Sacked Arsenal manager Unai Emery was a dead man walking BEFORE last night's Europa League defeat at home to Eintracht Frankfurt.
Emery was sacked this morning at London Colney.
The Sun says the decision had already been taken before last night's Europa League defeat.
Gunners chiefs Raul Sanllehi and Vinai Venkatesham had flown to Colorado earlier in the week to discuss the growing crisis with billionaire owner Stan Kroenke and his son Josh.
And it was during that meeting that Kroenke gave the green light for Arsenal to begin the search for a new manager.
Sanllehi still needed to get the green light to wield the axe from the owners in a Transatlantic phone call after last night's game.
But the half-empty stadium and the manager's failure to get any kind of response from a group of players who had stopped trying meant that Emery's fate had been sealed.
