Arsenal: Unai Emery’s bad resume worse than Mikel Arteta’s lack thereof

Arsenal are now all on the Unai Emery bandwagon, despite the fact that he is even more in the realm of complacency than Mikel Arteta.

I understand why a lot of Gooners aren’t so switched-on to the concept of Mikel Arteta coming in to run the club. The former Arsenal captain has no managing experience and many see him as nothing more than a continuation of what Arsene Wenger was doing.

But, on the flipside, at least he would have the hunger to prove himself that is, to me, one of the top things we need in a manager. He comes with the knowledge of learning from Pep Guardiola and Wenger, which is also a huge plus.

I still don’t see why he would be the first choice, but I could see him being somewhere in the mid-range.

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Unai Emery is different. In a bad way. My biggest, biggest argument against Unai Emery is that if he couldn’t reach the heights of Champions League glory with the unlimited budget of PSG, then what the hell is he going to do with his pocket-book clamped shut by the stingy board at Arsenal?

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The correct answer is he couldn’t. Emery has experience, yes, but that experience shows the managerial range that he fits in. He won the Europa League three years running with Sevilla, yet he never cracked the top four of La Liga despite this “success.”

As such, he would be on target to secure Arsenal potential glory, if you define glory as finishing between fifth and seventh and winning the Europa League.

While the Europa League is where the club currently finds itself, the goal is to get out of that and into the Champions League, something that Emery has not necessarily had a good track record of doing.

We need a manager that is going to aim for the height of heights. And if such a manager can’t be found, then the next best thing is to get someone young and energetic, who has the passion to make it that high, but has not had the opportunities yet.

Not someone who has been given every chance in the world and failed to do so.

Emery winning Ligue 1 with PSG is no great feat. Driving them to second place in his first year speaks louder. Not to mention finishing second to Arsenal in the Champions League group stages that year, and then historically collapsing 6-1 to Barcelona when all they had to do was protect a four goal lead.

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That is not who you want at Arsenal. Sometimes no resume is better than a bad one.