PL: Liverpool vs Arsenal | December 29th | KO: 17:30 | BT Sport

[Yousif Arsenal]

Kroenke and the board will need to take some responsibility Emery can't do it all without backing there is no wenger to hide behind

 

[YeahBee]

CB, winger, cm in that order.

We should only sign players if they actually improves us. Cahill can piss off tbh.

Banega improves us though.

Heck I give Guendouzi **** all The time but rather play him than banega

Banega solves nothing for us

 

[Rimaal]

In case everyone forgot, Emery had a defensive problem at PSG as well (outside the french puppet league). And they have all the money in the world.

 

[Notorious Big]

Without Fernandinho, their midfield is porous. They'll get chances against City. Its a matter of asking if City will take theirs?

In this form,i doubt that City will win it.I don't rate their mentality and spirit.Liverpool can avoid defeat very easy imo.

 

[HBL]

Heck I give Guendouzi **** all The time but rather play him than banega

Banega solves nothing for us

Yeah but you thought Ramsey was good today so hardly surprising.

Banega is a quality player, would bring in some much needed depth that Ramsey/Elneny aren't providing because they're useless.

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

We bought Aubameyang with out CL footie - there's always a way to buy top players if you've got the cash and the will.

At the time we had Wenger who was a massive draw and our style of play was also still fresh in many minds despite recent events. A new younger manager without Wenger's pulling power, little money and no stand out trait isn't going to cut it especially without CL football. Auba also wanted out. Any player in his position mow has at least five PL clubs better than ours to chose from.

 

[celestis]

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Everything makes sense now

Did he sign Lichsteiner as well? because Sven claiming it was Ivan /statsDna

 

[James Bond]

I ****ing hate Salah. Liverpool's media darling won't get called out for him diving 2 weeks in a row.

Their second pen was a ****ing joke aswell.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

In case everyone forgot, Emery had a defensive problem at PSG as well (outside the french puppet league). And they have all the money in the world.

That's i think from what i heard down to the Brazilian divas and refusing to learn

 

[Mo Britain]

Call me obsessed but I blame Arséne Wenger for this and whatever else that happens this season.

He had ruined this team so much so it would take seasons before we could be decent again. We need at least another three seasons with good spending and spotting quality players.

One mistake Klopp did in his development was he started in the attack. We should first focus on the defense as we are capable of scoring goals even with AMN against a team who has only conceded 7 prior goals.

You are obsessed. Playing into the owner's pocket. "Let's have a few years of quiet rebuilding"... Yeah, like in the Championship.

 

[Ceballinhos]

I was just about to post this.

It's infuriating. I've got nothing against Sokratis, he's decent but he isn't the level we need to take our defence up a level. He cost us £18M, that's £18M that could have gone into buying a truly top level CB. Why do we keep doing this to ourselves?

I'd rather spend all our budget on one class player than 2-3 jobbers.

I don't agree though.
Even if we've got a top top CB you'd still have to play him alongside Mustafi/a finished koscielny/Lich when Bellerin gets injured.

Sokratis was a good signing and was needed anyway. He's more than a jobber. We should have signed him alongside at least another very good/top CB. And that's what I've been saying the whole summer.

Sokratis isn't an Elneny type of signing which was absolutely pointless.

 

[squallman]

Wenger gave Emery a hospital ball when it came to those two players. The fact that Özil's omission is a problem due to his wages is on Wenger for paying over the odds in desperation. He showed no urgency in getting him tied down early and left it to a point where this contract is now an albatross around our necks. Ramsey should also never have been allowed to run his deal down.

It is what it is. Emery knew what he was getting into when he took the job. Özil's new contract was already signed and Ramsey's situation wasn't a secret.

Leaving out Özil the guy who supposedly doesn't track back or put in a defensive shift hasn't made us more secure defensively. We also aren't better creatively. Same with Ramsey. We aren't a demonstrably better team without them in the side, so why leave them out and make your job harder?

If Emery wants Özil gone then what he is doing right now is counterproductive. Who would touch Özil now that he's been frozen out of the team? For anything close to resembling a reasonable fee?

Emery could have played Özil every week, let him rack up some assists and goals against fodder. Big him up in his press conferences and interviews, then quietly offer him around Europe in January. Ferguson used to do it all the time. The man came out after a game crying about how important Rooney was to United all the while trying to get him sold.

 

[Lakersgooner24]

There’s a reason why Chelsea would loan us Cahill. Sarri doesn’t rate him as he’s ****.

They’ll be laughing when he ***** up and we miss out on CL football.

Will be another Silvestre.

 

[freeglennhelder2]

Quite a few Liverpool fans on Twitter admitting their pens were soft BTW. Dunno what’s that counts for..... feck all I suspect.

 

[Rimaal]

That's i think from what i heard down to the Brazilian divas and refusing to learn

Oh yes, of course, nothing is Emery's fault.

 

[Camron]

Can't help but feel we had more to give.

 

[Mo Britain]

Kroenke and the board will need to take some responsibility Emery can't do it all without backing there is no wenger to hide behind

They will hide behind Emery as some people here are already doing.

 

[Ceballinhos]

It is what it is. Emery knew what he was getting into when he took the job. Özil's new contract was already signed and Ramsey's situation wasn't a secret.

Leaving out Özil the guy who supposedly doesn't track back or put in a defensive shift hasn't made us more secure defensively. We also aren't better creatively. Same with Ramsey. We aren't a demonstrably better team without them in the side, so why leave them out and make your job harder?

If Emery wants Özil gone then what he is doing right now is counterproductive. Who would touch Özil now that he's been frozen out of the team? For anything close to resembling a reasonable fee?

Emery could have played Özil every week, let him rack up some assists and goals against fodder. Big him up in his press conferences and interviews, then quietly offer him around Europe in January. Ferguson used to do it all the time. The man came out after a game crying about how important Rooney was to United all the while trying to get him sold.

Except Özil has injuries issues.

I don't get the narrative about how Emery is freezing Özil out when he's started more game than Mkhi Iwobi & Ramsey.

How many games Özil hasn't played when he was available?

 

[2Smokeyy]

Özil watching the game at home, sipping his tea.

 

[Gooner Zig]

Bang on. Management of the clubs' finances has been utterly useless past 5 years. We were in a position of strength with those said cash reserves, managed to spunk the majority on very average signings whilst letting our highest value assets leave for peanuts. Looking at the squad today, I think we need 4 first team players, nevermind a couple more signings for options off the bench.

Leno
Bellerin - Holding - signing - signing
Torreira- signing
signing- Özil - Aubameyang
Lacazette​

On top of that imo we'd still need a backup CDM to replace torreira, another winger (Nelson could suffice), backup RB, and at least one backup forward. Maybe another CM/CAM too.


Add to the mix Cech, Welbeck,Lichsteiner, Ramsey, Monreal are all off end of the season , safe to say our team is a proper mess

We've got a huge sponsorship deal with Addidas kicking in shortly, we need to spend that additional income in advance and really invest in the squad.

I also don't understand why we have any cash reserves at all, every spare dollar we have in the bank is wasted. It should be reinvested in the first team and a revolving line of credit used to cover any shortfalls in Opex.