Jose Mourinho is like that sexy abusive partner you have. You know the type, you crunch a crisp too loud and they’re up in your shit. They throw plates at you when you leave tea bags in the sink. They wear your dry cleaned shirts.
… you beg them to change. They come back to you and say, sure, I’ve had a sabbatical and I will be more tea bag tolerant. You believe them because they are sexy and charismatic, then literally the next day they’ve shredded your tea bags to teach you a lesson and posted something negative about you on Facebook.
Jose Mourinho rolls back into the Spurs with more baggage than Prince Andrew, but he’s charming… and now we’re all in a deep panic that this time, maybe he has changed, and he’ll do bits for Spurs.
I am an UNbeliever in radical personality change at 56 years old. You are who you are. You can change the crest on the badge, you can smile, get a facial… but I think it will be near impossible for him to be different because so much of his success was built around his persona.
We’ll see though, stealing backroom demons from Lille is smart. I’d be desperately worried if Spurs nabbed Luis Campos from there as well, he really is a top drawer technical director. It looks good on paper, but remember, Wenger had loads of data people and analysts he didn’t use.
Whatever goes on, it’s a huge gamble. The Times alluded to this being part of a wider masterplan for prospective owners. Makes sense, the Amazon series is the most serious way to get a prospectus out there, Jose Mourinho looks great on paper as well. Especially for all those star fuckers with enough cash to buy a club.
ANYWAY, onto Arsenal. Unai Emery has been given time to think about the season. A bit of me space to strategise his way out of the mess. So what’s his plan you ask?
Bring Xhaka back into the mixer.
Perfection. The equivalent of photocopying your bare arse and leaving it on your CEOs desk. He is addicted to one of the least effective midfielders in the league.
Love Sport asked me if I could forgive the player for his tantrum.
YES
He has done his time and he lost his armband. The point of his absence was never about whether the fans could forgive him, it was more about how bland he is and damaging for our overall play.
“Xhaka is coming back better. His mindset is better and this morning I have a very good conversation with him. My objective is for him to come back helping us and convincing everyone that he is going to be better in the short or long future with us”
Cannot wait, Unai.
Interesting that The Times are leaking stories about Arteta / Unai not being on the original shortlist of managers (which Ivan G confirmed, so not new news). Certainly wouldn’t have come from Raul or Edu.
Right, short one today, NORMAL FOOTBALL SERVICE RESUMES. x
The players are not interested in saving Emery.
The time is right for poch he’ll make Willock into a player.
Shit again defensively.
Tierney saving the day.
If it takes a defeat to get emery sacked I hope we don’t score. But I don’t trust our board. Especially silent Stan who’ll want a say.
When the senile one become crap at least we still were flat track bullies now we are the team being bullied by mediocre teams
@Samesong
I think it’s different this time. I really think he’ll get his p45 either tonight or by Monday. Absolutely no saving grace for Emery.
Southampton should have won this 5-1
Let that sink in
we should be 4-1 down
lol running through the Arsenal defence at will.
This team is cooked.
Emery is cooked.
Saints should won 4-1
So 19th place team comes to our place on a bad run and suddenly they got their mojo back ? I swear we are the Muse of the premier league.
Tick tack.
Tick tack.
Fvck off
FFS.
Too late.
This is not good enough.
Southampton should have buried the game.
Well done Martinelli.
Southampton should have been coast clear
Lacazette has just kept Emery in a job
We had a lot of crisis in the latter stages of the Wenger years but compared to this, those were more like a bad day in the office. Now this is a crisis.
Martinelli is different class
Outplayed by Southampton but still about to get a point for it.
Emery hasn’t go
The board needs to pull the plug today
Emery out!!!
*Emery has to go
How wasteful Southampton
Get him out !!!
Can’t stand more games with Emery in charge. Would have preferred to lose and sack the fk.
Booos ringing out
Emery out!!
@peckobill..
As much as I detest Wenger..you are correct about how at least he managed to beat relegation fodder.
12 shots for emery 20 shots for the saints…. Arsenal the team that likes to train it’s keeper during matches….roll up have a shot….
Hopefully they sack him regardless we got a point in the end.
We were so bad. So bad. Emery can’t hang on.
Southampton should have scored 5 or 6…easily.
Haven’t seen chances conceded but guess it will be awful.
Should have sacked him before the international break.
This is totally pointless.
EMERID
Need to pull the trigger tonight!
We’ve already reached late Wenger territory,where a significant part of the fan base would prefer Arsenal to lose,so the board would be forced to act.
The equaliser won’t mean a thing…everyone knows we were stuffed here….the board included.
Shambolic performance.
Emery is done.
Whether you rate Ljungberg or not he has to come in as caretaker manager.
Emery going to back three at home to Southampton was a sign of desperation and the team were woeful defensively when going three is meant to give defensive stability.
Shambolic and Emery should be shown the door in the new year.
Done. Finished.
And Leicester win again.
Should have sacked him before the international break.
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Exactly. 2 weeks wasted.
Nothing new
Pochettino’s last game was a draw at home to Sheffield who are a far better team than Southampton.
That should be it for Emery.
At the end both Sokratis and Ozil were playing as if they wanted to lose.
Nothing will happen. Emry will still be the manager come may no matter what.
Shocking how bad a team with Pepe, auba, ozil and laca can actually be. The cohesion going forward just isn’t there.
Ozil limping so that’s a holiday.
Southampton manager deflated how did
we manage a draw?
Appalling state of affairs.
Wasted 2 weeks, Mourinho and Enrique now gone as short term options
No improvements at all despite calling for fan patience.
No Xhaka to blame today
Emery out
Ishola if we are so bad again and again what on earth is the point of waiting until the new year?
If you wait until the new year we will be in lower mid table. What’s the point of that?
Wenker-wanger
“The equaliser won’t mean a thing…everyone knows we were stuffed here….the board included.”
Yep the draw at home is pitiful anyway at this stage of the season against a team like Southampton but as you say Southampton “stuffed” Arsenal today and the draw scoreline doesn’t reflect that.
Is there a petition somewhere where fans can sign to sack Emery ?
China1
” if we are so bad again and again what on earth is the point of waiting until the new year?If you wait until the new year we will be in lower mid table. What’s the point of that?”
Yeah see what you are saying.
Emery should clear out his gear in the next few days with Ljungberg taking over as caretaker.
If the board don’t sack Emery today, I’ll take a break from Arsenal. It’s pointless even during Wenger’s last years we were never this bad. It’s past beyond joke now.
Shambles.
It’s crazy that the board is giving Emery more time. I mean seriously more time for what ? He has shown that he doesnt speak English, does not have an attacking philosophy, says good ebening, gets outshot by every team, cant galvanize and motivate the guys, doesnt have the sauce, plays players out of their best position, starts Luiz in every game, let’s the psychologist do his job for him, starts Xhaka, still talking about bringing him back when it’s obvious the fans can’t stand him.
Need I go on ?
Hahahaha.
Classic Arsenal under Emery. A team battered 9-0 recently come to Arsenal and out play us.
We’re a joke.
Glad the boos rang out. He has to go. We’re gonna fall even further behind.
Pochetino…..I’d love him….
We’re just 4 points ahead of Westham in 16th position. If the team in the 20th position just almost snatched a win at the Emirates, Arsenal could actually be in the relegation zone by January.
Emery needs to be sacked right now.
Gazzap
“Shocking how bad a team with Pepe, auba, ozil and laca can actually be. The cohesion going forward just isn’t there.”
We can’t keep fixating on the attack.
The team are criminal shocking defensively and have been for a good number of seasons now.
Ishola
Make up your mind please.
Can’t believe you still want Emery to be there till the new year.
Or I my getting it wrong your ? I mean your comment “Shambolic and Emery should be shown the door in the new year”
Burnley and Wolves ahead of us
It’s official – emery is worse than wenger at his very lowest ebb and that’s one hell of an insult considering we fired wenger for being wank
Honestly far more so than the results it’s the nature of these results which is shocking. Relegation fodder getting double the shots and double the chances ON A WEEKLY BASIS AT THE EMIRATES
there is no planet on which the above statement makes sense on a regular basis but here we are
No problem for me, Emery can stay, as long as we deliver such great performances.
And I’m sure that Edu and Raul thinks the same. Lol
Our shots on target stat is really depressing. What’s our average of the season, 6 ?
If Emery stays and we sink even more its on the board they are to blame then
Outplayed by Southampton at home. A team we haven’t lost to in the Premier League. A team we’ve last lost 32 years ago. A team we’ve lost to 2 times in the history of the English league.We deserved to lose by 3 or 4 goals.
The downward spiral has been going for months now. It needs to stop. Sack Emery.
We are 19 points behind the league leaders – after only 13 games.
I shall be tuning in to Arsenal Fan TV later for some subtly nuanced post-match discussion…
Emery Out!
Can’t wait to read Martine, who will soon be back from the stadium, to teach us how we should support the team and the manager.
Good ebening
Emmery Christmas!!
I would tollerate the shit football if it was effective like at the start of last season but all we are seeing is a steamroller driving towards you at 3mph but your feet are stuck in cement
Cesc Appeal
“Lacazette has just kept Emery in a job”
Shouldn’t be the case.
That draw was more akin to a defeat which you will ever see.
It’s clear as day that Arsenal will not get top four this season so they should say goodbye to Emery pronto put Ljungberg in as caretaker and find someone in the summer.
If they are thinking of Europa League then they are such fools.
That performance just there was shambolic and awful.
He’s lost a lot of those players, you could tell they were throwing the game in the last 7 minutes. In particular Sokratis, Pepe, Ozil, Luiz were just giving the ball away in our own half.
Who will take Poch?
Sanllehi apparently won’t be rushed by fan pressure and wants to give Emery a chance to make an ‘impression’.
Listen, I gave him a chance, but he’s had a season and a half almost and he’s made literally zero impression…he’s actually made us look worse with better players than the mess left to him.
I would like to see the average number of shots we face vs the shots we have.
The name Gunners is apt because our midfield to our goal is basically a shooting gallery.
More seriously, I have a solution for Emery, to stop this downfall.
Guns of SF
“Burnley and Wolves ahead of us”
And Wolves will finish ahead of Arsenal come the season’s end if Emery is allowed to continue.
If he is allowed to carry on I can see Arsenal finishing the season around eighth or ninth place.
‘Who will take Poch?’
I can’t say ‘fuck yeah’ loud enough.
Even if it was Pochettino at the end of the season so we had a caretaker until then so that he can have a rest up, plan and milk Spurs for an extra £4 Million…sure.
Emery must go.
Now.
SOS.
“The name Gunners is apt because our midfield to our goal is basically a shooting gallery.”
And because we love to play the russian roulette ??
“Who will take Poch”
Bayern, probably.
Talksport stating that it’s a race between West ham Everton and arsenal to call poch…..haha…panic buying….although I do rate poch…can’t see the board being that knee jerk…..they believe in their”dignity”
Surely Emery is the next level bringing to the level below ??
Manila. I hear what you say…..if emery was allowed to continue till the end of the season you have to say we would finish 12th to 17th…..but ,he will be sacked before we slide beyond 15th…
The real joke is if the board still think they have dignity.
Everyone can see what’s in front of them clear as day. They’re here eating a shit sandwich telling us the texture is actually not that bad and don’t worry because there’s probably still some nutrition left in the nuts
If edu and Raul don’t sort this out this week they deserve sacking just as much as emery
Sack him he should have the dignity to resign.
Again sack the cunt now, Pedro make all out Emery post tomorrow
How do we say “We shown the mental strenght” in Spanish ??
Wenger don’t know he has an hidden son, and Emery don’t know who is his real father, this is kind of cruel.
It’s all on the board now.
Emery is done. Cooked.
If Raul lacks the ability to see how far it’s fallen then he needs to fuck right off out of the club as well.
Told you it will be 2 2
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Sack him.
For the love of Arsenal sack him.
Oh I forgot these bods making the decisions have no real love for Arsenal.
I honestly believe this is the worst I have seen a Arsenal team play consistently bad for some 40 years. Must be the worse defense and midfield ever. Emery needs to be gone by Monday.
Can we really say we’re to good to go down? Very worrying times
Pierre
LOL
“Emery is done. Cooked.”
Yeah right…. since how many weeks we repeats the same thing ??
Where is Bamford when you need him. At least he was able to provide some sunshine after these defeats ( yes that draw was a defeat).
Really pissed today, Emery really needs to fuck off this week, I didn’t see the game but looking at the stats we held possession and they peppered the shit out of us.
Funny thing is we actually on paper have quite a reasonable squad, that should perform and be at least in the top 4.
Enough of arsenal pussy footing around managers, grow a pair of knackers and take proper action.
All I can say is Emery has taken us to the next level, is the next level, is the next level. 3 cheers for Emery
When he goes – I will miss him in one small way.
He has made so much money – I am now buying real estate in Namibia and MOZAMBIQUE.
(Maybe ,I will take UN advice – never bought a cattle farm before)
Anyway where our lovely UN gave you Belagured : I suggested buying Saints goals.
They were selling on the sub continent markets very engagingly this morning.
7 points off the bottom 3 and all the best mangers gone.
One would suggest a phone call to the Rock solid Mr.Benitez should be forthcoming.
Tick Tock
🥂
The statistics I posted were in our home games. I still can’t believe what a game I watched. Wtf was that performance?! I hope the players have made their mind about Emery. To be honest when Laca scored, scored because he was supposed to, not because he wanted to. It’s why he didn’t celebrate it. He realized he probably helped in saving Emery’s job.
Disgraceful performance and pitiful to set up the team like we’re playing City away.
Get a caretaker manager in now if we can’t get our prime target so we can limp into the January window and do something about that weak midfield and defence. Don’t think a new manager would be very happy with the options there.
In the meantime we need somebody in that picks a lineup and formation and sticks with it for more than 1 game at a time, smh.