Gunners legend Tony Adams has claimed Unai Emery has too many of the same traits as Arsene Wenger and is destined to fail as boss of Arsenal.

After 22-years of service and many successful days, Wenger decided to finally call time on his love affair with Arsenal after years of fans call for him to leave and let a new boss bring a fresh style of play and ideas to the club, to help them finally win a Premier League title.

But despite all the signings and all the optimism surrounding his arrival, Emery has not had the best of starts to life at Arsenal and has lost his two opening Premier League fixtures against Manchester City and Chelsea, leading to many calls that he is not the man to lead the club into a new era.

And Adams fears the personnel he has at his disposal are not suited to the brand of football he is attempting implement.

‘After Arsene, I was so excited with the prospect of a real change,’ he told The Sun.

‘It was a great chance to do things differently but against City it was an Arsene Wenger performance — only more so.

‘I felt so sad about that. Everyone knows what Arsenal have been missing — it’s that steel, that resilience. ‘Whether Emery can coach it or not I don’t know yet, it is early days. ‘But then away to Chelsea they were all over the place again — you’re not watching them thinking ‘there’s a change here’.

‘It’s the same goalkeeper, the same style of play — it just feels the same, there’s no one rocking the boat. ‘Chief executive Ivan Gazidis has gone for a ‘head coach’ because they don’t want someone with the power Arsene had. ‘But they still want to appease the fans with a style of play like Arsene had. ‘They don’t want to lose the ideology of the ‘beautiful game’ . . . whatever that is. ‘I don’t think you are going to have success that way because there are clubs doing it far better, with better players and more money than us.’

Meanwhile former Gunners striker Ian Wright has claimed Granit Xhaka now faces some time on the sidelines after seeing heavy criticism over his performances this season, which was followed up by his poor displays last season.

Xhaka looks like a man that doesn’t belong in a big side like Arsenal, he looks one step behind the game play at the Emirates and should have been sold in the summer, with many fans believing he was no longer needed with Lucas Torreira now signed.

‘With him [Guendouzi] and Torreira who is still really to come in and make a start I think it will be them two [against West Ham],’ he told Sky Sports.

‘They will be the ones who are more confident about being able to get the ball in those areas and be confident enough to turn. ‘Someone like Xhaka is frightening me at the moment if the ball goes to him. His confidence is shot.’