Next Manager Speculation/Hopes

[Rudy Can't Fail]

What was the story with Emery at Arsenal?

He was made fun of because he couldn't say "evening" properly.

Results weren't great either.

Just reading an Arsenal forum on his time there. It ain't pretty though he's not fully responsible for things not working there. All say he's a very decent person which is no surprise what with him being Basque.

https://arsenal-mania.com/forum/threads/unai-emery.34035/

https://arsenal-mania.com/forum/threads/unai-emery-adios.33365/page-749

[SoccerHQ]

What was the story with Emery at Arsenal?

He was made fun of because he couldn't say "evening" properly.

Results weren't great either.

In his only full season he finished 5th and reached the europa league final.

18 months after he left they were still finishing 8th.

In the circumstances he did o.k imo and also gave likes of Saka and Martinelli their first chances.

That's something important to us with some of the young players we have on our fringes.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

What was the story with Emery at Arsenal?

He was made fun of because he couldn't say "evening" properly.

Results weren't great either.

In his only full season he finished 5th and reached the europa league final.

18 months after he left they were still finishing 8th.

In the circumstances he did o.k imo and also gave likes of Saka and Martinelli their first chances.

That's something important to us with some of the young players we have on our fringes.

He wanted to sign Zaha, spoke with him, everything sorted but his board refused and brought in Pepe instead.

[cdbearsfan]

Emery would be great. Manager one of the elite leagues who has won a major European trophy with the Spanish equivalent of Solihull Moors.

[cdward]

This stuff about national team managers being available after the World Cup. Are there any that we would want? International football is a different (and worse) game.

Roberto Martinez!

[paul_e]

What was the story with Emery at Arsenal?

He was made fun of because he couldn't say "evening" properly.

Results weren't great either.

In his only full season he finished 5th and reached the europa league final.

18 months after he left they were still finishing 8th.

In the circumstances he did o.k imo and also gave likes of Saka and Martinelli their first chances.

That's something important to us with some of the young players we have on our fringes.

He didn't give Martinelli his chance, he signed him.

The big black mark is that he spent a fortune on Pepe who was massively underwhelming but given that window also saw Tierney, Saliba and the aforementioned Martinelli join I reckon it was largely offset by the others.

[dicedlam]

I wouldn't be averse to Kompany, he's doing well and like said, clearly a fan of Danks.

The last thing we need right now is another manager cutting his teeth in management.

Not for me.

[eamonn]

He can be negative, but his basics are way above the basics we've had at our club for a long time. There's a certain bare-minimum passing and movement sophistication we've just never caught up with, and even though he can be defensive by Spanish standards it would still be a great breakthrough.

Maybe not the most exciting option (that would be Amorim), but an exceptionally competent one.

Interesting, cheers.

[cdbearsfan]

Getting rid of Gerrard to bring in someone who is even more of a gamble would be mental.

[eamonn]

What was the story with Emery at Arsenal?

He was made fun of because he couldn't say "evening" properly.

Results weren't great either.

In his only full season he finished 5th and reached the europa league final.

18 months after he left they were still finishing 8th.

In the circumstances he did o.k imo and also gave likes of Saka and Martinelli their first chances.

That's something important to us with some of the young players we have on our fringes.

He didn't give Martinelli his chance, he signed him.

The big black mark is that he spent a fortune on Pepe who was massively underwhelming but given that window also saw Tierney, Saliba and the aforementioned Martinelli join I reckon it was largely offset by the others.

Yes, but see Rudy's point above - he wanted Zaha and the board landed him Pepe. My Dad is a Gooner and thinks even signing Zaha now in his current form could win them the league.

[paul_e]

What was the story with Emery at Arsenal?

He was made fun of because he couldn't say "evening" properly.

Results weren't great either.

In his only full season he finished 5th and reached the europa league final.

18 months after he left they were still finishing 8th.

In the circumstances he did o.k imo and also gave likes of Saka and Martinelli their first chances.

That's something important to us with some of the young players we have on our fringes.

He wanted to sign Zaha, spoke with him, everything sorted but his board refused and brought in Pepe instead.

I'd heard a slightly different version of that story which suggests he was more on board with the signing than you suggest but either way I'd say that signing was the only major mistake whilst he was there.

What was the story with Emery at Arsenal?

He was made fun of because he couldn't say "evening" properly.

Results weren't great either.

Just reading an Arsenal forum on his time there. It ain't pretty though he's not fully responsible for things not working there. All say he's a very decent person which is no surprise what with him being Basque.

https://arsenal-mania.com/forum/threads/unai-emery.34035/

https://arsenal-mania.com/forum/threads/unai-emery-adios.33365/page-749

I know that it's sometimes important to look at what fans of previous clubs say but in this specific case I don't put much weight on those opinions. If you look at the squad he inherited it was always going to take a few years to sort them out but the arsenal fans were insistent that anything less than the top 4 would be a failure, he still got them to the Europa league final and comfortably qualified for the next year.

[paul_e]

He can be negative, but his basics are way above the basics we've had at our club for a long time. There's a certain bare-minimum passing and movement sophistication we've just never caught up with, and even though he can be defensive by Spanish standards it would still be a great breakthrough.

Maybe not the most exciting option (that would be Amorim), but an exceptionally competent one.

Interesting, cheers.

I think Negative is a bit unfair, he builds his team around a solid defence with heavy pressure on the ball and then focusess on quickly transitioning into attack, pretty much exactly how we played yesterday.

[Jon Crofts]

Emery would be a decent appointment, it's written in the stars for him anyway, Sevilla, Villareal, Aston Villa.

[Kimaster1976]

The odds on him are tumbling by the minute with everyone else heading out, somebody in the know is either certain he's the next manager or thousands are piling money on it.

[cdbearsfan]

Or, a bunch of punters are just following Twitter speculation and/or the market.