I felt Emery's biggest job in the summer was to offload all of Ozil, Xhaka and Mustafi. None of them suited the way he wanted to play at all, especially the first two. During the summer some pretty good signings were made but then he was still stuck with these cnuts and was left with a bloated unbalanced squad where he was forced to play players on reputation.

I don't think it's a surprise than the handful of decent games we actually played this season was when Emery used the kids in the UEFA Cup/League cup. It actually looked like a balanced team then for a change. The first team has been a mess all season.

I don't know how much of this is Emery's fault. His job doesn't involve contracts and selling players.