The Arsenal FC - Related News and Development for 2019/2020

[Chief Ogbunigwe]

Chei! I hate to admit it but Maureenhoe na coach! See footballing lecture.



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Jose’s soccer acumen has never been in question. He just gets in his own way sometimes because of his caustic personality.

[Sleaky72]

What happened to Ozil? Zero minutes in 2019 ... He should have joined Sanchez at Inter Milan.

Ozil for a game that was going to be fast passed and end to end?

He wasn't missed.

You guys are aware Alexis went to Inter w/o a loan fee paid & ManU pays 300k of his 400k weekly wages. Ceba was struggling 15/20mins in, was he injured?
Ozil had to be held back after the riobbery incident but i think against a tiring Spurs side like today with 30mins to go, he's a far superior passer than anyone we'd on the subs bench!!!

You would have rather had Ozil than Ceballos? Based on what really? Got 2 be sentiments, becuz clearly neither the numbers, the body of work in critical games or the eye test optics support your point here. Just saying IMHO.

[Sleaky72]

Monreal and Iwobi are gone.
hopefully Mikhi , Ozil, Granit will follow by the close of the window Monday.

BTW how sweet would it have been when Laca got hurt to sub on Iwobi instead zombie that is Mkhi. Or have Monreal start over defensively "challenged" Kolasinac, have Kola subbed on for Laca and expose Spurs on the left.

Highly Doubt Grant Xhaka iz gng anywhere. When Emery gets fired by Xmas it will be becuz of Xhak, and I guarantee that Fredo Ljunberg as interim gaffer will run as far away from Xhaka as he can.

[Sleaky72]

If Ozil is still your savior, then you seriously need help.
There are 100 other players at Arsenal I would play ahead of Ozil. Yes, I said 100.

You guys are aware Alexis went to Inter w/o a loan fee paid & ManU pays 300k of his 400k weekly wages. Ceba was struggling 15/20mins in, was he injured?
Ozil had to be held back after the riobbery incident but i think against a tiring Spurs side like today with 30mins to go, he's a far superior passer than anyone we'd on the subs bench!!!

Phew!!! Ouch that was pretty damning. Is it that personal? Don’t fancy the guy myself but Dayang!!

[Sleaky72]

Emery’s search for balance; to be continued....

You don't search for balance, you have balance with a balance squad of players. Emery can only work with what he has got. Our squad is not balanced.

Emery had more than enough to get a good result today.

He did.

No excuses, this was on Emery.

His propensity to opt for nullification above all is an issue. This is a new team, play to it's strengths, tinkering, managing off platform of fear has not and will not work.

You really think Unai Em went for “nullification” today? He is at fault for once again putting the wrong personnel together but how can u blame his tactics today? Ok he picked Xhaka and he owns his madness but such madness in a player has nothing to do with tactics. Same for the sheer volume of misses today. I’m not happy with the coach but bloody ‘ELL!

[Siddonlook11]

Details again. This team is about getting the simple things right.

Playing with our hearts not our heads and derailment once more. That first half, our players went gun-ho, lost the plot completely.

We go all out for the goal. Spurs hit a long ball, Sokratis goes fishing for a first header he can’t win, no cover for next phase of play, two Spurs on to the loose ball, it leads to a shot on goal. Leno should push it out for a corner, he makes a terrible mistake and they have a goal.

Xhaka, falls for a sucker punch. Spurs know, they play for it because he is the only person on the pitch, you can frustrate to make that type of idiotic mistake. He has not had a breather, he was closed down and harassed in that midfield. But Guendouzi was having the finest game of his Arsenal career. The game many of us saw coming from his debut around this time last year. Guendouzi, Willock and Ceballos now means Xhaka's place in the team is not cast in stone anymore.

Today, I came to the conclusion that we can only eradicate the sort of stupidity is to get players with calm heads and maturity to play with their heads. To this end, we need a dominant CD and CM in the air. The irony is Mustafi is the one CD who is very good in the air.
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One reason we got Leno for £24m is his tendency to make mistakes. Last season, he made the most mistakes (5) leading to goals. The much maligned Xhaka and Mustafi made 2 such mistakes. Leno will be a world class goalie if he eliminates his errors. He has time.

But we saw today my gripe about balance in your squad. Mikh prefers to play right side, so when we lost Laca, with Iwobi sold, there was no left sided attacker. Today we saw the folly of the decision to sell Iwobi. It was a problem today, and will be a problem for the rest of the season.

For all the blame Xhaka gets today he actually saw the first goal coming....if una observe well he motioned Sokratis to go back before that lomng ball was played and what did yam head do he came forward and actually jumped for the sameball as Xhaka !!! it was brain less...then he starts to run back half heartedly and did not see Ericsson ..seriously that is our defensive lead

[Tunisian Gooner]

Emery’s search for balance; to be continued....

You don't search for balance, you have balance with a balance squad of players. Emery can only work with what he has got. Our squad is not balanced.

Emery had more than enough to get a good result today.

He did.

No excuses, this was on Emery.

His propensity to opt for nullification above all is an issue. This is a new team, play to it's strengths, tinkering, managing off platform of fear has not and will not work.

You really think Unai Em went for “nullification” today? He is at fault for once again putting the wrong personnel together but how can u blame his tactics today? Ok he picked Xhaka and he owns his madness but such madness in a player has nothing to do with tactics. Same for the sheer volume of misses today. I’m not happy with the coach but bloody ‘ELL!

No excuse to play a back four, no excuse to start Xhaka, no excuse not to start Ceballos and or Willock.

One thing AW understood is in a NLD you're asking to have your arse handed to you if you opt for caution over aggression. No secret I am a big backer of Emery but he is not above criticism. He tinkering needs to stop, he manages from a platform of caution first, which is fine depending on circumstances i.e @ Anfield or @ Etihad.

NLD is a old school heavy weight battle, hay makers at every turn. Whilst Arsenal were pushing Spurs early they lacked enough weapons to punish Spurs. Would have loved to have seen how Spurs would have coped with Ceballos straight from the KO. Arsenal 1st half's have been a weak point under Emery, he uses 1st half as template to win the game in the 2nd half. Problem is have not led at HT in a single game, you play with fire when you waste 45 minutes of a match, put yourself in a position where you're chasing the game and leaving yourself open to sucker punches.


Thus far this season Arsenal have only held a lead for approx 70 minutes out of 360 minutes...not good enough.

[ojafranpa]

Emery’s search for balance; to be continued....

You don't search for balance, you have balance with a balance squad of players. Emery can only work with what he has got. Our squad is not balanced.

Emery had more than enough to get a good result today.

He did.

No excuses, this was on Emery.

His propensity to opt for nullification above all is an issue. This is a new team, play to it's strengths, tinkering, managing off platform of fear has not and will not work.

You really think Unai Em went for “nullification” today? He is at fault for once again putting the wrong personnel together but how can u blame his tactics today? Ok he picked Xhaka and he owns his madness but such madness in a player has nothing to do with tactics. Same for the sheer volume of misses today. I’m not happy with the coach but bloody ‘ELL!

No excuse to play a back four, no excuse to start Xhaka, no excuse not to start Ceballos and or Willock.

One thing AW understood is in a NLD you're asking to have your arse handed to you if you opt for caution over aggression. No secret I am a big backer of Emery but he is not above criticism. He tinkering needs to stop, he manages from a platform of caution first, which is fine depending on circumstances i.e @ Anfield or @ Etihad.

NLD is a old school heavy weight battle, hay makers at every turn. Whilst Arsenal were pushing Spurs early they lacked enough weapons to punish Spurs. Would have loved to have seen how Spurs would have coped with Ceballos straight from the KO. Arsenal 1st half's have been a weak point under Emery, he uses 1st half as template to win the game in the 2nd half. Problem is have not led at HT in a single game, you play with fire when you waste 45 minutes of a match, put yourself in a position where you're chasing the game and leaving yourself open to sucker punches.


Thus far this season Arsenal have only held a lead for approx 70 minutes out of 360 minutes...not good enough.

Hallmark of an average coach and a weakling.

[cchinukw]

Emery’s search for balance; to be continued....

You don't search for balance, you have balance with a balance squad of players. Emery can only work with what he has got. Our squad is not balanced.

Emery had more than enough to get a good result today.

He did.

No excuses, this was on Emery.

His propensity to opt for nullification above all is an issue. This is a new team, play to it's strengths, tinkering, managing off platform of fear has not and will not work.

You really think Unai Em went for “nullification” today? He is at fault for once again putting the wrong personnel together but how can u blame his tactics today? Ok he picked Xhaka and he owns his madness but such madness in a player has nothing to do with tactics. Same for the sheer volume of misses today. I’m not happy with the coach but bloody ‘ELL!

No excuse to play a back four, no excuse to start Xhaka, no excuse not to start Ceballos and or Willock.

One thing AW understood is in a NLD you're asking to have your arse handed to you if you opt for caution over aggression. No secret I am a big backer of Emery but he is not above criticism. He tinkering needs to stop, he manages from a platform of caution first, which is fine depending on circumstances i.e @ Anfield or @ Etihad.

NLD is a old school heavy weight battle, hay makers at every turn. Whilst Arsenal were pushing Spurs early they lacked enough weapons to punish Spurs. Would have loved to have seen how Spurs would have coped with Ceballos straight from the KO. Arsenal 1st half's have been a weak point under Emery, he uses 1st half as template to win the game in the 2nd half. Problem is have not led at HT in a single game, you play with fire when you waste 45 minutes of a match, put yourself in a position where you're chasing the game and leaving yourself open to sucker punches.


Thus far this season Arsenal have only held a lead for approx 70 minutes out of 360 minutes...not good enough.

Hallmark of an average coach and a weakling.

Compared with....WHO?

[Tunisian Gooner]

[ohenhen1]

Any Nwakili news?

[Coach]

Sol far too predictable in his synopsis, offered precious little insight into his vision, or far worse, that represented all of it. Tis not nearly enough for the black coaches, bereft of opportunities, to come on stage and read from the Iain Dowie Manifesto. Campbell’s delivery was Mike Bassett and in that brief cameo, will have talked himself out of contention for a Rooney rule invitation for any job worth taking. Entirely unfair but we must realise the court is not the same.

[Sleaky72]

Emery’s search for balance; to be continued....

You don't search for balance, you have balance with a balance squad of players. Emery can only work with what he has got. Our squad is not balanced.

Emery had more than enough to get a good result today.

He did.

No excuses, this was on Emery.

His propensity to opt for nullification above all is an issue. This is a new team, play to it's strengths, tinkering, managing off platform of fear has not and will not work.

You really think Unai Em went for “nullification” today? He is at fault for once again putting the wrong personnel together but how can u blame his tactics today? Ok he picked Xhaka and he owns his madness but such madness in a player has nothing to do with tactics. Same for the sheer volume of misses today. I’m not happy with the coach but bloody ‘ELL!

No excuse to play a back four, no excuse to start Xhaka, no excuse not to start Ceballos and or Willock.

One thing AW understood is in a NLD you're asking to have your arse handed to you if you opt for caution over aggression. No secret I am a big backer of Emery but he is not above criticism. He tinkering needs to stop, he manages from a platform of caution first, which is fine depending on circumstances i.e @ Anfield or @ Etihad.

NLD is a old school heavy weight battle, hay makers at every turn. Whilst Arsenal were pushing Spurs early they lacked enough weapons to punish Spurs. Would have loved to have seen how Spurs would have coped with Ceballos straight from the KO. Arsenal 1st half's have been a weak point under Emery, he uses 1st half as template to win the game in the 2nd half. Problem is have not led at HT in a single game, you play with fire when you waste 45 minutes of a match, put yourself in a position where you're chasing the game and leaving yourself open to sucker punches.


Thus far this season Arsenal have only held a lead for approx 70 minutes out of 360 minutes...not good enough.

Mister Tunis, really don’t wanna be obnoxious or tedious but I’m not getting your flow.

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no excuse not to start Ceballos and or Willock.

One thing AW understood is in a NLD you're asking to have your arse handed to you if you opt for caution over aggression.

NLD is a old school heavy weight battle, hay makers at every turn.”

If the NLD is a H’weight slugfest why wouldn’t it seem reasonable 2 start a fighter like LT over Ceballos who wilted under the cauldron of Anfield not 2 talk of an NLD war. Now I agree that Xhaka has no bizness near any part of this team, but since U mentioned Coach Wenger, wud U doubt that had he been here he would not Hv started Xhaka? And speaking of fighters honestly tell me he wouldn’t hv started Ozil? So ur theory of playing with aggression under Wenger compared to Emery doesn’t flow to me. Nevertheless I agree that GXhaka should be allowed 2 stay on an extended international break. He is beyond fixing. Totally broken and is more of a liability than an asset.

That Arsenal team yesterday came 2 fight and didn’t seem lacking 4 aggression. If anything they were too full of fight and lost focus. So again the buck stops with UM, 4 his obsession with players who uplift the opposition when they see their name on the team sheet. And undoubtedly cause an eye roll amongst the Arsenal players and prolly Fredo Ljungberg on the bench. I’ll happily let you have the last word as I’m off to vacation

[JACKAL]

They paid 72 Million Pounds for this Ivorian guy....Are you guys kidding me????

Arsenal has been took, they have been had, bamboozled, led astray, run amok...

I watched this guy for the first time yesterday vS TOT, he reminded of African players from the 90's.... Lots energy and running, no real football sence.

[Sleaky72]

Miki is Having his medical at Roma, Nacho to Sociedad, and Mustafi rumored to be a target for Juve with Chiellini injured! These are some dizzying time at AFC. Looks like the kids will have their chance as the team evolves.

[Blukyt]

I can understand Emer's cautious approach to the derby, but the mistake I think he made was starting Xhaka. For me a 3 of Willock-Torreira-Guedouzi offers more in the MF. I would have preferred a Ceballos or Ozil but if you want to be conservative why not go with Willock who can actually drive when needed. We need pace all over the pitch and Xhaka is not that.

[Waffiman]

Details again. This team is about getting the simple things right.

Playing with our hearts not our heads and derailment once more. That first half, our players went gun-ho, lost the plot completely.

We go all out for the goal. Spurs hit a long ball, Sokratis goes fishing for a first header he can’t win, no cover for next phase of play, two Spurs on to the loose ball, it leads to a shot on goal. Leno should push it out for a corner, he makes a terrible mistake and they have a goal.

Xhaka, falls for a sucker punch. Spurs know, they play for it because he is the only person on the pitch, you can frustrate to make that type of idiotic mistake. He has not had a breather, he was closed down and harassed in that midfield. But Guendouzi was having the finest game of his Arsenal career. The game many of us saw coming from his debut around this time last year. Guendouzi, Willock and Ceballos now means Xhaka's place in the team is not cast in stone anymore.

Today, I came to the conclusion that we can only eradicate the sort of stupidity is to get players with calm heads and maturity to play with their heads. To this end, we need a dominant CD and CM in the air. The irony is Mustafi is the one CD who is very good in the air.
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One reason we got Leno for £24m is his tendency to make mistakes. Last season, he made the most mistakes (5) leading to goals. The much maligned Xhaka and Mustafi made 2 such mistakes. Leno will be a world class goalie if he eliminates his errors. He has time.

But we saw today my gripe about balance in your squad. Mikh prefers to play right side, so when we lost Laca, with Iwobi sold, there was no left sided attacker. Today we saw the folly of the decision to sell Iwobi. It was a problem today, and will be a problem for the rest of the season.

For all the blame Xhaka gets today he actually saw the first goal coming....if una observe well he motioned Sokratis to go back before that lomng ball was played and what did yam head do he came forward and actually jumped for the sameball as Xhaka !!! it was brain less...then he starts to run back half heartedly and did not see Ericsson ..seriously that is our defensive lead

I saw that. To be fair, he leads and tries to sort basic and systemic problems. Sokratis was braindead to go for that header. However, his own propensity for errors undermines all the good work he has done. His critics are always quick to jump on him.

Notice how quiet they all were about Xhaka after he put in top display against Liverpool. I am not perfect, but I try to be balanced about these things. You cannot defend what he did for the penalty, it was s truly shocking tackle which has upset a lot of the fan base in social media. Not those with an agenda against the player are making hay. This is their moment and it is cowardly some of their attacks on the player.

Football is all about combinations, Torreira was not match fit and the game flew past him. This did not help Xhaka who had to do much more work. When Ceballis came on, he had the sort of space, the Liverpool midfield snuffed out of him and he made a huge difference. With Poch ordering his midfield to get tight on Ceballos, Xhaka got space to play and he improved.

But the fact remains, in that game Guendouzi performance had a huge reliance on Xhaka covering his advanced attacking forays. It is what midfield play is all about - combinations.

In Torreira, Guendouzi, Xhaka, Willock and Ceballos, we have options and all sorts of combinations. Only time will tell if this is a good thing or bad thing for Emery.

[Waffiman]

They paid 72 Million Pounds for this Ivorian guy....Are you guys kidding me????

Arsenal has been took, they have been had, bamboozled, led astray, run amok...

I watched this guy for the first time yesterday vS TOT, he reminded of African players from the 90's.... Lots energy and running, no real football sence.

It says a lot about you to jump to this conclusion about a player who has only played very little in the league.

If you have watched Pepe play, the one thing he has is football sense or intelligence. Don't talk out of ignorance.

[jdizzy]

They paid 72 Million Pounds for this Ivorian guy....Are you guys kidding me????

Arsenal has been took, they have been had, bamboozled, led astray, run amok...

I watched this guy for the first time yesterday vS TOT, he reminded of African players from the 90's.... Lots energy and running, no real football sence.

It says a lot about you to jump to this conclusion about a player who has only played very little in the league.

If you have watched Pepe play, the one thing he has is football sense or intelligence. Don't talk out of ignorance.

I'm just collecting screenshots of all these Pepe doubters. Wait till he settles in and scores his first goal. I have no doubt that the dude will light up the league

[Nkume]

Pepe will come good.

Arsenal cannot have a scared coach.

No one wants Mumustafi, Arsenal's most expensive defender.

[txj]

Details again. This team is about getting the simple things right.

Playing with our hearts not our heads and derailment once more. That first half, our players went gun-ho, lost the plot completely.

We go all out for the goal. Spurs hit a long ball, Sokratis goes fishing for a first header he can’t win, no cover for next phase of play, two Spurs on to the loose ball, it leads to a shot on goal. Leno should push it out for a corner, he makes a terrible mistake and they have a goal.

Xhaka, falls for a sucker punch. Spurs know, they play for it because he is the only person on the pitch, you can frustrate to make that type of idiotic mistake. He has not had a breather, he was closed down and harassed in that midfield. But Guendouzi was having the finest game of his Arsenal career. The game many of us saw coming from his debut around this time last year. Guendouzi, Willock and Ceballos now means Xhaka's place in the team is not cast in stone anymore.

Today, I came to the conclusion that we can only eradicate the sort of stupidity is to get players with calm heads and maturity to play with their heads. To this end, we need a dominant CD and CM in the air. The irony is Mustafi is the one CD who is very good in the air.
//
One reason we got Leno for £24m is his tendency to make mistakes. Last season, he made the most mistakes (5) leading to goals. The much maligned Xhaka and Mustafi made 2 such mistakes. Leno will be a world class goalie if he eliminates his errors. He has time.

But we saw today my gripe about balance in your squad. Mikh prefers to play right side, so when we lost Laca, with Iwobi sold, there was no left sided attacker. Today we saw the folly of the decision to sell Iwobi. It was a problem today, and will be a problem for the rest of the season.

For all the blame Xhaka gets today he actually saw the first goal coming....if una observe well he motioned Sokratis to go back before that lomng ball was played and what did yam head do he came forward and actually jumped for the sameball as Xhaka !!! it was brain less...then he starts to run back half heartedly and did not see Ericsson ..seriously that is our defensive lead

I saw that. To be fair, he leads and tries to sort basic and systemic problems. Sokratis was braindead to go for that header. However, his own propensity for errors undermines all the good work he has done. His critics are always quick to jump on him.

Notice how quiet they all were about Xhaka after he put in top display against Liverpool. I am not perfect, but I try to be balanced about these things. You cannot defend what he did for the penalty, it was s truly shocking tackle which has upset a lot of the fan base in social media. Not those with an agenda against the player are making hay. This is their moment and it is cowardly some of their attacks on the player.

Football is all about combinations, Torreira was not match fit and the game flew past him. This did not help Xhaka who had to do much more work. When Ceballis came on, he had the sort of space, the Liverpool midfield snuffed out of him and he made a huge difference. With Poch ordering his midfield to get tight on Ceballos, Xhaka got space to play and he improved.

But the fact remains, in that game Guendouzi performance had a huge reliance on Xhaka covering his advanced attacking forays. It is what midfield play is all about - combinations.

In Torreira, Guendouzi, Xhaka, Willock and Ceballos, we have options and all sorts of combinations. Only time will tell if this is a good thing or bad thing for Emery.

Problem is that either Emery never seems to have clarity about his ideas, or Xhaka is a lost cause.

The four CMs you list are essentially box-2-box MFs. Xhaka needs to sacrifice his game for the team.

All day, his positioning was never in reference to his MF partners or the space behind them.

What an absolute stupid display!!!!!

For anyone to come here and defend him is frankly idiotic!

[tolahs]

What happened to Ozil? Zero minutes in 2019 ... He should have joined Sanchez at Inter Milan.

Ozil for a game that was going to be fast passed and end to end?

He wasn't missed.

You guys are aware Alexis went to Inter w/o a loan fee paid & ManU pays 300k of his 400k weekly wages. Ceba was struggling 15/20mins in, was he injured?
Ozil had to be held back after the riobbery incident but i think against a tiring Spurs side like today with 30mins to go, he's a far superior passer than anyone we'd on the subs bench!!!

You would have rather had Ozil than Ceballos? Based on what really? Got 2 be sentiments, becuz clearly neither the numbers, the body of work in critical games or the eye test optics support your point here. Just saying IMHO.

Optics is a moot point cos Ozil hasn't featured this season. His pre-season was good.
The sentiment point is wishful thinking. I saw how Georginio Wijnaldum shut Dani down @anfield - that was possible cos Dani holds on to the ball too long - when you take that away from him, he struggles. Think Cesc, Rosicky - i don't know if he can add that to his game soon enough cos if not he'll struggle vs the top 6.
Gooners are projecting way beyond the kids skillset - dribbling ain't zilch if we aren't getting end products. When teams set up in numbers to defend, you gotta penetrate via pace or/& pass.
Irony's you're the geezer holding last season against dude.
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I ain't a Paul Merson fan but he has a point here:
"Unai Emery has missed a trick with a midfield player. The only solution I see would be to play the front three with Mesut Ozil in the hole behind them and have two holding in front of the back four. The four attackers can get on with scoring goals and then the rest can try and keep them out at the other end"

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[tolahs]

They paid 72 Million Pounds for this Ivorian guy....Are you guys kidding me????

Arsenal has been took, they have been had, bamboozled, led astray, run amok...

I watched this guy for the first time yesterday vS TOT, he reminded of African players from the 90's.... Lots energy and running, no real football sence.

It says a lot about you to jump to this conclusion about a player who has only played very little in the league.

If you have watched Pepe play, the one thing he has is football sense or intelligence. Don't talk out of ignorance.

I'm just collecting screenshots of all these Pepe doubters. Wait till he settles in and scores his first goal. I have no doubt that the dude will light up the league

3 matches in & the wannabe editor of a yet to be named Footie_mag is showing us his selling pts. He thinks Pepe's a bust.