I wonder what is his purpose in the team. As he was a good CB, he was supposed to improve our defensive skills, instead our defence has gone completely tits up.
he does nothing and I reckon he will be gone when a new manager comes inā¦just another gutless yes man! He is in Wengerās mold he just sits there chewing gum whilst we concede he looks on like a disgruntled chimp but says nothing never gets animated just scowls.
Wenger has a lot of assistants and everyone looks a prat. Itās like you have a company runs by people who donāt know how to do business.
The way we play he probaly only has 2 players to work with while the rest work on the how to lose the ball without getting hurt side of the gameā¦
Failures on both countsā¦
we all said bould would sort out the defence and give them a bollocking and we would see improvements
well still wait for theses improvements however he cant be blamed for players like gabriel - hes hopeless and BFG is just there for decorations as hes not good enough
When the name Steve Bould is written, it should be prefixed with the words, "what is the point of?ā
I saw his debut for us after he signed from Stoke and he was a great player, and part of the best defence in Europe.
But as Wengerās assistant, Iām not sure what he is getting paid for, apart from keeping Wenger warm on the bench and for him to have someone to talk to.
Bould is just someone who will never challenge Wenger to do better and improve, as ArsƩne wants to do everything by himself.
This thread is filled with pure conjecture. None of us know his role or what goes on behind closed doors.
So this thread has been started to have a go at a long standing club servant who works hard and in order to do his job properly has to coach in the way his manager tells him to?
Iād be alright with that if that criticism wasnāt based on absolutely nothing but ranting. As it is this thread is about nothing.
Must admit Iāve sometimes wondered that myself. Iāve said in the past that Bouldy seems to just sit there looking like heād rather be off doing something else. If he was getting any input at all, youād think this defence wouldnāt be as shaky as it is.
Is it possible weāre projecting on Bould? Yes he was a great defender but do we really have any evidence heās a great defensive coach? Maybe we just really want him to be a great defensive coach because itās a tidy solution to a very long-standing problem.
Also thereāre 10 field players. Itās hard to coach āline for lineā if not impossible. If players upfront or in the midfield make a mistake defenders already need to (over)compensate.
You could well be right, Josh. But surely if thereās one area Bouldy should be proficient in . . .
Maybe he does give input and Emeryās just ignoring it. Thatās another projection if you like, but none of us really knows.
Then he should have left with wenger, because if this is the case wenger apparently didnt listen to him and now emery, but he decided to stay and emery decided to keep him as staff so i dont think it is that because everyone else was cleared outā¦i think bould isnt really very good.
Having seemingly been ignored by both Wenger and now Emery, you have to wonder why Bould is still here. Maybe that does point to his ānot being very goodā, but then if that were the case, heād have been booted long ago.
I know if it were me in Bouldās position, Iād have told them to go fuck themselves long ago. No doubt though, heās got a well-paid cushy number, probably a fat pension on the end of it and thinks āfuck it, Iāll look semi-interested and take the moneyā.
Canāt blame him in a way. Outside of Arsenal thereās probably nothing out there for him.
Plenty of projection there, I suppose.
I donāt necessarily buy the idea that Bould being a good defender in the late 80s early 90s means heās somehow a great defensive coach in the late 2010s.
If it was as simple as that every decent club would have an ex defender sorting their defence out.
I also donāt buy the idea that two managers have insisted on keeping him around and ignoring what he says. I imagine heās probably just been coaching as a coach does and probably not making a huge mark on how we play.
Saying that though havenāt we been pretty good defensively at set pieces this year?
Moved the posts from Emery thread into here. Figured it was probably about time to reopen this thread up again, seeing as thereās a few posts mentioning Bould and seems fair to talk about his position and what his actual contribution to the situation is now.
Isnāt he supposed to improve our defence? Being a former CB he should do it.
Think unfortunately mate good players donāt always make good coaches so we donāt really know what kind of quality he possesses as a coach. What we do know is that whatever it is he does do - it doesnāt appear to have made much of a difference.