Is Unai Emery close to been sacked? Gary Neville warn Pochettino
The Premier League has been a League of survivals. No team is ready to lose. Arsenal has been suffering from many defeats and humiliations for quite a while, and they could only blame the coach for everything. I can not say anything than to support the move. Unai Emery seems to be making some mistakes in his decisions, and they are causing Arsenal continues defeats and strugglings.
Arsenal played against Southampton the last weekend, and the game ended shared point. The players also concluded that the coach is the cause of the problems in the team. When players are now saying something like this it means the end of the coach might be coming near in the team.
Players like Lacazette and Aubameyang has refused to pen more deal in the team because of the performances. If Arsenal continues like this those boys may move out of the team, and they may start struggling even more than this. So, the management may need to act very quick.
In the change of things, Pochettino was sacked some days ago, and there is a rumour that he may replace the current Arsenal coach. Personally, I think this isn't entirely bad, but he may also need time to think about his decisions.
Pochettino is a good coach and his record in Tottenham isn't bad at all. I can even say Tottenham Management was too quick to decision considering the past work Pochettino did. Regarding the news on Pochettino joining Arsenal, this is Gary Naville's words:
‘Mauricio Pochettino will get linked with every single job in the next three months,
‘I think he is in a position where he can select where he goes next, he’s in a strong position and his next job will be one of the super clubs in Europe.
‘Arsenal would be interesting. It’s happened before George Graham going the other way. Would Spurs fans like that? Would Mauricio do that? Would Arsenal do that? I’m not sure Mauricio would want to do something like that to Spurs.
‘Taking over at Arsenal would be similar to the job he just left at Tottenham, in the sense that there is some investment and spending, but it’s limited.
‘He’s not going to go to Arsenal and win the league in the next two years. Whatever the next job Mauricio takes, he will want to win trophies, that will be the most important factor in the decision.’
‘I don’t know what was going on inside Spurs, but I’m less definite than I was a few years ago about sacking managers.
‘From Mauricio’s point of view, it would have been better for this all to have happened at the end of a season, but it unfortunately doesn’t work like that.
‘Sometimes these things happen, I gave up my footballing career in the middle of a season – I couldn’t get to the end of the season.
‘Nobody looks at Pochettino’s sacking and thinks that it wasn’t the right decision for both parties, because if Mauricio had the energy to carry on, I think he would have carried on. He obviously wouldn’t have wanted to be sacked, but part of me feels like the decision suited him at this moment in time.
‘Sometimes these decisions suit both parties and they are decisions that have to be made, they cannot wait.
‘You cannot sack a manager at the first instance of something not being quite right, you have to see it through a period where you know it’s not right.
‘You cannot sack someone after a bad run of games, you’ve got to let them come through it and back them because you appointed them.’
It was a long interview, and I really love his words, especially the last part. But how many teams would support coaches like that. Most of the teams are out for business, and loses will cause problems.