That was a great read and supports how I’ve been feeling about Emery.
Just out of interest, who are the 5 world class players in Chelsea’s 11?
I’d honestly only argue Hazard is, maybe Kepa? I think that twitter dude was being a bit to generous in his praise of Chelsea’s quality in the XI
I’d say Kante too. Though he’s being played out of position this season so isn’t always able to show that. Then I don’t necessarily agree with it, but he might also be including Alonso – he was in a lot of people’s team of the season last year.
Kantè aswell. Only him and Hazard imo
A lot of people rate Dave as world class so probably him too
Good things Emery has done -
i) clear signs of coaching. Cutbacks vs Chelsea = wide build up, ball into depth, underlapping run + cutback, Auba near post decoy run. Structured attacks, non-existent for 22 yrs. Monreal goal v West Ham similar, several goals.
iiiii) added key fundamentals that were non existent for 22 yrs like organisation in and out of poss (org. vs counter) wo compromising on the ‘Arsenal way’. Scoring 3/4 goals most home games.
…to make full use of his final thrd efficiency. Mustafi/Sokratis/Holding etc all limited CBs in their own ways? Let’s play more of them (1 more) so more cover for their mistakes (sweeper), responsible for less space to minimise opportunities for errors. Check.
The last thing is bullshit. Arsenal defenders are still very exposed at the back. Even with three at the back. If anything Emery hasn’t succeeded in protecting his defenders.
Why the hate for Wenger first 13 years? If anything Arsenal was very structered and had strong fundamentals and a very good organisation. Cutbacks are our only game plan. If that doesn’t work we got nothing. Arsenal has become somewhat of a light version of any random Spanish team without decent execution. If there was an Arsenal way, Emery has thrown it away (which is fair enough he should coach how he wants too).
With all due respect mate but this thread consists of some proper BS.
Not sure I’d be delving too much into that guy’s Twitter feed. Had a quick look around and he seems to have some ahem troubling views on the role of race in soccer.
Doesn’t mean his analysis of the stuff on the pitch isn’t good
The exaggeration in the thread in beyond logic. His narration would make you feel we were a mid-table club over the last 2 decades and the Messiah Emery has come, lifted us from obscurity and made us into a side that is challenging status quo for the first time.
I was expecting a lot more out of him TBH, especially in the defensive third all considering the reputation he came in with, but all he has achieved so far is a repeat of last season (our worst in over 24 years) and the table is a good indicator. We have conceded the most amount of goals amongst the current top 6, at the same stage last season we had conceded 2 less. We have only 4 clean sheets this season and 0 away from home, only Fulham has fewer. On the away table we sit 18th. Chances conceded, shots on goal, chances created, we’re worse off than last season and this after we spent 60million on defensive reinforcements.
I don’t agree with everything in the thread. But there are elements of it that I think have gone unnoticed an under appreciated and sometimes we have to understand it takes a while to implement your methods and Emery has not been given a fraction of the backing his peers have (Pep, Klopp, Sarri and Jose pre-sacking) were all given hundreds of millions and time to get things right so those writing Emery off at such an early stage could do with some perspective.
Maybe some of the points are good, but I have to disagree with some.
Like the logic for the 3 at the back. Maybe the theory sounds good. And he did dress it up so that it made perfect sense.
But in practice, what it did was just add another shit defender to get in the way and confuse the morons at the back for us.
See Kolasinac bottling the ball right at Lichtsteiner for Forming to score Vs Liverpool, Kolasinac and Leno’s stupidity Vs United etc etc
So it was pretty obvious that the Tottenham game aside, the formation was a disaster. But to persist with it for that long is not a plus point for Emery for sure.
This is probably the only just point from the thread 
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As some said, let’s have some perspective. Arsenal being good at home or creating chances isn’t an Emery thing. We were pretty good that already. Plus, let’s not act like he is coaching Fulham. He’s got some absolute gems in here. Up to him to get the best out of them. The issue most noted from Arsene’s latter years is that he didn’t get the most out of his players (which I disagree but whatevs) and that his tactics were past it.
To add to that, we may have dropped from competing in the league but we have definitely created sone good rep in cup competitions under Arsene till he left.
Anyway, personally I’m not asking for much from Emery. I don’t even care if he doesn’t win some silverware or fails to make it to CL football again. All I want is to watch The Arsenal that I enjoy, look forward to watch and see that there is some kind of promising direction. So far, no good. Still time to make up for it though.
yo u seem to be chucking a lot of shit emerys way. You want Emery to make things enjoyable for you to watch again, there have been enjoyable matches but that is not good enough for you you seem to be make feeble excuses to justify your stance. I reckon if we played like peak Barca you would be saying ‘yes we play some decent stuff but we did with wenger to all i want is’…and move the goalposts to another perceived weakness.
Sorry to hurt some feelings in here. My best interests are with Arsenal, don’t get confused. Hate changing managers like shirts but appointing the wrong manager and staying with him isn’t a viable option either.
Some facts, most here would demolish Unai if he fails to get us back to CL football or winning at least the FA Cup. I wouldn’t, granted that the team shows potential and direction.
In the first season with this squad and all the injuries and problems, it is a bonus if they are expecting huge things in 1 season from a new manager with only 1 transfer period with the huge problems at the club and everything going on in the background then i suggest those fans are fucking mugs for going overboard and throwing the baby out with the bathwater if they are demanding such things so quick. It would be nice to achieve these things yes but it shouldn’t be a sackable offense at this point in time. Everyone is lauding klopp as an excellent manager and he did fuck all in his first season with liverpool with an arguably better squad.
Something that hasn’t happened yet can’t be a fact.
Don’t you support like three teams?
I can’t really take you seriously when one of your recent posts was about how we should’ve appointed Blanc or Ancelotti instead…
How is that up for ridicule.
How is the argument that we should’ve appointed Blanc instead of Emery up for ridicule?