theHotHead wrote:Phil71 wrote:It’s Wenger’s legacy.
He is to blame. He left us with this group of players. Far too many of them are simply not good enough.
No its not!!
The fitst thing Emery should have done is improved us defensively, we look worse defensively than under Wenger. Our football is mostly poor and our attack inefficiency is meh. The players are capable of better as they have proved during parts of the season.
It's not possible to improve defensively with the players he inherited.
He needed to sell them all and get a new defence, but we have a bunch of clowns for players with contracts they are quite happy to sit on.
It pains me to listen to people convince themselves that Kos, Bellerin Mustafi, AMN, Jenkinson, Holding et al are actually anything other than complete clowns when it comes to defending. It's going to take ages to get rid of that lot and build an actual defence.
I did hear that Jenkinson was given a new contract - that's a clear Emery mistake, but other than that he's going to need about 5 seasons to wash out the crap from the squad.
We're just going to have to be patient and accept what we are now, just one of 7-8 teams who fight for 6th until the effects of Wenger are gone. That is going to be many years away.
There are actually quite a few promising players coming through who have not been contaminated by Wenger... I am loking forward to seeing their development.