Ian Wright believes Jose Mourinho helped Unai Emery to find his feet

Ian Wright believes Jose Mourinho’s struggles at Manchester United have inadvertently helped Unai Emery at Arsenal as he had time to find his feet. The Red Devils are down in eight in the Premier League having lost three of their first eight games of the season. Former Arsenal striker Ian Wright believes Old Trafford helped Emery a great deal. ‘Arsenal fans have not had too much to thank Jose Mourinho for over the years. But for once, they have every reason to be giving the thumbs up to the United boss,’ he told The Sun. ‘And while they are at it, Manchester City chief Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool have done the Gunners a bit of a favour as well. ‘OK, it has hardly been through choice – certainly in the case of Portuguese Mourinho. ‘But between them, those three allowed Unai Emery to stay in the shadows for the start of his Arsenal reign. ‘All the spotlight for the past month has been on Mourinho. Before that it was very much on how Guardiola and Klopp were going to battle it out for the Premier League title. ‘And that meant Emery could largely get on with it at the Emirates without the glare of the spotlight on his every move.’ Arsenal suffered consecutive defeats at the start of the season – losing to Manchester City and Chelsea but thenthey started a hugely impressive run. ‘What Unai is doing is trying to change the whole philosophy going forward, and he is doing it very, very well indeed,’ Wright added.

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