layer needs to establish an identity and a move toward Arsenal’s fast attacking ways of old could be the ticketIt was offered as a throwaway line but, when Bukayo Saka explained after a breakthrough performance in the 3-0 win at Eintracht Frankfurt in September that Freddie Ljungberg had been instrumental in helping him understand Unai Emery’s instructions, the alarm bells sounded loudly. He was hardly alone in not grasping exactly what Emery required of him and, while the manager’s persistence in working in his fractured English was highly respectable it frequently led to confusion on the training ground. Ljungberg has no such problems and it is remarkable how effective short, simple...
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