Willock should be starting. His energy and box to box abilities are desperately needed.

I'd say we have very good chance of top 4, and we'll contend in the Europa again. It's still only September.

I think we will on what I have seen.

No he shouldn't. Doesn't look strong enough. Xhaka is here to stay in the midfield.

No he shouldn't. Doesn't look strong enough. Xhaka is here to stay in the midfield.

One thing that irked me last night, was that Rashford only got a yellow for that challenge against Sokratis. It had all the markers of a sending off; he came in late, with speed, got none of the ball and had his studs up. Very bad challenge.

First letter is pretty hard to argue with and as mad as it seems I wouldn’t turn down Rogers right now

https://www.football365.com/news/fourth ... -emery-out

Imagine if Aubameyang got a long term injury. We would be so screwed

Indeed.

If I was Aubameyang I'd be looking to move somewhere that deserves his talents for the last few years of his career.

Am I right in saying he is yet to extend his contract?

Let’s see what Pépé is like when he has Bellerin behind him
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Rumour was they agreed the contracts with Aubameyang and Lacazette but they are unsigned

Lacazette was rumoured to be insisting on an exit clause if a champions league club comes in for him.

Hodd,

I notice you are on-line.

I am wondering why Martinelli does not feature in the U23 games. If he isn't getting regular game time in the PL wouldn't it seem sensible to help him continue to acclimatise to english football and maintain his match sharpness in the the u23s?

I stood on the North Bank for many a year and I don't remember anyone outside the ground getting hammered by a wayward football . Pépé would take out the hamburger franchise at the entrance of Arsenal underground .

Now I don't want to be accused of being ultra negative like my offspring Granty Boy ..... but this is what sh**&^ts me about modern football

Pépé our new 70 million pound signing , who has to get his wages loaded on a small truck with a forklift and he puts a goal attempt into Row W .... thirty feet and climbing ...... above the goal

I thought FFS ***%%%% where did you learn to play the game ?

A leaning back Hail Mary .....f***&^ awful technique

I know all the modern young spunk bubbles will say " Give him time he's just bedding in blah blah blah " but on that showing I'd say he got less technique than Eddie Kelly .... Alan Sunderland and Charlie George would run rings around the useless Plank .

I stood on the North Bank for many a year and I don't remember anyone outside the ground getting hammered by a wayward football .

Pépé would take out the hamburger franchise at the entrance of Arsenal underground .

Customs clearance zones eh

Kin hell. No negatives

I'm disgusted mate, but I can't see the EU buying it. Hopefully the opposition get their act together and vote him out. Put Jeremy in and extend again. Then hopefully Labour's offer to the people will come through at a general election but I'm giving up hope in the English populace throwing that lot out.

What I don’t get is why they dont discuss the issue with the Irish PM Leo, brainstorm possible solutions then present a jointly agreed plan to the EU to comply with.

Now I don't want to be accused of being ultra negative like my offspring Granty Boy ..... but this is what sh**&^ts me about modern football

Pépé our new 70 million pound signing , who has to get his wages loaded on a small truck with a forklift and he puts a goal attempt into Row W .... thirty feet and climbing ...... above the goal

I thought FFS ***%%%% where did you learn to play the game ?

A leaning back Hail Mary .....f***&^ awful technique

I know all the modern young spunk bubbles will say " Give him time he's just bedding in blah blah blah " but on that showing I'd say he got less technique than Eddie Kelly .... Alan Sunderland and Charlie George would run rings around the useless Plank .

I stood on the North Bank for many a year and I don't remember anyone outside the ground getting hammered by a wayward football .

Pépé would take out the hamburger franchise at the entrance of Arsenal underground .

It’s appalling

What I don’t get is why they dont discuss the issue with the Irish PM Leo, brainstorm possible solutions then present a jointly agreed plan to the EU to comply with.

It’s just throwing crap at a wall hoping something would stick.

No chance of voting him out he’d win any election right now and many voters in England still believe he’s acting in their interests despite giving that American bint 100k for a shag basically. I’m not saying that girl was a pig but I was speaking to her brother Perky once and he told me that she’s had more balls bounced on her head than Kenny Dalglish.

Whole things a mess

Pépé our new 70 million pound signing , who has to get his wages loaded on a small truck with a forklift and he puts a goal attempt into Row W .... thirty feet and climbing ...... above the goal

I thought FFS ***%%%% where did you learn to play the game ?

A leaning back Hail Mary .....f***&^ awful technique

I know all the modern young spunk bubbles will say " Give him time he's just bedding in blah blah blah ".

I think it is now clear that Emery is not the manager we hoped he would be. If we were proactive we'd be lining up his successor with a view to replacing him asap, even if that is mid-season.

On Pépé I think he’s not performing to the standard we want but he seems to need more direct coaching. He seems isolated and needs to do more running off the ball.

I also don’t think we help him by passing the ball straight at his chest rather than ahead of him.

I’d consider playing him Thursday. He needs to build confidence and dropping him won’t help him even if he is wiping out burgers stands

I wouldn't be surprised if we did just that. It wouldn't cost us much in compensation. Its clearly not working. I think he he is a very conservative manager who doesn't trust creative midfielders. He dropped both Özil and Ramsey last season when we were crying out for some guile. This season Özil is still out in the cold and Ceballos is becoming more peripheral already. The last 15 minutes of last night's game were depressing. We basically played for the draw against the weakest Man Utd team we have faced in decades.

He is isolated. Emery's favourite attacking tactic is to get the ball to the overlapping fullback. Get Özil or Ceballos on the ball in midfield to play through balls for Pépé not bloody kolasinac galloping to the end line.

Who would you replace him with, Dec. That's my only issue.

Hi dec.

Isolation doesn’t account for that shot that cleared the stand, or that underhit pass when Saka could have been away on goal though.

I agree he needs more through balls; that appeared to be his strength in France.

The tactics are puzzling, and makes you wonder why he was bought unless Emery is indeed a caretaker. (Vieira situation?) But surely if you’re a big player, you get yourself involved and start doing things that may, or may not, fit the strategy. If it works, who’d have a go?

As it is, he’s allowing people like me (who know very little about the tictacs of the modern game; I’m just one level up from AG, that’s how bad I am) to add ??????s after his name.