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A week off for the players? Wow. I nearly wrote ‘wowsers.’ Do you get to a certain age where twee words like that become attractive? A friend of mine said ‘aces’ the other day. I was shocked. Is language deterioration part of the ageing process?

I digress…

A week off.

Then Arsenal FC heads into another nightmare crush of fixtures that could open us up to death spiral number two of the season.

It won’t define whether he keeps his job, that seems assured, what it’ll define is how much fan capital he has going into next season.

Managers shouldn’t make decisions based on what the fans want, but they should be very aware of the role we play in their success. Jurgen Klopp is a charmer, everyone loves him, even when things are going off the rails, it’s hard to dislike him. Pochettino is another one, the deep love he commands from his players makes him hard to move on, even when results plummet. The decisions they make and the values they hold are part of the allure.

One of the worst leadership traits is being unable to admit you’ve made a mistake. Willian is becoming a lightning rod topic in the court of fan opinion. He’s shit. He doesn’t care. He has been given more than enough chances… yet he keeps playing. Arteta needs to do the right thing and move him away from the starting 11.

Fan capital is going to be hugely important as we head into next season, because fan dismay will be seen and heard beyond Twitter. That means Arteta needs to start getting his house in order now so his mistakes don’t light a fire with the fans he can’t put out.

You know what gets Arsenal fans in the mood?

Sexy football.

For me, our season keeps collapsing around senior players that were given massive new deals. If you took 4-5 players out of the mix we’d have more money, better results, and we’d likely not be asking these painful questions every 4 weeks.

The football is evolving in a direction that excites. There have been patches in the last two games where you felt like this was peak Wenger ball from back in the day. Intelligent players moving the ball at speed with attacking intent. This sort of football, played by young hungry players, is what will get fans to buy into the project next season.

Our problems are evolving in the right direction, I appreciate it isn’t fast enough for some, but let’s take it for what it is. When you have a young striker that’s not scoring, you generally want the one that’s missing lots of chances, versus the one that’s not in the game. Adebayor was like that when he joined, everyone hated him because he constantly fluffed his lines… but then it clicked and he turned into one of the best strikers in Europe for a brief moment.

That’s where this Arsenal side are at the moment. We’re moving the ball into the right areas, the attacking intent is correct, but we’re one pass and a decent shot away from it coming together nicely. If the players were shit, you’d accept that this was our lot, but they’re not. There is scope for the click to arrive.

I think there are some obvious moves that’ll help us find the click. Firstly, let’s get our best players on the pitch. If Tierney is out, bite the bullet and put Bukayo Saka in that position. He was a top 3 left-back in the country, having him there isn’t a punishment, it’ll help us open up teams because his delivery is so good.

Put Martin Odegaard in the side. We’ve only seen about 25 minutes of him but it’s clear he’s the real deal. He can open up the game from deep and he has really quality in tight spaces. We won’t have £100m to spend this summer, so convincing him to join us next year is going to be a huge win for us while we reshape our finances.

Then the big one… we have to work something out with our striking situation. Auba has been out of sorts all season, his family issues clearly haven’t helped, but we need to address it because we’ve gone from one of the most clinical sides in the league to a side that cannot hit the target for love nor money

Again, that can change very fast. Pepe isn’t going to keep skewing the ball over the bar. Odegaard had a great goal scoring record in Spain. Saka, Laca and Auba should all be doing better.

The key to all of this though is fitness… if Partey is badly damaged again, we are in trouble.

Good news for Arteta is the games coming up present a fresh chance to show he has what it takes.

Beat Leeds? That’ll feel like progress.

Beat Benfica? Feels like a proper team, it’ll count towards momentum for the first time this season.

Get anything from City? I mean, feels unlikely, but who knows.

Leicester? Burnley? Spurs? All winnable for me…

We absolutely have to get back on track this season. The green shoots need to turn into flowering trees. The vision must be crystal clear by the end of this season.

If it is, then we’re in great shape for a run at top 4 next year. If it’s not, well, I’ll be promoting the hashtag #GusHiddinkIn.

Just kidding, but something like that.

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Guns of SF

I seriously hope that Martinelli does not get alienated at this rate.
If we lose him it would be another notch in the belt around Mikes neck…

HE needs to play his talent. This is the season to get these guys ready for next year and also if they suck, to be sold in the summer

Tony

David Boys;e ‘This blog is getting boring now ,it’s the same everyday and nothing makes sense .you talk about sexy football, what game are you watching the footballs slow and predictable. You say we’re going in the right direction, l see us dropping further down the league.’ Hard to disagree with that, especially Pedro falling for all the Arteta lip service from his ITK contacts. Pedro is hardly going to be told that Arteta is rubbish and will be fired. No! The narrative from the club is all positive for Arteta because the Suits (Edu, Board & Vinai) have no… Read more »

Tony

Apologies David.

David Boyle*

Guns of SF

I doubt Edu would recommend getting rid of Arteta. bar a complete tank of the season and many losses in a row. Those 2 are on equal footing. only Vinai can make that recommendation to the board to get rid of them. Being a non football genius, I doubt he does that. His neck will be on the line too, if things do not improve.
So we wait, and hope and dream….

David Boyle

What happened to my comment

Tony

Pedro
When I repeated called you out with your Gazidis obsession you were adamant in telling me you knew more than me because of your inside contacts.

How did that work out for you?

This surreal serial blind enthusiasm for Arteta has you going down the same Gazidis cul-de-sac.

Tony

“Leeds, it’s a big question with many variables and you’re looking for a bite-sized answer to walk away with. That’s why I didn’t answer it.”

Pedro forget marketing your fortune is waiting for you in sales and PR spin.

For the latter give Boris a call he really needs your skill sets.

Embellished answers are your forte.

Tony

Terraloon
I truly can’t do anything other than shake my head in disbelief when I read comments about the current squad and how the project and Arteta will eventually become good.
Really ?’

Perfect summation

Nelson

Arteta should establish chemistry between Odegaard and Auba. I can see that Odegaard’s defense splitting passes are ideal for Auba to run after. For Plan B, we should play Auba as left inside attacker and Odegaard replacing ESR as ACM. For Plan A, we’ll continue to have Saka, Esr and Laca.

Tony

David
Your comment probably had a banned word in it, so it’s automatically deleted.

Tony

Valentin (his relation with Arteta are according to reports quite frosty). Do you feel this is the reason Laca’s form dropped off? It doesn’t take much for a footballers fragile psyche to lose confidence, it happens all the time the their form drops. What you don’t need is a manager further damaging players mindsets that acerbates their ability to play to their full potential. Auba looks to be going through similar to Laca. Drop of form leading to a huge dip in Auba’s goal scoring ratio. Gone is that trademark smile that demonstrated Auba’s desire to enjoy his game time.… Read more »

Tony

Arteta claimed he was angry with Saturday’s result, but it was Arteta who:

Made the team selection that omitted any pace in MF bar Partey who was injured again trying to cover for Xhaka’s snail pace.

Set the tactics that kept failing in the Wolves final third.

Made the Auba and Willian substitutions that stopped out main threat from the left.

Arteta should only be angry with himself.

Rocky

I’d like to see Arteta sub on Willian in front of a packed Emirates. Then we’ll see the true thoughts of the fan base.

Goobergooner

Arsenal management as a whole is atrocious. The fact that the fa cup win gave Arteta a promotion and seemingly the ability to be as poor a manager as we could have hoped for really is depressing. Arteta isn’t the man to take us forward. Our squad is way better than what we have seen under his generational coaching. We are going backwards not forwards, and the cunts who keep saying “well this is what you wished for [post Wenger]” really do have zero clue. These are the same people who rate Arteta as manager too. No one except a… Read more »

Tom

Holly shit the table is fake news now?
I thought we were done with this nonsense once Trump got his marching orders and was ousted from social media but apparently not.
And Pedro of all people has picked up the slack.
What’s next, rebranding of the blog and calling it Fox Grove?

MD-Gunner

@Tony
“Arteta is the crash test dummy who has crashed too many times and is severely damaged – change is needed to move forwards.”
Thank you very much for this analogy it makes perfect sense and I now clearly see the way forward, but who is going to explain this to KSE?

@China1
“If you want to say Arteta flushes this season down the toilet”
Thanks also for cpming up with the right words to form a perfect word picture for what Arteta is doing to Arsenal 😀

Tony

MD-Gunner
Tim Lewis?

MD-Gunner

I am hoping that he will pass the good word. Agree with Overmars/Rangnick if they can’t whip Arteta into shape he is toast and perhaps they are able to get Erik ten Hag.

Tony

I’d be happy with Erik Ten Hag MD-Gunner

Goobergooner

Pedro
“Diss, no, you pretend. I have real contacts in and around Arsenal. You pretend.”

It’s actually worse than I first thought, if your contacts in and around arsenal are telling you it’s all great behind the scenes.

Our worst season in 50 odd years and the club’s heirarchy think we are moving forwards.

Bunch of cunts.

Goobergooner

They actually deserve what’s coming with their absolute shit show behind the scenes the last few seasons. Especially on top of how we were already on a downward spiral for nearly a decade prior to Wenger leaving.

This club makes itself real hard to like lately.

Guns of SF

CT

The article makes no mention of Odegaard.
Curious… he was brought in to help with creativity and attack.

Guns of SF

If we sell a number of players this summer, we should have some $ to spend on where we really need it.
If we sell Laca, Kola, Willock, Nelson, Elneny, and hopefully take the L on Willian,
we can raise enough to make a splash or 2 in the market
Bring back Saliba is necessary tho….

Add a Bissouma or Anguissa
Get a new CF,, Edouard or someone like Richarlison/Calvert L

We will be in a better shape…. for sure.
Still need a LB, so hopefully we can get someone in who can deputize well

Captain Tierney

Guns

If he shows he he can perform, he should be the 1st choice attacking midfield target. Young, hungry, world class ceiling and is already a very good player. Some of the through balls he played against Wolves were Ozil-esque.

For the summer the 1st priority should definitely be an Attacking Midfielder.
2- Striker
3- CM
4- Backup LB
5- RB upgrade.
6- Right sided CB upgrade ( Hopefully Saliba can get a chance here)

Guns of SF

We need to sell Bellerin
Shit, how totally obvious.

Dude needs to leave…. offers not a whole lot.

Receding Hairline

“but no better time to get things clicking than Sunday.” This is like your anthem now right, you have given this generational coach so many new pages you will soon need a new book. His premier league stats since he became a coach has been mediocre at best but hey he has a high ceiling and my sources at the club say he is the real deal. Newsflash no one outside the club cares what we at the club think of Arteta, yes he will go on winning runs like any average coach at a bigger club with good players… Read more »

Samesong

Nice to see you guys Ishola and Receding.

The Bard

I’ve noticed that none of the anti Arteta’s suggest better alternatives. I’ve suggested 2 Pullis and Holloway, both good managers of mid table clubs or are they waiting for Pep to suddenly just ship because we are the Arsenal. Some need to get real..

Receding Hairline

Morning Samesong

Receding Hairline

I’ve suggested 2 Pullis and Holloway, both good managers of mid table clubs or are they waiting for Pep to suddenly just ship because we are the Arsenal. Some need to get real..”

What nonsense is this? An attempt at trolling?

They are at least a dozen managers across Europe achieving more with much less than Arteta has at his disposal, this idea that its either Arteta or some mid table merchant is nonsense and shows you have lost the plot.

Habesha Gooner

Plus and Holloway? FFS arteta hasn’t been great but he is still better than them. One of my favorite managers if we are looking elsewhere is Erik ten hag. Nanglesmann is also another. I can sort of see why pedro defends arteta so much. There are flashes of this team playing breathtaking football. But it doesn’t last for more than 10 minutes. The best we did to stretch it is for 45 minutes vs wolves. That is why I am sitting on the fence. Results aren’t up to scratch but there is flashes of football. I will sit on the… Read more »

Leftside

10th place is the new 4th

Terraloon

Focus on this for a second.

Only Wolves, Brighton, Newcastle, Burnley, Fulham, WBA and Sheff Utd have scored less in the league than Arsenal.
Ah I hear but we’ve on of the best defensive records in the league and yep that’s true but what has had to be sacrificed to protect a fragile defensive line.

China1

Lol yeah MD my point isn’t to defend arteta it’s just that this season being flushed down the toilet has been based on loads of shit but I think having Tierney, Saka and Soares as lb options for half the season is miles down the list The true floaters are: -Auba and Willian contracts -breaking non negotiable a with Willian over Dubai -insistence on playing xhaka Willian bellerin in most matches irrespective of form or ability -saliba treatment -pushing partey to stay on when he was injured and making it worse – signing runarsson for shits and giggles -not selling… Read more »

China1

It was less about protecting our defense and more about arteta having extremely few ideas about how to set us up offensively

China1

Arteta used to think having lots of players defending = defending well The only relegation threatened team mindset that if you put everyone behind the ball the opposition will never score and you’ll always nick goals on the break Good defending is specifically not about defending in huge numbers. It’s about restricting chances and goals without even needing to flood the defense. Anyone and their uncle can play with 7 defensive players and hope for a result. It’s bargain basement fat Sam style management. But there’s a reason why all the teams that go down tend to play that way… Read more »

Crabregas

We have been better defensively for sure, however we still catch ourselves out with individual errors which have littered the campaign.

I also think Arteta has a way of setting his team up to attack but feel unless we have exactly the player he wants, we are going to remain disjointed and powderpuff.
He needs to setup to get the best out of what we have, as opposed to forcing our players to play in a way that doesn’t suit them.

Arteta need to be more adaptable and flexible.

China1

Arteta accidentally discovered this when he stumbled on his 4-2-3-1 with decent offensive options recently

Who might’ve guessed it’s actually easier to defend well when you DONT have your whole team camping around your box, zero players for transitioning from midfield, zero offensive outlets, zero quality hold up and link up play, substandard players in half the positions picked on name rather than merit and ‘playing out from the back’ unnecessarily complicated passing triangles going nowhere in and around the box

Who honestly might’ve guessed all that? Rocket science I know

Graham62

This “process” poppycock gets on my frigging nerves. Arteta arrived at the club in Dec 2019, 14 months back. When we won the FA Cup he could see there was incredible potential, that given the right encouragement and guidance, we could progress even further. Yes, we do have some exceptionally gifted players who would grace many top teams around Europe. Aubameyang, Saka, Tierney, Partey, Gabriel, ESR and Martinelli ( potentially) and yes, even Lacazette, are excellent individuals. Those that don’t agree are blind. In my humble or, as Pedro likes to call it, “reactionary“ opinion, Arteta fudged everything up by… Read more »

Dissenter

Pedro wrote “sexy football” as a short paragraph for e,phases to describe Arteta ball.

Arteta ball is a sexy as watching two blue whales doing the thing. If that turns you in, then Arteta is your man.

Gbat

Captain Tierney

I liked the below from that article.

There is a famous quote by Pep Guardiola, relayed by Thierry Henry where Pep says ‘My job is to bring you up to the final third, your job is to finish it.’

Dissenter

* Pedro wrote “sexy football” as a short paragraph for emphasis

Valentin

Tony, I think that the drop in performance is a combination of three things: + Drop in confidence and being happy outside of work. Some people can be miserable in their private life and still turn up and perform to the maximum of their ability. Most can’t. So in the case of Aubameyang if he worries about his mom, then then the 5% drop in concentration may mean that he is not as sharp as he should be. The same with Lacazette. If he is unhappy behind the scene and worried about his future, then that may affect his game.… Read more »

Socrates

“Diss, I’m not in the minority, you are. Don’t think extremist views in this comment section speak for the general fanbase. They don’t.”

Nothing extreme about wanting a manager held accountable for the team’s woeful performances.

I’d say its normal to critique the manager and highly likely that the majority of the fanbase will turn on the manager if it’s not mathematically possible to qualify for Europe or win the EL. At the moment Arteta is hanging on by a thread, that’s the information I’m getting. 🙂

Winthorpe

Nothing extreme about wanting a manager held accountable for the team’s woeful performances.

Socrates

That would be an acceptable position had there been some consistent takes on emery’s performance as manager

Captain Tierney

Gbat

That one line says a lot really. The best a coach can do offensively is hone different patterns into the team which helps them get into the final 3rd.
After that it depends on the quality, guile, flair and creativity of the players to make something happen.

Aston Villa is the prime example. We consistently got into good positions but couldn’t take advantage. I think we had like 45 touches in the Villa box. Thats a LOT. But still couldn’t create many clear cut chances.

Socrates

“That would be an acceptable position had there been some consistent takes on emery’s performance as manager”

I tend to remember that Emery was fired for his performance or lack thereof. Something I feel Arteta may soon experience first hand…

Leedsgunner

Pedro “Leeds, it’s a big question with many variables and you’re looking for a bite-sized answer to walk away with. That’s why I didn’t answer it.“ No, it’s a real simple question. I asked you when is enough… enough. I will nail my colours to my mast. Enough is enough for me if Arteta does not get us into Europe this season. I suspect you don’t want to answer the question because you want to give yourself the room the flip flop depending upon how the next few games go. No matter, the very fact you won’t state categorically your… Read more »

Winthorpe

I tend to remember that Emery was fired for his performance or lack thereof. Something I feel Arteta may soon experience first hand…

Socrates
Yes and the style of fan who’s now spitting he’ll fire and brimstone on Arteta tended towards leniency on emery.
They are still blaming Wenger for emery’s failure. You couldn’t make it up

Anonymous Commentator

William Saliba has done an absolute fuckery.
He’s been talking his jive about arteta and suddenly this video of him comes out.

No doubt his arsenal career is finished.
What a shit show.

Socrates

“No doubt his arsenal career is finished.
What a shit show.”

Unless Arteta doesn’t survive the summer, which regardless of what Pedro belts out is a real possibility.

Socrates

“Yes and the style of fan who’s now spitting he’ll fire and brimstone on Arteta tended towards leniency on emery.
They are still blaming Wenger for emery’s failure. You couldn’t make it up”

What’s more important, the antics of a few Arsenal fans or the state of the Club under Arteta? Because by your own standards it seems the former.

China1

‘ Arteta ball is a sexy as watching two blue whales doing the thing. If that turns you in, then Arteta is your man.’

Fucks sake this is supposed to be a safe space. There’s NOTHING wrong with finding that arousing!!! There are many of us out there we just don’t speak up much because of TOOLS like you!!!

China1

Whale sex?

Awwwwwwww yeaaaaaa 👌👌

China1

The best bit of whale sex vids is David attenbroughs voice over 🔥🔥

Socrates

“Enough is enough for me if Arteta does not get us into Europe this season.”

Arsenal has already set the precedent for failing to get into Europe. Wenger was let go, as was Emery. Arteta falls into the same category.

Thoughts and prayers that Arteta can pull it off.

Winthorpe

What’s more important, the antics of a few Arsenal fans or the state of the Club under Arteta? Because by your own standards it seems the former. Socrates No. The state of the club is the most important to me. If Arteta continues to use Willian and Aubameyang in games in which they are not suited and generally mismanaging the squad then I’m afraid to say I’ll be calling for his head. Personally I don’t feel we should make any hasty decisions until we know for sure. The fact is that there is not a glut of great replacements available… Read more »

Socrates

whales don’t do sex, they make love with barry white beating out the tunes.

Valentin

What Saliba has said just prove two things: + Saliba was deemed ready in January 2020 for Arsenal. So any talk by the Arteta apologist that he needed another year of development is just BS. That has now been confirmed by his current performance at Nice. + Arteta got hurt by his refusal to be recalled. Got petty and decided to ignore him. Not the sign of a great manager to put your own ego above the need of the club. To let a 19 years kid train on his own for 5 months and expect him to be immediately… Read more »

Valentin

Socrates,

Wenger and Emery failed to get us in the Champion’s League. Unless by some miracle we won the Europa League, Arteta will fail to qualify for the Europa League.

Socrates

“No. The state of the club is the most important to me. If Arteta continues to use Willian and Aubameyang in games in which they are not suited and generally mismanaging the squad then I’m afraid to say I’ll be calling for his head. Personally I don’t feel we should make any hasty decisions until we know for sure. The fact is that there is not a glut of great replacements available and those that are available are out of our price range. We really need to get to May and then make a decision” Absolutely agree on waiting until… Read more »

Winthorpe

Val

If that is true then the current set up is pathetic and not fit for purpose
It ties directly into my suspicion that Arteta acts out of spite and resentment which is no way for any coach to behave let alone one as lucky as him to have landed this job.
He won’t go far with that attitude. Just look at Frank

The Bard

Receding hairline. Educate me ? A dozen better managers out there, name them. I’m fascinated.

Socrates

Val,

Exactly, not getting into the Champians league is the precedent set by the club

Leedsgunner

Valetin

Arteta’s not experienced or mature enough not to make this about him. It should be about what is good for the team but I doubt it will be.

That’s why I suspect even if Saliba plays a blinder every game until the loan ends he will get rid of him because Arteta won’t tolerate his authority being undermined.

Saliba is being very stupid. Arteta won’t forget.

Shame really because with Saliba and Gabriel at the centre of our defence we could have that part of our team sorted for years…

Guns of Brixton

This Saliba thing is the weirdest thing I have ever seen.

…. So many questions arise. How tf can you be just feel comfortable enough to sit down and be all casual when someones masturbating next to you?

And why would someone do it in front of 6 or 7 other men?? I would say its a france thing but after the greenwood video….

Its a madness

Guns of Brixton

And Saliba was in “range” as well. 🤮

Nelson

Valentin
“Like the 4-2-3-1 against teams with 3 players in midfield pressing and cutting the supply to our front 4. ”

We didn’t have that problem when ESR was still fit. He had a free role and always made himself available to support moving the ball forward. Last game, he was tired and disappeared. Arteta is still lacking the experience to rotate players. Hopefully, he rests ESR for the Leeds game and plays him against Benfica. Last I read, the game will be played in Rome..

Winthorpe

Guns of BrixtonFebruary 9, 2021 11:17:14
This Saliba thing is the weirdest thing I have ever seen.…. So many questions arise. How tf can you be just feel comfortable enough to sit down and be all casual when someones masturbating next to you?And why would someone do it in front of 6 or 7 other men?? I would say its a france thing but after the greenwood video….Its a madness

Come again? 😂

Socrates

Guns of Brixton

what the actual fuck ??

Dissenter

Saliba isn’t being stupid Instead, he is behaving in a very calculated way to make sure that he never plays for Arteta ever again Everything the lad said was true. Arteta ditched him so he could keep Mustafi [and offer him a contract extension] Why didn’t Arteta consider the he was more rusty than other members of the squad since Ligue Un closed early. Had we let him stay with St Etienne as they prepared for the cup final , then he would have been ready for Arsenal. We insisted he join us early and then didn’t he’ll to facilitate… Read more »

Samesong

Valentin

100%

Vintage Gun

Saliba’s heads fully gone. Whole head gone.

Vomit on brain levels of sickness.

James wood.

Problem with Arteta was he came from a very successful club which was totally against the grain of what was going on at ARSENAL. Doing man management as the lead when only having been second in command previously has shown him to be lacking in most aspects required his abrasive way with players has certainly put the club in a far weaker position than before his arrival. The loss of Guen was a massive mistake . His handling of Salina / Maitland/ Balogan disgusting. As we know William was another diamond in his repertoire of total naivety. Yes our football… Read more »

Goobergooner

What’s all this random shit about Saliba?

Valentin

Nelson, It was the same against Palace. The old managers know a trick or two. They have seen that if you let ESR, Saka, Lacazette having quick interchanges facing forward, that line will create opportunities. So they cut the supplies. ESR can drop and receive the ball with his back toward goal. But they never let him turn and have a run at the defense. Same with Saka. They always had an extra man to make sure that whoever drops into midfield was man marked. ESR got tired because he kept dropping and trying to shake his opponent, but he… Read more »

Valentin

Winthorpe,

It’s like those kids have grown up thinking that porn videos are educational!

Sid

‘I said it when we bought Partey. We needed a player in the middle of the park who can defend, but more importantly dribble his way out of tight situations.’ scoring what proved to be the winning goal. Things got even better in the next game against Borussia Dortmund as Song channelled his inner Maradona. No, really. Receiving the ball on the left by the halfway line, he decided he was more than capable of taking on three opposition players alone. Lest you forget ‘Things got even better in the next game against Borussia Dortmund as Song channelled his inner… Read more »

Matt

What’s this Saliba video people are talking about?

Nelson

Valentin

We need the full back to help out.

Nelson

I am sure that there is no weakness in the 4 2 3 1 formation against a 4 3 3 formation. It defends on how you apply it.

Uwot?

Oh the refs f** kd us over narrative is getting old? While The PGMOL cartel & their Godfather Riley are around it will NEVER get old .Trust me.As Arsenal fans we’ ll still have plenty of reason to complain about the corruption……….

Jamie

Goober/Matt –

Saliba went on a french radio call-in yesterday and gave his version of why he was sent back out on loan.

Valentin

Matt,

The video in question is an old videos (he is French Kit) of Saliba with his mates in a changing room in which one of them is masturbating while watching a video.

Valentin

Jamie,

I don’t think that Matt was referring to the interview that Saliba gave. More likely to be the video in the changing room.

Goobergooner

Jamie,

Haha yeah that’s all I could find. I think Val just answered the question though.

Matt

Jamie/Valentin

I wasn’t sure what I was referring to, to be honest. I was scanning over the comments and a few people commented that what Saliba had said showed that he will not play for Arsenal again. Not sure if that was a reference to the radio interview of the video…

Kaz

Saliba is gone!

That video is disgusting. 🤮

Crabregas

Saliba at his best. Hi head has gone

Kaz

French player was masturbating on a couch next to Saliba.

What does Saliba do?

He videos it.

He’s done.

Jamie

Oh, haven’t seen the other vid then.

Jamie

Wait, what? A genuine circle-jerk?

Kaz

He ain’t coming back now.

5am

Makes you wonder about Arteta’s judgement on players – obviously starting with his lauding of Willian and Luiz, dismissing Ozil which was popular with many, ditching Mustafi, that was fair enough, whilst originally overlooking ESR readying him for a loan until stumbling across what he adds to the team. Thereafter also rating Holding enough for a new contract, above even including Saliba – team player of the month at Nice and rightly kicking off about the poor man management of his time in the UK. Somehow Auba and Laca have faded and Arteta had also been ready to shelve Pepe… Read more »

Crabregas

The weirdest thing is everyone is sitting around casual. Plus they don’t even look like they are in a changing room, just a waiting room of some sort.

Valentin

Nelson, Every formation has weaknesses against another. Weaknesses that are even more exposed by players lack of specific characteristics. In a 4-2-3-1, the 2 in centre of the midfield are supposed to be defensive midfielders. If the team has nobody to win headers and lock down, then the 2 are also used to bring the ball forward to offensive players. However if they don’t have the technique, agility, vision and are constantly outnumbered, then supply to the front 4 can be cut down. To counteract that, the No10/CAM (ESR in our case) drops to collect the ball and drive it… Read more »

Jamie

Glad he was away on loan filming that shit and not at Colney.

Adds fuel to the fire that Saliba lacks the maturity to be a top level professional right now. What a clown.

Dissenter

That Saliba video is as old as Pedro’s fetish for Arteta.

It’s not something that just happened.

Matt

Definitely wont be checking that video out!

Pedro must be rubbing his hands together (no pun intended). As we speak he is typing his next post, which will be centred around how Sailba was always a wrongun and this video shows was right all along and how Arteta knew something that we all didn’t.

Hopefully he stops short of including a link.