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ciggiesnbeer

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  1. From the Emery thread. Guillem Balague says 4 or 5. He says we should be excited about his assistant manager but didnt say who.
  2. As an aside I see the gulf in class of reporting between the speculation merchants in the UK who have been busy chasing the wrong cars and making links up. Compare that to Guillem Balague who is like "Yeah I called him up and spoke to him Sunday about it, he was really excited and told me his staff plans., cant wait till he announces that you will be happy." Thats a real sports journalist with real contacts.
  3. I thank you for the information re Labour in terms of numbers. Good to hear progress is being made across the board. Still we should all applaud the Conservatives progressive achievements in top leadership positions. It is important to address in positions of power.
  4. It really hasnt sunk in. A real honest to god elite level manager. I love our owners.
  5. https://www.sportingnews.com/us/soccer/news/which-trophies-has-unai-emery-won-career-history-arsenal-reject-europa-league-king/hjfew4gezncsyexymvhnnmxt A summary of his career. Wow.
  6. The biggest managerial name we have appointed as far as I can remember. We have had very good managers who became big with us, but I cant think of any who came in the door with a bigger CV than Emery.
  7. I just want to take a moment and salute the Conservative party for having our first Prime minister of British/Indian descent. No qualifications, they have done something good today. Now I can get back to criticizing every bloody other thing they do
  8. I am just a fellow fan. I cant make any demands. I am asking fellow fans to please not mock or ape the way he speaks. Thank you for your consideration.
  9. He may show up in the VIP box at the Sports Direct Arena for the Newcastle game to see us I would guess.
  10. Not as far as I know. The good news is Emery is a real head coach. he doesnt need a staff to be his "brain" for him like Gerrard.
  11. I absolutely love how the owners have utterly humiliated the clueless sports press and "itk" guessers yet again. They were all busy telling us we were too small for a top proven manager like Emery or Poch or Tuchel and that the search hadnt started. Turns out it was already done days ago and in less than a week it was all signed done and dusted.
  12. Fckin ell the club didnt mess about did they? Welcome Unai! fantastic appointment!!!
  13. He has played a decent amount of 4231 in his time as well! As well as many others, flexible progressive manager. Dreamland if true! (can we please ignore twitter "itk" chancers? they do not matter at all)
  14. Whichever rando twitter guesser guessed closest is really not interesting at all.
  15. Sigh, bloody Brexit again. The "gift" that keeps on giving.
  16. if true (and its potentially all just more made up twattter nonsense) but if true I would be very excited by this. Probably more exciting to me than Poch tbh.
  17. he is going to be great news for our manager gifs
  18. I would be happy with Emery. Top tier coach like Poch or Tuchel.
  19. As much as I would like to say what he did was obvious, it wasnt to me before he did it. He definitely seems to have known exactly how to use Bailey for example. Something that has eluded previous head coaches. His formation was very straightforward and nicely balanced over the pitch. No more of this "we are super narrow but still surrender the center" nonsense Gerrard had them playing. Even his gentle dropping of McGinn was tactfully done. Martinez demands respect and has always been a second captain on the pitch anyway (as has Tyrone tbf) but you could see the lift that one change made. It was classy when Villa fans chanted McGinn's name when he came on., Thats how its done. No drama, good players go in and out of form. Buendia and Coutinho will battle it out for that creative spot. Great. Sensible. no drama. I just loved how utterly sensible it all was, easy to understand. Enjoyable to see the players expressing themselves clearly playing with more freedom. Danks more than earned his wage packet. Good job.
  20. Thanks for the clarification. I find Sherwood to be pretty quality as a pundit. Good to hear he was being balanced again.
  21. If he does and you are reading this Aaron. Good job mate.
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