Unai Emery set to be appointed new Arsenal manager replacing Arsene Wenger

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    mufc
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    Arsenal fans, you happy with this?

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    MoeArsenalFan
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    Over the moon being honest. Love his brand of football.

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    Al The Gooner
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    Don’t know much about the guy apart from his stats but the not knowing is the most exciting part. Under Wenger, our seasons became very predictable and the only thing that changed in the last decade was us dropping out of the top four.

    Under Wenger, I would have expected another 5th or 6th place finish and, at best, another semi-final in the Europa. It’s of course possible that the new Arsenal manager – whether it was Emery or Arteta – wouldn’t fair much better, or even do worse but right now, that’s the beauty of it – the fact we don’t know before the season has even started.

    He had an amazing record with Sevilla in the Europa so if he could repeat that in his first season with us, he’ll be off to a great start.

    Welcome to Arsenal, Unai!

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    mufc
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    Is it true he only has 50 million to spend?

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    Don’t know a huge amount about him myself, all I can go on is what I have heard from Julian Leurens on the football podcaste, he is a PSG fan, as has been calling for Emery to be sacked for months now, reckons he massively underperformed for PSG, and called him a fraud, but just maybe getting away from that club, and one team league might do him some good.

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    notnice
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    fine for Arsenal if they want him but no thanks

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    Al The Gooner
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    MUFC, Arsenal must be one of the most secretive clubs there is, so no idea where anyone gets these figures from, as I really can’t imagine anyone at the club announcing it.

    One of the Arsenal lads posted this on our forum yesterday:

    Arsenal’s “£50m budget” explained

    Might be of interest to non-Arsenal fans too as it explains exactly what it means if a club says £50m is available to the manager – it’s more than it sounds.

    With that and player sales taken into account, the new manager could do a lot with £50m. We’re sorted up front and attacking midfield and what remains to be seen is how much our defensive issues are down to the personnel and how much they were down to Wenger.

    I think Xhaka, Mustafi and Bellerin could all be very different players under the right man, but only time will tell and that’ll be up to Emery. If he doesn’t think he can do anything with them, he can sell them and just add the money to the supposed £50m.

    It’ll be interesting to see what he does with our goalkeepers. I love Cech but he was passed his best when we signed him and, as good as he still was, he’s definitely deteriorated since then. Ospina might benefit from being the permanent no.1 and having a more organised defence in front of him. I sh*t myself every time someone runs at our defence, our defence sh*ts itself every time someone runs at them and I can only imagine whats going on inside the goalkeepers head. Seaman always said what a difference it made to his game, knowing he could trust the four guys in front of him.

    The way I see it is that if Wenger could stumble through the season with that squad and somehow get 6th place, then a manager, who can motivate his players and organise a defence, won’t need to spend huge amounts to bring an immediate improvement.

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    Al – I suppose that is one way to look at it, the way is, if that squad is really that bad, maybe Arsene was a genius getting them a sixith placed finish, and if Emery really is that tactially naive as reported, where are Arsenal likely to finish next season with only £50M to spend, especially after he spent £200M on 1 player, plus another on loan worth over £100M and apparently took the team backwards last season 🙂

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    nine nine nine
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    Didn’t Emery win the French treble last season?

    #1639916

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    Nine nine nine-The dog in your picture could do the French treble if he-she managed PSG.

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    Al The Gooner
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    Pax, as everyone knows, Arsenal fans do like to moan and if you read our forum, there are several posters who insist that both Wenger and the squad are awful.

    I’ve often tried that logic with them – that if the squad was so bad, then Wenger must have been doing a pretty good job. Sure, Wenger assembled the squad but now transfer decisions have been taken out of the manager’s hands at Arsenal, that’s no longer relevant.

    The paradox is that most Gooners are in agreement that Wenger couldn’t motivate his players, he had limited tactical nous, he couldn’t organise a defence and he regularly played a system that didn’t suit the players he had. If that was the case (as I think it was) and the squad are poor (which I completely disagree with), then it’s amazing we’re still in the top flight.

    Nine, as MUFC says, I think it’s impossible to judge anyone on their time at PSG but his record at Sevilla was better.

    There’s a great article about why Gooners everywhere should be very excited about our new man.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44204959

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    steveosnakeeye
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    great link Al and does help tyo make me feel a little more confident with the appointment, anyone we get will be a risk in some way even Pep but he sounds exactly what the current squad need, looking forward to next season ….for the first time in far to long!

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    nine nine nine
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    Al, Three Europa Leagues in consecutive seasons at Sevilla and European Coach of the Year in 2014 is not to shabby. Emery may not be Pep Guardiola but he’s a very capable guy who can do a good job at Arsenal imo. ps I’m full of admiration for your posts elsewhere.

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    999 – Rodgers could be about to do the double – Treble, with less of a financial advantage than PSG would you want him as next Chelsea coach?

    I was just pointing out how he was thought of in France and apparently that is that he has taken the team backwards. As I did say at the start I don’t watch French football so all I could go on was the words of a French football journalist that supports PSG talking about how Emery was viewed in France.

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    Its hard to judge his time at PSG with the money they had but not sure what else he could have done more than win the treble. However much money you have you can’t Guarantee the champions league and they got knocked out by Barca, after taking them to the cleaners at home. I am with 99% of the fans happy and a lot more happy and optimistic than I would have been had Arteta got the job. In saying that I am not expecting Miracles as its a big job to change he mentality, playing style and for him to know which of the squad will work for him and which will not although apparently he did an excellent squad profile on the players so obviously has a good starting point.

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    nine nine nine
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    Paxman, whoever manages PSG it’s a poison chalice and if they fail to win the CL that Manager is judged a failure.

    Much better to judge Emery on his time at Sevilla winning 3 consecutive Europa Leagues and being European Coach of the Year in 2014 is none to shabby and I would have happily taken him at Chelsea!

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    killyboye
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    I think it’s an inspired choice for Arsenal, very shrewd manager and I think the PSG job is becoming a bit of a poisoned chalice, managers will take the job because of the money and newfound prestige but if you’re not challenging for the CL every season you’ll be fired. Winning League 1 should be par for the course.
    Not sure how much control Emery had over transfers in PSG. Neymar was a bit of an impulse buy I think, more brand awareness than football awareness and he (Neymar) was allowed a lot of control in the dressing room which made Emery’s job that much harder. Matuidi’s sale seemed to be to make up the numbers in regard to FFP and not down to Emery wanting to sell him, maybe it was to force Emery to play Veratti and Rabiot instead.
    I don’t think it’s fair to judge Emery on his time in PSG but he’s been immense everywhere else he’s been. He’s used to working under a director of football as he worked with Monchi (the God of Directors of Football) at Sevilla and worked wonders. I’d be very excited about this if I was Arsenal fan, next season promises to be very different, at the very least you’ll be stronger mentally that you’ve been the last few years.

    #1640106

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    999 – I wasn’t alking about his record in domestic or Champions League, I recognise that winning the CL is not a shoe in no matter how much money you spend, what the French football journalist was saying was that the quality and style of the football at PSG had regressed since Emery took over, also that some of his tactical decisions and substitutions were very questionable.

    As far as looking at previos records then I can again use the same reasoning with Rodgers as he did a fantastic job at Swansea, and then at Liverpool, he then had 1 bad part season, when he got the sack, and then has won everything he really could have with Celtic. A point made this week on football weekly.

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    Stev2bath1 – That was last year, this year they got beaten home and away by Real Madrid in the last 16.

    #1640150

    nine nine nine
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    Paxman, I don’t watch PSG with any regularity so I can’t comment on what your journalist friend said but every time I’ve watched an Emery team as I often did in La Liga they’ve looked pretty good to me.

    It’s a left of field appointment by Arsenal and unexpected but personally I think it could turn out to be a good one only time will tell as I said I would have been happy to see him at Chelsea.

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