Arsenal

[The Fox]

Said at the time that Rodgers was a much better coach than Emery. I don’t get much right but I’m taking the W on that one.

[humdrum]

Xhaka has been stripped of the captaincy, Emery confirms Aubameyang is now club captain.

[Gotters]

This of course means Auba will start on bench at weekend against Leicester

[Art Vandelay]

There’s no way they’d consider that busted flush Mourinho. That anyone is even talking about it says more about his PR machine and big fat gob than anything else. At least that’s what I’m hoping anyway, it’d be the last time you’d catch me down there for a while. 

[Gotters]

The biggest benefit of this 3:50pm KO is that despite being utterly dire game I’m staying awake, actually though not sure that’s a good thing

[Pavey]

Their manager is going to need a Locket at the end of this. Barking like a dog.

We are not very exciting are we, no flair anywhere. Neither are they, admittedly.

 

Edit - except maybe Tierney, a few nice runs.

 

[Gotters]

another half with no shots on target from us, and letting the opposition have 10, with 3 on target.

 

[Gotters]

No need to worry, we’re great at holding onto leads from our only effort on target

[Stagger Lee]

What a fucking mess.

[spork]

1 hour ago, Gotters said:

another half with no shots on target from us, and letting the opposition have 10, with 3 on target.

 

 

21 minutes ago, Gotters said:

No need to worry, we’re great at holding onto leads from our only effort on target

 

11 minutes ago, Stagger Lee said:

What a fucking mess.

 

Thought I was in the Man Utd thread for a minute there. 

[Gotters]

4 games in a row we have lead but not won

 

520 completed passes in this one yet just 1 completed in the penalty area all game

 

we’re an ugly watch at the moment

[suzzopher]

I am dreading Leicester at the weekend. Bad idea to make that my son’s first Arsenal game.

[The Fox]

I never want us to lose, but I won’t be that sad if Leicester hump us at the weekend if it finally convinces them to put Emery out of his misery.

[Gotters]

I've made Vardy cpt in my fantasy team, us away from home isn't pretty, and Leicester convert chances at a decent %, with nobody giving up more chances than us.

 

Only thing I cling to is we usually score a few against them, and did them home and away when they won the title.

[Silent Runner]

They made us look like absolute fools back in April. Can't see this weekend being any different. 

[Gotters]

if you ever want to see the definition of useless toothless possession then this is our pass map from the Europa league this week - note the phobia of getting anywhere near the opponents goal

 

 

[Gotters]

buena noches (I really hope this is how it starts)

 

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11670/11857129/unai-emery-exclusive-interview-arsenal-boss-defiant-on-vision-despite-mounting-pressure

[wev]

Arsenal have been very sloppy in all areas today but one big difference is that with Torreira on the pitch there's been quicker transitions

[Stagger Lee]

Wake me up when it's over.

[Art Vandelay]

I think that’s yer lot if I’m being frank.

[wev]

1 shot on target...

[SeanR]

Me and the boy are going to the Southampton game. It’ll either be his last home game in charge, or the start of the Lungberg caretaker role.

 

either way I’m making a sign that says: 

 

“Can I have your shirt job?”

[Gotters]

5 at the back, 2 holders and still gave up 19 shots.

 

That’s pretty damning of either a lack of coherent system being deployed, lack of effort/buy in from players or a bit of both.

 

Leicester on the other hand looked hungry and well drilled in their respective system, the teams were miles apart.

[suzzopher]

Our form is getting worse, at least when we were conceding 406 shots a game we were at least getting 10 shots ourselves, now we’ve managed 2 shots on target in two games. I’ve never seen anything like it at Arsenal.

 

If he is still in a job tomorrow then questions need to be asked of Raul and Edu.

 

My son did say during the game that the blue team were his favourite of the game. He’s just turned 7.

[Art Vandelay]

You can pick apart the problems we have across the pitch, but the main issue is and always has been that’s Emery is just a massive fanny who worries too much what the opposition are going to do to us rather than what we can do to them. It comes across in everything we do. Blaming Özil’s robbery thing, young players, Xhaka, the fans, injuries, Mercury in retrograde. It’s just the damned circumstances that are against me! How can I effect that?!

 

I think we all thought at the start that his approach to tinkering with the line up to counter an opposition was a sensible idea that we’d been missing for a long time. It’s clear that’s all he’s got though. Just looking over the garden fence at the sculpted adonis’ of Palace and Sheffield Utd spraying the ball around for fun and having a PTSD flashback of getting brutalised by Barca until he composes himself again and writes PANIC into a PowerPoint presentation and gloomily articulates that to the squad.

 

Good managers can set up in a way that means you don’t lose, but also dish out a decent shellacking to the cannon fodder that litters this league when required. It’s just beyond his capabilities.

 

This is genuinely worse than those dreadful seasons when Graham was booted out and we limped along with Houston and Rice taking the reigns. At least we had some European adventures and a squad full of baggage thieves and lager louts to josh about with.

[Silent Runner]

Emery safe until Summer according to Ornstein.

 

Quote

 

However, The Athletic has been informed by senior sources that Arsenal’s hierarchy remain “100 per cent” behind Emery and still plan to wait until the summer before making a decision on his future.

 

Whether or not that plan changes is impossible to predict, but the 48-year-old will be in position for his side’s next match at home to Southampton on November 23 and is said to have the total backing of Arsenal’s ownership, board of directors and executives to turn the situation round. We are told that owner Stan Kroenke and his son Josh, head of football Raul Sanllehi, managing director Vinai Venkatesham, technical director Edu and all other influential figures are firmly on the same page.

 

Reports of contact being established with potential successors to Emery are vigorously denied and it has been clearly communicated that they are not considering a change of head coach.

 

 

[suzzopher]

We could be out of the top 10 by the end of the season.

[Art Vandelay]

The old vote of confidence. I do wish they'd not bothered giving Champions League qualification for winning the Europa pot as there's always that get-out-of-jail card to fall back on. That was clearly the plan last season which meant we tanked the league and pinned our hopes on a second-rate manager winning a second-rate competition to achieve what we needed. I can see us going deep into it whatever happens as the standard is dire. A couple more wins for Leicester and Chelsea it would take a really wretched run of form for them to drop out of the top four spaces and the league becomes irrelevant. It would be so disheartening and completely smalltime, but if he isn't sacked now that's where we are and the Kronke's reprieve would've lasted about eight weeks. The summer splurge is looking like the most expensive 100 million quid they will ever spend.

[suzzopher]

Considering we can’t beat the giants of Portugal winning the Europa league is not happening under Emery either.

[SeanR]

56 minutes ago, Silent Runner said:

Emery safe until Summer according to Ornstein.