Tuchel is a terrible manager, got to hope this never happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vieira
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Tuchel is a terrible manager, got to hope this never happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vieira
Wilshere the crock out of Italy game, never far away from the next injury this guy, can't blame us for wanting to pay him based on how much he plays as he spends most of his career in the treatment room, you'd call it unlucky but the guy tends to be pretty reckless in challenges, over stretching and not knowing when to pull back.
Former Bayern Munich & Germany midfielder Lothar Matthäus has revealed he knows Thomas Tuchel is in talks with Arsenal. [SportBILD] #afc https://t.co/IKV7no1TQc
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The speculation is pure shit anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Özim
A terrible manager is slightly better than an absolutely diabolical one though which is what Arsenal have at the moment.
Wenger is staying until at least June 2019 which means next season is fucked already.
NQ's 8th account:bow:Quote:
Originally Posted by dostoy
Spot on on all counts, neither is the answer if you're serious about challenging for anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by dostoy
Arsenal have held discussions over a possible move for Freiburg's 21-year-old centre back Çağlar Söyüncü, a player admired by Sven Mislintat. [@MailSport] #afc https://t.co/FxVOY94kNF
Sven :bow:
If Wenger stays he'll ruin this guy assuming we buy him!Quote:
Originally Posted by Vieira
Thread title changed :patrice:
Lacazette on whether Wenger leaving affects his future: "Its strange because it was him who wanted me to come to #Arsenal. I signed a long contract but now he has left it will be different. We will see after the season" https://t.co/8s64d8qHPZ
To be honest any decent manager would use Lacazette and Aubameyang together, they can both score goals and are different kind of players, Wenger hasn't given Lacazette much of a chance.
I think any player will be unsure of their future as noone wil know what the new manager will do or whether they will want them, think he'll be OK though he's a very good player and finisher and those don't grow on trees. We may actually see two up top after years of this one up top formation Wenger loves so much.
You need two top strikers at least in your squad, you'd be foolish to get rid of either of them.
We might actually do something revolutionary too, like having balls played through the middle to the strikers and, (wait....wait) and, see the strikers shooting instead of trying to lay the ball off to midfield/defenders/GK...... !!!!! :faint:
We have a strikeforce good enough to win the league and CL.
It's the rest of the squad that is a sack of poo.
A new keeper is beyond a no-brainer. If we go into the season with Cech as our number one, we might as well keep Wenger as well.
In the other positions, it's not necessarily about getting loads of expensive players, it's more about getting them to play with an identity again and finding a balance. I mean, Wenger got midfields including Denilson, Flamini and Song to play the best football in the country. And we had Arteta and Ramsey both combining excellently for a season before the rot really set in.
New Arsenal manager restricted to £50m summer transfer budget https://t.co/qUvcGPXxBe
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Kroenke Out!
There's incentive, right there, to get in a good manager.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cripps
Wouldn't that be great? Be careful what you wish for though!Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Mmmm thats a bummer, we need a lot more than that, we need a few players.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cripps
Daily Telegraph with all the inside news on Arsenal - except the Wenger news where they were as "in the know" as your average fan.
Did any of the "experts" call events last week?
It's an easy enough assumption the new guy will want to sell off the deadwood anyway and in this crazy market we'll probably get another 50, 60, 70 mill from selling junk. Bet we'd still get 25 mill for Mustafi.
We might not even need to buy any defenders, we could end up with as good as 6-7 new signings just by training up the guys we have.
This will be a summer of wide open possibilities, so I don't place any stock in what the so-called experts are twittering on about.
A good central midfielder though, that's a must.
Exciting times though, something to look forward to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Come on now...don't be daft.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
According to the Times, Boro Primorac, Tony Colbert & Gerry Peyton are all set to leave the club in the summer. #Arsenal
Ivan :bow:
Or more. It's a crazy market and he's a German international.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blink 1nce Quince 2wice
No club would be stupid enough to buy him for anything close to what we got him for now. Only the petro dollar clubs can waste that sort of money and none of them will be wasting their time on the likes of Mustafi...unless Wenger takes him with him to PSG.
I didn't understand the reports last summer that we tried to sell him,....but I certainly get it now.
No real surprises there, Wenger's old boys club.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cripps
By all accounts Peyton isn't a great keeper coach at all. And would assume that fitness guy we got from Australia will take a bigger role when Colbert goes. No idea what Primoric does?!
Hearing a number of players out of contract this summer including Chiellini (inexplicably) and Robben. I don't think we could pull off the former but I would certainly be sniffing around the divey robot Robben.
If we only have 50 million that will easily be blown on a keeper, CB and DCM. If we are really unlucky we could spend that on the just one of those alone. I think we need to be creative this summer.
My wishlist:
1) Big powerful tall CB. Possibly two.
After watching Koulibaly head every single ball Juventus tried to launch into the box on Sunday and seeing how Van Dijk has gone a long way to stemming Liverpool's defensive woes, I'm more convinced than ever that we need to start signing powerful and tall CB's once again.
You get away with midgets like Mustafi & Vermaelen if your team is built around defence but ours never will be. That Mainz guy we're linked to sounds promising.
2) Athletic powerful CM
Naby Keita would have been perfect if we hadn't let him piss off to Liverpool.
3) Right sided goal scoring winger.
Wouldn't mind a left sided one as well but this side is especially barren.
4) GK
Cech is past it, though I still think we can eek out another season out of him if we don't have the money to replace him - he should still be enough to get us top four. Less of a priority than the other positions.
Sell/Release: Wilshere, Iwobi, Lacazette (I'm afraid we need the money and he's one of the few that actual has some sell on value), Mustafi and possibly Xhaka.
Fantastic news! Though I don't think Colbert is as bad as the other two dinosaurs. I'd kick out Banfield as well - another one of supposed "first team coaches" that appears to be utterly useless when it comes to coaching & improving players.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cripps
We can't sell Lacazette you idiot :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Emirates Gallactico
We have two decent strikers for the first time in years, we need them to be working together to push us on :rolleyes:
If we continue with 2 good strikers then we need to look at playing 2 up top. one of them out wide doesn't work and I don't think playing one at a time works either as the other will be disenchanted. I do think we could play 2 up top, 5 across midfield and 3 at the back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aubameyang's Wang
Unless the new manager is going to commit to playing two up front then he's unfortunately expendable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aubameyang's Wang
We aren't in the luxurious position of keeping a valuable CF on the bench when we've got major holes in our CM & CB that desperately need to be filled and going by recent reports, we don't have the money to plug them without selling first. And if it's straight choice between playing Aubeymang or Lacazette upfront then it's no brainer tbh.
One of the biggest problems we've faced recently is that we don't know how to sell well to get maximum value, instead getting too attached to players, giving them too many chances and not being ruthless enough - e.g. we really should have got more money from Alexis & Ox and we've squandered other player values. Look at Liverpool - they sold Coutinho for mega money at his prime and reinvested the money to plug up a major hole in defence - that's exactly the squad building approach we need to emulate.
Don't forget, we may end up with a manager who plays different systems depending on the opponent. Or a manager that knows how to operate a rotation policy. Strange concepts at Arsenal but everything is back on the table.
NQ just said it all in the post aboveQuote:
Originally Posted by The Emirates Gallactico
But the point is the new manager is more likely to try and utilise the two decent strikers we have properly.
TEG you also failed to include Welbeck in your list and possibly release Cazorla to generate extra funds
weirdly the best way to counter this new 343 or 352 nonsense is to play 442 with deep wingers....stick Lacazette and PEA up front together against those teams
I'm just enjoying the prospect of seeing something different next season.
Of course if the new guy rolls out the same formation and we start tipping it around in triangles I'll kill myself. After I have killed everyone else.
or see Bellerin tear down the right wing....stop....wait.....play it inside and drop back....ball goes back to DM....across to the left....Monreal tries an overlap and fails....back to the DM.....out to the right....Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
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Or we make a brilliant pacy counter attack, beating the opposition defence, two on one and the GK to beat......then inexplicably, stop outside the box and pass it out wide....then back to the centre.........then back to the wing......then back to DM.....then back to Kos.....then back to Cech.....
Or the ball falls perfectly to the striker in the opposition box... he's facing the goal... the shot is on... he draws back his boot...
... and taps it square to a team mate who is...
...in the opposition box... he's facing the goal... the shot is on... he draws back his boot...
no any big club needs more than one top class striker for the number of league and cup games played, even without injuriesQuote:
Originally Posted by The Emirates Gallactico
if we sell the deadwood we should raise a decent amount even if it's not as much as we paid for them
as for Ox, a lot of people questionned whether 'pool paid too much for him but he's shown his ability under a better manager - shame for him about the injusry btw, he'll be gutted if he misses the World Cup