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Arsenal: Is it time to say goodbye to Unai Emery?
Arsenal have dropped 11 of their last 12 points during their most important string of games of the season as they’ve lost the battle yet again to qualify for Champions League football by being in the top four of the English Premier League. I think it’s time for a new manager.
Arsenal sit 5th in the Premier League and may end up in sixth. Two weeks ago Arsenal were in the driving seat, sitting in fourth, two points clear of their nearest rivals Manchester United, ahead of Chelsea, and one point behind Tottenham Hotspur.
With three games coming up against middle of the pack teams, all looked rosy red and white. And then the manager pencilled in three players in the starting eleven who had hardly played one game between them in the Premier League this season. Konstantinos Mavropanos, Carl Jenkinson, and Mohamed Elneny all played against a seasoned starting eleven of Crystal Palace. A resulting 3-2 loss and the slide began.
It has all gone downhill since. Unai Emery hasn’t figured out the Premier League. He has started this club off on the wrong foot in numerous games this season. There have been so many substitutes by half time this season, more than I’ve ever seen a team do in countless years prior, a sure sign that the manager got his starting lineup wrong.
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I believe that it wasn’t until January or February that the Gunners even had a lead going into the dressing room at half-time this season, a sure sign that the manager got his tactics wrong.
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Yes, this is Emery’s first year in charge, but that can’t be used as an excuse. And I don’t want to hear, ‘give him two more transfer windows to bring in his type of players’. This is the Premier League, only the strong survive.
I can’t remember a Chelsea manager being given much time, and yet how many championships have they won in recent years? Four of the top six teams have had to face this type of adversity this season.
Chelsea has a new manager.
Manchester United replaced their manager in mid-season.
And Tottenham have had to face all kinds of adversity, having to play at Wembley, no spending in two transfer windows, and now adjusting to life in a new stadium. Emery has had it easy in comparison, and yet it’s Chelsea that strives forward.
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Every time I see Chelsea’s Maurizio Sarri writing things down in his note book I think to myself that he will figure out the Premier League and get a grip on his team. And then I see Unai Emery screaming and gesticulating wildly on the sidelines and I start to wonder: Is it time to say good bye?