So it would appear my hunch about Xhaka and the counselling thing being a nonsense was spot on, according to Arseblog the player was angry that Arsenal had packaged the blow-up like that. It really is grim that the club would use ‘mental health’ to deflect standard shitty behaviour and hurt feelings. 10 years ago, when someone famous would get caught with their pants down, they’d come out as a ‘sex addict.’ There would be a serious conversation about the seriousness of addiction, and we’d sympathise with person that simply couldn’t have night out without having to sleep with babes behind their partners back. In 2019, you can pretty much deflect anything by alluding to it being a little deeper, you know, a little more, ‘let’s not talk about this considering the current climate.’
It works as well. So many people calling bullshit on this story yesterday were being slammed for their insensitivity. So it’s a little amusing to find out that the player was annoyed that the narrative was incorrect, he was simply pissed at the fans.
The great thing about this revelation is it helps us cut faster to the clearest interpretation of this whole debacle: Xhaka ain’t captain material.
He couldn’t properly apologise.
He couldn’t formulate a response in good time.
He still doesn’t understand that his behaviour was wrong, regardless of the circumstances.
The manager isn’t going to play him this weekend, part one of Emery being boxed into better decisions by circumstance.
I think it’s absolutely hilarious to watch Emery dance around in tar over the ‘problem’ of Xhaka. Any manager that could read the situation would have seen this issue as a huge opportunity.
- Emery could have won respect of the fans and players by making a decision on Arsenal principles.
- He could have used the actions of a petulant player to cover for his HORRENDOUS mistake in giving the player the armband in the first place.
Best thing for him is he doesn’t have to start a player that’s a tactical weakness for us for the next month. Let’s be honest, Emery was coming around to the idea that his captain was shit. He subbed him off on 70 against Sheffield United, then on 64 against Palace.
By total fluke, we might start to see a midfield that’s more balanced and fit for the Premier League games.
That’s the good news.
On the bad news front, you can tell the beginnings of the end are upon us for the manager. The club has lost control of the media narrative. Players, agents and journos are not playing ball like the used to. Ultimately, it’s because the media don’t like Emery, I was hearing that last year, now fan sentiment has switched, watch them go for his jugular.
The Independent has a weird story about the players ripping the piss out of Emery behind his back.
There are some other stories about agents raising the ‘bad management’ to senior leadership. Last season, I wouldn’t have believed it, this season, we have mega agents involved and players like David Luiz. Players bring down managers when you’re in bed with super agents.
This isn’t just an attack on Emery, it’s also getting at Edu. Where is his leadership and sharp decision making in all this? It’s a total mess and he’s all over this.
To cap off the nightmare week for Arsenal, Mesut Ozil is posting happy tweets which allude to him starting this weekend.
Once again, Emery has made a public stance about the player, once again, he’s caved.
We all knew he would. But we’ve literally gone from, ‘Edu and Raul told me to do it’ last week, to Mesut starting two games in a row. Mesut has played his hand superbly.
I think it’s the right decision considering how little creativity we’ve had in the squad. We’ve also seen that the player still has it, Mesut dropping a blistering performance in midweek.
… it half looks bad, doesn’t it.
If you are ostracising someone, go all in or don’t go public with what you are doing. Emery is an amateur. He did the same last season with Aaron Ramsey (and Ozil). If you don’t have the guts to follow through, don’t make big statements about players. Very simple.
Still, it appears we’ve landed in two good positions by accident. Our midfield will be more dynamic, and our most creative player will get the chance to succeed or fail.
Right, that’s me done. See you in the comments. x
The agents already are complaining
Don’t be surprised when our better players start to drop transfer requests.
Let’s have a gaffer in charge please before things completely go awol
If Emery is not fired today, then Edu and Raul would take the blame for the season.
First thing I noticed today BEFORE the Wolves equaliser…
Ceballos and Ozil in the same midfield
Epic mistake.
Ozil was creating Ceballos was missing completely and at fault for losing his man
EMERY OUT
I don’t even know where our next win is coming from in the league . I’m not joking I actually think we go the rest of the season winless in the league . How can emery’s defenders tolerate this I mean is my memory fuzzy but I’m sure the senile old idiot even used to dominate at home even in his last season . Emery hasn’t got it guys and the sooner everyone accepts that then the sooner we might get back on track with someone else in charge I can’t keep watching this shit every weekend it’s fucking depressing… Read more »
Raptora – Guendouzi is not getting a game for Wolves.
be careful what you wish for
be careful what you wish for
be careful what you wish for
fuck this as a gooner I’m going for gooning now just held my dick for some orgasmic play but this spanish pimp don’t have the goods to provide such entertainment
Wenger’s worst days were not as bad as this.
Emery has to be sacked right now!
Leicester will be salivating at the prospect of scoring a bunch against us.
Kind of hoping for another Arsenal loss we need rid of emery as soon as possible.
Let freddie clean house for rest of the season then bring in a conte or naiglesman
Bamford what is the point of waiting until May?
He doesn’t look like getting us top 4 and if you don’t think he’s good enough long term and he’s failing short term then why keep him at all?
The fans are booing every week. The results are bad. The performances suck. We probably won’t get top 4. What do we have to lose from firing him apart from a few million? We will lose 30+m when we miss the CL again.
Cut your losses and just accept he’s now toxic for the club
Why saka? A kid with zero upper body strength against wolves. What’s with the Kola sub’s when we need goals? Chambers should be ashamed for their goal, flat footed.
Saka created 2 goal chances = both not attacked
Ceballos and Sokratis were the ones who lost their man, not Chambers it was Chambers attempt to cover Sokratis that gave that impression.
Ozil’s general all round game is poor.
No point playing him if he is not assisting.
We have 4 wins, 5 draws and 1 loss so far. +1 goal difference. We haven’t won by 2 goals so far. 3rd month of football. Sheffied United have 1 point less than us. If Chelsea and Leicester win their games, we’re going to find ourselves trailing by 6 pts to top 4. Things are so bad, there is literally 0 hope in me that Emery can switch it around.
Our strength is having crack finishers up front.
There is nothing remotely special about our personnel in midfield over the vast majority of teams in the league. We get done in terms of shots because we try and play an attacking game with blunt tools in midfield, so we don’t create much, and leave ourselves open. The quality of our chances is generally high versus quantity of speculative efforts x 10.
Ishola70 – the sad part is Wolves were average today and they’ll feel disappointed not leaving with all three points
Paulinho – Guendouzi has little awareness as the deep midfielder. Players run off him easily
A lot of people on here mocked Brenda over the years so it’s ironic that he will quite potentially be the person who offs our manager
Wenger wins a few trophies and becomes a personality cult to the cretins on legrove.
Peckobill
“I don’t even know where our next win is coming from in the league”
This current team and coach are capable to beat Southampton and Brighton at home.
Norwich are struggling so that away match probably 70 – 30 per cent in favour of Arsenal but Norwich were struggling before they beat Man City at home so as it’s an away game that is not guarantted.
So Southampton and Brighton ay home onlt obvious looking wins.
By that time of course other rivals for top four places may be over the hills.
Red
Xhaka isn’t on the field today so it’s obvious ozil will be your battering ram
I keep wondering if you are not an escapee of a sychiatric hospital
Sacked in the morning?
It’s already looking like Europa League or bust. We’ve tanked the league by first weekend of Nov
No pattern of play
No forward build up play
No discernible press
No collective defending
No utilisation of space
No imprint to dominate or impose on opponents
EMERY OUT NOW
It’s not gonna get any better next weekend away to Leicester. Not the worst but still a disjointed performance from Arsenal, as all of our league matches have been this season. You gotta think they would normally dig out 3 points from a game like today but this squad doesn’t have that kind of bottle. Where have we heard that before. Liverpool so fucking jammy but you don’t see that kind of shit happening for Arsenal, you make your own luck to a certain extent. Bamford I hope a bird shits on your head today. Maybe the impact will knock… Read more »
Bamford I don’t understand how you can be critical today but not of the rest of the season?
What we did today wasn’t worse than the rest of our PL games. I’m not even joking what we just saw was standard. Bad selection, bad formation, bad tactics, bad football, bad result
Why do you seem to be the only one here caught off guard by this game whilst everyone else expected another bs game before a ball was even kicked?
Paulinho
“Our strength is having crack finishers up front.”
A powder puff shot and a shot blazed way over the bar was Lacazette’s contribution to the game
Wengers memory,,,,: a shit sandwich that some recall as nice bread…the realists remember as a shit sandwich..
“No pattern of play
No forward build up play
No discernible press
No collective defending
No utilisation of space
No imprint to dominate or impose on opponents”
All this with the chosen one Ozil in the side!….
Redtruth – Yep, and even that strength isn’t that great. They’re billed as that anyway and Auba generally scores enough big goals to merit the tag.
Why was Tierney, who actually played well, subbed for a worse player offensively and defensively for just 5 minutes when we’re chasing the game?
What logic is this?
Legrove should be ashamed of itself. Wenger is better than this fraud. You deserve whatever you are getting now
When a team is struggling you normally just go back to basics but in all honesty I think that’s the only thing emery can coach anyway . What else has he ever done with this team
It was a disappointing result is the only criticism you can.lay at Emery.
Its simple really…..
Ozil – midfield creator
Aubameyang – wing or striker
Lacazette – striker
Torreira – defensive midfielder
Guendozi -defensive midfielder
Pepe – wing
Saka -wing
Martinelli – striker or wing
Ceballos – midfield creator
Any other attempt at positioning is just plain stupid
Also what poor management of Pepe
The guy is a quality player but has struggled to adapt (probably not helped by emery’s Confusing setup) and then when he just starts to find his feet he drops lower in the pecking order than two of our teenagers
JOKER
Does any fan think we are at risk of being relegated?
If emery somehow remains in charge….
No point in arguing with posters still crying squad poverty. Let us just hope Raul and Co are swung in to action by poor results and put Emery out of his misery.
Aubameyang’s runs and movement are shit.
He’s only capable of tap ins.
redtruth out fishing again haha
Lolz why wait till May? We might as well give him a new deal while we’re at it… But not to worry, it’s just 5 points off 4th having played a game more….No other manager can get us playing better and our midfield is very very poor so we have to keep dropping points till the manager can sort out the midfield and lead us to league glory…
We haven’t won a game by 2 goals yet. 3 months in. Emery is a tragedy. I will not accept that our squad is shit.
At one point we had a corner and instead of forward passes or keeeping the pressure up WE WENT ALL THE WAY BACK to Leno.
EMERY OUT
Chika you should know all about idiots,you are a prime example of one.
Emery needs to discard the Wenger players who got Arsenal in this dark place .
I’m so sure some of our players would find the sight of Emery very disgusting. What a stupid coach.
Raptors, it’s 4W 5D 2L, not 1L.
Wenger is a has been
Emery is a fraud
next manager will be?
cam on Raul/Edu hire sam quality backroom staff
Well spotted China1
Pepe should have come on in this game. Im pretty sure Ozil would have picked him out
Hey look I know we conceded 24 odd shots but didn’t we concede like 27 a month or so back?
That’s what I call improved organization!
Leno was drawn to the ball for the Wolves equaliser, shit keeper
Samni???
Wenger?????
Jeez still banging on about that arrogant tosser….
Emery is useless…Wenger wasn’t much better….just that Wenger was a massive cnut….
Is this period even worth to be called a transition period?
What are we transiting to?
Raul and edu should please do the needful asap.
Why would they continue to act like things are ok?
Before, we usually crumbled in the league around February if I am not mistaking but it’s November fro crying out loud.
Emery I will appreciate to if you can resign. Go and pick another team to win the Europa for.
Red will surely follow and celebrate with you – king of Europa
We all know the midfield is understaffed in relation to senior players of a certain quality. This is regardless of Xhaka. We also have defenders out there today not good enough again. Chambers and Luiz. I really can’t get over how poor Luiz was in that play near the end against Jota. Embassingly poor in that play. Dreadful signing. Some weak poor players and the coach/manager not good enough which is the bigger problem as well. But this team doesn’t really improve until both Emery is moved on plus some weak shit players as well. Xhaka isn’t the only weak… Read more »
We can all moan and groan about yet another inept display but the bottom line is that we have to act now.
How is it possible that any home team in the EPL can concede 25 shots on goal?
I mean, what the fudge is Emery doing?
That’s the problem.
He doesn’t know what he’s doing.
As for Pepe.
Jesus H Christ!!
Gentlebris,
You’re correct ofc.
4W, 5D, 2L, +1 GD
Terrible.
Luiz, Pepe,Ceballos,Leno, Tierney,Torreria, Guendouji,Martinelli,Sokratis -9 new players added to our first 11 since Wenger left and still people trying to shift the blame on to the players.
Redtruth, you need help.
“Pepe should have come on in this game. Im pretty sure Ozil would have picked him out”
I doubt it, he had 90 minutes to salvage his reputation and he flunked.
Leicester gonna dry butt fuck us, anyone defending emery is a clueless cunt. The guy is a fucking shambles.
China
Lol, You are damn right. We are improving.
Bamford’s gonna like that
“anyone defending emery is a clueless cunt. The guy is a fucking shambles.”
Yup. Well said.
£72 milion for Pepe,
It’s like buying a Ferrari for a fortune and it can’t get out of 1st gear and only does left turns….
Terrible substitution. I genuinely don’t understand the thinking behind some of them. Torreira misused as attacking midfield substituted when we needed to exert more defensive control. Lacazette who defended from the front and held up the ball substituted. Aubameyang kept on the field. I am not sure that he touched the ball in an offensive position after Lacazette departure. Martinelli is initially tasked to block Wolves right side and does it diligently while still bringing some threat. Introduce Saka on the left who could not block anybody. Move Martinelli on the right where he is clearly less comfortable. And to… Read more »
Wenker I think at best we finish mid table say between 8th and 12 th if we continue with emery . He’s finished and that’s not just me angry with the result He’s lost the fan base you can tell by the empty stadium/ boos at the end He’s losing more and more of the dressing room going by reports No matter what changes he makes it’s not working as he got no pattern or discernible style He’s out of ideas and doesn’t know how to turn it around Raul and edu can persist as much as they like he’s… Read more »
“Luiz, Pepe,Ceballos,Leno, Tierney,Torreria, Guendouji,Martinelli,Sokratis -9 new players added to our first 11 since Wenger left and still people trying to shift the blame on to the players.”
100% Fact.
On the plus side, a big defeat to Leicester will be the last nail in this sad excuse of a manager.
Also Bamford you speak well of Ole but he’s managed just 1.18 points per game after 11 PL games this season
‘Red will surely follow and celebrate with you – king of Europa’
King of Europa?
He got beat 4-1 in the final.
Ain’t king of anything.
I would say that the Arsenal players are not playing for Emery.
They all knew before they even went out to play that they weren’t going to win today.
Don’t let Emery continue.
To do so would be crazy.
Has anyone else noticed how awful we are at throw ins.
We are so exposed defensively yet from attacking sense, we lose the ball immediately.
Same on the wings……we allow crosses yet struggle to get any in ourselves when attacking
“Why do you seem to be the only one here caught off guard by this game whilst everyone else expected another bs game before a ball was even kicked?” Because for some reason Yamford has convinced himself that he’s the only one still being objective while everyone else is forming judgments based on an agenda of some kind. At this point you can tell he feels he’s on some kind of crusade the way he keeps constantly signing off with shit like “This does not, however, mean that any of the unfair, unreasonable or overblown criticism of him from certain… Read more »
Receding Brainline
You keep shoving up your bald head whenever Emery’s performance is scrutinized.
You spend all your time defending Emery while your new bride is shagged by yet another neighbour, lol fucking idiot!
Our slow build up is killing us, we had a corner where three touches from our players it was in the hands of our goalie!
Guendouzi runs around like a headless chicken, Torreira strolls back.
Cellabos runs forward and then pirouettes up his arse a then passes it back.
Where’s the midfield in that?
yeah those are quality additions but somehow oh still not enough we must persist with Emery who doesn’t know what to do with them anyway
like some ungrateful kid who can’t appreciate the luxury that he has
Chelski will win comfortably at Watford.
Where are the Emery does tactics?
So much for the video analyst.
Emery has lost the dressing room.
It’s obvious, the players don’t understand him
All I saw from Ozil was a lot of disappointment.
A limited player with no engine falling over a lot
I believe Emery called Watford …”a good team”
You know you’re in trouble when Emery has to give Ozil instructions on the touchline.
Emery would blow a lead even if the opposition had 9 players sent off
Spanishdave
You are 100% correct.
That’s why we are giving teams so many opportunities.
£6m a year and he can’t fathom it out.
Scandalous.
Red
Oh my!
Who let the dog out?
Twitter going viral for emery out
I think you are right Graham
Given the shambles of the Xhaka Ozil situations I think the players have lost all respect for him.
Leicester will surely tell especially if they score first
Bumford, Redtruth and Receding Brainline are the buffons still willing to give Emery till May, the clowns claim they still need more time to assess him. What a bunch! 😂
Enery needs a result , so what does he do ..
He plays a MIDFIELD DIAMOND …and then to compound the error, he starts all the midfield players in the wrong position.
He obviously has a death wish.
‘Lacazette who defended from the front and held up the ball substituted. Aubameyang kept on the field. I am not sure that he touched the ball in an offensive position after Lacazette departure.’
He shot his own foot by taking Laca off, Laca was dropping deep and connecting the attacking dots, then off our man took him…..great match management.
Expectations are unrealistically high from the AKB’s who for years tolerated mediocrity under flop Wenger.
Its pretty clear Emery has his favourites and will play them regardless of the cost to the team
In all seriousness it’s obvious emery has lost the dressing room completely and the fan base has no confidence in him whatsoever. Those facts are more than enough to sack him.
We need a goal and rather than bring on our £72m winger we bring on a fat defender whos best contribution to the club is protecting Ozil against criminals.
Torreira was an attacking midfielder as a youngster and theres a reason why any serious manager wouldn’t play him there. Step in Unai…
If playing in our way is to be shit and irritate the fanbase weekly then Emery is succeeding hugely.
Didn’t saw the game.
Just saw the result.
Just 1 question : Edu, where are thou ?🤔
Emery should stop listening to the fanbase because it was their call to reinstate Ozil which cost Arsenal dearly today.
Pierre
Before the match started most was saying WTF is emery doing with his line up .
To then put them in the wrong places in the diamond
Saka for torr I mean what was he thinking
See how the chavs midfielders can find their strikers so easily
Another reason to sack Emery:
Our inability to hold on to or preserve a one goal lead.
Red
You think that shit show was down to ozil , really ?
I feel like crying
My Chelsea friend ain’t making it easy for.me
He once told me we have hired an empty barrel as a coach but I made jest of him but now the reverse is the case.
Emery is just all talk no action
To hell with you gazidis the snake
Please guys stop moaning. I dont think there is anyone left defending Emery. Poor results coupled to even poorer performances are bound to lead to him taking the sack..
I actually believe that Wenger with this squad would ve managed much better.
However, i dont think Raul and Edu are going to take any immediare action even if our demise continues. Another great opportunity this year goes begging…
This is completely late Wenger again,no direction,just bland sideway passing and then one counter we concede a goal and draw a game we should have won
Why cant we be a bit lucky like Chelsea when they sack their manager before he messes things up like Emery is doing they have won something and sack the coach with some trophies,we ended up with Emery
Who did this to us?
Redtruth you weirdo
I think Emery is doing a wonderful job considering he’s up against a Stadium full of AKB’s.