When Gary Neville made a statement that some of our players are "uncoachable", some Arsenal fans were insulting him. But the truth is that Gary was absolutely right.
We have a defensive line that makes the same silly mistakes weeks in and weeks out. Since the beginning of the season, we have conceded silly penalties and made series of unforgivable mistakes that usually lead to goals.
You can get Pochettino, Allegri, Benitez, Ancelotti, Rodgers or whatever and still nothing will change in this our club. This is because our major problem is not the manager, our problem is the team itself. We have a board that doesn't want to invest in the right players to help the team.
I red somewhere online that Emery truly wanted to buy Saha and Palace wanted to sell him to us. But the problem was that our board offered a ridiculous payment arrangement to Palace. That was the reason why the deal was off and we went for Pepe instead because FC Lille was willing to accept our payment terms.
Do you guys think Emery wanted to keep the likes of Xhaka and Ozil after their shambolic outings last season? I believe not but he had to because we have a board that doesn't want to invest. We lost 8 players ...Ramsey, Iwobi, Mikh, Elneny, Suarez, Monreal, Lichtsteiner, Koscielny.. And we brought in 5 ...Tierney, Ceballos, Luiz, Martinelli and Pepe.
So, it means we replaced Koscielny with Luiz, Monreal with Tierney, Ramsey with Ceballos, Mikh with Pepe, Martinelli with Iwobi and we brought Chambers in for Lichtsteiner. But no replacement for Elneny and Suarez.
But the problem is that out of all these replacements, only Luiz have featured prominently for us this season. And you guys think we will be challenging for top 4 with this? There was a time when Petr Cech was the only player we brought in and it wasn't this bad. We were still able to play beautiful football because we had the likes of Santi Cazorla, Alexis Sánchez to carry the team.
The current Arsenal team has to be the worst ever and this is why I don't think it's a managerial problem. If a manager identified players he wanted and the board say sorry we can't buy them. What do you want the manager to do?
Arsenal players are "uncoachable"...
posted on 7/12/19
Since he was sacked by Valencia Neville has become pretty blinded to anything being a managers fault. Shame as he was a breath of fresh air when he first got into punditry.
In truth we have invested huge amounts, wasted a lot, could've spent more BUT have assembled a squad far more capable than the results and performances we've seen under Emery and Wenger.
posted on 7/12/19
comment by Gillespie Road. (U18361)
posted 1 hour, 21 minutes ago
No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. This group of players has much more quality than our current form would indicate. A couple of jammy wins, and the current crisis in confidence should clear up.
And in any case, we've been making the same defensive mistakes for almost 15 years now. We've been using the same faulty defensive drills that have been baked in for more than a decade, and masking this with a succession of prolific strikers. The sad thing is that we're now using graduates of the same defensive drills as coaches.
Lastly, and I cannot stress this enough, Gary Neville can feck right off.
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I have never liked Gary, especially since that game where he wanted to break Reyes's legs. However, if we think this set of our defensive lines is coachable then were are being delusional. What do you want to tell the that they don't already know? Among our defensive lineups, we have a world cup winner, a Confed Cup winner, a Premier league, Europa league, FA cup and other titles winners. So it means it's not coaching, the issue is the players themselves.
We need to find solutions to our defensive lines by investing heavily on quality defenders. We also need a creative midfielder to feed our attackers. Is Ceballos the answer, obviously he is not!
posted on 7/12/19
Among our defensive lineups, we have a world cup winner, a Confed Cup winner, a Premier league, Europa league, FA cup and other titles winners. So it means it's not coaching, the issue is the players themselves.
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I would say that suggests it is a coaching issue.
posted on 7/12/19
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 32 minutes ago
Among our defensive lineups, we have a world cup winner, a Confed Cup winner, a Premier league, Europa league, FA cup and other titles winners. So it means it's not coaching, the issue is the players themselves.
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I would say that suggests it is a coaching issue.
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Oh really? So you meant they need a coach to tell them that they shouldn't leave their opponents unmarked? They need a coach to show them how to position themselves. Maybe they also need a coach to tell them never to allow crosses into their box or a coach to show them how to block crosses.
All these are elementary mistakes that usually lead to goals. Take a look at Brighton's 2nd goal, Bellerin shouldn't have allowed the cross to come into the box. And because he failed to do so, Luiz also failed to mark his man. If we actually need a coach to tell them this, then we are in a big trouble as a team!
posted on 7/12/19
Yet with title winning, CL winning, world cup winning, etc coaches they played well.
Defence is about building partnerships and units, and that is done on the training pitch. The examples you give is a poorly trained unit.
posted on 7/12/19
A championship team is build from the back. Your goalkeeper is good but the team needs a worldclass defender and a midfielder who can read the game.
Your team lack energy in midfield to press and work hard
posted on 7/12/19
No one is uncoachable
posted on 7/12/19
comment by Gillespie Road. (U18361)
posted 9 hours, 8 minutes ago
No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. This group of players has much more quality than our current form would indicate. A couple of jammy wins, and the current crisis in confidence should clear up.
And in any case, we've been making the same defensive mistakes for almost 15 years now. We've been using the same faulty defensive drills that have been baked in for more than a decade, and masking this with a succession of prolific strikers. The sad thing is that we're now using graduates of the same defensive drills as coaches.
Lastly, and I cannot stress this enough, Gary Neville can feck right off.
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Spot on.
posted on 8/12/19
our problem is the team itself. We have a board that doesn't want to invest in the right players to help the team.
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According to all of you, last year it was the board's problem for not spending . When they did, you're saying the are not investing in the right players. ???
posted on 8/12/19
So, it means we replaced Koscielny with Luiz, Monreal with Tierney, Ramsey with Ceballos, Mikh with Pepe, Martinelli with Iwobi and we brought Chambers in for Lichtsteiner. But no replacement for Elneny and Suarez.
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Do you really need to replace every player you've had even the crap ones like Elneny who was hardly playing? You've done well to replace 5 out of 7. Arsenal squad was the biggest one among the top 6. And who's Suarez?