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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #13395 on: December 12, 2025, 11:21:35 AM »
Conference league comparison.

Qualifiers
W (Burnley Away)
L (Liverpool away)

Group Stage
W (Chelsea away)
D (Wolves away)
W (Luton home)
W (Fulham home)
W (Tottenham away)
W (Brentford away)

Knockouts
R16
L (Spurs home)
D (Spam away)

QF
W (Arse away)
W (Bournemouth home)

SF
L (Brighton away)
D (Liverpool home).

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #13396 on: December 12, 2025, 11:25:41 AM »
Hopefully two real quality loans in like last January will give us a great boost in all competitions. One would replace Elliot in Europa squad.


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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #13397 on: December 12, 2025, 11:27:42 AM »
And Barkley, if he's still not back by Feb.

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #13398 on: December 12, 2025, 11:33:52 AM »
Barkley is not officially in the squad. We are allowed one temp fillment if a player is injured for more the 70 days and that was Mings. Once Mings is "fit" he would replace Barkley again.

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #13399 on: December 12, 2025, 02:56:46 PM »
Barkley is not officially in the squad. We are allowed one temp fillment if a player is injured for more the 70 days and that was Mings. Once Mings is "fit" he would replace Barkley again.

Teams can change the squad after the transfer window though, can't they?

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #13400 on: December 12, 2025, 03:05:22 PM »
Yes, but I was pointing out we can't replace Barkley because he isn't in there officially to be replaced. As of now, I suspect Elliot definitely, Garcia probably and then we would need to replace one more from our current squad if we get three in.

Martinez
Bizot

Cash
Lindelof
Konsa
Digne
Torres
Mings* (Currently replaced by Barkley but officially still in there)
Garcia
Maatsen

McGinn
Tielemans
Sancho
Onana
Kamara

Elliot
Buendia
Watkins
Malen
Rogers.



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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #13401 on: December 12, 2025, 04:39:06 PM »
Conference league comparison.

Qualifiers
W (Burnley Away)
L (Liverpool away)

Group Stage
W (Chelsea away)
D (Wolves away)
W (Luton home)
W (Fulham home)
W (Tottenham away)
W (Brentford away)

Knockouts
R16
L (Spurs home)
D (Spam away)

QF
W (Arse away)
W (Bournemouth home)

SF
L (Brighton away)
D (Liverpool home).

In order to see if we've faced easier post Europe games this year compared to last season (if at all) , I have looked at the respective league positions of the teams we played post Europe this year and last season as well as our league position on  the dates we played the matches.

The league positions are a reasonable indicator of the form and strength of who we played.

Need to wait until the end of the league phase for a proper comparison

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #13402 on: December 12, 2025, 05:16:46 PM »
Conference league comparison.

Qualifiers
W (Burnley Away)
L (Liverpool away)

Group Stage
W (Chelsea away)
D (Wolves away)
W (Luton home)
W (Fulham home)
W (Tottenham away)
W (Brentford away)

Knockouts
R16
L (Spurs home)
D (Spam away)

QF
W (Arse away)
W (Bournemouth home)

SF
L (Brighton away)
D (Liverpool home).

I could be wrong, but I feel like there was way less squad rotation 2 years ago.  Maybe explains why we ran out of steam in both the league and in Europe.  Last year we finished strong in the league and came up against a juggernaut in the QFs.

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #13403 on: December 12, 2025, 05:58:22 PM »
Emery seemed to change tactics around February time to using his maximum allowance of subs which helped keep players fit for the run-in. He's continued with that. Before then he wasn't rotating as much and it coincided with us having a lot of injuries.

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #13404 on: Today at 02:51:14 AM »
Bogarde is missing from the squad above.

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #13405 on: Today at 06:28:46 AM »
He's not in it - he's young enough and home-grown enough that he goes in the b-list and doesn't need to take up space in the main squad.

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #13406 on: Today at 09:22:27 AM »
Yep, this is Bogardes last year as a freebie but next year he'll take one of the club trained spots that we can't use right now.

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Re: Unai Emery
« Reply #13407 on: Today at 12:47:58 PM »
Yep, this is Bogardes last year as a freebie but next year he'll take one of the club trained spots that we can't use right now.

Still a freebie then really.

 


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