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Emery hits out at Arsenal players: ‘Some did not have a good attitude’

Unai Emery has criticised the attitude of Arsenal’s players and believes some players in the team ‘asked for more than what they were giving back’.

The Spaniard manager was sacked by Arsenal at the end of November, just 18 months after he was chosen to replace Wenger as head coach.




Unai Emery, who was eventually replaced by Mikel Arteta, had failed to help Arsenal to a win in his final seven matches in charge.

Reports had claimed that Emery’s relationship with several important players had come under strain during his final months at the Emirates, and the 48-year-old concedes he was unhappy with how some members of the team were behaving.




‘Arsenal was a club on a downward slope for two years before I arrived,’ Emery said in an interview with France Football.

‘We stopped this fall and even began to rebuild the club with the Europa League final and fifth place in the league, only one point off of Tottenham despite the fact that we took just one point in our final five matches.

‘We had Champions League qualification in our grasp and it went wrong in the end.

‘But it was a good season and we had this notion of continuing to improve.



‘But we lost our four captains: [Laurent] Koscielny, [Petr] Cech, [Aaron] Ramsey and [Nacho] Monreal. They were personalities that we missed this season to stay on the right track.

‘And some players did not have a good attitude and asked for more than what they were giving back.

‘Taking all of that into account, we needed time to succeed with our transition to a new Arsenal which is what I wanted.’

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