FILE PHOTO - Soccer Football - Europa League - Group F - Vitoria SC v Arsenal - Estadio D. Afonso Henriques, Guimaraes, Portugal - November 6, 2019 Arsenal manager Unai Emery Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs/File Photo
LONDON (Reuters) - Whoever replaced Arsene Wenger as Arsenal manager always knew they would be stepping into extremely large boots and Spaniard Unai Emery never looked capable of filling them.
But it was not just the fact he was replacing "Mr Arsenal" -- a manager who won three Premier League titles and seven FA Cups in his 22-year reign -- that made his task so onerous, it was the fact the club had been in decline for years.
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