Training session v Citeh (home).

[Mac76]

NQ, the answer is 'yes'

Emery was picking the wrong teams amd formations, the difference today was IMO Freddie played the best 11 abailable but with a desperately makeshift defence and against a very strong side

Emery was pissing off players like Auba and Laca and while we may not keep them anyway, they'd defintely be going under Emery

We do now need to get in an experienced manager but also the owners need to commit to spending big on at least on central defender and another holding midfielder in January

[Xhaka Can’t]

The answer is no.

Not until they had someone lined up to replace him.

The result of their decision is that we are in limbo, with an inexperienced Manager who clearly wants the Board to do their fucking job so that he can go back to doing his, rather than being required to do something he is not yet cut out to do.

[Niall_Quinn]

NQ, the answer is 'yes'

Emery was picking the wrong teams amd formations, the difference today was IMO Freddie played the best 11 abailable but with a desperately makeshift defence and against a very strong side

Emery was pissing off players like Auba and Laca and while we may not keep them anyway, they'd defintely be going under Emery

We do now need to get in an experienced manager but also the owners need to commit to spending big on at least on central defender and another holding midfielder in January

i get what you are saying. But these sort of considerations are a bit like the entertainment director agonising over the schedule for 15th April, 1912. I think team selection and holding onto our best players are certainly issues, issues for normal clubs anyway, but they are number 489 and 672 on our list. Changing the players attitudes so they aren't swinging handbags, batting eyelids and begging to be raped is what we should be most focused on now.

[hobson's choice]

NQ, the answer is 'yes'

Emery was picking the wrong teams amd formations, the difference today was IMO Freddie played the best 11 abailable but with a desperately makeshift defence and against a very strong side

Emery was pissing off players like Auba and Laca and while we may not keep them anyway, they'd defintely be going under Emery

We do now need to get in an experienced manager but also the owners need to commit to spending big on at least on central defender and another holding midfielder in January

We don't need to spend anything. We are not 2/3 players and manager away from anything, other then slightly above average.

This a bad team, that has been terribly managed on the pitch and off. Wenger pretty much neglected his player, and Emery taught em how to run around and hope someone creates something outta nothing. These guys have no clue how to attack, defend or do anything as a team.

This club has to rebuild, and rebuild properly. Which means, we have to be bad for a couple of season. We are not City,PSG, we don't have the money to buy our way back to the top.

Unfortunately this club has no one who seems to understand or wants to accept this

[hobson's choice]

They could get more for sure, not saying it would fix all our issues but we'd be seeing something much better than we are now. Attacking wise we have very good players, but these days we struggle to score.

But we could also drill them into playing as more of a unit at the back. Manager definitely makes a difference, look at Mourinho at Spurs, he's won most of his games since he arrived, Rogers at Leicester is another example.

Of course we'll need replacements as well but realistiically that won't be until the summer, in the meantime a new manager can work out who he wants to keep and who he wants to get rid of.

Spurs were already a good team, with a strong Foundation.

And same for Leicester on a lesser level

[Niall_Quinn]

We don't need to spend anything. We are not 2/3 players and manager away from anything, other then slightly above average.

This a bad team, that has been terribly managed on the pitch and off. Wenger pretty much neglected his player, and Emery taught em how to run around and hope someone creates something outta nothing. These guys have no clue how to attack, defend or do anything as a team.

This club has to rebuild, and rebuild properly. Which means, we have to be bad for a couple of season. We are not City,PSG, we don't have the money to buy our way back to the top.

Unfortunately this club has no one who seems to understand or wants to accept this

If we hired a magician he could wave a magic wand and it would all be better. Trust the vocal fans on this, and buy their merch whilst you are at it.

Agreed. Cultural shift required. Everything that was, is gone. We are now a mid-table (just about) PL team who might be able to scrap out the odd result against opponents who are having an off-day. And we'll probably scrape up enough points to ensure we aren't fighting relegation by the end of the season. But there's always next season if things don't change.

Absolutely right, we're living in the past (and have been for over a decade) and we're refusing to accept the reality. We think a few tweaks will reignite some sort of second tier glory, maybe a Europa win (despite the ever so predictable humiliation of last year), or a coveted top 4 (despite relentless collapses, even when the rest of the league was virtually handing it to us). These players have no guts when the going gets tough. Half of them are here because we're still, based on the past and based on the finances that past bought us, a big club. And they're clued in, playing the free transfer game. I can't point to one of them and say, there's an Arsenal man. When Jack and that silly bastard Ches went, the last Arsenal men went. I don't see any of that passion for the club in any of these players now. Don't show me your love in a tweet - show it on the pitch.

It comes from the top. The absentee scumbags we have running the shop now (just the shop, mind you) don't give a fuck about the club beyond its capacity to fill their wallets. And so that dereliction filters down. Wenger was the same by the end. Rattling on about his top 4 trophies instead of competing to win the actual trophy.

Maybe just sack all the big shots and give the kids a chance. Maybe they'll grow to love the club as they grow into a decent team. That would give the new manager something build with. But these fans who think we are still somehow up there, at the top, because we have a God given right to be there just because the ticket prices are almost as high as they are. They'll sink any manager who doesn't deliver in 15 minutes flat. Because, as you say, they refuse to accept. I listen to them, they say things like, "with all due respect to [INSERT NAME OF PROPER TEAM HERE] - this is Arsenal! And we should be winning here!"

Why? Weren't they watching what has been happening over the last decade?

[I am invisible]

Is it true that Ljungberg basically has Mertesacker and some random goalkeeping coach to help out and that’s it?

[Bumble]

Is it true that Ljungberg basically has Mertesacker and some random goalkeeping coach to help out and that’s it?

Think there are merts some other guy and goalkeeping coach. All emerys staff got sacked

[Marc Overmars]

It’s getting to the point now where the team is so broken that any new coach will struggle to salvage anything this season. These players are just going through the motions and have no real heart for the fight. A joke of a team.

[I am invisible]

Think there are merts some other guy and goalkeeping coach. All emerys staff got sacked

Shit almighty... why did they let him bring in so many of his own men? I thought the idea, post-Wenger, was to tie coaching (and scouting and fitness and analysis, etc) to the club and not be 100% reliant on whoever the manager happens to be? Bottled that one at the first chance then.