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Klaus wrote:
jones wrote:

Also the next coach has to be a fucking dictator. Unacceptable from damn near everyone

You almost want us to appoint Felix Magath, horrible though he is, just to give these assholes a proper shock. Remember that story about how Wolfsburg was on preseason in Austria and he cancelled training and told them he'd take them out for coffee and cake? He just failed to mention that the café was at the top of a mountain and they had to run the whole way. Several players broke down and cried, Grafite puked himself unconscious and had to be picked up by an ambulance, and Magath was running the whole way behind them to make sure no one escaped.

His first demand at Fulham was that they'd build him a pyramid platform in concrete that he could stand on top of and look down on the players every training.

I was actually thinking of that vermin when I wrote the post. His methods were borderline aggravated assault like when he had his squad of 30 run like 5km up a hill and keep only 20 bottles of water ready at the top. Doesn't sound like the most inappropriate approach to reach some of these fuckers.

Can't blame the players, they think the coach is a joke don't believe in his methods and his lineup sends out the wrong message. Pepe was playing into form and he dropped him in the last 2 matches. Its hilarious.

I honestly thought we will win, because no matter how bad we are Southampton is worse and we are at home. I knew even a win won't appease anyone, but now we have no results and no performance to go win. Outshot, outperformed at home against one of the worst teams in the league in dire form. They should have scored 5 or 6 goals, we snatched a draw from the death. It's fucking terrible

Özil and Bellerín must be the only players to have capped for Arsenal in the champions league. Manager aside,
I am looking for keenness on the pitch to succeed at any cost.

Hassenhuttl saying they were the only team playing after the 70th minute.
Humiliating.
Edit: he also said that they could have scored 4 or 5 goals.
This is unacceptable

AAStyle- wrote:

Hassenhuttl saying they were the only team playing after the 70th minute.
Humiliating.
Edit: he also said that they could have scores 4 or 5 goals.
This is unacceptable

Not surprised. Most opponents treat us as joke and can get at us

We have played deep away from home for quite a long time now, certainly for the last couple of seasons of Wenger's reign and for longer than that at clubs with as much quality as Leicester have.

Demarai Gray obviously hasn't been paying attention.

Ricky1985 wrote:

We have played deep away from home for quite a long time now, certainly for the last couple of seasons of Wenger's reign and for longer than that at clubs with as much quality as Leicester have.

Demarai Gray obviously hasn't been paying attention.

Exactly. More than just the last couple of seasons of Wenger's reign. Certainly as far back as when we brought in Mertesacker.

Clrnc hasn't been paying attention, either, or else he would have disregarded it.

Emery saying that we have played our best 20 minutes of the season at the start of the 2nd half.
I am speechless

Actually that was our best 20 minutes of the season

You’re forgetting how shit all the other games have been

deardevil wrote:
Ricky1985 wrote:

We have played deep away from home for quite a long time now, certainly for the last couple of seasons of Wenger's reign and for longer than that at clubs with as much quality as Leicester have.

Demarai Gray obviously hasn't been paying attention.

Exactly. More than just the last couple of seasons of Wenger's reign. Certainly as far back as when we brought in Mertesacker.

Clrnc hasn't been paying attention, either, or else he would have disregarded it.

We're even deeper now though. I used to moan back then about how we conceded 15 yards of space and Arteta dropped so far back sometimes that he was a third centreback, but this is something else entirely. Emery has the whole bloody team sitting, at home, against opponents that are playing marginally better than Derby did in their legendary shithouse season.

I don't think we played too badly, but just like Emery lucked out at the beginning of his tenure with a string of wins that won him time, he has seemingly run out of luck and results are now worse than our performances would suggest.

The team's morale is destroyed and unfortunately the coach needs to step aside for the squad to heal and regain some belief. 5 matches in a row without a win in the league will do that to you if your other performances have been unconvincing.

Ricky1985 wrote:

We have played deep away from home for quite a long time now, certainly for the last couple of seasons of Wenger's reign and for longer than that at clubs with as much quality as Leicester have.

Demarai Gray obviously hasn't been paying attention.

We only sat deep against big teams after we got thrashed time and time again, and against teams away from home after we took the lead. 

These days we setup deep, compact from the get go without any ambitions. It's very different 

I don't blame Emery for the results over the past few weeks, the players are clearly taking the piss now and he's lost the dressing room. A lot of these guys need to take a hard look at themselves.

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

Actually that was our best 20 minutes of the season

You’re forgetting how shit all the other games have been

Funnily enough that early second half was decent. We had territory. We seemed to connect passes. It did, however, have a pick-up feel about the attacking with no discernible patterns. And then as usual it fell apart. And we finished the game chaotically.

I agree (funny that you play well when playing your best formation and players), the pen killed us. But Emery is long beyond the point of taking positives from games

Clrnc wrote:

Can't blame the players, they think the coach is a joke don't believe in his methods and his lineup sends out the wrong message. Pepe was playing into form and he dropped him in the last 2 matches. Its hilarious.

I honestly thought we will win, because no matter how bad we are Southampton is worse and we are at home. I knew even a win won't appease anyone, but now we have no results and no performance to go win. Outshot, outperformed at home against one of the worst teams in the league in dire form. They should have scored 5 or 6 goals, we snatched a draw from the death. It's fucking terrible

Of course you can. That the manager doesn't do his job doesn't give the players an excuse to not do theirs. It may not look like it, but Emery is actually trying his best, which is more than can be said about some of the players.

@[deleted] I've seen some who want to give him the rest of the season I guess, but those have been more about the availability of alternatives than believing Emery deserves it.

Aside from Ozil allowing his head to drop in the last 15 mins and a shocking performance from Sok, I didn’t think the players were bad today on an individual level, they certainly worked hard.

I wasn't talking about today in particular to be fair, it was one of our better matches I guess.

goon wrote:

Aside from Ozil allowing his head to drop in the last 15 mins and a shocking performance from Sok, I didn’t think the players were bad today on an individual level, they certainly worked hard.

I have to admit. In the 20+ years I have watched us play. I have never come away with the impression that the players didn't try or care. Yet, I've read this about our performances more times than I care to count. Shit house analysis, I'd say.

RC8 wrote:

I don't think we played too badly, but just like Emery lucked out at the beginning of his tenure with a string of wins that won him time, he has seemingly run out of luck and results are now worse than our performances would suggest.

😆
They had 21 shots to our 12, and while Pepe should have a goal and an assist to his name, we were lucky not to concede a 3rd goal.