Can El Maestro Unai Emery wake up sleeping Arsenal?

Unai Emery has set a mean stall out. On Arsenal’s pre-season tour of Singapore, the team coach drove by the hotel from the airport and straight to the training ground. A signal of intent to his new players, perhaps, and certainly an instant contribution to the ‘narrative’.

Word gradually slipped out of extra training sessions and that artificial fruit juice had been banned, a subtle hint that the galactico of nutrition Arsene Wenger had even let standards slip in the canteen.

And though Arsenal lost their opening games to Manchester City and Chelsea, Petr Cech’s tangles with the ball at his feet served as a billboard advertising campaign that change was happening.