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Karine Grigoryan

14-08-2018 | 17:28 Football
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Paul Merson warns Unai Emery that Arsenal players are "not mentally strong enough" to lift the club to top four

Football expert Paul Merson warns Arsenal's new boss that the layers are not mentally strong enough to lift the club to the fourth place. After 22 years of Wenger era, Arsenal started the new season with a defeat against current Premier League winners. Merson believes that the issues that held the club back late in Wenger's time remain, both on and off the field. The former Gunners midfielder told Sky Sports: "If you want to keep on coming along making money and finishing fifth or sixth, nothing has to change.But if you want to break in, get to that level, it's going to need a better mentality of player; I don't think the players are mentally strong enough."
"I don't see it - when it went 2-0 and the picture panned away and Bernardo Silva ran to the crowd, it was like Laurel and Hardy with Mesut Ozil, 'that's the end of that game'.They just seem like a lovely bunch of lads, not even Granit Xhaka is getting them to come on - you never see it with Arsenal," later he added.

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