Just two days after the humiliating defeat at Ewood Park, reports have surfaced that senior players in the Arsenal dressing room want an immediate appointment of a defensive coach.
If reports are to be believed, then indications suggest that the Gunners do not have a specialist in this field and although assistant manager Pat Rice is a former full-back, it seems that he doesn’t have enough experience on the subject.
However, it appears that the players are in full support of their manager, contrary to misleading reports that the Frenchman is facing the possibility of being sacked, but they have voiced their plea for a defensive coach to be appointed in order to cure the already persistent problem at the back.
Former Gunner Martin Keown is thought to be leading the race, while Steve Bould and Neil Banfield are working with the youngsters and reserves.
Only time will tell if Arsene Wenger will in fact answer the players and fans calls.
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what wenger need to do now is to change the capiten arms band from rvp and give it to sagna or vemali becos rvp dont have the lucky for the arms band yes if we can see last year if cesc is injury and rvp take over it very hard for as to win games we play draw or lose. i think wenger should change the arms band this time to some one artata or sagna
i noticed when blackburn had a freekick or corner that arsenal had 5 or 6 players on the 6 yard line in front of the goalie. this left the back post and 18 yard line very exposed.
not only did it leave other areas exposed it hampered the goalie. he couldn’t move. in theory we were doing the opposotions job for them by hampering the goalie.
this seems to me to pretty basic stuff,but we’ve struggled with our defence for 5 or 6 years now.
someone should be sacked. until we get rid of pat rice we will always have a defensive problem.
when we had the invincibles defence never seemed to matter because we had fantastic attacking players. now they’ve gone and we have mediocre players. this defending cannot go on. it will see us relegated.
This is what i have been clamouring and screaming for,i even wrote something on my blog about it immediately after the blackburn game,clearly wenger and rice know nothing about defending,the club needs to add a defence coach to the backroom staff quickly
This is what i have been clamouring and screaming for,i even wrote something on my blog about it immediately after the blackburn game(topeowope.blogspot.com) ,clearly wenger and rice know nothing about defending,the club needs to add a defence coach to the backroom staff quickly
i have been saying this for years that our defensive coaching has gone i am no statatition but for the last five or six years our set pieces for defending and attacking are useless we used to win so many games from set pieces. free kicks and corners were like penaltys to us, if i was wenger i would have them practising all day long on these
considering you’re all such good coaches and have no idea the is and outs of player or club profiles and why certain things are as they are, how come you just comment on what you see on tv in media etc. If anyone followed this weekend results based on investment and how well drilled their defences are stoke, man city, Chelski and Liverpool shouldn’t have conceded or in the case of Citeh given away a 2 goal lead. Our pre season against the managers wishes was spent commercialising,and we are seeing the results of that. plus a new look defence. Till October we’re still in pre-season which none of you experts have realised.
Arsene wenger has never been defensive minded, we all know that. The board has to start thinkin well.