Jamie Carragher: You can make an argument that Unai Emery is the third best manager in this Premier League. If you back over the last 12 months since he came in at Villa, if you are talking about Man Utd, Aston Villa are a better coached team than United. There is no doubt about that.
Emery is a phenomenal manager and all these discussions below about what Pep would have done with Aston Villa or where Emery would have been with City are completely pointless since they are based on “What ifs” and nothing more.
Before Haaland came to the PL people here were discussing how he won’t adapt fast enough to the tough Premier League and that he didn’t fit Citys playstyle at all etc. well he arrived and scored the most goals ever in a Premier League season and won nearly everything there is with City
Emery is a phenomenal manager and all these discussions below about what Pep would have done with Aston Villa or where Emery would have been with City are completely pointless since they are based on “What ifs” and nothing more.
Ha! You think that would matter? Look at what Emery did with Torreira. He tried to take a really good deep-lying midfielder with 4 goals in 77 appearances and make him a goal scoring threat. When it didn’t work, he ghosted him.
He had Aubameyang, Ozil, Lacazette, Leno, Cech. Hardly an EFL Championship team.
That’s 2 keepers, both Arsenal have since deemed not good enough and 3 players who I’ve seen far more criticisms than praise in their last seasons from Arsenal fans
Only arsenal fans would agree with this.
Alone this summer:
Handling of ramsdale and raya : highly questionable
Not buying a striker of proven pedigree: very questionable.
Not buying another centre half: when a lack of decent back ups in this position in particular cost you the league title: madness. Before I’m corrected on timber being bought, yes, he’s a some time centre half but you need 4 decent options to challenge in reality and arsenal only really had 2 before.
Last year the whole squads lack of depth exposed them as the season wore on and really he only really replaced those allowed to move on for the most part and then £40m on a goalie when that was the least needed part of the puzzle. Just really quite odd.
Couple that with the klopp levels of not being able to accept blame for a bad result? Well I think you’ll struggle to find non arsenal fans with sympathy
I dont buy into the over the top pep circlejerk man. Hes not doing anything Rinus Michels or Cruyff didnt do before him in terms of football philosophy
I don’t think he cares. Trophies matter. Besides many coaches copy him like currently with inverted fullbacks and no one can doubt that he has a knack of improving most players.
He is class, isn’t emery the one that first introduced playing out from the back for Arsenal? Those were nervy days, but was also trying to in-still a new style of play, I remember Ramsay had a stellar season.
emery is class
Emery is a phenomenal manager and all these discussions below about what Pep would have done with Aston Villa or where Emery would have been with City are completely pointless since they are based on “What ifs” and nothing more.
Before Haaland came to the PL people here were discussing how he won’t adapt fast enough to the tough Premier League and that he didn’t fit Citys playstyle at all etc. well he arrived and scored the most goals ever in a Premier League season and won nearly everything there is with City
Okay, what would have Emery done at Arsenal?
With the team he had then or the team Arteta has now?
Ha! You think that would matter? Look at what Emery did with Torreira. He tried to take a really good deep-lying midfielder with 4 goals in 77 appearances and make him a goal scoring threat. When it didn’t work, he ghosted him. He had Aubameyang, Ozil, Lacazette, Leno, Cech. Hardly an EFL Championship team.
That’s 2 keepers, both Arsenal have since deemed not good enough and 3 players who I’ve seen far more criticisms than praise in their last seasons from Arsenal fans
Only arsenal fans would agree with this. Alone this summer:
Handling of ramsdale and raya : highly questionable Not buying a striker of proven pedigree: very questionable. Not buying another centre half: when a lack of decent back ups in this position in particular cost you the league title: madness. Before I’m corrected on timber being bought, yes, he’s a some time centre half but you need 4 decent options to challenge in reality and arsenal only really had 2 before.
Last year the whole squads lack of depth exposed them as the season wore on and really he only really replaced those allowed to move on for the most part and then £40m on a goalie when that was the least needed part of the puzzle. Just really quite odd.
Couple that with the klopp levels of not being able to accept blame for a bad result? Well I think you’ll struggle to find non arsenal fans with sympathy
99% of people knew Haaland was going to score tons of goals the moment City signed him. That also has nothing to do with Emery.
What’s that got to do with Emery?
I dont buy into the over the top pep circlejerk man. Hes not doing anything Rinus Michels or Cruyff didnt do before him in terms of football philosophy
Nobody did.
I don’t think he cares. Trophies matter. Besides many coaches copy him like currently with inverted fullbacks and no one can doubt that he has a knack of improving most players.
Pep made Rinus Michels or Cruyff’s work better and more suitable for the modern game, which is more tactical, physical and faster.
Emery only performs if he’s at a club with villa in the name, he’d therefore be shit at City
He is class, isn’t emery the one that first introduced playing out from the back for Arsenal? Those were nervy days, but was also trying to in-still a new style of play, I remember Ramsay had a stellar season.