Unai Emery

[algy]

We look devoid of confidence and toothless.  Unai will sort it out I’m sure.

I think the lack of confidence is a huge problem.  I'd suspect the summer has been really disruptive for us, with numerous key players not knowing whether they'll be at the club or not (Watkins, Martinez, Ramsey, ..), and it's just destroyed any morale we had.

I'm confident that given a bit of time, we'll get back to ourselves. That starts with not conceeding goals, I think, so the point against Everton is a good start there.  The games in the rest of September and in early October (Brentford A, Sunderland A, Bologna H, Fulham H, Feyenoord A, Burnley H) will be key IMO.  Get in to ourstride in that and we'll be alright.  Don't, and there'll be some big question marks over whether we should stick or twist.

[Pete3206]

Stick.

[Brend'Watkins]

What was worked on during the 2 weeks break?

Not Throw ins quite clearly.

[Ads]

Emery: "We have to improve offensively as we are not scoring goals, but with this point, I am happy. We are building the team and getting confidence and getting emotions together. This point is necessary to keep going."

What do you think he means when he says, "getting emotions together". Group wanks on a biscuit?

He's got everyone on strings and knows he can bullshit as much he wants and get away with it.

3 years in and he has a team of players he's worked with for much of that time playing like they've never clapped eyes on each other before, and showing no signs of correcting it.  Sorry, but hes got to go

Oh do fuck off

[PaulWinch again]

Unai doesn’t need to go, that’s just dense. He does need to make some changes though, it’s remarkable how insipid we have been. We’ve been so incoherent as an attacking side - we have to be more dynamic and take more risk.

[cdbearsfan]

Anyone who thinks Emery should go is clearly an imbecile.

Evidence for above argument:

Only one person on here seems to think Emery should go.

The person in question is an imbecile.

I suppose it's possible that there is an entire clique of anti-Emery intellectualism existing in a subculture of smoke filled cafes, offline. But I can only judge on the evidence provided.

[JUAN PABLO]

Is this the first time in his managerial career that things have been a bit shit?

arsenal missed out on the chmps league when they should have done it and they lost a cup final , season after arsenal went utter shit and he got the boot.

[Drummond]

Back in 2013/14, Sevilla lost 3 games and drew 2 times in the opening 5 games (L, D, D, L, L). They finished the season 5th in LaLiga and as Europa League winners. Their 1st win of the season came on 25 September.

[JUAN PABLO]

nypan looks good  damn

[RamboandBruno]

Sigh. I’ll caveat all of this by admitting I didn’t see the game today. Was actually in Liverpool, navigating the madness (parking, heavy lifting) and sadness  of moving my daughter into uni. However, Ive seen every other game this season.
Its fairly obvious we’ve had
1. A shit start to the season
2. The football is the most stunted since Emery took over.
3. We’ve had a disrupted pre season.

But any even hints on sticking or twisting even in a few weeks is madness. We’ve had 5 shite in a row games after 3 years of mainly highs, the bloke deserves loyalty and trust.
There is also a bit of building narrative across some threads about this run coming on the back of poor form last season. FA cup SF aside as a shit let down, our results for the final third of the season was near enough league winning form punctuated by the shit man utd result at the end.

I think he’s trying to fix the defence and this is combined with only belatedly being able to add Elliot and to a lesser extent Sancho to the squad, so relying on limited Beundia and a badly out of form Rogers. All resulting in tepid attacking displays.

I think playing Mings and Konsa and losing Pau’s creativity is fine, if you got a midfield breaking the lines and width with pace.

Anyway, Im pretty convinced it will come. A scrappy off the arse fluke will get us off the mark and will drive on from there. 

[KevinGage]

We were obv open to offers for Watkins, Emi, Rogers and poss even McGinn.

Everton made a bid for the latter, and clubs don't normally go that far unless (a) they ascertain that the player may be available and (b) the player himself is open to the offer.

That's four of our key players who we've effectively confirmed we are not mad to keep on board.
So it's a bit mental to say after Sep 1 -when we haven't moved them on - that actually we love you and you are part of our long term plans. Who would honestly believe that shit.

Under Smith, Gerrard and Emery for the first half of his stint with us, a big part of our recruitment seemed to be based on improving our squad but -crucially- also keeping our better players onside with the quality of incoming arrivals.

You'd imagine we'd want to keep Douglas Luiz, Emi and Kamara onside, and TF deals were done - at least in part -with that in mind.

But when you sell Luiz and try to move on Emi, that's less of a concern.

It's also an issue that the President of Football Operations is an Emery pick. Meaning that any scheming between the higher ups doesn't afford Emery plausible deniability. The four key players we were open to moving on + the players we actually moved on were agreed by Emery. All the playing staff know this.

So he can't play the distant head coach role who just tries to make the best of the squad he's inherited.

[Nunkin1965]

Emery: "We have to improve offensively as we are not scoring goals, but with this point, I am happy. We are building the team and getting confidence and getting emotions together. This point is necessary to keep going."

What do you think he means when he says, "getting emotions together". Group wanks on a biscuit?

He's got everyone on strings and knows he can bullshit as much he wants and get away with it.

3 years in and he has a team of players he's worked with for much of that time playing like they've never clapped eyes on each other before, and showing no signs of correcting it.  Sorry, but hes got to go

Sorry,  wrong again BC.
You're the one that has to go.
Unai has enough credit in the bank to sort things out and I'm confident he will.

[LeonW]

We were obv open to offers for Watkins, Emi, Rogers and poss even McGinn.

Everton made a bid for the latter, and clubs don't normally go that far unless (a) they ascertain that the player may be available and (b) the player himself is open to the offer.

That's four of our key players who we've effectively confirmed we are not mad to keep on board.
So it's a bit mental to say after Sep 1 -when we haven't moved them on - that actually we love you and you are part of our long term plans. Who would honestly believe that shit.

I think there might be something in this, even if the circumstances per individual are different.

[Goldie.7]

Emery: "We have to improve offensively as we are not scoring goals, but with this point, I am happy. We are building the team and getting confidence and getting emotions together. This point is necessary to keep going."

What do you think he means when he says, "getting emotions together". Group wanks on a biscuit?

He's got everyone on strings and knows he can bullshit as much he wants and get away with it.

3 years in and he has a team of players he's worked with for much of that time playing like they've never clapped eyes on each other before, and showing no signs of correcting it.  Sorry, but hes got to go

Sorry,  wrong again BC.
You're the one that has to go.
Unai has enough credit in the bank to sort things out and I'm confident he will.

Yeah, the credit is around 6 more league matches and 3 of those are spuds, city and pool.

We are actually fucked.

[ROBBO]

Emi made a statement with his performance, a couple of great saves that kept us in it. The turmoil doesn't seem to have affected him.