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What a campaigner of a situation this Xahka thing is. Absolute campaigner of a situation. He’ll have to go after that.
It’s as if we’re fighting relegation reading some of these posts.
It’s as if we’re fighting relegation reading some of these posts.
Yes it’s now gone to a very hostile level, there’s almost no coming back from this. Disappointing scenes with the booing and the **** off gesture/ripping off his shirt and going down the tunnel.
I must say Emery is also culpable in the situation. Shouldn’t have appointed Xhaka as captain.
This on top of the Ozil freeze out, there’s a lot simmering at Arsenal at the moment. Needs some real leaderships to move forward, and not sure we have that at senior/board level.
They gotta strip xhaka of the captaincy and move him on within the next couple of transfer windows, he can take emery with him hopefully
I think getting rid of Emery right now is the priority.
Question is, who takes over?
Question is, who takes over?
You and I to take over, lots of years of experience in Football Manager.
Are we in a worse position now than when we still had Wenger at the helm?
I think the squad is better, the coach is probably worse than wenger in his decline for his last couple of seasons though, he's definitely not any better anyway.
I would bite the bullet now and try bring in mourinho or even rafa benitez if available for the rest of the season to secure top 4, then have a proper think about who the manager will be at the end of the season, wouldn't want to keep mourinho, wouldn't be against keeping rafa though, he's miles ahead of emery.
Xhaka has to go at the end of the season as well, if he can be replaced in january do it.
One thing the Emery regime would have achieved is that we now have a circuit breaker between our future manager and Wenger. Emery IMO was never going to be a 10 year appointment, the next appointment in Arsenal's eye will hopefully be a generational manager.
I think the squad is certainly better than the one Wenger finished with. It’s been changed significantly too, but for the better overall.
Emery vs Wenger though as a direct comparison is harder to gauge.
Still wouldn’t want Mourinho. If we were to move on Emery then I’d want a considerable upgrade. Which Mourinho currently isn’t.
Emery vs Wenger though as a direct comparison is harder to gauge.
Still wouldn’t want Mourinho. If we were to move on Emery then I’d want a considerable upgrade. Which Mourinho currently isn’t.
Sounds easy but really you have to be super lucky to get a long term manager, a lot of things have to go right, were more likely to churn through a few than stick with one
Yeah the hope would be they are generational, but more than likely not.
Saw a stat the other day that said yes.
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I completely understand Xhaka being sick of the criticism (even if it is valid). Booing your own captain is never going to help anything (unless that captain is a worthless campaigner like Bonucci, but fans never boo in that sort of situation). His reaction showed exactly why he shouldn't have been made captain in the first place though, no discipline at all. Nothing good will come of all this.
Yes. Aside from that run early last season when the players clearly bought in and played with freedom, Emery's gone absolutely nowhere. He's neutered any attacking potential in the side in the failed attempt to stop conceding, but all he's accomplished is to turn almost every match into a 50/50 scrap at best. You don't finish top 4 by hoping your sides makes a better fist of their few chances than the opposition.
Mate at work told me about this rant. What an absolute bellend. That was legitimately nasty.
Honestly, why would anyone want to come and play for Arsenal if members of the supporter base treat you like this.
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6:30ish Vicco time, an in-depth Ornstein piece will go live on the Athletic which all Gooners will be itching to read:
Might actually force Emery’s hand to leave him out. Will be interesting to see what the next actions are
In club suspension 3 games... + fine for xhaka. Not good enough from the captain...
As for emery... 1st and final warning... improve your tactics and player selections or you will be replaced.
Who replaces emery... no idea... dont really pay attention to anyone else bar arsenal.. and don't watch other leagues besides the epl.
But.... something needs to change.. we have been piss poor since the 2nd half of last season...
As for emery... 1st and final warning... improve your tactics and player selections or you will be replaced.
Who replaces emery... no idea... dont really pay attention to anyone else bar arsenal.. and don't watch other leagues besides the epl.
But.... something needs to change.. we have been piss poor since the 2nd half of last season...
****ing lol at this thread.
This feel like something you would say to make yourself feel better instead of admitting you ****ed up and made the wrong choice. Lets just call it what it is and that is he has been a ****ing disaster and his appointment wasn't a case of steadying the ship or bridging the gap but rather an appointment to lead us into the future post Wenger. Of which Emery has failed big time, he hasn't added anything to the team and the areas which we were good at have gone backwards.
Not really. It was the right time to move on from Wenger and the club needed a new voice both on the pitch and off of it but the clown they appointed to replace what happens on the pitch hasn't come close to replicating an old and past it Wenger, let alone improving us.
Hasn’t come close to replicating? Whatever you think of Emery, that’s a bizarre thing to say. Both have finished outside the top 4, both failed to win the Europa League and get us back into the CL (if anything, Emery got us one step further into the final).
Yes, there isn’t much evidence to suggest he’s improved Arsenal. But as for “not even close to replicating”, nah.
Wouldn't say it has been a ****ing disaster, it could be a lot worse pretty easily considering the state the club was in when wenger left, emery really hasn't done much in improving or failing, we've stagnated a little, at the worst we've gone slightly backwards. In saying that though I think the squad has improved, there's things to work with.
Xhaka has piss off as well, couldn't of handled that situation much worse than how he did as captain. That and he's not good enough to be playing for arsenal anyway.
This will be something. Interesting to hear how long he believes Emery has left (but not sure he would put that to print).
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