Former Arsenal striker Alan Smith believes the club is a happier place with Arsene Wenger now gone.
Smith believes a reinvigoration extends to the club's former employees, too, many of whom had grown weary of reframing the same problems under Wenger year upon year.
“Anybody in the media connected to Arsenal had grown fed up of trying to find different ways to say the same thing," Smith told the London Evening Standard.
“Organisation, work off the ball, leaders, more steel in the side, all of this stuff had been a broken record for five years or so. Now we can give thanks to Arsene and move on to see how Emery will change things and have an impact. It's a blank canvas."