I’m over talking Unai Emery now and basically from this point on I consider it the board / ownerships fault. I’ve always thought he never should have got the job, but now everyone has seen he isn’t up to the challenge except for the Arsenal hiercachy.
Unai isn’t exactly going to hand in his resignation, so if the board and ownership won’t do what needs to be done, this is well and truly on them.
Are our players just that tactically inept, or is this the manager’s doing?
Maybe years of Wenger has left the club in a state of ineptitude when it comes to defending. Years of just concentrating on passing moves and freedom on the pitch has left the whole club tactically weak. Talking from grass roots to first team.
You see that’s how I see and associate Emirates Arsenal.
Time after time there’s been an abundance of these situations highlighted in television analysis.
This sort of stuff won’t be put right in all likelihood with Freddie, and for me the real reason why we won’t make four.
Even with a bounce factor these mistakes are always going to be costly.
So need a big big personality as well as a good taction.
I still can’t believe that Arsenal briefing. It’s actually mental that they’re “100%” behind a guy who couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery, let alone a football team!
There are no reasons to keep Emery as manager. Not a single one. None. Our football hasn’t improved, the results are bad and and the players haven’t kicked on under him. The players are better than his “coaching” will have us believe.
We are not finishing in the top 4 under this guy and to keep him on is ludicrous. Perhaps we won’t get top 4 with someone else either but we need to at least give it a go! To borrow a description from @InvincibleDB10 ‘s book, by keeping Unai, the board are telling us we’re a club where mediocrity is embraced.
Yeah but Wenger wasn’t a Fergie going out as a champion, so the differential isn’t anywhere as big for us. It’s just extremely disappointing not to have moved on. United have gone from champions to also rans.
This is a big difference, Fergie left United with 8 titles in his last 13 seasons, Wenger left us without a league title in 13 seasons, it’s apples and oranges.
I worry you’ve got nothing to hope for right now, we’re still in the EL spots, Int. breaks now and then maybe; we’ll play Soton and Norwich, comfortably the two worst teams in the league right now, they have less points than us combined and have won two games each this season - if we fail to get results there maybe there’s a chance for you.
I do think we (board) are trying our best to not look like we’re panicking with managers, I really think we do not want to look like United to the outside, as long as we’re staying in the EL spots (money) we will not go for a mid-season sacking, if we are actually starting to look like we will miss out on that with time left to save it then maybe something drastic will happen.
Obviously the board believe Emery may still be able to turn it around although I would think that opinion is starting to wear thin.
What is needed from Emery is an ability to see his constant formulas don’t work against opposition who objective is to out pace Arsenal in every aspect of the game.
Of course he can bring in backroom staff which will use new training to improve the pace Arsenal play at but can Emery accept it, not sure. He’s showing no flexibility to adapt so he looks doomed along with the season.
That to me is the real problem.