Jodera:
To me I feel it's the reverse. This squad is poor in quality but have a better attitude compared to their Walcott set.
What killed this squad is quality.

No great Am and weak midfield
No great winger(don't call me Pepe yet please and saka is still too young for the year round hutsle)
No great cf. Declining auba and limited Laca

I'll just say our back is okayy or slightly on par with previous arsenal team.

To me, the lack of quality is glaring but at least the attitude is a bit better

Na true sha, No much quality Auba's attitude alone is super terrible.

Roland17:
It looks like clear-out is serious this time and has commenced.

Luiz is leaving
According to DiMarzio, and Fabrizo, Willian does not want to return and is 100% set to leave Arsenal.
Xhaka has commenced negotiations with AS Roma, A Bundesliga is also interested but he looks set to join Mourinho at Roma.

May the spirit of this clear-out not be a smokescreen

Na this kind news I wan dey hear ....

But Arterta may want to stop the transfers o

Spy360:

Nagelsmann has gone to Bayern.

Zidane, Conte, Alegri, and Low will not join Arsenal without significant investment. These are no Wengers.

Gatusso, Martinez, Poch and Nuno are no better than Arteta.

100% my point.

I disagree on Nuno not better tham Arterta sha

daveP:


With the atmosphere around Emirates, even a Pa Ancelotti would struggle. No bite, drive or edge. We are in the Robotic football days though. I twale for managers that gives players freedom to act outside the box cos its unbearable.


Justified that Emery got his sack for not being able to do something in the league. He did take us to the final, didn't he? That wasn't bad for any post-wenger season.

I want to see how Pep and Klopp will dominate England with Litchtener, Luiz, Sokratis,Mustafi,Kolasinac, Mhicky etc.

I'm still on my stance, the so called big mangers are not finding the Arsenal job attractive ...only youth corpers like Arterta can.

daveP:



I totally agree that the board wanted reaping where they never even viewed as farming land.


I hated the signing that came in under him. Fact was even if it was two top signings that they got him, it would have shifted blame enough to Emery.


However he lost it with all those crappy tactics he was employing. Who recall the match Guendozi was expecting Xhaka or so to tackle an opponent that just dispossessed Guen??!!

The board extended their greed to Emery. Its been there all Wenger days.


60-40 is the ratio of blame for Board and Emery.

I'm glad you understood me
I mean Emery can never be so daft to prefer Litchtener, Luiz and Sokratis to the Maguire, V.dijk and Laporte of this world... In fact he said he wanted Maguire..

Also no matter how Guendozi impressed me, I knew deep down he was supposed to be understudying the likes of Parteys in midfield from the bench, I'm sure Emery can't have Partey and play Guen...in fact he wanted Partey that year...

There was a Pepe and Zaha saga too.
Unai Emery:

� “We signed Pepe. I favoured someone who knew the league. Zaha won games on his own: Tottenham, Man City, us. Incredible performances. I told them: ‘This is the player I want.’ I met Zaha and he wanted to come, but the club decided Pepe was one for the future."

See how Utd fans are all on Ole, he had the backing of the board yet failed to win against an average side in Spain. To me, the blame is justified.

Like you said, They took the greed to Emery, for me they are doing that with Arterta...Arterta got his issue too, but he isn't backed the way he should of the target is top4 and UCL..

The board knows fans will be excited with a 6/7 games fa cup win.

Watch out how they will cash in on Willock,Guen and Torreira just to balance Party's fees.

This is one of the worst Arsenal sides I have ever witnessed. Not in quality but in attitude, will to win, turn up at important games, motivation etc. etc. There are a few quality players especially in some of the youngsters who are in danger of being overplayed. When results don’t matter we suddenly win 5 meaningless games in a row at the end of the season I will sit and take notice if we win the FIRST 5 games of next season. The sad fact is, we have become a mid table side with a mountain to climb to even get back to our previous default position of top 4 in the EPL. #copied

Attitude and Motivation, another pressing issue I feel can only be solved by flushing half the squad and bringing in energetic and spirited players like the Sanchez and Kantes.

Jodera:


1...I get your point but then you're looking at Emery as a coach that can take a mid table team to champions league. That I felt was your mistake. Arsenal was not a mid table team, we were always top 4 contenders and the board hired him for such, not that the hired him for us to be finishing 6th and 7th while winning Europa.

2... When he came initially, the atmosphere was bright and all. Everyone wanted to play for him. If it later turned sour, maybe he should look at himself also. Bear in mind that he wasn't able to fully control a room with neymar, mbappe and cavani, how much more a volatile personality like ozil.

3... I think he sanctioned the transfer of guen and torreira with sokratis. Maybe aside lichs, but he sanctioned those first 3

4... As for the lackadaisical attitude and mentality, it's the job of the coach to make them winners. Klopp did it when he came to Liverpool. You could see his fighting spirit in the team. I give it to Emery that he started giving them that winner's attitude and improve our mentality, but along the line he lost his way. Reason why our first season ended poorly and his 2nd season was damn so bad.

And as for klopp and guardiola, why they might not win trophies with this present squad, buy one thing is certain, you'll surely see improvement in play and mentality. With those two attributes added, he can then phase them out gradually while bringing his players. Emery didn't reach the stage to phase them out gradually reason why he was axed.

Hope you get my point tho

You still do not get or agree with some of my points and I don't know how to explain further than I've done.

Summarily, My point is Unai Emery has proven he is not a bad manager( with his trophies in Europe and France), good enough to take Arsenal to Europe only if the board were financially ambitious enough, and have players who can fight with blood on the pitch as we've seen with his previous teams... Dazzal

Roland17:


Dem carry DNA wan come celebrate..

It was really some sifia pains for them

Sharp Sharp Chukwueze and Coquelin will play UcL next season niyen o

BTW, Lana1 should please come explain how
Man utd went to Poland with three coaches

Olé solskajaer
Sir Alex Ferguson
Wayne Rooney

And lost to one man

Unai Emery

Jodera:
I dont agree with that bolded one bit at all. Maybe presently but never ever when emery was initially employed.
I mean we just finished 6th the previous season before he was employed and that was once in over 20yrs. How then are we a mid table team or a relegation looking team? Reason we employed Emery to take us back to the top(at least top4) since we saw him as an elite manager and not some mid table manager like Moyes or sort. Emery failed such task in his first season and looked far worse in his 2nd season and you want us to be happy because he took sevilla to b2b2b Europa? Wetin concern us with sevilla?.

Please, we still had hope of having top 4 reason why we employed Emery, he failed in it and that's fact. We left him till the 2nd season and he got worse, thus rightfully deserving the sack. Let us don't paint Emery as if he was one klopp or guardiola that guarantees standard top4 every season.

You don't get me, Arsenal was like relegation threatened teams who often call up on Allardyce to safe them, I only used that simile to buttress why Emery wasn't hired majorly to win the league or UCL but rather take midtable teams back to UCL which I feel he was good enough and could have achieved in a sane environment he proved again yesterday anyways.

You said Emery failed in his first season but if you look deep inward you'll know with the bad Atmosphere he had, he alone shouldn't take the entire blame...

If you consider facts like him having no say on players signings and no backing from the board( Which serious club concentrates on bringing Retirees like Luiz and Litchtener while your rivals were signing the Maguire,V.dijk and Laporte) who allowed players to disrespect mock the coach...

Also, club where every players are mostly insipid and lackadaisical with zero fight of every drop of their sweat and blood...

Bro, The problem is the mentality and atmosphere around the club from the owner to the board to the coaching crew and players even to some of the fans.

I want to see how Pep and Klopp will survive competiting with Luiz,Mustafi,Kolasinac,Litchtener against Laporte,Diaz, V.dijk and Maguire.

Jodera:
You're talking about the good sides, but in reality, it's not the good side that got him sacked. It's the bad side unfortunately.
You seemed to skip my first point. Any coach the loses his dressing room, NO MATTER HOW GOOD(emphasis on the capitalized words), deserves to be sacked. Emery didn't only lose the dressing room, he lost the fans as well. Fans appearance to the stadium dwindled each passing week as well as losing his players. Even a guardiola or klopp can't escape such sack talk more of Emery. The reason Arteta saw out the season even with worse result than Emery was because he never lost the dressing room. So you bringing up his first season positives does no justice to counter his sack if we're been realistic.

Reason why I brought up mourinho man u sack. The moment he lost the dressing room, his 2nd position and trophies of previous seasons counted for nothing. That's the harsh reality of football.

Well, if you say lost dressing room reasons, I have no issues with that.

The truth is pride and Ego will not let many admit some facts, Saying Emey found his level is funny, i mean he has been taking midtable teams to UCL and he has done it again..

Your Arsenal is like a relagation threatened side who needs an Allardyce to take them back up, so Emery is a typical manager to take Arsenal back to UCL( May not win you league or UcL though)..

Emery may not be up to the Pep and Klopp to take your club to the top, but with proper ambitious Owners and players with guts and fire( like we saw in a Villarreal side with no special players as against the bottlers who would disgrace you by losing 4-1 in a cup final), He is good enough to at least patch this yeye club back to Europe either through 4th or Europa.

It is not easy to get rid of bad owners like the Kroenkes and the bad players, but easier with the coach.

I said it that year, no big coach will take this Arsenal job, Allegri rejected it, Ancelloti preferred Everton and Mourinho opted for Tottenham... Klopp and Pep will have their image soil also in this football club, only a youth corper will take the Arsenal job.

I can agree Emery got some things wrong, didn't communicate well, had bad relationship with some players etc but that's not the total package...

My problem with him was sticking and having faith with useless players like Xhaka instead of doing a Conte by stepping down, A Nuno Esperito could have gone to Portugal and get you fresh talents.

Jodera:
Any body talking about how it's wrong to sack Emery have forgotten how bad we really are. Like I said earlier, sacking him isn't wrong, but maybe replacing him with Arteta. It's just like man u fans asking why they sacked mourinho cos of Ole failings.

Seems we've forgotten how Emery was for us, lemme do a little refresher

1... Emery lost the dressing room. Any coach, no matter how good, who loses his dressing room deserves the sack. No two ways about it

2... Who has forgotten Emery countless formations? Today we'll do 3133, tomorrow 3313. Next week 4231, then the next 4312. The players are always confused and he also seem confused too.

3... Who can forget the shots we receive per match? Almost 15+ averagely, if not for the heroics of Leno then, na basket we for dey carry goals weekly.

4.. Against Southampton, lacazette scored the equalizer and made facial expression as if he regretted scoring. Worst part is nobody even met to celebrate with him. That tells you the unhappiness in the camp.
Our grinding machine nko?

Abeg, I detested the last days of Emery era and nobody can convince me otherwise that the board made a wrong decision to sack him. His found his level, kudos to him

Those saying he shouldn't have been sacked may have their points but what I stood/spoke against was scapegoating him all alone for the 2nd season woes.
I mean the useless board, players and even the fans taunting and asking him to play their favorites against his wish had a larger share in the blame, but Arsenal fans want to see the Fc as a big club too big for Europa and Emery only to end up outside everything in Europe.

You listed the bad sides of his tenure while forgetting the good parts, let me also recap the good times he had that could have earned a stay...

Some haven't so forgotten how he finished 5th on 70 points(better than Wenger's last 2 seasons) and was literally 1 win away from from 3rd ( due to many erratic displays from the Xhakas and Mustafis you will hardly see from Villarreal and previous teams he managed) in a season where 1st and 2nd had 99 and 98 points respectively.

Got to the European final and semi final of both domestic cups coupled with a 22games unbeaten all in his first season with a worst squad than we have now..

I mean a manager with previous 3 Europa trophies with orther 7 trophies with PSG in France will never be called a bad manager not worth a job at this present Arsenal.

Going back to an average Villarreal to trump Arsenal and Utd to the 2nd biggest club trophy in Europe and bringing them to the UCL is a clear indicator once again he wasn't the major problem at a club who can't even make euro conference after sacking him.

You sacked a manager who got you to 5th to appoint a manager who has zero coaching experience to get you to 8th and still got knocked out by the sacked manager.

What a Joke Football Club.

What a good ebening for Unai Emery.
Madrid next destination?

Every Emery's final games in Europe has been competitive, with this average Villarreal side, he has stiffed utd to penalties. Is it a coincidence that with Arsenal, it ended a cricket score?
That's the difference when you parade players with zero guts and mentally fit players.

Roland17:


You are even going too far with Liverpool..look, if Spuds sign Rangnick as coach, to God, I go vex well well because that is the person I desperately want as coach.

The spurs side I saw in the 2nd half against Leicester still look very good and competitive. I'm sure they will replace Mourinho and Kane adequately...
I won't be surprised seeing them hit a hot form and sitting comfortably over Arsenal throughout the season on the table...

That's ambition right there.

Ibrahima Konaté to Liverpool, done deal. Medicals already completed days ago. #LFC are gonna trigger €35m release clause in the next days and announce the signing from RB Leipzig. Here we go confirmed. � #LFC

Personal terms agreed since April 23 - contract until June 2026.

If Liverpool begin to compete highly in Bpl and UCL next season, Some people will start saying VAR is favoring them and what have you, This is how you know ambitious team that has set focus success and a team destined for midtable.

Akinbahm:


Baba, calm down, Arsenal don wake up fully see the attackers them don dey gel wella plus Willock dey ball for Newcastle.

Na so you go wake up in relegation zone by November again

I remember how spy want us to judge Arterta on his first full season
And it ended up the worst year ever..

Tbh, I didn't enjoy football this season, except some few games in Europe.

I'm looking forward to a good Euro games in the summer...

I hope Arsenal will grab Nuno and scrap half the squad before next season, else, we dey come back here gidigba to taunt those of you still trusting the yeye process.

Thank God Liverpool kuku qualify

Well, No st Tottenham's day,
.This will cause further pains to Arsenal fans in London, losing out to spurs on European football should taste more bitter..

Maybe this will wake them up to rebuild over the next summer, if not, I wish them more sifia pains next season.

Oloriburuku Football Club.

SodO9:

And he's free

Watch Arsenal dull that package until Spurs or Utd snap him up.

Roland17:


A very serious club would have already made Arteta uncomfortable!
A serious club would have made a serious message by now about the performance of the team this season!!
A serious club would have been shopping around for Arteta’s replacement!!!
A serious club would have started clearing out and thinning out the squad, instead we are hearing a lot of the clowns will be returning next season!!!!

You would think Arsenal finished top 5 with the level of comfort and disquiet in the club about our situation. I have said it before, if we don’t do anything urgently, the decline will become normal and finishing between 7-10 will become an achievement.

Arteta does not deserve another shot at the position. He has not done anything.. You have no idea how frustrated I am with the lack of urgency and the fact that Arteta is still sitting as coach and comfortably telling us about next season.

I watched the game against Palace and it was the same rubbish!

Same way I felt and I'm feeling about this FC.
No seriousness, mediocrity, complacency and nothing exciting worth investing your heart upon.

SodO9:

A serious club should be looking out for serious replacement and Nuno have this Simone kinda of philosophy but I think top manager is what we need.
Allegri, Rodgers, simone

Yes Nuno's got it.

Top managers are mostly scam jare, I don't need media big names

BlueRayDick:


I just dey thank God say mustafi turned down the deal Arteta offered him o.

In order news I just read Nuno Espirito Santo is leaving Wolves by mutual consent. Do u think Arsenal should not be shopping for Arteta's replacement by now?

Nuno has been my preferred coach when Emery left.
Not these youth corpers

Arsenal fans: "Not spending a penny on this club until Kroenke bleeps off"

Also Arsenal fans: "Omgggg look at that away kit�, shut up and take my moneyyyy!!"

Perfect description of Arsenal fans

Jodera:
This crack me up

Happy Sallah bro

Thanks bro

If Arsenal can win remaining games and should Tottenham drop a point, Arsenal will make Europa spot on 7th.

A new management,coach and players can build on this next season, but trust me Arsenal fans will rather be celebrating " We finished ahead of spurs" trophy and " we now have better record against top teams ".

Eid Mubarak.

Kroenke, Arterta and half the squad out!!!

Jodera:
My thoughts..

1... We need an all-rounded prolific striker. A striker that has the mixture of both lacazzete attribute and Aubameyang height and scoring prowess. Raul Jimenez is someone I'm always admiring but his head fracture break, I don't know how back in form he'll be. Also he's 30yrs so the ship has sailed. But I need a striker like that

2... I need Yves Bissouma. I've watched the guy, calm on the ball, aggressive, can give pass and can push attack. Him and partey in that midfield will help push attack from deep and we'll be able to win midfield battles as well as allowing our Am to go join the attack like Bruno Fernandez

3... Attacking midfielder that can both pass and score goals. Tbh, I've not seen any yet but I wish the scout/club can get someone like that. In a nutshell, we need a cazorla type Am.

4... A good right back. Having Tierney in both left and right will be a joy to behold. Seeing chambers there irks me a lot as well as seeing bellerin. Also we need a back up Lb

Sell nketiah, Nelson, Willock, torreira, elneny, bellerin, lacazzette, Niles.
Bring back guendouzi to act as squad options

And above all, If we can get the right coach with respect to this players, then we're good to go.

I agree with everything you put there except bring the Guendozi back to the squad, have you so forgotten he was the main reason Arsenal was declining and every loss or bad performance was his fault according to Kokane?

Now that he's out of the squad, you can see how the team have improved far better than when he was here? Please don't do expensive joke o

Stick to your Xhaka and Ceballos o.

Akinbahm:


I was part of those who wanted Emery out initially after he was sacked I looked at our players nd realized we took the wrong step.

Name five players from Arsenal squad I will give u 1million reason why those players should be on bench not starting line up.

Emery does not need the celebrity players like Ozil,Neymar and Auba in his team, Just give him bunch of hardworking talented players who understands basics, ready to listen( preferably spanish), work and play with passion, then you'll see results.

He is a boss in Spain, taking an average villareal with no recogbinzed super star or big money buy in 7th position to their first European final in history is already an astonishing result for him.

Watch out Madrid/Barca snap him up in the next few years.

mostob:
I agree. They are not good enough. The most notable issue is their weak mentality. I told somebody today that I would have prefer Sanchez to willian.

I read a smart post on Instagram which says " Premier requires talent and Physical fitness, the ESR,Sake and Odegard are too soft for the future".

It's high time Arsenal began to invest in Sanchez like energetic players.