Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - 'We will not be there.' - Pep Fraudiola

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If he was given more time, i think he (Emery) would have made a great job at Arsenal too. it took Arteta years to make Arsenal a competitive team again.
I forgot he was at Psg. Did he win the Ligue 1 there?
Never liked how Emery was mocked and derided at Arsenal. Wenger’s boots were always going to be impossible to fill but he never had a fair shake IMO. I always liked him.

When you see managers at other teams have more time with way more resources, only to do way less, it’s an injustice as to how he was treated.
 

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If he was given more time, i think he (Emery) would have made a great job at Arsenal too. it took Arteta years to make Arsenal a competitive team again.
I forgot he was at Psg. Did he win the Ligue 1 there?

Emery had 18 months to make Arsenal's defence less chaotic. That defence was broken and he didn't fix it at all. Arteta with those same players + Mari and Soares who aren't really upgrades on the players they had already. Made Arsenal's defence/defending more bend but not break and defend more as a unit in those months after he came in.

Yeah Emery is a very good coach but all these OMG if Emery stayed posts what would he of done. Are forgetting the stuff what was happening under his nose when he was there I.e the results vs the teams Arsenal should be beating and the helter-skelter nature of those matches. It was unsustainable and it was his undoing.
 

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what Arteta has done in his first gig as head manager is remarkable tbh. Yeah he did come up under pep and soaked up game from him for years but going from being the understudy to the main man is a huge step especially a big club like Arsenal and he shouldered the responsibility
 

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I hate the revisionist history with Emery’s tenure at Arsenal. He bottled top 4 by losing 3 of the last five matches, whilst having a bad record away from home and we were giving up 20+ shots to relegation teams. His hands were tied with the recruitment but the style of football was stale and pragmatic when we were under pressure in games.
 

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I hate the revisionist history with Emery’s tenure at Arsenal. He bottled top 4 by losing 3 of the last five matches, whilst having a bad record away from home and we were giving up 20+ shots to relegation teams.
Bottling top 4 is nowhere near as bad as Bottling winning the league. :yeshrug:
 

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If Arsenal buys a striker this january and Arteta still doesnt win a big trophy :hubie:
Last season they had no cups no nothing. No reason to lose the league the way they did. I know they lost it to City but City was more focused on the Ucl
We didn’t ‘lose’ it to City, we shot ourselves in the foot. We didn’t need to beat City to win the league.

It would’ve been different if those two games were the deciding factors, but the fact we lost/drew those “winnable” games is unacceptable to me.

I’m always going to get behind the manager but Arteta can’t have any excuses this season.
I dunno if I agree with this, especially if the season after your back to challenging for the league
I’m not mad at finishing 2nd, it’s the manner in which we conceded the title. As I said, he can’t have any excuses this season.
 

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We didn’t lose to City, we shot ourselves in the foot. We didn’t need to beat City to win the league.

It would’ve been different if those two games were the deciding factors, but the fact we lost/drew those “winnable” games is unacceptable to me.

I’m always going to get behind the manager but Arteta can’t have any excuses this season.

I’m not mad at finishing 2nd, it’s the manner in which we conceded the title. As I said, he can’t have any excuses this season.
That fukking Everton defeat. We choked man....we choked
 

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I hate the revisionist history with Emery’s tenure at Arsenal. He bottled top 4 by losing 3 of the last five matches, whilst having a bad record away from home and we were giving up 20+ shots to relegation teams. His hands were tied with the recruitment but the style of football was stale and pragmatic when we were under pressure in games.

That game Vs Watford :scust:Had Tom friggin Cleverley running through our midfield :damn:Scary times.
 
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