There's an old cliche that says when clubs change managers, they go for the opposite of what they had. You swap your long ball merchant for the tiki-taka enthusiast, exchange your folksy, arm-around-shoulder guy for some dour, unsmiling drill sergeant. On the surface, this is the road Arsenal have gone down in appointing Unai Emery. Arsene Wenger was the omnipotent, omniscient ("Arsene knows") visionary with a clear idea of how he wanted to play and, sometimes, especially in latter years, a somewhat fuzzy execution. Emery is the pragmatist, the guy who makes do with what he has (and he's had both very little and plenty of riches during his career), who genuinely wants you to like...
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