Arsenal: Two transfer windows a good starting point for Unai Emery

Arsenal fans demand the world at least twice a week, but patience is key with Unai Emery, and a timetable of two transfer windows seems like a good starting point.

Changing managers can oftentimes be the kiss of death in the modern footballing world. Either that or it ignites immediate, albeit fleeting, success. Arsenal had avoided that world beautifully while Arsene Wenger was in charge, but now that Unai Emery is here, the key is patience. Nothing is going to be fixed overnight.

Honestly, we should be pleasantly surprised by how much the club has come around in four short weeks. Time will make everything better as the team steadily improves towards competing for a Premier League title again.

Still, setting a timetable for when this might start paying off is always a good thing, albeit it is a matter of pure speculation. When you look at Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp, they took years to find their footing at their new charges, even with the resources that they had.

Emery, therefore, may well take years himself, and he doesn’t even have the same financial resources that they did.

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But the timetable that is instead being set for him, by random opinions, is two more transfer windows. Meaning at the start of next season, Emery is going to be expected to be settled in and ready to fire the club to relevance.

Even that may be a bit soon, but it does seem like a good starting point to begin to search for successes, even if they are small.

The key here is for Emery to start accumulating his own players while either figuring out the remnants of the Wenger brigade, or replacing them. It’s hard to take something that took two decades to build and try to make it your own. You have to add your own flavor, and yet it will require a lot of the resources already at the club. Meaning that Emery is going to have to combine his own flavor and his own crew, with that of Wenger’s.

That’s the hardest part. There are so many players that Emery appears keen on working with, but figuring out how best to utilize them, and with what other players, is what is going to end up separating his experimental days from his successful ones.

Don’t expect Emery to be a grandmaster at Arsenal starting in August of 2019. Expect him to have the foundation set, with only useful players, and only his guys. Even if his guys are converted Wenger guys.