Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
Well, looking at the 16 games before he joined:
W4 D7 L5
vs Arteta's games:
W8 D5 L3

It's been a bit better. We've moved up one place, we're a bit closer to the top 4 than we were. We're still in the FA Cup.
Nothing earth-shattering, I agree.

I don't particularly disagree with what you're saying, but he only joined late last year, with the enforced gap he's only been in charge for 16 games which have been a bit of an improvement on what they were before. Agree about the boring football.

TL;DR - I wouldn't sack a manager after 16 games unless it was a real car crash, which it hasn't been. I'm not 100% convinced by him but while we certainly let Wenger stay too long, we don't want to go to the other extreme and sack a manager after 16 games because he hasn't magically turned a deeply dysfunctional team into world-beaters. He deserves a transfer window and a season to prove himself - or not.
Trouble is you're comparing a time when Emery had lost the team and was having a nightmare and when literally noone was happy, so years there's a marginal improvement on a guy who was struggling badly, that's not a good measuring stick, he should be doing a lot better.

I personally feels even in those 16 games he's shown he doesn't really know what he's doing and also you have to ask how he's turned a team with so much firepower (that's our strength) into a team with a tootless offence.