Morning all.
Straight after the game I started to write today’s article but stopped when I realised what I was writing was very little different to that around five/six years ago. The personnel are different of course, much different but what we get to see on a match day remains so similar. Identical almost. If you or I had gone to sleep in 2013 and only woke up as Mike Dean blew his whistle to start the game yesterday evening, I’m sure that had the cameras not had a reason to zoom in on our dugout, we’d have assumed Arsene Wenger was there still struggling with the zip on his coat.
The idea of changing a manager and his coaching team is to improve on what’s gone before. Unai Emery hasn’t. Not even the supposed new ability to grind out a result or successfully drag a victory or at least a draw from a game we were trailing in, was on show last night. We tried, for sure we did but in a quite muddled, frantic and aimless fashion. Desperation no doubt as footballers, like most sports people, don’t want to lose.
Unai Emery said after the game that we didn’t deserve to lose as we’d done enough to win the game but the truth is, we did because we didn’t. He questioned VAR and why it wasn’t used after Sokratis had his shirt pulled and rightly so. Why wasn’t it? Kev and I have mustered up something about that very subject which I’ll post tomorrow. Should Saka have been booked? I don’t think so but then I didn’t think it was a penalty either. How enthusiastic was Dean over that incident….
Things might have gone differently had we been awarded the penalty for the Sokratis incident, even better perhaps if Pepe had made a better connection with the cross from Kolasinac but ifs and buts don’t change a result and certainly not a performance. We’ve witnessed far too many now to know that this one slip up against Sheffield Utd isn’t that at all. It’s just one more in a long line of them. The way we conceded from a set piece was just another defensive mistake. We’ve seen plenty of those too.
It’s easy to question Emery’s team selection, it’s what we do as fans and we’re no different to any other set of sports fans out there in the world but unless Unai Emery believed Chris Wilder was bluffing when he announced his team fancied their chances and would basically bully us, he must be as stubborn as his predecessor. Why on earth didn’t Tierney Torriera and Holding start? A question no one would raise had they not been in the squad. But they were, just as Lacazette was.
Why did Saka, slight as he is, be thrown into a pit full of bears? Willock too? Don’t get me wrong, I love seeing the younger players coming through and be given their chance but surely common sense alone suggests that those occasions must be well considered before opting to include them. Away from home against a tough opposition and Emery sent out a defensively vulnerable and somewhat inexperienced midfield. Add Xhaka into the equation and Wilder and his players must have thought Christmas had come early.
1-0 down at the break but the game was far from over. Emery had players he could call on and he made changes. We bossed the second half possession as we can so often do but I didn’t get the feeling that our attempt to fight back was controlled, organised or thought through after a halftime masterpiece delivered by our head coach. It looked more like a free for all really, although there were one or two moments of nice football thrown in.
Where’s the evidence of Emery being the tactical genius he’s supposed to be? The man who believes in the high press and perfects it, or the playing out from the back which he carries on with regardless of how many times our players cock it up? The coach who is proactive, who studies the opposition so carefully before deciding on who is best to thwart their challenge? Those words certainly don’t describe Unai Emery do they?
A song popped into my mind….
Pretending I’m doing well
My need is such I pretend too much
I’m lonely but no one can tell
Adrift in a world of my own
I play the game but to my real shame
You’ve left me to dream all alone
Too real when I feel what my heart can’t conceal.
Personally, I think it’s time for him to leave. We are no more organised now than we were under Arsene Wenger. We are no better defensively that’s for sure but, and this is my big but, not literally of course, this current squad is much stronger and deeper than the one Arsene Wenger had during his last few years. In my opinion anyway.
The idea of changing our manager was to improve the squad, to improve the football and to finish higher in the league than we were. The aim is the league title we are told but I doubt we’d be capable of winning a Championship title if last night was anything to go by. Or the last few months.
Sheffield Utd were no long ball specialists either, they played football, they were organised and they wanted to do well. We, well we were all over the place. No plan it seemed, no leadership, no direction and no bloody idea.
We laugh about Ole and when he’ll be sacked, Poch too but the reality is, it’s the Arsenal board who should be called into action. It’s they who need to act now before it’s too late. Accept this change hasn’t worked out, pass the baton to Freddie and see where it takes us. I’m sure Merts would help him, Bould too so it’s not like he’ll be on his own.
Then go and get Vieira, or someone else who might actually have a clue about how to get more from this squad. Much more.
Who knows, that man might even be Freddie..
Goodmorning Rico and everyone, not much to say… Emery is a scam. Simple and short.
Morning Rico. I agree. The club and the fans deserve better. Emery flattered briefly to deceive with that unbeaten run last season but has been on a downward trajectory since about April. He has had all the breaks and all the benefits of all the doubts have gone his way. Obviously his team selections have been poor as the results show but I’m looking for any signs that he might be turning it around or indeed any sign at all that he actually knows what he is doing and is competent enough to manage a club like Arsenal. I can’t see any. His English really should be better by now yet his ability to string endless sentences together and say very little is worrying. Are the board really going to throw this season away? It’s early in the season but we have last season’s debacle to consider too.
He seems like a decent bloke but he’s not an Arsenal manager. He proved that again last night and I suspect will do so again. Moving on from him certainly wouldn’t be seen as knee-jerk.
Morning Mexy, Adam, all.
I can’t see any improvement either, in fact when one compares the players we had then to now, I think the football return is worse.
Good morning Rico, I don’t know about The Great Pretender, but I can’t pretend to understand Emery’s tactics.
One nil down in the eighty-eighth minute and Leno, Luiz and Sokratis were still aimlessly passing the ball backwards and forwards between themselves when the Arsenal fans were crying out for the ball to be played forward and giving our strikers a least a chance of scoring an equaliser.
We have talented players, but we don’t have a talented team and that is down to Emery’s tactics. We can’t get rid of the players but we can rid of the tactics and Emery with them.
Morning Cicero. I must admit the words ‘wtf are they playing at’ were directed at the television as they were messing around at the back.
Morning campers, yes, Ivan certainly left us in the lurch with this Unai geezer. I never believed all the Gazides guff about Emery being the clubs No.1 choice, he was out of work and available without needing to pay compensation. Nuff said!
He came with all his dossiers and supposed knowledge of success in Spain and France but has shown himself to be an empty vessel, one that makes a lot of noise but not a lot of sense.
I haven’t listened to one of his pre/post match interviews/pressers for a year, they’re just too painful. This is the man leading my club, a man who talks complete gibberish, a man who seems to have made our players afraid to express themselves.
Where has the Arsenal gone, you know the one that would turn up at Bramall Lane, puff out its chest and say ‘we’re here and we’re gonna dominate you, silence your crowd and take the points’. That Arsenal disappeared a long time ago under the previous manager and this Emery bloke isn’t the man to bring it back.
Yes, we’ll probably smash Vittoria this Thursday and then turn over Crystal Palace, but on our next away game we’ll be timid, negative, risk averse and ultimately fail to play to our potential.
It’s becoming painfully clear to me that the Arsenal job is too big for Emery, he doesn’t have the strong personality to do it. PSG was a big job, mainly because of the huge amounts invested by its Arab owners and the big stars at the club. But Arsenal is a bigger job than PSG and it’s artificial wealth…
The Arsenal job is one of the biggest in world football and we need a manager to reflect that, not some unintelligible geezer who is drowning…
Thanks for the post Rico, a great headline…
My Patience has run out with UE. I feel I have given him enough time and slack, but IMO he is inept and devoid of any football nous.
We play crab like, pedestrian football, and have a captain who wouldn’t get in my Sunday team.
I watched the interview after last nights game with Patrice Evra. He said ” I’m not being disrespectful of Arsenal, but they are a boys team” They play nice football, but have no leadership, no fight and no desire.
When he welcomed Robin Van Persie to United he said welcome to a mans team, your not playing in a boys team any more. He was greeted with a frown and grunt from the traitor, but after 1 month, Van Persie said I see what you mean now?????
This is exactly what we have turned into. Soft bellied prima donas, who cannot adapt to their environment.
We have become the same old same old team of the Premiership.
Sack Emery NOW and get Allegri.
I have become sooooooo negative and pee’d off with this Manager and team I doubt if I will bother with Thursdays game. This will be the first time in my life I will turn down watching my beloved play on live TV in my life.
Thats how low I have become. Coronation Street or watching paint dry appears the better option.
sorry rico….thanks for the post.
Hi Kev. I wouldn’t be so sure about Palace, not after last season..
I’m with Vcc, he’s had enough time now to see if things would improve and it’s not happened. I’m not talking about challenging for the league etc, but just being more organised, disciplined and look like a team which knows what is expected of it.
But it’s a mess.
I saw/heard Evra Vcc. Arsenal fans might not like what he’s said but there’s no denying it’s true..
Morning all.
Kev, remember his player profiles suggested Ramsey was to be the guy he’d build a squad around?
When Rambo left, we should’ve realised either he had no idea, or his opinion didn’t carry much weight at the club.
Was the shirt pull on Sokratis a penalty? Maybe, but why did he feel the need to throw his arms in air in such a dramatic fashion and fall to the ground in a heap, if you’re going to exaggerate a foul at least make it believable, it was embarrassing…
The miss by Pepe was poor, really poor. Yes he’s struggling with his confidence but just get a firm touch and get it on target, surely he’s capable of that? If the keeper saves it, so be it, but to totally miss it was pathetic.
As far as the Ozil stuff is concerned, to me it’s a distraction, he isn’t the answer.
When did he last come off of the bench and make an impact – never!
When did he last play a match winning performance away from home – playing for Real Madrid.
Ozil isn’t part of my thinking, to me he’s just seeing out his time, taking his dough before he joins Fenerbahce on a free. He’s part of the symptom not the answer.
Yes Scott, I remember that about Ramsey, it’s a shame he left, especially as he seems to be struggling a bit at a Juventus. As Evra said, we are soft, the whole club seems to be a nice place to work in but little or no accountability
Juventus have played 8 games so far this year and Ramsey has featured in 3 of them.Is that due to form or Injury ? Whichever doesn’t suggest that had he stayed he would have been our answer . He left because he wanted similar money to Ozil and Sanchez and the club knew that without champions league he could not have it . He chose to turn down his offer and his agent created the myth that it was the club that forced him out .
That’s the end of the saga and time to put it to bed.
Our problems today run much deeper than one or two players it’s the set up. I believe that Emery was number 3 in the pecking order.Allegri wouldn’t come without assurances on money to be spent and then Arteta wanted control of transfers which set us up with Europa league winning Emery . He is a cup specialist that can win games but can’t run a campaign,we won’t win a league with him in charge.
Who to appoint ?
There are no guarantees, but we have players that are good enough but they need leadership,someone to follow over the trenches,someone to make them believe in themselves,
If you know anyone that fits the bill the address is Highbury House ,not here but the one next to the bridge at the new stadium.
Morning Rico and Everyone, Thanks for the post again Rico .
Well, what a depressing waste of an evening that was. And we clutch at straws hoping to get a penalty from the biggest shirt pulling, worst acting player in the league! We got exactly what we deserved from that game NOTHING!
Cicero said it all really. A few minutes to go 1-0 down and Luiz and co tip tap around our own penalty box. CHRIST.
Rico your`e right, we are worse than under Wenger but with better players. Nobody in midfield can win a tackle, Xhaka just barges people over, the so called high press is a joke and when we get anywhere near the penalty box we have a little tip tap passing drill before going backwards. Whatever happened to bursting into the box , not trickling in like we do.
Morning Potter.
Until the club refute Ramseys version of events, I’ll believe him.
I’m not sure Emery wanted him gone or not, and that’s the question, for mine.
I’m of the same opinion as Potter re Ramsey. Just like Özil and Walcott, he came good when he wanted a new contract in my opinion.
Morning Mike. By hoping for a penalty although I do think it should have been, would be papering over the huge cracks in the way we play. We are still lumbered with a few players who really are average at best and who imo, wouldn’t get in to that Sheffield Utd team.
Funny enough though, I bet we see some pace and bursting into the box on Thursday when Bellerin, Tierney etc hopefully play.
Afternoon Rico and all,
the first Arsenal game I’ve seen for a month – same old same old.
I had a wonderful holiday in Australia anyway,in the outpost in Queensland where I stayed it’s all Rugby League.I looked for my mate Scott but no luck, anyone would think it’s a big place…
I’ve been skim reading HH blog posts,and Arsenal match reports,it seems nothing changes.In my opinion,Lacazette & Torreria should always start but Emery thinks differently.
Oh well Emery out, and the sooner the better.
I’m wondering about Ceballos, is he really what we need?
One stellar game at the Emirates vs Burnley, is that really enough?
I didn’t see the game yesterday, so maybe those on here who did see the game can help me, so did Ceballos make a difference when he came on and would you sign him next summer if he’s available and affordable?
Last season, Rob Holding was an integral part of our defence during our unbeaten run, if I recall we were playing three at the back at the time he got injured, so maybe, especially away from home, it might make sense to go three at the back again, with Holding as part of the three?
Hi Rico…….., Yes I bet on Thursday we play with a much better mentality, with a bit of fight about us. That must come from the players.
Just watching Tierney and Torriera charging up and down putting in tackles and Holding calm at the back. It must rub off on the other players. That is why a good captain is so important leading by example……………..We have Xhaka and Ozil (great examples)
I get the feeling Emery`s tactics are ignored a bit more in these games……… Martinez does`nt play out from the back half as much.
Afternoon Limey, can’t believe you didn’t see Scott but they he is a quiet kind of guy… lol
Yep, different opponents, same old Arsenal…
Kev I`m not so convinced about Ceballos. He came on and sprayed a few balls about. Thats about it really. Sheffield United were camped in their own half when he came on and we just couldn`t break them down. With all the supposed attacking talent we have, nobody drove into the box with any purpose .You were lucky you missed it.
Must admit, I’m not as convinced by Ceballos as I was but I’d rather him than Özil.
It’s a totally different team Mike, no Xhaka, Sokratis, Luiz, Kolasinac etc, all players who slow us down really or are ineffective.
I enjoy the Europa and Cup games. Thank goodness… lol
Kev, I think Emery will soon have to start thinking about bringing Mustafi back to the league games. Especially if he and a Holding do well against Liverpool next week.
That’s the thing Mike, Ceballos probably should have started, before United scored and parked the bus.
Why aren’t we going to these places and attacking them, taking them on, dominating them, making them afraid of us rather than the other way around?
It comes from the coach, he’s too timid, too negative, why don’t we just go for it from the off?
He might as well because he’s getting the tin tack anytime between now and next May at this rate, so he might as well give it a go…
Yes Rico, I have enjoyed the cup games, it’s as if the team is let off of its leash.
Liverpool next week, that should be fascinating, I wonder what team Emery will pick?
Will we go for it at Anfield or play scared?
Mustafi to save the day, now that’s a thought Rico. 🤔
Just those four names you mentioned there Rico , Have made me realize what ordinary players we have.
I enjoy the Europa and cup games…… It’s like a breath of fresh air.
You could be right about Mustafi , But I think Holding seems to have a calming influence back there whoever he plays next to.
Ceballos doesn’t appear to be a good fit at the moment for sure and he gives the ball away a lot.
Last night’s game seems to have been a tipping point for Unai. The “Give him time” faction of fans also seem to have lost confidence as, they too, are scratching around for any signs of progression. Even the merest whiff of a plan seems an elusive quest. Yes, we’re less than 10 games into the season yet it already feels like a lifetime, coming on the back of last season which ended so calamitously.
If there is a sensible reason to persevere with him, it eludes me. Could Freddie really be any worse as an interim solution? Losing to essentially a Championship team while looking utterly clueless and pathetic is about as bad as it gets.
Totally and utterly agree Kev ! The only thing we have are great forward players. so why don’t we just go blasting out and give these defenses something to think about. Everybody knows we’re a soft touch now , we should be battering them with shots , running at them, but no we’ll TRY and play out from the back slowly and get picked off.
You just never know Kev, perhaps who he played alongside caused his nerves and errors. Didn’t he and Holding do well together last season before Rashford struck?
Personnel I think Kev, players with a different mindset. Players who want to entertain and get forward. I know the opposition isn’t as tough but as Mike says, even Martinez has the common sense not to persist with the playing out from the back when it’s not on. Leno however….
Sorry Mike. 😆
Currently on the Costa Brava being lashed with high winds and heavy rainstorms, the team performance last night did nothing to improve my mood. I followed it on on BBC Live which is next to useless.
In full agreement with all your comments and equally depressed with just no progress.
**Would any of you take exception to me printing out your very valid comments and including them with a letter to the Arsenal Board?
An excellent summary again Rico.
Dunno about you rico but I didn’t wanna go third anyway ! I’m beginning to think David Luiz was lying to us when he said he joined Arsenal to win trophies lol.
Micko , I’m beginning to think David Luiz was lying when he said he was a good passer of the ball as well. On last nights showing he was lol.
Mike, it’s just his defending, passing, positioning and lapses in concentration that sometimes let him down, other than that he’s not too bad.
Thanks Andorra and I don’t mind re the comments..
Me neither Micko, it’s not like we need a top four spot next May..
2:18 Adam, I don’t think so re Freddie and he’s well respected too.
Rico. I tend to agree.
Micko……😂😂😂🤣 Great buy then.
Adam and Rico yes re Freddie…… Something has to happen. Somebody mentioned before about how long Aubameyang and Lacazette will put up with no Champions League again. I worry for Torriera, How long will he put up with not playing? He was great when he started. Now we rarely see him.
Sorry, I mean Freddie could be a good interim option…..Apologies for my crud grammar.
Freddie has a bit about him too, I think he’d be ideal even if it is short term.
Yes , although people really like him, we know he can mix it. I don’t think he would be an easy touch, especially for people like Ozil for example. Who knows,he might even command more respect than Emery.
Limey, I’m glad you enjoyed our little corner of the world 🙂
It’s not too shabby down under.
Guys, if Ozil or Ceballos had an enforcer alongside them, would we see improvement in their performances?
Rico, can we spruik Freddie after saying a Arteta is a poor option due to his lack of experience, though?
I’d be happy for either to have a go, mind you.
Mixed rumours but apparently Arsenal have had a bid of around £26m turned down for Ceballos, alternatively Real Madrid have put a price of £30m on the head of Ceballos.
Either way I’m underwhelmed, as I’m not sure he’s what we need.
Thanks Scott,
God’s own country for sure.
Freddie couldn’t do much worse, I would like Allegri but I doubt we would pay off Emery and his coaches,then go to the expense of hiring an elite winner.Besides,he is probably hanging on for Man Utd..
I’m talking interim though Scott, to begin with at least. But, he has been coaching for longe4 than Arteta I believe. It’s got to that stage again for me when any alternative seems better..
Shame Real don’t want Xhaka Kev, swap them.. lol
Allegri seems the fans choice but I’m wondering if what we need next is someone who knows the demands of the PL.
So many have come and gone at other clubs, many of whom arrived with a very good reputation and CV.
Good Ebening and thanks Rico.
Emery is making enough of his own rope to hang himself, the rope being his team selections and tactics.
He will be gone once we are officially out of CL qualification position at end of season, if not then we we will question the board.
When the bench has half the players which should be starting then this is a sign of an enept manager, add what has been said that we are worse than under Wenger but with a better squad, then the writing is on the wall.
I said he should be given to the end of his first two years and I believe that is all he is going to get anyway.
His only plus point imo has been the cup competitions where I actually enjoy the football and look forward to it…………..whereas waiting for the next league game is like all the fun of waiting in the dentist reception !
I can5 see him getting a third season either Lc, finishing his second must be very touch and go.
I do get that, Rico.
While I’ll support Emery and hope he manages to find his way, I doubt he can or will.
I’ve heard stories that the 3rd season is an option, but also that his contract includes all 3.
Any idea?
I think that was his contract Scott, 2 years with the 3rd an option but I can’t see he’s done enough to get the 3rd.
I wouldn’t swap Xhaka for anyone Rico, I’d just sell him… 😉
Rico, I wanted Allegri when Wenger was given his P45, but he still had a year to go at Juventus and he would have been very expensive. So I wasn’t surprised that we didn’t get him.
I still don’t think we’ll get him even if Emery gets his cards this summer, I think he’s going to end up at Old Toilet.
Nagelsman is the manager I’d like to see replacing our own Señor Incomprehensible – with Freddie made his No.2.
Interesting to see that Ramsey didn’t get into the Juventus squad of 18 for yesterday’s CL game, is he injured?
From day one I knew Emery is a fraud. The Seville teams he was winning Europa with were loaded with talented players and should’ve been competing for CL. The last straw for me was the debacle of PSG vs Barce.
I think that Arsenal fans at times unfairly judge players and unreasonably elevate others, but that’s just my humble opinion. For an example, Mustafi, AMN, Ozil are not a bad players, but we make them out to be. We have a manager whose selections are not based on complimenting players’ abilities. He expects the player to do what his abilities don’t allow. Why buy a Ferrari and use it to pull trucks? It sounds simple, but that’s the Arsenal way now. Playing players out of position and asking them to do what they are not accustom to doing. Then there are those who will justify that by saying, “all the good teams play that way”. Well then, go buy those players.
Selection and tactics make good players poor and team unbalanced. Many of us could’ve pick a better team yesterday, for free. I find that many fans, particularly English ones, resent players because of the money that they make. My view on that is its not the player’s fault, someone decided to pay him. If Ozil is given protection, what is wrong with this team.
Leno
Bellerin/Mustafi Holding Tierney
Chambers Guendouzi Torreira
Ozil
Pepe/Martinelli Lacazette Aub
Kev, I’d give him away if we were a rich club, but yes, I get what you’re saying. Although, perhaps that’s because our swap deals have been poor. Gallas/Cole, Alexis/Mikki – dreadful deals.
As did I re Allegri and if we got him, I’d be thrilled. I can’t see the attraction of Utd these days. Not even for Allegri. The club has dreadful owners, are riddled with debt and it’s wet and cold up there..
Obi, Ozil is being made to pull trucks, and he is certainly a Ferrari 🙂 🙂
Well said!!
Morning all.
https://arseblog.com/2019/10/did-arsenal-give-unai-emery-a-job-he-cant-do/
A really good post…
Morning All….
I know it was a two-way loan, but the Reyes/Baptiste swap was up there a pretty rubbish as well Rico. Morning to you.
Morning Rico and all. General feeling among my long-term Arsenal-supporting mates is a combination of general depression coupled with a sincere wish that the board really have to do their best to change things now. It clearly isn’t working and more importantly shows no signs that it’s going to. Improvement, from what I see, is non-existent and in many ways it has got worse. After sticking with Wenger for far, far too long and buying Unai some good players to give him extended options playing-wise, what has really changed? Nobody, including the board and owners really knew what Emery was capable of. There’s always an element of chance and uncertainty with any new manager regardless of their history and pedigree. But they do now. It’s there on the pitch for all to see.
One of the strangest things for me is that, even with Arsene long gone, we still seem as flakey and as weak as we did during his later years. I am hoping that this board really are as proactive as they surely need to be. The alternatives are quite horrible.
Fair comment Adam, but from their perspective the Board may conclude that two defeats is not enough yet to warrant the removal of the Coach.
We might disagree, but they have to make the decision and if they did give Emery his cards and they handed the job over to a caretaker and we declined like Man U under Ole, whose gonna take the brickbats?
We’ve gone through periods like this before, do we stick or twist?
David Dein was a smart operator, he was behind bringing in George Graham and Arsene Wenger, Gazides gave us Emery so we’ve gotta hope that Raul has a bit of the Dein magic in his genes.
Apparently this isn’t a new thing with Emery, his record of winning away has been questionable throughout his career. I’m sure I read somewhere that he went an entire season as Seville I think, without winning an away game.
At home we’ve been ok, not great but ok.
Kev. If it was just the 2 defeats, fair enough. But surely it’s far, far more than that.
I agree Adam, just trying to stimulate debate, but having looked at a few other blogs this morning it seems that debate has left town.
ACLF, a good post and two comments, nobody seems bothered anymore!
Gunnerstown have a good post if anyone is interested?
We have the best squad at the club for a decade yet are playing, imo, the most negative football.
The positive is that behind the scenes, the club are finally getting things right but on the pitch, we aren’t even close to fulfilling the potential.
Morning all 🙂
Morning Kev, Adam, all.
I didn’t realise that Reyes deal was a swap Kev as we only got the ‘beast’ on loan. But yes, another bad one…
Kev. Agreed. The Sheffield United game has proved to be a huge turning point it seems. Debate has stalled because there are no positives perhaps and post-Wenger we seem doomed to repeat the generally joyless experiences of the past.
Remember when Wenger was trying to sign him permanently Rico, Baptiste was being heralded at the time as the replacement for Vieira – think about that for a second?
Thank God we didn’t sign him…
That’s the biggest positive Scott and probably the most important area in which things needed to improve for many many reasons.
Raul didn’t appoint Emery so I hold onto hope that now his team are in place and settled, they’ll make a better appointment once Emery goes which I’m sure will be the summer at the latest.
I still believe Emery was nothing more than a safe appointment after what the club had gone through.
😂 Kev, I think I’ll leave that thought for another day…
There’s a new post up now… it’s good too because Kev wrote most of it… 😝
I guess Adam that the fan base are just exhausted after the interminable end of Wenger was dragged out two or three years longer than need be.
We wanted Emery to succeed, we just wanted to feel good about our club again, well most Arsenal fans that is, the Arsene fans will be happy.
It’s so dispiriting because we know we’ve got many more months of uncertainty ahead until this Unai geezer gets his P45. Thankfully the futures of Ole and Poch will concentrate the minds of our fair and balance media.
Adam, I’m not sure that’s the reason because on HH, debate increases hugely after a bad performance or a loss.
When we win, ie in Europa or League Cup, it’s really quiet.
Rico. When was the last good performance though?
About 12 months ago Adam, in the league anyway…
Rico. Haha. Probably about right.