The Football Thread 2017-18

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Not sure how I about that, I know he did pretty well with Sevilla but it's hard to get excited about someone doing well domestically with PSG.

[PES Fan]

Not sure how I about that, I know he did pretty well with Sevilla but it's hard to get excited about someone doing well domestically with PSG.

He only won one league at PSG. That was after everyone dismantled the Monaco team including PSG themselves.

[Ploiper]

i'm very happy with Emery as our new manager, done well where he has been, trophy winner, and not inexperienced like other candidates.

[Return_of_the_STAR]

Apparently Arteta turned Arsenal down over concerns about only having £50m to spend on new players.

[Blue Eyes]

Pellegrinni close to West Ham. Could be a good appointment depending on how motivated he is after his lucrative stint in China. Guardian reporting he’s going to earn up to £7.5m a year

I saw it was £10m! Not sure what to make of this. I will withhold judgement for now.

Emery! Bloke can’t even speak English. Very surprised by that.

[Irene Demova]

Emery's the last person I'd want if I were an Arsenal fan. PSG were weak defensively and he had no control over the players which is um exactly what everyone's been claiming is bad about Wenger.

[PES Fan]

Pellegrinni close to West Ham. Could be a good appointment depending on how motivated he is after his lucrative stint in China. Guardian reporting he’s going to earn up to £7.5m a year

I saw it was £10m! Not sure what to make of this. I will withhold judgement for now.

Emery! Bloke can’t even speak English. Very surprised by that.

£10m? The dildo brothers have gone crazy. Three year contract too. I can’t see them paying him off if somewhere down the line it comes to that.

The only concern is Man City fitness wise were awful under him. Billic had the same issue at West Ham. Moyes improved it.

£50m for Arsenal to spend? Emery just screams of another company man. Every candidate like Enrique and Allegri were apparently not happy with the £50m spend and having to sell players to raise funds. I mean who can Arsenal sell for a huge amount of money. Bellerin springs to mind, but then you’d have to buy another right back. Bellerin probably will do well under another manager. Cech wouldn’t go for much. Mustafi maybe for £15m. The squad isn’t big.

£50m and having to sell players to raise funds isn’t going to cut it. All the teams above them will be spending big.

[SMPL]

Emery is a good coach, we'll see how he adapts to the Prem. Better option than Arteta anyway. One thing for sure is the Arsenal squad has problems, desperately in need of a imposing CM, CB and GK. Wouldn't be surprised if they struggled for a bit but changing the structure to a more Italian/Spanish style setup rather than Wenger running the show should be a good move in the medium/long term.

[Blue Eyes]

Pellegrinni close to West Ham. Could be a good appointment depending on how motivated he is after his lucrative stint in China. Guardian reporting he’s going to earn up to £7.5m a year

I saw it was £10m! Not sure what to make of this. I will withhold judgement for now.

Emery! Bloke can’t even speak English. Very surprised by that.

£10m? The dildo brothers have gone crazy. Three year contract too. I can’t see them paying him off if somewhere down the line it comes to that.

The only concern is Man City fitness wise were awful under him. Billic had the same issue at West Ham. Moyes improved it.

£50m for Arsenal to spend? Emery just screams of another company man. Every candidate like Enrique and Allegri were apparently not happy with the £50m spend and having to sell players to raise funds. I mean who can Arsenal sell for a huge amount of money. Bellerin springs to mind, but then you’d have to buy another right back. Bellerin probably will do well under another manager. Cech wouldn’t go for much. Mustafi maybe for £15m. The squad isn’t big.

£50m and having to sell players to raise funds isn’t going to cut it. All the teams above them will be spending big.

Is that true about Man City’s fitness under him? I don’t really remember. In that case I am racked with worry. Still think we should have kept Moyes!

[PES Fan]

Pellegrinni close to West Ham. Could be a good appointment depending on how motivated he is after his lucrative stint in China. Guardian reporting he’s going to earn up to £7.5m a year

I saw it was £10m! Not sure what to make of this. I will withhold judgement for now.

Emery! Bloke can’t even speak English. Very surprised by that.

£10m? The dildo brothers have gone crazy. Three year contract too. I can’t see them paying him off if somewhere down the line it comes to that.

The only concern is Man City fitness wise were awful under him. Billic had the same issue at West Ham. Moyes improved it.

£50m for Arsenal to spend? Emery just screams of another company man. Every candidate like Enrique and Allegri were apparently not happy with the £50m spend and having to sell players to raise funds. I mean who can Arsenal sell for a huge amount of money. Bellerin springs to mind, but then you’d have to buy another right back. Bellerin probably will do well under another manager. Cech wouldn’t go for much. Mustafi maybe for £15m. The squad isn’t big.

£50m and having to sell players to raise funds isn’t going to cut it. All the teams above them will be spending big.

Is that true about Man City’s fitness under him? I don’t really remember. In that case I am racked with worry. Still think we should have kept Moyes!

I’m sure a City fan can tell you. But I remember reading when Pep arrived he wasn’t really happy with the fitness of the team. To be fair they did have a few old players.

I wouldn’t be racked with worry though. I don’t think you’d be having any threat of relegation under him. But challenging higher depends on how much the Dildo brothers give him to spend. Surely if you paying a manager £10m a year you going to give him a decent budget.

[darksideby182]

I'd be pretty happy with Emery he has a load more experience over Arteta and hopefully a little bit more clout when it comes to signing players and I'm not sure on all these rumours about £50 million to spend only. But if it is only £50 million then players will definitely have to be sold which if you look at the squad there is only a handful of players that are decent and need to be kept.

[DML]

Emery?

Wow that's underwhelming. West Ham are signing a better manager.

[PES Fan]

Sevilla in 15/16 went the whole season without winning a game away from home. So I guess he’d fit in. They had the 4th largest budget in the league.

[Ploiper]

dunno why people seem to think we only have 50 million to spend. on wages probably but not transfers. seeing as though we never make our budget public to anybody.

[PES Fan]

dunno why people seem to think we only have 50 million to spend. on wages probably but not transfers. seeing as though we never make our budget public to anybody.

BBC and a lot of media are reporting it. When BBC report it then you gather someone close to the club has given them the details.

It’s probably why Allegri and Enrique didn’t bother. Arteta probably felt it was a big risk for his first coaching job with that sort of limited budget especially as he’d need to get a champions league place, which isn’t easy.

[Ploiper]

well we do have Raul, and he is very well known for leaking fake budgets to press. but I feel safe in guaranteeing that our transfer budget is a good few times higher than 50 million

[Dig Dug]

Santi Cazorla leaving Arsenal has reminded me of this classic reddit post.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Gunners/commen ... t_arsenal/

[Tomous]

well we do have Raul, and he is very well known for leaking fake budgets to press. but I feel safe in guaranteeing that our transfer budget is a good few times higher than 50 million

Arsenal have a net spend over the last 5 years of around £200m. £50m sounds about right within that context at least.

[Poncho]

I hope Arsenal at least tried to give Sarri all of the money to manage the club. Napoli play arguably the most entertaining football in Europe, he got them defensively sound, he's tactically astute, would give a lot of those Arsenal players a kick up the arse and he reportedly dislikes the transfer window (prefers coaching the players he has), so he'd probably be cool with the £50 million.

[Albert]

How is it Arsenal "only" have £50m to spend?

TV money has increased huge amounts over the last few seasons, They always finish towards the top of the league, they have some of the most expensive ticket prices in the world. I remember reading a while back that they had an untouched war chest of money that Wenger refused to use for whatever reason. Surely it cant all be about paying the stadium off?