There were some questions as to whether the David Ornstein story was briefed before or after the Leicester game. Sami Mokbel writing in the Daily Mail appears to confirm that Arsenal’s briefing angle is very much in line with the exBBC journo’s narrative.
Thank you for your interest in our affairs. Emery ain’t going anywhere.
When it was Arsene Wenger at the wheel, you’d generally be safe in the knowledge that the players would respond in the end. This was mostly down to a simple truth that Wenger couldn’t be ousted by the players. He was too deeply ingrained in the club to be moved on.
The stance by the current hierarchy makes sense, they don’t want the fans to think they can run a manager out of the club. In my opinion, we’re not the people the exec leadership team should be worried about. The players are the biggest challenge to Emery’s doomed tenure. The current situation around the manager has nothing to do with the fans in the stadium, for me, it’s all about the breakdown in the relationship with a manager who is making more mistakes off the pitch than on it.
He’s sacked his captain who now looks likely to leave in January. He has performed a 360 on Mesut Ozil, who is now back in contention after Emery told the press leadership agreed he should drop him. The manager seems to not fancy any of his summer signings, bar David Luiz. The kids are taking the piss behind his back. He let the failed club psychologist advise him that a vote for the captaincy was smart. The football is absolutely atrocious.
It’s hard to see how Emery makes it to the end of the season, but the good news for him is the fixture list looks very kind until we meet Manchester City in mid-December. At the very least, he should be able to stabilize the ship, then we’ll be mauled through the frightening Christmas crunch.
I took in the Liverpool vs City game yesterday. It’s hard to overstate what an incredible job Jurgen Klopp has done with Liverpool. Their brand of football is truly a delight to watch. They make the basics look so simple. Watching them play the ball out the back brought tears to my eyes. It was interesting that once they’d played it short, the transition out of defence was often a longish ball to one of the front three that had dropped deep, with the hope of catching a full back breaking into space. Arsenal almost never seem to make it out of their own third when they go short. Why is it so hard to teach talented players to beat the pressure?
Outside that, the speed of their counter-attacks are a sight to behold. The accuracy of their balls into the box is dreamlike. The application of every single player must be a joy to watch.
Arsenal are unlikely to find a Jurgen Klopp, but hopefully, we can find a manager that has a vision as vivid as the one he has for Liverpool. Personality goes a long way at the highest level, but deeper than that, having an idea everyone can gather around is where you want to be.
Looking at the sort of players Arsenal have, I think it’s clear that we should make the Arsenal idea an exciting one. I don’t think we’re built for a Jose Mourinho. I think the kids coming through want to play explosive football. I think we have electricity in our front line, and with a couple of powerful additions to our midfield, we could have a scary offering moving forward.
Ideally, you’d have Emery in until the end of the season so the leadership don’t have to make a bad decision under duress, I just can’t see that happening though. That’s why I think I’d opt for Freddie Ljungberg until the end of the season if we do have to end Emery’s tenure early. Give Edu a chance to find the coach that’s going to give us a vision for the next 5 years.
What a complicated mess we have ourselves in, the good news is we have some time off to stew on the ramifications as we enter yet another boring international break.
See you in the comments, listen to my damn podcast.
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Nice one Samesong, wasn’t on form today
City were robbed yesterday of var on a few occasions.
Looks like spurs are also benefitting from var at the moment too.
Great podcast
Spot on for every point
Sorry for repeating this fellas nut we’re due a response from the big virgin on this…. Bumford ‘What evidence do you have, Pedro, that Emery’s English is a serious problem for the players and team?’ Really? Have you ever listened to one of his press conferences? You really think broken and garbled english helps get any message across clearly and concisely? No didn’t think so. Bumford ‘ I’ve only claimed that we are more organized and more disciplined than we were under late Wenger. That that is the case should be obvious to everyone with eyes.’ PLease look at this… Read more »
I don’t see how anyone can actually argue now, we should all be united behind getting emery out
“Sorry for repeating this fellas….”
Because it’s so vital, you had to post it again.
#EmeryOut
I don’t need any metrics or stats to see we’re declining under Emery
Anyone with half a football brain can definitely see how poor we are as a team
Defence – weak and not even attempting to prevent soft goals
Midfield – not creative, not defensive and certainly not controlling games
Attack – not clinical no specialism like dead balls free kicks or corners simply not enough goals.
Please fans in London, kindly help us get out of this mediocrity by making your voices heard. We @Nigeria are in full support #Emeryout
Pedro,
Sad to see that you sound a bit…..defeated.
It’s a shit show and Emery has clearly lost the players, who are no longer responding to his “methods”. Our football is listless and boring.
Raul and Edu may want to stick with the guy, but I get the feeling results – continued poor results- will force their hand before Christmas.
I’m really hoping that, behind the scenes, Raul and Edu are being proactive in a search for an Emery replacement, but get the feeling that that is far from the case.
Sad.
Yes cunter for the benefit Bumford just in case he doesn’t see it.
Do you want to talk about football? No thought not, then fuck off.
Would you like me to explain what a football is and how you score a goal?
Ever watched paint dry? That’s arsenal. Boring.
Empty the stadium, then see how quickly the BOD’s move.
Dolomite
Apparently your eyes and brain are deceiving you. Some posters are adamant that we’re more organised and disciplined than we were before…
You mustn’t be a student of the game.
No point getting angry at Emery; it’s clear to all he’s a busted flush.
Direct your ire at the suits above him, or Emery stays till May at the minimum, possibly even gets year 3 awarded (if a late failed push to top 4 somehow materialises)
It probably needs to get extremely toxic in the ground with half empty stadium for him to be sacked. A situation I don’t want us to be in but fans hands are being forced.
We’re in for an ugly 2-3 months in my opinion.
Emery till the end of the season? A big NO from me. Best way of “getting behind the players” is to push for EMERY OUT NOW!!!
The fact is- the Dopes in charge should have made the managerial change at the end of the season. Could have easily left the Clown out in Baku. Ushered in Allegri on the promise of (£100 million to re – arm the team and start afresh.) They didn’t and my goodness we will pay a Gigantic price. I predicted a Season from Hell It is a Season from Hell. I have already Bought my Southampton goals. Saints who played well at City in their last away fixture- could easily beat us in an empty and lacklustre stadium and then will… Read more »
We have become Everton.
LT: “We have become Everton”
That’s the big worry isn’t it? After years of worrying over the club’s decline, I wonder if we really are reaching a tipping point in our fortunes? The big imponderable is at what point – or indeed whether – the Kroenkes intervene because they feel that their “investment” is depreciating. Maybe we have reached the point where elite mediocrity becomes mid table mediocrity – and not just in the short term. Not good. Not good at all…
Arsenal screwed up by waiting as long as they did to get rid of you know who. That is 5-6 years lost where we would have been mixing and matching to get the right manager. We started the process 5-6seasons late and now we extend our futility by an extra 5 years at least(Emery out after two seasons and new manager needs at least 2-3 seasons to right the ship). That is provided best case scenario and the new person will be the answer. Odds are he won’t be so you extend it by another 5 years(2 to get new… Read more »
Watching liverpool I noted how easy it was for them to start a counter attack from the keeper, whereas whenever Leno had the ball in his hands he never looked for a quick counter. Is this a directive from Emery for the keeper to not release the ball quickly or is It a failure of the players to move into a position to receive the ball. At the weekend we had Bellerinn and Kolasinac as wing backs, 2 players I think it’s fair to say have bundles of pace. Surely, the team should have been told that as soon as… Read more »
I agree, its clear the board etc are now the problem. By backing Emery they have declared their interest in keeping a dignified position over the common sense.”it is broke, we need to fix it”. Their dignified position is as Pedro explains to declare that they run the club and also to declare worldwide.. “we are arsenal we don’t sack managers mid term”. The way out to resolve it would be to let emery go in January…its the transfer window..its kind of acceptable in that period. the fans and players get what they want and the board is seen as… Read more »
This is our level. Forget Champions league qualification. We are now competing with the likes of Sheffield United, Wolves and Bournemouth for a Europa League spot and things ain’t going to get any better.
I sense that a huge battle for the top 10 (big LOL) is slowly but surely coming…
If the 3 stooges (Raul+Edu+Kroenke Jr) want to let the club die without doing anything, good for them, but the fans must STOP GOING TO THE STADIUM!!
Maximum of empty seats are NEEDED.
(P.s. : and if the players could let down Emery for good, that would be even better)
Guendouzi has the potential to be a very good player but his tendency to hold on to the ball too long is holding him and the team back. Ceballos is of a similar ilk , the transition through defence and midfield is way too slow , hence the amount of times we lose possession in our own half. Whata happened to our one and 2 touch football that was so effective in the transition from back to front. Pass and move , let the ball do the work, give and go, ….these football terms are still vital for a football… Read more »
Before any fan booze, criticises any current player for not playing well or to their maximum
money aside- put yourself in their shoes for one moment.
Imagine being a player -and at your peak-and having to listen to what The Clown comes out every day in training.
They will be as Gobsmacked as us- that he is still their coach.
Arsenal RIP
Press, intensity and work are all well and good , but they are a part of the game when you are not in possession of the ball .
What is Emery’s philosophy when we are in possession of the football , you ever hear any of his buzz words of how we should play in possession.
“This is our level. Forget Champions league qualification. ”
Spot on.
““This is our level. Forget Champions league qualification”
I disagree, we were one point off qualification last season and have added to the squad this season.
Poor decisions by the manager have put us in this position.
A change of manager would immediately install confidence and bring the feel.good factor back into the club.
“Intensity” is Emery’s equivalent of the old unloved “mental strength”.
We hear a lot about intensity and “working hard” but, footballistically, we se very little of it.
Pierre “”””The only thing we hear from Emery is , press, intensity and work….and there lies the problem.””””” Pressing & Transitions talk that aint soccer- that balderdash speak of The Highest Order! When good folk start using these words- you know you are in trouble (…start walking away from them sharpish…..) they talk like its a new thing. Liverpools great team in the 70’s didn’t Press and do Transitions! I never heard Fergie mention these two words once. Not once! Great players working hard- is all you have to do! the less instructions you give soccer players – the better… Read more »
This season we have a top 4 squad but a manager with a mid-table mentality.
If Emery’s tactics “work” we will get sixth or seventh place; if they fail and/or the players revolt we will be in twelfth or thirteenth.
If Raul and Edu have made last transfer window’s financial calculations in the basis of top 4 they are gonna be forced into some unwanted sales (Auba/Laca) if they don’t act soon.
One irony here is that all of the “noise” being made by Arsenal fans is simply the result of them overrating the players & squad that Emery has available to him. Inadequate central midfield options, sub-optimal CB options, and forwards who are more limited than their price-tags imply. That’s what he has.
Bamford,
Answer this: has the quality of our squad deteriorated since this time last year?
If not, why has our performances and results deteriorated?
Words
“This season we have a top 4 squad”
Nonsense. Our central midfield is ill-suited for the PL and our CB options are slow and old. The best six teams in the PL all have better spines.
@bamford, I was going to disagree, then I remembered the limitations of even our most expensive players.
The player most illustrating your point is the limited pepe…..hardly tearing the place apart in the prem is he?…and at £72 million looks to be vastly overpriced.
Youre kind of excusing emery again though…..he is woefully underperforming……we should’ve picked up at least 5 points more than we have…
“At the weekend we had Bellerin and Kolasinac as wing backs, 2 players I think it’s fair to say have bundles of pace.”
The RB is a weak link at Arsenal. Bellerin is only pace and no skill whatsoever. He is rubbish as a RB.
Though both lack ball-skill terribly, Chambers is a shade better. Chamber crosses better once he is in position.
Kola? If Tierney is fit, i don’t understand why Kola should be o the pitch.
“This is our level. Forget Champions league qualification. ”
Until we have better players, this is true. Emery could finish 3rd or 4th if he had better central midfielders and better CBs. He might not be a genius, but he is definitely capable of getting a good team to finish in the top four. What he can’t do is get a poor, unbalanced group into the top four, especially not in a year when the PL is extremely competitive.
Bamford,
So do you believe that the addition of Tierney, Pepe, Luiz, Ceballos and Martinelli and the departure of Ramsey and Kos is a net negative?
Give me a break.
>He might not be a genius, but he is definitely capable of getting a good team to finish in the top four. >
Can you cite any evidence to support that view, Bamford???
For the first time since about 1984 there’s a worry that we are so shit that we’re going to have problems against any team we play. Our next 3 matches on paper look very easy, Southampton, Norwich and Brighton but we could easily lose all of them, that’s how far we’ve fallen under El-Dicko. Look I’ve nothing against him, I don’t hate him like I hated Wenger before he was sacked, he seems like a decent, even honest bloke but as it’s been said constantly over the last few weeks, he’s simply out of his depth. He really needs to… Read more »
When Liverpool break out of defence the whole team moves fast upfield.
We just saunter upfield and then start to pass backwards.
The whole team is half asleep.
Pedro
Agreed.
After doing better than I thought, Emery’s doing a terrible job this season.
We are drifting into mid table with as much inevitability as light being dragged into a black hole
As you’ve identified, Arsenal cannot afford to sit around and let this happen.
We have a brains trust, earning a lot of money, whose job it is to provide a modern, dynamic vision for the club and, at the very least, CL football.
Pedro David Ornstein may have the ear of some of the hierarchy from time to time, when it suits them to speak to media and press, but they are now less forthcoming than they were during the Wenger era. I would not take too seriously the suggestion that Emery’s career is secure at Arsenal in foreseeable future despite what is being suggested. The club have been fairly ruthless in past 12 months. Staff post Wenger were offloaded and we have seen wholesale changes in playing personnel as well. Last week announcements were made that a lot of the Academy staff… Read more »
So the BoD are backing Emery, no problem. I just hope(slim) that he turn things around. The quality of both Liverpool and Man. City shoes why they’re mile ahead of the rest of the teams.
One touch passes usually open up spaces for players to exploit and we were undone by that from Leicester with the intro of Gray.
Leno, Guen slow us down unnecessarily.
“Can you cite any evidence to support that view, Bamford???”
Sorry, he can’t. No one can. Not even Emery.
Not a single Arsenal fan believes this team can play better football, take 6 SOTs in every game and score a 3-0 win in any game till the 38th.
And now any PL team that fails to win or get a draw against Arsenal fc will feel very ashamed of her performance.
That sounds like hyperbole but that is the truth.
We are now seen the way people see a weak relegation candidate you must never be seen losing to.
And an Ornstein is telling me Emery will survive till May. Bullshit. It will get to a point the stadium will become so toxic Raul might be forced to announce on the megaphone during a game that Emery has been fired……just to prevent a total riot in the ground.
*shows not shoes
Words
“This season we have a top 4 squad”
Maybe for the SPL-not the EPL!
(fight your cheer leading instincts folks and face footballing reality)
wake up and smell the coffee- most of our team is SLOW , STODGY over-rated garbage.
(Except for Ozil, Leno, )
Its top 8-10 material.
throw into the mix – the worst coach and DOF possibly imaginable.
Its Coming…
##A Decade in the Doldrums##
And by the way, people continue to ignore what Emery said to SkySports the other day and the light those comments shed on what he, Edu and Sanllehi are up to. “We are still in construction, trying to be competitive,” Emery told Sky Sports. “There have been games where the team has played very well from the point of view of building up the play, and there have been other games where we have performed very well in terms of pressing our opposition.” Asked about the team’s “identity,” he said: “We are working on that … We are in that… Read more »
This is nonsense from Emery. If anything, he is taking the team backwards. There is no shape or strategy and what is worse, we don’t exhibit any heart or backbone.
Bamford
Inadequate midfield options, sub optimal CB options and limited forwards do not mean that we cannot at least defend better as a team. Your assertion then conversely implies that about 80% of the teams in EPL have superior players to Arsenal. That is not true.
71Guns
“Can you cite any evidence to support that view, Bamford?”
Sure. One, he finished one point off of 4th last season with a poor squad that was, at best, the sixth best squad in the PL; two, he finished 3rd in La Liga with Valencia; three, Edu believes in him and trusts him; unless you think Edu is incompetent or unambitious, this should tell you something.
When we start to play decent teams we are going to be humiliated.
“Until we have better players, this is true. Emery could finish 3rd or 4th if he had better central midfielders and better CBs. He might not be a genius, but he is definitely capable of getting a good team to finish in the top four. “ We finished level on points with 4th last season, 2 points from being 3rd. So by your logic we got worse over the summer. Also by your logic we “improved” last season because we finished 7 points better than the year prior, so how come we’ve then made the worst start to a league… Read more »
Bamford – Fans are not interested in such nuanced discussions, which is ironic considering they slate Emery for just saying ‘good ebening’. They are in full on ‘sack the manager’ mode and there is no going back.
Bamford
You still haven’t opined as to why we are a worse squad with much worse results than we had this time last year
Aubameyang has had 1 shot on goal in each of his last 3 games.
But let’s talk about his limitations and pretend there’s any sort of attacking structure or patterns that offer him, or the rest of the forwards, scoring opportunities
We’re a shit show in defence, and there’s no ability to weave attacks. Just look at our heat map of passes vs Vitoria recently – next to no passes in advanced areas of the attacking third, just walls knocked wide without any penetration.
Bumford
Can you answer the post at 9.15, the whole blog would like to hear you try weasel out of this.
You son are bang to rights.
The next three PL games are Southampton at home, Norwich away and Brighton at home.
9 points surely.
If Emery cocks that up, it’s going to be very difficult for the club to stick with him whatever Ornstein says.
“Where is the leadership? If Granit Xhaka really was captain material, he would have been at the King Power on Saturday.” ‘He would have been there fighting to win over the fans who gave him stick. Instead he was left at home, and Emery is having to pick up the pieces.” Spot on. I’ve seen many players booed by their own fans (Some even racially) and yet they all were available for the next fixture. Even CR7 was subjected to boos from fans during his time at Madrid. What happened to Granit INSIDE the stadium against Palace was unfortunate but… Read more »
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11890/11859340/arsene-wengersays-bayern-munich-approached-him-but-he-was-not-manager-candidate
“First of all, I was never a candidate, I was approached but not in the running for the job,” Arsene Wenger said.
“That is clear and definite, but it does not necessarily mean I am done with management.”
The bandwagon of delusion rolls on…
Totally, Paulinho.
Martinelli
Your comments there are not nearly as incisive as you seem to imagine. Words’s question about last season at this point versus this season at this point is the better question, and that is the point/question I will try to deal with first.
And please note that there are in fact posters here who are on my side of the fence. See Paulinho’s remark above, for example. I am not as isolated as you would have it, although it’s true that we reasonable folk are outnumbered at the moment.
Paulinho
For the fans to be interested in “nuanced discussion “ they have to be able to discern a pathway out of the club’s current mediocrity under Emery.
Forgive me and other simple fans for not being nuanced enough for your and Bamford’s elevated minds.
Is David Ornstein the official mouth piece of the club? Why is he allowed to make so many statements for the club while the club hides behind him? In his article, he used the word they so that no one from the club can be held responsible.
The board doesn’t have the gut to come out with an official statement. They indirectly pushed the fans opinions aside as NOISE . This reminds me of the term, “Noisy Neighbor”, something insignificant. Since no one from the club is taking responsibility, we fans can’t even answer to this criticism. Dirty tactics!
Nelson,
I’m not someone who runs around getting offended but the use of the term “noise” to describe fans’ reaction to shit-fest is in fact deeply offensive!
Woab
You’re such a simple snowflake lad, get your nuance up and join the “reasonable folk” 😂
How long does Emery think we will be in the ‘process’ of getting where he needs the team to be? Another 6 months? Another season? Three seasons?
Norwich away on 1st December….just checked the last 6 form guide, we are 16th they are 19th having lost 5 and drawn 1, conceding 14 goals and scoring 2. Will probably be the time Pukki finds his shooting boots again. The next 3 are anything but guaranteed and our xmas / new year schedule has shambles stamped all over it, cant see Dick riding this out as we slide down the table.
WOAB – That’s the depressing thing about it. Doesn’t take much ‘elevation’ at all, yet as Bamford said it’s ignored. We signed a talented child in Martinelli, that is still nowhere near the finished article, yet he’s listed as if he’s some mid-20’s finished article, not the long-term investment he is. We’ve sold Iwobi/Mikhi, and as a result our only natural wide players are two teens in Saka and Nelson, and yet fans seemingly expect some linear progression without any teething problems. The continual that Tierney is still being left out of Scotland squads due to fitness issues, that Bellerin… Read more »
Bamford, you have stamina I’ll give you that. Sometimes it feels like there is a tag team that are reacting to you being contrary. You talk about improvement to finish a point off 4th. We add players in the TW, improving the squad and now argue that it’sthe paucity of our spine that is to blame. Can you not see the inconsistency of your argument?
Why many of us bother I’m not sure?
Bamford10November 11, 2019 11:43:09 And by the way, people continue to ignore what Emery said to SkySports the other day and the light those comments shed on what he, Edu and Sanllehi are up to.“We are still in construction, trying to be competitive,” Emery told Sky Sports. “There have been games where the team has played very well from the point of view of building up the play, and there have been other games where we have performed very well in terms of pressing our opposition Bamford Haha You haven’t got a scooby If this is true then why is… Read more »
Bamford
Of course, Paulinho has an alternative motive for showing a element of support for you.
He must be itching to bring Ramsey into the conversation as a reason as to why we are struggling this season, though he hardly played enough games to have a real influence.
Rumours in Switzerland that Xhaka is heading for Milan in January.
Thank goodness. One bit of good news.
He will take well to Serie A. Slower league, more time on the ball, less ground to cover.
Lots of mixed information. One side of the information saying Emery is safe until the summer (worrying because with Wenger that was when bad news was buried as the fans could do nothing about it i.e. his contract extension). The other saying Emery has 6 games to prove he is the man. Stupid on 2 counts, if we’ve reached that stage you might as well fire him now. Secondly, if you give him those 6 sack him and bring in a new manager that manager has no time to implement any sort of control (unlike these 2 weeks) and also… Read more »
Emery is done. Or we are seeing as good as it’s going to get under emery
He should be gone
He’s offered the worst start for 37 years
37 fucking years.
Before George Graham.
No amount of Bamford bullshit alters the facts. There is no alternative perspective here. He’s doing worse than both Wenger and Graham did in the darkest hours.
We are continuing with him for reasons outside of the sporting element of the club.
There is no way she suits can see this after sacking Wenger and believe this is better
and there have been other games where we have performed very well in terms of pressing our opposition
Bam
Aaah. What a shame that football games aren’t decided on the occasional press vs Burnley then…. looooool
Ornstein: ‘Emery’s decision to strip Xhaka the armband and give it to Auba has caused a rift in the dressing room with many seeing it as “throwing Xhaka under the bus”, aka one of the liked members of the squad, in a selfish bid to gain the fans backing of his management. Also, several members of AFC dislike the affinity Auba has with AFTV and the engagement online “liking” posts questioning the club, the players, the manager. He’s been asked to refrain from doing so from here on’ There you go for the ones vehemently backing Ornstein as the gold… Read more »
Is that how you coach your kids Bamford?
Guys guys guys. Stop. What are you doing?
Trying to score a goal sir
NO!!!
I told you little fuckers to press. For half an hour. Goal oriented soccer dies with trump and the patriarchy.
Always wary of flavour of the season managers but Arsenal should be keeping a close eye on Marco Rose. He has Monchengladbach playing really well and leading Bundesliga by 4 points. He worked under Klopp as well I believe as an assistant coach, worked his way through coaching the Salzburg youth sides before taking over the first team and winning the league in his first season (albeit a relatively weak league). Regarded as a ‘press master’ with a straightforward manager style he also has clear pedigree working with young players. Emerging as my favourite to take over from Emery…but again,… Read more »
I thought Marco Rose was a cheeky Portuguese wine 🙂
Words “has the quality of our squad deteriorated since this time last year? If not, why have our performances and results deteriorated?” “do you believe that the addition of Tierney, Pepe, Luiz, Ceballos & Martinelli and the departure of Ramsey and Kos is a net negative? Give me a break.” These are good questions / points, but they are not what you imagine them to be — i.e., a conclusive case against Emery. One, do you remember what Pedro and gambon kept hammering on about at the start of last season? I’ll remind you: they said that our xG numbers… Read more »
Also if he can get one the ‘weaker’ sides in Bundesliga operating at this level that is what you want for Arsenal…not even so much that he has done but how he’s done it. Great team spirit, energy and pressing.
Could solve a lot of our problems if he can work with youth players and carefully scouted buys to create a much, much improved playing style.
Champagne
What are you talking about? Didn’t Bamford tell you? Aubameyang AND Lacazette both accidentally liked negative posts about emery and deleted them immediately due to their deep respect for his visionary coaching ability.
Get your finger on the pulse man
Well, if Pedro and gambon were right, then one reason we are seeing somewhat lesser results this season is that the luck has run out and the underlying fundamental situation is playing itself out. Bamford Ok. Great point. So why did wenger average higher xG, more goals, less conceded, higher pass completion and percentage, More wins, less losses, more shots taken, much less conceded. This stats show that we were better in 17/18 all over the pitch than we are now even though the squad quality has markedly improved Emery isn’t just failing against the standard from last season He’s… Read more »
Un
Players mate, they’re offering up player poverty.
Ask him where the fault is in that though because above he talked about the execs being competent people yet here he is suggesting our playing personnel has gotten worse since we ousted Wenger (who was claimed to have created a mess of a squad), and replaced him with competent folk in a modern structure.
So we got rid of big bad Weng who had fucked the squad, replaced him with competent execs, but our squad is worse than previous years so the manager is doing a madness 🤡
Ask him where the fault is in that though because above he talked about the execs being competent people yet here he is suggesting our playing personnel has gotten worse since we ousted Wenger (who was claimed to have created a mess of a squad), and replaced him with competent folk in a modern structure.
Cc
Like a dog chasing his own tail. Round and round and round and round
Un Well that’s bound to happen when there’s a piece on the table (Emery) you wont go near because you previously backed him and don’t want to appear wrong in any capacity. It’s quite something to deny reality in such a manner, Pedro was stating as such last night. This sort of dribbly convo just drags people into discussing things that simply don’t warrant the time, like arguing if water really is wet. Everything says it is but you have someone in complete denial because of a previously held belief. It’s sad. Perfectly willing to go back on previously held… Read more »
As someone who has made absolute fortunes over the years in the Footballing Futures Market- (one piece of advice – if I may be so bold- to all my fellow Le G rove patients) -No game of soccer is easy or guaranteed. Saints/Brighton/Norwich City will be Licking their Lips playing Arsenal in the weeks to come. Arsenal will not win another game whilst The Clown is in charge. We could not even beat that Portuguese garbage in the week. They lost 2 nil at home yesterday!!! Can you believe that!!!??? ———————————————————————————————————— Bad News: A Decade in the Doldrums is upon… Read more »
CC, there are far worse stories to come of the incompetence behind the scene. The Arsenal training ground is not good. Emery running a total mess (not a shocker).
I honestly can’t believe it’s come to ‘Auba liked a post’ type stuff.
The 6 game stuff is odd as well, they surely must have come to a conclusion. Onlyb reason I can imagine they’ll keep him in the job is a lack of options. Would much rather wait for a proper coach in the summer than resurrect or create a career at this point.
For the first time in 35 years I’m actually glad it’s a interlull weekend coming up just so I know a certain shit arsenal performance and result isn’t going to spoil my weekend that’s how bad things are
Regarding a bum day in day out defending Emery the Clown with repeated specious arguments, begin to wonder someone getting arse or vice versa
Edu and Emery in ‘information gathering mode’ 16 months in. Unreal.