Is Arsenal Going After Former Juventus Manager Massimiliano Allegri to Replace Unai Emery?

Unai Emery knew his fate at Arsenal just hours after losing 2-1 at home to Eintracht Frankfurt and was sacked by the club to be replaced temporarily by his assistance Freddie Ljungberg. Speculations are having that they are already in contact with former Juventus manager Massimiliano Allegri.

Arsenal's defeat to the Bundesliga side suspended their chance to book a place in the Last 32 of the Europa League until the last group stage game against Standard Liege. They are in the lead in the group with 10 points but a defeat to the Belgian club might usher them out of the race to reach the knockout stages.

In effect, the former manager had led the team to seven winless games in a row and the club's spokesman revealed the decision to sack the Spaniard was back on the team's "result and performance" which has been described as their worst since 1992.

Aside from Allegri, there are many other favourites such as Mauricio Pochettino, Carlos Ancelotti, Patrick Vieira, and even Ljungberg who have been tipped to replace Emery, but Sky Sports insider revealed that the club is carefully planning to go for a choice that is a high "calibre head coach" rather repeat their experience with the just ousted manager.

"I know Max Allegri would like to be the Arsenal manager," said the insider. "The sense I'm getting is that Arsenal want a high-calibre head coach and they're aware it could be difficult to attract one mid-season."

The insider also pointed out that hiring the former Juve manager is such that the club would want to consider for the position left by Emery in summer despite having challenges with communicating in English.

Allegri has for a while been living in London and is understood to be taking classes to brush up on speaking English in anticipation of signing to a deal with a club in the Premier League. The 52-year-old won the Italian Serie A for straight five consecutive times and stepped down to be replaced by former Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri.