The former Gunners star believes a manager overseeing a fine season for the Foxes would be a perfect fit at Emirates Stadium or Tottenham
Given that Arsenal were prepared to spend £72 million on Nicolas Pepe, Paul Merson has suggested that the Gunners should be willing to pay £40m to bring in Brendan Rodgers as their next boss.
With speculation building as to who could step in if Emery is moved on, Merson has reiterated his calls for Leicester manager Rodgers to be targeted.
He has already called on the Gunners to “break the bank” in an effort to land the former Swansea, Liverpool and Celtic coach, given the fine job he has overseen at the King Power Stadium.
Merson also feels that Rodgers could be a shrewd appointment for Arsenal’s arch-rivals Tottenham, with rumours still raging when it comes to the long-term future of Mauricio Pochettino in north London.
The former Gunners star told Sky Sports: “I think he's [Rodgers] one of the best in the business.
“If I was Arsenal, I would have been ringing Leicester up and saying, 'how much do you want?'.
“If you're going to pay £72 million for a winger [Pepe] that hasn't played in the Premier League and has played in the French league, I would pay £40m for him tomorrow morning.
“I would say Arsenal [would be a good fit for Rodgers]. Arsenal or Tottenham. I wouldn't get rid of Pochettino, don't get me wrong, I think he's different class. I think them two teams will be looking at him.
“For me, if you're going to bring Brendan Rodgers in and what he's done with the teams he has been at like Swansea, Celtic, Liverpool and now Leicester, you give him a six-year plan and let him do what he wants to do. He improves players.”
FaithEvans
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Because race card trick users cause massive problems... if we had them slagging people like they do people jump on the band wagon and then get people into trouble... exactly what’s happened today with bernado Silva getting banned for sharing a joke with his best friend but the gutter trash fa banned him for 1 game and fined him(disgusting) that’s what you have to deal with nowadays... cowards!!! As I said yesterday one rule for one
as a black guy myself, I think the FA blundered by banning Silva... but the majority of the FA panel is white and if they deemed it racist, I have nothing to add
zedeiknouy
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do you think that coach is the problem? even kropp come to arsenal, he gona become a flop manager at emirate
Eietheherd
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and why should we mind the race card tricks users?... they're inconsequential, ain't they?
Because race card trick users cause massive problems... if we had them slagging people like they do people jump on the band wagon and then get people into trouble... exactly what’s happened today with bernado Silva getting banned for sharing a joke with his best friend but the gutter trash fa banned him for 1 game and fined him(disgusting) that’s what you have to deal with nowadays... cowards!!! As I said yesterday one rule for one
FaithEvans
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If it’s about doing your job then it’s proven that they have failed miserably... we have gone backwards rapidly when we were in a very good situation..
When were we ever in a good situation?
FaithEvans
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All I’m saying is the british at arsenal have been ostrausized... there isn’t any... if it was the other way round imagine the race card trick users...
and why should we mind the race card tricks users?... they're inconsequential, ain't they?
FaithEvans
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What’s that gotta do with having non british in the hieracy
cuz clubs that have British ain't faring any better either, I'm tired and out of this egregious Brit arguments you're trying to push, how has where u came from determine how well you'd do ur job? [byebye]
FaithEvans
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It’s not assuming that brits is the answer but they have been ostrisized from our club... if it was completely british imagine the outcry.. oh arsenal don’t want foreigners.. they would be slaughtering our club... one rule for one...
If they're doing their jobs, nobody will care... and its like we have rose sprinkled memories about the David Dein, Pat Rice and Peter Hillwood times, or generally Wenger at the beginning, cuz honestly speaking, just 3 EPL trophies without an European trophy is an underachievement for the Invincibles... Ferguson won 3 EPL and a Champions league from 2007 to 2009 with Anderson in midfield and the Glazers, a owner they didn't like... so make it whatever u will, the great histories you're talking about ain't that great, except for the golden EPL title!
Vunbdenrsu
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I believe in Arteta
Eietheherd
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I strongly believe in Jose Morhinyo because Morhinyo doesn't believe in kill and divide 50-50 which is the primary aim of Kruonke and the Arsenal management board, I stand firmly that Morhinyo will ask the board to let him bring in right players in other to wake up the club because the club is diminishing, Morhinyo knows the problems of Arsenal and where they are lacking, the board knows the truth, is just that they don't want to break the bank. also some fans should drop personal hatred towards Morhinyo because all we want is for the club to rise again and it doesn't matter who makes that possible.
The board will never support managers financually... kroenke is scum
Eietheherd
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We have lost our soul from the club since David left... kroenke is a wrong’un
Eietheherd
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Racist club we’ve become!!
zopakoyz
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The only one that can come in and make immediate impact is Luis Enrique. Right now we the fans are impatient and that man Enrique is the solution.
remaceosu
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I strongly believe in Jose Morhinyo because Morhinyo doesn't believe in kill and divide 50-50 which is the primary aim of Kruonke and the Arsenal management board, I stand firmly that Morhinyo will ask the board to let him bring in right players in other to wake up the club because the club is diminishing, Morhinyo knows the problems of Arsenal and where they are lacking, the board knows the truth, is just that they don't want to break the bank. also some fans should drop personal hatred towards Morhinyo because all we want is for the club to rise again and it doesn't matter who makes that possible.
cipadiku
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I am 100% in support of this writer, bring in Rodgers he understand English football
podikmnrsy
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Emery outttttt
square2
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arsenal should make serious changes in d board and change the manager too. cos we can't say emery didn't have enough players. he's not tactically good as a coach and he doesn't know how to manage manage players. perfect example is mesut ozil.
Australia9135487
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Don’t get Rodgers
Veoiklyz
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Nope! Get a proven manager like Mourinho!
rizbdkmnpr
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nawao but why not henry or arteta
arsenal is too big for any coach with no experience, Henry has failed in Monaco, arteta has not coach any team before
rizbdkmnpr
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Arsenal is too big for any coach with no experience
radcdlno
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They should get Ten Haag and be ambitious when looking for coaches
Nobabilpu
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nawao but why not henry or arteta
nezaknrz
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Am Stevenson,Unai emery is a good coach bt the only thing he knows how to buy them but he didn't know how to use them. when we see those players we have, mustaffi,socratis,luiz,chambers,holding,kolasinac,bellerin,niles,tieney,,guenduzi,toreira,xhaka,ceballos,ozil,willock,saka,pepe,aub,lacazette but emery is doing, solution for unai is substitution.
Unai out,Mourinho in.
nezaknrz
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Am Stevenson from runga landing site in hoima district to me the special one Jose mourinho can do better than emery because Arsenal HV many squad than other big team, bt emery failed to do better.
Am Stevenson,Unai emery is a good coach bt the only thing he knows how to buy them but he didn't know how to use them. when we see those players we have, mustaffi,socratis,luiz,chambers,holding,kolasinac,bellerin,niles,tieney,,guenduzi,toreira,xhaka,ceballos,ozil,willock,saka,pepe,aub,lacazette but emery is doing, solution for unai is substitution.
Eietheherd
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Why do u even assume only Brits will improve us?
It’s not assuming that brits is the answer but they have been ostrisized from our club... if it was completely british imagine the outcry.. oh arsenal don’t want foreigners.. they would be slaughtering our club... one rule for one...
nezaknrz
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Am Stevenson from runga landing site in hoima district to me the special one Jose mourinho can do better than emery because Arsenal HV many squad than other big team, bt emery failed to do better.
FaithEvans
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Surely now you can see the point now... it’s got nothing to do with me not liking foreigners it’s the hierachy not wanting british...,
Why do u even assume only Brits will improve us?
FaithEvans
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When we had the hill woods an dein we never had these problems because they cared... they loved and understood football and arsenal... theses people are money grabbers and know that if a british manager was employed he wouldn’t put up with they’re meanness they want yes men... ok you might be right but I don’t wanna hear idiots jumping on the band wagon moaning about racism when it’s non whites using the is the pathetic race card trick... but when it’s against british people, oh suddenly it doesn’t exist... people are to scared to say anything because of the gutter press in our country... Mike Ashley has employed foreign managers.. Leicester’s board employed a british manager, Man City’s owners employed mark hughes... not one way traffic like at our club... they only care about money that’s why they won’t employ british because the manager would want to Spend and that is not what they want..,
Leicester's best ever manager was Claudio Ranieri, an Italian... City's best were Mancini (Italian) Pellegrini (Chilean) and Pep Guardiola (Spanish)... forget Hillwood and the previous owners, plus Alisher Usmanov was among our previous owners and he's Russian, our biggest problem was the improvement of other teams... not that our owners stop caring, they built our stadium, didn't they, didn't pay for it, but stayed around in an era of low profit margins and reduced quality of players on the pitch... I get it, you're hurt as a British and there's a million examples of racism and reverse racism going around, but Arsenal is not one of them!
BenGud
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So they are hyped and overrated but in reality the game changes.
albamu
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Can’t believe Arsenal do have much fans on All football app, When their team is playing they are no where to be found but always seen complain on this app smh 🤦🏾♂️
so after 20 years of premier league football Liverpool fans are coming back from exile, to the extent that they do not even know that arsenal have gathered a lot of of supporters over the course of time.
Eietheherd
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Finally someone who gets it.You cant expect 50 matches and a title with team like that.Arsenal need to spend a good 300 mil + to challenge for the Pl and should leave Emery on the wheel.
Well said
FaithEvans
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Rodgers will transform Arsenal if he is signed , he has d skills and quality
Same was said when u stole Lopetegui from the Spanish national team, how did that work out for you?... there's no certainty in football, people said Pep would transform City, playing staff and football improved, but still, he just won the same kinds of trophies Manuel Pellegrini was winning
FaithEvans
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People have this pathetic ideology that only white people are racists, well they are thick!! No one has the balls to stand up and say anything when british people are being treated in the same way because it’s not politically correct.. our media are cowards as well, all jump on the band wagon when it happens to non whites... utter cowards!! Our club has been fucked since we lost the hill woods and David dein..
chill, I perfectly understand what racism is... I just don't see the connection you're trying to engineer, Newcastle's owner, Mike Ashley is British and the club is fvcked, City's previous owners are British and they didn't reach the heights Sheikh Mansour took them, do u know how much good Vichai Srivaddhanaprabra did in the city of Leicester? not just football, schools, hospitals and the likes, and he's from Thailand... everyone is in the business to maximize profit, saying a British will care more and transform the fortunes of a British club is not a certainty, not even close... get this out of your head, mate
FaithEvans
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People have this pathetic ideology that only white people are racists, well they are thick!! No one has the balls to stand up and say anything when british people are being treated in the same way because it’s not politically correct.. our media are cowards as well, all jump on the band wagon when it happens to non whites... utter cowards!! Our club has been fucked since we lost the hill woods and David dein..
Lol... the successful clubs in England too are own by foreigners, attack individuals, emphasizing the fact they're foreigners suggests u have an agenda, we've got diversity all over the club, from hierarchy to fanbase, yes, at the moment we're bad and our fanbase is always plagued with negativity and a tendency to overreact, overanalyze every trivial detail, but we're not racists
zatabdnst
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just sack Emery
Leddklnouz
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Emery out
zatabdnst
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sack Emery
Nocdekmprt
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Rodgers is not the solution. There are many managers that can do the job very well. Ex players of the club are, doing well across Europe and beyond and they will come cheap. Emery should just go...
Siabinz
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we don't need Rodgers at all. We need aggression and that we will find in Luis Enrique. Luis Enrique is the best or Alegri
?
TajemniczyPl
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Impossible
cebblorst
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Can’t believe Arsenal do have much fans on All football app, When their team is playing they are no where to be found but always seen complain on this app smh 🤦🏾♂️