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Ronwol196061
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Vucking Varsenal!
slartibartfast
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Fkin Alan Smith talking utter fkin bollox just before Norwich scored 2nd. FL has got them playing better lol, wtf are you watching mate? You were drawing 1.1 to one of the weakest teams on the league and only not losing due to a dodgy pen retake.
That Arsenal defence is a shambles.
Love it of Norwich win. Love it.
That Arsenal defence is a shambles.
Love it of Norwich win. Love it.
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Gb160
Well done boys. Good process
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erm...
mark87
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That's a slow stream
slartibartfast
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Typo lol.
VegasII
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dudu
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I just don't get their midfield either, no balance to it whatsoever.
CantSmileWithoutYou
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Feel the force...
slartibartfast
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Think they keep getting the old Jedi mind trick every transfer window.
'We're interested in him.'
Agent. 'These arent the defensive players you're looking for.'
'Oh.. ok.. carry on.'
rez9000
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He's only on a two-year contract, with around 17 or 18 months left. Even with an enormous wage, it won't cost that much to get him out from under it.
Long article in the Telegraph about the malaise behind the scenes. Paywalled but the intro paints the picture
Of the four men who were in the room when Unai Emery delivered the now-famous presentation that won him the Arsenal job, only one remains. Ivan Gazidis, Sven Mislintat and now Emery himself have all left the building, meaning that Raul Sanllehi is the last man standing and the final remnant of Gazidis’ great post-Wenger masterplan.
Sanllehi, Arsenal’s head of football, could be forgiven for wondering how this all came to pass. Eighteen months down the line, the team that appointed Emery has been deconstructed and rebuilt around him, with new faces and new titles. There is no chief executive, no head of recruitment, no head of football relations.
What does the turnover in senior figures say about the effectiveness of Gazidis’ strategy to cope with Arsene Wenger’s departure? What does it say about Gazidis himself, the chief executive who set the train in motion but then disembarked at the first stop, joining AC Milan within a few months of Emery’s arrival?
www.telegraph.co.uk
Of the four men who were in the room when Unai Emery delivered the now-famous presentation that won him the Arsenal job, only one remains. Ivan Gazidis, Sven Mislintat and now Emery himself have all left the building, meaning that Raul Sanllehi is the last man standing and the final remnant of Gazidis’ great post-Wenger masterplan.
Sanllehi, Arsenal’s head of football, could be forgiven for wondering how this all came to pass. Eighteen months down the line, the team that appointed Emery has been deconstructed and rebuilt around him, with new faces and new titles. There is no chief executive, no head of recruitment, no head of football relations.
What does the turnover in senior figures say about the effectiveness of Gazidis’ strategy to cope with Arsene Wenger’s departure? What does it say about Gazidis himself, the chief executive who set the train in motion but then disembarked at the first stop, joining AC Milan within a few months of Emery’s arrival?
Picking next Arsenal manager will define future of the club - and Raul Sanllehi
Of the four men who were in the room when Unai Emery delivered the now-famous presentation that won him the Arsenal job, only one remains.
www.telegraph.co.uk
hellava_tough
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Long article in the Telegraph about the malaise behind the scenes. Paywalled but the intro paints the picture
Of the four men who were in the room when Unai Emery delivered the now-famous presentation that won him the Arsenal job, only one remains. Ivan Gazidis, Sven Mislintat and now Emery himself have all left the building, meaning that Raul Sanllehi is the last man standing and the final remnant of Gazidis’ great post-Wenger masterplan.
Sanllehi, Arsenal’s head of football, could be forgiven for wondering how this all came to pass. Eighteen months down the line, the team that appointed Emery has been deconstructed and rebuilt around him, with new faces and new titles. There is no chief executive, no head of recruitment, no head of football relations.
What does the turnover in senior figures say about the effectiveness of Gazidis’ strategy to cope with Arsene Wenger’s departure? What does it say about Gazidis himself, the chief executive who set the train in motion but then disembarked at the first stop, joining AC Milan within a few months of Emery’s arrival?
Picking next Arsenal manager will define future of the club - and Raul Sanllehi
Of the four men who were in the room when Unai Emery delivered the now-famous presentation that won him the Arsenal job, only one remains.
Do you know what the article goes on to say?
They're a bit of a mess right now, plus the money they spent in the transfer window is in instalments, so I don't actually think they have that much to spend.
Here's the rest. Hopefully I don't get bollocked -
More pressing, perhaps, is what it all means for Sanllehi and Edu as Arsenal begin to sift through a long-list of potential candidates to replace the sacked Emery. Sanllehi was part of the selection team which chose Emery last year, sitting on that three-man panel with Gazidis and Mislintat, the since-departed recruitment guru. He is back at the same drawing board again, except this time the ultimate responsibility will lie with him.
The pressure is on, for Sanllehi and for Edu. They will know better than anyone that Arsenal’s next managerial appointment will shape the club’s future, determining their financial strength in the long-term and the prospects of their most valuable players in the short. Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang want to be playing Champions League football, and it is no coincidence that their contract negotiations have slowed to a halt as Arsenal have floundered on the pitch.
What kind of club do Arsenal want to be? They certainly do not want to be a team which churns through a different manager every season. Their training ground may be just over the road from Watford’s but, in ideological terms, the sides could not be further apart.
Arsenal want a long-term strategy, a plan to build for a successful future in a financially sustainable way. Just look at their transfer business in the most recent window: excluding David Luiz, their signings this summer had an average age of less than 21. They are plotting, constructing, moulding something new out of the ashes of Wenger’s club.
Emery was supposed to be the safe pair of hands who would guide the first team through phase one. The problem, to adapt that old Mike Tyson phrase, is that everyone has a plan until you get outclassed by Southampton at home. Emery lost the faith of the supporters, the players and, finally, his bosses. By the end, Sanllehi, Edu and managing director Vinai Venkatesham barely had a choice.
Well, they have a choice to make now. Venkatesham will help, as will director of football operations Huss Fahmy, but it is Sanllehi and Edu who will make this next appointment happen, choosing between the experienced older heads like Carlo Ancelotti, who can steer the team back to normality, or the young bucks like Mikel Arteta, who carry a greater risk but also a much greater potential reward.
A tantalising middle ground is represented by Mauricio Pochettino. The chances of convincing the former Tottenham Hotspur manager to come on board, however, are slim to say the least.
Then again, the same was said about Arsenal’s hopes of signing Nicolas Pepe from Lille this season. Sanllehi, all Catalan charm and charisma, put his contacts book to use and made it happen. It is not totally unreasonable to imagine him doing so again. Those Arsenal supporters who lionised him in the summer, nicknaming him ‘Don Raul’ in tribute, would certainly enjoy another opportunity to hail him as the world’s greatest negotiator.
All that gushing praise in the transfer window made Sanllehi uncomfortable. At one point he was even mobbed by delirious fans before a match. The former Barcelona director has been in football long enough to know that the adulation only lasts as long as the team is performing well and, true to form, the grumbles in recent weeks have been turned towards the executives as well as Emery. It would not be a stretch to say Sanllehi’s reputation is on the line, as well as Arsenal’s future, when it comes to this next managerial appointment.
It is similar for Edu, if a little less extreme. The former Arsenal midfielder only returned to the club this summer and his role is as much about constructing the playing squad as it is about cherry-picking coaches. A more intriguing time for Edu will be the upcoming transfer windows, when he has a chance to address the imbalances in the team and, perhaps most crucially of all, the complete mess that is Arsenal’s midfield.
Edu knows Freddie Ljungberg, too, having been a fellow ‘Invincible’ during their playing careers together in north London. Ljungberg will have an opportunity to press his claims over a series of winnable games before Christmas. On Sunday they travel to Norwich, where Ljungberg will be expected to win. Brighton, West Ham United and Standard Liege are next on the fixture list.
Arsenal certainly have the players capable of taking 12 points from these four matches and, should Ljungberg succeed in lifting the mood, it will be hard not to draw parallels with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s first few months at Manchester United.
The clamour to give Solskjaer the job on a permanent basis ultimately proved too loud to ignore for United. Sanllehi and Edu could feasibly find themselves in a similar situation. Their decision, when it comes to it, will be one of the most important in the club’s modern history.
More pressing, perhaps, is what it all means for Sanllehi and Edu as Arsenal begin to sift through a long-list of potential candidates to replace the sacked Emery. Sanllehi was part of the selection team which chose Emery last year, sitting on that three-man panel with Gazidis and Mislintat, the since-departed recruitment guru. He is back at the same drawing board again, except this time the ultimate responsibility will lie with him.
The pressure is on, for Sanllehi and for Edu. They will know better than anyone that Arsenal’s next managerial appointment will shape the club’s future, determining their financial strength in the long-term and the prospects of their most valuable players in the short. Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang want to be playing Champions League football, and it is no coincidence that their contract negotiations have slowed to a halt as Arsenal have floundered on the pitch.
What kind of club do Arsenal want to be? They certainly do not want to be a team which churns through a different manager every season. Their training ground may be just over the road from Watford’s but, in ideological terms, the sides could not be further apart.
Arsenal want a long-term strategy, a plan to build for a successful future in a financially sustainable way. Just look at their transfer business in the most recent window: excluding David Luiz, their signings this summer had an average age of less than 21. They are plotting, constructing, moulding something new out of the ashes of Wenger’s club.
Emery was supposed to be the safe pair of hands who would guide the first team through phase one. The problem, to adapt that old Mike Tyson phrase, is that everyone has a plan until you get outclassed by Southampton at home. Emery lost the faith of the supporters, the players and, finally, his bosses. By the end, Sanllehi, Edu and managing director Vinai Venkatesham barely had a choice.
Well, they have a choice to make now. Venkatesham will help, as will director of football operations Huss Fahmy, but it is Sanllehi and Edu who will make this next appointment happen, choosing between the experienced older heads like Carlo Ancelotti, who can steer the team back to normality, or the young bucks like Mikel Arteta, who carry a greater risk but also a much greater potential reward.
A tantalising middle ground is represented by Mauricio Pochettino. The chances of convincing the former Tottenham Hotspur manager to come on board, however, are slim to say the least.
Then again, the same was said about Arsenal’s hopes of signing Nicolas Pepe from Lille this season. Sanllehi, all Catalan charm and charisma, put his contacts book to use and made it happen. It is not totally unreasonable to imagine him doing so again. Those Arsenal supporters who lionised him in the summer, nicknaming him ‘Don Raul’ in tribute, would certainly enjoy another opportunity to hail him as the world’s greatest negotiator.
All that gushing praise in the transfer window made Sanllehi uncomfortable. At one point he was even mobbed by delirious fans before a match. The former Barcelona director has been in football long enough to know that the adulation only lasts as long as the team is performing well and, true to form, the grumbles in recent weeks have been turned towards the executives as well as Emery. It would not be a stretch to say Sanllehi’s reputation is on the line, as well as Arsenal’s future, when it comes to this next managerial appointment.
It is similar for Edu, if a little less extreme. The former Arsenal midfielder only returned to the club this summer and his role is as much about constructing the playing squad as it is about cherry-picking coaches. A more intriguing time for Edu will be the upcoming transfer windows, when he has a chance to address the imbalances in the team and, perhaps most crucially of all, the complete mess that is Arsenal’s midfield.
Edu knows Freddie Ljungberg, too, having been a fellow ‘Invincible’ during their playing careers together in north London. Ljungberg will have an opportunity to press his claims over a series of winnable games before Christmas. On Sunday they travel to Norwich, where Ljungberg will be expected to win. Brighton, West Ham United and Standard Liege are next on the fixture list.
Arsenal certainly have the players capable of taking 12 points from these four matches and, should Ljungberg succeed in lifting the mood, it will be hard not to draw parallels with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s first few months at Manchester United.
The clamour to give Solskjaer the job on a permanent basis ultimately proved too loud to ignore for United. Sanllehi and Edu could feasibly find themselves in a similar situation. Their decision, when it comes to it, will be one of the most important in the club’s modern history.
punkisback
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Their board has too many people pulling in different directions. This was their downfall and it all started with getting rid of Dein
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