We’re going to play a game today.
GOOD OR BAD?
ARSENAL USE HEADHUNTERS FOR SCOUTS
Story in the Guardian said that Arsenal have activated a crack team of sporting headhunters to find themselves some on-the-ground scouts for Germany, UK, France and Spain. So, like… hiring scouts for scouts?
This might seem odd to you. Last year, Edu was championing the future of a centralized scouting system. Now he’s hiring new people. I found that weird, but I suppose you need to see people in the flesh and have connected people to find out important things like:
Is the player a total whopper?
Are they fast in the flesh?
How loud can they shout?
We sacked the last batch of scouts because they failed. Never forget that. There might be some sort of HR law that states you can’t rehire in the same position for a set amount of time, hence the wait. Who knows.
Two things that intrigue me here:
- We used headhunters. That’s a professional way to find talent. No more ‘how about my mate Bruno Mazziotti’ or ‘Kia knows a guy’ recruitment. This is a move in the right direction.
- WHY NOW. We’re about the enter the most pivotal summer of all time and we’re only now engaging the people that find players. Feels like we missed the boat there.
SCORE: GOOD
LA RAMS LOVE WHAT YOUNG COACH BRINGS TO THE PARTY
Sometimes, to truly know what Stan vibes about, you need to look to America where is Rams team are landing lovely write-ups in the WSJ about having all their talent traded or hired.
“We’ve had a lot of turnover for all the right reasons,” coach Sean McVay says. “Those are positive problems if you’re having guys leave for better opportunities.”
The Rams were a moribund franchise for years until they made the bold decision to tap Sean McVay and make him the youngest coach in modern NFL history. Four years later, he’s still the youngest coach in the league. The difference now is that his résumé includes a Super Bowl appearance and a 43-21 record.
One of the NFL’s worst teams quickly became one of the NFL’s best teams under McVay and general manager Les Snead. The idea of hiring a young and unproven coach—particularly one with a connection to McVay—became the hottest thing in football since the wildcat.
“In an era where people are looking for turnarounds, we are a turnaround,” team president Kevin Demoff says.
Rams hire a young guy. Arsenal hire a young guy.
KSE back the Rams. MAYBE they back Arsenal.
Now, before the Deputy Douche Bags of the NFL rush to tell me I’m wrong, hear me out… Arteta is supposed to be the ideas guy, he’s supposed to be part of a transformational moment, The Rams project is pretty decent.
Seems pretty clear KSE like something about this approach.
We are long way from the top, but if we have a good summer of ‘trades’, we won’t be far off next season.
SCORE: GOOD
MIKEL ARTETA GETS CRYPTIC ABOUT CHANGE
‘Do I create the necessary environment for a top elite team to perform at the highest level & get everybody in condition to give their best. And do I get the best of the players that I have? The maximum, whatever the level is. This is how I judge myself.’
Well Mikel, clearly not, we just shit our pants against Villareal over the two legs and we’re midtable. Something is wrong, you have to own that, and you have to fix it. Ruthless isn’t changing a squad that mostly isn’t yours… it’s making the necessary changes to the staff you hired and fucked up a year ago. The environment isn’t perfect, the keeper department has been a disaster, things need to change.
“Now it is how we evolve, there are a lot of things that had to be done and they have been done, a lot of changes to make and a lot of them have been made. Now it is time to evolve. To evolve you to have to take things so that when they are a little more settled and established, take them to the next level.”
Big changes are coming this summer. WAR CHEST STORIES ARE THERE. We have talent that we can actually sell. Arteta needs to move hard at the squad. Shift on players that are old or useless. Sign in a blend of ready-made and youth. This is his last window where he can get away with pointing at the last 10 years. The moves have to be elite.
Question is, does a man that won’t admit Xhaka at left back was a mistake have it in him to admit his backroom team might also need a bit of the non-negotibales treatment? Does a man addicted to pumping players that let him down have the guts to tell David Luiz and Kia the party is over?
We’ll see.
SCORE: BAD
That’s all I have for you. Don’t complain, I’m not out here asking you for $5.00 a month. This is free. Only thing I ask? Get the podcast in your damn ears and stop resisting my voice.
Marc agreed hilarious is the wrong word
Dissenter
And he will probably get it as well.
6 minutes!?!?
Oh man…. throwing the kitchen sink at us… come on Boys.
We’ve played well for a good 2 minutes of this match…
Danny S
That would be the easy route.
So Arsenal if they really did this.
But we’ll probably end up with some other sub-performing player rhat we over paid for.
Probably not as irreconcilable as Bill and Melinda Gates, but the way Auba walked off without touching and away from Arteta says it isn’t far off…
He should have run in the corner TP
Waste a minute Leno
Marc
I’m at the point now where I’m just in total detachment from this current arsenal.
My passion and hunger for the game has kind of gone into hibernation and I’m just waiting now fir this period to be over and we can get back to being a proper club again.
Currently we are a laughing stock and I actually can’t take us seriously anymore.
Chelsea are gonna look back and think how the fuck did we lose?
Partey wtf
Elneny my MOTM.
I fully expect a prison bus to be waiting for the squad if we win this game
I can’t take Gabriel. He is so clumsy.
Danny
I’m in exactly the same place – I’ll renew my ST at the end of the month but if by some miracle Arteta is still in charge next summer I’m done.
This is the Arteta way.
Diet Mourinho.
Good fight!!!!!!!!!
Might as well just accept it.
Yes we done the double on them get in coyg
That was a hard watch.
Danny SMay 12, 2021 19:38:50
This feels like an ultra safe formation. Arteta going for a 0-0 where we will incur a lot of shots at goal. Maybe we nick a 1-0.
Danny SMay 12, 2021 19:39:15
It’s going to be backs against the wall whatever. No ambition in that formation.
Don’t mean to drop a Pierre like brag but I called it. Not often I get them right 😂
Jorginho MotM
One – nil to the Arsenal..
One – nil to the Arsenal.
One – nil to the Arsenal
One – nil to the Arsenal..
Hahaha that was ugly as fuck … but it’s Chelski so I don’t care at the moment. If any team deserves to be shit housed it’s them.
1-0 TO THE ARSENAL — love it, unlike most of you lot
That was the greatest match I’ve ever seen 😂
Football is a funny old game but we take that. Good result in isolation.
That arrogant prick Arteta will probably get a life contract now.
Anti Pep.
Hmm, we won the battle but not the war
At least we’ve broken a long winless streak at this God forsaken stadium.
Sky talking about the Invincibles – under Arteta we’ve become the unwatchable’s.
Aubamayang chatting to his team mates for next season.
I am happy tomorrow we can whinge again
Truly awful boring performance despite the win played like Sheff Utd
Gabriel and Partey were awful tonight ….frankly is it Arteta getting his way or they deteriorate from past clubs so rapidly
“That was the greatest match I’ve ever seen 😂”
Comment of the day.
Serge
The odds were to good to pass up immediately i saw Chelsea starting without a striker and somehow we have a fairly good record against them too
That’s what I have posted earlier.
“Exactly. Chelsea killed our entrance to CL last year. It is time for a payback and destroy their top4 chance! ”
Someone said that I was dreaming. Ha! Ha!
8th? It’s given me a nosebleed.
Anti Pep
Pep Lite
Diet Pep
Diet Mourinho
well we hung on and won… ill take it.
Was not pretty but its 3 pts
Matt Auba played with pulisic he is just talking to his old mate
Wouldn’t be surprised if they beat Palace and Brighton now to win the last five league games and the Arteta PR machine will spin it as a good season.
Credit it where it’s due.
We showed a lot of grit and Chelsea only managed one or two clear cut chances.
I just hope Arteta doesnt come out and hail it as a major victory and how we were amazing, cos that was a fluke
We are a laughing stock ? We’ve just shit housed Chelsea 1-0 away. Jesus some people need to accept a good result for us .
Mr Serge
I know. Both played under Tuchel so you never know for next season…
This win is just so against the grain of what I just watched
And it’s a HUGE bandaid to keeping MA going.
But I’m taking this all the way to the bank. Taking 3 points over these cunts is always a pleasure!!!
I take the stupidity comment back, masterclass against the soon-to-be European champions.
I mean sure, it took a mistake and we were rather dominated, but I’ll take it.
Wow, that was some shithousery right there… Moureen would love that victory 😂 i quite enjoyed it too but really did show our level. Lots to do in summer!
It’s not rocket science.. no Luiz Xhaka Ceballos Willian & Pepe and we beat champions league finalists away from home..
If Arteta cannot see the link then god help us!!
So glad La Croqueta was here to tell us we’d concede 5-6 yesterday.
Great win. First away in 8 years. Cannot be whining about that.
Yep lots to do Man City will beat them in the final for sure
Guys cheer up, that’s our first league win at Stamford Bridge since October 2011, and we’ve only taken 2 points there since
It’s not a happy hunting ground for us in the last 16 years
We dominated Chelsea at home for 75 minutes, and kept them relatively well contained after we went 0-1 up tonight
I don’t think it’ll happen, but if Chelsea lose both finals, and drop out the top 4, then golden boy Tuchel will quickly go from hero to zero
FFS how dare Chelsea loosing. I can already see Pedro’s next blog Arteta IN and a generational display of defense when it was Chelsea having a bad day.
Pedro exactly great win I have a lot of spurs and chav fans to text
Rich
Wetting your knickers over z meaningless game.
Oh well..
Out of Europe…
13 losses under Arteta-Non Negotiables over the course of the 20/21 season.
A smash and grab win under the generational one,with nothing to play for,once the handbrake or pressure has been released.
Hoovering between 9th-12th all season given we are now in 8th place..I’d say being place 8th in the EPL is an outlier under the sauce based manager.
Good times ahead-not!!
Real generational stuff unfolding before our very eyes..
Heaven help us under this guy’s stewardship and the owners with the rookie executive management in charge.
Grim times ahead.
@Rich
from hero to zero are you talking about MA because that fits. This was not AFC winning it was Chelsea loosing it with the better chances. Twice the woodwork and Kay Havertz missing a sitter.
Like I said we celebrate tonight moaning tomorrow coyg
ESR interview after the match was awesome.. kid bleeds Arsenal red.
That was a big beating we took to win lol
ESR is such a fighter, tie him down for another 5 years. We had Saka, now we got two.
Those stats after the game. What would be made of those under another manager!?
RichMay 12, 2021 22:17:40
I don’t think it’ll happen, but if Chelsea lose both finals, and drop out the top 4, then golden boy Tuchel will quickly go from hero to zero
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And that’s the metric by which you are judging Arsenal by-ok then…
lol
My what a slog win.
A win against Chelsea though but pure slog.
It’s not sustainable of course just like that win and style was not sustainable in the win against Man City in the FA Cup last season but at least it pisses of Chelsea somewhat.
First 3 consecutive away clean sheets since 2015?
Im with Mr Serge, enjoy the feast tonight, tomorrow we dine in hell 😂
What a fucked up season – beat Chelsea twice by lose twice to Wolves and Aston Villa!
As long as we have players like Elneny playing for us we’re never amount to much. We need 5 or 6 players like Tierney, Saka and ESR, then we’ll be sorted.
You can’t argue that Arteta has changed our fortunes with the top 6 clubs. One tiny tiny glimmer of light in an otherwise dark and barren landscape.
That’s how the big teams and big managers get these results, they arnt afraid to shithouse when they have to. That was wengers biggest Achilles heel. Always had to be beautiful.
Matt
“Those stats after the game. What would be made of those under another manager!?”
Dangerous attacks during match.
Chelsea 107 Arsenal 28.
Fookin ell.
Dela Mere
Enjoying our first win at Stamford Bridge in almost a decade
If you want to fantasise about me wetting my boxers, then enjoy your tug
I’ll send you some soiled panties for a £10
Y’all know what tomorrow’s post is going to be like right?
Arteta reportedly delaying the press con to get on a call with Kroenke to finalising a 3 year contract extension to ruthlessly produce more sauce using the patented
generational process.
I’m not turning the coverage off until I see a shirtless Arteta,smeared in baby oil, return to stand in the centre of the pitch and roar in a passionate fury “Are you not entertained?”, at which point Pedro will emerge from the tunnel,run to him and say” you had me at non negotiables”. Cue watershed moment.
Ishola
Chelsea 50 touches in our penalty area, the most against any team they have played this season
Generational shithousery.
This is what novices can revert to to get a few results.
Men behind that ball.
Phd2020
Absolutely.
A car crash unfolding in absolute slow motion.
It’s making supporting the club more and more difficult by the day. But I am still still watching, the Gooner masochist that I am.
Having rookies in 3 key areas of the club is just absolute madness.
azed
May 12, 2021 22:25:10
Y’all know what tomorrow’s post is going to be like right?
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Yep sure do..As clear as night follows day…
PS
Congratulations on your newborn by the way..Hope all is well with the family.
Arteta is on the phone to Chelsea making an offer for Joringho – back pass master and Chelsea reject.
On a positive, ESR really is a quality player and we are lucky to have him.
I’ll send you some soiled panties for a £10
Err rich… You realise you sound like a rent boy saying stuff like that. What really goes on in your life? No lying now!
Smith Rowe was excellent
I’ve been saying all season we need a goal threat from midfield.
ESR could be the man.
Tuchel “We lost the game” nothing to do with Arsenal brilliance, just rubbish Chelsea.
Cazorla
You know full well, 9 times out of 10 you come away with a loss with stats like that. We bucked the trend tonight and got three points and of course the points are always the most important thing. But you if you care to look past that (which you probably don’t), the signs weren’t good.
Thanks PhD.
Family is doing well.
Great win! C’mon u Gunners……oh…and STFU u Moaners!!
“First time Arsenal have done the league double over Chelsea since 2003/04.”
“Premier League points since Christmas Day
57 Man City
44 Man Utd
41 Arsenal
39 Chelsea
39 Leicester
37 West Ham
33 Leeds
31 Spurs
29 Everton
26 Liverpool“
Out here doing gods work to soak up the tears of the ArtetaOut bunch. Grab a tissue
Almunia
I knew I could rely on you for some egregious imagery. Kin ell mate – that was some one sided shit n’est-ce pas? A bit like our game away at Burnley in reverse. That Jorginho error was xhaka-esque. ESR and Elneny worked their arseholes off.
Matt
You could say the same about Chelsea at the Emirates
We absolutely dominated them, and they were lucky to come away at 3-1
Time to turn off the box as the generational one is talking next rubbish galore.
TheLegendaryDB10May 12, 2021 22:27:35 Phd2020 Absolutely. A car crash unfolding in absolute slow motion. It’s making supporting the club more and more difficult by the day. But I am still still watching, the Gooner masochist that I am.Having rookies in 3 key areas of the club is just absolute madness. ——- The car crash has been unfolding for the last decade at the very least.More so,with the famous last trolley supermarket dash circa 2012, after our 8-2 debacle courtesy of Manure under Fergie..Though the warning signs were there before(some years back circa 2008),that accelerated the decline.. All we have been… Read more »
Arteta making history first double over the rent boys since 2003 not all bad is it you cry babies.
Kinda picking and choosing the kind of history he’s making this season.
Le groaners can’t have it all ways…
They complain if we get smashed because the team had no organisation and discipline under Wenger , and now they complain when we beat Chelsean AGAIN, playing organised, disciplined football.
Credit where it’s due , a great result even if the football wasn’t exhilarating.
Arteta making history first double over the rent boys since 2003 not all bad is it you cry babies.
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Yep and Aston Villa and Wolves doing the double over Arsenal since forever. Everton doing the double over Arsenal for the first time ever. Plus a about a hundred other bad record broken by the Spanish Tony Pulis. A truly pathetic manager.
Am I glad we won? Yep.
But it’s too little too late.
Sure, this is a welcome respite to the car crash of this season but it really is an ironic empty victory; because it proves beyond doubt that our team really is not strong enough to fight on more than one front.
Sure celebrate… but please keep it in perspective. Our form has picked up because we have nothing else to fight for. We’re like the man who is celebrating rescuing a worthless garden gnome like a priceless treasure even though his entire house has burnt down behind him.
Ha ha
Very imaginative analogy there Leeds!!
Not the greatest game of football that I have watched, but for all the negative posts we WON
the game and have completed the double against Chelsea this season.
On the positive side Leno learned tonight the lesson to vary his distribution and not just pass
the ball to his defenders. He kicked the ball upfield albeit not accurately!!
Now posters are celebrating or rather multi- jizzing the double over Chelsea…
Smh..
That’s up there or equivalent to celebrating the top four trophy posters used to celebrate under Arsene come the end of the season..
Given,we’ve been hoovering between 9th-12th under the generational sauced based manager and are now sitting in 8th place with 13 losses accrued all season in the EPL.
My,my..How our standards have almost reached base level..
Generational stuff indeed.