Dont come back to me and tell we were better than last season because we are closer to top 4.

We are closer to top 4 this because other teams around us were equally inept.

comment by Admiral Ozil is my new favourite Star Wars character (U10178)
posted 4 minutes ago
Personally I would give the manager two seasons before laying judgement on him. We can all agree our defence is a shambles. Knowing that we spent the grand total of 10 million quid on it if you exclude the goalkeeper. I'm sorry in this day and age that just isn't going to cut Emery can't turn water into wine. We've got a defence that isn't fit for purpose. In public of course Emery is going to back them but in private I bet he's thinking God I wish I could replace the lot of them. It's got to be small steps we cant keep conceding three goals and expect to win matches. I'm sure the first thing that will be on Emery's mind all summer is how can I get them to defend better and unless he gets help from above he might as well not bother worrying about it because there is no one else who could do better with them.
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It's not £10M though. We bought Torreira whom is a DM so should be counted part of the defence.
Also we knew the issues we had defensively even before the January window and all the board did was arguing over few millions for Suarez. We were not linked at any given moment with a defensive player so what makes you think this is actually in Emery's mind?

Litchsteiner - joke

Guendouzi - talented but shouldn't be not good enough to be starting

Toreirra - started of well but has tailed off. Has made no difference to our defence

Leno - not great at defending high balls but has been the best of Emery signings

I think people are underestimating the mess left behind by the hapless Wenger, Wenger didn't get into the top 4 last season or the season before that.

In fact we have been on an overall incremental decline for a decade under Wenger.
That wasn't all Wenger's fault to begin with because the stadium starved us of cash - but to expect ANY Manager to sort out his continual balls-up's in recruitment and weak team mentality in one season is unrealistic.

comment by PowerkingHenry27 (U18930)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Castor Troy (U8700)
posted 6 minutes ago
I wanted Wenger out but not going to use him to make excuses for Emery lack of planning in away games
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These players aren’t gd enough to implement it!!!.
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Fine. So what is it? What is Emery trying to implement because from here, no one can tell

comment by ItsAboutTheBackFour (U9916)
posted 1 minute ago
I think people are underestimating the mess left behind by the hapless Wenger, Wenger didn't get into the top 4 last season or the season before that.

In fact we have been on an overall incremental decline for a decade under Wenger.
That wasn't all Wenger's fault to begin with because the stadium starved us of cash - but to expect ANY Manager to sort out his continual balls-up's in recruitment and weak team mentality in one season is unrealistic.
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We were in decline in Wenger last two seasons. Prior to that he kept us in top 4 and won 3 trophies

I’ve said all season that our underlying stats under Emery are appalling. The football is horrendous. Most of our away defeats last season under Wenger were unfortunate. Games where we were dominating but being hit with sucker punches. Our underlying stats were quite good last season. That being said, Wenger still had to go. However, Emery is not the answer.

There's a losers mentality instilled at the club from top to bottom, which has come from years of poor management. If you thought Emery would come in and fix it in 1 season then you were always going to be disappointed.
Next season is the big test, more of his own players in, more deadwood hopefully gone. If we're still the same this time next year then he will be gone at the end of his contract.

comment by 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 Emery.....if I speak about him, I'm in trouble 🇫🇷 🇫🇷🇫🇷 (U10012)
posted 2 seconds ago
comment by PowerkingHenry27 (U18930)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Castor Troy (U8700)
posted 6 minutes ago
I wanted Wenger out but not going to use him to make excuses for Emery lack of planning in away games
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These players aren’t gd enough to implement it!!!.
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Fine. So what is it? What is Emery trying to implement because from here, no one can tell
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He obviously had a game plan, we sat back and let Leicester have the ball first half in hope of licking them off on the counter with Auba and laca. Individuals do not understand what they’re doing hence the constant mistakes that have cost us. You cannot prepare for invidual horrendous errors. Kolasinac trying to play offside when 3 of his players were behind him is a clear lack of understanding from an individual. Mustafi consistently diving in rash, is Mustafis fault not Emerys. These players are beyond coaching, they’re just not gd enough. All I’m saying, let Emery assemble his squad then let’s judge properly.

Nicking off*

The game plan has gone from back 3 to back 4, high press, playing from the back to trying to play counter attack and eliminating the press

A star showed that none of our players have played 30 games because of all the tinkering

Emery is trying too much

Tbh I'm struggling to disagree with this article. Compare our home form with our away form and you'd say we were two completely different sides. It's Emery's job to sort that mentality out and make changes were he thinks we might lack. He has failed and thus top 4 is pretty much done and dusted.

He now has one big window to get rid of the mentally weak dross and to turn it round. I can't see how he'll get the required finances and the quality needed.

Luckily we look a different beast at Europe and Emery has obviously given priority to Europa so we'll see what we can do here. But he's not doing himself any favours with his coaching of the players, his tactics and formations.

Won't be surprised if this joke form filters into the europa games

Valencia is our biggest test in Europe by mile. Plenty were bigging up Napoli but for me either one of the Spanish teams were a bigger threat.

Need a solid win with a clean sheet. Have to treat the two legs as the final.

Spanish teams in international cups are always tough to play.

comment by PowerkingHenry27 (U18930)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 Emery.....if I speak about him, I'm in trouble 🇫🇷 🇫🇷🇫🇷 (U10012)
posted 2 seconds ago
comment by PowerkingHenry27 (U18930)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Castor Troy (U8700)
posted 6 minutes ago
I wanted Wenger out but not going to use him to make excuses for Emery lack of planning in away games
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These players aren’t gd enough to implement it!!!.
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Fine. So what is it? What is Emery trying to implement because from here, no one can tell
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He obviously had a game plan, we sat back and let Leicester have the ball first half in hope of licking them off on the counter with Auba and laca. Individuals do not understand what they’re doing hence the constant mistakes that have cost us. You cannot prepare for invidual horrendous errors. Kolasinac trying to play offside when 3 of his players were behind him is a clear lack of understanding from an individual. Mustafi consistently diving in rash, is Mustafis fault not Emerys. These players are beyond coaching, they’re just not gd enough. All I’m saying, let Emery assemble his squad then let’s judge properly.
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You are talking utterly c.rap since Emery himself said in his post match presser that he wanted us to control and dictate the game but the sent off killed us.
And before you said the AMN sent off was the reason, we had 20% possessions until he left the pitch

There's a weak mentality among the players but let's face it, there is also one among coaches and manager.
The last 3 games we were set like a bottom 3 team facing a prime Barcelona. Gave too much respect to Wolves, Palace and Leicester

" there is also one among coaches and manager. "

Utter nonsense. Have you seen his CV or are you being willfully blind?

It's very obvious to anyone that has a clue the issues stem from player quality as it's often individual mistakes that create issues. Emery has to take a lot of the blame since it's his formations and tactics but don't pretend this bunch if players are better than 6th place because they're not.

Emery has no choice but to play bottlers like Mustafi, Kolasinac, Xhaka, Iwobi because he literally has no choice.

You're forgetting your favourite Wenger was miles off top 4 at this stage last year or have you conveniently forgot that as well?

comment by 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 Emery.....if I speak about him, I'm in trouble 🇫🇷 🇫🇷🇫🇷 (U10012)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by PowerkingHenry27 (U18930)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 Emery.....if I speak about him, I'm in trouble 🇫🇷 🇫🇷🇫🇷 (U10012)
posted 2 seconds ago
comment by PowerkingHenry27 (U18930)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Castor Troy (U8700)
posted 6 minutes ago
I wanted Wenger out but not going to use him to make excuses for Emery lack of planning in away games
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These players aren’t gd enough to implement it!!!.
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Fine. So what is it? What is Emery trying to implement because from here, no one can tell
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He obviously had a game plan, we sat back and let Leicester have the ball first half in hope of licking them off on the counter with Auba and laca. Individuals do not understand what they’re doing hence the constant mistakes that have cost us. You cannot prepare for invidual horrendous errors. Kolasinac trying to play offside when 3 of his players were behind him is a clear lack of understanding from an individual. Mustafi consistently diving in rash, is Mustafis fault not Emerys. These players are beyond coaching, they’re just not gd enough. All I’m saying, let Emery assemble his squad then let’s judge properly.
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You are talking utterly c.rap since Emery himself said in his post match presser that he wanted us to control and dictate the game but the sent off killed us.
And before you said the AMN sent off was the reason, we had 20% possessions until he left the pitch
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We played deep you m ug, looking for the counter. Look how we were set up, laca and Auba both in our own half. I said nothing bout AMN 20% possession. Must be another poster!.

Emery has badly screwed up the last 3 games, but when you take over a manager for the last 22 years whose weak mentality, habits and lack of hunger to truly compete at the top filters to the players for the past decade, it is going to take more than one season to turn it around.

I am not saying people should not have reservations with Emery, even I have my doubts, but let's be real here guys. Literally any other manager would be suffering the same issues Emery has had.

This squad, and their psychological wellbeing when the going gets tough, is far worse than a lot of people on here expected. It is the old guard who keep letting us down, just like they did the previous season or two.

IF Emery is backed during the Summer, and that is a big if, but we are still performing like this next season, then I will firmly be in the Emery Out camp.

But there's only so much he can do with a squad who have displayed these major deficiencies well before this season.

Samir is spot on.

Wenger won away once last season in 2018. And people are wondering why our away form is poor

Emery has to take a lot of blame and yeah perhaps we haven't improved, but don't act like the issues didn't stem from Wengers mismanagement during his decline.

Seebs? Did you watch the game? Did you see how we were setup? Are you feckin telling me that was a positive tactic by the manager? Or should I remind you of the back 5 at home to Palace?
You can blame Wenger as much as you want and rightly so. But don't feckin tell me Emery has bawls. We were in 3rd position 2 weeks ago. That line up at Palace was the beginning of the end.
One more thing before I go, Wenger got sacked (again rightly so) for results like this.
And it was also clear from beginning of April that he put all his eggs into the Europa so the total points tally doesn't tell the whole story

comment by Serial WUManiser™© - #Bercow4PM (U1410)
posted 34 seconds ago
Samir is spot on.

Wenger won away once last season in 2018. And people are wondering why our away form is poor

Emery has to take a lot of blame and yeah perhaps we haven't improved, but don't act like the issues didn't stem from Wengers mismanagement during his decline.
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Emery won none, absolutely none in his last season with Sevilla

comment by Serial WUManiser™© - #Bercow4PM (U1410)
posted 2 minutes ago
Samir is spot on.

Wenger won away once last season in 2018. And people are wondering why our away form is poor

Emery has to take a lot of blame and yeah perhaps we haven't improved, but don't act like the issues didn't stem from Wengers mismanagement during his decline.
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Fack me Wenger last season was shocking but should that be the barometer to judge Emery with?

Talk about lowering expectations