Not really in turmoil. Just made a bad choice and have owners that aren't prepared to throw silly money around. There's enough there to compete for all the cups and make top four. I don't know what Leicester have in terms of resources but they seem to be more of a selling club than a buying club.
yeah I wouldn't say turmoil either, even though there technically was some turmoil as long as emery was around it was more about getting him out than it was about the whole club failing.
to me, emery's biggest problem was that he never had his best XI out there starting games. a lot of this has to do with "sending messages to the team" i.e. showing everyone the even though Ozil is the highest paid player on the team he isn't going to even sniff the bench on matchday unless he does everything Unai wanted him to do and thensome. And this begs the question: who is this lesson for? Vets like Aubameyang and Lacazette don't need lessons. Guys like Sokratis Mustafi and David Luiz don't need lessons, bad as they might be. so essentially you're sacrificing your highest paid player to make a point to guys like Willock and Reiss Nelson and Saka? Seriously?
then you come off of a 18-19 season where Arsenal were.markedly better / more-productive with Torreira on the pitch as opposed to off of it (during their 22 game unbeaten streak I remember a stat like Arsenal was -8 GD without Torreira on the pitch and +20 with him on) so after a first season where Torreira started off as a sub who came.on in the 2nd half when Arsenal.got better and earned points you immediately start him.on the bench because you've decided to build your team around Captain Granit Xhaka? Seriously? A few months after Arsenal.got Xhaka a buddy asked me "what is it exactly that Granit Xhaka is supposed to do well? " and.the only answer I could muster was "Get yellow cards?" - - nobody has ever given me.a.better answer to that question. so not only are you benching your best DM and.starting a useless albatross of a player, but then you're playing torreira out of position as a CM when he does.come.on which only exacerbates the problem that is the 19-20 Arsenal midfield. insanity.
Then there's stuff like Nicolas Peepee (Pepe) finally gets a bit of.form in the Europa league and then he sits.for the next 2-3 games, maybe getting a token sub appearance or two? What exactly is Emery thinking? Then Ozil looks like the MOTM against Liverpool in the league cup and he's off like clockwork circa 73 in either a 5-4 or 5-5 game when it was patently obvious you needed to score again to win the game... And then you don't see Ozil in any more games.
This could be a.situation akin to the Lucas Perez era at arsenal. Early on when he got.chances against crap competition in cup games Lucas Perez was averaging a goal or assist every 42mins (through ~17-18 apps) to start his arsenal career, yet he couldn't sniff the pitch in the PL because Wonga didn't rate him. you could say he got those impressive results against crap competition, but then again what are you supposed to.do against lesser competition? Exactly what Lucas did and what Ozil did against Liverpool C. yet still even looking great and performing at a MOTM level wasn't enough to get Ozil back on the pitch for a team.with legit issues moving the ball.up the pitch! you figure it you're going to move anyone to help at CM you could move Ozil there instead of Torreira.
so yeah before i try to see how much it'd cost to have Alan Davies read the audio book version of this post, I reckon the first big step.for arsenal going forward is to see if they have a manager who can get his best players in the pitch early and.often to put Arsenal in a position to win, as opposed to not-losing, which is how Emery managed. Seriously when you start a XI with 5 in the back against 19th place Southampton you're playing to not lose, akin to a prevent (The win) defense in American football. whenever you take off possession/attacking players in favor of "defensive" players you're practically begging the other team.to.come attack.you early and often because you're now in a situation where you're not going to possess the ball as much as you can, which means the other team is going to have the ball more.often than you and thus they're going to attack attack attack and the results will all too often be what we've been seeing lately.
My apologies about the extra periods but this tablet is awfully unforgiving today!
