Arsenal: Unai Emery another terrible idea for next manager

Arsenal’s search for a manager includes everyone with half a resume, and that means Unai Emery has to be considered, but does he really?

Everyone who has half a brain can tell you why a prospective manager should or should not be the successor to Arsene Wenger at Arsenal. It sure as hell doesn’t mean that they know what they are talking about. These are all opinions. In my opinions, I’d rather have Mikel Arteta‘s youthful hunger than Carlo Ancelotti’s been there, done that. You are welcome to disagree.

I am also not all that hot on the new rumors linking to Unai Emery. The Spanish manager has experience with a handful of clubs and has found relative success with them. But by relative success, I mean he seems to always peak before you’d want him to.

He really hit the international spectrum with Sevilla. La Liga is known for being a two-horse race between Barcelona and Real Madrid. Atletico Madrid have since made it a three horse race, but after that, it’s anyone’s game. Valencia and Sevilla normally round out fourth and fifth.

In my humble opinion, a truly great manager, one worthy of Arsenal’s job, would have been able to push his side into a consistent fourth, if not threaten that perennial top three, with the three years at Sevilla, a club with a good deal of resources.

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After all, the Bundesliga, which is another two horse race, has seen Domenico Tedesco and Julian Nagelsmann do just that in their one and two years at their respective clubs, respectively. Neither have that great of resources, they were just superior minds for the game, and they busted up the two horse race and got into second and third place, to qualify for the Champions League.

Emery was never able to do that with Sevilla, finishing in fifth, fifth and seventh. Yes, he won the Europa League every single time, but that isn’t our goal. Our goal is to win the Champions League, which Emery was similarly unable to do with literally unbounded resources at PSG. If you can’t win with unlimited resources, you can’t win at Arsenal.

Not every situation is the same, obviously. I’m sure that there are plenty of other moving pieces to justify why Emery wasn’t able to do what Tedesco and Nagelsmann made look so doable in the Bundesliga. But that doesn’t matter, because at the end of the day, we don’t want excuses, we want results.

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Emery has proven less than Nagelsmann and Vieira, because Emery has had a chance to prove himself and has failed. The other two have not had that big chance yet.

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