I’m really struggling to keep my emotions in check with regards to this summer because all the noises are positive. In fact, even the noises that aren’t positive are positive.
There’s a story doing the rounds that Ryan Bertrand is going to take the Leicester offer over Arsenal. I find it odd that a guy who grew up in Gillingham would head to Leicester (I’ve lived there, it’s nice, but it’s no London), but hey, who knows if our offer was real in the first place. He’d have been a very solid back-up left-back, but I don’t think there will be many tears shed on that one.
Granit Xhaka is top of the list for Jose Mourinho’s rebuild. Shows how rated he is. A managers player, one that baffles the fans, but over and over he gets the nod. I’m a bit surprised about this move, I’m not sure he’d have been an expected exit this summer, but fuck it… good for him. He’s 28 years old, the Italian league will suit him down to the ground, and we have to be honest… Arsenal has to be doing better if we want to go back to the top.
There’s a bit if fear about how we replace him. A lot of detractors don’t understand that Granit Xhaka does a hard job very well. He’s a server, he moves the ball between the lines better than anyone in our side at the moment. Sure, he’s one-paced and slow, but he’s very effective and our midfield without him not as good.
The rumblings that I’ve heard is that this summer will see a focus on Premier League players, so clubs like Wolves and Brighton will be attracting interest. I hope our Premier League hunger is not at the expense of the deals that’ll be available in more financially fucked leagues, but I suspect the logic is pretty simple here: We need a good start next season. If we’re shipping major names in our team, our fans will not tolerate a rough opening.
There’s a bit of fear in the system we’ll be going after Reuben Neves. A player that isn’t exactly a mobile monster in the midfield. I have absolutely no idea who we will go for. I think we’re more likely to move on someone like Bissouma, knowing that Brighton are going to be in the hunt for Eddie Nkeitiah. Remember, we have replace more than one central midfielder. Bissouma is an excellent party crasher that has done really well in Brighton’s midfield, he could do the dirty work next to Partey and give us that athletic bite next season. You still need a midfielder that can be an outlet though, fastballs through the lines with absolute efficiency. We’re looking for a rare breed, but hey, that’s what scouts and analysts are paid to be good at.
Sorry, we have to interrupt this blog to see a SAUCY SHIRT.
Damn. That’s my Klaxons reunion gig outfit set. Neon face paint. Dusted down bright blue skinny jeans. New rave is back baby. Gonna be magic. WHAT A SHIRT THAT IS. Love it. Adidas brings me so much damn joy.
The word on the street is that KSE is absolutely going to try and buy our love this summer. We’re not in a sell before you buy mindset, we’ll be making moves, there is cash to spend and we will spend it. Arsenal lost 22% value according to Deloitte. Honestly, it means fuck all, because no one is bidding for Arsenal based on a pricing, but it’s important because it does show that if KSE don’t get a grip on their prized asset, it’s going to get more and more expensive to fix it longterm. The money injection isn’t just to appease fans, it’s to reduce noise in their lives, and it’s to make sure their star asset is healthy.
That’s not to say we won’t be selling players, we absolutely will. We have plenty of opportunities to make the summer even bigger. Willock, Reiss, Hector, Guendouzi, Cedric, Kola, Torreira, and maybe one of our centre backs will bring in at least £80m. But we’re not in the mess we were last year where we had to run the clock down because everyone was low-balling us.
The market is deflated though. Roma offering £10m for Xhaka is going to be par the course this summer. It’s so amusing to watch fans turn their nose up at getting any fee for an expensive player that will be 29 in September. Move on players that aren’t good enough, find younger models that don’t need galaxy brain systems to protect their weaknesses, do all of the business as fast as you can so we don’t get off to a clunky start next season.
Also, I swear down, if Edu fucks up moving on Willian because he sought out a big fee, I will go to London myself to hand-deliver a stern letter of disapproval. Let him go on a free, don’t top up his salary, move on from this absolute debacle.
There’s a real opportunity to move to the next level this summer, every signing has to be perfect, but if we can manage that, next season could be a major surprise to the league.
I’m excited.
See you in the comments.
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The minimum for Guend should be around the figure paid for Soumare
Guendouzi is in the last year of his contract with everybody knowing that he won’t sign an extension as long as Arteta is in charge. Some of his past valuation were over the top, but still Basically Arteta intransigence destroyed his value.
Marseilles is skint, but having sold a few midfielders they need replacement. They can afford Guendouzi at £8 millions.
My opinion is that in two years time, Guendouzi will be back at a Champion’s League club, likely to be before Arsenal with Arteta at the helm.
Chamackh? lol
His form for Arsenal fell off a cliff after he was exposed in a Vegas hotel pissed up with a bunch of Tra**ies.
Each to their own but that cannot have been a good look for a “man of faith” and the shame of it messed with his head.
Shite player who we waited two years to get on a free lol
With Arteta the sum is greater than the parts. He knows the Club cannot compete for the very best players. Commitment and belief are key. This summer, with the unwanted remnants gone, he will have total commitment, total belief from the squad. It’s unlikely he will back Guendozi, a self-believer who did not take kindly to discipline.
“Actually Danny’s raised a serious point – When should I start to pay attention to Arsenal results next season mid August or late December?“
Marc, according to Pedro, immediately.
Haven’t you heard? No more excuses from now on.
Unless of course we can’t get our transfers in or out in time, or Euros don’t go to plan, or we get injuries, which are just excuses if other clubs have them but valid reasons when we do( Partey)
Can you really call gervinho’s a haircut?
It wasn’t really hair in the usual sense. More a giant slab of a forehead with some strings attached to it
With Arteta his bum is greater than his smarts (according to those itk about male bums!)
Tom
I can see the excuses already – didn’t have a proper pre season because of the Euro’s, Edu didn’t get the bad players out like he should of, Edu didn’t sign the players Arteta wanted, fans back in the ground isn’t fair, Kroenke got a new wig and it’s not fair to expect a team playing in Red to win matches.
Marc
I agree 100% with Arteta’s decision to offload Guendouzi. The player has been toxic wherever he has played.
Frankly I never rated Guendouzi as a player. He runs around the pitch like a rabbit for 40-50 minutes and then dies a death. On several occasions he was outmuscled on the pitch and then lay prostrate like a prima donna as the opposing found a hole in our midfield.
He cost us £7 million when we bought him and anything above £10-12 million is a plus to
get rid of him as far as I am concerned.
Oh yeah I forgot:
If you turn the table upside down we’re near the top.
Selling Guendouzi for a chump change shows yet again Arteta’s influence. Which player’s value has risen since he took over? Saka was already one of our key players under Emery. ESR maybe? And that’s it? Let’s have a look at the players who have fallen off a cliff under him – Auba with his worst season. Guendouzi from a world class talent to a get rid asap. Torreira behind Elneny in the picking order. Willian from a borderline top class player in Chelsea to a horrific player under Arteta. Bellerin fell behind Chambers and Soares. Ceballos from a potential permanent… Read more »
Emirates
I have no problem with selling Guendozi – I don’t get attached to players like many do unless they’re something really special.
My issue is under Emery who was so useless that he’s not fit to flip burgers Guendozi was worth upwards of £30 million Arteta has destroyed any value in the player.
Arteta’s man management and squad management is terrible. If you gave him peak Messi we’d be selling the guy after a season for £15 million.
Guendouzi is the footballing equivalent of a ‘no-rounder’ in cricket who can’t bat or bowl properly. He’s useless in attack, useless in defence, contributes next to nothing to a team’s success.
raptora
You missed off Martinez suddenly broke out as a really good keeper, Arteta decides to keep the other guy who then wants to leave 12 month later.
Davi Aubameyang seems like the type of character who’s brilliant to have around when things are going well and he’s happy, but a nightmare if he’s unhappy If we dropped him to the bench, the best we could hope for is the dent to his ego forces him to knuckle down, and start grafting to win back a place in the team Our dressing room has been flaky for a long time, how Aubameyang has ended up as our captain, really just demonstrates the level of lunacy at Arsenal football club Aubameyang should be leading by example, the young players… Read more »
Eduardo
It doesn’t matter people rated him and would have paid a lot of money for him. MONEY we could have spent on other players.
Almunia I hear why you’re saying about Laca but a 1 year deal would mitigate against any backsliding. All of our judgments are based on 90 odd minutes of watching them do the business end of their job. We all imagine ourselves as good judges of character but Laca seems a decent, hardworking bloke. I’m sure I thought that about Auba as well this time last year but he’s been making my ozilometer flutter like a bastard this past season. The little fella and I like Guendouzi. He calls him pot noodle mk2 (Luiz was mk1 if course and Elneny… Read more »
Raptors
Sterling would come to Arsenal if City decide to sell him and we were the only club who agreed to take on his wages. It’s that simple.
Rich
Who selects the Captain?
Eduardo
So we’re number 1 choice when no other club is interested.
Wow Arteta’s really putting Arsenal on the map.
The manager should select the captain. Emery’s player ballot was a cop out.
Tierney is the most obvious candidate for captaincy at the club at this moment.
Marc
I’m not defending Arteta and think Sterling would be a terrible signing.
I like the concept of final 4 as described by Aleksander Ceferin in L’Equipe. Champion’s League final and semi final played in one knock out game in a week in the same city. It loses the return leg of the semi final, but add so much more drama. According to him, that added drama of the final 8 of last season was very successful. Maybe that was primarily due to COVID meaning that people were cooked up at home, but I can see the attraction of a winner takes all game. There is no I can skip the first and… Read more »
Rich, I think you’re right on all of this. Just makes me think he needs to go before it’s gets to another Ozil situation as Kroenkephobe said.
I think Sterling should come to Arsenal and lower his wages considerably as a thank you gesture to Arteta, without whom he would’ve been just another overpaid, average City mercenary……or something like that.
Eduardo
I don’t know where the idea of buying Sterling has come from but there are 2 serious concerns about it.
1) We don’t need a wide left player as a priority.
2) If he came there’s a chance it would be a swap deal involving Saka.
Rich, it wasn’t a lambo Auba revved up but a £2m Ferrari.
Get your important facts straight.
If Arsenal touch either of Mahrez or Sterling, then we have t learned from the Willian debacle
Let Pepe get one season without these managerial o I-ups
Same for Saka, play the lad in ONE position all season and let him thrive.
The more I see of these Arteta experiments, the more I hate the Kroenkes.
“ If Arsenal get less than €25m for Guendouzi, every single one of the responsible people should be sacked on the spot’That valuation is bonkers He has only one year on his contract and everyone knows his part club don’t want him. We ail be very fortunate to get €8 million for him. “ Now coming to Raptora original query – Arteta is fully and solely responsible. In fact Arsenal can drastically improve their bottom line if they forego 5 million and fire Arteta, provided ,of course,they don’t hire another arsehole like Arteta. With Fat Lampard off to Palace that… Read more »
Whatever happened to letting your academy players get a proper chance
Sterling would truly get in Saka’s way just when he’s about to take his game to another level
Dissenter
Fucking ridiculous. What sort of moron thinks playing a young player in a single position is a good idea?
The big question is between Diet Pep and Lampturd who with finish higher on the EPL table
Fat Frank’s going to Palace?
That happens and I’m sticking a tenner on Palace going down or fat boy getting sacked before Arteta.
After chrismas
Kroenkephobe I agree with the ozilmeter. Genuinely don’t believe I was this cynical until the last few years of Wengers reign and ever since! As a fanbase we’ve had our fingers burnt more than most so I’ll forgive myself that. Still no pubs over here though they are allowed to serve outside from June 7th( I think). Still no word when we’ll be allowed back in. Wouldn’t be too bad on the continent but this is Ireland ffs. Our Summer is a 24 hr event whose arrival is about as predictable as,a leeds utd result. Regards Guen, I’m confused. All… Read more »
Sterling appears a busted flush for a few months, with poor decision making. Pep would want to move him off. And our Fraudeta would love to prove he can improve 1 player at least.
His last experiment with Williams ,for whom he strongly plugged ( see old articles around Williams signing) , although nowadays Arteta loverboys are making Edu responsible. Yes, Edu is complicit to extent as a fellow Brazilian and sharing the same agent Kia , it was very simple.
I mean not like he didn’t push for Willian on an insane salary when we had Auba, Saka, Pepe and Martinelli for the flanks.
Not like he didn’t bring Odegaard to be a direct rival to ESR for the CAM position which lead to playing ESR on the wing (and as a CF in that one game…).
He had Bellerin and Soares but decided to play Chambers as a RB.
He had Soares (and AMN who he loaned) but decided to play Xhaka as LB.
We’ve seen it before. His decisions make a lot of sense.
Almunia
It’s strange how Mislintat is still rated on here but all of his signings are also viewed as terrible players.
I see Lampard struggling to raise the bar at Palace too. That squad needs an awful lot of investment as a lot of them are in or approaching their 30s. They probably missed their chance to sell Zaha for big money and reinvest in the squad. Maybe they would be better off get Harry Redknapp in to do some wheeling and dealing!
raptora
If I was appointed the Spud’s manager and declared that I’m going to deliberately get them relegated my decisions would make about as much sense as Arteta’s.
What’s everyone’s thoughts on the CL final? We are all pulling for City as the lesser of two evils right? Chelsea end of season form is a concern for them, but they have pulled 2 wins out of 2 against a city very recently. I would imagine Pep wasn’t giving much away in the league game in anticipation of this final, obviously it’s a final and all bets are off, but I see City edging it, at arms length, perhaps like Liverpool did to Spurs a couple of years back. Before that, hoping Brentford finally go up against Swansea. Great… Read more »
Marc
The type of moron that’s plays Partey as a midfielder at home to Villarreal, with two number 10s in a game where has to dominate
The same moron that subbed in Auba when we were down to 10 men against Wolves. You bring in a striker not known for his graft a when you’re down to 10 men against a team that has dribbling wingers that can use space.
Dissenter
Don’t get me started.
Chris
I can’t see beyond a City win the wheels really seem to have fallen off Chelsea the last few weeks.
Swansea have Ayew, he’s the decider I that play off final
City vs Chelsea is a toss-up
Anything can happen in 90 minutes, Timo Werner may have the perfect game when you least expect it.
Still discussing transfers while we still employ a dud manager? This club will never learn
I mean who pushes a player limping off the field, the same player that everyone knew was prematurely rushed back from injury
Arne Friedrich, Hertha Berlin’s sporting director on Guendouzi:
“When you talk about Guendouzi and see his skills, you realise that he is a great player,” he told The Guardian.
“I’ve also read that he had problems at Arsenal but here he behaves very well. He puts all of himself on the field. He is a great professional.
“Guendouzi’s situation confirms that we must always understand how to help the players, with a talent like him it is worth it.”
Marc Didn’t Aubameyang take the captaincy after Xhaka had his meltdown, just before Emery got the boot? Would have been difficult for Arteta to come in and strip a senior player of the captaincy I do think it was weak not stripping of the captaincy for being continually late, and revving his Ferrari outside the stadium instead of warming down with the other subs though With Xhaka + Luiz both potentially leaving, who should we make captain? Tierney? Holding? Chambers? Lacazette? Slim pickings there….. We need some leaders in the dressing room, it’s why I hope we get Odegaard, and… Read more »
“Guendouzi’s situation confirms that we must always understand how to help the players, with a talent like him it is worth it.”
Or you know, you could exile him, mark him as a black sheep and put all the blame on him. Has tried to do the same with Pepe, Martinelli, AMN already. What’s another addition to the list. Nothing.
Raptora That’s Herta Berin statement was after the coach did an unprofessional hit j0h on Guendouzi You can’t viciously attack the character of an individual in that manner, I believe he called him a teenager or something. That was uncalled for. If Arsenal had any sense they would have privately protested to the German club, that is if they didn’t start the whole press leaks to castigate the same player. We’ll be lucky if Marseille actually pay 8 million. If I were Marseille, I wouldn’t come for Guendouzi until the last week of the window, let Mikel and Edud wallow… Read more »
Odegaard a leader? Lol, I’m outie.
Rich
It wouldn’t have been difficult for Arteta or any other manager to come in and change the captain. Everyone knows that’s the prerogative of the manager.
He could have used the premise of let a defender be captain or something.
He’d take take the band from Auba because Auba was the one keeping him in a job that first half-season.
Actually Arsenal only need a RB, CM, and CB and can be firing , perhaps with initial splutters as the new players try to find their feet and develop chemistry. Striker, we have a choice of Martineli , Balogun and Auba. But then we have a PREJUDICED, PREJUDICAL, JAUNDICED Arteta who will send quite a few youngsters to Timbuktu, after they play 5-25 minutes because of his insecurities tries to play ageing stars. This fucker should know to sacrifice some games maybe initially, which is not as bad as a disaster of last season. Future is developing our youngsters like… Read more »
Dissenter, Dissenter, The spat started because Hertha Berlin had a new head coach Pàl Dàrdai in January who had an instant dislike for Guendouzi antics and made it known publicly. The DoF intervened, and anyway the headcoach then realised that the annoying Guendouzi was still better than the other players available to him, so he changed his mind and quickly put him back as an automatic starter until Guendouzi broke his metatarsal. The funny thing is that he got injured, the physio came and Guendouzi tried to continue. 5 minutes later he sat on the pitch and had to be… Read more »
Valentin
Thanks for the information. You do really know to sniff out facts.
Things make sense about Guendouzi
Arsenal have still not announced what is happening with Akonkwo and Azeez whose contracts expire in June. Balogun may have sign an extension, but to me those two have higher potential than him.
I think that Akonkwo has already decided to leave as Arsenal had offered him a 3 years contract but with no path to the first team and he still has not signed it. Having Runarsson an inferior player ahead of him must be grating.
S Asoa,
I’ve tried to follow our players in loan. German used to be my first foreign language, I have not spoken it in 20 years, but with new colleagues from Eastern Europe better at German than English, I found that reading news German media about the Bundesliga football and Guendouzi was a good excuse to retrain my German.
Dissenter
Arteta has a serious problem with little man syndrome – he has to belittle others to make himself look big.
With acknowledgment to SHARD elsewhere “ We’ve wasted so much money since Wenger left because of picking managers whose style is ill suited to the squad, and then because we had vested interests guiding recruitment and squad registration, and/or we are bad at identifying talent. I don’t think money fixes the issues we face. More likely we end up wasting more money to get worse. This is actually my biggest fear with the ‘he needs his own players’ idea. I wouldn’t mind giving Arteta time if he showed he can coach his way out of this and play a consistently… Read more »
Dissenter Managing people is much more complicated than that, alienating one of your highest paid and most senior professional straight off the bat, wouldn’t have gone down well There’s clearly little toxic groups at Arsenal, our dressing room seems full of players with questionable character The club screwed up not backing Emery in getting rid of Mustafi, Kolasinac, Ozil, and that mistake cost Emery his job Arteta already had that group of players to contend with, creating a potential nemesis in Aubameyang, Lacazette, Sokratis, and the other seniors close to that group, would have been suicide Hopefully Arteta and the… Read more »
Marc
We seem to be getting at the root of an Artetan problem, thanks to psychoanalysis
😂😂😂
Does anybody have a reliable prediction for the Chelsea v Manchester City final today?
I want to put a wager on it
Thank you
👍
“Apparently Willian + Luiz were working internally to oust Arteta in December”
Fucking legends!
Rich
Basically agree with you on the squad size etc it also doesn’t help that we don’t have any “big” personalities at the club – plenty of egos’s but wheres the leadership within the dressing room.
When I read the posts romanticising about Guendouzi and criticising Arteta for wanting to offload him it reminds me about how people used to rate Bendtner.
Both players had an oversized egos and behaved extraordinably badly. Bendtner became the
nightmare from hell wherever he moved. In my view the same applies to Guendouzi.
As far as I am concerned Guendouzi cost us £7 million and anything above that figure if we
sell him is a bonus. I doubt that he will learn.
Rich,
The Chelsea players that downed tools on Mourinho and finished 10th, won the title the following year.
If a bunch of players want a manager out, it’s probably for the better of the club. It always happens when c*nts are in charge. Ditto Arteta.
Raptora
Sometimes it’s the manager, sometimes it’s the players, sometimes it’s a combination of both
Using one set of circumstances, and applying that outcome to an entirely different set of circumstances, is a highly flawed logic
The Arsenal squad has been a complete mess for a very long time, we’ve got the wrong type of characters, the wrong amount of players, have the wrong balance, and we lack quality in key areas
Other than that though, I think we’re doing great……
When Pedro and others talk about implenting a high performance culture , they forget that Arsene Wenger did just that at this club. Did Arsene Wenger antagonize anyone ? did he publicly ridiculed a player when he came in ? All this talk of Arteta just tells me his a bully who is insecure of handling players bigger than himself.
Sherlock
Unless there are really exceptional circumstances you praise individually and lay blame collectively.
Wenger did it, Fergie did it.
Arteta is just a major league arsehole.
Divine Sherlock – Wenger also oversaw the downfall of that high performance culture. My strong impression is that he never actually tried to control the dressing room to any great extent, in the first half of his time at arsenal, he just signed players who had that winning mentality, the accumulation of these players on top of Adams etc naturally created a high performance culture. Once we started getting recruitment wrong, that culture declined.
Marc
Precisely , Shades of Mourinho in Arteta .
Davi
Read up , he brought new fresh ideas . Even went so far as to control what they eat , its been documented that it was revolutionary . Yes he lost that edge later in his career but thats another issue altogether.
Walt ”””’Rich Who selects the Captain?”””””” Well said, Jose M has his already at Roma in Xhaka. He maybe on the wane and the hunger diminished – but Jose still knows he needs the dressing room sorted on his arrival. X 2 seasons into Arteta we are rolling with PEA and plodder Rob Holding for season 21/22 as skipper unless he is thinking of Tierney? The first one is perennially late and is more interested in his expensive collection of cars and the other is just grateful to be at The Arsenal. Not a McClintock, Adams , Cesc and Vieria… Read more »
Sherlock, yes I know about that, but there was that decline during his time there. For example, Alex Song, who was a favourite of mine, was more concerned with Henry’s car than winning – compare that to Vieira; it shocked me reading that but it makes sense on reflection. Looking back at your original comment, I think your point about speaking to the media was right, just taking issue with saying Wenger implemented a high performance culture, when really i think it’s fairer to say he handled a group of winners well. He lost it after the bulk of that… Read more »
ES
I can assure you that my sentiments about Guen (hard worker and fully committed with a bright future and a chequered past ) are different from those I had about Nicky B (lazy, over-confident, poor technique and even poorer team player).
Willock is named by the EA Sports as the Premier League Player of the Month for May.
“NEW: UEFA clubs competitions committee decides to scrap away goals rule in European football. Now needs ExCo approval”
Pretty daft rule change
I watched football before the away goal rule was introduced; teams just used their home advantage to nick a goal and parked the bus away. ‘Away goals’ changed that dynamic.
‘ Willock is named by the EA Sports as the Premier League Player of the Month for May.’
Only at Arsenal with our horrible midfield would we be talking about selling Willock to fund the transfer of a middling Odegaard.
Dissenter – I agree, I the point was to reduce the chances of ET and penalties (the latter being a terrible way to decide a game)
Martin Odegaard takes a massive shit over Joe Willock. It’s not close. I appreciate he hit a purple patch for Newcastle but we should absolutely cash in on him. You know the thing about a purple patch…
Marko,
Of course Odegaard shits all over Willock
Remind me how many goals and assists did he have at Arsenal again.
Ceballos had a better first year loan than Odegaard and see how he blew up the league in the second season loan.
Marko was saying the same thing about Emi Martinez.
Thick one
Does anybody have a reliable prediction for the Chelsea v Manchester City final today?
Knagg Champa (intriguing name – where does it come from – something to do with horse racing? )
I predict the winner will be a gaz guzzling sports washing kleptocracy. I won’t be viewing but City to win 2-0. This advice is free under licence from sid inc. (patent pending). On the other game, I definitely want the Bees to sting the Swans but might be close. 2-1 aet.
The issue isn’t whether we should sell or keep Willock the issue is Arteta saying he wants to keep him reducing the money we have to spend on other players and then binning him off 3 weeks into the season, sending him back out of loan next Jan with him being sold in a years time for less money than on offer now.
Of course Odegaard shits all over Willock Remind me how many goals and assists did he have at Arsenal again You kinda looking at it very narrowly basing it on a single purple patch for Newcastle compared to an overall career so far. Joe Willock is better cause he scored a few goals there recently compared to Odegaard having more experience at nearly the same age. At least Odegaard has contributed to a whole season at Sociedad compared to the last 10-15 games at Newcastle. Look even if Martin Odegaard stays at Madrid and never puts on an Arsenal jersey… Read more »
That Ivan Toney got something about him. scored alot of goals this season 25 good age.
It’s unfair to compare Willock to Ode when Ode’s playing under the worst manager in the PL.
At this rate Swansea won’t make half time with 11 on the pitch.
Dissenter could be in his 60s then
Besides Arsenal fans have been pulling shit like this for years even last summer it was we should keep AMN he’s this great prospect he should be our first choice RB he should be played in midfield he’s part of England’s plans blah blah blah blah fast forward months later and he’s exactly as he’s always been shite
Azeez is well over rated
Or he watched highlight reels of old matches ?
I want MC to win today’s match. The lost could push Chelsea to sign Auba to finish up all the scoring chances.
It’s unfair to compare Willock to Ode when Ode’s playing under the worst manager in the PL.
This is true for most at Arsenal
Marko
I’ve said before only 3 players haven’t regressed under Arteta.
Saka – how good would he be under another manager though?
ESR – Arteta hasn’t had enough time to fuck him up.
Xhaka – couldn’t possibly get any worse.
Willocks found his level at newcastle
Odegaards found his at Arsenal
Odegaard all style and no substance, flatters to deceive. Just a posher Dani Ceballos. Kindly don’t re-sign.
Get in Brentford…
Samesong
Pretty much game over all ready unless Swansea can doing something pretty special.