Simon Jordan has advised Arsenal to refrain from sacking Unai Emery regardless of the position they finish in at the end of the season.
The Gunners are currently fifth in the table and ten points behind league leaders Liverpool. The recent intermittent results have seen Emery being criticized, with people saying that Arsenal has hardly improved since Arsene Wenger left.
Jordan, however, is of the opinion that Emery is being judged too fast.
“This is a manager that managed one of the richest clubs in the world – that could have any manager in the world in PSG,” he said while talking to TalkSport.
“This is a guy that took Sevilla to two Europa Leagues. I think he knows a thing or six.”
“And I don’t think that Arsenal fans sitting there just looking for opportunities to lambaste somebody is a cure for a problem which has been gestating for probably ten years.”
“The lack of character in the club, from the owner down to the dressing room has not been instilled. There’s no real leaders there.”
“David Dein, whatever I thought of him and I love him for his total ‘Arsenal-ness’, brought a link between the boardroom and the manager and I just don’t think it exists anymore.”
Jordan also believes the DNA of Arsenal has been lost at board level and the club faces the same problems Manchester United are encountering.
“No, I would say ‘Why the hell have we got Ozil in the first place?’” he added.
“That’s a decision that would have been made in conjunction with a manager that they gave total and utter support to.”
“People will look back now and say Arsene Wenger’s revolution between 1996 and 2018 was a revolution worth having.”
“But there was a point, a tipping point, in that relationship where Wenger was a busted flush as a current manager in my view,” Jordan continued.
“And the allowable drift, which is happening at Man United, the erosion of the DNA of Arsenal was allowed to go on for too long and now you have got a bit of a character-less boardroom. Not in terms of personality, but in terms of involvement.”
“You’ve got a little bit of a character-less dressing room, so what do you expect?”
Arsenal returns to action tomorrow when they take on Vitoria Guimaraes in the Europa League.
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