Unai Emery has come out swinging in the media and to be quite honest, it’s a sight to behold. I’ve always suspected he was a bit on the spectrum, his words really drive home that point for me. This proclamation was particularly delicious for me.
“In Paris, I missed the chance to become the best coach in the world,”
My word. For starters.
“My mastery of French was enough to explain and make me understood,”
Trying to become the greatest with basic French, in a city that’ll throw shade for speaking French with an accent they dislike, is not a good start if you’re a serious person.
He then upset the most expensively assembled squad in the world, had them playing negatively, and tanked a one-horse race to Monaco. He is the only coach to have had a full season with the Sheikhs and not win a league title.
He was such a cuck, that his assessment of his time in Paris was basically, ‘Neymar was the leader’, and ‘I was in the out-group.’
“A player, a president and a coach. Each time, a different leader profile. I know when I’m the main person in a group and when I’m not.
“It’s a process that every coach has to live and internalise, it’s something you learn with time and experience.
“In each club you must know what role you play and what role you assign to the rest of the group. My opinion is that at PSG the leader is called Neymar.
“Or more exactly, the leader will be called Neymar, because that is what he is becoming. Neymar came to PSG to be the leader, to live the necessary process to become the world’s number one.
He took over a defence that conceded 19 under Blanc and conceded 30% more goals. He took over an elite attack that had scored 102 and tanked it to 83. Things turned around the next season when Monaco was decimated and PSG went on a wild spending spree. He was a joke in the media, a laughing stock with the players, and the football was negative.
Fast-forward to yesterday.
“Arsenal was a club on a downward slope for two years before I arrived. We stopped this fall and even began to rebuild the club with the Europa League final and fifth place in the league, only one point off Tottenham despite the fact that we took just one point in our final five matches. We had Champions League qualification in our grasp and it went wrong in the end. But it was a good season and we had this notion of continuing to improve. But we lost our four captains: [Laurent] Koscielny, [Petr] Cech, [Aaron] Ramsey and [Nacho] Monreal. They were personalities that we missed this season to stay on the right track, and some stars did not have a good attitude and asked for more than what they were giving back. Taking all of that into account, we needed time to succeed with our transition to a new Arsenal, which is what I wanted.”
It’s clear he’s out here trying to land a new job, I hope it happens for him, but cherry-picking what happened is embarrassing.
He was a disaster start to finish. No club in our situation would have hired him if they’d done even 5 minutes worth of due diligence. He landed the job because Canales put him forward, which is an outrageous privilege to start with. He didn’t learn the language. He had no connection with the squad. He didn’t know what he was trying to do on the pitch. No one wanted to play for him. The fans couldn’t stand the football.
Was he helped by what Wenger and Ivan left him? No. But he knew what the situation was when he took over, he had a presentation of the ages to explain how he was going to return us to greatness. He had a good sense of what needed to be done as well, fix the defence, be the protagonists, play great football… but he was a classroom manager. He couldn’t take complex football theory and execute it in terms players could understand.
Now we are where we are, overseeing the worst Premier League season in our history.
The players seem in a better place. This is Mesut.
“As a team, we are much happier and everyone wants to give everything for this club”
“Especially tactically we have improved a lot and I hope in the future we will be more successful.”
This is Lacazette.
“We are more together now. The way we think as well on the pitch and outside the pitch. Tactically we are better and we’re going to see a big improvement in the next few weeks.”
The next two months is huge for us, we need to rack up points to clear relegation, we need to find the balance between attack and defence, and we need to take the good vibes behind the scenes and see some output. Great process is all well and good, but obviously, we’re still in the business of points.
Hopefully, we’ll see a decent cup run.
Right, see you in the comments. x
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Pedro
Appreciate the post when it’s clear there’s nothing happening to really write about!
Emery:”we needed time to succeed with our transition to a new Arsenal”
His new Arsenal = Sevilla. He has ZERO Arsenal DNA.
Deleted footage from Mesut’s interview said: What is the difference between Unai and Arteta “Under Arteta I’m playing (lil smirk)” Unai departed very honorably and I actually liked that. Even in the press he posed as a gentleman and now Comes out with words he probably wanted to say since very long. One thing is very constant in all aspects,phases , sports, etc in life. Someone who whines about external factors instead of realising and correcting his own mistakes never really makes progress in life. Unai is probably in the top 1 or 2% in the football world and what… Read more »
Nelson
He has ZERO Arsenal DNA.
But he got serious Arsenal COMPENSATION.?
“Arsenal was a club on a downward slope for two years before I arrived. We stopped this fall and even began to rebuild the club with the Europa League final and fifth place in the league, only one point off Tottenham despite the fact that we took just one point in our final five matches. We had Champions League qualification in our grasp and it went wrong in the end. But it was a good season and we had this notion of continuing to improve. But we lost our four captains: [Laurent] Koscielny, [Petr] Cech, [Aaron] Ramsey and [Nacho] Monreal.… Read more »
Not just Emery but myself included pointed out the players were shit and difficult to coach….
“No club in our situation would have hired him if they’d done even 5 minutes worth of due diligence. ” Same can be said for our present hire if due diligence is what you are peddling What did we need most of all after Wenger? Answer : A swift return to the Champions league for the money. So we hired someone who will mix and match to get points on board and who understood the Europa league ..result a point off third and a loss in the final. If some of these players some of you are so keen to… Read more »
Pedro, “It’s clear he’s out here trying to land a new job, I hope it happens for him, but cherry-picking what happened is embarrassing” Its OK for Arsenal fans and players to constantly abuse him on social media and he’s not supposed to defend himself, right? He was rightly sacked because he wasn’t getting the right results but most of what he’s saying is true. The notion that Arsenal have improved since he’s sacked is debatable. Look at Ozil’s behavior when he was substituted by Freddie? The Club knew they were taking a risk getting rid of all the experience… Read more »
As a self-promotion tactic I think Unai’s bleating to the media is as uninspiring and damning as anything he did as a manager at either PSG or AFC.
A big boy did it and then ran away is playground stuff Mr Emery.
Shirking accountability and bigging up abject failure is not the thing any elite operation is going to be looking for in its figure head appointment.
Still I guess he can always call up the magic PowerPoint, it must be something truly spectacular if it is what persuaded the Arsenal that he was what they were looking for.
Top read Pedro.
Those who still defend Emery should just consider the dignity Arsene has maintained since he was ousted.
Arsenal bottled it by sacking a winner.
They knew demands on the board to improve the squad were on the horizon so they chopped Emery’s knees and opted for a stooge replacement…
“Arsenal was a club on a downward slope for two years before I arrived.”
Is the above the problem? Is that the classless comment?
If we were not on a downward spiral surely we would not have sacked our longest serving manager …Seems some of you can ditch out words like garbage, clown and clueless but act all hurt and ask for “class” when someone simply points out the truth
RH ““Arsenal was a club on a downward slope for two years before I arrived.” Is the above the problem? Is that the classless comment?” I’m not sure there is one person who disagrees that we were on a downward slope . But then again , if you look at United , Tottenham, Chelsea and even City , all are on a downward slope. Arsenal’s downward slope was a slow regression which took over ten years( from the pinnacle) , it turned into a downward spiral under Emery. In 18 months Emery increased the regression from 6th position ( when… Read more »
People are acting like Emery kept our players locked in dark cellar for past eighteen months when in fact he got more points and went further in Europe than wenger did in his last season. I don’t understand psychology of it but people are way too angry about Emery reign, he did what he paid to do, steady the ship while clearing out senior players and introduce youth. Arteta not going to fix our squad adequately either over next year or two, it is long term project that is going to take awhile. I think we are missing a lot… Read more »
“He can’t make those luxurious runs he used to make at Arsenal – there are 5-6 players ahead of him tasked with those responsibilities.”
“Luxurious runs”?
You do realise most midfielders don’t have the bottle or engine to make those runs? You could give all our current midfielders the license to make those runs and they wouldn’t, because they prefer to sit deep and pass it square.
The absolute state of our midfield this season and you’re still none the wiser.
“In 18 months Emery increased the regression from 6th position ( when he took over) to 12th position ( when he was fired).So he did not stabilise the position at all, in 18 months he doubled the regression.” I know you think you just made sense or played a clever game with words Emery was not sacked for his work in 18 months He was sacked for a bad run of results (mostly draws) starting this season Last season he won 21 league games, finished two points off third, had a better finish in the top is H2H table and… Read more »
The reaction to Emery’s comments are not a surprise.
Fans didn’t want to hear a lot of that stuff in the summer (departing captains), so no surprise it gets a short shrift now.
He then upset the most expensively assembled squad in the world, had them playing negatively, and tanked a one-horse race to Monaco.
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PSG’s negative football aside, Monaco finished on 95 points, had a 20 game unbeaten run while winning 18, had two top scorers with 30 and 26 goals, topped their CL group against the sauciest manager in Poch, dismissed Pep’s City and BD in last 16 and quarters, and sold some 400m of talent the following season.
Stop with the one horse race nonsense will you.
It makes you look silly.
Pedro,
It was definitely a two horse race.
In fact, Monaco that year was such a thoroughbred that the two richest clubs in the world decided they needed best chunks of it.
Emery’s champion unsurprisingly leading the ‘nothing wrong with that’ charge.
Still besotted, still embarrassed by how stupid that allegiance has proven to be.
Pedro consistently overlooks one thing that Emery did for us that was good: the unbeaten run when for the first time in years it wasn’t painful being an Arsenal fan. Emery simply being in charge was bliss, it was a rebound relationship after years of an abusive marriage. Did it with out in the long run? No. Was it better than what we had? Yes.
Honestly the Emery hate is getting tiring. We all know he isn’t Pep or Klopp. It’s not like Arteta is either, although I have high hopes in the long term.
Pedro
Question
Why you giving air time to emery ?
He had his chance and left the building.
If an old Richard kept talking bout you after you spilt, your new beau would rightly get the petrol init?
Right
Pepe first goal score gonna be a big price …lump on.
Silly comment from a silly person
Address the points being made rather than seek refuge in silly comments
I see you are back in your elements, a full blown AKB where the coach can’t be questioned or God forbid critiqued. Everything about Arsenal now is rosy since the garbage clueless clown left. He dare not grant interviews either.
Abeg shift.
Emery deserved his sack undoubtedly
However he has every right to rebuff all the silly nonsense that the perma-misfits at Arsenal are saying about him.
Ozil still can’t get an assist after Emery
Mustafi is still costing us with individual errors after his exit
Laca has deteriorated since Emery left, he needs to find his scoring boots before talking nonsense
Why didn’t these players give Freddie a big bounce just to stick the finger at Emery?
*However he has every right to rebut all the silly nonsense that the perma-misfits at Arsenal are saying about him.
The only language I want from these perma-misfits at the club is PERFORMANCE.
That’s how you help the new manager, not the smoke blowing exercise they are all doing.
The club needs to tell them to cut it out, maybe Arteta needs to quietly tell them to stop taking cheap digs at the last guy.
RSPC, I write what’s in the news. This was a big talking point.
Emery narcissist
Wenger narcissist.
Hopefully Arteta isn’t.
We will soon find out
Dissenter
“However he has every right to rebuff all the silly nonsense that the perma-misfits(ozil, mustafi, Lacazette)at Arsenal are saying about him(Emery)”
Are you sure that anyone has said any “silly nonsense ” about Emery.
I think you are making the usual mistake of believing everything you read in the media.
Pierre
I’m sure the subtle and not so obvious digs at the last manager are lost on you.
The same way you missed Emery dig about the decline in the preceding two seasons before he came on board.
Dissenter, Emery didn’t really make a dig, he just stated fact. Managers don’t normally pick up jobs where the club is on the up and up. Seems an odd thing to use as an excuse crutch.
Emery is classless. Emery is awful. Emery is the shittest thing since shit. Some people are just too emotional about this Emery stuff. Emery was sacked, rightfully, for our poor results this season. But the revisionism here that last season was awful is baffling. You people saying Emery was wrong to give those comments, put yourself in his position. Your subordinates trash talking you in public as they see fit. You want to talk about classless, why not mention Leno’s comments? All the players saying “things have improved since Emery left, it was a mess” and yet we’ve had 2… Read more »
So Pedro if he didn’t make a dig but state a fact what are we discussing?
Do you think our stars have given all they can to this club?
If he had won the champions league with PSG after three straight Europa leagues with Sevilla wouldn’t he have been mentioned in the conversation as one of the best in the world?
Seems odd to pick on a man stating facts.
Dissenter
You said they were “saying nonsense” about Emery, now you’re saying it is subtle digs.
In other words , they said nothing , just people twisting perfectly reasonable comments into ” subtle digs”
Pedro
I agree.
My point was dipped in sarcasm because Pierre was open-eyed enough to spot the swing Emery made at Wenger but he’s in denial as to the intention of the repeated comments the perma-misfits are making about former manager.
Subtle digs can also be nonsense
Wenger may not have said much this far regarding his time here, and that is obviously a degree of class involved, but thy e book he has stated he will write will be a fascinating read. And I am sure there will be some sweet stuff in there. Emery probably should have kept his counsel as he had been up until the last few weeks. He is a decent coach who would make a success out of a mid level La Liga side, but ultimately not good enough for us. I doubt he is doing this to put himself on… Read more »
The decline has been longer than just two seasons, it’s been more like 12 seasons..
Emery was totally wrong.
If he knew anything about Arsenal FC, he would have known that we had been “on a downward slope” for at least eight years prior to his arrival.
That was his first big mistake.
Unai Emery’s opening spell of the first 22 games could not have been in sharper contrast to the rest of his tenure at Arsenal when at first the team faltered and then gradually deteriorated with each successive game. A measure of the success of a manager’s time with a club could be made by assessing what he left with respect to what he inherited. In almost every way Arsenal was left in its worst state for over three decades and to assume in his own words in respect of the closing segment of the previous season despite the results proving… Read more »
Another delusional twisted fan who believes in a total novice.
Aubameyang’s bottled penalty miss against Spurs cost us top 4…..Period..
I dont get it Senor Emery . He first refuses to play Ramsey , Koscielny I can understand he was a prick . Monreal as available whole season then Tierney was identified as replacement. Cech had alrwady announced his departure. Blaming lack of leadership is a bit dim coming from him. As a manager of Arsenal shouldnt he have shown a bit of leadership ? No instead he decides to choose five more captains & proceeds to throw one of them under the bus. That he made the team worse then he inherited it is a damning indictment of his… Read more »
We didn’t beat United and Chelsea at home in the first 22 games
Nor Valencia and Napoli
Infact the only people obsessed with the meaningless 22 game unbeaten fun are the ones acting like spurned lovers right now.
Sad and sorry period of our history.. Lol…have you even been following Arsenal
Emery was sacked for poor results ao when is this current clown going to be sacked for poor results.
Receeding
Even if we accept the premise that we were only good for 22 games, how about people just stating that we were good for only 22 games [however false it may be]
Now you have Pedro trying to shoe-horn his own interpretation of history as fact. There were games that we played at home that had the Emirates chanting “we have our Arsenal back”
How can anyone say the fans never took to Emery when they were chanting “we have our Arsenal back”?
Emery lost way ultimately and deserved his sack but it’s this falsification that’s laughable.
AT
“If you compare Emery’s last 9 games to Arteta’s first 9, Arsenal have given up 6% possession and had 26% less shots on target. This has been traded for a reduction of 9 shots on target (1 per game) from the opposition.”
Dissenter, that away game at Fulham was special, no doubt… but on reflection, you have to be real, it was the last remnants of Wengerball.
We soon shook that off after January. To Pierre’s point, he took over a team that finished 6th and left us in 12th. Quite the decline.
Two players already pre signed.???????
Now we set up deal to sign Pape Gueye.?????
🎅🏼🎅🏼🎅🏼🎅🏼🎅🏼
Let’s not forget Emery’s last 9 games were terrible but still better than the Novice’s opening 9 games.
Redtruth, 3rd best coach in the world couldn’t lift this team, and you want Arteta to change it in 6 weeks. smh
Pedro
Out of interest who is the 3rd best coach in the world?
I thought we had hired the guy who would take over from the top 2 – Klopp and Pep!
Pedro The home fans went beserk when we beat United, Chelsea and Spuds. Emery had the fans with him for a while and many understood the obvious fact that is bedeviling Arteta too; we have too many average and ill-suited players. We had several games lost/drawn last season due to individual errors. You were in denial last season and very conflicted this season. Now you too are talking about a proper clear-out for Arteta to be able to mount a top-4 challenge. He got sacked for poor performance, end off. He undoubtedly deserved it. The problem is you’ve run with… Read more »
Receding
You’re as straw man as it gets yet tell people to address what’s being said? Shut up.
Out you come in valiant defence of Emery as expected, the man that achieved nothing at Arsenal and missed every target going culminating in our worst season in 50 years.
He left with grace, and now he’s soiled it with petty bollocks and excuse making for his own ineptitude. Of course you resonate with that type of character.
Dissenter, it wasn’t a principled argument you had, you defended him because you thought he was great and that he’d come good.
This Papa Gueye has Guendouzi’s attributes, another ligue 2 midfielder who needs 1-3 seasons to be well rounded.
Bossing Ligue 2 is not the same as doing well in the premier league.
Marc
“Out of interest who is the 3rd best coach in the world?”
Where have you been all this while?
You need to read the chronicles of TR7.
The missing manager in the triumvirate of top-3 managers is vacationing in Argentina post-dismissal from Spuds.
Ancelotti has turned Everton around in 6 weeks and in the process overtaking Arsenal by amassing 17 points to Arsenal’s paltry 8 points…
Pedro Nah I defended Emery because he was taking over a mess left by Wenger and needed enough TIME to undo it. The same argument you are now making on behalf of Arteta. Unlike Emery where we never argued to decouple results from performance, you are willing to argue to suspend habeas corpus to defend Arteta. I always stated that Emery shouldn’t even get a footnote in Arsenal’s history if he doesn’t get a result. He’s not missed at all. Problem is that you are willing to use to silly utterances of perma-misfits to attack him. Laca still isn’t scoring,… Read more »
I don’t think Emery was around long enough to leave a mess unlike the 22 years of foulness from Wenger
Dissenter
I know there are those who say the Pooooooooooooooooch is the 3rd best manager in the world.
He’s undoubtedly a good coach but if he moves to a big club in his next role he will have to win something. It’s hysterical that some (Pedro included) actually argue that winning stuff doesn’t matter. As the Poooooooooooooooooooch coverts the Madrid job he’d better not believe this bullshit because they sack managers even after winning major trophies!
Pedro,
“Dissenter, it wasn’t a principled argument you had, you defended him because you thought he was great and that he’d come good”
What’s wrong with doing this? Isn’t the same thing fans doing now with MA?
Pedro , correction we were 8th and 8 points off 4th when Emery was sacked
Now we are 10th and 10 points off 4th.
Next game v Newcastle is a must win
Dis “””I defended Emery because he was taking over a mess left by Wenger”””” Mess??? Do you know the meaning of the word ? Wenger whose last ever home match was a 5- 0 drubbing of resolute Burnley and his last away victory was a 1-0 victory over Huddersfield Town. (Wengers last 2 games were clean sheets.) Let’s see if we can get 2 clean sheets consecutively untill the end of this season If folk think -Wenger left a mess with players like : Ramsey,Ozil,Kos, Mikki, Laca,PEA, Iwobi, Monreal, Welbeck, Cech ,Xhaka,Bellerin, Holding still on the staff -I shudder to… Read more »
https://youtu.be/HNebYAPE01M First video on Pape Gueye just popped up. Looks pretty good tbh, hard to judge his level in a 10 minute clip of ligue 2 games though. As much as I’d like us to go out and buy someone like Soumare he’s probably going to go for 50m this summer and have more attractive clubs bidding for him. He’s pretty new to Ligue 1 himself so if we can find the next Soumare for 5m with just a year or so less experience I’m not complaining. Not sure about the comparisions to Guen, sure they’re both midfielders from Ligue… Read more »
GunnerDNA, nothing wrong with it, just own it.
Freddie, have we signed him?
GunnerDNA difference is Arteta is great, David Luiz says so and Pedro agrees. No one actually called Emery great by the way, people just respected his antecedents and hoped his two years here will set us on the right part. Sadly for him it ended badly and he has every right to reminisce on why if interviewed by a major publication. No sacked coach ever said I was rubbish there especially one who wasn’t. Non story being dragged out by obsessives. Petty bollocks because he said were on a downward spiral and certain players didn’t pull their weight and I’m… Read more »
Pedro , Some of the stuff u said was true but Come on, Mbappe, B.Silva, Lemar, Falcao, Fabinho, Bakayoko, Mendy, Sidibe and more wasn’t a team of underdogs. It was elite, just didn’t cost the world for Monaco to assemble. On Emery, yeah he is throwing mud but so are our players. It was a chaotic reign and The football wasn’t great but the results were certainly better than now in his first season. I just wish our player have the brain capacity to not say a lot when we are in 10th. If we are marching to top 4… Read more »
Wenger won diddly-squat in Europe unlike 3 time winner Emery.
The 8-2 demolition of Arsenal should have seen Wenger hung from the nearest lamp post
Ramsey,
Ozil, – semi retired, hasn’t been good for more than 2 years
Kos, over the hill
Mikki, never been good in the PL
Laca, overrated and hasn’t scored away in a year
PEA, our only great player from the Wenger era
Iwobi, squad level
Monreal, over the hill
Welbeck, injury prone, squad level
Cech , over the hill, now retired
Xhaka, trash
Bellerin, injury prone, has hardly played
Holding injury prone, has hardly played.
not to mention all the other crocks, mediocre players on inflated wages stopping us from upgrading.
Mess.
Pedro
No. Been a lot of reports in the last 2 days that we’re close to a deal though so thought it was worth checking him out. A punt worth taking imo.
Truth not disagreeing, but time passes and we move on.
I thought emery was going to be better, he weren’t.
I have had ? On art but think why not he is keen, fresh ideas players should be encouraged by him..
My conversion for hi gets stronger with little signs I see.
Bu5bagain time will tell..
Truth
Your the blog Larry David init.
Freddie, what a prospect. Power, pace, tight control and a great range of passing. Kid looks strong as well, exactly what we need.
Emery will be sorely missed when this current fruitcake is exposed as a fraud
Freddie
Serious question
Is he really much better than anything we have coming 5hrougn 5he ranks.?
Red, you badly need that to be the case.
Pedro
It’s like watching a league one player tho…
Could work but a big gamble.
5m
In the scheme never used to be big to us but is now.
Red
Can’t help but read your comments without the curb your enthuasim tune going through my head.
RSPC, France is such a melting pot of talent, could be a great move.
Pedro
Has all the traits for sure, like I said, hard to judge his level but looks worth a 5m punt for sure. Those that have watched him have only high praise for him too from what I’ve read.
rspca
We don’t really have any DM/CM players coming up from the academy as far as I know that are really highly rated, Burton probably the closest to that but don’t think he’s nearly enough ready and probably isn’t on the same level.
Only real talent we seem to have in the youths are in attacking positions.
Why can Ancellotis in a short space of time get results and our manager can’t…answers on a post card
Looks a great prospect and fingers crossed we sign him
Let’s hope so Pedro…
Bu5 does it mean curtains for which player currently tho.?
Ruth
“Let’s not forget Emery’s last 9 games were terrible but still better than the Novice’s opening 9 games.”
I’m not sure how you work that one out.
Arteta first 9 games
Played….9
Won……..3
Drawn…..5
Lost………1
Emery last 9 games
Played ….9
Won………1
Drawn……5
Lost…………3
I don’t mind taking a punt on a player like him. but If he is our marquee signing and he fails someone must be held responsible. That’s how an efficient organization is run.
Got games for the France u20s too, with the sheer amount of talented midfielders they produce you have to show something special to get game time there as a ligue 2 player. Promising signs.
Emery doesn’t need to be remembered as a complete failure for Arteta to be a success
The past 18 months must not be rewritten as a disaster before fans give Arteta the time he needs to work
Move on from Emery, he did his best, it wasn’t good enough for a number of reasons, he was moved on.
End of
Freddie
Two youths who I’m hoping for big things
Sam g
Floaura b.
Both strikers tho…
RSPCA curtains will be for AMN unless he is our new CAM.
Habesha
We probably can’t make a marquee signing in every position we have to strengthen though.
CB/CM/Cam, maybe striker and LW depending on what happens with Laca and Auba.
Lots of holes to fill still and the budget will only stretch so far.
He’s only cheap because he’ll have a year left of his contract in the summer, smart move if we make it imo.
Pierre
AT
“If you compare Emery’s last 9 games to Arteta’s first 9, Arsenal have given up 6% possession and had 26% less shots on target. This has been traded for a reduction of 9 shots on target (1 per game) from the opposition.”