who was filling up Mesut's Porsche in front of us.
He was extremely insistent that Ozil is going nowhere.
Asked if he meant until the summer, and he said "no, after that too, we stay, we stay!"
:shrug:
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who was filling up Mesut's Porsche in front of us.
He was extremely insistent that Ozil is going nowhere.
Asked if he meant until the summer, and he said "no, after that too, we stay, we stay!"
:shrug:
I must say, I've not often seen cousins who look so similar to each other :rubchin:
https://www.afa.net/the-stand/cultur...-19th-century/
Martin Samuel made this point on the Sunday morning journos thingy. When he was in the team he was regularly criticised for not working hard enough and disappearing in big games. Now that he's out of the team he's pretty achieved Maradonna/Pele status amongst a certain cross-section of the support. :hehe:
Personally, I think a chap being paid 350k a week to play football for the Arsenal should be able to find it within himself to play as the manager asks him to play. :nod:
Alienating our two best players, playing three different systems in each game, failing to choose the correct first Xl and consistently having to change it at half-time; looked at in the plain light of day, these things are truly damning, but clearly he had some success with Sevilla, and once must imaging he actually passed his coaching badges, so we can only wait patiently to see whether there is some masterplan hidden amongst what at first glance looks like rank incompetence.
He should definitely be given time before conclusions are drawn, including hopefully a couple of transfer windows with backing. So far some interim assessments have been sketched, and the shape of those are somewhat disappoint and underwhelm.
Results have been slightly better in the league this season compared to last but performances have not been much better overall, and the football is even harder to watch - to the point that I really enjoyed the weekend without us in the 5th round.
If it is his 'tactical' decision to leave Mezut Öut of a team playing this dull and lifeless 5-0-5, and not give him the chance of a run of games that might help his form then ... meh. On the other hand he has inherited an unbalanced squad and lost three important players for the season.
let us not forget
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Having reflected on the Bate game I believe there’s been a massive over reaction.
Sh*t happens.
Cech is useless, Mustafi is hot garbage, Kos is all washed up (yeah he was stunning vs Chelsea but they showed with no strikers), Lacazette was unlucky as I saw no connection between his elbow and the lad’s face, Mhkitaryan’s time is up and Suarez or Willock should start ahead of him, the pitch was desperate and let’s be fair they’ve won their league 13 years on the bounce...they are no ones mugs imo
There’s also some history here...they crushed Bayern 3-1 in the Champions league a few years back only for Bayern to go on and win the tournament so hopefully we’ll have a similar wake up call although given our defence and no away goals I wouldn’t exactly call it a certainty.
Oh come on Dutch ffs.
"I am appalled at what he has done to the football club".
He has a massive job of rebuilding to do and it would appear from the outside to be one where frictions and issues within the club hierarchy are not helping. In his short period the man who employed him has walked as has another man who made up the 3 man panel to select him.
The club as an entity is in a bit of a fúcking mess and to be honest given some of the injuries he is dealing with he has done a sterling job to have us even in contention for 4th which we are.
The Ozil situation is a mess and probably one of his making. The Ramsey one less so.
I take all you have said about the lack or apparent absence of a plan and will agree with you, but it is so early in his management to be setting off flares of alarm just yet.
Patience is key here as we have probably another 12 months before we know if he is looking like a succesful appointment or not.
The club is in a bit of a mess, I agree, and that's far from his fault. What I object to is the utter bóllocks we are seeing on the pitch most games. I'd rather watch MK Dons than us at the moment - and within recent memory, even when we weren't winning trophies, we were the hot ticket in town. People wanted to watch The Arsenal. People admired the way The Arsenal played football. Now the way The Arsenal play football is like Stoke without the fighting spirit. I repeat, I don't know yet if that's because he's a rubbish coach or because he is destroying to rebuild, but he has ruined the way we play and that offends me.
to be honest, sc, that stopped about 5 years ago.
Yes we scored the ocassional wonder-goal but we haven't played 'sexy football' for years.
The club level passes at work were always for entertaining customers; and from about 5 seasons ago we could not give the fúckers away. We still can't. And, there are regularly empty seats (including some of ours) around us.
The only time there is any demand for them is when we play both Manchester clubs, Liverpool, Chelsea and them. And maybe West Ham.
IUFG "to be honest, sc, that stopped about 5 years ago.
Yes we scored the occasional wonder-goal but we haven't played 'sexy football' for years."
:nod:
That
(Apart from your spelling of the word 'occasional' which I have now corrected