Bukayo Saka Admits To Not Fully Understanding Unai Emery

Unai Emery has refused allegations of struggle with the English language at Arsenal.

Teenage winger and rising Gunners prospect, Bukayo Saka earlier revealed that he finds it difficult to understand the Spaniard sometimes and that he consults Freddie Ljungberg to better understand his instructions.

“Sometimes when I don’t understand, when the coach is trying to communicate with me, I have a better communication with Freddie sometimes, he speaks better English,” said Saka, who scored his first senior goal in the 3-0 Europa League win over Eintracht Frankfurt two weeks ago.

But when Emery was asked if communication is a problem at Arsenal, he replied, “I think no.

“I have conversations particularly with Bukayo and Freddie does the same with individual players, not only with Saka. Also, I spoke to Saka alone in my office and prepared sometimes some videos [for him]. I have also done videos with English players, Spanish players, German players, French players.

“Last year on my first day I spoke to them [the players] very bad, worse than today. But I have [continued to speak] English and now I think better. My English is, from one to 10, maybe a six. But at six I think the players can understand me. But if not, some help is good.”