It’s a quiet weekend for Arsenal fans as we play legendary Marcelo Bielsa on Monday night in the FA Cup.
My Uncle is a Leeds fan, home and away back in the day, he reckons they’ll rest heavily as they’re 9 points clear of the chasing pack for promotion and they have a tiny squad with a Chairman who doesn’t want to spend.
Arsenal will no doubt look to field a weakened squad.
I think Mikel is going to want to see what some of the kids can do for us. He doesn’t have a league cup to work with this season, so this is a good chance to start players like Willock, Saka (start him as a winger), Burton, Matteo, John-Jules and Eddie. Also a good chance for Ceballos to show he can cut it in the Premier League after a very stuttery start to his career. I also think he’ll be acutely aware that his players are dropping like flies and will continue to as he works with Shad to upgrade their fitness levels.
The FA Cup is important, we all love a day out, but it’s not more important than having a fit team to chase top 4 in the Premier League, and more importantly, giving us some solid foundations to make a good go of the Europa League when it starts back up in February.
Before we move onto transfers, can someone explain this?
Why… does this comic… have a picture of former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger… as a Zombie… as its cover?? pic.twitter.com/M3wYSqsMod
— Roger (@iamtherog) January 3, 2020
I think the brain-trust at Arsenal met over the past couple of days to discuss what’s happening with loan players, and I’ve no doubt they’re working out what they can get away with until the end of the season.
Auba reckons the English press are talking shite about him wanting away right now, I have to say, if his performances are anything to go by that’s absolutely true. I also suspect Granit Xhaka might give Arsenal a second chance, Hertha Berlin under Klinsmann sounded rough, but now Arteta is here, surely it must be a touch vom-inducing? The manager has worked out where his strengths are and figured a way to limit his weaknesses inside 3 games… an unreal achievement, and potentially the key to a lot of success in the backend of the season.
A false three… still makes me damp. I absolutely love that all the tactics nerds are perving over our minutes now. Makes a change to have an innovative coach in the dugout, doesn’t it?!
Chambers looks to have a very serious injury, that leaves us short a centre back. There’s talk about us loaning Boateng for the rest of the season, a move I really don’t like the sound of. Asking old players to adapt to a fast league rarely works out. The fact Bayern are saying they’ll take a zero fee tells you all you need to know there. There’s also a lot of hot talk about Upemacano, a player I falsely said had a bad knee because a website had duff data. I struggle with this one as Leipzig are in a title fight and though they are savvy business folk, I’m not sure they’d need to sell. That said, he is down to 18 months, they might want to cash in because they fear he’ll mail it in like Alexis did. The cretin.
A move that intrigued me was Umtiti. He was rumoured to be in the ground for the United game. He’s played about 7 games this season and could be open to a loan. Reeks of contacts scouting, but if he’s fit, you can’t deny he’s not a world-class operator and at his peak at 25 years old.
I’d also like to see us invest some power into the midfield. Ndidi is a fantasy, but a player of his ilk with a good range of passing is something we’ve cried out for over the years.
I have to say, I knew the squad was better than we thought, but I really wasn’t convinced Torreira could hit the heights we were looking for. I worried he was too small to hack it. 3 games in and he’s looking and absolute world-beater.
There are some rumours doing the rounds about Matteo potentially being moved on at some point. Some rumblings that his warm-up the other day wasn’t very good and he was called out. I have also heard that behind the scenes, his attitude has not been up to the standards you’d expect of someone so young. He’s a great talent, but he’s not performing. If his values don’t map to the clubs, he’ll be moved on. Hopefully, it’s just a case of being a dope, like most of us were at 20 years old. Surely he can see that he’s at the right place to elevate his talent?
The Max Aarons story is also one to watch. According to rumour, the club are worried about the lack of pace Bellerin has shown since he returned, so they’re considering Aarons who is very fast with lots of stamina. Have to admit, I thought the same when I’ve watched the Spaniard this season, he’s looked half a yard short. Hopefully that’s just part of the deal when you return from a serious injury, would love to have him back at the top of his game.
Right, that’s all I have today, more of a Leeds preview tomorrow. x
P.S. Jump on the podcast, I’m on with Matt.
Night all.
Bill, most of the team downed tools on Emery. Can you name a single player that improved?
Mesut is not a leader, he needs a lot of love, and it seems he just needed a better understanding of what his job was supposed to be.
Could still all go to shit for him, we’ve seen bumps from him before, but at least we know he’s capable of being a modern 10.
Players that improved under Emery: AMN Saka Guendouzi and Leno.
How much was due to Freddie in relation to Saka is a moot point. How much Leno improved due to Emery’s shocking tactics of conceding possession is also debatable, and whether Guendouzi and AMN’s trajectory would have been steeper under another coach is also up for question, but I can’t say, hand on heart, that no player improved under his tenure.
How much better they and the team would have been under Mikel is a v different question. I have far more confidence in Mikel.
This is a great read
https://www.espn.co.uk/football/arsenal/story/4026326/how-arteta-restored-belief-in-the-arsenal-squad-after-a-season-of-crisis
My sources tell me that Ozil will not still be covering 12km a game in May.
Graham
“””””Ozil could be the architect of so many positives to come but it still won’t hide the fact that he remains an absolute asshole”””””
Says the most embittered man on here.
Ozil is Class Off the Pitch
Ozil is Class On the Pitch
Granted- its sporadic at times.
Say what you like about Wenger & Ozil – they are decent men.
Men of integrity and class.
you – on the other hand – I aint so sure.
Not an ounce of decency about you.
But I guess if you aint got it- you would’ nt recognize it.
I don’t know much about Ozil off the pitch to say what he’s like. He clearly has a social conscience as seen in his charity work and when speaking out against China’s treatment of Uighurs. He’s not perfect as his ties with Erdoğan suggest a “flexible” approach to democratic values, but who am I to judge on very partial evidence and is it relevant to Ozil as a footballer?
Yeah it’s a bit of a stretch to refer to someone as being class off the pitch when he picks a politician with a seriously dubious human rights record as his best man.
I made the case before Arteta’s appointment as Head Coach that he would be arriving at the club without baggage that many established Managers brought with them when they join a new club. The Management including Arteta have brought in some experienced coaches. Only Freddy Ljungberg remains from the Emery era and he was not one of his cronies and worked less than six months with him. Moving forward it is unclear just how strong is the scouting set up at the club, because there appear to have been a lot of departures in that department starting off with Rowley… Read more »
Emirates
Haven’t we been linked with a scout from City?
Every year Cup games are a joke.
Teams ‘resting’ players with half empty stadiums.
A good Cup run may boost a teams league form,
Too many losers in the game
Marc
Our coaching set up at the moment looks rather obscure.
There were rumours that we were targeting a couple of Man City’s scouts but
sofar there has been no confirmation that we have recruited them.
Pedro, Most managers bring their most trusted assistants. But in any well organised structure there should be a limit to how many are brought and how they should interact with the rest of the company. Everybody know that Emery had brought an entire team of helpers and in some case it is fine as the new staff merges into the club staff. But here most did not even tried to integrate into the Arsenal set-up. The fact that 18 months in some of those people still did not even know the name of every support personnel was an indictment of… Read more »
Marc, I think that the scout you are referring to was a Manchester City youth team or academy scout. The timing of his recruiting made it look like it was linked to Arteta recruitement, but it was already in the pipeline. I read that it was a move to Per and Edu to reshape the academy scouting. Shocking to think that Arsenal academy did not had a dedicated M25 or South London scout. More shocking to think that the academy had nobody to look at lower league clubs prospects and relied exclusively on good will and personal relationship rather than… Read more »
I remember reading about Emery analysing and preparing clips himself and circumventing those whose job was to undertake this task.
My first reaction was that he was becoming desperate to save his job and desperate to stop the unravelling of the club.
He had basically checked out from any real belief that he could affect change at this stage.
Utd zero shots on target tonight. OGS proving all the doubters wrong.
Bill,
You are right it was desperation. But usually that led to a bunkerisation with a small ultra trusted group of men. In Emery case that translated in him trusting no one except himself. He stopped listening to the advices of his own men.
You could see that during games. Usually when confronted with a tactical issue, the headcoach and his assistant exchange view before a decision is made. This season Emery was standing on his own without exchanging with anybody. Fidgeting, Grimacing to no one because he could not find a solution and nobody was volunteering one to him.
Interestingly Arsene Wenger brought in only one coach with him when he joined Arsenal and that was Boro Primorac who remained at the club throughout Wenger’s term.
It is interesting to note that Freddy Ljungberg no longer sits on the bench when Arsenal plays, but is seen sitting in the director’s enclosure.
That is reminiscent of what Primorac used to do when working with Wenger.
Stroller,
In the early days of Wenger, Boro Primorac was mistaken for one of those anorak, “trainspotters” type of fans because of his notebook and disappearing act at half time.
Valentin
That may be the case but he was regarded as Wenger’s closest confidant during
his years at the club and was regarded as a senior coach.
The point I am making is that neither Wenger nor Arteta arrived at the club bringing coaching baggage with them.
Stroller, I agree that Boro Primorac was a trusted man. It just made me laugh, because one of my former colleague got freaked out when he realised that the man he had thought for years was a weirdo was Arsene Wenger most trusted assistant. My colleague was just walking behind me when I was gazing on the coaching staff page of the Arsenal web site and he recognised Boro Primorac. Freddie is now the human tactical cam for Arteta. People laughed at Arteta wanting drone for the training, but it is the same principle. Having an entire field view of… Read more »
Emery came with 5 people and I don’t think that’s a large crowd.
https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/news/arsenal-coaching-backroom-staff-emery-16902478
You are right it was desperation. But usually that led to a bunkerisation with a small ultra trusted group of men. In Emery case that translated in him trusting no one except himself. He stopped listening to the advices of his own men. Valentin You are not privy to this information yet you continue talk you were there. For your information the live scouting of opponents was discontinued before the season began except you are saying the desperation started during the summer. Unai Emery is facing criticism because of his decision to cut Arsenal’s live scouting of opposition teams in… Read more »
I for one don’t want to see arsenal take it too easy in the cup We need rotation, for sure, but we must win games like this Especially in a season when we probably won’t get top 4, the domestic cups are a small consolation prize They aren’t in the same ballpark as league or CL wins but they’re are better than nothing. I’d rather we finish 7th but won the FA Cup than 5th and don’t. But that’s just me The challenge is resting players without weakening the side too much to ensure victory. We’ll see how it goes.… Read more »
TLDR emery sucked is what we can confirm
I have a suspicion your data relating to ‘every manager brings a fitness coach’ likely doesn’t exist.
It’s easy to look into. Instead of getting horrified by a manager who brings in his own staff why not do a bit of research and see how many managers have their own conditions/fitness coach. From what I can tell it’s every major manager. Again no idea why you are hung up on something so common.
Saw this on Twitter (thanks Benny)
Arteta “We have 3 analysts here that look a lot at the opposition. I do it myself as well, I like my assistants to look at it. But at the moment I’m focusing much more on our principles, our way of playing, the way that we want to play rather than the opponent.”
Calf muscles so 2019,
2020 is about the longstuff, smack them with it in the changing rooms.
You heard it here 1st!
I gather that having a 1inch wonder makes you a faster runner as you have less weight to carry around. That’s what I always like to tell myself anyway
Max Aarons went to school with AFTVs Robbie’s daughter! That has to be a sign!
Bellerin hasn’t been the same since he went vegan. Correlation not causation perhaps, but he lost pace and strength at the same time he changed diet.
As for Guendouzi, I think he flatters to deceive. Runs around a lot, not particularly quickly. Gets the ball and is indecisive, which sees him closed down and give the ball away, or panic pass to a player who already has someone ready to clatter into them. I’ve seen no improvement since he joined. We can do much better than what he’s given us so far.
Guen never had proper coaching. He has an engine similar to Ramsey. He is young. He can still become a box to box CM. I find that defense is his major weakness. He would run next to the opponent and do nothing. I think he is trying to change now. Last game, he committed two faults within the first five minutes. He is still not defending correctly.
If haven’t already would suggest you watch a ‘bench view’ YouTube clip for the Man united game. Would give additional insight on how arteta expect the players to execute , in real time.
Agree Leeds is a must win game. As much rebuilding as we’d talk about Arsenal cannot afford to be completely out of Europe next season.
In line with Arteta’s states principles the team must press for wins and keep chasing top 4, Europa and the FA cup till the end.
It’s the fighting spirit of not anything else that we fans would expect, at a minimum.
No new transfer rumours today yet…
If we are looking for bargains in the summer, two players I see with a good chance of signing, Emiliano Buendia of Norwich ( attacking midfielder, having a good season and can be signed when Norwich eventually go down), Alvaro Odriozola( real Madrid , Right back not playing enough games and will go down the pecking order when Hakimi comes back).
If Everton got organised they would be a worry. With investment from Moshiri and Usmanov (his money was not good enough for us!) and leadership from Ancelotti they could be going places. I know that they have had many false dawns recently but things might now fall into place. They are looking to sign James Rodriguez on loan. Another competitor for the top four perhaps?
Arsenal realy need to push on with some affordable but inspired signings. Our real time world wide scouting network has been decimated due to the availability of on-line footage at all levels.
Hakim Ziyech from Ajax for 50m euros is being mooted. I don’t much about him as an AM but he was voted in the top 20 players from last years CL teams.
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11901499/jerome-boateng-arsenal-enquire-about-transfer-fee-loan-chances-player-wages-with-bayern
Boateng rumours are growing legs.
Habesha
From the previous page, I’m not saying we should upgrade those positions this summer but the club should be looking at the squad with a view to massively improving a lot of positions… Arsenal fans are very reactory and quick to forget… We know what we’ll get with half these players, we know they’ll have a good game here or there but we also know if we aim to compete for the major trophies, we need better players, that will aid the systems and tactics the manager will be able to implement
Azed, Stop making thing stuff up. I never said that the bunkerisation started this season. In fact for me it started last season and the first big sign of it was when he side-lined Steve Bould. When I mentioned that there had been a major fallout with Steve Bould, people did not believe me either. A few weeks later it was announced that Steve Bould had requested to move back to his old job as U23 coach. You don’t request a demotion if you are happy in your work. BTW one of the few good defensive thing that Arsene Wenger… Read more »
China1
Do you mean only have 3 teams from the EPL qualifying for CL and the remaining slot given to the FA Cup winners?
Great article in The UK telegraph. Everton ( just like Chelsea) have posted eye watering record losses. CG predicts with no CL soccer next season- we will post losses even higher than those 2 clubs. (Raul clearly replicating his Barcelona work at Arsenal.) We are actually witnessing the financial Armageddon of European soccer. We ( and other clubs to be fair) have overpaid on so many average players its frightening. Expect a big club to go bust soon 100 million alone for Pepe and Tierney is just shameful. Unproven, one footed and injury prone. There has to be sackings. Has… Read more »
Yep graham
It’s called the champions league yet we’re giving 3 spots to also rans who in most seasons are a country mile back at 3rd and 4th place
The EL winner gets in which is good
But meanwhile everyone is wondering why the FA cup has lost its shine. It’s because the practical rewards of relative mediocrity in the PL far outweighs glory in the cup.
It’s not rocket science for how to fix the cup. Make it valuable
If winning the FA cup meant instant CL qualification I tell you teams would be making a serious run at it as the easiest and most direct route
And for middling and weaker teams they’d be thinking ‘what if…’ none of this Leeds are resting players for it BS lol
Guens biggest weaknesses are positioning and pace imo
He is a bit sluggish even tho he’s good on the ball. An extra yard of pace would work wonders for him. Just a quick burst of acceleration over 5 yards evens would be a big benefit
Dunno if acceleration is something that can be trained in at this age tho
If you compare with Ceballos
Ceballos doesn’t seem fast in a sprint but his balance is crazy good so he can turn on a six pence and leave his man for dead despite his actual ‘top speed’ being unremarkable
Batistuta
I get what you were saying. We can’t give another chance to the likes of mustafi, luiz and Sokratis at the start of next season. AMN and Kolasinac will have their chance the rest of the season to show they are capable of at least deputizing. I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and let them show it was coaching that was lacking. If not both need to be sold as well. We need a major defensive clear out. And two games aren’t going to change that.
Marko, The main issue with Emery’s conditioning guy was his lack of knowledge of the specificity of the EPL and his refusal to listen to in-house expertise. When lack of expertise and refusal to listen lead to disaster, then clearly people will question the hiring. BTW, most coaches bring their assistant and their video analyst, but the conditioning guy not so much. In France it is one of the protected positions at club. If a club has a conditioning coach, the new coach cannot bring over him a new conditioning coach. If I remember correctly in France the protected positions… Read more »
China1,
Ezplositivity can be trained, however as usual everybody has a natural ceiling.
When Henry moved from Italy, Wenger stopped him going so much to the gym. He was too bulky and that impaired his explosivity. His pace over the initial 5 yards was stunted by excessive wrong type of muscles.
Boateng rumour picking up momentum this morning.. wonder how much more he has to give in his career? still a lot of players his age and older are key at their clubs so I wouldn’t write him off just yet! Also reading Ziyech.. a player I was losing my mind at passing up last summer with the rumoured £25m buyout clause he had! What’s everyone else’s thoughts on Ziyech? His stats are ridiculous and he’s looked the real deal in the champions league against top opposition
Glad to see that Edu and Arteta seem to have hit it off. Good relationship between the coach and the DoF is key to a successful club. Both must trust each other and both must work for the good of the club and not for their own personal agenda.
I’m not sold on Boateng but I’ll not write him off if it happens.
Doesn’t feel like the right move for me but we’ll see if it does go ahead
Ziyech rumours back for Arsenal. Interesting that most of the rumours have centred on a sort of wide playmaker type who can drift into the centre as well. Ziyech has a very high work rate as well and watching him in the UCL of all Ajax’s attackers I thought he’d be best placed for the EPL. Lots of industry and not afraid of he physical stuff. The transfer window is an odd time, rumours change each day and so does your mood, today it’s Ziyech in and Mustafi out which is great news. I wonder if a potential unexpectedly good… Read more »
Part of the demise of the FA cup is the amount of televised live matches since the Premier League was set up
Back in its heyday both BBC and ITV had all day coverage building up to the match
Back then there were very few live matches shown on TV
Boateng is being mentioned by Sky Sports a lot.
Maaan….
Javi Garcia was assistant manager at Granada until 2013 when he joined Emery at Sevilla as goalkeeping coach.
He followed the Arsenal head coach to Paris Saint-Germain in 2016 and he remains one his most trusted associates.
Julen Masach – Strength and conditioning
The Spaniard was reunited with Unai Emery after his appointment as Arsenal head coach in 2018 after having first joined his team in 2008 at Valencia.
Prior to joining the Gunners, Masach worked in Germany with Hannover 96 and also at Paris Saint-Germain during his Emery’s tenure in the French capital.
I like this English football league system. There are 10 levels of competition, from Premier League (Level 1) down to those non-League teams of the National League Systems. The FA Cup is like a family affair. It gives some excitements to the many supporters of those small teams all over the country dreaming of an upset. The winner qualifies for the Europa League and a place in the FA Community Shield match. Of course, this won’t satisfy fans of the top 6 teams. FA’s priority is to promote this national sport in England. There is even a FA Women’s Cup.… Read more »
Azed you boring cunt. What are you even trying to argue?
This is pepe so far at Arsenal
https://youtu.be/c8iXr59fedE
I think arteta is going to turn Pepe into a monster
I know it’s A YouTube highlight reel but there’s a lot to work with and its very exciting 🙂
Nelson, Most European countries have a pyramid system of League competitions and a domestic competition in which both professional and amateurs compete. What is unique in England is the sheer number of professional clubs. 92 clubs in the professional league, plus a fair few in the national League that are professional or semi-professional. Regarding women football, and a FAW Cup, again most countries have the same. England used to have a better women amateur system but once it went professional it is a little bit of a mess. Clubs that are attached to men club have resources that the bottom… Read more »
The main issue with Emery’s conditioning guy was his lack of knowledge of the specificity of the EPL and his refusal to listen to in-house expertise. Valentin Who is this imaginary coach you’ve been talking about? Doesn’t he/she have a name? Julen Masach came with Emery as strength and conditioning coach and was fired same time as Emery. It will be nice for you to tell us the conditioning guy that Emery brought and was fired before Emery PS: This was your comment yesterday The original Emery’s fitness guy was let go even before Emery. Emery brought him above the… Read more »
Azed you boring cunt. What are you even trying to argue?
That your stupid mother should have aborted you.
Are we still talking about fitness coaches?
Yaaaawan
Only one person on this blog should be allowed to make up stuff and that’s Pedro
Even Pedro doesn’t pass his opinion as facts.
Folks with no clue of the Arsenal operations just sit in their basement and make stuff up.
I read that Everton have not beaten Liverpool in any match since 2010, there has been an obvious difference in quality over the years but that is a heck of a run. Everton fans must be chomping at the bit. I recall how Spurs fans were desperate for any kind of win against us prior to them doing us in the league cup in 2008. It was great to go so long against them without losing, 99-08 I think. I think the Mourinho era will be over quicker than anyone imagined. It already seems to be turning a little sour… Read more »
Un Yes 2004 was the opportunity we unfortunately let slip in terms of the European Cup. It was obviously the season of the Invincible’s but a tinge of regret for not being able to get through that mad week against Man Utd in the cup semi final and Chelsea in the CL a few days later. No doubt in my mind we would have done a treble of our own. As an Arsenal fan I want to see is decorated with as many trophies as possible and for that reason was deflated by the EL final loss to Chelsea last… Read more »
Mourinho’a new act, the happy one, the champion of the youth team, did not last very long.
He will continue grumpily and get some modicum of success. However it is clear that within 18 months it will implode and Spurs will have to find a new manager to pick up the pieces.
Their saving grace maybe that it won’t be at the same time that most senior players contract expire.
Azed maybe but what’s the point here? It’s Bamford levels of boring. Un The point: Stop people from spreading fake news and educate some. This is my last post on this, then I’m done. Dieting is a big part of fitness so every modern club has a team of nutritionist. Also strength and conditioning is tailored to an individual so the idea that one man can plan the strength and conditioning of a 23 man team is absurd. Martinelli and Aubameyang are both strikers but they would have different fitness regimes because of age. Martinelli still has room to grow… Read more »
Un Yeah I recall many Arsenal fans finding Chelsea very, distasteful, shall we say, from 2004 onward. Whereas before they were an annoying nuisance of a noisy neighbour, they were now a big threat and all because the money Abrahmovic invested. I remember when Man Utd beat them to end their unbeaten run (they were threatening to eclipse ours a year on from ours) at about 40 games, never been so happy for a Man Utd win, and I think a lot of the country felt the same way. Their victories just seemed fake and cheap because they had spent… Read more »
Azed
A to Z with nothing in between the ears. Well done dummy.
Keep clogging the blog up with shit. People have spoken and you’re Bamford mk2.
That US college system really is a joke.
Un
If you remember this time last year, someone put out a rumour that Unai and Raul schemed to get out Diamond eyes.
Now it has come to light that Unai did not get the players he wanted (Torriera was from Diamond eyes I believe)
Did those that spread the rumor ever come back to say they were wrong?
Nope.
Chelsea rebuild their reputation on the back of Manchester City. Their success was bought, but it still felt like a single rich benefactor loving football rather than a country coming from nowhere to rebuild their reputation.
Same way in France many didn’t like Lyon but felt that any good rich chairman could have gotten similar results while PSG success was different. It felt like indecent unlimited dirty money buying the Ligue 1 competition.
Valentin
You have a tendency to present innuendoes and other stuff that you’re not privy to as fact. Then you drop third-person second hand doctor small talk as gospel.
Other than that you’re perfect.
Raul bad…Edu good, never mind that Raul has to sign off on anything Edu does.
Keep clogging the blog up with shit.
People have spoken and you’re Bamford mk2.
That US college system really is a joke.
Like I said earlier, your mother would have saved the world your idiocy by aborting you?
PS: I did not school in the US. I’m not even from the US.
Thanks for showing your idiocy to the world.
“You have a tendency to present innuendoes and other stuff that you’re not privy to as fact.”
Thank you so much Dissenter.
Dissenter, I am not presenting innuendo, but facts. The problem is you don’t like the facts, so you try to pretend it is wrong. Like when I stated that there was a fallout between Emery and Steve Bould. For weeks you insulted me for daring pointing out the obvious change in set pieces tactics. You then had to go with your tail between your leg when it was announced that Steve Bould had requested a job change. Like I pointed out, outside of external personal reason you don’t request a demotion if you are happy at your work. I have… Read more »
Azed,
talking about innuendo, when Presenting yourself as a fitness expert on the back of a college basket ball career when now you reveal that all you have done is playing with your mate on the car park.
Bamford MK2 level of delusion.
talking about innuendo, when Presenting yourself as a fitness expert on the back of a college basket ball career when now you reveal that all you have done is playing with your mate on the car park. I have never presented myself as a fitness expect, I have consistently said fitness is tailored to each player and the idea that one person can overrule the fitness regime of a whole squad is absurd. I said I played college basketball and if 4 months into a season players are not fit then you seriously need to question the players. You brought… Read more »
Diet, rest, exercise make up fitness. If you ignore just one of those issues, your fitness will suffer
See Ozil and the fortnite issue….
Like I told Un, I’m done.
This time last year, we had an argument about Emery wanting a defender you didn’t believe me, what happened in the end?
Azed, “This time last year, we had an argument about Emery wanting a defender you didn’t believe me, what happened in the end?” Again you are accusing me of something I did not do. I did believe that Emery wanted a defender. I even wrote a comment to that effect that Emery wanted a CB and a winger but that all Raul got was a player who in his first Arsenal interview quickly announced that he was neither. Rereading previous posts and you will see thatI did not blame that fiasco on Emery. Where we had disagreement previously on you… Read more »
Get in the Boro