Arsenal’s management group of Raul Sanllehi, Vinai Venkatesham and technical director Edu remain happy with Unai Emery’s progress and are unlikely to make a managerial change mid-way through the season, despite a mediocre start to the new campaign.
Emery missed out on securing Champions League qualification last term following a spectacular capitulation which culminated in a crushing 4-1 defeat against Chelsea in the Europa League final.
Arsenal invested heavily in the first team squad over the summer, but results have hardly improved while the constant tinkering with personnel and tactics has manfifested itself in a series of confused and lifeless displays.
Two stunning late free-kicks from second half substitute Nicolas Pepe rescued Emery from a demoralising defeat against Vitoria in the Europa League last night but, according to Goal, Arsenal’s top brass are content with the progress the former PSG and Valencia boss is making.
The Gunners are currently fifth in the league, just two points off the top four, and are all but assured of their place in the next round of the Europa League, but former club captain Robin van Persie believes Emery is not the man to take the club forward.
‘I don’t think so,’ Van Persie told BT Sport when asked if Emery had improved the team since taking over from Arsene Wenger.
‘I don’t think that Emery really connects with his players. ‘I think they are still weak on set pieces, which was a problem at my time, to be honest. But everyone should feel responsible. Arsenal lose 12 to 15 points per season by set pieces. That should stop.
‘If you want to play for the first couple of places you have to sort it out, you have to find a way.
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‘As a player you want to have that feeling, you have to sprint back, now I see a couple of players jogging back, and there’s danger there.
‘I don’t feel that in the team. ‘If you have a very strong coach, and you are in midfield and you see danger somewhere, you sprint for your life, because you know if you don’t do it you get punished.
‘I’ve had [Arsene] Wenger, Louis van Gaal, [Alex] Ferguson, I had so many coaches, and their main quality was to be clear.
‘If I’m really honest…someone sent me a video last week of him [Emery] trying to explain something, and I couldn’t really figure out if he was saying, ‘calm, calm’ or ‘come, come.’ ‘That is very important, you have to be clear, you have to be the leader and the leader needs to be clear towards his players.’
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