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OFFICIAL: Unai Emery is new Arsenal Manager

speedy

I hope Emery and mert will start working on player responsibility.

We've often just waited for our key player to make a difference. From as long back as cesc. Ferguson's whole game plan was to intercept the one-two return ball to cesc and that would nullify us. I can't remember if it was Carrick who admitted that after. Because our players always just looked for him again. We need a team of players who take responsibility to make things happen and defend.

Players are spoiled and generally as dumb as they come lads. With personal assistants and club assistants and agents taking care of every little thing for them. And we somehow expect them to take responsibility on the field?

Pep has foden managing the U'7s(or maybe the u'9s) to learn tactics but also to learn responsibility. He's in charge of that team and needs to take responsibility for decisions. Learn to communicate. That responsibility is going to improve him as a player.

lorddulaarsenal

Amazing what a change can do. I feel energised and am looking forward to next season. The transfer window will excite with it being an unknown quantity. It will be exciting to see how we shape up. A demoralised Liverpool with early season fixture congestion, a somewhat stale spurs having the hurdle of settling into a new home, third season Mourinho syndrome.

Let’s be having ya next season

Anzac

goon wrote:
Personally I think our biggest flaw has been off the ball. The lack of consistant, quality pressing or organisation and discipline in its absence. Too often we ended up with half hearted pressing that didn’t work and it made us disorganised in the process. The discipline from players was appalling to boot. To many lapses, too many players leaving it to others. There’s ways to counter not having proper defensive players on the pitch, it will still cost you from time to time, but not as frequently and effortlessly as it did for us.

The general rule of thumb has been that if you play a high defensive line and/or push high into the opposition half, that you need to play a high pressing game otherwise you leave yourself open on the counter. Too often we saw 1 pass from the opposition cut out 5 - 8 of our players before they even leave their half.
Likewise when we look to provide cover we don't ever get into position to actually defend from behind the ball, and we only look to get into position to provide a passing option if we recover possession.

Bold Tone

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

That vid came out days ago Sir!

Bold Tone

I know but posted it to serve as a "bookmark" of sorts.
If it's already been posted, then i can delete it.

Clrnc

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/may/26/unai-emery-wanted-to-light-fire-inside-us-arsenal-marco-andreolli

Nice account of a former player under Emery at Sevilla. I like the motivator part, many top tacticians are not good man manager and motivator.

y va marquer

Unai looks a little garynevillesque doesn’t he?
:john:

Klaus

Yeah, the Neville resemblance is a potential issue.

The hairline worries me too, but I feel comfortable that we can get a few years out of it.

jones

The man is 46 cut him some slack. Also wash your mouth out comparing our manager to a filthy sewage rodent

mags

Nah, not a GN lookalike.
No way!
Too much class in that face.
A touch of nobility, if you will!

y va marquer

What is Unai Emery missing as a coach?

I’m 46 years old. I have to continue on my path and progress. I am also learning and maturing. I am very fond of self-criticism. I still have a long way to go. Doing my best to manage the bad moments and defeats. I was less animated at PSG, that’s true. But tomorrow, if I want to be more animated, be myself, and transmit something. When I see Pep and Cholo, they move around a lot and I like that. At the time, Jorge Valdano and Del Bosque criticised me for that. They spoke to me about that. I was more neutral at PSG because I understood that it was favourable.

And of course, winning is normal at PSG, which results in you relaxing a bit more. I have to develop my ideas on the game a bit more. I love studying tactics. Looking for ways to get the team to play better. For us to play with less fear, and without the handbrake. I think that certain PSG players have progressed with me. Most notably, Kimpembe and Rabiot. Even if certain players don’t value that, I think that I did good work at PSG, even though our match against Barcelona killed us.

Our trajectory is a process, filled with positive moments, titles won, a style of play, and other elements. Negative ones too like our games against Barcelona and Real Madrid. I feel like a coach who is still in the works because I am experiencing this period of learning, making mistakes, and correcting. What I have learned is that you need to be ready to use all these means and experiences to prevent anything from slowing your project down.

Nobody is perfect, and it is not always necessary to look forward to advance. Sometimes, you can advance while looking back, learning and correcting. Sometimes, you need to do what Guardiola did when he got rid of Deco, Ronaldinho, and Ibrahimovic. Afterwards, Zlatan and his agent got into an argument with Pep? Ok, but they got rid of him, and and they got rid of the obstacle preventing them from completing their masterpiece. Pep is a coach who makes masterpieces. What am I missing? Making my masterpieces, real masterpieces. And making them my own.

Not sure if this has been posted before, full interview here

http://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2018/unai-emery-what-am-i-missing-making-my-masterpieces-real-masterpieces-and-making-them-my-own/

Tam

I was hoping Wenger took the handbrake with him.

The more I read about Emery the happier I am with him.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Zidane just resigned. Maybe we should U-turn on Unai?

Mirth

Nah, keep Unai and replace him with Zidane when we're back in the CL.

goon

Zidane would be a horrible fit for us. He'd have been great for someone like PSG.

Clrnc

Tactically Zidane is great with a team of quality, we will be good for him if we get back into the UCL when Emery does all the good ground work.

Or maybe this is the time for Zidane to rest and take a smaller team to prove his credentials more.

But he is leaving Madrid, being the first manager to not lose a single KO stage match, and never to have NOT won the UCL to leave. Also the first manager not sacked by Fiorentino Perez ever. 😆

Fingers crossed Wenger takes over them. He deserves this chance

Mirth

Zidane's in exactly the same position Pep was in at the start of the decade. If he's smart he'll go to a club like Juventus or Bayern, win a few more titles and after that no one will really be able to be overly critical of him him even if he does fail later on.

Gurgen

I don't think Zidane can deal with the crap we have at the club. At Real he had so much quality at his disposal, players he can relate to. I just can't imagine that a footballer who reached that level would have the patience and ability to explain the basics to no-hopers like Mustafi and Xhaka.

Klaus

I don't think he has the patience for team-building on this level either. It takes a different type of manager.

Zidane's great though. Real has played better football under him than under both Ancelotti and Mourinho. He'll probably get the Juventus job next summer.

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