'Mesut Ozil has to look at himself... His attitude and commitment were not good enough': Former Arsenal manager Unai Emery reveals all about his ill fated spell at club

Unai Emery has come out to reveal the never heard before details of his ill fated spell at Arsenal.

According to Emery, certain important things that happened during his stay at the club have been left out such as top players displaying the mentality of 'one day yes and one day no'.

He singled out Mesut Ozil for failing to show the commitment or leadership a top earner at the club should show while attacking the club for letting Aaron Ramsey and three other dressing-room leaders to leave in one summer.
Emery says: 'No one inside the club knew how to protect me. They would say: "Yeah, Unai, we're with you", but to the fans and the dressing room, they weren't able to do it.'

'We got back the spirit and there were good performances,' he says. 'We played the Europa League final and that is difficult, the previous year Arsenal had been knocked out in semi-finals.'

 'In the league we could have been third,' he says, blaming four points lost at home in the run-in for the eventual fifth-place finish.
'When I arrived at the club I saw Ramsey was going to be very important, he's a leader on the pitch and in the dressing room and he wanted to stay. Logically he then needed to negotiate a new contract and they didn't reach an agreement,' Emery says.

'I never get involved in the economic side of things, that's not my area. But it then has repercussions on the pitch.
'I think, for the team it would have been better if he had carried on, and for me as coach too, because he was the next captain.' Did someone say captain? The c-word became a problem for Emery in his second season, as the new skipper, Granit Xhaka, was picked in a dressing-room ballot.

Emery says: 'We had allowed [Petr] Cech to go and Laurent Koscielny and Nacho Monreal were allowed to leave. So if Ramsey goes too then all four captains have gone.

'That's four very important players missing and the next season we go for young players. I had a point of view and the club had another.

'Pepe is a good player but he needs time. When I was there he didn't give me the performances. I was in favour of someone coming who knew the English league, more than anything so that he wouldn't need a period of adaptation. I had a meeting with Zaha, the Palace player.

'He was the player I wanted because I could see that he won so many games on his own.

'I saw 20 Zaha games, some incredible performances and I told them that this is the player that I want for this team.

'I spoke to Zaha. I had been with him personally. And he wanted to come.

But the club decided that Pepe was younger, he was one for the future. I said: yes, but we need to win now and this lad [Zaha] wins games. He did it to us!

'The club took a series of decisions in terms of the captains, and in terms of signings, that would then have repercussions.' One repercussion was that dressing-room vote on the captaincy and the way it helped Emery's critics paint him as a slightly chaotic procrastinator.

'I believed that [Granit] Xhaka could be a captain and we gave it to him because the players voted for him to be captain,' says Emery.

'Xhaka needs time to be a good captain. You don't win everyone over just like that, you need to earn that credibility.

'If he'd had Koscielny and Nacho [Monreal] alongside him or if he'd had Ramsey, he would have been eased into it.' Emery is aware of the parameters of his role. It wasn't his business to decide Ramsey's future or decide which players left.

And he adds of Zaha: 'It's also true that he was an expensive player, and Crystal Palace didn't want to sell him.' Something else beyond his jurisdiction was Arsenal's decision to award a new three-year contract to Ozil.