Emery Pleads For Time To Build Arsenal

By Max Wise

Arsenal manager Unai Emery believes he can mould the Gunners into the best team in the world if he is given more time.

Arsenal have enjoyed a topsy-turvy season so far as they currently lie fifth on the Premier League table as the race for the UEFA Champions League places hots up.

The Gunners memorably went on a 22-game unbeaten run in all competitions in the early parts of the 2018/2019 season, and have shown a lot of promise on occasions.

While they have made it into the semi-finals of the UEFA Europa League for the second consecutive season, where they will face Valencia, the Gunners have lost back-to-back Premier League games at home to Crystal Palace and away to Wolverhampton Wanderers in recent weeks.

Those losses have proved costly as it puts their chances of qualifying for next season’s Champions League in jeopardy, but Emery, who replaced Arsene Wenger as Arsenal manager in the summer, believes his side are a work in progress with more room for improvement.

"We want to get with this club to the point where we are the best club in England and the world, but it is a long process. Sometimes, like today, we need to talk about patience," he told UK newspapers, via The Telegraph.

"We want to play in the Champions League but also we know our process needs to be with patience because there are another five very strong teams with very good players and very big performances."

"The Premier League is the most difficult championship in all the world. There is not another country with this difficulty to take the top four places and play in the Champions League," he said.

"Maybe now in Spain, they have something similar – Valencia are struggling for the top four also, but here the biggest teams in the world play in one championship."