Arsenal has to employ Mauricio Pochettino to replace an underwhelming coach, Unai Emery, according to Paul Merson.
Emery has been far from convincing in London as he has managed to pick up four wins from 13 Premier League fixtures thus far.
Arsenal was recently held to a 2-2 draw by 19th-placed Southampton at home on Saturday afternoon, which made Unai’s job more shaky than ever.
Speaking on the club recently, Merson believes Pochettino is the best man to come in and stabilize the club, especially since the club will not have to part with an expensive compensation fee to bring him on board.
His words, “Arsenal should go for Mauricio Pochettino,”
“He’s not won anything, but he improved Tottenham over five years, tenfold. He’s a top manager and he is about at the moment.
“I know he managed at Tottenham, but George Graham had been at Arsenal when he went the other way. You’ve got to get past that sort of stuff. These top managers don’t come along too often, where you don’t even have to pay anything for them.
“Can I see it happening? No. Should it happen? Yes. But it won’t happen. The days of the rivalry between Arsenal and Tottenham are not what they were. When I was growing up, it was the big football match.
“For some of these players, that’s no longer the case. It’s probably Chelsea or Manchester City or Liverpool. It’s not the highlighted fixture anymore as there’s not a lot of home-grown players in the teams.
“You don’t have to pay compensation for him, and if you are going to bring someone in, he’s got to be better than the manager you’ve got.”
“I still see Emery being there for a while. They had a chance to get rid of him before the international break,”
“They looked at the fixtures and saw Southampton at home, Norwich away. They thought they would win both and everything would be rosy in the garden again. But they were fortunate to draw with Southampton with some of the chances they had, and they’d recently lost 9-0.
“Their confidence was low, but they never looked like they would be on to a hiding. There wasn’t too much respect and they came and thought they had a chance.
“I’m a great believer in if you keep doing the same things, you get the same results. Something needs to change. The players are not that good, but at the same time, results have to be better than what they are.
“If you’re a football manager and you arrive at a club, the team must improve, and the results have to improve. If they don’t then you won’t be in the job for long. That was a fact when I was playing, and it will be a fact in 30 years’ time.
“It’s worrying times, and with Norwich away this weekend, I think Emery will do well to get on the coach if they don’t win that game.”
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