Matthew Upson believes Arsenal players have lost faith in Emery

Former Arsenal defender Matthew Upson believes Unai Emery’s job is in trouble as the players have lost faith in the manager.

“[A loss to Southampton] leaves [Emery] in real limbo because I think he’s struggling,” he said on BBC Radio 5 Live.

“I was at Leicester on Saturday and I saw a really poor performance from Arsenal [in the 2-0 defeat].

“It was almost like they tried to cater to not get beat at Leicester who were on top form, and this is Arsenal, and never really got any kind of grip of the game.”

Former Tottenham and Aston Villa right-back Alan Hutton was working alongside Upson and interrupted him, asking: “But do you think that the players maybe think that ‘He’ll [Emery] be away soon’?”

“Maybe, maybe that’s the case, maybe there’s already a loss of belief or whatever it may be in the manager,” Upson replied.

“He came to the club Emery and he tried to change things, he tried to be more disciplined.

“Again you have to look at the recruitment don’t you. To spend what they have spent on an attacking wide player, with the other issues that need to be addressed in the team.

“I thought he had a decent first season. At the end of last season you thought ‘[You’ve got] this summer now but you have to make progress this season’ and I don’t think they have.”

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