Jamie Carragher: You can make an argument that Unai Emery is the third best manager in this Premier League. If you back over the last 12 months since he came in at Villa, if you are talking about Man Utd, Aston Villa are a better coached team than United. There is no doubt about that.
Emery is a phenomenal manager and all these discussions below about what Pep would have done with Aston Villa or where Emery would have been with City are completely pointless since they are based on “What ifs” and nothing more.
Ha! You think that would matter? Look at what Emery did with Torreira. He tried to take a really good deep-lying midfielder with 4 goals in 77 appearances and make him a goal scoring threat. When it didn’t work, he ghosted him.
He had Aubameyang, Ozil, Lacazette, Leno, Cech. Hardly an EFL Championship team.
That’s 2 keepers, both Arsenal have since deemed not good enough and 3 players who I’ve seen far more criticisms than praise in their last seasons from Arsenal fans
Only arsenal fans would agree with this.
Alone this summer:
Handling of ramsdale and raya : highly questionable
Not buying a striker of proven pedigree: very questionable.
Not buying another centre half: when a lack of decent back ups in this position in particular cost you the league title: madness. Before I’m corrected on timber being bought, yes, he’s a some time centre half but you need 4 decent options to challenge in reality and arsenal only really had 2 before.
Last year the whole squads lack of depth exposed them as the season wore on and really he only really replaced those allowed to move on for the most part and then £40m on a goalie when that was the least needed part of the puzzle. Just really quite odd.
Couple that with the klopp levels of not being able to accept blame for a bad result? Well I think you’ll struggle to find non arsenal fans with sympathy
Okay, what would have Emery done at Arsenal?
With the team he had then or the team Arteta has now?
Ha! You think that would matter? Look at what Emery did with Torreira. He tried to take a really good deep-lying midfielder with 4 goals in 77 appearances and make him a goal scoring threat. When it didn’t work, he ghosted him. He had Aubameyang, Ozil, Lacazette, Leno, Cech. Hardly an EFL Championship team.
That’s 2 keepers, both Arsenal have since deemed not good enough and 3 players who I’ve seen far more criticisms than praise in their last seasons from Arsenal fans
Only arsenal fans would agree with this. Alone this summer:
Handling of ramsdale and raya : highly questionable Not buying a striker of proven pedigree: very questionable. Not buying another centre half: when a lack of decent back ups in this position in particular cost you the league title: madness. Before I’m corrected on timber being bought, yes, he’s a some time centre half but you need 4 decent options to challenge in reality and arsenal only really had 2 before.
Last year the whole squads lack of depth exposed them as the season wore on and really he only really replaced those allowed to move on for the most part and then £40m on a goalie when that was the least needed part of the puzzle. Just really quite odd.
Couple that with the klopp levels of not being able to accept blame for a bad result? Well I think you’ll struggle to find non arsenal fans with sympathy