? Please explain.
I suppose we must blame the ATLANTIC OCEAN for some people who support the Arsenal via a TV.
They will never have the feel for the club that supporters who go to games
have the toxic atmosphere that was so apparent Sunday had to be felt,the comments of supporters.the local gossip around the club cannot be felt via a
Tv.
The Bandy view is so often wrong yet he argues and produces quotes from time
ago to support his constant repeated rambling’s
“Mesut Ozil is said to be in the Arsenal squad for Liverpool with Unai Emery considering the German playmaker as captain for the League Cup clash at Anfield tonight. Thoughts?” – @laythy29
Please, I’m off to work in 30 minutes B10, stop being a silly billy.
No disrespect but are you on drugs?
B10
You can tell you’re from the US.
Never accepted defeat or that you’re wrong.
Sorry, is that a racist comment.
I do have a little sympathy for xhaka in all of this . Whatever his shortcomings, he is a player who has a tremendous will to win. It doesn’t always help him though as he loses his head when things are going against the team, hence going into tackles that he wil never make. On Sunday, we had just lost a 2 goal lead, so he was probably on the edge , his head was starting to go and then he saw his number go up to come off….and that pushed him over the edge. I blame the manager ,… Read more »
B10
In many respects you are hilarious because I think your main motive for being on here is to show everyone that wallies do actually exist.
Have an awesome day.
Everybody is blaming Xhaka for the second goal. He should have stopped the cross. But at least he was covering the right back. However where was Tierney the left back. In the middle of the penalty box marking space. Why was he not in his natural position ? Had Tierney be in the natural left back position he would have been able to block Ayew or even head away the ball. I find funny that Tierney has been absolved of all blame where clearly he is as culpable if not more than Xhaka for that goal. Tierney has started a… Read more »
“So I basically caused a revolt in the comments section with my ‘crazy’ views on Unai Emery last season.”
Ok Pedro, YOU WERE RIGHT ALL THE WAY.
But there’s no need to be arrogant or pedantic toward us.
That’s a bit disappointing coming from you…
Pierre
Me too.
Sincere apologies to all the other American bloggers on here.
“Xhaka is continuing to behave disgracefully and is undermining Emery’s authority.” AGREED “Emery is shit and the football we’re playing is mediocre.” AGREED. “Pedro is the football prophet who foretold Le Grovers and Arsenal fans that Emery was shot when nobody could see it.” Hmmmm, ok then, AGREED. We’re all talking about Xhaka’s disgraceful behaviour, fair enough, when the obvious solution is to strip him of the captaincy and bin him for a while Ozil-stylee. Meanwhile, the PGMOL and its questionable application of VAR has allowed an Australian official with no PL experience to overturn a decision by an experienced… Read more »
Bamford, You can’t judge after 10 games, sure. But you can after this AND the abysmal capitulation last season and getting our arses handed to us on a plate in the EL final. I was all for giving the man a chance, but if I had my way, I’d have him sacked just for damage limitation. He has no clue, the dressing room has been lost and he had proven before that he is incapable of steadying the ship once the latter happens. I can sort of understand being pushed around by one of the biggest football stars (even if… Read more »
Pedro
Didn’t you have a love affair with Gazidis?
This thing with Auba abusing arsenal fans.. they were not Arsenal fans,
Serious spurs fans click baiting.
Xhaka’s will to win counts for fuck all, when he is not good enough to play in this league.
It is as if I was to square up to, let’s say, Floyd Mayweather and trust me, I have all the will to win in the world 😆
HighburyLegend,
It is one of the guilty pleasure that nobody want to acknowledge: to gloat after being proven right after receiving abuse and to be able to say “I TOLD YOU SO”.
I won’t lower myself, but “I …”
😁
XIs for tonight? I might go with the below:
___________Martinelli
Saka___Ceballos____Ozil_______ESR
____________Torreira
Kola___Holding____Mustaf_____Bell
____________Martinez
Please let’s not over react to this Xhaka issue and move ahead the truth is the fans play better than the players outside the pitch we analyze we said this we said that and it looks easier but practically it not easy so let’s learn to encourage our players that is what a true fan will be doing not hating and abusing please let’s be guided
G62,
he did, even though everyone and his dog knew Gazidis was utterly incompetent, just like the whole backroom team made up of Gatorade rejects
Bad apples
Ozil
Xhara
Kolansic
Luiz.
Need ridding.
Club won’t move forward
SUGA3
“But you can after this AND the abysmal capitulation last season and getting our arses handed to us on a plate in the EL final.”
Except that said “capitulation” has long been misunderstood and misrepresented by Emery-outers. We faltered in those matches because those were very good PL teams we were playing and because Emery was working with weak midfield and defensive options.
We were destroyed in the final because Chelsea were simply a way, way better team.
Very little of any of that was on the manager.
Graham
Yeah
Wasn’t peter granted an audience with the great man.
Bam
Is Torre in th3 right mind to play, ?
Could still be in shock.
Pedro is still miffed at Emery for taking the place of his inside track appointee, who turned out to be not the prime target. A new managers first job should not be at a club with the club of Arsenal`s status.
The fans dont need Xhaka`s apologies. We need to see him out by Xmas, gone to another league where he can become their walking red card nightmare.
Emery Out…Anyone except Mourinho In!!!…Specifically: NES at Wolves
RSPC
Yeah, he’s going to have to buck up, put the tissues away and play.
😉
Bamford,
Come on mate, seriously?
Are you seriously trying to tell me that we could not do better in any of the last games of the season? That the manager supposedly renowned for his tactical nous and ability to adapt to the opposition could not get the team to beat Crystal Palace? Wolves? Everton? Give me a break 😆
As for Chelsea, I am not buying it. We played them a few times that season and we did not fall apart like that. It is all on Emery, I’m afraid.
Bamford, Actually, there is nothing “blind” about what I am doing at all. I am relying upon facts and data, not emotion or loyalty, and I have questioned and criticized Emery aplenty. Your take is wildly off base. I don’t even rate Emery especially highly, but I do think he’s a competent manager doing a competent job. What “facts and data” though? You say many things that really do not mean a thing cos if you are willing to go down that route I have stat nerds who would also show you how terrible we were last season stats-wise. For… Read more »
BTW, Emery’s actions (dithering on the captaincy, putting Özil as Captain to curtail favours from fans) are just showing him for the weasel he is, but the senior management are also showing a complete lack of backbone and media savvyness. The right thing to do was was to issue a strong statement. Whatever the decision to strip or not strip Xhaka of the captaincy should have already made. Publicly announced. Condemn his behaviour but explaining by constant abuse he has been receiving. State that he will continue to be the captain or that he has been stripped of the captaincy.… Read more »
It is really simple: we had a good run at the beginning of the last season for 2 reasons:
– new manager factor
– proper rotation, which had kept both the ‘A’ and ‘B’ XIs on their toes and interested respectively. Once UE had his first 14 players set in stone, all off this fell off a cliff and we went back into the same Wengeresque rut. Might as well have kept Wenger.
Pedro
“I’m so sorry, I made a mistake” or how about-
“Me, Myself and Ivan”
😄😄😄😄
Sorry Pedro.
Your autobiography titled for you Pedro.
“I don’t need his apology to me because I know he is devastated. He is very down and we need to support him. Why is Xhaka devastated? Is he devastated because he has been suffering from mental illness and can’t cope with the pressure presently on him? I sympathise with him in that case and that is a further indictment of Emery for making a man who is mentally struggling captain of Arsenal fc in these sensitive times. OR Is Xhaka devasted just because his work is not loved enough by the customers and the customers expressed this in the… Read more »
Probably one of the worst judgement calls in the history of judgement calls.
Run Graham run!
Not gonna lie, this post made me touch myself a little.
Another Pedro materclass. Keep it up son!
SUGA3 Yes, seriously. Although your representation of what I am saying is not exactly what I am saying. What I am saying is that those PL teams are/were all better teams than some here allow and that Emery was working with scraps of a squad and poor personnel options at that point. Let’s start with Wolves. This is the same Wolves team that just recently beat City 2-0 at the Etihad. It is not surprising at all that we lost to them away with an XI that included Ozil, Xhaka, Mustafi, Iwobi, Mkhitaryan and Maitland-Niles. Not surprising at all, and… Read more »
‘Emery Out…Anyone except Mourinho In!!!…Specifically: NES at Wolves’
If we don’t go for EPL winning experience, big game management, big ego management and good PR management when hiring the next coach, we are most likely going to find ourselves in the Emery situation again and by that time Jose would have been appointed by PSG, Bayern or R. Madrid; all bigger clubs than Arsenal, most probably breaking new grounds and making Pep jealous.
And the frustrated chorus would be:
‘We should have hired Jose Mourinho when we had the chance.’
Bamford,
Everton was so strong and above Arsenal that they had to buy Iwobi from Arsenal to still be a few points behind us….
Their main attacking midfield are two former Arsenal players in Walcott and Iwobi whom Arsenal fans were only too happy to see the back of. Can you spot the irony in you arguing that they are stronger than us now?
Bamford,
Whatever you say about these teams, they should not be anywhere near our level. Who the fuck told UE to start Elneny? There were other options.
Just like now. His team selections are baffling and this is what is going to be his undoing here. Plain and simple.
We will get spanked tonight and I am hoping this will tip the scale. If for no other reason, then just so that the new manager would not think we are the same fuddu duddy club constantly in cruise control, no matter what happens.
Valentin
“Can you spot the irony in you arguing that they are stronger than us now?”
Except that I’m not saying that. I’m saying they fielded a stronger XI that day, because they did.
Shoot me now – I’m agreeing with Pierre. Imagine you are Xhaka – you are one of the few guaranteed starters in the first XI and you’ve been made captain by your teammates. Clearly your outlook on the situation is different and let’s face it footballers’ egos are on a different planet to your average joe. (Forget the fact that in reality he’s not good enough to be on the bench and never has been) Always makes me smile when the author of this site goes nuclear about criticism. You write your opinions on a topic such as football where… Read more »
I hope Roy Keane and Graeme Souness are the pundits tonight and give their view on our ‘captain’ who…
‘Feels inside very deep. He is now devastated and sad. Now, he is down. He is down and the most important thing now is that we look after him to recover our best Granit Xhaka.’
What is it with this “1st, 2nd, 3rd tr4phy” shite – Fucking grow up. Come on to a blog to read an article then the comments setion is taken up with 12 year olds doing shit like that. Zzzzzz
Pierre the wenger obsessive.
Emery is wrong to let the players vote for a captain but Granit needs to grow a pair of balls.
Calm down dick!
I blame the manager , he should know and understand Xhaka’s personality and he should have made him aware that he would be bringing him off . The manager also should have shown some awareness of what may happen if he substituted Xhaka , as he experienced a similar reaction from the crowd against villa when he was taken off.At that particular point in the game, we had just been pegged back , the crowd were getting restless and were ready to blow .By substituting Xhaka in the way he did and at that particular time , what did the… Read more »
All we needed last season was three lousy points to finish 3rd. I think he should have been sacked after not being able to secure just that in what, two months?
Everton, Wolves, Palace, Leicester. Pick one.
Hell, even holdng out at home against the might of Brighton would just do the trick. Two points, we could be third. Fourth for sure. But oh no, Emery had to put all his eggs in the Europa League basket. That ended well, eh?
“Actually, there is nothing “blind” about what I am doing at all. I am relying upon facts and data, “
Man claims improvement based on facts and data…
Someone light a candle for this absolute whopper.
I was also correct when I posted this two days ago
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Nelson
October 29, 2019 08:10:26
No wonder Xhaka slapped Emery’s hand when he walked passed him.
He must be cursing Emery: “Didn’t you, fucking moron, know that I would become a lightning rod when you subs me out. WTF!”
Nelson.
This is EXACTLY what Emery wanted. Steering the attention away from him and giving the press and the fans something else to talk about. Simples.
Suga
We needed 1 point mate, just 1 point.
I said previously the mess we’re in now is leadership based. Going 3rd to 5th with 6 games to go losing 4 (I think it was) was sackable. Then the EL final was our biggest embarrassment in a final in recent memory.
We bottled making a change and here we are wondering why the players are anonymously voting the captaincy and what’s on the menu pre-game.
You guys might appreciate this. On my way to work just before, I was behind a car with number plate “A1EX N”, and then when I pulled alongside it at a traffic light, I saw the guy was kitted out in full Arsenal training kit. He looked quite flashy, so I quickly Googled “Arsenal coach Alex” and opened Images, and it was the same guy. Arsenal Under-14’s coach, Alex Nichols. Wanted to ask him who the best prospect is but he wouldn’t have heard me lol. Incidentally I ended up being in front of him for the next 20 mins.
Pedro. Haha. I was just telling my Whatsapp group that you gave us the rundown on how crap Emery was from the beginning. You need to work on your handsomeness! 🙂
Charlie,
Would appoint Freddie today and hire Keown to coach defending and put some fear into the players’ souls. Fuck this democracy bullshit.
“Shoot me now – I’m agreeing with Pierre”
I’m out of bullets.
Bamford10 what are you smoking! How can you defend a manager so clearly out of his depth in the EPL? How many so called competent mangers, with a team lacking in creativity decided that playing a defensive midfield player as a number 10 is the answer? The guy is completely clueless, and we as a club are heading for oblivion at light speed with him in charge.
Azed I wouldn’t expect you to agree with me on Emery’s handling of the Xhaka substitution. One would need an understanding of the game and recognise the subtle nuances that can occur in match situations that can lead to a situation similar to Sunday. Put it this way , if you were a manager and 2 weeks earlier v villa had substituted xhaka and heard the crowd reaction, wouldn’t you be a little wary how the crowd would react this time and try to make the substitution as quick and easy as possible. What we have now is a media… Read more »
Doomed*(couned)
Bamford
“Actually, there is nothing “blind” about what I am doing at all. I am relying upon facts and data, not emotion or loyalty”
Looks like Xhaka is not the only one who needs mental health counselling.
Bamford
I have to admire your braveness for fighting alone even though I disagree with everything you’re writing..
At least you’re not disrobing and stomping off.
Jose Mourinho would be interested in the Arsenal manager’s job if it became available, sources have told ESPN FC.
Oh NO, No No No!
Let’s face it: footballers are usually not the brightest, so they understand simple things, like authority. Does Emery have any? Does he fuck.
There are real problems in this world Being booed off by your customers from a 100k weekly wage job isn’t one of them. An immediate apology [of some sorts] would have changed the media cycle and let the media go elsewhere. We should still be vexing about VAR and the PGMOL, instead Xhaka stole their spotlight. . There’s a misplaced arrogance here from Xhaka, even when you approach it from a Xhaka-centric view point, surely there are some things he would take back from his reaction. An apology doesn’t have to be a groveling Mea Culpa, it’s not like he’s… Read more »
Anyone still trying to give it the biggun RE: Wenger is a fucking shit cunt. This disaster class under Emery is still 100% preferable to having that lost demented old cunt weighing us down to the bottom of the ocean. It’s not good, but I have faith the club now (without the cuck cunt Gazidis) are not going to stick with Emery for a full 10 years after it was clear he’s a fucking clowning it up on the reg. Ohhh look how he’s doing compared to Wenger. We should have kept Wenger forever and rolled him out in his… Read more »
I personally think if José were to get the job, he would turn us in to a winning machine. Just to prove a point to his doubters, the football may not be pretty but I’d rather have winning football than pretty runners up football.
Grant,
We currently have neither: no wins and the football is fucking dire. Still probably would not touch Mourinho with a barge pole.
Unless he was to pull all the stops to show up Wenger one more time, without spunking obscene amounts of money on his ‘vision’. That I could go with…
Pierre ‘ 3) the mishandling of the xhaka substitution……how did he expect the crowd to react at that particular point in the game’ You can knock him for who,he subbed in Xhaka but to blame Emery’s substitution for Xhaka’s reaction is just agenda driven. You make many good points when you’re not on your Ozil is good-Emery is bad crusade. What happened there belongs to the fans who like to boo their own players and also to Xhaka who goaded it only to melt down when it predictably got worse. Emery actually went to support him at the touch line… Read more »
SUGA3 that’s was my thinking the final one up on Wenger, plus a middle finger to Man U. I do believe José would be an excellent stop gap, give him a 2 year deal that way we’ll miss the toxic 3rd year.
Iwobi used to get those ironic jeers and outright booing last season. I recall someone here hoping he broke his leg. He never let gave the boo boys any gratification and comported himself properly. He took the first exit that opened up for him.
Mustafi too got booed, never did the meltdown routine.
I truly believe that with the right manager in charge, this squad of players we have can easily compete with man City and Liverpool.
Dissenter
You’re the toughest bloke on here mate, all ought to bow to your masculine prowess.
Bamford
‘he’s showing himself to be an arrogant, self-absorbed twat’
Hilarious.
Question for you – do you speak the way you write?
Dissenter
“Emery actually went to support him at the touch line when he was coming off but Xhaka’s meltdown was a category 5 hurricane at the time.”
Was it really that hard to predict what the crowd reaction would be when his number went up …anyone with an ounce of sense could see what will happen.
Sub him off when he was closer to the dug out, hes off the pitch in a couple of seconds before the crowd reacts ……
“I personally think if José were to get the job, he would turn us in to a winning machine. Just to prove a point to his doubters”
Agree with Grant.
And to all those who think that our football would be ugly, well, it’s kind of hard these days, to have both beautiful football and results, unless you are Barcelona, Man City, Bayern or Paris.
Folk here concerned about Xhaka’s fragile personality. If it’s so fucking fragile, why is he captain.
I watched Everton v Burnley couple of weeks back. A similar situation arose there. Coleman, the Everton skipper was red carded and was accompanied off the field to fans booing him (he had been booed by the fans on previous ocassions) no tantrums from Coleman, just walked off the pitch.
Xhaka needs to grow a pair. If he never plays for Arsenal again this fan will be happy.
The baying wob
“Ohhh look how he’s doing compared to Wenger. We should have kept Wenger forever and rolled him out in his fucking coffin rather than sacked THE GREAT MAN! Such a GREAT MAN!”
I take it you are not keen on Wenger .
Now I know what Pedro is talking about
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David Cartlidge @davidjaca
21 May 2018
Overall, Emery an underwhelming appointment, doesn’t really profess good or winning football. Too pragmatic, dogged by stubbornness with his systems.
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Bojangles
What you are not quite getting is that the media are always looking for a stick to beat Arsenal with , more than any other club.
And what Emery is doing is giving them the ammunition and making their job easy for them .
Wenger was a much more astute manager in that respect .
He learnt very quickly that there are different rules for Arsenal when it comes to reporting from the media.
https://www.onlinegooner.com/
Sorry but this picture is priceless.
You just wonder what Ozil is thinking… lol