Unai Emery was sacked by Arsenal because of poor results, not because he couldn't get his message across to the players, according to Pep Guardiola.
The Manchester City boss takes his side to the Emirates on Sunday with Freddie Ljungberg now in charge after the Gunners' poor start to the season.
Emery failed to win any on his final seven games in charge and was eight points outside the Champions League places when he left.
The Spaniard was criticised by some for his lack of English but Guardiola said it cannot be used as an excuse for a failure on the pitch.
"If he was able to win more games, the communication is perfect," Guardiola said.
"Today there are a lot of weapons to communicate to the players, through the images, through not just the words. I do not completely agree with this.
"We make analysis after the results, after what happens, it is the same guy.
"It is not easy sometimes when you want to be your own language. But there are the hands, the body, the emotions, the images, your assistants, many things but the reason not was I think the capacity of Unai, there is no doubts about that, it happened because he didn’t win games."
Emery's Arsenal were beaten home and away by City last season as Guardiola's side went on to land a second Premier League title.
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