Well, that was a thud back down to earth. Arsenal are shit. Take me back to lockdown.
Our first game back was a nightmare, but so very, very Arsenal.
2 injured players inside 20mins, check.
Unforced error leading to goal, check.
Sending off, check.
Away loss in the Premier League, check.
Insipid performance, check.
It really was all there, about as familiar as an unchanged pair of pants you’ve been wearing for 7 years.
I think what a lot of people are missing is that behind the scenes, Arsenal is still an absolute shit show.
Mesut Ozil was dropped, again. He has a bad attitude and he’s already managed to fall foul of Arteta’s rules.
Auba played like a lost sheep, is that because we haven’t offered him a new deal?
David Luiz, if I can read the tea leaves, didn’t play because he’s had his contract pulled (wonder what took Raul from being favourable to that deal, to reneging). He was subbed on for an injured Mari and he played like a player worried about what he’d be doing in 13 days time.
#AFC | Anybody else wish he was clearer in his message?
I’m even more confused than I was before. So many ways you can interpret that… pic.twitter.com/IdD8c7QaLU
— Harry Symeou (@HarrySymeou) June 17, 2020
“I said to the players after the game, nobody needs to speak (to the media), it’s me, I have to show my face.”
“I want to stay, the coach knows, the coach wants me to stay. We are waiting for the decisions.”
This is one of the worries I had about post-covid football. The market is fucked. He’s a luxury now. His contract has basically expired and he’s not focused because THE POOR MAN CAN’T FEED HIS FERRARI HABIT.
Everyone is VERY worried about Pepe not starting. From what I understand, there are challenges there. If he was pulling up trees, do you really think he’d sit on the bench?
Players are picked on what they deliver in training.
Mesut Ozil was dropped, so Joe Willock stepped in and offered nothing. That said, Arsenal haven’t won an away game in the Premier league since 2015. Might as well give Willock a go, even if he did stink out the place.
As a side snippet, the club have been training Saka in lots of different positions, he’s been great everywhere, but the hot talk is that he’s been VERY good as a number 10.
Anyway, back to it. Not a very good starting 11. Lots of promise, not a lot of ability to deliver right now.
The reality so many seem to forget is that City are Champions, they had a fully fit and rested squad to choose from, we haven’t won away in the league in 25 games. Even on a good day, we’d have likely been beaten. Today, we had a bad day, even without injuries, we were still going to lose that game bar a shithousery miracle.
Our squad lacks most things. We aren’t bullies, there’s not a lot of athleticism, and we’re short on experience. The absolute kicker for me is that there was nothing in that performance. Absolutely nothing. Could have been Emery, Wenger or Freddie.
BUT
There’s a lot of room to grow, but that’s going to be hard when there are so many fires going on with the squad dynamics, contracts, and the general unrest in the game at the moment.
This season won’t be 9 more games of that. We’ll win some, we’ll put in performances, but we have to eat a big spoonful of reality… this season is a write-off, and it tastes like cat puke.
That doesn’t mean you need to douse yourself in petrol and set yourself on fire in front of The Tollington.
Mikel Arteta is a great coach. He’s doing the right things behind the scenes. He’s holding players to high standards, he’s working out who can cut it next season, he’s modernising the club and he’s slowly but surely trying to fix the culture of mediocrity. He’s going to work out just fine, I can take the Ls right now, but know this, longterm, if you’re calling him a bum… you are wrong and I will come for you with your own words late at night when you least suspect it.
We have VERY talented young players. They might not be ready to blow up now, but they will do. With the right senior players supporting them, good coaching, and good life choices, they could be very special. Put Chelsea’s kids in with our seniors and they’d be shit too. The future of Arsenal is local, young and elite. City doesn’t change that.
We’re still being run badly, that’s what many don’t understand. The David Luiz stuff sparks a little bit of intrigue. Two weeks ago, his agent said the deal was close, why are we not there now? Do we think head office is paying attention to the games that are going on with Raul’s squad of feeders? There’s a chance on that.
Edu and Raul are not running a tight ship. It’s harsh on the Brazilian, so maybe I’ll leave him alone, but Raul has not delivered. He’s spent bad money on suspect players, he’s snuggled up on the super-agent comfort blanket, and he continues to let money walk out the door (Rambo, Welbeck, Auba). It’s not good enough. Josh might be absent, but if there’s one thing I know about billionaires, they don’t like to look like faaaaacking mugs. I think Josh looks like a fucking mug at the moment. Raul needs to shape up or he should be shipped out.
If, if, if… the club can get smart about building a proper football club, then we might see some positives moving forward.
Edu talking to The Athletic about data and being smart with player purchases sounds like a reaction to the poor press he’s been getting lately. We know he can find better players than Soares because he let the club buy Martinelli. We know we have great scouts because Cagigao recommended him. We don’t have to be shit at transfers, we really don’t. Edu needs to detach himself from Raul and do his job properly this summer.
Arsenal will hit the bottom at some point, my hope is that we get it done sharpish so this summer isn’t another unmitigated disaster. We need a rebuild, no more transition bullshit. We need exec leadership to think about the club first. We need everyone to buy into the coach and give him the best possible platform to succeed with this batch of kids that could be really, really good.
We need to move on from the Arsene nightmare and stop running towards like irrelevance like we want to be 90s Liverpool for the rest of time.
… but first, we need to move on from City and win this weekend. Yesterday was a terrible performance. Everything went against us. We didn’t show up. That needs a response. We simply don’t have time to feel sorry for ourselves.
On that note, I bid you farewell. x
Dissenter
That is a good argument.
Ishola
Gabi is way faster and explosive than Eddie.
Marc
I meant overrule Arteta in keeping Luiz. Luiz needs to go; no ifs, ands or buts.
Sometimes you have to save a young manager from himself.
I wasn’t pleased when Arteta allowed Luiz and others to publicly slam Emery. It was clear they were blowing smoke up his arse to ingratiate themselves into his good books.
Xhak stayed out of that nonsense and earned my respect.
Dissenter
You get Luiz, I get Xhaka and Mustafi.
We end up with a new midfield and central defence and we’ll both be happier.
Receding
Nice to have you around. Hope all is well in the city of peace.
After yesterday’s match, there are a few questions regarding Arteta’s ability regardless of how the players perform during training: – We all know that Xhaka can’t play at the base of the midfield. The only place he can be of any use is on the left side of the defense. – The midfield is like an open book. MC passed the ball at will. Guen and Willock were outclassed badly. They belong to a different league. – Playing Saka as RW is strange. – We can’t advance the ball across the midfield line. The only attacking play is long ball… Read more »
Wasi
“Gabi is way faster and explosive than Eddie.”
I don’t think so. Martinelli has shown good attributes but explosive pace is not one I have really seen.
As for intelligence as a player Martinelli is miles ahead of Eddie N at this stage.
As said before picking a player over another because of a perceived notion of a bit more pace over another shouldn’t come into the reckoning really.
Wasi “Id rather go into next season with Saliba , Chambers , Mustafi , Holding , Mari/ any new signing.” I’ve no problem with Luiz leaving if that’s what the club decides. My concerns with the above are: Chambers – we can’t depend on him being back and fully up to speed next season until after Christmas – maybe later. Holding – He didn’t even make the squad last night – why not? If Luiz is going why not have Holding on the bench? Mustafi – sorry he’s burnt his bridges with me I want him gone. I’d like to… Read more »
We used to bash Emery for messing up with Pepe’s confidence, Arteta should be held to that same standard.
He can’t handle expensive talent.
Pepe came to England with no preseason, has had three managers in one season and has had to live through COVID-19 on foreign soil away from family.
Using the excuse of ‘not showing up in training’ is so meh, more so for a manager that can’t get us past the last 32 of the EL.
It’s the likes of Pepe that will end up saving Arteta from being fired.
There is no money unless we sell and rid.
Ozil pay up his year contract and fuck the kraut off.
Kola fuck him off
Mustafi sell the kraut
Xhara… Sell the twat
Auba.. Sell if only for 20 m
Lava sell if only for 25m
“‘Mikel Arteta is a great coach. He’s doing the right things behind the scenes.’”
What have i been smokin..?
If ManU beat the Spud’s on Friday night then the very slim chance we had of CL football is gone.
We then need to focus on obviously finishing as high as we can to save a bit of face but in looking at next season and the players we have that we want to keep / use. Players who aren’t in the longer term plan should be left out.
Jury still out on Arteta.
Let’s hope he’s not just another Mike Phelan/Carlos Queiroz/Steve McLaren.
The DM is reporting that Kia Joorabchian and Luiz have given Arsenal a 5-day deadline regarding talks To extend his contract.
Maybe we need to send Raul and Edu to the international space station for the next week so they can miss the deadline.
Dissenter we are doing okay here.
Hope you and yours are doing great
Been around mostly reading not posting. I admire Pedro’s complete confidence in Arteta turning out to be world class, just can’t see what that is based on. He looks a bit of a phoney to me,talks the talk but rarely walks the walk in games.
Pedro, what’s the point of training good and then come and stink the place out in real games..This approach didn’t work and is not gonna work with the options we have.
Arteta has to utilize the squad to its best strength and start to act like a proper
manager and not like a training physio
Most of us expected little from last night game, but, his selections and set up was bizzare and infuriating !
Dissenter
“The DM is reporting that Kia Joorabchian and Luiz have given Arsenal a 5-day deadline regarding talks To extend his contract.”
Well anyone with any sense at the club who has the authority to oversee this should just laugh in their faces.
Deadline indeed. For such a dodgy player.
Fuck off Luiz and good riddance.
Martinelli is definitely better than Eddie upfront, its where he has had joy this season only for The Great coach Arteta to bench him. I really want to know what goes on in Arteta’s head. Give Bielsa the option of Martinelli or Eddie, everybody on earth knows who he chooses. So why cant a Great coach like Arteta see it. We should have sold Xhaka when we had the chance, but Mcsauce convinced him to stay, that £25 million would have gotten a better player in Bruno guimaires. Now, he is trying to convince Luiz to stay. We should have… Read more »
Ian Wright habitually turned up late for training and was not the best either when he did attend.
But come Saturday, he did ok.
This is the problem when you recruit a Head Coach as your ‘manager’.
They are only focussed on the ‘coaching’ side of the operation – and who is listening to your goobledgook.
In English soccer, the game is all about man management.
And the only 2 tools a successful manager needs are.
1. The Whip
2. The Hairdryer
(Off course unless you are Arsene Wenger, when you can charm the buggers.)
“We used to bash Emery for messing up with Pepe’s confidence, Arteta should be held to that same standard.” If Emery was in charge of yesterday’s game, Pierre would have written an epistle on how Emery didn’t appreciate talent, finesse and intelligence that’s why he benched Pepe and Ozil. Pedro would have told us how Emery is so bad he couldn’t motivate the boys for a big game. Pedro would also say how clueless Emery is that Arsenal couldn’t muster a shot on target yet a novice like Ole G beat City by having a plan and getting the players… Read more »
CG,
So to be clear, you have now shifted from the mindset of authoritarian discipline, to wanting a coach that doesn’t enforce standards… like showing for team meetings?
Do we know if Ozil was one who didn’t turn up for team meetings or is that just an assumption?
Genuine question.
Show up for team meeting, vomit on desk, poo pants, excuse yourself.
I believe this is one should conduct a team meeting.
Pepe didn’t show up. Fact. Pepe was blowing Lacazette. I mean, doing blow jobs with Lacazette. Balloons. Blowing dicks.
You’ve just written what we need to do. Thing is almost every team in the league needs to do this. With the incompetence running the club in years the truth is we are rightly fucked. Arsenal are where they will be until the Kronkes are gone. Why dont you blog writers start hammering the kronkes more and stop blowing smoke up the mediocre arse of Arteta who so far has shown nothing
PedRo
“””””CG,So to be clear, you have now shifted from the mindset of authoritarian discipline, to wanting a coach that doesn’t enforce standards… like showing for team meetings?””””
If Ozil has not been showing for team meetings, he should be dropped and fined
I was under the assumption his omission was because of his refusal to take a pay cut
I apologise to MA. If that was the case.
Arsenal fans have now officially replaced the scousers as the most entitled, sanctimonious cretins in the football world.
Arteta has had zero time. Fucking next to nothing. Had three months forced leave from football. No money. A busted squad and a fire fanbase. And now he’s being set up as scapegoat.
You people are ludicrous.
CG, so let’s just get this straight.
Are you for enforcing high standards of discipline, or not? Just want to make sure we don’t get lost on this subject.
Arteta is getting a lot wrong already and he’s been here for how many months?
Convincing Xhaka to stay.
Fencing out Torreira and Martinelli
Thinking Willock can be a 10 ahead of Ceballos
Playing Auba on the left
Playing Saka on the right
Refusing to have a ball winner when playing against possession demons
Refusing to have counter-attacking players when our only chance of winning was to counterattack
I’m not sure he’ll last very long except he dramatically changes after having a storming summer.
Guns, he’s also dealing with contracts expiring in the next week.
It’ll be short term pain, but still quite amusing that people wanted a dominant win yesterday. We were bad, but it was a fully fit City we just played.
reminded when trying very very hard to enjoy this match played in a void without the crowd, smell, banter … reminded of why we follow and love footie, its all about being there for the atmosphere.. whether Dagenham versus Hayes or Juve versus Barca. So last night was a double fuck up.. Frankly I couldnt have cared less after 30 minutes if we won or lost 3-0..I was bored bored titless.
That’s it, I am done with football, seriously. I won’t be missed but who cares. I was going to watch the game but then they all “took a knee.” I will never watch another game, will never watch aftv again and will never be interested in pro football again. As a black guy born over here my voice does not count. What we went though in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s and still today does not count. All that trashed by a bunch of virtue signalling low IQ footballers who are victims of what? Seriously, what the f*** are… Read more »
Nobody wanted a dominant win Pedro with this squad, but a shot on target might be nice. It’s the head scratching decisions of starting Saka in a position he hasn’t played before against one of the best teams in the world. Eddie (cant start for Leeds )Nketiah starting as a CF where Auba, Martinelli would do much better. I dont want to start with Willock, he is simply awful( might improve down the line but shouldn’t be starting against City). P.S saw a stat going around that the last time we didnt have a shot on target was 2017 against… Read more »
Peter
As I’ve said, ludicrous fanbase who are entitled and just a tiny bit dumb. It’s like they think we can go and hoover up the worlds best talent and spend a billion doing it.
This was always a project. Always!
Merciless,
I think you should check in for therapy before it is too late.. Cheers.
“That’s it, I am done with football, seriously. I won’t be missed but who cares. I was going to watch the game but then they all “took a knee.” I will never watch another game, will never watch aftv again and will never be interested in pro football again.”
Twitter is filled with “threatening” idiots like you being told to fuck off by clubs and corporations. They don’t care about losing your business.
It’ll be short term pain, but still quite amusing that people wanted a dominant win yesterday. Pedro I don’t think anyone expected a win yesterday. The problem is we didn’t put up any kind of fight and city played with the handbrake on. If we had a plan, it looked like just hoof the ball up top and hope for the best. Kyle Walker is a speed demon which means you need someone with tricky to go against him so why did Arteta play Aubameyang on the left? Why not Saka or Martinelli? Even our imitation of the pressing the… Read more »
Pedro
I don’t think anyone expected a dominant win yesterday
But I don’t think people expected his bizarre positional changes either
Didn’t Arsenal have two matches before City from a fitness point of view
Good post Pedro, except you forgot: Terrible starting lineup – check Terrible substitutions – check Terrible in game management – check. Terrible squad proving player poverty is true and that Arsenal do in fact like myself, Bamford and others have said, have the 6th or 7th best squad in the league – check. Too early to judge Arteta though – check. It’s good to be back but my oh my we are in a mess. Luiz, Sokratis, Mustafi, Kolasinac, Cedric, Mari, Ceballos, Xhaka, Ozil, Lacazette and Aubameyang are all either too old, too shit or too overpaid and need to… Read more »
Arsenal under new leadership looks exactly the same as the old Arsenal we thought we’d left behind. The sum total of what we delivered in a 3-1 loss was 15 minutes of football that looked interesting. The main celebration of Arsenal fans post-game centred around not losing by 8 goals, as many feared we’d be revisiting that fateful Manchester disasterclass of 2011. That’s a depressing new low 9 months into a new regime. I don’t think anyone was really expecting Emery to deliver a blistering win, but I also don’t think anyone expected Arsenal to go down so meekly. Emery… Read more »
No one expected a win let alone a dominant one.
What some expected, not me by the way, was some sort of performance, something to assure us that in a few months time we will not approach games like this already writing off points, that City will at least know they have been in a game. It was training ground kick about for them last night, this against a coach who allegedly helped in shaping how they play
If Arsenal has gone into this season with Arteta from the start, we would not have had to play catch up after the Emery shower. Fact.
Arteta took over a mess and you lot just think that he can turn this around? Instantly? Ferguson in his prime, Lippi, Capello could not have done it.
If I give you just sand and ask you to make me cement, you would fail. Start winding your necks in and wake up.
Some gems from Pedro’s post last season for example, look at this
Auba is ineffective against great sides that control the midfield, we had no width, and our creativity was limited to Iwobi.
Who did I threaten? What is idiotic about what I said? I know my history and which side of it I am on. Low IQ dumb footballers jumping on a wagon do not represent me or speak for me. A subservient, meaningless and demeaning gesture has no part in football. I need no help – judging by some of the abuse aimed at me you really need a history lesson. Goodbye
I was bored bored titless.
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but didn’t you at least enjoy the fake crowd noises……….
“As I’ve said, ludicrous fanbase who are entitled…” Sorry but my complaints against Arteta has nothing to do with entitlement… it has to do with not handicapping one-self before a ball has been kicked and getting the simple decision right – something that everybody on this blog complained of when it was emery. What the writer/owner of this blog often fails to do, is to hold the same standards with one as they did with the other. Case in point: Have either of you answered the question regarding how Saka starts on the right, Auba (our top goal scorer) starts… Read more »
Arsenal didn’t have to travel this week, so they’ve had time to prepare for this game. We conceded 12 shots on target from 19 attempts. That is miserable, but we did the same away at Chelsea (13) and Liverpool (10). Just to put it in perspective because I know we had injuries, Newcastle limited City to 4 shots on target the week before. Even Huddersfield, a team in a terrible state, managed to reduce City to 4 shots on target. Defending is a team game, and we’re not doing it well. Even worse, both the aforementioned sides registered the same… Read more »
Entitled. Arrogant. Arsenal fans.
Guns of hackney what exactly is that assertion based on? What have we produced under Arteta that has some of you believing we would be pushing for top four if he started the season? Such a weird thing to keep repeating with nothing to back it up. @Azed simply throwing back Pedro’s own words at him. So much patience for as assistant with little but wishful thinking to back it up. Saying the right things during interviews isn’t really the job at hand. We are not playing better nor creating chances. A few passing patterns when the opposition sit off… Read more »
To make matters worse, as always with this Emery side, we didn’t have the maturity to see out an advantage into half time, a now chronic issue almost as debilitating to our progress as not winning away from home last season.
Here’s another Gem
Emery didn’t do anything to change things at halftime, I thought he might switch to three at the back and introduce some creative talent. We’d not given Lacazette or Auba a single chance the whole half, you felt if we addressed that, we might have made things more interesting.
RH
It’s like one surgeon starting an op and halfway through, steps out and tags in another to finish the job. Consistency. Arsenal were off to a stinker and Arteta is immediately playing catch up. If he had a pre season, I think we would be top 6, maybe top 4.
Who has the time to trawl months and years of old posts to prove a point. That’s not good.
Today we registered 2 shots on target both shots coming from defenders. The pressing game isn’t really there. The players are not getting better individually. Stylistically, we’re still awful to watch.That’s on the coach.
How many shots did we get yesterday?
Does anyone expect to see any different at the weekend?
Today’s result was expected, the question you have to ask yourself is whether that was the sort of loss that’s driving towards a better Arsenal. For me, all I could take out of that was the dread that we have a manager out of his comfort zone and as a result is shifting his own narrative from a power point mastermind who had a plan to coach us into the next level, to just another drab chequebook manager who needs two seasons to make improvements (remember the press defending Moyes in the same way?).That’s not what we were sold people… Read more »
Merciless is a black man who doesnt like issues of racism being front and centre. Doesnt like rich people complaining about discrimination because they dont represent him. Doesnt like players having slogans on the back of their shirts because he would rather see the players names.
im sure you didnt like Martin Luther king Jnr incessantly making speeches and Mandela insisting on things thsat he was told he couldnt have.
if you are a black man then maybe i am Chinese
Guns of HackneyFebruary 4, 2019 10:02:12
Shock horror: Emery probably massaged his cv and adapted his pitch to get top job.They guy told the board exactly what they wanted to hear. He just isn’t qualified to handle the Arsenal gig. Arsenal is a massive and complicated job to unravel.
Azed
Mate, that is bordering on insanity. But kudos to you for highlighting a point. Well played.
Cray cray.
“As a side snippet, the club have been training Saka in lots of different positions, he’s been great everywhere, but the hot talk is that he’s been VERY good as a number 10.“ What’s the point of having such a talent that appears to be allow to walk free. More dosh out the door. Amongst all irks, nothing hurts more than the fucking incompetence on show year on year. Can’t even keep an academy player when you cut to the chase. Never believed in the appointment of Raul. Greasy, and a has-been football exec who absolutely not suited for Arsenal… Read more »
The team needs someone to the hold the ball up in the opposition half. a giroud, Alexis. Alan Smith, kanu etc.. I do not understand the throw in tactic, a FB in the opposition half throws ball into a CB to pass back to goal keeper . This is not Arsenal. Maybe merson and parlour saying bring in A target man like Chris wood is a good idea. He has a brilliant goals per game ratio. For Burnley Lacezette can hold it up ,some times . At For me play ozil as a false 9 . He can hold up… Read more »
Peter
Get Azed under control. He could bring the whole house of cards down! He’s dangerous.
Guns
It’s Friday and I have a lot of time with nothing better to do.
All those who claimed player poverty wasn’t a thing trying to dodge.
Un
how did our three man midfield do yesterday?
The truth is dangerous!
Azed
It’s Thursday ha ha. That feeling when you realise you have another day at work. Deflating.
DissenterFebruary 4, 2019 10:44:27
Un na
‘He rendered our front two useless with his set up.That statement belies your utter confusionWhy are we are we starting the game with two strikers?
That’s where the problems begin. You’re to going to play tight away with two strikers. .
It’s Thursday ha ha. That feeling when you realise you have another day at work. Deflating.
Guns
Must be Friday somewhere in the universe.
azed
“All those who claimed player poverty wasn’t a thing trying to dodge.”
Actually this is the worrying thing. We have a £70 million right winger who was on the bench. We have two young exciting left wingers, one was on the bench the other was played RW. We have a golden booting winning CF who played LW and a £50 million striker on the bench.
We all know CM is a major issue for us but Arteta seems to be picking far too many square pegs for round holes.
No one said Arteta was going to win the league. Not seriously, anyway.
He’s a top coach who is respected in the game. He’s an Arsenal man. Young. Smart. This was always going to be damage limitation this season. Rebuild next and set the style. Attack the third season.
Come on.
GOH
So now you want people banned for not toeing the accepted line?
What we are seeing now is what many of us said at the time. Arsenal are a complete mess and not the type of job to give to a complete rookie. Are we supposed to wait another 18 months for Arteta to cut his teeth on how to manage a former big club sliding quickly into mediocrity.
We waited 8 years for wenger to regroup and find his mojo but look how that turned out
azed
“It’s Thursday ha ha. That feeling when you realise you have another day at work. Deflating.”
You’ve got to turn it into a positive – it means an extra day until next round of Arteta excuses I mean amazing Arsenal performance.
Charlie GeorgeFebruary 4, 2019 11:01:23 bergkamp 63“”We have many injury problems that have nothing to do with Emery, HB, AMN, CJ all injured in the RB position,””–it was emery who played Rob Holding in 3 games in 6 days ( including a dead rubber tie in the Ukraine)–it was emery who rushed back Bellerin -he had been out for the previous 8 games. ( why not sub him – we were 2 nil up against Chelsea)— its under emerys watch that continually playing AMN out of position – either left wing back/right wing back- the lad keeps getting bad injuries.(… Read more »
Graham62February 4, 2019 11:04:21
Charlie GeorgeNo, it wasn’t ” the poisoned chalice” that some like to highlight, but it was in need of someone with a much more logical and seasoned mindset to counter the problems left by Wenger.It also required someone who had the ability to question the hierarchy more openly, in English(!!), and not to accept the principles and philosophies that helped get us into this mess in the first place.Emery is not strong enough, imo.
Peter
The peasants are revolting. Get them down now!
DissenterFebruary 4, 2019 12:43:00
wenher eagle, gambon & Charlie Champagne
I’m sure you will all get your wishes fulfilled in May 2020.’
Consider Emery to be a transitional manager .
This is fun.
Like father, like son, hiring an AKB’s was a big mistake
Receding HairlineFebruary 4, 2019 13:07:26
Emery should have made better use of the squad available to him yesterday.He said yesterday’s game was a chance for us to show how far we have come as a team before the match. We ended up delivering a disaster class. So whoever wants to insult and abuse him today can feel free to do so. He did himself zero favors yesterday, he looked lost and devoid of ideas. And i think its about time he stops saying we need to improve until we actually improve.
This is fun
I agree with you backpass
RedtruthFebruary 4, 2019 13:35:53
I’d say lack of quality rather than lack of belief…
Do you think Emery’s PSG would suffer from lack of belief facing Man City….
Imagine a fresh younger Wenger taking over this team, we’d be relegated …..
“This is fun”
Here here
Azed, I think the Emery Therapy blog is on another domain?
Y’all don’t give RedTruth the credit that he deserves. Man’s been dropping dimes since the beginning of time.
RedtruthFebruary 4, 2019 14:31:03
It’s fine scoring tap ins against Cardiff but where is
Pedro
All we are asking for is constitency….. We literally had no shot on target yesterday.
I was one of the people who said Emery didn’t have the players because our so called big players are past it.
Same thing will happen with Arteta unless he finds a way to get rid of the dross.
It’s you who said what was lacking was coaching.
gonsterousFebruary 4, 2019 14:35:38
pedroEveryone can see right through your comments. let’s not turn this blog into untold 2.0. Where you stick with your belief through thick
Azed, we are in a very different position to the one Emery had. 4 players have deals expiring next week, Saka has a year on his deal, Auba hasn’t been offered a new one… and we played City in our first game.
We are on the right path with the coach, if you think losing to the Champions is a sign that Arteta has been busted, you’d be very, very wrong.
PedRo “”””We were bad, but it was a fully fit City we just played.””””: A City team , bottom feeders Norwich City scalped. And Wolves too at their place ( 0- 2) And the ridiculed OGS thrice in a row. Q)How did those teams beat them? A)Pace on the counter! Arteta and Round* completely ignoring basic footballing common sense and in their own ‘Everton ‘ bubble. (Arsenal best counters Pepe and Martinelli wearing masks and warming the bench for 90 minutes) Inexcusable, unacceptable and useless. * This Round Looser- stating only last week that Arteta is one of the best… Read more »
DissenterFebruary 4, 2019 15:26:43 Most of us people defending the common sense value of giving the new manager enough time be assessed won’t lose any sleep if he’s sacked today. There’s no emotional attachment to Emery. The problem is starting a manager go-around is based on exactly what?That we are one special sauce manager away from achieving what exactly. We have an owner who’s more depressed right bow about a super bowl loss than Arsenal losing to city. We have a nascent and uncertain backroom. We have an expensively acquired junkyard masquerading as a premier league squad.…yet all you lot… Read more »
CG, it’s hard to take you seriously, because you are desperate for Arsenal to fail.
City are a fantastic side, the most expensively assembled in the world, and they were fully fit and tanked us.
We played badly, our game plan was rocked by two injuries, and David Luiz stole the show. There’s no deeper story. We move onto the next game.
Pedro
I have no problem with Arteta. You can go through my post and you’ll see that I haven’t blamed Arteta for anything because it’s not his fault.
There’s no midfield combination Arteta could have played yesterday that would have made a difference because we don’t have the quality.
I have said this time and time again. We have really poor players, Luiz? Mari?
It’s you who doesn’t want to agree with player poverty.
PS: Emery got Ramsey to play well without a contract so don’t use contract as an excuse.
How exactly are we on the right path? The club still needs a player overhaul, our last window brought in a player who might leave without kicking a ball and one allegedly highly rated one who looked anything but in his brief cameo yesterday.
We have a coach who is clearly still learning his trade.
How are we on the right path again?
Sorry Pedro but CG points can’t be ignored or just passed off as “There’s no deeper story. We move onto the next game.” Actually he’s bang on!!
Arteta’s selection and subs have been scratching heads for some time now.
You seem to have this attitude when it suits… and with Arteta, it seems to suit.
Azed, David Luiz was arguably one of our best players under Arteta until yesterday, so let’s not exaggerate and pretend that the City game sums up his tenure so far.
The end of this season is going to be up and down, we’ve just got to hope that we weren’t too rocked by yesterday and there’s a reaction at the weekend.
We lost to City. It happens. They are one of the most dominant Premier League sides of all time. We have to move on and hope we improve.
Mr J, how many games have we won against Big 6 sides away in 5 years?
0
If you go back the 5 years before that, it was a similarly long time without a win.
I am really struggling to work out what the side is you think we had that was going to beat Manchester City yesterday?
If he plays the old players, he’s savaged for sticking to the same formula Emery did. If he bloods kids, he’s naive.
What is it?
“We have to move on and hope we improve.”
I’m with the first part but find the second part somewhat worrying when it’s coming from Arteta’s cheerleader in chief.
Pedro
Do you believe you were this patient and positive under Emery’s leadership??
What’s changed under Arteta? Do we win more games? Lose less? Score more?
Out of curiosity Pedro, what is the point you’d say “Arteta isn’t cutting it, we need someone else”?
Three defeats out of nine? Five defeats out of nine? Do we have to lose them all before you say Arteta might not be the saviour of Arsenal? Or is it the case that no matter what, he gets a pass this season and then only gets judged if we do worse than Emery next season?
I do want him to work, but I think there’s a bit of blind faith going on here.
“David Luiz was arguably one of our best players under Arteta until yesterday, so let’s not exaggerate and pretend that the City game sums up his tenure so far.”
Pedro, I think some might say prior to yesterday,3 pens and a red card sums up his tenure, but adding 1 each strengthens the belief that he is useless. What’s more annoying is that Arteta wants the club to renew Luiz contract. Shambolic
I am really struggling to work out what the side is you think we had that was going to beat Manchester City yesterday? It wasn’t about winning the game Pedro… you’re completely missing the point!! Conveniently might I add. Its about giving yourself the tools TO win… Saka on the right, Auba on the left, Eddie in the middle, MArtinelli and Pepe on the bench with ZERO game time, Zero shots on goal… DO THIS GET YOU THE WIN??? That’s ALL on the manager… BUT yet you would’ve called that on Emery. AND what kind of attitude is that??? We… Read more »
The Arsenal job is too big for Arteta and it’s already showing. Arsenal is not a club where Arteta should be learning on the job or trying to grow into a so called elite manager. There’s championship clubs where he could go do that. This is an experiment that is always going to fail. Arteta was an average player for us and he’s just spreading his averageness on the pitch with the current batch of players who are wank anyway bar the likes of Saka, Martinelli, Tierney, Pepe and Leno who should be kept as core players. everyone else can… Read more »