It will get worse before it gets better at Arsenal.
Prior to today, there were four games that were considered winnable for Arsenal. Home against Southampton, Away to Norwich, home to Brighton and away to West Ham.
I covered it here and already my predicted points total from those games is behind. However, the point I was hoping to make was that it would give us momentum for the following five games against Man City at home, away to Everton, away to Bournemouth, home to Chelsea and home to Man Utd.
Well, I wish I could just delete that article because there is no way that we will go into those crucial five games with any sort of momentum. Not based on the horror show I watched today.
It was so bad today I am not sure a new manager could turn things around anytime soon.
There are a bunch of players there that are mediocre, I feel we have all been kidding ourselves that we have a good group of players, just saddled with a bad manager. I no longer believe that.
Would any Arsenal player get into any of the other traditional top-six? In fact, would they get into any of those teams plus Leicester City?
Now, if I am right in that view then you can take it to the bank that things are going to get worse. How much I do not know. Not relegation worse, that is ridiculous but definitely mid-table worse.
That may sound an overreaction but ask yourself this. Is Arsenal better than Wolves? For me, no and Wolves are what I consider a mid-table team, a team below the top-six.
This is now beyond Emery, he will be gone at some point, that is now a given but with this group of players, I just cannot see how a new manager can sort them out.
So, in conclusion, buckle up, it is not going to get better for a while, with or without Emery.