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Spy360:
He has been decent when playing that role. And it remains a viable option for the coach to explore. With a lack of proper DMs I expect that option to have been tried by now.

Spy360:
How?

Did you watch our last match and noticed how Torriera became more effective the moment Guen came in?

Spy360:
Of what value is our match against City compared to Liege?
Between each, which is more winnable?

Bros it makes a whole lot of sense. EL is our more probable route to CL next season, you don't want to battle opponents now that are direct competition. Not at this period when we are struggling.

We have two matches between now and weekend, we could win one easily and also lose one easily. Why not focus on the one we can easily win and make it certain. Rather than on the one we can't win and end up losing both.

Ljungberg will still be here if he wins Liege and loses to City. But if he loses to Liege, he may not be manager against City. Sense things.

Roland17:
Thoughts about Torreira's performance today? A dominant performance and I think he was our best player even before the goals started coming..

kokaneprodigy:
I’ve always rated himself and Saka those are the guys I was expecting Emery to propel

Roland17:
I dey tell you!!! Make I hear say that boy siddon for bench again!

BlueRayDick:
Ozil has made it difficult for all the 3 men upfront to do anything meaningful in this game. It's frustrating seeing him stroll about the pitch when Martineli is running here and there trying to win the ball and push attacks.

I have to agree that Ozil is spent. He should go to German league or any other farmers league abeg.

Jencejyde:
Seems Freddie has now grown some balls and call it as it is. Auba is best in the middle full stop. If there will be a substitution in this game, i would look to take off Ozil and replace him with Laca. Laca should be able to play in the hole as his upper body strength allows him to be the most efficient player with back to goal. All i want is a good performance especially off the ball organization. If the players on this team list have shown fight and understanding with good attitude in training, then they deserve to be there. I'm not really bothered about if they lose, but i want to see significant progress in our defensive organization without the ball. A game is only lost when you concede. We are definitely nowhere near what the Old Arsenal teams used to be but this new team can build gradually and it needs to start first with good organization. Players need to be held responsible for their roles and they must understand what their jobs are on the pitch. One of Toreira or Xhaka must curtail any ehthusiasm to join the attack , that person must never be ahead of the front three/ four cos his job and primary responsibility is to shield the back four. No attack must get to the back four from midfield without going through that person except they go through the wings.

Lets hope for a better showing today.

BlueRayDick:
Are u seriously pinning this on somebody else other than Emery?

Even OGS wey be noob coach sef was bold enough to handover captainship to Maguire in the absence of their captain. Wo forget, emery na just one yeye human manager

Keky:
Emery wanted a midfielder reinforcement and a good CB. He knew our weak points. He got a winger, no midfielder and an old CB. This shows that the club isn't run properly.

Spy360:
I am not with you on this. There is absolutely no excuse whatsoever. Wenger became obsolete, but Emery was shitt. If Emery had continued, we would be taking guns and other ammunitions to defend Emirates. Wenger in all his deterioration, never led us to this extent where we dropped to 11th and being scared of facing Newcastle away. Wenger was a come back lord, he would have found a temporal solution to get us back again.

Keky:
Fkhalifa

BlueRayDick:
I don't know how u will take this, but lemme apologize before hand in case u are offended by dis.

Honestly what u write up here is typical of what a Buhari supporter would write. Jonathan has been ousted for over 4 years and Buhari has taken the reins of power determined to steer the ship of the nation toward economic growth and development. However each time people ask Buhari for the better life he promised, he looks back and points at Jonathan for doing irreparable damage to the economy. Even when people tend to take Buhari up on the fact tgag some things that were better under Jonathan are getting worse under him, he still finds a way to link it to Jonathan (of course without him doing anything to improve the situation)

That is exactly what u did with Wenger and Emery up there. Wenger already got the boot. He was asked to go for not being able to win the coveted trophies the club has been mocked to lack in recent times, he took his L and moved on. The club looked at Emery's CV and passed him the job thinking he will do better than his predecessor ( they didn't even think sef, they expected him to do better). Why? Because He's shown he can win cups in modern day football. He's done that with sevilla and Psg. He said he was okay with the players at his disposal, he was not known to show disdain for any player other than ozil....He was ready to work with everyone else.

Now bàbà has failed woefully, he's not just failed to win the major cups, he lost the smaller ones wenger would've given us as consolation and he played a drab uninspiring style of football while doing that. Emery was 4cking expected to be an improvement of Wenger, not a worse version.

Chelsea sacked Sarri for how he played and almost didn't make the top 4, so far Lampard has looked like an improved version. That's what Emery was expected to be not posting winless streak upandan.

This post will not be complete without saying thunder fire sir Good Ebening

kokaneprodigy:
which of his signings have been able to replace the so called deadwoods reliably. Which of his signings have been exceptional?

kokaneprodigy:
Emery is the reason we are where we are. Emery had one job build on what Wenger has done strengthen it and what did he do he scattered everything with his hands.

You will agree we had one of the best attacks and midfield in the league during Wenger. The weakness was defence. Emery came in and all areas suddenly became abysmal and u want to blame only the players.

kokaneprodigy:
I agree with the first paragraph and strongly disagree with the second.

kokaneprodigy:
it won’t help their development, they’ll chop beating sotey they’ll be traumatised. They’ll loathe the manager for putting them in line of fire trust me their confidence will wither. No EPL team can play a youth dominated team in in the league and get anywhere.

kokaneprodigy:
At some point we saw potential in Ox, Wilshere, Walcott, Chamak, etc potential is what it is “potential”

kokaneprodigy:
This is speculative at best.
By the way the players you claimed turned out good. Were they playing in a team predominantly youth or were transitioned into the senior team till they could earn their place.?

kokaneprodigy:
The way yall keep sounding like the young guys will all turn out good is extreme optimism. Wenger is one of the best in nurturing young talents out there and not all players under his tutelage turned out good.

Stop stating as fact what u ain’t sure will happen, it’s a gamble and will forever be a gamble.