兵器庫 的s 最高の，を越す 4 after summer of discontent
LONDON (AP) - Rewind a year and 兵器庫 was 長，率いるing into the new season with 新たにするd vigor and 楽観主義. But ahead of the 近づいている （選挙などの）運動をする there is an all too familiar 沈むing feeling surrounding the club.
In 2018, Unai Emery had been 任命するd as 長，率いる coach as the curtain （機の）カム 負かす／撃墜する on Arsene Wenger's 22-year 統治する.
There had also been 改善するd 商売／仕事 in the 移転 market and a shake-up of backroom staff had 支持者s dreaming of a return to the 首相 League's 最高の，を越す four.
A four-month unbeaten run did little to 鎮圧する the 期待s but, 最終的に, Emery's new-look outfit （機の）カム up short once more.
Stuttering over the line in the league cost it a place in the 支持する／優勝者s League positions as they finished a point behind 競争相手 Tottenham, while a second 発射 at 資格 ended around 4,000 キロメーターs (around 2,500 miles) away as it lost the Europa League final 4-1 to Chelsea in Baku.
After a restless offseason, 兵器庫 spent 72 million 続けざまに猛撃するs ($87.5 million) on Lille winger Nicolas Pepe in a 記録，記録的な／記録する 移転 料金 for the London club.
兵器庫's Unai Emery gestures during the Joan Gamper トロフィー サッカー match between FC Barcelona and 兵器庫 at the （軍の）野営地，陣営 Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)
支持者s had started to grow restless at the 欠如（する） of 移転 activity in the offseason, with only 18-year-old striker Gabriel Martinelli 追加するd until Real Madrid midfielder Dani Ceballos （機の）カム in on a season-long 貸付金 取引，協定.
約束ing defender William Saliba was also 調印するd from St. Etienne but he has returned to the Ligue 1 outfit on 貸付金 until next summer.
The 現在の 刈る of players would have also been unsettled when then captain Laurent Koscielny 辞退するd to travel on a pre-season 小旅行する of the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs after a request to have his 契約 終結させるd a year 早期に was 拒絶するd by the Gunners. Koscielny's move to French team Bordeaux was 発表するd by both clubs on Tuesday.
追加する to that a groundswell of discontent from 支持者s - which saw fans' groups 部隊 to 問題／発行する a 声明 to owner Stan Kroenke calling for "better leadership" and 非難するing the "soulless" atmosphere at home games - and a perceived 欠如（する） of 移転 activity, and it was a 騒然とした offseason for the club.
Seeing Edu, a former 兵器庫 midfielder and member of Wenger's unbeaten "Invincibles," come on board as technical director will appease some fans.
But Emery now has the difficult 仕事 of getting results on the field.
With Manchester City and Liverpool again most people's favorites to fight it out for the 肩書を与える and 刺激（する）s 投資するing and seemingly ready to build on its 支持する／優勝者s League final 外見, こそこそ動くing 支援する into the 最高の，を越す four may be the best the Spaniard can hope for.
改善するing the 防御の 部隊 is the 重要な, given the club's player of the season Alexandre Lacazette and 首相 League golden boot 勝利者 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang are again likely to 供給する plenty of 弾薬／武器 at the other end of the pitch.
Losing Aaron Ramsey on a 解放する／自由な 移転 to Juventus was another difficult pill for 支持者s to swallow over the summer, even if they had been aware of his 差し迫った 出発 for some time.
Emery will now need to get more of a 一貫した tune out of Mesut Ozil in the hope of filling a 大規模な 穴を開ける in his team.
All in all, it 約束s to be an 利益／興味ing nine months at the 首長国s Stadium in 兵器庫's 追求（する），探索（する） to return to Europe's エリート - and the question of whether this 現在の squad belongs there or not will certainly be answered during that time.
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FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018 とじ込み／提出する photo, Lille's Nicolas Pepe, 中心, in 活動／戦闘 during the French League One サッカー match against Nantes at the Lille Metropole stadium, in Villeneuve d'Ascq, northern フラン. 兵器庫 has broken its 移転 記録，記録的な／記録する on Thursday Aug. 1, 2019, by 調印 winger Nicolas Pepe from Lille as the London club tries to return to the 支持する／優勝者s League. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, FILE)
FILE - in this とじ込み／提出する photo 時代遅れの Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018, L ille's Nicolas Pepe during his French League One サッカー match against Nantes at the Lille Metropole stadium, in Villeneuve d'Ascq, northern フラン. England's 兵器庫 has broken its 移転 記録，記録的な／記録する on Thursday Aug. 1, 2019, by 調印 winger Nicolas Pepe from Lille as the London club tries to return to the 支持する／優勝者s League. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, FILE)
Lyon's Marcal, left, and 兵器庫's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang during the 首長国s Cup サッカー match at the 首長国s Stadium in London, Sunday July 28, 2019. (Nick Potts/PA 経由で AP)
