Life After Emery Begins

[GDeep™]

He'll get results and would be ok with being care taker until the summer. It gets him out of China and would be a good shop window for him if he rescues from Mid Table Unai.

Rather be bored by him than Mourinho. We get CL and suddenly we're a more attractive club to lead.

Maybe we even get to keep Aubameyang.

I thought you meant permanent. Interim, I’ll happily take.

 

[A_G]

The job of continuing to bore us to death? Yeah, perfect man.

His Chelsea team in 12/13 actually played some great stuff. Unlike Jose he was willing to play Hazard-Oscar-Mata as attacking trio behind the striker.

 

[Rex Stone]

His Chelsea team in 12/13 actually played some great stuff. Unlike Jose he was willing to play Hazard-Oscar-Mata as attacking trio behind the striker.

Let them off the leash big time, remember them absolutely shredding some teams back then.

 

[GDeep™]

His Chelsea team in 12/13 actually played some great stuff. Unlike Jose he was willing to play Hazard-Oscar-Mata as attacking trio behind the striker.

That team picked itself really. Carried Benitez.

 

[Highbury_2006]

That team picked itself really. Carried Benitez.

Nope.

 

[GDeep™]

Nope.

Yeah. Just like when Roberto Di Matteo won the CL.

 

[Highbury_2006]

Yeah. Just like when Roberto Di Matteo won the CL.

No. Its a combination. You already know this.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

Benitez is arguably a worse man manager than Emery ffs. Only saving grace is his communication skills are a lot better and he'd get his ideas across better.

They also played better stuff under Di Matteo I felt when you look at that season. They had 7 wins from the opening 8 games playing great stuff. Then a few poor results resulting in the quite knee-jerk sacking of Di Matteo, I'm not entirely sure if Benitez greatly improved things tbh, I think they would have been on course for a top 4 finish regardless if they stuck with Di Matteo or not. They also lost more league matches with Benitez than with Di Matteo. They lost to Swansea in the league cup semi-finals. Lost to Corinthians in the world club cup final. Had a fairly easy route to the EL final. I'm looking at the season for Chelsea now and I don't really see a great deal of improvement. Only thing of note is they got an 8-0 win over Villa. There's nothing really spectacular that Benitez did that season that it didn't look like Di Matteo was gonna do. Di Matteo seemed like he was treated quite harshly tbh, the Juve game killed him tho and it meant they were out of the CL pretty much and so got the chop.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

Benitez also took Napoli from 2nd to 5th. Then Sarri comes in and gets them back to 2nd straight away. He also ruined Inter because of his ego and hatred for Mourinho, rubbed the Real players especially Ronaldo, the wrong way as soon as he set foot in the door. His final season at Liverpool they finished 7th and only once looked close to challenging for the title despite spending a lot of money (mostly on dross so you have to question Benitez in terms of how much influence he had on that).

Benitez might be alright to steady the ship a bit but it screams out as uninspiring to me and usually his teams are quite dull.

 

[Riou]

Wouldn’t like an manager that is strongly associated with another Premier League club, Jose at Chelsea or Rafa at Liverpool...would like us to get someone new and make him an Arsenal man, like we did with Arsène.

 

[El Duderino]

Benitez might be alright to steady the ship a bit but it screams out as uninspiring to me and usually his teams are quite dull.

Basically that's the reason why I'd go for him. I just don't think we'll be getting anyone exciting mid season.

Rather get an experienced care taker and let the management team start working on who'll lead us next season onwards.

Mou for me is only as a last resort and on a short contract with plenty of break clauses.

 

[GDeep™]

If Arsenal Mania picked Arsenal Managers we would be in league 2 in no time, let’s be honest. Clueless bunch.

 

[Manberg]

If Arsenal Mania picked Arsenal Managers we would be in league 2 in no time, let’s be honest. Clueless bunch.

And you're not? When's the last prediction you got right?

 

[Rex Stone]

If Arsenal Mania picked Arsenal Managers we would be in league 2 in no time, let’s be honest. Clueless bunch.

I’ve got a top notch scouting record tbf.

Christopher Samba and Yann M’Vila will get there one day.

 

[El Duderino]

Wouldn’t like an manager that is strongly associated with another Premier League club, Jose at Chelsea or Rafa at Liverpool...would like us to get someone new and make him an Arsenal man, like we did with Arsène.

Very hard to do that mid season, though. We're currently in chasing our tails territory because Auba is likely to leave sooner rather than later and when you've got a golden boot level strikers you need to make use of that and make it count.

If our model will be to mix buys like Auba and Pepe with homegrown talent like Willock et. al, we need to get CL a couple to attract the latter part of it

 

[El Duderino]

I’ve got a top notch scouting record tbf.

Christopher Samba and Yann M’Vila will get there one day.

I took my share of Ls here in the forum, but I'm glad we never signed Jackson Martinez.

That was a big W for me.

 

[Rex Stone]

I took my share of Ls here, but I'm glad we never signed Jackson Martinez.

Tbf I knew he was a noncé from day one, was so buzzing when he signed for Atlético

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

If Arsenal Mania picked Arsenal Managers we would be in league 2 in no time, let’s be honest. Clueless bunch.

Who do you want?

 

[field442]

This could be one of the more exciting or all time terrible international breaks. If he’s sacked excitement and the unknown awaits. If he’s kept in the job I’ll want the international break to never end.

 

[El Duderino]

Tbf I knew he was a noncé from day one, was so buzzing when he signed for Atlético

TBF I posted much more seriously those days.

Now I've seen the light of **** posting and life's been much better, despite Unai's best efforts to make it worse.