Dennis Saurez gave interview saying that he was not even 50% fit after 16 days at Arsenal.
One game sticks in my head, I think it was Man City away we were 2-3 down with 15 mins to go.
Ozil was on the bench ( i thought he was coming on @ halftime but stayed on the bench(this was shortly after the claim was made that Ozil can’t play away because of the physicality by the manager) I was thinking at the time Poor away fans who traveled as it was clear we were going to get beat but the fans had nothing to cheer, (cant remember too many chances being created or any pleasing football) at that moment with 15mins to go he brought on Saurez who had been in the country 5 days, ahead of Ozil. I knew something was up then but this really confirms it.
Not only had Denis Saurez not acclimatised to a new country , different way of playing , food, culture, language etc, the guy by his own admission was less than 50% fit.
I think that was the day i decided that this manager had his own interests and not the team or the fans interest at heart.
He played Saurez just to make a power statement and it has had a detrimental affect on team morale.
Look at the start of the season, everyone was bubbling looking forward to the season, people putting themselves forward to be captain, people saying they want to follow in legends footsteps, to how we finished the season low on morale and without a Scooby Doo.
I want the manager gone because i seen more conflict with the team than working to harmonise the team and make them a coherent unit.
Victory through harmony it certainly has not been.
Rant over
Gee.
Positively Arsenal 
I’m a blogging vulture.
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Agree.
Emery’s a fighter, an underdog who prides himself on his work ethic. A graduate from the school of hard knocks in the football world. Ok, enough with the cliches. The point is Emery has his qualities. They do not align in any way with the qualities required of someone in charge of Arsenal.
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Suarez fit or not. Not good enough.another dross signing from emery
Add lieschsteiner. sokratis. To that ..leno guendozi and torreira all 5 /10 on season
Our transfer policy under emery looks very very poor. With what he had to spend last year and pl ayers at his disposal are there many epl managers from last season that would have done a worse job?
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The Suarez signing made zero sense to me and his on-field performances did nothing to make me change my mind. I agree with Gee that it looked like he was used to try to make a point about Ozil’s position in Emery’s plans, but it was like trying to replace a mercedes with a bicycle. I am also not impressed with this blame game and scapegoating that seems to be part of the ‘new’ Arsenal. It’s all very disappointing as I had hopes of a smooth transition from the past to the future rather than this scorched earth policy we are currently witnessing.
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it seems Ozil’s agents have told the media Mesut is very happy at Arsenal, and has no intention of leaving anytime soon, the media are running with the view that “Ozil thinks he can out last Emery at Arsenal”
I have found the notion put forward by some of the big bloggers that AFC can force Ozil and “his massive wages” out of the club, a bit laughable, as if he so chooses, Ozil can dig in his heels, and stay for length of his contract, AFC have to pay him not only all his wages, but his loyalty bonuses as well, he can do a winston bogarde, its not like it could cost him his international place. Also the only loser in such a scenario could be Emery, leaving out our highest paid player, means results have to very good, otherwise not only will the fans turn on him, but the players and of course the Board will be on to him.
Would also say that the notion that AFC can force Ozil out of the club is so far from reality it really should not be up for debate, after all Arsenal could not force Carl Jenkinson and his wages out of the club, so just how can they force Mesut out.
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A contract is totally in favour of the player. He can decide what happens for the length of his contract.
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If thats a rant gee then keep on ranting! Top article and good post from everyone too furthering whats going on..
Beth Mead had a great game last night, the whole team played some nice football.
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I guess they hope there will be some more interest in Ozil than in Carl, Eduardo, but you’re right there’s no way they can force him out.
They’d have been better off taking Ozil into confidence, telling him that they’d like to save money and retool and ask him to do them a favour, even as Arsenal would try to find him a destination he’d be happy at. He might not have been overjoyed but at least he wouldn’t feel disrespected and might have gone along with it too.
Instead, they disrespected, defamed, bullied and tried to make him miserable. After he committed the next 4 years of his life, and basically his career, to settle down with Arsenal and in London, and get married.
It’s disgusting behaviour frankly. Arsenal used to go above and beyond to treat the players as part of the family, respect them as people. Now it seems we go out of the way to do the opposite, keeping the Ramsey situation in mind too.
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Considering we normally say players need a season to adjust and managers even longer it is difficult to create an accurate appraisal of Suarez or Unai.
Having said that I am trying to give Unai time rather than feeling confidence in him. I do however think we have a good squad and were only one goal against Brighton from coming third. Fine lines have always divided winners and losers in the history of football so who knows.
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Gee
Watching the head coach flap against Utd in the cup game in n5 about on the touchline during the home game against an in form fit front five for Utd was the moment for me: How many fa cups is Unai going to compete in during his career? Unless someone is kidding themselves it is safe to understand that call was not about the football.
Not a difficult or complex understanding that this coach lost the dressing room as the season went on. We all saw it!
As Shard highlights the comments about Rambo on the eve of the final also fit this destructive pattern.
There was only one end for George Graham after he sent Paul Davis to the reserves during his prime. And it wasn’t a good one (he went on to manage Tottenham! Heh).
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I don’t blame Emery entirely for for the power-plays, undermining and double-dealing of the players he inherited especially Ramsey and Ozil. He has history in this regard from his time at PSG as Ben Afra and DiMaria have attested. Instead I pin most of the blame on the chancers now running the club. They are the ones who set the tone and direction and Emery is just their tool. They knew his record prior to his appointment and knew full well why they selected him for the job. If Emery doesn’t turn it around very soon, they plan to go scot free with their golden parachute once the shit truly hits the fan. This is how the corporate game is played. Values my ass.
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I’ve enjoyed the threads on PA discussing Liverpools pressing (usually about the time of the Liverpool-Arsenal fixtures)
Liverpool mid-table in terms of distance covered. Without the data the impression people have had of a calmer Liverpool than that suggested by the football bloggers has been correct. Most of the these Blaggers appear to have a fetish for a particular style. Guessing they won’t be reporting on rumours of Liverpools continuing pursuits of top level playmakers, seeing as they’ve ignored the £25M from 2014 splashed on Lalllana!!! About £40M in today’s market or maybe more if we take Fred as a measure!!!
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Shotta to be fair before Raul’s time at Barcelona people, perhaps mistakenly, perhaps naively, people around the football world had a high regard for their values.
The Neymar story popped that bubble!
Whoever appointed Raul must be happy with the job he is doing.
Ah well.
“I really like Raul”™
At least the sorry saga has provided a fitting epitaph for the footballing knowledge of the clickbait plonkers/PR consultants for agents who gorged upon their listeners and the clicks with the “Ozil & Rambo can’t play together” meme.
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Raul isn’t even a football man. He was working for Nike in 1996, one of Barca’s corporate sponsors which brought him into contact with Barcelona. In 2007, having worked at the club since 2003, he was eventually appointed Barca’s Director of Relations with Sports Bodies. Within a year, he was handed the Director of Football role, a position he held for 10 years and is associated with big name transfers like Neymar and Luis Suarez. He is a marketing man by trade not a football expert. In my opinion working for Barcelona and Arsenal, when it comes to football personnel, is like night and day. He may turn out to be a wise adaptable leader but, if we are unbiased and not in a perpetual red haze, we must admit it could go tits up.
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some reports that Arsenal are looking to sell Koscielny for a fee of over £10M, not sure how they can expect that much when he has one year left on his contract, will be 34 in September, and has had major injuries in recent times
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kolasinac got married today, ozil was there
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mustafi was at the wedding too, as was PSG’s Draxler
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aftv werent there.
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its being reported that Napoli have signed David Ospina for €4m
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Shotta
Given that Raul is a marketing man, given the cacophony for years attacking the greatest football coach any of us will ever watch coach the Arsenal, given the silence of the donkeys since last summer now twelve months of the club adrift without any leadership or direction regarding the Football quite the opposite with the targeted destruction of the boot room culture that is essential for any healthy football club* then: all this really helps to quantify and put into the correct place for everyday Arsenal supporters comments like:
“I really like Raul”™
Coming as it does from those ginormous football brains that told us Ozil and Rambo can’t play together after we’d all seen them win theee fa cups in four years. More toxic then AFTV, and these sad little PR consultants for the big Sporting agencies and marketing teams probably know less about the footy then even the performing clowns at AFTV, please see the quote above.
*hopefully the stories surrounding red Freddie are true as he’s the only hope for the first team at this moment.
To my hopefully mistake eyes the last twelve months of the Arsenal story resembles the story from the Damned Utd, viewed through a Crack fueled prism.
Derby and Leeds and yes Newcastle after their awful treatment of Robson, these three sirens are singing for those listening.
Can’t compare to the laundrette at Utd post Ferguson as the Arsenal could never survive a similar “process”, of being “protagonists” with Raiola and pals…but I’m not sure Raul cares about this last bit.
The silence of the donkeys has indeed been remarkable. Thanks to Shotta and George for leaving a sane record on the internet that future Arsenal fans will be able to refer to in order to appreciate that the fan base were not all lobotomised.
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*sighs*
Looks at what the other great mentor of players in recent times in the game is up to at West Ham.
How did Emery get the job over such candidates! Who were primed and ready to manage in the PL. Who speak the language!!!! (juande ramos was a good manager who struggled at the neighbours as he couldn’t speak the same language as most of this players!)
At the least the answer to this question is no mystery.
Raul may know fuck all about the football but hey he has all the right contacts in the world of PR. Whoop whoop!
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its been confirmed that Sarri has left Chelsea to become the new Juventus manager
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well Raul is clearly very good at PR, so much so that he has the Big Bloggers and Big Twitter accounts eating out of his hand, or should I say singing from the same hymn sheet. How else could you explain how they have ignored the almost total collapse at the end of the season, the dumping of Ramsey, Cech, Welbeck and Lichtsteiner all for free, how Ozil is being hounded, not to mention that the club is as slow as ever in their transfer dealings, we are 2 weeks from the start of preseason training and not a new player to be seen. On the note of transfers, look how the bloggers and twitteratti are so accepting of not only the idea of many of our better players being sold, even forced out of the club, but they are delighted at the less than stellar list of names being linked with joining us, Carrasco a winger from China league, Fraser of AFCB, Alexis Claude-Maurice from Lorient, Salibia a CB from St Ettienne, a CB and a CM from Sampadoria, and a young German goalie on a Bosman, are the main players linked, imagine this as the main names linked in recent years, blogworld would be in meltdown, but now its wonderful, and for many of them can only be bettered if we get rid of 3 or 4 more of our most experienced, Ozil, Xhaka, Mustafi, Kolasinac, Koscielny and Mkhitaryan. Its certainly proof of two things, 1. Raul is great at PR and 2. You don’t have to know anything about football to be a big blogger.
I said many times during the season that the only thing that had really changed at Arsenal was the PR and how the Bloggers had agreed to buy into the PR, and nothing so far this summer has changed that for me.
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< can appreciate a coach needing a first season to adapt to the league, learn language etc. but as Gee says above these sub calls by the coach (& no one else) with Suarez stood out.
Fortunately the cricket and other football can fill the void before the club football starts again.
Sarri leaving just adds to the surreal quality of that final in Baku after Giroud only got the start following Higuain's injury. That result in the final tips the balance of the real London rivalry back in their favour from recent seasons but they are a mess. Difference is they can afford it.
Be interesting to see how Sarri uses Rambo.
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Benitez out of contract in two weeks…
He may be a defensive coach, not my preferred style, but safe to say this great coach/manager knows what a No.8 is!
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Rafa Benitez is a far superior manager and coach than Emery. Even now.
Not sure what we mean when we say Raul is better at PR. What exactly has he done to make the media and blogs more favourable towards the club? Nothing as far as I can see, except… He and Emery have both cottoned on to the media line of criticism of their predecessors (and players), and done their best to play those up. These shysters go along with it because it’s their only way to save face. In a year or so they’ll start agitating pompously again with nary an acknowledgment of having been wrong.
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Folks, if you want a football fix, looks like u21 Euros could be a good tournament.
Watched two games today and they were both entertaining affairs with some good players and skills on show.
Don’t know if i’ve owned up to it previously, but some of my purer football enjoyment tends to come in non-Arsenal games, typically world cups or Euros, or latter champ league contests if no Brits involved.
Just the basics of the game without all that an all-encompassing obsession with a team and hatred for others/rivals brings.
That said, I did watch our guy Bielik closely, and a thoroughly interesting watch- loads of decent stuff, some very good, couple of questionable, one awful moment- it was too.
Very strong contender for man of the match but then played a horrendous blind backpass, at 3-1 up, last ten mins, in control, which nearly led to goal and which opposition scored from after resulting corner. A huge no in terms of understanding state of game and playing accordingly (he was flying, no doubt enjoying himself and prob overplayed as result of it), but hopefully one a talented young player learns from.
I don’t think he is ready to step in an play regularly, which is only way he is likely to stay, but I do think there’s a good chance that should he make a permanent move to a wise choice (at least just below CL level) he may come on very quickly and, well, end up becoming attractive to bigger clubs at a far higher value than he left for.
In other words, we could see plenty of fans crying about him in coming years. For me, I’d put it down to just being one of those things, as I do with Gnabry.
Think the other teams in Poland’s group are Spain and Italy, possibly the two strongest, most experienced teams in tournament, with some superb players. If Bielik is able to cope well with them, that’s a game changer for my view of where he’s currently at and what we should do.
Tuesday could see Guendouzi start against English midfield. Really looking forward to that one. I’d back him to impress. Fingers crossed Nelson also involved against some highly rated French players.
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Bollocks. Wrote very long post but didn’t go up.
Cut to chase, then. Under 21 Euros has started and, if on look out for football fix, looks set to be very good tournament.
I get some of purest football enjoyment at world cup, Euros and latter CL (so long as no English clubs), and it’s actually a relief in a way to just watch the game without intensity of Arsenal obsession and hatred of rivals.
France England Tuesday and, fingers crossed, Guendouzi and Nelson will both feature .
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Shard
Hope you’re enjoying the cricket WC!
Big Sam is available.
As long as the players are signed up to the right agent/s Biggie Sams won’t have or give them any trouble doesn’t matter how they play! (A semi-retired Jay Jay Okocha vs Ravel Morrison…).
On second thoughts I don’t want to be giving a certain expert in football relations any heads up on the walrus’ long and slippery record.
If West Ham fans can be rewarded and get to see a top coach like Pellegrini after enduring Allardyce then perhaps all is not lost.
to be fair to the veteren coach I have a sneaky suspicion that big Sam had the experience to appreciate that Alli is pony as a No.8, even Allardyce knows what a no.8 is even if he never had that many great ones to play with calling and he wouldn’t have been bullied by star players into playing them when injured. in spite of his copious flaws I would have been curious to see how his England spell unfolded.
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Think I’ll be watching a fair amount of the u21’s/u23’s etc next season!
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With Freddie moving to work alongside Emery I’m reminded of this quote of his on his success with u23’s:
“We have quite a few top talents now. How I see it is that Bukayo Saka, Xavier Amaechi and Tyreece John-Jules don’t have to be so far back in the pitch. What they have learned is that they need to stay where they will be dangerous.
“Other boys will play it out from the back and find pockets. We can feed Bukayo. And then he’ll be in a situation further up the field where he can be a game changer. But if we don’t feed the ball to him in the right place there won’t be that action.
“And that’s what we’ve been working on.”
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Which is totally different to how Emery approach games, especially how he wanted to use to attacking talents of Ramsey, Özil, Lacazette and Mkhi.
So it will be interesting to see the mash-up Freddie and Emery produce.
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I don’t watch much cricket anymore fins. I don’t know why because I like the game. I did watch some of the India – Pakistan game yesterday because I was with friends who switched it on. Was ok, but oh, maybe it’s that it seems less like a contest between bat and ball these days than just two batting sides? I miss some of the old test cricket. But those days aren’t coming back.
Big Sam, decent coach for a lower mid table side. Embraced some new fitness techniques. Might have been agent driven but had the good sense to let Okocha be Okocha. I wouldn’t dislike him so much if I weren’t certain he sent out his team to injure Arsenal players. Probably why Fergie had his back at the LMA all the time though. (Moyes squealing about Cesc rightly calling Lee Mason a cheat might have won him the ManU job too)
But anyway, our head coach is here to stay for another year.. or a transfer window at least. Hopefully Freddie is a board appointment, and Edu proves he still gets and loves Arsenal, rather than just be a Raul lackey.
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yes Labogoon, that is a great quote from Ljunberg, and would seem very at odds with what we saw from Emery, and if truth be told, the sort of football the U23’s played was way more entertaining than what the first team played.
So either Emery promoted Freddie so he can help get the first team playing attacking football, or we have an attacking coach taken away from the U23’s to be wasted with the first team.
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Official – Freddie and Bould swap roles
As part of our ongoing strategy to fully develop our young players, and to efficiently bring them through to the first team, we are making some coaching changes.
Our goal is to create a ‘transition team’ which will collectively manage a player’s development through some of the hardest and most challenging periods of their professional lives. The aim is to create a clear framework for our young players to fulfil their potential at the highest level.
Freddie Ljungberg, who currently leads our under-23s, will become assistant first-team coach. We are delighted with the impact Freddie has made in helping to develop our young players into the first team and he fully deserves this promotion. Alongside his new coaching responsibilities, Freddie will have a strong focus on the young players who are moving into the first team group.
Steve Bould will lead our under-23 team as well as oversee the under-23 and under-18 phase programme with academy manager Per Mertesacker. Alongside his new under-23 head coach responsibilities, Steve will work with Freddie to determine how players transition between the academy and first team to ensure our players are exposed to the right challenges at the right time.
Our first-team goalkeeping coach, Sal Bibbo, will also take on additional responsibilities to his current coaching role. Sal will lead on the transition of our young goalkeepers from academy to senior football.
Alongside these changes, and to complete this ‘transition team’, our loan manager, Ben Knapper, will continue to identify and recommend third-party clubs to play their part in our players’ development and, ultimately, the move into senior football.
Freddie, who has also previously led our under-16s, said: “I’m really excited by this opportunity to continue helping develop and work with some of the great young players we have coming through in the first-team environment and to work alongside Unai and his coaching team to help Arsenal win trophies. I’m looking forward to working in this new structure and to pass on my experience and knowledge about what is needed to succeed at this level.”
Steve, who ran academy teams for 11 years before becoming Arsène Wenger’s assistant manager in 2012, said: “I have always had a deep commitment to developing young players and am delighted to be back working in an area which is so important to the future of our club. We have great young players and my job will be to help them maximise their potential.”
The changes come into effect from July 1.
Head of football Raul Sanllehi said: “Identifying, recruiting and developing young players is a key part of our strategy. We have some great talent coming through our younger age groups and, like all top clubs, the challenge is to help them make the most of their abilities.
“The hardest part is always the transition from academy football to senior football. We already have good programmes in place but these staff changes will ensure our plans are even more robust and clear for every single player. I’m confident it will make a significant difference to our ability to bring players through to the first team.”
Copyright 2019 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to http://www.arsenal.com as the source.
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Bit weird isn’t it, not heard anything on why Ainsley not in England u21 squad.
In right back position he has missed out to Wan-Bissaka and JonJoe Kenny. Maybe just about fair enough, although not sure latter impressed much in his thirteen Ev appearances this season. Has been firm favourite in England set up’s from at least u17 Euro win though.
But not to find a spot for him at all? Ainsley up to 68 appearances for us now, many of them in huge games. 58 appearances last two years. Dowell for instance has two appearances for Everton, rest championship, appears to have only played 5 times last year.
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it seems Charlie Gilmour is joining Norwich City
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Mkhitaryan is the 3rd of our squad to get married this summer, his wedding is in Venice today
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Hey Guys,
Thanks for the kind words. Have been stupidly busy over the last few days so i was not able to reply but thanks for anyone that enjoyed my rant. Genuinely surprised that it was a main topic on Positive Arse, not complaining just surprised. I sometimes leave comments expecting no reply.
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so is the appointment of Freddi Ljunberg a signal from Raul that AFC are going with project Youth, 5 years after Project Youth finished. All the nodding dog bloggers who were so opposed to Project Youth first time around are oddly very happy with the developments today.
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@ eduardo792 – June 17, 2019 at 1:13 pm.
What do you think of the odds of Per Mertasacker managing Arsenal one day?
Do you think he influenced this move?
I think Per has quietly grown quiet influential over the few yrs and maybe had a hand in bringing Lundberg back (speculating) into the youth fold.
The youth Team successes have happened i think when Per took over and he will prob be the first to see a core of players rise through all ranks through the club so will be key to whoever is running the 1st team now and in the future.
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I see Cohen Bramal has said that the u23 players could not understand why Jordi Osei-Tutu did not get game time with the first team last season
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gee I don’t think Mertesacker will go into management, he has admitted to having awful problems dealing with pressure in his playing days, so I don’t see him going into the pressure filled world of team management. I’d say he is and will be happy to be in a directors type role.
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Bergkamp is out of a job right now. Pires has been around the club though I’m not sure his recent comments about spending will go down well, even though he;s always been supportive. Vieira is managing in France. Lehmann is asst manager in Germany. Campbell apparently doing a good job in the lower leagues. Of course there’s Arteta. We have the makings of a proper boot room if we do this right.
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Shard – only really mentioned Per as he has taken up a position that ensures he has some input into the setup and running of an area that could have massive effect on player Infrastructure esp in the crucial phase of player development. I am not a fan of inexperienced, unproven ex players as managers unless they have been successful at other clubs or have spent some time in some capacity learning their trade with us and implementing some of the long held values of the club – Arsenal DNA.
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ianspace2014 June 15, 2019 at 12:27 pm
“Considering we normally say players need a season to adjust and managers even longer it is difficult to create an accurate appraisal of Suarez or Unai.”
I hear that regarding players needing time, was not really assessing Saurez performances or impact but just highlighting i assume was a show of authority by Emery in choosing a player that i feel was not the best option at that point in the game for the reasons highlighted in the rant.
Arsene Wenger i would argue was under intense scrutiny from the start and had to deliver straight away.
Wenger made some difficult decisions that had they not worked he may never have had the great era he had. I mean he dropped my favorite player Merson in his first season and relegated Wright to the bench in his second, but when you bring in the fantasy football we started playing, bring in Viera, Overmars, Petit, Anelka, etc and it works, no one questions anything.
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well gee seeing as you mentioned Overmars and Petit, its worth noting that it was 22 years ago today that we signed Overmars, Petit and Grimandi
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Gabriel Martinelli turns 18 tomorrow and reports suggest he will sign for Arsenal now that he is free to move to Europe
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https://mobile.twitter.com/TiagoEstv/status/1139921290096185344/photo/1
Quote from the Everton manager. It’s not complicated stuff!
Here’s another quote about the Damned Utd:
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/man-utd-transfer-news-paul-pogba-analysis-juventus-psg-real-madrid-symbolises-club-a8962061.html
“This is what happens when there is a lack of central planning at a club like this.”
Been laughing at Utd for years and years, but to be fair to them the club that gave a charitable status to companies like AIG can afford such fun. Can the Arsenal?
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Remains to be seen how it’ll work out, but the club’s statement on forming this ‘transition team’ shows they’ve acknowledged and reacted to certain failures and the fan backlash.
It makes sense to use the youth, especially after we’ve allowed Ramsey to leave on a free. It seems clear to me that Freddie’s promotion was a move that Emery had nothing to do with. It’s a message to ship up and deliver on what was promised, while Freddie, potentially is being groomed to take over.
I can only hope it’s the spirit of Arsenal fighting back, right from Per Mertesacker to Ken Friar. If Emery can effectively utilise the youth and play a style more suited to the brand, he will get to stay. Or he’ll be gone by December once Edu’s got his feet under the table. But at least we can look forward with some hope.
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