The media is alive like a pit of vipers, all looking for their hot take on a story they don’t yet have. A little like some of the nonsense that was fed into the airwaves when we were hiring for the Wenger replacement. It makes for interesting reading, dependent on how you want to spin it for yourself.
The through-thread I’m hearing is quite simple: We don’t have a plan.
If you take that as your north star, it makes it easier to work out what’s real and what’s fantasy.
I am more inclined to believe the stories that Arsenal are not going to budge on ousting Unai Emery, namely because there’s no suitable replacement candidate, and there’s been no detailed undertaking of what’s in the market at the moment.
It’s also important to remember that Unai Emery is Don Raul’s man. When Arteta lost out because Ivan G lost his nerve, it was our lead football exec who brought Emery in for the magical interview with the powerpoint dossier. He’s attached to Unai, there’s either going to be a level of faith in his hard skillz (lol), or there’s going to be a level of stubbornness in the decision.
You also have to remember that Arsenal are not fast movers. Mountains of evidence supported Wenger being a busted flush, but things didn’t move against him until the stadium emptied out and the finances started to weaken. It’s very rare that a manager has ever been as bad as Unai Emery and turned things around. It is in the Kroenke DNA to really, really, really make sure the manager they have in charge is completely useless before they pull the trigger.
I’d also be paying attention to the reality of our finances. We pulled money from next season into last summer to make the big fancy signings happen. That was the financial trick. There’s probably an element of worry with firing Emery: ‘Do we really want to spend upwards of £12m to fire the coach and the 6+ people he brought along for the ride?’
I was told at the start of the season the chances of Emery being let go early were very slim. In fairness, I’m not sure anyone thought things would be this bad, this soon. There are some stories saying that he’ll be out the door if he loses next weekend. I think that’s fanciful. The bigger concern is that a lot of papers are saying he’ll be given a month to turn things around.
I worry if we go a month, it’s going to be impossible for any caretaker to get things back on track. The best choice if we did that would be Freddie Ljungberg, but that’s hugely risky. Bringing in a young coach to take over in a crisis isn’t ideal.
I’ve done to death the Jose Mourinho counter-argument. There are fans saying that talk of ‘values’ is weak sauce and that we shouldn’t pay attention to things like that.
I really dislike this line of argument. ‘Values’ when used to deflect a lack of competitiveness is unacceptable. Arsenal tried to tie the two things as inextricably linked during the bad years because it made for easy reading to the soft fanbase who saw Wenger as their daddy.
‘Chelsea may have trophies, but where’s the class? Not for me’
When we’re talking about values and Jose Mourinho, the commentary has more grounding in reality. You really are attacking who you are as a club when you make that appointment.
But honestly, fuck the talk of values. That is the last thing on my list of why nots when it comes to hiring in Jose.
The man is finished as an elite level coach. Just look at his idea of modern football. Look at the footballing output at United having spent £300m+.
‘But did he have a say on the players?’
Can you IMAGINE Jose Mourinho at United’s Pleasure Island for Faded Managers NOT having a say on players? He’s literally one of the most powerful coaches on the planet. He would have had total control over decisions. He is a King. He lives off his once elite reputation as the Special One. He had control, and while Manchester City were out there creating the next generation of cognitive football, he’s making excuses about the lack of investment and defending his painfully dated footballing philosophy.
Don’t worry about values people, with Jose Mourinho, it’s lose/lose. You’re bringing in the most toxic man in world football, and by the way, he’s going to crash your club within 2 seasons, likely with little to show for it.
Arsenal are in this situation because they hired a coach based on an objective.
‘Get Champions League’
We didn’t hire a coach thinking of the 3-5 year plan of where we planned to take the club. We weren’t thinking about how to be competitive. We just hired in someone based on his glamourous previous job.
The fans will now demand our next hire is a ‘proven winner.’ But it’s the wrong way to look at it. Hiring a winner took United to LVG after David Moyes. It then took them to Jose Mourinho. Now they’re in all sorts of trouble because the correct decision was a young innovative coach, but when they finally made that decision they did it based on emotion, not smarts.
We built a global brand playing stunning football. We are not currently capable of behaving like a superclub. Arsenal has a golden generation of kids coming through. We have a squad built for attacking football.
Our next hire needs to be mapped to our reality.
There is no point in hiring the archetypal ‘winner’ because that sort of reputation is ALWAYS tied to a chequebook manager. We can only afford to work with one of those types on the way out of the top tier (Jose). We need to make our gains by hiring in someone that can outperform our resources. That has to be a coach with ideas, someone that’s happy to work with what is on offer at Arsenal, someone that wants to grow into a king.
Right, that’s me done, see you in the comments.
Is the midfield so bad that we cannot get an internal solution and then have to wait till January?
You need a massive character to manage this rabble.I said before and i say it again some of these players are useless and close to unmanageble they commit the same deadly sins game after game,switching off to often when they shouldnt completely incapable of learning from their mistakes ,tactically unable to solve simple problems on the field.When Arsenal play it is riddled with simple mistakes like missing your man from 5 yards,sometimes oceans of space between the lines,sloppy defending,sloppy play from the defense,hopeless passing trough midfield.Whoever we hire he has got one hell of a job to do to get… Read more »
Emery is Basque-Spanish
So is Arteta.
Sanllehi is Catalan-Spanish.
How exactly dis the “Spanish old boys club” favour Emery over Arteta?
We would appoint a pinnochio to coach this team and we’d instantly improve
Emery is useless and don’t deserve nor has the required ability at whatever capacity to be the coach of this club,lucky fraud who is thieving from the club to utter bad English to us every week
You know you’re dogshite when a far more shitty united side is taking the piss and feeling pity for you
We wouldn’t sink lower anymore no matter how hard we try..really sad times for the club
Redtruth,
Are you a Marxist-Leninist or a Trotskyite?
Either way you’re stuck in an EKB vs. WOB past.
Major_Jeneral
“Is the midfield so bad that we cannot get an internal solution and then have to wait till January?”
Torreira not being used higher up can help.
But not as a solitary DM. He needs another alongside him deeper.
Really the club need to buy a DM that can look after himself and the defence on his own like Ndidi does at Leicester.
Torreira is not that player. He is a pack player not a solitary player. He needs at least one other player alongside him.
How impressed have you been with David Luiz Samesong since he has joined Arsenal? David Luiz has looked undisciplined cost us probably 6 points this season with his rash stupidity. I’ll leave rash for mustafi. David Luiz only looks good next to a worldwide that tells him what do to. Yeah he can pass out from the back and spray a long ball to no one but why the hell do we do it to ourselves. Would Smalling have been a better bet? but hes just as error prone too. We shod stay well away from these rejects from now… Read more »
Graham62 your a good man!
Good points Danish.
The team are very slack in the basics and the most damaging is being slack in off the ball basics.
Victorious November 29, 2018 17:28:17
“Hello Akilan, been ages! Absolutely with you on AMN Really refreshing to see how far he’s come under Emery and if he grabs his chance with an absolutely domineering display in midfield”
Redtroll
Hold on tiger…not like we thought literally no coach out there could possibly out perform Wenger at his very worse until your hero took the reigns
I mean it’s unbelievable how your idol can make it possible that Wenger’s worse years shit on his best and whatever it is he can offer us
Never thought it possible literally no coach could improve on Wenger banter years. Really mind-boggling how clueless the guy is..
CGNovember 4, 2019 17:31:29 “You need a Proven Big Hitter . (history tells that time and time again.) think Graham/Wenger. now think Mourinho.” >>>>>>>> CG, We’ve been over this many, many times before. Wenger was not a proven big hitter. At the time the press were saying Arsene who? When Wenger took over Arsenal he had won significantly LESS trophies than Emery had won when he took over. Emery had just won the French treble and the French cup double the league before. 3 European trophies in Spain, more than Wenger and Arsenal had won in their ENTIRE history put… Read more »
Ishola70
Who’s making an excuse for him.
David Luiz spends most of his life in “cruise control”.
Why do you think FL ditched him?
We all knew what we were going to get when we signed him.
Hopefully our new coach can give him a kick up the backside, otherwise he will remain a white elephant.
Victorious January 22, 2018 18:50:50
“At last this saga is over,$anchez has gone,that should lift the team moraleMikki, this is your time to prove boringnho wrong,I hope you tear it for us”
Just a theory and it’s not joke friday why has noone ever mentioned Guardiola?
I see nothing in Arteta that justifies all this hype.
What has he done that makes him so special?
Answers on a postcard please.
Samesong
You mean leave the bright lights of Manchester for the even brighter lights of London?
Good one.
And what does happen with Freddie L if another coach comes in? Freddie gets demoted or the boot… Im sure the new guy will bring in his “team”
Would suck…it however would make sense to keep FL in the first team in some capacity
Lol Redtroll getting desperate now digging the archives and clutching at straws..hilarious basically a strawman Cant be bothered like you mate buh I’m pretty sure every comment you make on here stands as a good advert for Legrove’s hall of shame records.. Some of the doofus you come out with man.. Like WTF.. Hahah I mean same fella who literally sucks off the awful Ospina on here every-day and proclaimed he is the greatest goal keeper in the world..hahah Same Muppet who claims Messi is a fraud Same idiot who rates a whopper like Emery as a better coach than… Read more »
It was a massive mistake that we didnt hire Pep or Klopp we had the chance but blew it big time,sometimes being clever can actually hurt you instead of just going for the obvious neither pep or Klopp would have tolerated some of the slack and indisciplined football we dish out every saturday.
You know it’s a red flag for the coach when rival fans are hoping we let him survive till May
My united and chavs mate are laughing off their nutsacks and hoping we don’t sack Emery, it’s sad
That should be enough to tell the guy to fvck off but alas….
If we are he’ll bent on getting EC qualification then we have to act fast.
The players will not be focused knowing that Emery has one foot out of the door. We will continue to loose our away games as Emery is a specialist at this, so we cannot expect some sort of miracle.
Even if Freddie gets a caretaker role it would be a step forward.
.
Victorious January 31, 2018 12:35:19
“You just know Ozil was waiting for Auba before he pens in,pity $anchez couldn’t hold on a bit longer, Ozil,Mikki,Auba,Wilshere combining, that’s orgasmic football right there”
We finished 6th…pillock lol
“No thank you to Bungle Benitez either.“
Based on?
Graham
You are underplaying the poor defensive side we have seen from Luiz since he has joined.
There has been no “control” from him when players run at him one on one. There has been no “cruise” from him when players run at him one on one. Just poor toddler defending.
So much for “cruise control”.
Before giving up on the players I think it would be a good idea to see how we perform under a different manager. Our last 8 home games before Emery arrived. 3-0……Watford 3-1……Milan 3-0…..Stoke 4-1……CSKA 3-2…..Southampton 4-1…West ham 1-1…. at.Madrid 5-0…..Burnley 26 goals for ( average more than 3 goals a game) 6 against. We have basically the same offensive players now as then except Pepe for Mhkitaryan ( who most on Le Grove didn’t rate anyway). So let’s wait and see as these players are obviously capable of destroying teams with fluent ,open , attractive football . It’s very… Read more »
Victorious February 11, 2018 18:25:41
“Also more puzzling are those who are bigging up Rafa for the Arsenal job,WTF
I’m afraid the hatred of Wenger is clouding so many poster’s judgment on hereGood to see Boringnho loss again,Utterly disgusting manager”
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.football.london/arsenal-fc/news/arsenal-fan-pinpoints-quality-mikel-17200545.amp
No more good ebenings
Redtroll
I’d give it a rest,I know you have no shame buh you’re scrapping the barrel now and it’s embarassing even for you
So are telling us you rate Benitez more than your god?
Don’t like Rafa
Dont like Boringho
Emery is worse than the 2 of them and that’s saying something
What’s so difficult to process there you pea brain crayon muncher
Emery couldn’t evenbetter Wenger’s worse years you idiot
3-0……Watford
3-1……Milan
3-0…..Stoke
4-1……CSKA
3-2…..Southampton
4-1…West ham
1-1…. at.Madrid
5-0…..Burnley
Basically this, now it’s a painful struggle even at home regardless of whoever we’re playing these days
We haven’t even dominated any game played so far this season and Redroll would rather remain stucked munching aways at Emery’s balls.. Lol
Victorious ,
I’m with you on emery but I really don’t know what your united mates are fucking laughing about . OGS is even worse than emery which takes some sort of skill .
Have you actually reminded him of this ?
Un na naai November 4, 2019 16:53:34 “I’m warming to the idea of Arteta by the way, I initially thought it was Pep bigging up his number two but it seems alot of the City players credit him with improvements to their game.” In much the same way our young players are bigging up Freddie. If Arteta was so hot and saucy, why would City let him go to a rival? Wouldn’t they want him to take over from Pep when he eventually leaves? Unless, of course, they know he’s not all that. Why aren’t Everton all over him especially… Read more »
Gazidas, Raul and Sven then spent time apart so as to make sure they didn’t influence each other’s decision, then reconvened and all put the 3 candidates names on a piece of paper from 1 to 3.Emery was 1 on Gazidis, Raul’s and Sven’s list.This was reported on the Arsenal dot com as well as interviews by Gazidis. Benny Hahaha. Ok then. It was on arsenal.com. Conversation over. Did they not run a story on arsenal.com about emery having a 12 inch thick dossier on the team though Benny? That he knew each player inside out Did arsenal.com also report… Read more »
Sob stories
Rodney king
You wanna go back and fact check
Wasn’t me who said that.
Victorious August 11, 2019 18:34:16
“United are the major threat for top 4,they have a better defense nowBissaka and Maguire are huge upgrades for them Chavs will finish a distant 6th”
Words on a BlogNovember 4, 2019 21:12:37
Emery is Basque-Spanish
So is Arteta.Sanllehi is Catalan-Spanish.How exactly dis the “Spanish old boys club” favour Emery over Arteta?
Words. You just answered your own question here lightning!!! Key word:Spanish. 😂 😂
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LrZGHVQZmXs
Watch this you cunts
Exactly what I’ve been saying. The frustrations boiling over are primarily down to emery
Master of his own demise
Torreira played out of position at no10
Check
Can’t he keep his fucking head still.
Un
What’s the gist of what the blokes on about ? I tried watching it but he was making my head spin with all his moving about
In na naai
I’m not listening to a Yank
Un na naai
https://youtu.be/rzJy_CmeVH0
Redtruth=redcoat?
For me, playing Guen and Ceballos as defensive cover is not going to work. My suggestion is Torr and Chambers as double pivot against Leicester City. Play Bellerin as right back. If he is not ready, play Mustafi as right back.
Red
Your hell of a boy
“ I’m not listening to a yank “
By the way, Mustafi will never lose a header to Raul Jimenez. I can guarantee that.
CC,
I just think Benitez was a bit of a buffoon and got played easy at mind games, easily rattled. We all remember the “Fact” press conference. He could never get Liverpool to first place despite winning the CL and is yesterday’s manager.
We need to be looking forward and hire someone with a 3 – 5 year vision like Pedro says, imo.
Bennydevitto
“ Why can’t we take a chance on an unknown entity like Wenger was?”
Wenger wasn’t entirely an unknown entity. He had coached Monaco and had a growing reputation as an innovator on and off the pitch.
Social media and YouTube didn’t exist at the time. Now you’re sure to stumble upon a random, heartwarming post about how a certain player’s career has been improved by one of the club’s stewards.
The post goes viral and everyone wants the steward hired as manager.
Rt
Well this yank blows you out of the water. He’s probably only watched football for 8 years but his ability to see what’s happening far outstrips yours.
Wenger wasn’t entirely an unknown entity. He had coached Monaco and had a growing reputation as an innovator on and off the pitch.
Rodney
Not strictly true. He was in Japan before he came to us. Hardly bugs clubs knocking down the door and on the day he signed the papers ran the immortal headline “Arsene who?” He was mocked and derided by other coaches and football writers (notably Jeff Powell and Sir Alex)
Just goes to show what a little faith in the right man can achieve- coughs- arteta
I don’t remember this level of mourning in the press when Ramsey and previously Eduardo were left with their legs being held on by their fucking sock.
I mean I feel for Gomes (in the same way I felt for Ramsey and Eduardo) but the level of grief stricken outpouring is a bit much
The baying mob
That’s because Gomes wasn’t done by an English player .
Baying mob
The pathetic attitude of the English media is only the foreign players are dirty / divers / lazy .
Foreign player dives the press and pundits go overboard in their criticism.
English player dives and “ he was playing clever there “
It makes you puke quite frankly
In na naai
.
At least Wenger had some managerial experience before he came to Arsenal unlike the Everton reject.
Peckobill
You don’t know what you’re talking about. Every British player is built up then ruined by our media you fucking amoeba.
They fawn over the foreigners here.
And Baying Mob. They absolutely did make a fuss over both Eduardo and Ramsey when it happened.
Particularly Ramsey.
If Ali or Kane had committed that foul they wouldn’t even of been booked and the filth biased English media/ pundits would’ve said it was the right decision
I’ll add my two cents worth.
Wenger before he arrived at Arsenal had won the league with Monaco and spurned Bayern Munich advances.
It seems 35 years after Munich first came calling they could come knocking on his door again.
That’s the thing about class.
Class outfits like Bayern notice and appreciate it .
Our Zombie Executives have given us Edu and Emery.
Glorified Uber driver material.
Dont trust them to get the next appointment right either
They would even know the meaning of the word : headhunt
Rt
Yeah
Fat lot of good that’s done your greasy haired crush.
What’s that red? I think I hear mummy calling you downstairs for some warm milk and a jam sandwich
Run along
Un
Your dribbling shit
Benny He was rattled by Alex Ferguson, doesn’t make him a buffoon. To even compete with Fergie is testament to his managerial ability. This “yesterday’s manager” notion is bizarre to me, you’re either competent or not at the task at hand. Emery isn’t, I’d wager Benitez is as his record speaks for itself. I’m all for a visionary at Arsenal, and someone that can take us from C to A over a defined period of time, but it’s mid-season and choices are sparse – that’s the reality of the situation. Rafa is my preference because he gives us a level… Read more »
@Un
I’m sorry if I misquoted you earlier. But it appeared as though you said it originally because the statement wasn’t in quotes.
Regarding Wenger. True, he was in Japan before he came to Arsenal. But at Monaco, he had his own ideas about how he wanted to play the game.
That fact that most people in England hadn’t heard of him, didn’t mean he didn’t know what he wanted to do. Ferggie may have had the last laugh ultimately but Wenger caused him and United great discomfort in those early days.
Everton can have Arteta.
Shawcross
“ he’s not that type of player “ pffft
Cha Cha
You know Bd is a good man and a sensitive soul but he knows nowt about soccer.!
He supports Bristol City dont he?
Un,
Arsenal aren’t going to lie are they? They never said he had a 12 inch thick dossier ether. He did try to build a team around Ramsey and Ozil but Ozil was throwing sickies and being lazy, and Ramsey got injured. Once Ramsey was fit again he played the rest of the season until he got injured. Again.
Your irrelevant response about Syria and the fact you believe you’re own thick cunt bullshit is no surprise.
CG,
I don’t support Bristol City. Played football with them from 14 – 16 but no supporter.
Who knows anything about soccer? That’s an American sport.
Football however, I know plenty.
CC,
You make a good case for Benitez, fair enough. Just not my cup of tea.
I guess at this juncture maybe Arteta would be worth a punt, but would our players respect him like they do Freddie? I don’t think they would.
One thing that is painfully clear to me is that the LG comment section is going to be fucking hard work again for as long as Emery remains and the AKBs have gone full on Tardis with dementia going back in time and rewriting history and erasing/forgetting how bad things really were. I was Wenger out, yet the idea of Mourinho, King of the WOBs calling him the specialist in failure offending me more than the AKBs who have no problem with that and are now begging him to take over is a new low for the comments section. Keep… Read more »
Emery will be with us for another 7 months.
I think it’s fair to say that LG comprises the full spectrum of fans, from the everything negative to everything positive and all positions in between but the underlying factor is we are all Arsenal supporters. The diversity of opinions make for a lively blog and for me the only Arsenal blog worth commenting on. However the post hoc rationalisations and the personal attacks, which seem to go hand in hand with some posters do detract from the quality of discussions here. I hold my hand up to being guilty at times of the former and on one occasion the… Read more »
Wenger was not an unknown entity. He won title and French domestic Cup with Monaco. Monaco reached the semi-final of the Champion’s League in 1994. In France he was quite successful but was thwarted by Marseille bribing layers and referees. They even got accused of attempting to poison the opposition after sleeping pill were found crushed in the player drink. Before people got outraged by the allegation, be aware that Marseille got convicted and stripped of one of their title for bribery. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_football_bribery_scandal Bayern came and at the time they didn’t come knocking if you had no pedigree. Monaco refused… Read more »
We still haven’t heard from any Emery-outers re how they would set up against Leicester and why. Why are you afraid of this question, gents? It shouldn’t be that complicated.
Azed I agree that we could be a good counter-attacking team and that Emery has failed to see this. And I agree that his not seeing this is totally on him. He is a little tunnel-visioned in a way, he wants to play in the more trendy fashion, more in the manner that all of the big clubs are playing. This is on him. However, I don’t know that I agree that Lacazette is well-suited for a counter-attacking approach, and I don’t know that our midfield personnel are all that well-suited to a counter-attacking game. We are generally slow in… Read more »
For those who want to think about Leicester and how to play against Leicester, the extended highlights from their match against Palace isn’t a bad place to start. Watching this, one immediately sees why we have struggled at times with teams like this (and I mean both of these teams). They are so much quicker and more athletic than us it’s a joke.
https://www.nbcsports.com/video/extended-highlights-crystal-palace-0-leicester-city-2
GK = Leno
RB = Bellerin
LB = Tierney
2 CBS = Sokratis and Holding
2 DMS Holding Mids = Torreira and Guendouzi
AM = Ceballos
3 Forwards = (left/central)Pepe, Lacazette (central) and Aubameyang (right/central)
Bellerin Sokratis Holding Tierney
Torreira Guendouzi
Ceballos
Pepe Lacazette Aubameyang
Pointless chat about a new manager… 💋
I know his record is solid but I’ve never really been a fan of Benitez. If he came in and did a job I wouldn’t be complaining but he doesn’t jump out at me as a candidate
My selection:
Bellerin Sokratis Luiz Tierney
Torreira Chambers
Guendouzi
Pepe Aubameyang Martinelli
If we are chasing a team, replace Chambers by Lac at the 60 mins.
The larger worry than Emery’s tactics and decisions is how many first-teamers in the dressing room still want him to be around and not sacked immediately.
If that number is less than 80%, he should be released.
The fans and the pundits and even media are finding faults with everything Emery does nowadays- typical typecasting. If the dressing room if majorly different from this trend, it’s worth sticking with Emery for 4 more games. That is if there isn’t really a suitable alternative.
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/15118/11853372/unai-emerys-arsenal-are-in-decline-with-no-sign-of-progress
One for Banford to argue, and not dodge again, before he demands folk answer his questions.
Rationalise your preachings of “progress” in lieu of this breakdown ‘ya smelly taliban bastard’.
Check this Saliba stat…
‘An incredible statistic has revealed that during this calendar year, Saint-Etienne have managed to win 11 games out of a possible 13 – conceding just 4 goals.
Without the ace’s presence at the heart of defence, Saint-Etienne have a dismal record of 4 wins from 17 games. In these matches, the side also conceded 28 goals.’
Must be something wrong there China, according to many at LG one player can’t make a difference.
Well bojangles it’s only one number so who really knows but his manager described him as the best player in the team and that number sure is compelling
I don’t wanna pin too many hopes on Saliba because he’s a kid but it’s hard not to be excited
Churlish That article pretends to be a deep look at things, but it’s actually very superficial in many ways. Where to begin? Let’s start with the basic contention that we haven’t seen progress under Emery. This is bogus. We finished 7 points better and one place higher under Emery than in the year previous, and these are by far and away the most important “statistics” in football. Every other number is secondary to points and position in the table, and we undoubtedly improved on this front. So, no. Secondly, he points to the number of shots conceded against Wolves, which… Read more »
I don’t think anyone is trying to re-write history here. It’s just most of you wobs get your knickers twisted whenever Wenger”s name is mentioned. He has done his part and left, so, don’t expect all posters to join in your normal name calling hobby against the man. In my few years of reading this blog, I have noticed some posters who disappear when tactics are discussed but resurface when it’s time to insult the Wenger. Like I posted in the former thread, referencing Wenger by some is just to show the decadence in performance of the present incompetent one… Read more »
If Bellerin is fit vs Leicester (I dunno if he is) I would try chambers and torreira as DM against Leicester, with ozil ahead. That gives you physicality and terrier qualities plus two defensive first players playing DM for what would be the first time this season. Martinelli auba and pepe up front with laca presumably coming on in the second half subject to circumstances I don’t think it’s easy to pick a starting 11 because it’s subjective. But I also don’t think it’s rocket science to put good defensive players in defensive positions. Something emery prefers not to do… Read more »
If that incident with xhaka hadn’t happened he’d be nailed on to start every game this season barring injury
Emery isn’t even paying attention
If Bellerin isn’t fit you could even keep chambers at RB and put Luiz at DM.
—————-Leno
Cham-sok-holding-Tierney
————torreira-Luiz
—————-ozil
Pepe————————-Martinelli
—————-auba
Bench:
Martinez
Mustafi
Guen
Ceballos
Willock
Laca
AMN
It’s not perfect as holding is still regaining sharpness but I don’t see why that couldn’t be a better setup than we’re currently arsing around with
Instead expect to see torreira in advanced positions for no good reason, lack of protection for the defense and us getting overrun with our only hope being auba bailing us out
Good luck to us
Emery’s career at Arsenal is terminal. The only question will be when he leaves. There are going to be two possible time frames for his departure namely by Christmas, which is effectively halfway through this season or in May. My original view was that he would be given until end of season based on Arsenal’s historic reluctance to sack managers too quickly. However, Arsenal’s performances this season in EPL have been so poor that I cannot see how we can delay decision much longer. Let’s be perfectly frank there has not been a game in EPL despite the 4 victories… Read more »
From emery you’d think we have no DMs in the squad when in reality we have torreira Luiz and Chambers all as capable options, assuming guen is still work in progress
There is another reason why I would be disposed to recruit Vieira and that is
there are now three key players in our squad namely Aubameyang, Lacazette
and Pepe with French background.
Also you have young players like Guendouzi and shortly Saliba also on books.
Many of the young major talents in Europe are also French.
Benny this is a long shot here but do/did you know James cope?
He was a city youth keeper for years when we were at school together. Lives in portishead
Not sure how old you are tho
Tee
Your comment is reasonable. The thing is, how often do we need to be told of the incompetence of Emery when almost the entire blog wants him gone anyway. We do not need to hear that Wenger was a better coach/manager. It has gone beyond serving that purpose. Wenger has gone and as I said yesterday he is not relevant now other than as part of Arsenal’s history.
China1 If at home and also if Holding is the old Holding, I would go with your lineup. But last game, Holding was no where near EPL ready. I expect that he’ll play the cup game on Thursday. I select Guen instead of Ozil. This is because it is an away game against a very hot team. My plan would have all three midfielders parking the bus. Even Martinelli will be tasked to help out the defense. We’ll try to do fast counter with Pepe and Auba. Tee As for why I propose Mustafi instead of Chambers for right back,… Read more »
ES
Bergkamp would be a good shout.
He has already said he would come back but only after his children have grown up.
Chambers can’t play as deepest mid tactically, but as defensive box to box player alongside either Torreira, Guendouzi or Xhaka he can do decent job.
My plan is to play Torr, Guen and Chambers as three defensive midfielders. We’ll try to get at least one point from this away game.
Steve Morrow leaves club as part of an Arsenal restructuring.
Bould to follow???
Followed hopefully by Emery.