Ozil kerap mendapatkan kritik selama waktunya di Emirates Stadium, namun Emery selaku manajer baru Arsenal mengaku sebagai pengagumnya. Mesut Ozil bisa menjadi pemain penting untuk Arsenal di bawah arahan Unai Emery, yang mengaku sebagai pengagum dari talenta bintang asal Jerman tersebut.
Ozil secara reguler menunjukkan sisi kreatifnya sejak bergabung dari Real Madrid pada 2013 silam, namun performanya yang buruk dalam beberapa tahun terakhir juga membuatnya kerap dikritik.
Emery sendiri diperkenalkan kepada media sebagai manajer baru Arsenal pada Rabu (23/5) kemarin, dan ia mengindikasikan bahwa Ozil akan menjadi sentral dalam permainannya. Terkait
“Dia [Ozil] adalah salah satu talenta terbesar di sini di Arsenal dan saya menginginkan pemain-pemain bertalenta di sini,” kata Emery, yang di musim 2017/18 kemarin sukses mempersembahkan treble untuk PSG.
“Saya ingin menghabiskan waktu dengan dia dan juga semua pemain. Saya ingin berbicara dengan dia. Saya ingin berbicara dengan dia mengenai betapa senangnya saya berada di sini.
“Saya juga ingin semua pemain merasakan itu. Ini adalah proyek menarik dan kami semua harus mengerahkan 100 persen," Emery menambahkan. Artikel dilanjutkan di bawah ini
Mkhitaryan juga berharap bisa meraih kesuksesan bersama Emery di Arsenal. Gelandang Arsenal Henrikh Mkhitaryan berharap Unai Emery bisa membawa gagasan baru untuk mengembalikan timnya ke persaingan gelar.
Emery diumumkan sebagai manajer baru Arsenal pada Rabu (23/5) kemarin, dengan sosok asal Spanyol itu diberi tugas berat mengisi kekosongan sepeninggal Arsene Wenger yang telah berkuasa selama 22 tahun.
Dan Mkhitaryan berharap perubahan di tubuh The Gunners bisa memunculkan dorongan untuk kembali ke puncak – sekalipun dia mengaku belum berbicara dengan manajer barunya tersebut. Terkait
“Saya harap dia [Emery] akan membawa gagasan taktik baru dan semangat ke Arsenal,” kata eks pemain Manchester United tersebut kepada Vivaro News . “Saya harap dia akan sukses.
“Saya masih belum punya kesempatan untuk bertemu dia, kami belum punya waktu untuk berbicara.
“Saya bersama rekan satu tim juga belum membicarakan soal dia, tapi saya ingin bertemu dengannya.
“Semua orang di klub ini adalah profesional – semuanya tahu apa yang harus dia lakukan dan apa yang diharapkan darinya,” Mkhitaryan menambahkan. Artikel dilanjutkan di bawah ini
Fittingly Unai Emery’s overture as Arsenal’s head coach was high tempo and demanding. A whirlwind first day began on a transatlantic flight and flipped straight from the red eye into a burst of meeting, greeting and looking the part in the newly fitted club suit. For the Spaniard first impressions played a big part in his successful audition for the job and he set about making new ones as he introduced himself. The energy he likes to transmit was on show.
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Upstairs in the directors’ box lounge at the Emirates Stadium he tried to expand on what makes him tick. It was evident that the way he will communicate with his players is full on. From the way he spoke – making a determined effort to explain himself in English in his clear, booming voice – to the way he amplified his points with expressive gestures, his eyes darting briskly around the room to try not to miss anything, Emery will be an altogether different kind of presence around the squad. Arsène Wenger tended to be more cerebral, more observant, more about guiding someone than pushing him.Emery’s brand of charisma comes across as animated, spirited and direct.
“I think the most important thing is to connect with people and have those personal relationships,” Emery said. “Heart to heart, head to head. The heart transmits emotion, the head transmits the intelligence. So it’s really important to have that connection both on a personal and collective level. What you are looking for is a shared experience. It’s true that you get the famous egos in football but that is true of top players and players who are not so good. I’m a coach that has come from second division, gone through to the first division, coached at PSG and now at Arsenal. And really the essence of it all is people.”
Emery has begun to study the personalities he will begin to work with over the summer. Arsenal are not overly represented at the World Cup, so he will soon be trying to make those connections with a large proportion of the squad, the vehicle through which he will introduce his philosophy. While paying due respect to the “love for possession” he saw as part of the club’s heritage, he also stresses how his football ideal is also about intensity and pressing.
That is another departure from Wenger’s focus on expression with the ball and it will be interesting to see how quickly Emery can effect a stylistic transformation. “I like to win the ball back as quickly as possible,” he said. “It’s about two things: possession and pressing.
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“Football is a demanding and difficult sport. What we want to do is not fear any team, either here in the Premier League or in Europe, and our objective is to be among the best and to beat the best. I’m the type of coach who has always worked really hard – not because I do it better than anyone else but because that is what I believe the most important thing is.” He talked about “that desire to be better” like a kind of compulsion, adding: “I’ve never seen anything handed out for free in football.”
The 46-year-old looked effortlessly relaxed and confident in himself. He had that air of being comfortable in his own skin that comes with having the balance of experience and motivation to feel sure he can do this job well. When Wenger started at Arsenal (at the same age Emery is now) he described himself as “full of hope, full of belief as well” and Emery emits the same vibes.
For all the revolution that began when Arsenal last appointed a new manager 22 years ago, a rarity in bringing a foreign manager into the English game, this announcement was a snapshot of how the football landscape has changed. It was an entirely international affair. In London Arsenal were introduced to a man from the Basque country who had been interviewed by a panel of football executives from South Africa, Germany and Spain, having impressed an American owner, to be shown around a stadium named after a Middle Eastern airline on the day the club unveiled record-breaking shirt sleeve sponsors from Rwanda.
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Emery took it all in his steady stride. He had been in contact with the Arsenal hierarchy while in charge of Paris Saint-Germain, attending the first interview two days after the French Cup final and with two Ligue 1 games remaining (nothing untoward as his departure from the Parc des Princes had been sealed and made public). The three big meetings he had with Arsenal went from strength to strength, making him the unanimous choice. His blend of personality and pedigree, and a willingness to work collaboratively with the head honchos, shone through. Emery has a load more meetings in the diary for the rest of this week where backroom staff and aims for the transfer window are on the agenda.
For all Ivan Gazidis’s talk of a new structure with shared responsibility Emery undoubtedly carries the status of Arsenal’s new figurehead. Out with hashtag MerciArsène and in with WelcomeUnai. There were sudden changes made around the place, making sure the lifesize cutout of Wenger that had been in the tunnel was taken down in time for this unveiling and Emery’s brushed steel nameplate erected outside the head coach’s office. Over to the new man in town to show what he is made of.
New Arsenal manager Unai Emery has arrived at the club's London Colney training complex for the first time since his appointment.
The 46-year-old Emery, who left Paris Saint-Germain this summer after two years in Ligue 1, has replaced Arsene Wenger as boss at the Emirates Stadium on a three-year contract worth £5million a year.
And having been presented at the Emirates on Wednesday, the Spaniard was seen paying his first visit the the place where the majority of his work will be done.
New Arsenal manager Unai Emery arrives at the club's London Colney training complex on Thursday morning
The had a huge smile on his face as he made his way into the training ground for the first time since his appointment
Emery chats with Arsenal's Head Of Football Relations Raul Sanllehi (left) as he inspects the facilities at the training ground
Arsenal took to Twitter to share a video of their new boss who was all smiles as he made his way inside, captioning: 'Unai Emery arriving for his first day at the training ground'.
Joined by chief executive Ivan Gazidis and Head Of Football Relations Raul Sanllehi, Emery wore a huge smile on his face as he inspected the facilities on offer at the state-of-the-art venue.
Guided by Head Of Facilities Sean O'Connor, the former Paris Saint-Germain manager was then taken to meet injured defender Laurent Koscielny, who is working on his recovery following an operation on a ruptured Achilles.
The pair looked please to meet one-another as they engaged in an animated conservation before Emery made his way to the tactics room.
The Spaniard shakes hands with injured French defender Laurent Koscielny (left) as Ivan Gazidis (centre) watches on
The pair chatted in the treatment room in front of a timeline documenting Per Mertesacker's recovery from a knee injury
The new Gunners boss then proceeded to pretend to use the interactive whiteboard as he imagined what it would be like to issue instructions to his new set of players.
Arsenal broke the news of their new manager just after 9am on Wednesday morning, proclaiming that Emery's announcement marked: 'A new dawn. A new era. A new chapter.'
The Spaniard was then formally unveiled at a press conference after being given a tour of the Emirates by Gunners chief executive Ivan Gazidis.
'I am thrilled to be joining one of the great clubs in the game,' Emery said as he addressed the media. 'Arsenal is known and loved throughout the world for its style of play, its commitment to young players, the fantastic stadium, the way the club is run.
Emery seemed impressed as he made his way around the training ground with a cup of coffee in his hand
'I'm very excited to be given the responsibility to start this important new chapter in Arsenal's history. I have met Stan and Josh Kroenke and it's clear they have great ambitions for the club and are committed to bringing future success.
'I'm excited about what we can do together and I look forward to giving everyone who loves Arsenal some special moments and memories.'
The former Paris Saint Germain boss is also adamant his team can still go toe-to-toe with English football's elite next season.
The 46-year-old was joined by the ground's Head Of Facilities Sean O'Connor (left) as he looked round the tactics room
Emery imagines what it will be like to issue instructions to his players as he pretends to use the interactive television
'That is our objective (to catch Manchester City), Arsenal is a club with fantastic personality and identity and I believe and the club has shown me that they believe,' Emery said.
'It is about showing that personality and showing the stature of this football club.
'What we want to do is not fear any team neither here in the Premier League or in Europe and our objective is to be among the best and to beat the best.
The former Paris Saint-Germain boss chats with chief executive Gazidis as they made their way to the training pitches
'I'm the type of coach who has always worked really hard, not because I do it better than anyone else but because that is what I believe the most important thing is.
'I'm very demanding of myself, I'm passionate and I really want to transmit that to the people around me - that we can, and must, improve in the future.
'That is the kind of thing I want to transmit, that desire to be better and I think that will lead us to improve in the Premier League and in Europe.'
🔴 @UnaiEmery_ arriving for his first day at the training ground#WelcomeUnai pic.twitter.com/MsH9jDyNps — Arsenal FC (@Arsenal) May 24, 2018
