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He deserves at least one more season unless it goes really south this year. Only way to really judge. But too many of the things he's doing now don't inspire confidence.
He's a fool, plain and simple.
Nine of the players that started for Liverpool today weren’t there when Klopp was appointed.
Football fans are crazy.
Emery’s 5th. Klopp finished 8th in his first season, now he’s challenging for the title.
Every manager deserves a decent time before people call him out.
West Ham beat United 3-1 and the Sp**s match was a very cagey 1-0.
Not blaming Emery for that ridiculous Xhaka header in the box straight to an attacker. He should have headed it out for a corner. It was a tight match and could have gone either way until that point.
Football fans are crazy.
You could still kind of see a Klopp style from the day he took over. It just either failed miserably and ended in **** footie or it went great. Arsenal under Emery is just dull fearful **** all the time under Emery.
The point being: You should be willing to give and grant a manager new signings, as a fan and as a club, if he is clear about what he has in mind and shows that - whether that is every game or every 5th game, but if that's in place in some way, the confidence to go out and sign players to his will/profile should be there. And that's what Liverpool got and they had a good sample of what Klopp could do with a team assembled to his taste from Dortmund. Emery is showing **** all here. There's zero reason to have confidence in him suddenly turning everything around once the club spents 100m on the guys he wants.
Emery’s 5th. Klopp finished 8th in his first season, now he’s challenging for the title.
Every manager deserves a decent time before people call him out.
West Ham beat United 3-1 and the Sp**s match was a very cagey 1-0.
Not blaming Emery for that ridiculous Xhaka header in the box straight to an attacker. He should have headed it out for a corner. It was a tight match and could have gone either way until that point.
Football fans are crazy.
It’s not dull because it’s fearful, it’s because it’s one dimensional. We’re used to seeing passing and moving through the middle and he has resorted to this overlapping wing back ****e playing three at the back. If you cast your mind back a few months we started playing some great football. I remember the Ramsey goal against Fulham and then there was an even better one a week or two after that.
I feel for him a bit because Welbeck and Mkhitaryan got injured and he has no real wide players other than Iwobi. I feel like if he had another winger/attacking midfielder we wouldn’t have been playing the three at the back as much and using wing backs and our performances would probably have been better. He has also had to play without decent full backs for large chunks of the season.
The Özil stuff is a head scratcher though. Even though I’m not a fan of his terribly inconsistent performances I’d still play him just because we have no creativity in the middle otherwise.
what exactly is the process though? it looks from where I'm sitting that we're dumping our best players for next to nothing with no money to buy any replacements, let alone upgradesAbsolutely ridulous stuff coming from some of our fans at the moment. This is sadly what football has become. Not surprising that it's some of the same old cuplrits questioning the manager after 6months in the job without considering that this process will take time.
Doesn't explain why he's left out two of our best midfielders and playing without no identity other than superior fitness. Players are tired and it's showing...ridiculousEmery’s 5th. Klopp finished 8th in his first season, now he’s challenging for the title.
Every manager deserves a decent time before people call him out.
West Ham beat United 3-1 and the Sp**s match was a very cagey 1-0.
Not blaming Emery for that ridiculous Xhaka header in the box straight to an attacker. He should have headed it out for a corner. It was a tight match and could have gone either way until that point.
Football fans are crazy.
To be honest though, not everyone who does not do well in his first year is Klopp. It's a fair point that someone before managed to turn it around, but it doesn't mean Emery will - he doesn't look like he has 10th of the motivational character Klopp looks to have, which is very important if we want to see us punch above our weights.Emery’s 5th. Klopp finished 8th in his first season, now he’s challenging for the title.
Every manager deserves a decent time before people call him out.
West Ham beat United 3-1 and the Sp**s match was a very cagey 1-0.
Not blaming Emery for that ridiculous Xhaka header in the box straight to an attacker. He should have headed it out for a corner. It was a tight match and could have gone either way until that point.
Football fans are crazy.
what exactly is the process though? it looks from where I'm sitting that we're dumping our best players for next to nothing with no money to buy any replacements, let alone upgrades
sure a new manager needs time to bed in, but surely he should spend at least the first few months assessing what he has inherited, and looking to improve on it, before unsettling everyone by constantly changing the starting line-up, and playing favourites
I hope it all works out for him, I really do, but I get worried when I see a manager overplaying a new young inexperienced player and cold-shouldering an older much more experienced player of 5 years standing - it makes me wonder if he lacks confidence in dealing with the more challenging man-management isuues, as happened at PSG
Or maybe defence was always a problem for Emery teams in the past, and there's no reason to expect that to change now he's with Arsenal.
That's a very well written assessment, even though I think we were quite lucky early on the season, we probably relied on our superior fitness levels in the 2nd halves of the games, and the two world class strikers to turn games around. Playing out of the back provided lots of dangerous situations and we could have conceded even more due to individual mistakes - and I'm not sure whether we have more success of it, then the risk related to conceding. Still, we did score a lot of goals and had some awesome, fluent gameplay going on time to time.Here's my assessment of Unai Emery. We started off playing in a 4-2-3-1. Although we were scoring alot of goals, we were also conceding at an alarming rate. Just before Christmas, we were the 5th highest scoring team in Europe behind Barcelona, Manchester City, PSG and Borussia Dortmund. Some of the goals we have scored this season, will for sure be included in the goals of the season competition with the fluency and football we played. You will see most of these goals resulted from playing out at the back which is what Emery has implemented. We were shipping in too many goals so Emery changed to 3CB to try and stabilise things which is completely understandable. This has though resulted in us losing control in midfield which I think is more the problem than the defensive personnell we have. We don't control the midfield enough especially against the better teams. I feel he has noticed this though hence why he is trying to bring in a creative midfielder (Denis Suarez) and also a winger (Yannick Carrasco), which if he manages to pull off, will suprise many people as these signings will definitely allow us more tactical flexibility. Although it looks odd, I fully understand why he has seemingly frozen out Ramsey. We all know he's not going to be signing a contract with us so Emery's main focus is to try and develop players who will be with us in the long term (Guendouzi). Why should a player who is leaving in 6 months still deserve to start ahead of someone who is here for the long term? It's arguably, better to invest that time in Guendouzi and focus on the future, than play Ramsey (although some may say he is the better player). I think this is definitely work in progress for Emery and I think he's on the right track. With a little luck in the transfer market, he should defnitely turn things around.