Several years ago, i enrolled in the boy scouts! I had a leader then who was once a naval officer, before retiring to train a group of young boys to be rugged boy scouts. I remember one of his war-time stories that he told us then; and this story in my opinion, seems to be exactly where Arsenal finds themselves.
According to my leader then, one of the battles he fought in changed his perception about helping humans. One of his comrades in arms got seriously wounded in an ambush. His team were able to repel the attack of those who ambushed them, but not without life threatening injuries being inflicted on his team members. Moving forward, his captain then noticed that one of his team members was seriously injured and he was slowing them down. He asked his soldier if he would be able to continue, and his soldiers’ response, was not positive. When they got to crossroad and didn’t know what else to do, the rest of the team decided to help their co-soldier by killing him and putting him out of his misery.
Now, Arsenal is not a military organization nor is Arsenal a security organization, but in life, certain decisions need to be taken, for sanity and progress to be achieved. Emery needs to be helped out of his misery; he needs to be sacked now! Do I sound harsh? Well, I am sorry if i do, but i am just being bluntly honest here.
Let us reason together. Do we really believe that Emery knows what to do to turn things around? Do we think he has even studied his team well enough, to know how to change things and where to start from? He has a record of going from bad to worse and to terrible, in his previous clubs. Once Emery starts losing ideas on how to move a club forward, he never recovers. Does anybody know what caused his parting of ways with PSG?
Watching our last football match against Southampton, one would have noticed how clueless this man was, at any point in the game. Now, we don’t need a coach who obviously needs some coaching himself, at Arsenal. Or do we?
Sylvester Kwentua (Lagos Gunner)