Arsenal coach Unai Emery is called to need a miracle to match the achievements of Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte.
Both Mourinho and Conte were successful champions in their first season in the English Premier League. Mourinho won with Chelsea in the 2004/2005 season, while Conte did it at the same club in 2016/2017.
The 2018/2019 season will be the first for Emery to coach an English club. Emery’s performance with Arsenal will be highlighted when the Gunners face defending English Premier League champions Manchester City at the Emirates Stadium on 12 August.
The majority of Arsenal supporters hope Emery can be responsible for ensuring the Gunners return to the Champions League in the 2019/2020 season. To be in the Champions League next season, Emery has many ways, finished in the top four of the Premier League or won a title in the Europe League, a competition which he won three times in a row with Sevilla.
“We have to give time for him to bring his own style and the way he wants to play. It takes time for newcomers and new players to adapt. But if that happens and they can win the league, that is a miracle. I hope that will happen,” former Arsenal striker Nwankwo Kanu told Press Association Sport quoted from Football London.
According to Kanu, the only thing that Arsenal fans want is to see their team win the league. However, to achieve that big challenge will be faced by Emery as a new coach in the English soccer competition.
“First, second or third is a success. It’s a very big club that needs a degree. If you can’t win the league, you have to win the others. It’s difficult, but that’s what is expected of a coach at a big club,” he said.
In the past three years, there have been two records where a coach can win the English Premier League title in their first season with each club.
First, Claudio Ranieri, which shocked the world after bringing Leicester City to the title in the 2015/2016 season and Antonio Conte who led Chelsea to the championship a year later.
Other managers who have achieved this achievement are Jose Mourinho, Carlo Ancelotti and Manuel Pellegrini. Arsene Wenger also recorded doing so in his first full season at Arsenal.
