Unai Emery: Adios

[GDeep™]

Even AFTV are more grounded than some in this thread... Who'd ever have thought it?

The usual suspects on AFTV have began the turn on Unai too.

 

[Football Manager]

The players haven't exactly had his back. Özil the timid has been awful and even Xhaka questioned whether he has improved us. There's no chemistry between him and the players and questions remain over his ability to manage big players, maybe unfairly.

Özil was overrated anyway. What’s the problem if you see a player not performing in training so you drop him? That’s exactly what I expect from a good manager would do. It seems to me that people who hate emery are just fangirl of Özil/wenger.

Ability to manage big players? Are auba and laca big players? Wenger didn’t bring the best out of them, but emery did.
How exactly you should do to manage a big player anayway?

 

[Divided_Pie]

Having fewer shots is neither here nor there for me. We scored 73 goals this season which is the 3rd highest in the league. That's better than Tottenham, Chelsea and Manchester United who have arguably better attacking units than we do. Only City and Liverpool have better goal scoring records. We also conceded the exact same amount of goals as last season. We have only added 1 additional CB (Sokratis), the main core of CB's and defenders are still here. You cannot expect any difference to be made overnight. Give it at least anoher season or 2 before making a proper judgment.

If you haven't read the article, that point is addressed by the fact we converted an inordinate amount of long range shots this year, a rate that is a clear outlier and in no way sustainable.

 

[teamsoutheast]

If you haven't read the article, that point is addressed by the fact we converted an inordinate amount of long range shots this year, a rate that is a clear outlier and in no way sustainable.

About time we started taking some shots from range. Fans weren't screaming 'SHOOOOOOOT' for no reason you know!!

 

[dbig]

About time we started taking some shots from range. Fans weren't screaming 'SHOOOOOOOT' for no reason you know!!

It's not about taking more shots from range. It's converting more than usual. Lucky goals that are hard to replicate.

A good team creates chances that have high probability of being converted to goals. We rely on speculative goals winning us games. The fear is that it regresses to the normal conversion rates and we start failing to score. Think that's what happened in the last part of our season.

 

[teamsoutheast]

It's not about taking more shots from range. It's converting more than usual. Lucky goals that are hard to replicate.

A good team creates chances that have high probability of being converted to goals. We rely on speculative goals winning us games. The fear is that it regresses to the normal conversion rates and we start failing to score. Think that's what happened in the last part of our season.

We've just been more clinical. Considering we have a lower shots PG average than Wolves, Leicester, Palace along with Man U, Chelsea, Tottenham, we've done well to score the amount of goals we did.

 

[dbig]

We've just been more clinical. Considering we have a lower shots PG average than Wolves, Leicester, Palace along with Man U, Chelsea, Tottenham, we've done well to score the amount of goals we did.

I'm not sure if clinical is the word for shots from outside the box. I'd say more like lucky.

We scored 11 goals outside the box with 155 shots at a rate of 7.1%. Previous seasons we had much more tries, but converted about the league average of 2.5-3%. For example, the previous season, we scored 6 goals from outside the box after taking 220 shots.

Looking back, we'd scored 9 goals from outside the box by Dec 2018. The rest of the season we scored 2. Even with that, we more than doubled the league average in conversion rate.

In the longer term, rates like this are unsustainable and we won't be seeing numbers like this next season. The worry is that we're creating less good opportunities than before and were relying on outliers like this to get where we ended up this season.

 

[DanDare]

I hope Emery gets the players he needs to successfully use whatever system he wants. Next season is make or break for him.

 

[Jury]

The usual suspects on AFTV have began the turn on Unai too.

That’s it then. We know how powerful they are, those boys. They slung Wenger out on his nose, so Unai is surely toast.

 

[Jury]

I'm not sure if clinical is the word for shots from outside the box. I'd say more like lucky.

We scored 11 goals outside the box with 155 shots at a rate of 7.1%. Previous seasons we had much more tries, but converted about the league average of 2.5-3%. For example, the previous season, we scored 6 goals from outside the box after taking 220 shots.

Looking back, we'd scored 9 goals from outside the box by Dec 2018. The rest of the season we scored 2. Even with that, we more than doubled the league average in conversion rate.

In the longer term, rates like this are unsustainable and we won't be seeing numbers like this next season. The worry is that we're creating less good opportunities than before and were relying on outliers like this to get where we ended up this season.

Don’t let numbers worry you. Look too deep into the well and you’ll fall in, lad.

 

[arsenefc]

the club must surely investigate Emery, if doozi's contract has an appearance clause.

 

[Hunta]

Just seen the quotes about Ramsey from Emery. Absolutely shocking stuff from a coach to be bullied by a player like that.

Weak man.

 

[Jury]

Just seen the quotes about Ramsey from Emery. Absolutely shocking stuff from a coach to be bullied by a player like that.

Weak man.

All managers speak with players about how they feel and sometimes let them decide. Wenger always did it. It’s not even news. If Emery thought it would reflect badly on him he wouldn’t have told anyone.

 

[teamsoutheast]

I'm not sure if clinical is the word for shots from outside the box. I'd say more like lucky.

We scored 11 goals outside the box with 155 shots at a rate of 7.1%. Previous seasons we had much more tries, but converted about the league average of 2.5-3%. For example, the previous season, we scored 6 goals from outside the box after taking 220 shots.

Looking back, we'd scored 9 goals from outside the box by Dec 2018. The rest of the season we scored 2. Even with that, we more than doubled the league average in conversion rate.

In the longer term, rates like this are unsustainable and we won't be seeing numbers like this next season. The worry is that we're creating less good opportunities than before and were relying on outliers like this to get where we ended up this season.

So you're just going to completely dismiss 'Quality' and pass it off as 'Luck'??? Sorry, I disagree. Is quality not better than quantity in some cases?

 

[Hunta]

All managers speak with players about how they feel and sometimes let them decide. Wenger always did it. It’s not even news. If Emery thought it would reflect badly on him he wouldn’t have told anyone.

Same thing we hammered Wenger for. The medical staff clearly told Emery that Ramsey was in the red zone and he couldn’t say no to him when Ramsey said he was playing. Then he goes and gets injured for the season.

 

[Tourbillion]

Just seen the quotes about Ramsey from Emery. Absolutely shocking stuff from a coach to be bullied by a player like that.

Weak man.

Which quotes?

 

[Jury]

Same thing we hammered Wenger for. The medical staff clearly told Emery that Ramsey was in the red zone and he couldn’t say no to him when Ramsey said he was playing. Then he goes and gets injured for the season.

Ramsey didn’t tell him he was playing or else! They spoke, Ramsey was in great form and it was decided he would play. I know nothing of this ‘red zone’ quote either. As I say, it happens at every club. It makes us mad when we find out these conversations take place and then a player gets injured, and yes we were mad at Wenger for it, but it’s normal.

 

[<<reed>>]

Just seen the quotes about Ramsey from Emery. Absolutely shocking stuff from a coach to be bullied by a player like that.

Weak man.

I am not surprised, even the Helmet bullied him to play in the EL final

 

[Mark Tobias]

Get a list of all our victories and take your pick

In a huge majority of our games we didn't look the better team at all. Literally a couple of 'good wins' this season..

 

[UpTheGunnerz]

I am not surprised, even the Helmet bullied him to play in the EL final

Leno was injured