Unai Emery has blamed the saga over the captaincy, the attempted robbery of Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac and the £72m signing of Nicolas Pepe in a frank assessment of where it went wrong for him at Arsenal.
The Spaniard was sacked less than halfway through his second season in November after a string of poor results and performances.
Though he admits the Gunners were not playing well under him, he believes there were a number of problems that were beyond his control and contributed to his downfall.
'This second year, we have not played well; we have not defended well. We have not been competitive; We did not transmit. And I told the players myself', he told Marca.
'There were several problems: four captains; the Ozil-Kolasinac case; Pepe's signing, who needs time since he came from France… We didn't play well, that's for sure.'
'That brought us bad results, there was no improvement, the fans focused on me and they threw me out. But I keep the positive things, there were many.'
'Mikel has a lot of experience as a footballer and has worked alongside Pep, who is top', he added.
'He is playing a 4-2-3-1 like ours. Ozil is still "10", and is slowly looking for his identity. But with my departure, the hostile atmosphere was relaxed. The results are not being the best but you have to give it time to do so.'
Suaclnsty
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Ozil don’t have any assist this season in the pl so what the problem of not playing ozil If arsenal sign ziyech you will see beautiful football plays from that guy
you are stupid. what did ozil do to you?
Zakbiknpt
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Emery was the architect of his downfall. Firstly once he got the job he did the first thing that shouldn't have been done which was letting carzola leave that was one of the best technically gifted player's we had good finisher set piece specialist and also a good dribbler remember his freekick in the f.a cup final. secondly he let Ramsey go too, that was our best midfielder remember he's flying header winner in the fa cup final against Chelsea. those two players went for free a least we could have got over 50 million pounds for both of them then use that money to invest in our defence. After his first season with us the biggest priority was at least 2 defenders cuz arsenal has been having defensive issues since under Wenger and hasn't been resolved up until now. he sold monreal iwobi and Miki and spent 75 million pounds on Pepe what was the reasoning behind it arsenal would be better off if we spent that on zaha cuz he is already adapted to the English league. he also didn't bring in a midfielder to compensate for Ramsey and carzola departure Dani wasn't going to solve our midfield issue. Ozil for me has been steadily declining since he came to arsenal his best season was his first season when he contributed a lot to the cause with a fantastic return of 19 assists and 6 goals. ultimately Emery contributed to his own downfall at arsenal. on the other hand arteta has impressed me so far albeit I thought he didn't have the experience to takeover a club of arsenal statue but I was wrong he has definitely picked a thing or two from pep at man city. looking at arsenal with great enthusiasm for the future. also am delighted at the signing of martinelli that was the very best thing that came out of Emery's reign at arsenal.
deacist
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Emery had one problem. tactical problem. how do you play from behind with a bad defence. most losses where poor tactical issues. we have a great team other wise
Seyimpstyz
0
Selling Alex Iwobi is another of your mistakes man. good ebining
and letting santi carzola Go like that...was a mistake..
japiosz
0
the number 1 most mistake is that ẻmery are not fully cónistening using their best player,, more than half of arsenal game he had bench the super masterclass skhodran mustafi,, thats way they have concede too much goals.... If he 100% use that great mustafi, sure arsenal are @ the top of the table, he hímelf will be better than mr kloop, & mr pep are just too small to him..
somalia bro
emondorock
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Could write a book on Emery and what he should of done but he didnt and focused on Lazy Ozil for too long. Is ozil playing like a £350,000 a week player now, certainly not and never will he is washed up and physically never was capable of fitting in with the pace of football demanded theses days.Sanchez the same he is a flop at Inter as well.
kuocimors
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1 too much changes 2. should have stand up for XHaka 3. shouldn't have ignore Ozil 4. didn't play Torera where he belongs regularly
Ozil don’t have any assist this season in the pl so what the problem of not playing ozil If arsenal sign ziyech you will see beautiful football plays from that guy
kuocimors
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At the end of the day... What got him sacked was the fact that the players dont like him anymore....fans as well. I believe in Arteta but TBH the results have not been great. The most important thing I think Arteta did was to motivate them. Some of our players are not simply good enough...or better say it not able to play for a big team in EPL. (Laca, Ozil, Sokratis etc.)
I rather the hard working laca than the score laca at least we got every one behind the ball to defend as a team
kuocimors
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three good coaches that are good enough but just hated by English fans for reasons known by themselves. 1.Sarri 2.Emmery 3.Conte
Most arsenal fans don’t realize emery wanted to strengthen the team he wanted to sign maguire and partey and the board took over and sign pepe tierney and luiz
kuocimors
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Emery to be blamed for the downward trench of the team. He induced almost all of those saga that distracted him. Decided not to play Ozil, Captaincy and the Zhaka issue. Pepe was never going to improve inder him. we defended without closing down our opponent quicker when we lost the ball. space marking and poor managerial tactics " divide and rule" because of failure to manager big starts
Ozil don’t have a assist this season premier league even willock and saka have more assist than him ozil is not the best number 10 in the world or in the decade Sell ozil sign ziyech and you see some real football
kuocimors
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Emery should take full responsibility for Arsenal's slump under his watch. He had the money but failed to fix the defence which was obviously the weakest link of the team but he squandered the money on areas of low priority whiles some players were bought and sent on loan as if Arsenal were in a comfortable position. He never appeared to have understood the team's problem and, if he did, he certainly never knew how to tackle it.
Bullshit emery wanted to sign maguire and partey the board took over and sign pepe tierney and luiz.it all the board fault not emery
kuocimors
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Ozil don’t have any assist in premier league this season so why is ozil a creative midfielder sell ozil and ziyech and you see creativity ozil is not all that
And sign ziyech *
kuocimors
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There are three basic things that caused your down fall. Your approach when you came in to arsenal football clubs(Your approach was absolutely bad) You released arsenal most creative players for free Santi Cazorla, Aaron Ramsey. Infact you intensionally removed creativity from arsenal football club by allowing Alex iwobi to leave. ARSENAL HAD 5 CREATIVE PLAYERS AND YOUR RELEASED 4 OF THEM FOR FREE WITHOUT ADDING ANY ONE. The only creative player remaining was ozil and you also had issues with him. You neglected reliable players like Lucas toreria, you prefer guenduzi to toreria, you perform Nelson and pepe to iwobi, your allowed Nacho monreal and Ramsey to go What a big mistake. You played football without creativity, relaying only on Xhaka
Ozil don’t have any assist in premier league this season so why is ozil a creative midfielder sell ozil and ziyech and you see creativity ozil is not all that
kuocimors
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1) sold iwobi, I'm still angry abt it 2) froze ozil in an ice box 3) made xhaka captain 4) not having a starting xi
Ozil is not all that Ozil won’t save us from anything even willock give us more work rate
kuocimors
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The board took long to sack emery the board and emery fault that why we are not in top 4
Resdilsuy
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blame the board. Emery should not have got the job in the first place.
FaRrEiDAcHmAtT
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The player that can bring the old ozil is sanchez. Too bad hes gone. Only sanchez had a good understanding wif the oz. Did u all see the change to ozil movement on the field without sanchez. Sanchez knows which way to move once ozil on the ball. Their link-up play was mesmerizing. Cant deny that. Auba n laca didnt really know hows ozil works. It gets worst when giroud,ramsey,wilshere,iwobi gone. These are all footballing mind players. Now u see most of them more of a defensive player. Matteo,xhaka,torreira,maitlands.
taddlrtyz
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Even with injury arsen Wenger gave Santi carzolar 1year extension
Yes!
AkoKat
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the number 1 most mistake is that ẻmery are not fully cónistening using their best player,, more than half of arsenal game he had bench the super masterclass skhodran mustafi,, thats way they have concede too much goals.... If he 100% use that great mustafi, sure arsenal are @ the top of the table, he hímelf will be better than mr kloop, & mr pep are just too small to him..
Are you writing in French or Latin
Fimdmnu
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1) sold iwobi, I'm still angry abt it 2) froze ozil in an ice box 3) made xhaka captain 4) not having a starting xi
very simple ! this coach was an ass whole
kasaprenko12
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The only problem I have with him is him not having a regular starting XI
liwaeilry
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emery is incompetent
HarryDonLarry
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three good coaches that are good enough but just hated by English fans for reasons known by themselves. 1.Sarri 2.Emmery 3.Conte
U should add Jose Mourinho onto that list 🤪
okpokiovre
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1) sold iwobi, I'm still angry abt it 2) froze ozil in an ice box 3) made xhaka captain 4) not having a starting xi
PrinceTaiwo
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There are three basic things that caused your down fall. Your approach when you came in to arsenal football clubs(Your approach was absolutely bad) You released arsenal most creative players for free Santi Cazorla, Aaron Ramsey. Infact you intensionally removed creativity from arsenal football club by allowing Alex iwobi to leave. ARSENAL HAD 5 CREATIVE PLAYERS AND YOUR RELEASED 4 OF THEM FOR FREE WITHOUT ADDING ANY ONE. The only creative player remaining was ozil and you also had issues with him. You neglected reliable players like Lucas toreria, you prefer guenduzi to toreria, you perform Nelson and pepe to iwobi, your allowed Nacho monreal and Ramsey to go What a big mistake. You played football without creativity, relaying only on Xhaka
I strongly believe the unia emery is a confused man
PrinceTaiwo
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Even with injury arsen Wenger gave Santi carzolar 1year extension
PrinceTaiwo
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There are three basic things that caused your down fall. Your approach when you came in to arsenal football clubs(Your approach was absolutely bad) You released arsenal most creative players for free Santi Cazorla, Aaron Ramsey. Infact you intensionally removed creativity from arsenal football club by allowing Alex iwobi to leave. ARSENAL HAD 5 CREATIVE PLAYERS AND YOUR RELEASED 4 OF THEM FOR FREE WITHOUT ADDING ANY ONE. The only creative player remaining was ozil and you also had issues with him. You neglected reliable players like Lucas toreria, you prefer guenduzi to toreria, you perform Nelson and pepe to iwobi, your allowed Nacho monreal and Ramsey to go What a big mistake. You played football without creativity, relaying only on Xhaka
Chibsoky
1
Selling Alex Iwobi is another of your mistakes man. good ebining
mamdnstu
1
good byee our brain ia already rest now
peycory
2
I miss emerry
zoyalmpruz
0
three good coaches that are good enough but just hated by English fans for reasons known by themselves. 1.Sarri 2.Emmery 3.Conte
Unai Emery was given enough time to prove but his ego was too high.
tuybdiklny
0
Emery should take full responsibility for Arsenal's slump under his watch. He had the money but failed to fix the defence which was obviously the weakest link of the team but he squandered the money on areas of low priority whiles some players were bought and sent on loan as if Arsenal were in a comfortable position. He never appeared to have understood the team's problem and, if he did, he certainly never knew how to tackle it.
zobbckopsy
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Emery to be blamed for the downward trench of the team. He induced almost all of those saga that distracted him. Decided not to play Ozil, Captaincy and the Zhaka issue. Pepe was never going to improve inder him. we defended without closing down our opponent quicker when we lost the ball. space marking and poor managerial tactics " divide and rule" because of failure to manager big starts
sewdiklost
0
three good coaches that are good enough but just hated by English fans for reasons known by themselves. 1.Sarri 2.Emmery 3.Conte
Emery never was a good coach
Henryrukis
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& also not to forget for ever, ever n ever ,, the moment ,, the miracles ,, the marvelous ,, the unbelieveable ,, the tragedy ,, the show time ,, BACK TO ANFIELD ... THAT's WHERE THE WORLD STUDY X-FILES IN FOOTBALL HISTORY.....
okay good.keep studying
NotoriousGodfather
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three good coaches that are good enough but just hated by English fans for reasons known by themselves. 1.Sarri 2.Emmery 3.Conte
onaya
2
Unai Emery is indeed a perfect gentleman. It's a pity the Arsenal project didn't work out well but that's life. we have to lose some times so we can learn and win again
Lasaekrsu
1
After one and half year he still blur which player is the best for Arsenal first eleven....confusing on good ebening and bad ebening...
Arsenal4LifeEthan
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At the end of the day... What got him sacked was the fact that the players dont like him anymore....fans as well. I believe in Arteta but TBH the results have not been great. The most important thing I think Arteta did was to motivate them. Some of our players are not simply good enough...or better say it not able to play for a big team in EPL. (Laca, Ozil, Sokratis etc.)
I feel u but lacca is good enough
M_Kholis
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He is a liar. Keep lying to the press and fans. Example: He always say "Good" ebening to reporters when he actually got a very "Bad" ebening..
lesadltz
0
This man is a nice guy, wish u well Emery
Sochima92
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At the end of the day... What got him sacked was the fact that the players dont like him anymore....fans as well. I believe in Arteta but TBH the results have not been great. The most important thing I think Arteta did was to motivate them. Some of our players are not simply good enough...or better say it not able to play for a big team in EPL. (Laca, Ozil, Sokratis etc.)
Sochima92
0
honestly this mand is humbly honest
True bro.
officialUdeze
1
stop playing kids because they are not ready you won't listen, now you have sack, blame your village people
FaithEvans
2
He made a lot of errors but I still think he was absolutely correct about Mesut Özil! That guy needs a spanking
weaaimory
1
I will only remember him when ever I see Gabi that was the best of is coaching career in Arsenal, the signing of Gabi
ItodoJonathan
1
honestly this mand is humbly honest
kunakmntu
2
1 too much changes 2. should have stand up for XHaka 3. shouldn't have ignore Ozil 4. didn't play Torera where he belongs regularly
fitsatam
1
thanks eemery
japiosz
0
BACK TO SEVILA ... THAT'S WHERE HE IS MADE FOR
& also not to forget for ever, ever n ever ,, the moment ,, the miracles ,, the marvelous ,, the unbelieveable ,, the tragedy ,, the show time ,, BACK TO ANFIELD ... THAT's WHERE THE WORLD STUDY X-FILES IN FOOTBALL HISTORY.....