SteveO 35 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 08, 2019 6:20 pm
Those hoping that Freddie would have shit miracles by now will one day understand that Dick needed two whole seasons and four windows to sweep the shit out of the door.
We will never know whether Saliba would have been the answer to his prayers or whether Pepe would have produced the "second season" wizardry that some of our greatest players in history had to wait for after joining from Ligue 1 and initially finding it tough.
Perhaps if the board hadn't let Ramsey and Alexis run their contracts down we might have bagged £100m to rebuild a defence that looks the worst in the league. Maybe if the previous cock hadn't tied our biggest underachiever to a massive £350k per week contract we could have signed three players within that budget
We will see how the next poor incumbent fares when he walks through the door expected to outgun all before him.
The only way we will ever go back to being a CL team again is if it is someone with a completely different mindset who can pull off a Leicester style miracle. We will be consistently outspent by the likes of Wolves and Everton and as we can see in the case of the former we are behind them, and in the case of the latter once they appoint a decent manager and supply him with the funds wasted by Silva it is only a matter of time before they do
One day we will realise that Emery wasn't so bad. I wonder how many managers it will take before that happens
I agree, although inevitably there are some morons out there that are actually started to suggest the same about Wenger - even though it is
because of Wenger that we are years away from being properly competitive again. Several managers will come and go in the next 10-15 years or so but the malaise that set in under that fraud did so much damage that it was impossible for for someone to just come in and repair it within a year or two. It will take an age or someone very special to cleanse us.
I do think it got to the stage where Emery had to go because the players had given up on him. However, I think that says as much, if not more, about the mentality of them than it does about Emery. Apart from a few exceptions, our squad of players are looking more and more like a spoiled, pampered bunch of weaklings.
That's not to say Emery wasnt making mistakes but if the stories of players being ''bored'' by his video analysis are true then who do we blame for that? There is no way of knowing what it was like but maybe it was also that the players would just rather be at home playing their computer games or updating their profiles on social media etc. than studying their opponents? And maybe that's why it bored them?
Also, Emery gets sacked for poor results and performances ... but what about the idiot that signed that berk David Luiz? And spent £72m on a winger when we needed a CM? I very much doubt those were Emery's choices but he was still the one who paid the price.
Quite likely Emery was never the right man for us ... but the position we find ourselves in now is well over 10 years in the making and there is no quick or obvious fix! And I can see it getting worse before it starts to get better because instilling the much needed different mindset like you suggest SteveO, just doesnt appear to be in the clubs thinking.
And until it is and someone acknowledges that Wenger's negative influence needs to be eradicated from every part of the club and takes the necessary steps to do it, then nothing will change.
