With Emery facing his first real test of traditional British football on Sunday with a trip to Neil Warnock's Cardiff, there is a satisfaction with the way in which the new manager has started after 22 years of Arsene Wenger, despite losing the opening two games.
All the indications are that he won't suffer the same fate as David Moyes, who was jettisoned before even the end of his first season attempting to follow Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, simply because at Arsenal expectations are much more realistic.
Though Champions League qualification is clearly the goal, it is in the upper end of the expectations in the short term. In the long term. Arsenal point to the fact that Kroenke's formal offer document to realise the full takeover of the club talks seeing the club 'competing consistently to win the Premier League and the Champions League.'
Even though Alisher Usmanov had no influence on the club direction despite having a 30 per cent stake, insiders say that buying out the Uzbek-born Russian businessman's stake and taking the club private will provide new momentum for the club. The move to take the club private is opposed by a number of supporters' groups, most prominently the Arsenal Supporters' Trust, who say that the loss of an Annual General Meeting means there will no ability to hold the club to account. AST members have refused to sell shares to Kroenke meaning the owner has to forcibly purchase them under takeover rules.
The club want the situation of chief executive Ivan Gazidis, who is considering an offer from AC Milan, resolved quickly but have been impressed with the way Emery has gone about work. After the dominance of Wenger for so long, it feels more like a collective coaching effort under Emery, with work delegated to the likes of assistants Juan Carlos Carcedo and Steve Bould.
Emery, 46, is a very much coach of his generation and so immersed in the detail of analytics and performance data, though careful not to overload the players with too much information. The constructions of an outdoor gym, covered by a marquee, next to the training pitch is designed to ensure sessions are more dynamic and fluid. Rather than viewing gym work and ball work as separate tasks, Emery wants players moving quickly from strength work to technical work and view them as all part of the same session.
He is trying to implement a game plan which requires much more positional discipline than under Wenger, who was relatively more fluid in his requirements allowing players to take the lead creatively. So when analysing the West Ham game last week, Emery asked players why they hadn't played well in a certain section of the game. The players would point to obvious individual mistakes. Emery's response was to show them when the intensity drops even in the seemingly mundane parts of the game, it has a knock on effect which leads to mistakes.
'We need to be competitive and to improve to be more competitive,' said Emery. 'But it is not easy. It's a lot of details we need to improve and where we need to work. When I analysed the last match [and asked]: Why didn't you play as well as you wanted against West Ham?' It because of all the duals [for the ball]. Every situations on the pitch in the match you need to have more control. That's what we are analysing every day and the details to work to improve. We want Sunday to show that we are improving in that. For each match Sunday is something important for us to show our improvement.'
He is also working hard to ensure the system stops the team being so open at the back. Full backs Nacho Monreal and Hector Bellerin both push on in attacking situations to provide addition width, but that only works if midfielders maintain a strict positional discipline which is taking time for the players to absorb.
'We need more control, more with the ball, more with our positioning on the pitch, more control when we close [press] the ball. Also when we have the ball, we need to be together and to be organised. If we want to do the pressing, it needs this organisation, this structure, a compact block on the pitch for recovering the ball better. It is very important for me to continue improving how we can control the match better, with the ball, without the ball, with the positioning on the pitch.'
Emery has to resolve Arsenal's abysmal away form. They won four games last season, the same as Watford, Newcastle and Crystal Palace and Bournemouth, the latter two teams taking more points away from home than Arsenal did.
'Don't think about the past,' said Emery. 'I prefer to think with the players about the next match focus only to work to work to work for the next match and how we can win. It's clear the data behind us but I want to write a new data, a new present a new future with Arsenal with the players.'