Edu and Raul scowling at the pitch was all Arsenal fans on a rainy day in the midlands. Unai Emery set up to nullify a rampant Leicester and in the main, he did pretty well for large parts of the game. However, when it came down to it, the difference-maker was Jamie Vardy and the rest is history.
Unai lost the day, Arsenal are now 9 points behind Leicester, sitting in 6th, behind Sheffield United and the usual suspects in November. It’s not a good look, especially considering the investment this summer. The players look uninterested. The fans are unanimous. It’s over for the manager.
Our starting 11 only had one of our summer signings in it. Our record signing benched, Kola preferred over Tierney, Ceballos not even in the squad…
I wasn’t overly impressed with the first half. I thought our midfield was run ragged at times and despite the front three playing a specific tactical role, I felt their effort was limited off the ball. I think our core issues stemmed from our inability to play the ball from out the back, a problem we’ve had since day one of Emery. The players don’t know how to move the ball past the third pass.
The second half was all about the midfield, or lack of one. If this season has been marked by any issue bigger than our terrible midfield, I don’t know about it. We struggle with shape because players are asked to play unfamiliar roles, LT playing in a more advanced role is poison. Watching them either drop too deep into the defence to affect what’s ahead of them, or push too far forward to make up for an immobile strike force, is absolutely painful to watch. None of them have a clue. It’s not a personnel issue, it’s a coaching problem.
We had three very good attacking players on the pitch today, but as usual, it was an absolute struggle to involve them in the game. There’s no structured idea of how we move the ball forward, that results in long dangerous balls or a total breakdown and a quick turnover.
No one likes xG, but just like last season, it’s always a precursor to a correction. We had a lot of luck at the start of the season and we were bailed out by individual brilliance. I think the game against Leicester was an example of individual talent not being on hand to rescue a bad system.
Leicester have great individuals, but they combined that with a sense of identity and a vision of how to play the game. Brendan Rodgers has them organised, energised and playing great football. As Matt said on the podcast in the week, football players just want to know what to do. I’m not sure Unai Emery has his players singing off his hymnsheet (horrible tune no doubt). We looked good in patches, but the game was same old, same old. Unai Emery went away to Leicester hoping to defend deeply and nick a win, depressing when you consider how shite Leicester were last season before Rodgers took over.
I can understand why Emery is hiding behind negative tactics against a good side, he’s had it rough the last few weeks, the problem I have is that’s generally the way he approaches every game. The vision he has for the team is more miserable than it needs to be. He’s treating our squad like he’s back in Sevilla, something the PSG players moaned about. I don’t think the players want to play that way. I think a coach with a bit more confidence would recognise that our front three are amongst the most lethal in the league, and the depth is pretty decent as well. We’re geared up to play an explosive brand of scary attacking football. We need a coach that can play that way.
That’s not coming under Emery and his negative football isn’t paying off. I can’t see him surviving much longer, but as I’ve written about extensively this week, there don’t seem to be many options open to the leadership team.
Freddie, Mourinho, Allegri and Wenger. I like Allegri, but as I wrote yesterday, we’d be matching an elite manager to a situation that is going to require time and a lot of patience. I am guessing he wants to win the Champions League with his next outfit, and I would imagine he’d want instant funding to get there, that’s not us. I’m not sure it’s a fit. Freddie is too junior, Mourinho is an arsonist, and Wenger is a no go.
But what do you do? You have to have a crack at reviving the season, and that’s clearly not going to happen under Emery who appears to have lost the confidence of the players.
This is where the Edu has to come armed with a solution. Trouble for him is that the up and coming managers doing great work at the moment are unlikely going to want to move to a dumpster fire midseason even if the club is tempting.
… making a decision under duress could lead us to a 4-year disaster that makes this look like a drop in the ocean. I don’t want to be the ‘careful what you wish for’ guy, but remember, Raul was captivated by Unai Emery, so I can’t imagine what his shortlist is looking like, but I’d imagine Luis Enrique and Jose Mourinho is the shade of manager we’re looking at. The ‘we need a winner’ solve. The United path.
We’re breaking for international week, I’d imagine we’ll find out in the next two days what the club is going to do. If nothing happens now, he’ll be here until January, and boy, that December to Jan fixture list is brutal. But at least it might give the club a little more time to source someone who can stabilize and build.
We’ll see though, choppy waters ahead regardless. See you in the comments.
Lol, yeah Palace are shite. Remember how we also did them in at home? Oh wait…
Last season we truly did bash them in at home though… oh that’s right we didn’t.
Folk chewing the fat over Arsenal and the current situation around the manager and club, and Banford is trying to get folk banned between pasting his old comments for attention.
He’s just your friendly neighbourhood poster with the “reasonable and good points”. Not a clue why folk have about 0.2 seconds for him. Never ever learns.
Quick, claim bullying again, it’s been almost a week.
I still think that as far as attack is concern, playing the two strikers in the lineup is the problem. We should play 4 3 3 or 4 2 3 1 formation with Martinelli, Auba and Pepe as the front three. Our two strikers can only score goals. They can’t buildup the attack. Their passing capability is weak. When we play two strikers, they has to help outin the buildup of the attack. They are not used to it. Either they didn’t see the run of the teammates or they made bad passes. With 4 3 3 or 4 2… Read more »
Rioch signs Bergkamp to signal new era Phil Shaw Wednesday 21 June 1995 00:02 For Arsenal, it was history in more ways than one. Not only did the pounds 7.5m paid by Bruce Rioch for Dennis Bergkamp treble the club’s record outlay, but the Dutch international striker’s arrival from Internazionale yesterday must be first instance of a Tottenham fan receiving a rapturous welcome in Highbury’s marble halls. Bergkamp, who idolised Glenn Hoddle and Steve Archibald as part of his boyhood devotion to North London’s other club, signed a four-year deal to become Rioch’s first signing for Arsenal. His contract is… Read more »
Redtruth,
Are you saying Rioch was responsible for Bergkamp coming to Arsenal?
Bamford, stop boring everyone with your cut and pasting.
I’m sure we could find some pearlers from you if anyone could be bothered.
Sraight from the Arsenal website, a transcript following the game from Emery: on the gap between us and the top four… “It depends because now Chelsea and Leicester are with Liverpool and Manchester City – they have got a difference between them and us. But also, we have Manchester United and Tottenham behind us. It’s been a very equal competition with a lot of teams, but really now the difference that Chelsea and Leicester have created with us… they’ve had time to be consistent. The competition is 38 matches and now we are behind them with nine points difference. It’s… Read more »
Last week I suggested that Arsenal might consider appointing Patrick Vieira as
head coach.
Tonight I have been advised that there is a strong rumour that Patrick Vieira may well be the favourite to take over from Emery if he is sacked.
“If you put all of their improvement down to Mason Mount and Abraham rather than attributing a sizable portion of it to Lampard then I don’t know what to tell you. Abraham isn’t even that involved in their build-up play.” This shows you still don’t get it. Abraham and Mount are constantly making runs off the ball, dragging defenders with them, which means the game is stretched, and so when the likes of Kovacic get past the midfield press they have more space to run into. Last season defences were pressing up high and thwarting Kovacic and Hazard because there… Read more »
Twenty years ago, Bruce Rioch was unveiled as Arsenal’s new boss having guided Bolton to successive promotions. His one-year tenure is hardly remembered fondly, punctuated by bust-ups with senior pros including Ian Wright, and a frosty relationship with vice chairman David Dein. Thus, the former Bolton manager has been virtually airbrushed from Gunners history. Rioch was dismissed as a dour “interregnum” boss who simply kept the seat warm for Arsene Wenger, but here are five reasons why Arsenal fans and Wenger should be grateful to the straight-laced Scot… 1) HE BEDDED IN DENNIS BERGKAMP It was (then) Monaco manager Wenger… Read more »
Yeah it doesn’t matter if we can’t find a perfect candidate. That’s what caretakers are for.
Freddie in until the right guy comes in. At least the fans would rally behind Freddie and good or bad I don’t think the feeling would be toxic like now understanding that he’s a rookie and just a caretaker
Redtruth,
Nothing I haven’t read before. David Dein was responsible for Bergkamp coming to Arsenal, certainly not Bruce Rioch. Pub Manager!
Didn’t last long either!
Emery is officially worse than wenger now I’m another metric.
In his first 50 PL games he has a point less than wenger’s final 50
There’s really very little left to cling to regarding emery’s Competence. The guy is quite evidently incompetent if after 50 league games and countless cup games he’s doing worse than wenger who was hounded out rightly for being wank
GoonerGaz
If Rioch is a pub manager then that makes Wenger no better than a P.E.teacher.
Paulinho Giroud played 800 odd minutes of PL football last season amounting to less than 10 full apps. They had Higuain or Morata up front for most of them season and both made plenty of runs off the ball, was their shoddy finishing that was the problem. And yet neither Kovacic nor Jorginho looked any good under Sarri’s Chelsea which had runners in Willian, Pedro, Hazard too. Abraham has no doubt come in and made a real difference as he’s scoring much more goals than the previous pair but as far as the way Lampard has Chelsea playing, he deserves… Read more »
“Took a brave man to say no to international strikers in Giroud and Batshuayi in favour of a kid with no experience outside of the Championship and sticking by him even when he initially struggled. Same goes for Mount, don’t recall anyone on here lauding Mount before a few weeks ago.” Well, I literally had a discussion with you about Abraham and Mount on the first weekend of the season(comparing Abraham to Adebayor) I copied and pasted it the other day to Raptora when he suggested what you just have i.e where was all this praise for these players a… Read more »
Redtruth,
Glad we agree on something!
Wenger stayed a decade longer than he should have! His first ten years or so were majestic.
Rioch was pitiful, just as Emery is now.
But please don’t say Rioch bought Bergkamp, you just make yourself look like a lemon lol.
“Abraham has no doubt come in and made a real difference as he’s scoring much more goals than the previous pair but as far as the way Lampard has Chelsea playing, he deserves credit” If Higuain and Morata had scored then Sarri would probably have gotten more credit. Lamps was been written off as being naive and soft after playing well and getting spanked at United on the first day it’s only now he’s getting results people are patting him on the back for his philosophy. Both of them are still nowhere near Abraham in terms of physical presence. Higuain… Read more »
‘Well, I literally had a discussion with you about Abraham and Mount on the first weekend of the season(comparing Abraham to Adebayor) I copied and pasted it the other day to Raptora when he suggested what you just have i.e where was all this praise for these players a few months ago? etc.’
Be interested to see them, weren’t they beaten 4-0 at United on the first weekend?
PaulinhoAugust 10, 2019 20:50:15
I rate Mason Mount quite highly.He’s one of the few mids that makes runs in beyond. Kovacevic and him could link well with Croatian staying deep and looking for his runs.
PaulinhoAugust 10, 2019 21:14:40
Terraloon – Loftus-Cheek was looking incredible before his injury as well.Chelsea really do have a great bunch of youngsters. Abraham reminds me a bit of Adebayor first breaking through.
‘If Higuain and Morata had scored then Sarri would probably have gotten more credit. Lamps was been written off as being naive and soft after playing well and getting spanked at United on the first day it’s only now he’s getting results people are patting him on the back for his philosophy.’ Well sure, it’s a results business so no surprise there. I actually praised Chelsea even during the wobbly first month for Lampard, they looked really inventive and gutsy against both United and Pool in the Supercup and didn’t deserve to be beaten twice so it didn’t come as… Read more »
Paulinho
Fair play re the two of them then, didn’t have you down for a Championship watcher.
Abraham has 2 goals in his last 7 apps for Chelsea, Mount hasn’t scored during those 7 matches. Chelsea have won 5 of these matches, drawing once with Ajax who they ought to have beaten barring some horrible finishing from Batshuayi and only losing to United in the League Cup.
The improvements goes beyond these two players.
For Arsenal fans, the love affair with Bergkamp began in earnest when manager Bruce Rioch bought him for £7.5m prior to the start of the 1995-1996 season. After initially struggling to adapt to the English game, he began to form an excellent partnership with fellow Arsenal legend Ian Wright.
WE – Hazard leaving is looking like Henry leaving in 07. People proclaiming doom but in reality best for both parties. I never thought we had a great summer and I said so at the start of the season. Ceballos talented but no Ramsey replacement like some mooted, and Martinelli is still a child, albeit a talented one. Pepe and Tierney are still pending. We’ve ditched experienced regulars like Iwobi and Mikhi and are playing children like Saka, Willock, and Nelson in their place. Again, colour me not surprised we are looking less convincing than last season. I still think… Read more »
WengerEagle
“Chelsea have won 5 of these matches, drawing once with Ajax who they ought to have beaten barring some horrible finishing from Batshuayi and only losing to United in the League Cup.”
Is that the same Ajax who were cruising at 4-1 before the referee had a brain fart and inexplicably sent off 2 players in as many minutes.
“Abraham has 2 goals in his last 7 apps for Chelsea, Mount hasn’t scored during those 7 matches. Chelsea have won 5 of these matches, drawing once with Ajax who they ought to have beaten barring some horrible finishing from Batshuayi and only losing to United in the League Cup.”
Yet they are still playing. Because of their off the ball movement.
Lamps deserves credit for ditching Luiz and going the whole hog with Tomori and James.
I don’t think shunning that statue Giroud or the similarly unproven Batshuyi is that big of a deal.
Redtruth,
Ok you keep on thinking that Rioch bought Bergkamp if that keeps your little fantasy alive you lemon, when most know that Dein was responsible.
Which brings me back to my first point Emery is no better than Rioch, a joke of a manager!
Has emery been sacked yet? If not wake me up when he has
Literally the only way emery is doing better than big pappa weng is in terms of he didn’t make the fan base aggressively turn on itself and the only reason for that is he never managed to fill the void of those with daddy issues in the first place
The fan base is probably now more unified than it’s been at any point in the last decade so thanks for that Unai
It’s so bad that the immortal Bruce Rioch is now being remembered fondly and given credit for buying bergkamp.
‘When my shirt number lit up on the board of the fourth official and then broke jealous jubilation of their own fans, that hit me very much and stirred up,’ Xhaka told Swiss newspaper Blick. “For me, this reaction is still incomprehensible, especially in this vehemence and how extremely hostile I was here.” Then a bunch of blah and he finishes ‘By that I do not mean that I can not stand criticism. If I and the team do not play well, we have to listen to it and work on it. ‘But if you offend and insult your own… Read more »
Jealous fans. Incomprehensible. And that last paragraph is just classic Xhaka. He can take criticism he says. Best thing to happen to the club since Wenger left is him going full tampon and forcing the club into getting rid. Makes his “apology” moot by the way.
He’s getting sacked in the morning
Ding dong the bells are gonna chime
Put out the stopper
Let’s have a whopper
And get him to the church on time.
Lol at xhaka saying he can take criticism but spending all his time complaining about being criticized
BA BYE
Xhaka says we have the right to criticize when he plays badly but expects the fans to be supportive despite him always playing badly Interesting logic granit How exactly are the fans supposed to make this polite criticism known to the player and manager? Fly a banner saying ‘dear Granit, kindly play a little less awful from now on please’ It’s exactky because half the fan base have been duped into ‘grin and bear it’ as a coping mechanism when the team are shit that the club has allowed itself to constantly find itself up the shitter If the fans… Read more »
Freddie as caretaker until we find the right guy
Easy as that
I’ve had an infection the last two weeks, brought on by bites from mites that lived in the crumbling spine of a book I got from a second-hand repository in a run down part of Auckland. It’s made me feel as shit as have the Arsenal performances. Fucking up to here with it.
I need a replacement body and a replacement manager for the team. I’d take Stig of the fucking Dump to be honest with you.
Arsenal hold talks with Luis Enrique to replace Unai Emery
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/09/arsenal-hold-talks-luis-enrique-replace-unai-emery-11072452/?ito=cbshare
Get well soon gunz
Luis Enrique. Allegri.
We need to make a statement with our next manager. Arteta or Freddie are not a statement.
FFS Un Nai, your obsession with Wenger and some of the posters here mixed with your xenophobia are making you sound borderline crazy. Calm down dude.
Xhaka can fuck off
One of wenger’s worst signings along with Mustafi.
70m wasted. But he had no money to spend they say.
Wenger greatest manager ever? Still can’t get a job and embarrassing himself over the Bayern job. No European trophies and a worse success rate that GG with time served at the club. But hey bring him back, right? I always maintain if Wenger had left after 10 years, he would have been a legend for us all. But ………………. he didn’t! Can we all just move on from Wenger and address the Emery/manager problem? ‘We will call him and clear things up’: Bayern Munich say they will NOT appoint Arsene Wenger as manager with caretaker Hans-Dieter Flick set for extended… Read more »
Yeah and 70m in those days went a lot farther than now
From the problems you’ve stated and what we can see with Emery, I think Allegri would be a bad choice. A very bad choice. He’s a defensive coach. That’s how he thinks the game. You can’t paint a cheetah and call it a leopard. He mentioned that he had always coached to avoid the sack but was going to try to be expansive at Arsenal to build something. Problem is he doesn’t have that lense. He’s a reactive coach. He’s learning attacking football on the job I would hope Raul forgets Allegri and goes for Tata Martino (Barca/Argentina/Atlantafc/ Mexico), Peter… Read more »
Hindsight is a wonderful thing but instead of mustafi and xhaka we could’ve had VVD and Kante with 20+m to spare…
Emery, Pochettino and Pellegrini all fired on same day and three managers move to different London team, Emery to Hammers, Pell to Spuds and Poch to Arsenal.
Wenger isn’t even our 4/5th best manager.
Chapman.
GG
Whitaker. Allison.
Mee. Wenger
“ between.When you look at Arsenal it is shocking how static and slow our play is. We need a new coach who can work on that aspect and we should quickly see progress.“
Valentin
Laborious is the word, with occasional workmanlike wins.
Send the Waiter to do the dishes. His play smells of much abused dish-cloth
Please understand arsenal is not a big club anymore, owners are only interested in profit, laca and auba will be sold soon and soon arsenal will be mid table team forever, only solution is to give loss to owners , by boycotting games , stop buying merchandise and unfollow arsenal on social media, hit the pockets of owners if you want arsenal back
Not my choice and you could question if Enrique has the right mindset to return to management after such a tragedy of losing a child.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7668625/Arsenal-chief-Raul-Sanllehi-makes-contact-Luis-Enrique-Unai-Emery-pressure.html
Okay. I have had a long restful night after going through a well cooked late dinner, so I’m much more calmer. When you reflect about it all you will see that the blame is not on Unai but on the guy who brought him in. Why should you bring in a man who just failed on a project with a much bigger budget and much better personnel and think he would succeed with a lesser budget and a less flamboyant personnel? You would tell me it’s Gazidis and I would not believe you. Gazidis was not here last summer, whoever… Read more »
For Don & Pierre so they can replace their Wenger bedroom posters with new ones to continue their love affair.
I assume they have Wenger jazz socks.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7667905/Arsene-Wenger-shows-shredded-physique-beach-prepares-talks-Bayern-Munich.html
“The biggest lingering issue is Auba’s contract expiring about 18 months from now but we can’t afford to delay Emery’s exit nor can we be held hostage by a single player..” Well said. Auba has given us enough. Arsenal doesn’t deserve him. Let him go and be happy. Auba will most probably go to Chelsea. Let him go. Emery has to be sacked. Now! there is something pathologically wrong in the team/style/intensity/spirit which is holding back the most fundamental ingredient of wins : at least 6 shots on target. No PL team can win more than 2 games consecutively without… Read more »
If Lampard can do it, why can’t Freddie?
For a team to play the triangles that are so effective , you need 3 players all within touching distance. This rarely happens under Emery. The set up of the team means the player on the ball has very few options and is often isolated. It’s plain to see that the players are not working on playing one and 2 touch football in training. There is fear in the players on the pitch at the moment , fear of making a forward pass, fear of losing possession, fear of trying something different. This can only be down to the manager… Read more »
Tony
You just know the AFTV mob wouldn’t hold back on Enrique after a few bad results.
If he was interested and was ready to return to the game, it would appear like an intriguing appointment. Some reservations for sure, but the football would once again have a defining style.
I got slated 18 months ago for calling for Brenda but hes really showing hes a proper premier league manager right now.
Hes not the most fashionable of managers but I’d take him tomorrow over Emery.
Watched on my phone last night and it looked bad, looks even worse on MOTD, shocking.
Marko
Marko
Marko
Marko
“Best thing to happen to the club since Wenger left is him going full tampon and forcing the club into getting rid. Makes his “apology” moot by the way.”
Always knew as well as being a pain for the team on the footballing side the guy is a grade A dickhead to go along with it as well.
As I commented on the previous post, Arsene Wenger will be considered by many to be our greatest manager, although I personally feel that George Graham was the catalyst for our rise from the ashes. The thing is, Wenger was also our worst ever manager for overseeing a steady decline and a systematic destruction of our club. Some see it differently, I get it, but for me his stubborn refusal to accept any form of responsibility for our failings and his blind ignorance to react to our on pitch frailties over the years puts him right up there. Emery is… Read more »
I.can’t wait for a new manager to come in and start naming xhaka in the starting line up, as well as restate him as captain.
The drama MUST continue…
The day after the night before.
What’s the news on Emery?
Surely the club have to act.
If they don’t, it’s up to the fans once again.
Graham62
“The day after the night before.What’s the news on Emery?Surely the club have to act.”
No they don’t.
What they do is hope and think that Emery can win his next three EPL games on the spin against Southampton, Norwich and Brighton and that Chelsea and Leicester drop a point or two in the same period.
That’s the short termism of it all.
That is Arsenal 2019 and has been Arsenal for a good few years now.
‘I.can’t wait for a new manager to come in and start naming xhaka in the starting line up, as well as restate him as captain. The drama MUST continue…’
You sly pervert😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
Gentlebris “When you reflect about it all you will see that the blame is not on Unai but on the guy who brought him in.” Emery is not blameless but, as I said 15 months ago.. for Arsenal to bring in a manager who has a certain football philosophy , without the players to implement that philosophy , then it is doomed to fail. So yes , the process was all wrong , plus the fact that 6 months earlier the club had given Ozil a 350 grand a week contract and it was obvious from day one that the… Read more »
Ishola70
I know, it’s depressing.
Only @ AFC.
‘What they do is hope and think that Emery can win his next three EPL games on the spin against Southampton, Norwich and Brighton and that Chelsea and Leicester drop a point or two in the same period.That’s the short termism of it all.That is Arsenal 2019 and has been Arsenal for a good few years now.’ I assure you they will have to act unless they want to act when it’s clear the fans force them to act, and that’s not good for them one bit. One way or the other they will act. Then you can see the… Read more »
bamford stop winding up people. yeah says the man who allow racist to take over the blog in the post before this. There is an adage that said if you live with the monkeys so lomg you become one of them. Go ahead pedro bin me
One shot each in the last 2games and to allow Watford bottom of the epl 31 shots. It’s crazy.
This guy let slip a 4goal cushion against Barcelona. Furthermore the gunners have allowed teams to draw despite a 2,goal lead.
I think despite his europa success he is
floundering.
He has 18 months and frankly. he shd go. No ifs and buts.
Has Emery been fired yet?
If not, why not?
What are they waiting for?
He needs to go. Now.
Gentlebris Emery is not going to be sacked in the international break. Not when the powers that be think he may be able to win three EPL games on the spin. Whether he does though is a different matter. We all know that three EPL wins in a row doesn’t mask that Emery is not the man and should be got rid of regardless especially the calibre of those three teams coming up but the powers only care for playing for time. As long as they can give a mirage of Arsenal not being completely out of contention for top… Read more »
‘So yes , the process was all wrong , plus the fact that 6 months earlier the club had given Ozil a 350 grand a week contract and it was obvious from day one that the Emery / Ozil relationship was not a match made in heaven, then it is not difficult to see why his appointment was doomed from the outset.’ Pierre, What is even more nakedly obvious to me is the fact that you don’t immediately employ a man who just failed on a job with better opportunities and more fanciful tools and hope he succeeds with less.… Read more »
The way that Arsenal are playing at the moment I would not bank on us winning the next three games. This team on current form is relegation level. Bluntly the club needs to put this head coach out of his misery and sack him. The club needs urgent new direction who can stabilise the team. Whilst I have serious concerns about several players on individual and collective basis our organisation and constant changes to team selections and formation of team is obviously impacting on how we play. My view is that the club needs to make immediate decisions about Emery… Read more »
“Rh Cos he wa better than the cunt the club is employing now Dumb Nigerian Cunt” “Fuck the lot of you manWENGER OUT!!!Hahahahaha Look what we’ve got now You foreign cunts created so much hoohaa You’re not even part of arsenal You’re not part of our country Was the third worlders who got us here” So, Don lost his marble again and went full potato, how predictable, he’s unable to stop being a cunt. Just ban the fucker already. Amazing that posters like Bamford and Marko keeps getting banned but the worst poster in le grove history is allowed to… Read more »
Emery was a bit pathetic wasn’t he in his presser mentioning that Spurs and Man United are below Arsenal.
Like it’s ok because two other perceived top four teams are failing as well and a little heavier at this time.
Reminded me of short sighted fans who have done the same in the past. Getting some sort of consolation from failure because others are failing as well.
What a car crash our club has become…
Last season when Emery was floundering, I said that Arsenal upper management had no clue how to go about their business. Hope that Emery would somehow improve and that our rivals would stumble was not a strategy. This season it is the same pattern. Instead of acting decisively, they just hope and pray for a miracle to save them from another debacle. Like Gazidis before him, Raul is a weasel in it for himself. Ready to be ruthless if anybody challenge his authority and power grab, but indecisive when having to make a big decision that could seriously impact his… Read more »
Looks like the end of the road for poor old Unai. I thought two years would be enough for any manager to prove himself and he didn’t actually need that long. Last night’s performance was about the worst I’ve seen. Absolutely abysmal. We looked like a side who wasn’t interested, couldn’t care less, didn’t want to play, couldn’t be asked, was OK with making the same mistakes over and over, had no appetite to attack and didn’t really want to be there. All the hallmarks of a declining team under a failing manager. Change has to be coming – and… Read more »
Hit the road unai dont you come back no more no more no more hit the road unai dont you come back no more🎤
ES
Once again, thanks for calming things down on here.
Everything you say is 100% correct.
Cheers ES.
‘If on the other hand Emery fails in his next three games especially any two of the home games and failing here means not winning then they will have no hiding place. Then they will have to act.’ Ishola, I’m not sure Raul and Edu are here to make excuses and hide, Raul especially is too ambitious for that. Then you must realize they were given a job to do and right now they are tanking it, I’m not sure Raul would hide. Raul seems the sort of guy who wouldn’t take a tainted résumé in his stride. He must… Read more »
Let’s be brutal. Even if we offload Emery and recruit a half decent manager/head coach this team/squad is not going to finish in top four this season. Players like Guendouzi, Torreira and Ceballos are lightweight and not top EPL standard. Yesterday’s game highlighted just how weak we are in the midfield department. Guendouzi as usual runs around the pitch for 60 minutes and then dies a death. He is grossly overplayed and he is now making serious mistakes. Leicester should have had a penalty in first half due to Guendouzi foul and in second half he was constantly outmanoeuvred and… Read more »
‘You foreign cunts created so much hoohaaYou’re not even part of arsenalYou’re not part of our countryWas the third worlders who got us here”’
Un behaves so uneducated sometimes but apart from that he’s an alright fella methinks. But I must say he pulled a Nobel with those lines above.
We have also forgotten the Europa League angle. Have you noticed how Emery always bigs up the Europa League in his pressers? Big competition for us he always says. He is doing this because he is giving himself and the club a possible safety net in regards what would be seen as EPL failure and the powers will go along with it. We all know winning the Europa League is like playing Russian roulette in comparison to finishing in top four but they will play with it. If it was good enough for Jose Mourinho and Man United qualifying for… Read more »
Spot on freddie just watch how he is sweep this under the carpet as usual. Fucking disgusting pfff
Yeah not gonna lie Pedro I don’t get how free speech is so well protected for the patently racist and xenophobics among the group on occasions but posters whose primary crime is opinions everyone else disagrees with get binned for stuff far lighter
I don’t call for banning in normal circumstances but I do implore you to clean up the racist and xenophobic stuff that floods the blog sporadically
Either that or give total free speech and don’t ban people for anything
Because surely racism is worse than the shit people get banned for
Ishola70 The Europa Cup and TV scheduling has not helped us. We played twice three games in 7 days because we were required to play on Monday, Thursday and Sunday. The club has at the moment too many young players and second rate mature players on the books to play such a schedule. However, the reality is that the club is an unsatisfactory situation in both defence and midfield and our forwards are also beginning to misfire as well. I have made the case on several occasions that the club has been lucky to win a game in EPL this… Read more »
all football discussion become null and void when a racist allowed to post in a social place like this. Says a lot about the owner and tge people post on here. And you preaching about eradicating racisn.
‘Players like Guendouzi, Torreira and Ceballos are lightweight and not top EPL standard. Yesterday’s game highlighted just how weak we are in the midfield department.’ Those Leicester players were so lightweight they finished so far behind us last season, look at them under Brendan. Chelsea with a peak Hazard were mostly lukewarm under Sarri, look at the ‘Hazardless’ Chelsea under Frank now. If Leicester and us swap managers today we would still make top 4 and Leicester would still finish outside the top six. Apart from Citey, no side has the perfect team in the prem, Liverpool don’t have a… Read more »
ES
I don’t disagree with anything you say there but it really doesn’t address what was said about the Europa League in my post.
If it was good enough for Jose Mourinho and Man United it can be good enough for Arsenal is what they can go with.
I don’t think Emery has no real chance of winning Europa League but if the team gets to the semi-finals then people start to get hopeful of course.
I think, at the moment, it is more important to be concerned with who is firing Emery, than who hired him. Then hope, if it was Raul who hired him, that he gets the next manager right.
And posters yesterday on here celebrating a loss not because of any potential replacement but because they still can’t get that old Frenchman out of their system.
Pathetic.
Why don’t these “fans” fuck off with him into retirement.
Gentlebris
Sorry but there is no comparison between our midfield and Leicester on current performance level.
You may get away with playing one of our players in a four man midfield,
but not when we are playing two or even three of these players at same time in a three man midfield.
It has been blindingly obvious this season that we are being outplayed in this
department of our team.
Leicester have Ndidi that can do the job of DM.
Arsenal don’t have any such player.
Maddison is showing better as AM than any Arsenal equivalent.
Hard to think that anyone feels that Arsenal have an equal midfield to Leicester let alone better.
‘Sorry but there is no comparison between our midfield and Leicester on current performance level.’
ES,
I don’t deny there is a difference, but I’m saying the difference is down to coaching. Average teams were shitting over this Leicester midfield just last season. What has changed? Coaching.