Tony Adams wrote:Settle for positive signs. OK, name one that doesn't involve sideways passes on the half way line.
Sorry, I'm just annoyed at how obvious it was that a club in crisis should not appoint a head coach who has never been a head coach before. They should have brought in an experienced manager to steady the ship til the summer and given arteta the job then when he'd have a summer transfer window and full preseason.
Why did we sign Emery in the first place? That should be your question. Emery is everything Arsenal isn't. He destroyed our style, cohesion, and gameplay. Apparently, Wenger's worst season ever only happened because Gazidis begged him to stay for one more season because Arsenal had no structure in place.
And in that worst season ever, we had the second best home record in the Prem, reached the League Cup Final losing to the Centurions, and the EL SF where we lost because of a Koscielny brain fart. Emery took over a side that had won the FA Cup and had notched 75 points 12 months prior; had reached the EL SFs and the League Cup final just a few months prior. Plus, Emery had an array of talented players like Auba, Ozil, Laca, Monreal, Kosc, Mkhi, Bellerín, etc. He got defensive reenforcements in Sokratis and Leno. He got CDMs in Torreira and 'Douzi. Yet, we were worse off defensively under Unai than under Wenger.
Arteta, meanwhile, is taking over Emery who was a walking disaster for 12 of those 18 months in the Prem. He had us humiliated in the EL Final. He witnessed the most catastrophic collapse in the Prem when we were a lock for the top-4, and he left us languishing at 8th place with 6 wins out of 20 games. Then, under Freddie we slipped further down to 11th place.
Are you seriously comparing Emery's situation to the circumstances in which Arteta took over? Emery had a pre-season. He was here for 18 months. Sanllehi and Co. spent £200m for him. Yet, he sucked out all the life from Arsenal. He left us worse off than when he arrived.
Godlop wrote:Tony Adams wrote:Angelito wrote:It's amazing how many here worshipped Emery for the longest time, but are willing to take their swords out 6 games into Arteta's tenure.
Disgusting set of fans.
We aren't getting results though. In Emery's opening few games we were getting results. His substitutions appeared to be changing games.
Arteta seems clueless in game management. Affraid to make subs or makes the wrong ones, no idea how to hold on to a lead. He just sticks to the same formation and tactics regardless of the score or opponent. It may be early days but so far it feels to me like a step back to the things Wenger got wrong.
You can't compare Emery's start with Arteta's
Emery had a whole preseason, a summer transfer window and largely took over a squad from Wenger that still played good football in parts and was a force at home.
Arteta doesn't have any of this because Raul and Emery ruined the only good things left about the squad that Wenger left us with.
This.