Unai Emery - Ex-Arsenal Manager

RooneyLegend

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The question is how is he still in a job? Him and Ole really are specialist's of job retention.
 

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He's been an absolute disaster for them, long may it continue. His stint there means one less rival for us to to worry about. (If we get the W today we leap frog them.)
 

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pathetic decision. I never seen a better time to sack a manager middle of season. 2 week break coming up. New manager will have as kind of start as you can get with Southampton home, Norwich away and Brighton home in the league. They bottled it thinking emery can win these games and fans will be happy again
 

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He's been an absolute disaster for them, long may it continue. His stint there means one less rival for us to to worry about. (If we get the W today we leap frog them.)
Harsh. Arsenal was always going to struggle to get back to the top. A decade
Or more of decline can’t be recovered in a few seasons. I have a suspicion there are deep structural problems at Arsenal that deserve the most blame.
 

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Harsh. Arsenal was always going to struggle to get back to the top. A decade
Or more of decline can’t be recovered in a few seasons. I have a suspicion there are deep structural problems at Arsenal that deserve the most blame.
nothing to do with structure. Arsenal is giving breaking records in shots given away. Bournemouth, Burnley, villa and wolves have come to Arsenal and outplayed them at home. Wolves who are not good away from home had 25 shots on them. Watford who just had their first win had 31 shots against them. He is definition of small team manager. Big clubs drop points against smaller teams, but they don’t get outplayed. He doesn’t believe in possession and want to build his whole attack on fullbacks. No manager at big club does that for a reason.
 

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Can’t be putting the blame solely on Emery anymore, the board are the ones that need to take action now. Emery’s just blundering around with no clue, it’s down to them to put the fix in.
 

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He's been an absolute disaster for them, long may it continue. His stint there means one less rival for us to to worry about. (If we get the W today we leap frog them.)
Just had a look at table and you're still a point off them although of course it's very tight.

They have likes of Southampton and Brighton at home next few games so they'll probably win a couple and get excited again as that's what Arsenal tend to do.
 

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Some Emery & Xhaka news:
Arsenal’s head of football, Raul Sanllehi, and the managing director, Vinai Venkatesham, insist the club still have the right man in charge.

“We are as disappointed as everyone else with both our results and performances at this stage of the season,” they told Arsenal staff at a pre-planned meeting.

“We share the frustration with our fans, Unai, players and all our staff as they are not at the level we want or expect. Things need to improve to meet our objectives for the season, and we firmly believe Unai is the right man for the job, together with the backroom team we have in place.

“We are all working intensively behind the scenes to turn things around and are confident we will. We never take our fantastic support for granted. We hope we can all stick together and get behind the team in this challenging period, as together we are stronger.”
Granit Xhaka told the Swiss newspaper Blick on Monday: “I feel that the incident has been dealt with and I’m ready to return.

“If the team and I don’t play well, we have to listen and work on it. But insulting and swearing at your own captain will cause upset and a bad atmosphere for the team you are actually supposed to be supporting. That makes no sense to me and weakens the team’s spirit.

“Their criticism, when it’s fair, makes you grow as an athlete. But at a time you are already experiencing a lot of hostility and your own football family insults you, it hurts a lot. The rules of common decency and respect are obviously no longer valid for a lot of people.”

He denied suggestions that he might leave as early as January after the incident which led to him losing the club captaincy.

“I’ve been 100 per cent behind the club and my role as a player since I came here,” he added. “I’m proud to be playing for this big club. I’ll continue to stay positive, give my all to an even greater extent and prove that I’m an important part of this great team.”

(Guardian)
 

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Those comments from Xhaka... don’t think the fans will like that

He’s putting all the blame on them
 

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Those comments from Xhaka... don’t think the fans will like that

He’s putting all the blame on them
Nothing wrong with what he is saying to be honest. Criticising his performances is one thing. The personal insults towards him and his family is unacceptable
 

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I’d take Emery over Ole, any day of the week.
Arsenal fans need to see this puppy out because he is a proven winner with a great track record. Arsenal just need to sort out their defending.
Like us, they are a club that need a big rebuild but they have the right manager. Our similarities end because we don’t have anything to gauge our manager on.
Absolutely not. They're a terrible and have looked worse than United this season.
 

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Find it extremely unlikely Arsenal will stick with him much longer now, Spurs sacking Poch has made the decision just to let Emery go at the end of the season an impossible one now, they'll be forced to do it sooner
 

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The club should show some fecking balls and get rid now, there is no way he is good enough and can't see him improving us or this team bouncing back so why prolong the suffering? Our form since the end of last season has been bottom half standard, this is not a bad run of 2-3 games. For months and months things have not been good enough, hell I'd say since he joined!

He seems like a nice guy and clear he is struggling to pick up the language and the players go out on the pitch looking like they don't have a clue what they are doing. We give away chances for us fun, get outplayed and out shot at home. He's suppose to be pragmatic but we can't defend for shit and our attack is a shambles as well.
 

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I never bought into him from the start but he has flopped miserably with them. They are as bad if not worse than last Wenger days.

Fingere crossed they don't get Poch before us.
 

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It’s a joke that he’s still in charge. We’ve been a different shade of awful in literally every match in the league this season. Every team we play dominates us now, doesn’t matter where they are in the table or how bad their form is.
 

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I never bought into him from the start but he has flopped miserably with them. They are as bad if not worse than last Wenger days.

Fingere crossed they don't get Poch before us.
Much worse. And Poch isn’t coming to Arsenal. :lol:
 

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The club should show some fecking balls and get rid now, there is no way he is good enough and can't see him improving us or this team bouncing back so why prolong the suffering? Our form since the end of last season has been bottom half standard, this is not a bad run of 2-3 games. For months and months things have not been good enough, hell I'd say since he joined!

He seems like a nice guy and clear he is struggling to pick up the language and the players go out on the pitch looking like they don't have a clue what they are doing. We give away chances for us fun, get outplayed and out shot at home. He's suppose to be pragmatic but we can't defend for shit and our attack is a shambles as well.
Sounds very like United's situation...difference is I can see Arsenal pulling the trigger very shortly while Ole and Woodward will bullshit fans saying it will take three years to even beat the likes of West Ham and Southampton away
 

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I never bought into him from the start but he has flopped miserably with them. They are as bad if not worse than last Wenger days.

Fingere crossed they don't get Poch before us.
He is much worse than Wenger in his final two years.
Every a game is a 50:50 game under him, think the last convincing win was against Fulham(?) in the league last season. And even there we were really clinical.

Under Wenger our xG was better against 15 from 19 teams, now even a point at home against Southampton is lucky.
 

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Much worse. And Poch isn’t coming to Arsenal. :lol:
If he's offered the job he will take it imo. Will be a dream for Arsenal board as well due to him achieving results without much money. As for Poch I don't think he has much loyalty to Spurs to refuse other jobs in London or England. Anyway hopefully it won't happen for you!
 

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Dont think Poch will want to join a club with tightfisted owners and one that lacks ambition.
 

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Unbelievable stat, i'd like to see it applied to his time at Sevilla and Valencia. :eek:
 

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He's never in a million years a top manager. He will be back in Spain at mist likely a mid-table club in no time at all.
 

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Personally I think they should look at Allegri, he'd shore up their defence as that's their main problem. They have Saliba coming in summer and he'd learn a lot from a manager like Allegri.
 

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Hope he’s in charge till after we play them, he’ll likely rebuild his career in Spain. I’m guessing managing big personalities and the language barriers is the biggest obstacle for him. Decent manager but wrong appointment.
 

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Arsenal sticking with him the 2 weeks off internationals and sacking him a week later would sum up Arsenal perfectly. Run by clowns