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.
Chitom The captain Koscielny left the club. That was a space for improvement at CB. Instead they opted for a cheapie signing in Luiz who is suspect defensively because the funds could go no further because of the financial output on Pepe. Regarding the midfield we have a rookie however promising he is starting every match but you want to portray that there is no room for manouvre in that area. Of course there is room for manouvre in that area if a rookie midfielder can see playing time every week. What Arsenal did in the summer transfer window was… Read more »
Arsenal fans are a embarrassment
An awful cocktail of ignorant councilestate third worlders and entitled middle class yuppies
Ishola
You think this current squad will look so unbalanced and disjointed under a better manager?
Ishola
This place was littered with folk claiming we needed a slick winger at the club to unlock Emeryball. And when that happened we’d have more offensive impetus and be better defensively by virtue of advancing up the pitch more and pushing their defenders back.
So yea, spare it. No side plugs every gap to the best of its ability in one window, but to argue we didn’t have a good window, or improve, is rubbish.
Victorious “You think this current squad will look so unbalanced and disjointed under a better manager?” The club needs a better coach than Emery and yes a better coach than him could get top four with this current squad. But we musn’t fall into the trap of seeing top four as the ultimate. The holy grail. We should also be thinking how we can be better than just getting into top four in the future. For that to be achieved Arsenal would need to get in a few first team signings as well as a new coach. This current first… Read more »
Unai 21 59
How do you fit in that scenario.
I’m pretty sure late in the window we made a 50 odd million bid for upamecano but they wanted a lot more so we got a cheap Luiz in on short term so as to keep the kitty to return for a bid next summer ( backed by lots of reports that we are going to return for him ) .
This also calls bollocks on pedros diatribe that we’ve spent next years money which I thought was nonsense any way
I’m an outlier
There are obviously normal fans but for the most part we are becoming the biggest wanker fan base. Worse than Chelsea and Liverpool
Champagne charlie “This place was littered with folk claiming we needed a slick winger at the club to unlock Emeryball” Just like it was littered with posters saying that all Arsenal had to do was to show up and they would stroll into the top four. Fourth place wasn’t good enough. An easy third place was proclaimed lol And this even with the Emery effect. The posters littering the blog proclaiming an easy third place were giving out these predictions in the knowledge that Emery would be the manager overseeing this easy procession into third place in the league. Folks… Read more »
At the start of the recent run of games , we were one point behind city and one point ahead of Chelsea and Leicester .
We are now 8 points behind city and 6 points behind Leicester and chelsea.
If /when Leicester beat us next week we will be 9 behind them and probably chelsea .
Champions league qualification is slipping away and the only way to get in back in contention is to win those 4 games before the more difficult games arrive.
Can we trust Emery to win those games.
Unai 21.10
A young rock formation divided from the older rocks.
I must be the older rock divided from the younger rocks.
Highbury for ever and bring back George Graham.😇
“an awful cocktail of ignorant council estate third world era and entitled middle class yuppies” booing the noble Xhaka.
Lol, Un like RedTruth, the champion of the (non-council house dwelling) white working classes who apparently don’t support Arsenal or show up Emirates any more.
Ishola
Littered with folk claiming an easy 3rd place? Sounds made up
Ishola 70
Lazy thinking? Maybe.
You still haven’t dropped any names that were available in the last TW that would improve our defense and mid.
Leicester sold their star CB for a world record fee and got a PL journeyman from WBrom for 4m and paired him up with a player from Bundesliga for 20m no one has ever heard of , and are sporting PL’s best defensive record this season.
Before the ball had even been kicked would you have taken Leicester’s Soyuncu and Evans over any Arsenal pair?
No ,you wouldn’t have.
Chit com Pepe will have his moments. He will have the odd cameo He takes a good set piece. But he ain’t a Champions League player. That’s why at 24 he ain’t never played it. I doubt he ever will play in the top tournament Has he scored in the Prem yet? We paid £72 million for him Yes £72 million for him Why? On Saturday The Clown thought an 18 year was the better wide option? Why? Pepe like Tierny like Louise like Cebollas have weakened us not strengthened us. Loosers Cup soccer is their standard In my opinion,… Read more »
Arsenal play shit defensive ball because Emery is clueless.
His La Liga defensive record speaks for itself.
CG Once again, welcome home. Yes, you have every right to gloat about your Emery prediction BUT woe be tide you, or anyone else for that matter, for thinking there was any justification for the real carnage that took place at our club between 2008-2018. We all now get it with Emery. It is clear to us all, except B10 that is. Unfortunately, not all of us got it all those years back when Emery’s predecessor started to systematically dismantle the club. Emery may be incompetent and yes he needs removing from the club asap, but he pales into insignificance… Read more »
CG
Let me see if I get your logic here.
Emery is shit , can’t set up the team and his substitutions suck, but Pepe is also shit because the same Emery who doesn’t know his asshole from his elbow put an 18 year old in instead of his 72 m signing when chasing the game?
Is this the best you can do?
Everyone on here, apart from B10 that is, sees Emery as being totally incompetent.
Strange.
Chitom Perhaps Soyuncu is one of diamond eyes better recommendations. Besides Leicester have a better balanced midfield in front of their defence which helps the backline. It’s not for us to highlight players. There are people at the club who are paid good money to find the right players. As it stands atm Arsenal have an unbalanced midfield who are not very good off the ball and have added to it a CB in Luiz who has more than enough times been beaten like a toddler whenever he is drawn away from his own six yard box and an opposing… Read more »
Champagne charlie
“Littered with folk claiming an easy 3rd place? Sounds made up”
Not made up at all.
There was mania on here when Pepe was signed. Like as said a starvinging peasant being given a square meal.
Pedro himself claimed that just fourth place wasn’t enough.
But he ain’t a Champions League player.
That’s why at 24 he ain’t never played it.
And what is Zaha’s CL record? Lol.
Un na naai
Why do you think the fans booed GX?
Give me three reasons?
I agree, booing your own is not good, but in certain situations, fans have a right to voice their concerns.
Ishola
Claiming ‘4th place isn’t enough’ isn’t the same as ‘3rd place is easy’.
It’s a statement to reflect the tools at the managers disposal and the field he’s working in (Chelsea banned and new manager, Ole shit). Given the fact we finished level on points with Spurs.
You’re just doing a spin.
CG Why don’t we give Pepe a bit of time and a chance to play under a coach who knows what he’s doing in a coherent game plan . If emery got his line up and formation right on the weekend we might start to have seen a better Pepe . He should’ve stuck with the 4-2-3-1 with ozil introduced in the middle of the 3 behind auba , Pepe one side , Martinelli the other . The forwards have lacked service all season, he brings in the creator but goes with a static two up top , idiocy decision.… Read more »
Pierre
“Champions league qualification is slipping away and the only way to get in back in contention is to win those 4 games before the more difficult games arrive.”
Well we all know Wenger would smash those easy games and then collapse against better sides….one step forward two steps back,,,..thank fuck he’s left.
Chitcom
pepe is a flop
it happens
we have been screwed
it happens
pepe will be back in france season after next
c’est la vie!
Ishola 70
Correct, Leicester do have a better midfield and Ndidi is its rock ,but the point I was making was that you literally can’t plug all the holes in a squad neglected for years in one or two TW’s .
Pepe was a good buy.
Arsenal players , as they are , are good enough to challenge for top four .
The coach isn’t.
Charlie But these tools are not as good as you think they are. They can be good enough for fourth place if a better coach comes in but ultimately the first team as well is lacking. It is called taking an overall view and weighing all things considered. Rather than just taking one view. One side. As you do and others. And at this time Arsenal have an unbalanced midfield that are not good enough off the ball and have added to it a CB that looks suspect in open play whenever an opposing player runs at him. This is… Read more »
Yea Ishola, you go ahead and lecture me and others on objectivity. You’re not known for being absolutely besotted with one of our players or anything.
I’ll go get property advice from Red too while I’m at it and ignore the fact any info I’d get would’ve come back after he’s shouted up the stairs and asked his mum.
Graham
I notice that you never answered my questions about the quality of our first choice central midfield and our first choice CB pairing. Why is that? Are you uncomfortable answering those questions for some reason?
Also, I already explained what competence means and why I think it is unreasonable to call Emery “incompetent”. You didn’t respond to that either. Instead you just lobbed in a new snarky comment. Why? Are you not capable of dealing with the argument I made re competence? That’s kind of what it seems like.
And Charlie
How could you have dismissed Leicester so badly?
You said that they weren’t even a top six side.
Sure the season has a long way to go but there is no question Leicester are looking very good. Excellent goals difference stats as well as putting those points on the board.
Banford
I notice you never answered how the following represents your idea of “improvement” and not regression:
Pl
25 wins in 49
6 wins in the last 18
2 wins in the last 9
“How could you have dismissed Leicester so badly? You said that they weren’t even a top six side.”
Because they’re not in the same league as the top 6 from a position of stature, financial clout, or squad.
A perfect storm doesn’t suddenly put them on parity with clubs in the top 6. They’re the beneficiaries of Ole’s United, Emery’s Arsenal, and Poch’s Klopp-like season ender at Dortmund.
Chitom
“Arsenal players, as they are, are good enough to challenge for top four. The coach isn’t.”
I’m glad you agree Leicester have a better midfield than we do. Some Emery-outers are incapable of seeing things like this.
Charlie
Just like Leicester weren’t in the same league with those clubs you named when they won the EPL title under Ranieri.
Forget others failures here.
Leicester themselves are doing very well.
Second highest goalscorers in the league.
Best defence along with Sheffield United.
But you refuse to give them their due credit.
You would rather focus on the failures of others.
Leicester are whey they are atm because of Leicester.
*Leicester are where they are because of Leicester*
CC
I see you’re still digging in about your Leicester opinion.
A bit of humility will do you some good, owning up to a bone headed opinion that you made can be lifting.
You got Leicester very wrong and you’re just being silly with this “perfect storm”
How can it be a perfect storm when some [including my humble self 😁😁😁] predicted they will compete for top-4.
Their squad strength is top-4. Their manager [who you don’t rate] is league tested and the perfect match for their team.
Bamford 10
I’ll bite.
Arsenal CB’s are just about league’s average, certainly not worse than Leicester’s.
Emery is incompetent because all his players appear confused as to what their role should be.
Footballers generally don’t have a reputation for being intellectuals but I find it hard to believe Arsenal players are dumber than most.
It’s either that or Emery doesn’t know what he’s doing.
I think it’s the latter.
“The Mail say a number of players have serious reservations about Emery, who many believe is too conservative in his approach. While his job isn’t under immediate threat, he faces a pivotal month trying to convince players & club’s hierarchy he is the man to lead the club forward.” – @GurjitAFC
Chitom
“Emery is incompetent because all his players appear confused as to what their role should be”
They are confused because they haven’t the technical ability to hold on to the ball!.
Emery gives a simple instruction to play out from the back and the players create a mountain out of a molehill by fathing about with the ball….useless players.
Ishola,
I agree that Leicester are excellent, certainly good candidates for a top 4 place, u less they have a few injuries as there’s limited depth in the squad.
The stats you quote on their defence are fine.
But “the second best attack” stat is inflated by that one-off match against Southampton where they scored 9 of their 27 goals. I’d expect Liverpool and Chelsea to catch up with them in terms of goals scored within 3 or matches.
Leicester need to pass onto Arsenal these perfect storms.
Leicester had the perfect storm when they won the league.
Now again they have a perfect storm with the very good start they have had in the league.
Shame these perfect storms can’t be bottled and brought down the motorway from Leicester to The Emirates.
Emery gives a simple instruction to play out from the back and the players create a mountain out of a molehill by fathing about with the ball….useless players.
Redtruth
You mean like splitting the CB’s both sides of Leno just about ten yards ,where one attacking player can cover the three of them no matter who’s got the ball , lol.
Words
Chelsea have no option but to better Leicester in goalscoring.
Chelsea are a we will score more goals than you team under Frankie.
But as you imply Leicester are really doing the business defensively and as long as they have a Vardy around to go with that then this storm of theirs could continue longer than people think.
Omg, your students must really love your lessons.
“Please sir can we go home now. We can’t take it anymore”
Tell me. Why should I respond to someone on football related matters when that same person thinks our existing manager is competent?
Your perceptions are way out there.
Chitom Nice. I appreciate your response. I disagree re our CBs being equal to Leicester’s. Both of theirs are quicker than ours and in the PL today, that is absolutely paramount. I think our CBs are experienced but slow, and that the latter makes them problematic and our defending problematic. As for your second comment — “all his players appear confused as to what their role should be” — I disagree. I watch the matches carefully and I don’t agree that our players look confused. I don’t think this claim is true at all. Indeed it wasn’t even true yesterday… Read more »
A competent coach could sort out Arsenal’s defensive frailties( ie- playing out from the back) in one day.
A competent coach would see that playing LT in advanced positions is a no brainer.
This is a very primitive way to make predictions so great it with a grain of salt, but if our form for the first 11 games was extended to the whole season we wouldn’t even get 59 points. Which would likely leave us closer to relegation than to the title
Naturally that’s a crude way to predict your points tally. I’m not really sure where emery is going to find improvement tho so it wouldn’t really surprise me
A competent coach would utilise his teams strengths, rather than nullify them.
A competent coach would not sideline Pepe after he’s just found his confidence.
A competent coach would not make GX his captain and then hang him out to dry.
A competent coach would get the basics right
But we have a horrible defense, never control games and our attack has one genius trick which is depend on auba
There’s no evidence that in 2019 emery has any idea how to get close to the best out of his squad. In 2019 the guy is incompetent
Arsenal ‘s attack is too slow and yet Emery persists Wenger style. By the time the gunners get to the box,they are confronted by 10 defenders.
This has been going on for the last 10 to 15 years . When you watch how the foxes and blades score its basically the speed . Defenders have littels time to back track.
Furthermore Arsenal need to run at defenders instead of passing.This will keep defenders off balance.
The defence must improve when they take on Leicester.That can of run cant be sustained by the foxes.
Graham62,
Sorting out Arsenal’s defensive frailties in one day might be pushing it a little, even for a competent coach!
But certainly a season and a bit should have been more than ample time.
GX and Ozil as captains lol
Emery demonstrates zero insight about picking good leaders because he isn’t one himself
A competent coach would not gloat in his team letting their opponents have 25 shots at goal, at the frigging Emirates.
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. ——————— Un na nai If you pay for a meal at a fancy restaurant ……….and find o long blond… Read more »
Choosing Özil as a captain was Emery way of passive aggressively deliberately mocking Özil to let him know in no uncertain term who the real boss is.
Yeah that worked… not.
Boy oh boy, Emery has badly calculated his play with Özil. He has been completely outplayed and outmanoeuvred.
It’s like Neymar all over again.
Few weeks back we were arguing that chelsea squad was better than ours.
Now we argue Leicester squad is better than ours.
Next week would it be Sheffield better than ours?
Sack the guy and move on. Its too late already. Win the next 4 games in PL and we could move to 3rd if the other teams slip a little.
Ishola Oh so Leicester winning the league in the most miraculous fashion is now their level? Or when Monaco lit up Europe was that them among the European elites? No and no. Leicester are doing great, Rodgers is doing great. Doesn’t alter the statement that all things being equal they aren’t comparable to the top 6. Dissenter Give me peace, you claiming a thousand daft things and landing on one doesn’t make you a prophet, or the spoken topic an inevitability. Leicester aren’t equal to a top 6 side, that doesn’t mean they can’t finish top 6. It’s also been… Read more »
Well, Mourinho has some front. Now he is ‘letting it be known’ that he has ligned up replacements for Xhaka and Sokratis. I wonder if it is him or his agent who is briefing the press with this blatant attempt to hustle the job? If anything a competent and street smart CEO would spot the attempted coup and laugh it out of court, telling him to sling his hook. Ours, though, are so weak and easily swayed, which he has obviously determined, that they could be duped by his stratagems. It is quite an insult to be telling the press… Read more »
Samesong
You seem to think your comments referencing other posters are private, sacrosanct even, yet seem obliged to butt in on other poster’s comments that are referenced. Double standards, no?
Mourhino is a spending champion.
We don’t need him.
I think Unai shld be allowed till end of season unless the players down tools & stop playing for him. This grp is high_quality & packed with so much talent, which remains a constant mystery why they simply aint producing results. If UE gets the bullet though, methinks the best man for the job surely isnt Jose. He is an anarchist, a virus; someone to avoid at all cost. Arsenal have always been like a family club with proper values. Which is y it needs to look inwards for its next gaffer. Someone who has been part of its history;… Read more »
Wolfgang good post spot on
Our attack with ozi or not is slow.
Predictable and liking for the perfect goal
It’s wenger all over again
Emery out
Looking
Good podcast by the way Pedro, you melon fucking dog pervert. 😂🐕🍆🍉
lol AKBs out from woodwork in force.
CC
Goodmorning.
“Leicester aren’t equal to a top six side”
Why is that?
This blog has become boring. With the same people whining about the same thing day in day out. Excellent blogger but it must be soul destroying to see Bamford and Graham carry on like six year olds.
‘A competent coach would not sideline Pepe after he’s just found his confidence.’
Just when the £72m purchase began to fire up, the anti arsenal Spanish left him on the bench behind rookie Saka.
To those bigging up leceister, let us know if they are gonna be in the top 4 by at the end of the season.
Also, to those not entrenched in the present vibe of leceister, let us know if they won’t make the top 4 at the end of the season
TT
What’s your problem TT? Did my “competent coach” comments get to you?
What’s your take on things then?
‘I’ll go get property advice from Red too while I’m at it and ignore the fact any info I’d get would’ve come back after he’s shouted up the stairs and asked his mum.’
You should get good property info though. Red’s mama is a genius and thinks Wenger is still to be blamed 18 months and £200m spent after Wenger exited.
My perspective is what we are witnessing now as per leceister is a result of a good manager who knows what he wants.
If leceister will sustain this level, vibe and run of form is another point of discussion bearing in that a long term injury to a player can alter the whole process
‘Mourhino is a spending champion.
We don’t need him.’
Name one serial winning champion who is
a non spending champion.
After years of criminal apathy from the board and the club owners resulting in Wenger, a charlatan, assuming almost total control of the club, the accumulated frustration and anger of the supporters is bound to flare up every now and then until the club find some stability and start delivering progress to the fans. Wenger has rendered a lot of fans in a mentally deranged state. So much so that some of them can’t help but bring his name up, sprout some bullshit and do lol lol. The same is the case for Wenger obsessives who always come up with… Read more »
If Raul and Edu wait till the summer to appoint a new coach while our performance continues to be this trash we are witnessing, then next season will be like starting all over again.
If Bayern can sack their manager despite the fact that they are just 4points off 1st place then Arsenal has no excuse to action when amendment to save the season is still possible
TT equating Graham to Bamford is like equating a hot plate of spaghetti to a bottle of pure lime.
Graham is class, Bamford is a petty Emery’s cheerleader.
Siddharth
With that rant, you have just proved yourself to be the archetypal Wenger obsessive.
‘Wenger has rendered a lot of fans in a mentally deranged state. So much so that some of them can’t help but bring his name up, sprout some bullshit and do lol lol. The same is the case for Wenger obsessives who always come up with figures and comparison to paint Wenger in a godly aura and Emery as a peasant.’ Sid, don’t cloud your senses with Wenger hate. You were not more ‘Wenger out’ than I was. I was one of those you went really far on Wenger. No question, Wenger is a football Mugabe but Wenger has been… Read more »
*who went
Pierre
I really do like your posts with detailed analysis about football but almost everyone on this blog know who is an obsessive over here. Like i said in my post earlier, Wenger during his last 8 years has seriously damaged fans on a mental level.
As for me being a wenger obsessive, i stand by what i said, 100%. I know you got offended by Wenger being branded a charlatan and a fraud.
Siddharth,
Great comment. Because of Emery the AKBs are back our in force rewriting history trying to erase 10 years of slow motion car crash.
“Bring Wenger back!”
No. Really don’t.
Or Bungle Benitez either.
Siddharth “Wenger has rendered a lot of fans in a mentally deranged state” Get over it , he left the building 18 months ago. “. Rather than bitching about Wenger & Emery ad infinitum and trying to get a personal one up over the other, it’s better if we can discuss on the way forward and that is by not mentioning Wenger” Maybe you should practice what you preach. “However, Emery is not even an ounce on the tyrant Wenger. Unlike Wenger he is a genuine bloke who is just not up for the task at hand and is seriously… Read more »
Sid
You’re way off
I’m simply saying that wenger at his worst outperformed emery
It’s true
And Siddharth
Emery is no different to Wenger in that they will both say black is white to save their arse.
No one seriously wants Wenger back, he’s done , finished at the club and its time to recruit a manager who doesn’t repeat the same mistakes as wenger and Emery.
Sid
Ask the players who they consider a tyrant
Wenger or Emery
No prizes for guessing the answer
bennydevitoNovember 4, 2019 07:39:35
Siddharth,Great comment. Because of Emery the AKBs are back our in force rewriting history trying to erase 10 years of slow motion car crash.
Benny
Actually no. Nobody is rewriting history. Even Pedro who campaigned to get rid of wenger for a decade admits that his replacement is actually marginally worse than Wenger’s worst two seasons.
Let’s also be clear: we wouldn’t be having this discussion if there were signs that things were getting better under Emery. They’re not. Results are bad, performances are bad, the underlying metrics are bad, and there are things we need to consider in the wider picture too. We want Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alex Lacazette to sign new deals, they’re on offer but remain unsigned because these guys don’t want another season of Europa League football. If our form continues the way it is under Emery, they’ll get their wish because we won’t have any European football at all. Our friend… Read more »
Posters who said Wenger should be brought back didn’t really mean it.
It was just a way of showing what a clueless coach we have in Emery.
What I observed here is posters who wanted Wenger gone supported Emery but are now pained that they supported him and that Emery is gradually taking away their leverage to trash Wenger.
Anyways, we(bamford inclusive) all wanted the best for our club. It’s just human nature to try and score cheap points over one another
Talk of Mourinho is very worrying. Will he continue to play and develop our youngsters or demand journeymen signings for a very short term quick fix? He couldn’t get anything out of Salah, De Bruyne or Lukaku so would he be able to carry on with Martinelli, Saka and Willock, or consign them to the reserves and sell them? Would he be the manager and have control of transfers or would he be the head coach and be expected to work with what we’ve got? How long before he starts throwing players and staff under the bus? Being controversial and… Read more »
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“What I observed here is posters who wanted Wenger gone supported Emery but are now pained that they supported him and that Emery is gradually taking away their leverage to trash Wenger.”
That’s about right ….what you are saying is, its Emery’s fault
Un,
Emery wasn’t worse last season, 7 points more and 1 place higher shows this although it was a very minimal improvement.
This season however totally agree. Emery needs to go it’s no longer a debate. Question now is when and who comes in.
https://arseblog.com/2019/10/arsenal-top-of-the-league-in-shots-against-penalties-conceded-etc/
Quite damning if you ask me
Un na Naii,
We have not conceded a penalty since Crystal Palace. According to our resident Harvard genius, We have therefore improved.
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But do they think booing him is going to make him play better?
No. He can never play well. Boo, or no-boo. He is simply worthless at this level.
Do they think persistently undermining the captain is going to have a good effect on the rest of the team?
Captain? This fellow doesn’t deserve to be on the pitch at a PL level game in the first place… What ‘Captain’ ?