Unai Emery - Confirmed as the New Arsenal Manager - ORNSTEINNNN

[Power n Glory]

The club named him head coach rather than manager. Telling.

Also Emery mentioned Josh Kroenke in his statement too, seems like he’s the one calling the shots now.

Josh.

Unai

Ivan

New era

Catalyst of change! Credit to Ivan Gazidis for finally stepping his game up. There seems to be a vision and purpose behind these appointments.

[Power n Glory]

stop taking banter so seriously.

People that use the word 'banter' should be shot!

Several times.

[AFC Leveller]

Matches managed: 608

Wins: 328

Draws: 129

Losses: 151

Goals for: 1172

Goals against: 703

Games managed against Pep Guardiola: 10

Wins: 0

Games managed against Jose Mourinho: 5

Wins: 0

[Power n Glory]

It's now Gazidis FC. The job title of 'head coach' is telling. This is a safe appointment, designed to protect Gazidis if it backfires. I think Emery's trophy count is a silly criteria to look at; the league titles are from a dead league and the UEFA cup titles are from a vastly inferior competition to Europe's elite. Although maybe it's time to accept UEFA cup is our level now.

The early noises (with the disclaimer that a lot of the twitter noise has been utter bullshit) are that he may be happy not to be involved in transfers, and is more focused on getting the best out of the current squad. In that sense he's as much responsible for our on field performance as the new scouting and negotiations teams Gazidis and Kroenke have put together.

Overall, i think/hope this is a better appointment than Arteta. Though how much Emery's ability was the reason for the hire and how much was due to Gazidis being cautious that a potential failure can't be pinned directly to him remains unclear.

It's a safe appointment compared to Arteta. But they could gone for someone safer. I'm not paying much attention to the trophy count either. I think his attention to detail may have won the Board over.

[Xhaka Can’t]

People that use the word 'banter' should be shot!

Several times.

You really ought to be a mod.

[Power n Glory]

You really ought to be a mod.

Catalyst of change for GW.

[dostoy]

I think its fantastic.

Finally, a bit of good news at Arsenal, they have got rid of the old dinosaur and appointed a far far far better and much younger manager who has done some very good things in the past.

He must be given a massive welcome at the first home game, the crowd must chant 'Unai' 'Unai', enough to bring a tear to his eye if possible.

Onwards and upwards.

When was the last time we said that about Arsenal ?

[Cripps]

Arsenal twitter posted a video of our previous managers and erased Wenger from history

Arsenal marketing team

[GP]

I think its fantastic.

Finally, a bit of good news at Arsenal, they have got rid of the old dinosaur and appointed a far far far better and much younger manager who has done some very good things in the past.

He must be given a massive welcome at the first home game, the crowd must chant 'Unai' 'Unai', enough to bring a tear to his eye if possible.

Onwards and upwards.

When was the last time we said that about Arsenal ?

Poor gunnersaurus.

[I am invisible]

So his decision to leave PSG might have just been Step 1 in his overall plan?

More a case of the stars aligning perfectly for him at just the right moment and then taking full advantage of it. He'll have know that he was leaving PSG for a while, and as soon as Wenger announced that he was leaving I reckon he was doing his homework and prepping that presentation. Doesn't even sound like he waited for us to approach him - sounds more like him and his agent forced his way in and made it happen...