I think it’s pretty clear that Unai Emery is finished as Arsenal manager.
The players don’t seem interested in his garbled vision, the fans aren’t attending games, and the press are now hoovering up leaks and turning them into missiles.
Emery hasn’t helped himself. He didn’t learn anything from last season. He genuinely believed all his ideas lacked were better players. Now he’s backed into a corner, he’s sending not so subtle messages to Raul and Edu that he’s unhappy with his lot.
- Lucas Torreira as a 10
- Xhaka as DM
- Mesut Ozil as a deeplying playmaker
- Kolasinac to chase important games over Nicola Pepe
Even worse for me is there’s no repentence in his press conferences. He told the world that he thought his tactical approach was correct yesterday. We shipped 25 shots, and had our total shots on target (4) doubled by a Wolves team that play on the counter. Nothing epitomises the miserable vision of Emery quite like being pleased with the output of such a coarse game.
Lots of fans think he has the Leicester game to keep his job. For me, it seems foolish to give the manager one game to change his fortunes, if we’re at this stage of the season and we’re at that level of consequence… just bite the bullet and let him go.
The top 4 is well within our grasp this season, OGS is an absolute disaster and there’s every chance Chelsea will falter. I’m also unconvinced Leiecester will be able to navigate injuries to key players. Arsenal can’t wait until January to make the move, the only problem is this: Who do they hire to replace Emery?
We are on track to replicate the disaster-cycle of United.
Arsenal hired a middling manager in Emery, when they should have taken a chance on Arteta and football of the future. That now means that Edu, a man who doesn’t seem to be too adept at navigating the media, has to make a strong decision on the next manager. If he’s brave, he’ll bring in someone young who can build a competitive club over 3 years. If he’s weak, he’ll go two feet in to the ‘WE NEED A WINNER’, this my friends, will be mistake number two… and we are not big enough or rich enough to survive mistake number 2.
I don’t mean to sound draconian, but unless Jose Mourinho has had an extreme change of mentality, he is going to be the ultimate arsonist. Emery won’t last past Christmas because he has the charm of a bag of giblets. Jose Mourinho will fail slower, but it’ll take public sentiment longer to shift against him.
He’ll come in, say the right things, he’ll likely reinstate Mesut Ozil and shape us up. He could very well be the right sort of caretaker to take us to top 4. My worry is what comes next. We’d not be buying into a brand of football that could surpass Pep G or Jurgen Klopp. We are literally skint if we don’t make the Champions League… even if we do make it, we don’t have the sort of funds that are going to satisfy one of the most glutnous managers the world has ever seen.
We’d be playing negative football, we’d have a manager bigger than the club, and we’d be trying to rekindle yesteryear… because Jose Mourinho is Arsene Wenger but in 2013.
I can’t believe we’d go down that path, but then again, I couldn’t believe the club published Xhaka’s awful apology in the matchday programme. Where was club leadership there? Who signed that off?
… likely the same person who’d say, ‘I know the history, but fuck it, Jose will get us top4.’
Bit here’s the thing. It won’t take much to get the fans on side. The papers are already working the PR angle for him.
‘Jose has a point to prove’
‘Mourinho wants to add a 3rd Champions League title’
‘Hungrier than ever, Jose refuse jobs in Europe’
On paper, he’s the best available. He’s on TV for a reason. He’s getting caught in the corporate box because he can smell the inexperience in the Arsenal leadership team.
It’s not beyond Raul either. His contacts brought Emery to Arsenal. He interviewed a sacked manager that couldn’t speak English, boasting a poor track record with big players, with zero ability to build a defence, and thought damn, this guy is a sauce monster, let’s hire him anyway. He met 10 managers better than Emery and landed on… Emery. If you make a decision that bad with 3 months to play with (longer, because he’s been in the game 15 years and knew he was coming in with the Wenger replacement remit), can you imagine the disaster of him doing something in the moment?
I really fear this one people, I really do. It’d be the smelliest Arsenal hire of all time. He’s a saucy guy, I’d love to believe he could reinigorate his ideas and his approach… but nothing, and I mean nothing, suggests he’s about to do that.
The only thing that might stop Raul in his tracks is the reality that Mourinho won’t just bring the team down if it goes wrong, he’ll bring down everyone. He’s the ultimate footballing arsonist, and maybe he’s what Josh needs to really start paying attention to fixing the club in a serious way… namely, getting a blue print and working towards a truly ambitous strategy that goes beyond: ‘Get Champions League football’
Building an elite football club is not going to happen if you think season to season. We have to think like Amazon did in the beginning. Have a longterm vision with a specific vision of how to achieve it… then attack it in 3 year blocks. Don’t tell me Emery fit into any sort of longterm visioon of football, he’s an Everton manager at best and can’t even speak the language. Time for a rethink. Time to see if Edu is made of something deeper than incredible good looks and crisp white shirts.
The next managerial appointment will tell you all you need to know about who we now are as a club, and where we’re going.
If it’s Jose, brace for impact… it’s a statement that tells you we are going nowhere in the next 5 years.
Anon
“”””Well I’m a single man who can cook!”””
No surprise there.
The referee is too old to keep up with the game.
Marc,
Napoli had an agreement for €72 millions over 4 years (€18 millions per year), we got an agreement for €80 millions with €10 millions add-ons over 5 years (€18 millions per year).
So the only difference for Lille is potentially an extra payment. Hardly difficult to convince them.
We convinced the player and more importantly his agents by paying them €12 millions.
Hence my take that overall we overpaid.
Dissenter
I don’t think his age is the problem!
Valentin
You’ve still missed off the rest of what I said.
Sanllehi did what he had to do to close the deal – right or wrong.
That’ll be decided on how Pepe turns out.
I doubt they pull the trigger after the Leicester game. Even if we lose badly Emery still has enough clout with Raul and Edu to survive till the new year.
Besides 6 points outside the top four is not enough of a gap for a sacking as we’re a couple bad weekends for Leicester away from 3rd place.
Regardless fuck having Jose worm his way back into a top job, hes a spent force guys, don’t let the trophy cabinet fool you like it did with David Luiz! He’s shite now.
Right I’m out of here – food to finish and a Grand Prix to watch.
Marc, My point is that Lille has accepted €72 millions no add-ons. Yet Raul offered €80 millions plus €10 millions of add-ons and that make Sanlleli some kind of genius at negotiation. Same thing with Saliba. Saint-Etienne said that their price was €20 millions and Saliba on loan for a year. €7 millions the first year and €13 the second year. Raul went in and insisted to get Saliba immediately when Romeyer had made clear that following Gassée (headcoach) instruction that point was not negotiable. In the end we offered €30 millions and still Saliba is spending a full year… Read more »
The Daily Telegraph has been forced to correct a column written by Boris Johnson, after he falsely claimed the UK is set to “become the largest and most prosperous economy in this hemisphere”.
The newspaper said that Johnson misrepresented long-term economic projections to give the impression that the British economy would overtake Germany “in our lifetimes” – despite no such data existing.
And this is the man voters are supposed to trust with the NHS lol
Valentin
We had to go the extra on those transfers to secure the deals against champions league teams , saliba/ spurs , Pepe / Napoli . If we just equaled the deals chances are the players would’ve chosen the CL teams .
We went over and above with Pepe’s agents so they would push the move to us .
We are an average team….we have some highly skilled players but those players have not got the full credentials such as power, fight and toughness.
Leicester have a much better team than we have. They can scrap, show spirit and with a good skill set.
We are nowhere near them in fact.
Corbyn the great saviour….of what?
Just a fckin fossil…a complete twat.
If he gets in…buckle up and grit yr teeth for the hell ride.
Remember when AKB’s was calling us WOB traitors because booing was affecting the morale of the team…hypocrites just like their cultist leader Wenger.
Wenker-Wanger
“Corbyn the great saviour….of what?
Just a fckin fossil…a complete twat.
If he gets in…buckle up and grit yr teeth for the hell ride.”
Spoken like a true AKB’s
MARC,
Real men cook…
Real men can survive.
I cook and women love it….
Redtruth
You are a tool…I hate akbs
Fckin do your background research
Lewis Hamilton going for his Sixth World Title
Now there’s a Winner
“Leicester have a much better team than we have. They can scrap, show spirit and with a good skill set. We are nowhere near them in fact.“
We finished 18 points, and 4 places, ahead of them last season in the PL.
We then ‘won the summer window’ with our recruitment. Do explain how we’re now ”nowhere near” Leicester City ffs.
Anyone backing Johnson is an AKB’s in my book.
“Lewis Hamilton going for his Sixth World Title
Now there’s a Winner”
F1 is a joke especially modern day F1…
Red
You dont have a book mate, it’s a colouring pad at very best.
Man
Has anyone seen the OA??
Really is brilliant
Un
No haven’t seen it. Netflix?
I watched Edward Snowden on Joe Rogans podcast the other day. That was something.
Charlie When you say Arsenal “won” the summer transfer window did every man and his dog say that? Some were actually saying that perhaps going big on another forward player and ignoring midfield and going cheap on central defence may not have been the wisest move. Adding to an area that was not really a big problem in relation to midfield and central defence. And let’s be real here. This so-called winning of the transfer window talk is only because Arsenal have been treating the fans like peasants previously throwing them scraps now and again in relation to the transfer… Read more »
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brexit-vote-get-ready-to-be-our-rival-in-business-warns-angela-merkel-nskqr0b5f
Red
Merkel clearly worried about us
Champagne
Yeah. Only two seasons and they cancelled it
Nothing else like it. So weird.
Yeah ive only caught snippets of the snowden one. Was listening to the Ed Norton and Richard Dawkins
Aston Villa put out 50m more than Arsenal in overall expenditure in the summer transfer window.
And yet plenty of Arsenal fans do cartwheels with the summer’s transfer expenditure lol
Red
Don’t think they’d let you loose on the circuit in your Hillman Imp
Un na naai
https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.theguardian.com/media/2019/nov/03/telegraph-forced-to-issue-correction-to-boris-johnson-column?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fmedia%2F2019%2Fnov%2F03%2Ftelegraph-forced-to-issue-correction-to-boris-johnson-column
I doubt Merkel will be losing any sleep lol
Red Truth
Can you reveal the man behind the mask.? What do you do day to day? Are you married? Do you work? What are your hobbies?
I see you as such a loser on here and a complete and utter simpleton who enjoys winding people up. I’d honestly love to understand the man behind the the mask…I honestly have an image of a sad tragic hideous, loser in life, sat behind a tablet or iPhone trying to get attention on a football comments section because he is invisible in the real world.
I’m on legrove because I’m a loser.
‘When you say Arsenal “won” the summer transfer window did every man and his dog say that?’
Ishola,
Many news folks rated our summer A+.
CC has appropriately blown away the idea that Leicester are better than us.
No way they are better than us after just finishing 18 points above them and having a better summer.
It’s just Emery.
If we swap coaches, Arsenal would soar to third and Leicester would hit the relegation places in 8 weeks flat.
Peckobill,
I understand the extra miles to convince players. But that is not what happened. Lille already had an agreement. All we needed was to convince the player and his agents. We got taken by both sides. Lille got an extra €18 millions and the agents got an extra €10 millions.
Regarding Saliba, we basically pay an extra €10 millions after the player has publicly stated that he was going to refuse Spurs the Champion’s League finalist. Just because we were trying to convince them to let us have him immediately which in the end we did not.
Bob
Your right, but I enjoy reading some comments and love to fuck winding up peploe whomare so precious about football.
Bayern just sacked Kovac
Guvnor
“I’d honestly love to understand the man behind the the mask”
How long have suffered from a stammer…poor thing…..
Just switched on Saint-Etienne Vs Monaco. Seen goals from previous goals at Monaco and Lecomte the Monaco keeper has really be a disaster for them.
I honestly have an image of a sad tragic hideous, loser in life, sat behind a tablet or iPhone trying to get attention on a football comments section because he is invisible in the real world.”
Lmao
Saliba in ASSE starting team as part of a back 3 in a 3-4-3 formation.
Kovac is now available for Arsenal.
Bayern just sacked Kovac
Now that’s an ambitious club, a club of Bayern statue shouldn’t be losing 5:1 to a middling Frankfurt side
Over at arsenal……
Guvnor
I’ve always thought of him as Davros from DrWho
Still a slim chance Mr bland get the sack even if we get drubbed 3 nil at Leicester
The club doesn’t care for success and that’s why we will finish 6th with Emery still in charge by May
Bayern are a bigger club than Arsenal and are bigger on the european stage at this time.
So yes they would have more impatience to failure than Arsenal would.
Vic
“””””Now that’s an ambitious club, a club of Bayern statue shouldn’t be losing 5:1 to a middling Frankfurt sideOver at arsenal……”””””
Weeks after they obliterate Spurs 7 -2 : they sack a manager after they have the misfortune to fall asleep at the wheel in one game.
Whilst in N5, Old London Town
Vinnai
Edu
hussey
The Spiv and His Clown
and the Playboy Josh
TAKE THE PISS OUT OF US!
Bayern are 1 place behind 2nd place. 4 PTS behind first.
Decisive. Ruthless club.
No sleeping at the wheel. No wait until Christmas. It is not working, let’s rip the bandage.
Meant 1 PT behind 2nd place, 4pts behind first place.
So could be easily retrieved.
CG
Did you call for Wenger to be axed when we were humiliated 8-2 against Man Utd? …and if not why not?…
There was also an early sending off for Bayern in that Frankfurt match.
Seems a little harsh to pull the plug on Kovac.
Maybe more to it than just on the football pitch though.
Problems off the pitch with Kovac as well. Clashing with others.
It’s less to do with how ‘big’ they’re in the European stage and more about how much they want to maintain their standard and halt allowing a clueless coach drag down their reputation Emery is been allowed to cause havoc and drag the club down because the leadership do not care about our history or how successful we should be as a club The Bayern management would cut Emery loose the very moment we bottled top4 last season. The very fact he’s about to lose it again this season and he is still in a job would be funny if… Read more »
Vic
And what does maintaining standards relate to in regards Arsenal?
A club that hasn’t won a league title for well over a decade and one that has been a europa league team now for several seasons.
We can all want to see the team improve but so much for your maintaing standards.
Ajax manager is touted as an end of season replacement for Bayern.
Victorious
If it was left to likes of you we’d be still playing under Wenger….lol
totally agree Vic
thats why we have to appoint Jose
We gonna have to Bulldoze, Bullshit and Bully our way back to the top table- with the Special One because we aint got a pot to p**s in if our Glorious PedRo is correct
you cant teck deck your way to the Top!
no mas
Red
Agree with you on F1 mind a joke of a sport , get the best car and you only get to beat your team mate . Put Hamilton in a Williams and he don’t win shit no two ways about it .
All about the car
Fair enough RSPCA!
“If it was left to likes of you we’d be still playing under Wenger….lol“
That’d be a right zinger if it wasn’t highly plausible that we’d be better off for it you crayon muncher
Lol CG. Wenger regularly got us spanked. He was positively comatose while he drove us off a cliff, yet I doubt you ever once called on him to be sacked.
Let me guess, “Son isn’t that type of player”. Um, yes he is. He broke a fellow professionals leg in a mistimed or angry/pissed off tackle. He let his emotions get the better of him and has now potentially destroyed a fellow pros career. This shit happens and people say “football is a contact sport”…it absolutely, categorically is NOT a contact sport. Period. Contact is made making challenges etc but contact is actually not allowed, hence, free kicks, penalties and red and yellow cards. Who “is” that type of player then? Because for every savage tackle that ruins careers, apparently… Read more »
RedtruthNovember 3, 2019 20:27:33
VictoriousIf it was left to likes of you we’d be still playing under Wenger….lol
We’d be batter off you sado
danny S
“””””Lol CG. Wenger regularly got us spanked. He was positively comatose while he drove us off a cliff, yet I doubt you ever once called on him to be sacked.””””
Wenger could lose a game 100- 0 – and yes ,I would still back my man to the Hilt.
Going great since he left.,aint it Danny boy!
Goh
Football is a contact sport.
No Un it isn’t.
Guns
Hear hear with you on that especially if it’s a player or a player of a club which is one of the media darlings ( if he’s English he’s 100 percent “ not that type of player “ somehow )
The defence of shawcross in the Ramsey incident was just as disgusting as the “tackle” itself in my book
Aurier looked like caused more damage in that tackle. That was a freak accident.
Yes it is
You’re allowed to make contact without it being a foul
Anyone seen the ankle images on twitter?
Daaaam looks painful. A random dude tweeted Gomes with an even more horrific image saying been there done that.
15 February 2017 First leg
Bayern Munich 5–1 Arsenal Munich,
7 March 2017 Second leg
Arsenal 1–5 (2–10 agg.) Bayern Munich London,
Yeah, we’d be better off under Wenger lol
Rt
Yeah
Not like emery lost 4-1 to chavs or 5-1 to Liverpool
Pecker
Ferrari had the best car this season but they kept shooting themselves in the foo
Emery did things the other way around. We want to play Auba alone for 70 mins. When the opponent’s defense are a bit tired, we bring in Lac . Instead, he started with both strikers and subbed out Lac at the 70 mins.
It is really frustrating.
Losing 4-1 and 5-1 to Chelsea and Liverpool would have been a good result under Wenger…..
Emery shouldn’t be wondering why there were so many empty seats. His captain asked them to “fuck off” .
Hillwood
I wouldn’t know about that haven’t watched it in years , but I stand by what I said put Hamilton in whatever car is last in the construction table and he doesn’t win shit
Emery should be sacked for not bothering to learn the language alone. Nobody understands what he says yet you expect the players to?
After every game its “we are speaking about ways to improve” before proceeding to make the same mistakes in the following game.
The man is so dim its unbearable.
RedtruthNovember 3, 2019 21:11:10
Losing 4-1 and 5-1 to Chelsea and Liverpool would have been a good result under Wenger…..
No wonder people ignore you
So Arsenal overpaid for Pepe at £73m ……and should’ve gotten Zaha at £80m instead ? Pepe- 3goals and 3 assists in under 800 minutes of play in a dysfunctional Emery system, in a new league , with new teammates. Zaha – 0 goals and 2 assists in over 900 minutes of play in a familiar system and surroundings. Pepe’s transfermarkt value – £66m Zaha’s transfermarkt value – £47m CG , Let me guess, it’s the calve index value that makes Zaha the superior one. Valentin , Who gives a rats ass whether Arsenal paid more than they might’ve had to.… Read more »
Son’s actions led to the terrible injury on Gomes no question.
It was a poor rash challenge from Son from behind.
And it was a case of afters from Son.
A few minutes before Gomes had put his arm/hand into the face of Son which saw him go down on the floor.
Peckobill
Go to the top of the class
Instead of buying Pepe Arsenal should have splashed the cash on a top performing CB and a midfield senior leader.
And that’s not disparaging Pepe either as an individual player. More that certain areas of the team were more critical to try to make right rather than adding to the strike force. To give the team a better balance.
Instead they splurged on Pepe, ignored the midfield and got in a cheap signing old CB who is defensively suspect in Luiz.
The man is so dim its unbearable
Lol, we try to ‘improve every moment’ and ‘work hard’ to ‘win in our way’ with our process’ and some other waffles
And then goes on to make the same mistakes and come back with same waffles..rinse and repeat, circle just continues,like WTF is he been programmed or what? guy just never learns,
Been like that since day 1 he stepped into the club,very very average coach.
Hillwood
😂😂 my view of f1 is somewhat muddied mind in the regard I find Hamilton to be such an humongous cock
Pepe is a brilliant signing, in hindsight it would seem otherwise because he hasn’t really hit the ground running and we have a clueless coach who can’t set up a midfield nor defense to save his life and as such bring to bare the glaring weaknesses we have there already in terms of personnel
Pepe will fly under a competent manager,
Really this squad is not all that bad and if we can bring in 1 or 2 world-class signings along with a competent coach and I have no doubt we’ll compete again
Let’s see if Bayern go for the mighty Arteta , Lego haired king of cone collector
Churlish “That’d be a right zinger if it wasn’t highly plausible that we’d be better off for it.” Still an AKB, I see. However average you think Emery, he improved on your idol last season. And after being dismissed, your idol turned around and got a job precisely NOWHERE, and this because the whole football world knows what you never figured out, namely that dipshit didn’t know his head from his ass in his later years. He might’ve made Arsenal great in his early years, but he made Arsenal a laughing-stock in his later years, and anyone who says otherwise… Read more »
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7643179/Cruel-cowardly-Arsenal-supporters-booing-captain-betraying-means-fan.html
Ishola 70
Easier said than done.
What were those top CB’s and CDM’s available for transfers last TW?
Arsenal needed a winger able to dribble past opponents and Pepe was available.
So you would get another senior top midfielder while we were already paying the likes of Ozil and Xhaka close to half a million a week without any takers for either one?
You’re supporting a wrong club I’m afraid.
You’ve got to be able to move players on in order to get better ones in their place or you hemorrhage funds.
Oh Binford the troll is in again
Nyt Nyt folks
I should have added: whatever you think Emery has done, he has not made Arsenal a laughing-stock. That is something only Wenger did. Time and time and time again.
Shame on you, Le Grove.
Peckobill
What he packs in his fire proof pants is of no interest to me
Hillwood
I’m referring to the bloke himself not what he’s packing
Well Bumford, Emery would never be good enough to make Arsenal great, no question!
Bamford
And yet he still outperformed emery and Solskjaer…..
My my my
At what point in time does the old git wenger stop being a relevance in what’s happening at arsenal in the here and now .
I don’t know how many times the saner minded ones on here got to say it’s not a flip of a coin on emery or wenger .
There are other managers out there for us to find . Wenger is no good , Emery is no good ,what’s so difficult to understand about this
Vic If you had read the post it was said this isn’t about Pepe as an individual player. It’s about Arsenal trying to find a better overall balance for the team. As it stands now Arsenal are a very lopsided team in being quite stacked in attack but suspect in midfield and defence. Sometimes an attack can function better with a team overall that is more balanced in all areas. Just throwing in another forward player that looks like he has even more goals for the offense doesn’t always mean that the goals will automatically fly in. Just a thought.… Read more »
Banford Arsene Wenger isn’t my idol, so your tale started with a completely ignorant fabrication and descended into the trademark dribblefest the place has come to expect of you. “Shame on Le Grove and on all Le Grovers (save Red) for allowing this arrogant, loud-mouthed, dishonest AKB dickhead to insult and bully genuine Le Grovers. Shame. Seriously.“ Favourite comment I’ve read on here. Just about confirms the desperate inability to exist on a platform where someone is intolerant of your self-absorbed bollocks. Dishonest? Bully? Fake Le Grover? Go get some of that psychiatric help you were telling Pierre he needed,… Read more »
It is a sad kind of logic. So if you pay for a meal at a fancy restaurant, it entitles you to reduce the waitress to tears? So if you buy a front-row seat in the stalls, it entitles you to yell at the actors and tell them to get the hell off the stage? So if you pay for a room in a nice hotel, it entitles you to scream at the concierge and tell him he should be fired? It is a dispiritingly dystopian idea but an awful lot of people have signed up to it. Not just… Read more »
Guy is having a meltdown and hurling shame at ‘le Grovers’… Hahahahah
Sit down and shut up you wanker..Wenger is and will always remain a legend to this great club while your Lord is a clown who can’t even lace his boots even has he ebbed away.
The shame actually should be on you for backing a loser but alas you won’t realize that as you have absolutely no self awareness..lol
I must say, the reaction of the fans here disgusts me,’ said Alan Parry on a television commentary at the time. Eboue said later that he had wept at the way he was singled out. Let’s be clear about this: to boo one of your own players is to betray what it should mean to be a fan. It is cruel, it is fickle, it is cowardly and it is self-defeating. Some Arsenal fans don’t rate Xhaka. That’s fine. But do they think booing him is going to make him play better? Do they think persistently undermining the captain is… Read more »
The run of games after Leicester just get easier and easier.
Southampton (home) LLDLLL
Norwich(away) LLLDLL
Brighton (home) LLWLWW
West ham (away)LDLLDL
He’s messed up
Sheffield utd
Palace
Wolves
and Leicester is a formality.
The decision that needs to be made by the hierarchy is , do we let a new manager come in and hit the ground running or do we allow Emery the chance to save face.