Liam Brady: There's no instant cure for all that ails Arsenal

A warning to all those disenchanted Arsenal fans heaving a sigh of relief that the Unai Emery era has drawn to a close: while there are a number of credible candidates who could take his place, I don’t think there is a manager out there possessed of the kind of magic wand which would be needed to cure all the club’s ills overnight. Or, for that matter, any time soon.

Certainly, Emery’s race was run long before the 2-1 defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt in front of a sparse attendance at the Emirates on Thursday night. Personally, I hadn’t been enamoured with what I’d seen from Arsenal for about a year now. The collapse at the end of last season, when it looked like we had qualification for the Champions League in the bag and then let it slip, was really alarming.