We were a couple of points off top 4 last year.Originally Posted by fakeyank
We should have finished top 4, but for a Wengeresque collapse we would have.
This squad aren't as bad as some people are making out although agree about the coaching.
We were a couple of points off top 4 last year.
We should have finished top 4, but for a Wengeresque collapse we would have.
This squad aren't as bad as some people are making out although agree about the coaching.
Individually and on paper, I think our squad is easily a top 4 team, however what has happened over the last 9-10 months if that the team has lost an identity, game plan and basic football skills. I think we need someone to bring all of that back, and I believe that can happen once we go back to basics and start from the ground up.We were a couple of points off top 4 last year.
We should have finished top 4, but for a Wengeresque collapse we would have.
This squad aren't as bad as some people are making out although agree about the coaching.
Arsene Wenger, the only football manager that got paid 8 million quid to do nothing but sit on his arse..
We need to never, ever talk about top 4 again. As we have seen, top 4 is meaningless to anyone bar the money men. What difference does it make to the fans is we qualify for the CL? Just means they waste more of their money. We aren't going to win it, or even properly compete in it. It's Wenger's biggest con. His eternal excuse for not being able to seriously challenge and his get out of jail (with a pay rise) card to play with the board every year. Top 4, top 4, top 4, top 4... Bullshit!
I too do not think Ancelotti would have done well at the club. He has recently been shite wherever he has gone and his stock is on the decline.. I did not see him making drastic changes this squad needs to become competitive. We need to teach our group of players basic tactics- off the ball positioning, first touch, passing etc before we can even dream of becoming top 4 again.
I want to see a team that can play decent football. That'll do for now. The eradication of the tippy tappy, sideways, backwards dross once and for ever.
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I too do not think Ancelotti would have done well at the club. He has recently been shite wherever he has gone and his stock is on the decline.. I did not see him making drastic changes this squad needs to become competitive. We need to teach our group of players basic tactics- off the ball positioning, first touch, passing etc before we can even dream of becoming top 4 again.
You can see how off the pace we were with the basics with things like trying to play out from the back - City can do it because they probably spend untold hours drilling their defenders to receive a pass under pressure like a peak-Barca midfield, whereas Emery looks like he thought he could just tell Sokratis to stand at the side of the area and go from there.
This is why Ozil, despite his ridiculous pay packet, remains crucial to this team. He's about the only one who doesn't shit down his legs when he gets the ball. And he knows how to use it, instead of passing it back and then authoritatively gesturing to the poor sod you just passed into trouble to get it up the field. Have you seen how often they do that? Bottle the pass and then issue instructions the second they've got rid of the ball? Embarrassing stuff.
You can see how off the pace we were with the basics with things like trying to play out from the back - City can do it because they probably spend untold hours drilling their defenders to receive a pass under pressure like a peak-Barca midfield, whereas Emery looks like he thought he could just tell Sokratis to stand at the side of the area and go from there.
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I dont want top 4 if it didnt mean us getting a massive injection of funds to use for transfer. Our model under Kroenke will not allow us to spend huge amounts of money to build up the squad to become competitive at the top. We have to take baby steps here and get back to the lucrative top 4 places. Then we can take the next leap to challenging Chelsea, Shitty and Liverpool.
Arsene Wenger, the only football manager that got paid 8 million quid to do nothing but sit on his arse..
Most accurate description of Emery-ball
Arsene Wenger, the only football manager that got paid 8 million quid to do nothing but sit on his arse..
totally agree re Ozil, you could see it when he came off against Citeh - we may not have been great beforehand but we completely lost any structure after he'd gone
there's a lot of sense there but my fear is of how much further we might slide if it proves that Arteta needs a few months to get the hang of things, whereas Ancellotti would i hoped have been able to get them into some kind of purposeful mentality and shape quickly - i totally get it would be a short-term approach adnd a longer-term one would be preferable in a lot of ways, but i'm just worried that we really are still not far away from the bottom three...
Basically agree but I don't think that has to happen by clearing out a load of players and starting again. Some need to go, but what we need is a manager who can inspire them and make them a team again. And a decent captain would help. That's all Spurs have done, Poch is a good manager but the players weren't playing for him, they got someone in who can get them going again and the results have immediately improved.
Meanwhile, we're scrabbling around trying to recruit someone who never managed a game in his life. You couldn't make it up!
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