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.
He was given only a season and a half because after a strong start where the football did not pass the eye test but delivered results, eventually things evened out and we bottled a 4th place finish in his first season. After that we were playing the worst football I have ever witnessed Arsenal play, and were in the bottom half of the table by the time he was sacked in his second season. Arteta took over and immediately made the team play better, moved us a couple of spots up in the table to finish 8th and won an FA cup.
I don’t blame him for everything as there was too much shit going on at the club when he was there, but he really did not do that well for Arsenal, it was just not a good fit.
He was given only a season and a half because after a strong start where the football did not pass the eye test but delivered results, eventually things evened out and we bottled a 4th place finish in his first season. After that we were playing the worst football I have ever witnessed Arsenal play, and were in the bottom half of the table by the time he was sacked in his second season. Arteta took over and immediately made the team play better, moved us a couple of spots up in the table to finish 8th and won an FA cup.
I don’t blame him for everything as there was too much shit going on at the club when he was there, but he really did not do that well for Arsenal, it was just not a good fit.