Is the pay at all comparable between a national team coach, even Germany's, and a superclub coaching job?
Among the realistic candidates. I have no interest in Low and I doubt he wants the job. The guy hasn't coached at club level in nearly 15 years. Arteta needs to manage a lower level club first before a job like Arsenal. Even Pep managed Barcelona B for a year before getting the big job. I actually don't think Rodgers would be the worst appointment but Jardim has proven much more in my view.Is he your first choice replacement from among those managers on the rumored shortlist - said to include Jardim, Joachim Low, Brendan Rodgers (!) and Mikel Arteta (?) - or among all potential managers likely to be available and willing to come to Arsenal in the summer?
Regarding Rodgers and his Liverpool tenure .. when he had Suarez in the squad they were great .. and when he didn't they weren't .. I'd say he had mixed results. Lets just say he'd probably do a good job as long as he has lots of attacking talent at his disposal.Among the realistic candidates. I have no interest in Low and I doubt he wants the job. The guy hasn't coached at club level in nearly 15 years. Arteta needs to manage a lower level club first before a job like Arsenal. Even Pep managed Barcelona B for a year before getting the big job. I actually don't think Rodgers would be the worst appointment but Jardim has proven much more in my view.
The speech was delivered by one of the senior players in the Arsenal dressing room but he did not finish it. He was too choked up as he reflected on how such a talented squad had come to resemble a bunch of drifters. He said his children were asking him why Arsenal were so bad. That was the moment when the tears welled in his eyes.
Another Arsenal player stepped in. “We are a big club,” he said, tapping into the rallying cry theme. “But we need more help from the coaches.” That was when the damning judgment was articulated. It had actually been the motivation for the players to gather in the first place – without Arsène Wenger. “It’s not going to happen,” one of them said. “We need to find the answers ourselves.”
Wasn’t the player Koscielny?So who's got kids old enough to be asking why Arsenal are trash?
Cech's kids are 9 and 10. Everyone else's seem too young.
Wilshere or Koscielny.. most are saying KoscielnySo who's got kids old enough to be asking why Arsenal are trash?
Cech's kids are 9 and 10. Everyone else's seem too young.
Dude...Arsenal is not going to get relegated.I can't wait to watch Arsenal in the Championship in 2020 with Arsene still as manager.
Sure, not THIS year.Dude...Arsenal is not going to get relegated.
(Admittedly, that's all I've got.)
Hyperbolic irony is an underused linguistic tool, but it does not mean it does not exist.Dude...Arsenal is not going to get relegated.
(Admittedly, that's all I've got.)
I think you failed to understand my post - the more significant half of it was tucked away in the parentheses.Hyperbolic irony is an underused linguistic tool, but it does not mean it does not exist.
His post was the equivalent of a man wearing a Santa Claus hat having crying wank, but without the money shot.
I'm glad i did not see the wood for the trees. I've been wanting to get crying wank into a post for a while.I think you failed to understand my post - the more significant half of it was tucked away in the parentheses.
http://www.espn.com/soccer/barcelona/story/3412516/barcelona-will-keep-recruiting-from-england-after-marcus-mcguane-debut-chiefBakero said that Barca can't promise first-team football but they can "promise a progression in [a player's] performance" -- something McGuane felt was no longer happening at Arsenal.
"I was getting frustrated by a lack of opportunities," McGuane told the Daily Mail. "It is good to train but I did not want my performance to plateau and stay at the same level.
"This step made sense. I didn't have any conversations with [Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger]. I thought if I kept working hard, I would get opportunities. It didn't come."
This gets debated a lot on the internet and in pubs but no one is ever gonna dissuade me of the idea that the bottom of the Premier League would wipe the fuckin floor with 98% of the world's teams. Your relegation fodder in England is so much better than the dross from other countries.I was very surprised by the talent difference between the two. I guess 6th place in the Premier League is a lot better than 7th place in Serie A. I was expecting the same sleep-walking level of performance, but they handled Milan rather easily.
Oh, I have no delusions about Wenger needing to go now, or their chances at actually winning the Europa League. I mean random chance is a thing, so maybe they could win it, but the chances aren't good. It would be rather Arsenal-ly if they won the Europa and he stayed for another season though.Milan were undefeated in 2018 in all competitions until yesterday, including wins over Lazio and Roma in Serie A and beating Lazio on penalties in the Copa Italia semifinals. They were surprisingly bad yesterday but I think people are selling them a bit short. Gattuso has had them playing well. And there is some legitimate talent there beyond Donarumma. Bonucci is obviously a top player, Romagnoli is an international, Kessie has been looked at by big clubs, Cutrone and Andre Silva are both talented young strikers, Calhanoglu was one of the better players for Bayer before coming to Milan, Biglia is a longtime Argentine international, etc.
All that said, I make absolutely nothing out of Arsenal's victory. Good to see but anybody with any sense realizes that none of the rest of the season should matter one bit regarding Wenger's future. He needs to go, even if they win the Europa League (which remains a huge longshot in my view anyway).
Yeah, this...I missed the game on Thursday for family reasons, but when I came home and saw the result, I felt like I do when the Atlanta Hawks (my favorite NBA team) win a basketball game this season.The most Arsenal thing possible would definitely be fluking to win this competition and thereby granting the Board and Silent Stan cover to do nothing and further expedite the swirling of the bowl for this club.
This has happened like 3 times already where it looks and sounds like Arsene is on death row and somehow they win something and he stays his execution.
Or worse. They lose the Europa final but let Wenger see out his contract anyway because, hey, we were so close to winning and, oops, the top replacement choices got sick of the uncertainty and took other jobs in the meantime.The most Arsenal thing possible would definitely be fluking to win this competition and thereby granting the Board and Silent Stan cover to do nothing and further expedite the swirling of the bowl for this club.
This has happened like 3 times already where it looks and sounds like Arsene is on death row and somehow they win something and he stays his execution.
Haha. I totally could see this happening if Wenger stays.And then you finally get Benzema to add to your stable of used to be good strikers
All the teams that are left are pretty even except for Atletico, at least according to what I could find. Going to Russia does kind of suck, especially right now. Now we just have to hope for an Atletico upset before the finals.We're goin to Russia.
Can't say I'm thrilled about that but at least we didn't get Atletico
Will they play Cech as they get closer to the finals...or will Ospina get all of them. Any chance they have a real forward by the end?Upon thinking about it further, going to Russia doesn't really matter if they completely stop giving a shit about the league, which they should since there is no hope of making top 4.