Pointless after three games, the Gunners are having the worst start to a league campaign in their 134-year history.
Antonio Conte has been advised against taking the Arsenal job, with Kevin Campbell suggesting the Italian manager shouldn’t “go anywhere near” the club.
Conte, who is currently out of job, has been linked with taking over at Arsenal as pressure piles on Mikel Arteta increasingly.
Arteta’s Arsenal have shown no progress at all from last season when they finished eighth in the Premier League table – in fact, they’ve downgraded, having suffered a defeat in each of their opening three league outings.
Conte, who led Inter Milan to the Serie A title in 2020-21, is reportedly considered by the Gunners hierarchy as the ideal candidate to take over from the Spaniard and usher in a new era at the club.
“If Mikel Arteta gets the sack, which big-name manager is going to put his reputation on the line and have no significant funds to go and change what he’s seeing?
“If you back him. Arsenal with all their players fit will be okay,” former Arsenal striker Campbell told Sky Sports News.
“But if I’m Antonio Conte and I’m looking at that yesterday, I wouldn’t go anywhere near it.
“Let’s be honest, I wouldn’t go anywhere near it. Because it’s the basics. They’re getting the basics wrong. And if you can’t do the basics as a professional footballer…
“The manager can prepare you as much as he wants for a game. Once you cross that game, it’s your job. You can’t let [Ilkay] Gundogan beat you at the back post.
“It’s not up to the manager to go and press people and stay on your feet and communicate and be hard to beat.”
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