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Deluded Gooner
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I guess that's right. Back charging, that's right.
People deluded I'm back again.
Come on, Ian.
Big man Ian Wright just said there.
People deluded I'm back again.
Special guest settings, VIP settings.
I've got the man, the myth.
Troops is in the building.
We're going to tourcast.
We haven't got long.
But, you know, it's going to be a good one, man.
We saying my guy good.
Come on, man.
You know what I'm saying.
We're day off, man.
Long overdue, blood.
You get me?
Long overdue.
You can say that, man.
I'm happy we finally got here, man.
Finally, man.
Probably going to wipe the smile off your face here.
But first thing I want to get into.
Aston Villa.
Talk to me, man.
What's your thoughts, man?
Obviously, you've had a couple of days to settle down.
And, you know, all of those things.
So, what's your thoughts on the game, man?
The forward line, blood.
It's slacking right now, blood.
You get me?
Like, no one's pulling up straws.
Jesus, two goals, one assist.
That's not good enough, blood.
You get me?
Like, Martinelli.
Like, I've got a thing called the MDL.
The Martinelli Defence League.
You understand?
I like that.
I'm copying that.
You get me?
Man's the head of that league, blood.
Like, pause.
You understand?
But I can't defend him right now, bro.
Because he's not playing how he normally plays, blood.
You understand?
He's playing within himself.
He's not attacking his man.
He's playing very timid.
Why do you think that is?
I don't know, blood.
Because it can't be a confidence thing.
The team's playing well.
We're in a good place.
He's been given the number seven shirt for Brazil.
The Brazilians are starting to have that kind of love for him that we have.
So, I don't know, blood.
You get me?
It might be off the field.
No one knows what happens behind closed doors.
You get me?
But he's not performing to the level he was last season.
Like, the Man City game when he scored the goal, I thought, all right, cool.
He's going to kick on from here now.
He never kicked on.
The Lawns game, the 6-0 when he got that banger, I thought, all right, cool.
Now he's going to bang.
Dead and gone again.
You understand?
I don't know what's going on with him.
Saka, I don't know if it's because of the injury he's been carrying earlier in the season,
but he don't look himself as well.
He's still making an impact.
His numbers are still there.
But he's not as brave as he was last year.
You get me?
He's not taking risks.
You understand?
He's another player playing within himself.
You understand?
So, for me, it was the front line, blood.
Older Guard had the two best opportunities.
He has to finish at least one of them, blood.
You get me?
Like, the second one, he didn't even hit the target, bro.
You get me?
Bro, I didn't know how he missed that.
The first one, for me, it's like, I think it was a good way to slap it in, man.
Bro, I don't know what it is, man.
How do you think it is, though?
Because you're right, though.
It's like, you know, Martinelli's not really been hitting the form.
Gabriel Zeus, we all love him, but he's never been a goal, a bagsman like that.
Saka, as you said, he's making the difference.
But in terms of him being at his best, there's gears to come up.
Personally, I feel in the last few games, you know, like, during the season,
we was fairly solid defensively in the middle third.
We was all right.
Us Arsenal fans, we weren't really happy in the final third.
Me, personally, I think in the last few games,
we've kind of looked a bit shaky defensively,
but we've been creating chances.
As you said, we've not put the ball in the back of the net.
Like, why do you think that is?
Like, what's going on, man?
Because I try my best to analyse the games and things,
but yeah, I can't put my finger on it, man.
Like, what's your thoughts on that?
We need a striker.
I've been saying this for the longest, blood.
You get me?
Pause.
I've been saying this for time, like, blood.
Even when man was in pre-season in America,
I'm screaming out that we need a striker.
We just slapped flipping...
Who did we slap 5-2 in LA?
MLS All-Stars or something, innit?
Nah, nah.
In LA, who did we slap?
Barcelona.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
After the 5-2, I'm still saying, we need a striker.
We need a striker.
Man are looking at me like I'm mad.
Even last year.
Like, I done told man, like, about Eddie and Keita, bro.
You get me?
Like, I say this every time.
It is not personal, yeah?
It's nothing against him as a man, yeah?
As a footballer...
It's not levels.
You are not levels for Arsenal Football Club, blood.
And you're wearing 14.
And that's what rattles me even more.
And then you add on the 100 bags.
Four years.
You understand?
It's a madness.
People could come in for him and he could be like,
nah, **** it, I'm not even going.
I'm on PS.
I'm playing for Arsenal.
The gaffer likes me.
I'm good.
You get me?
I'm going to get a chance here and there.
Yeah, I'm cool.
Eddie what, blood?
You're right.
I like him.
But it's just like, yeah, man.
It's not looking like we need you.
Like, if anything, Jesus should be the number two,
the rotation option.
We clearly need another striker.
I don't know where you're at.
But where are you at with potential strikers?
We're linked with Osserman.
We're linked with Tony.
We're linked with this guy, that guy.
What would be your pick?
Not that obviously your Mikel Ortega make the decisions.
Tony.
Why?
Premier League proven.
He's got a point to prove.
You see, with him, yeah, man will say,
oh, he scores hella penalties, da-da-da-da.
That's still a skill.
That is a skill, yeah.
But with him, when the chance drops, he takes it.
He could have a limited amount of chances in a game.
That one chance will drop.
Tony's taking it, blood.
Do you understand?
We've seen him do it in the 96th minute at the Etihad, blood.
That's true.
That's a point.
Big moments.
He is there, blood.
Every time Southgate wouldn't pick him,
what would happen in the next game?
He'll binze it.
Run to the crowd and do that.
Because that motivates him.
He's got that bit between his teeth.
Do you understand?
He's basically out there twerking like Ice Spice,
saying, whoa, January Medea, come on.
He's all putting us up on Instagram or whatnot as well.
You're right, blood.
Do you understand?
He knows what he's doing.
You hear me?
Black Woodrick.
But he'll actually come in and do a job, blood.
You beat me to it there, pause.
I was just about to say that.
Do you understand?
Big bad ting, like.
Up to the chute, blood.
You get me?
And it's a quick trick.
Literally.
Western North, blood.
He's round the corner.
You hear me?
Round the corner, blood.
And he is exactly what we need.
Because he can do what Jesus does.
As in, link the play with Saka, Martinelli.
But he can also score, blood.
Do you understand?
Jesus ain't even doing his Yoga Benito ting right now.
What are you doing, bro?
Second off, I'm disappointed with Jesus, if I'm honest.
He's just on being on the floor, man.
That really disappointed me from Jesus, man.
Why do you think Jesus don't bag?
Because I can't put my finger on it.
He's too good not to get 20 league goals minimum.
But for some reason or another, I think the most he's got in the league is 13 to 15.
I don't know, man.
And the whole point of him signing for Arsenal was you're doing that Jesus stuff.
You've got a platform to play on a regular basis.
I wouldn't say we create a bag of chances.
But Jesus, I don't know.
You're too good not to score them goals.
But where are you at with that?
He said it himself.
His forte is not scoring goals.
Do you understand?
So he didn't even believe in himself scoring goals.
So how am I going to believe this bunner is going to score 15 to 20 goals?
When you put it like that, I can't believe it.
Do you understand?
Like, bro, Alvarez is licking off more goals than this shoot, man.
This is the thing.
Do you understand?
Even when Harlem goes out, City still have Alvarez there to come in and score goals.
With Liverpool, Salah's scoring goals.
------- Nunes now and again will score.
But he's actually a problem, blud.
Do you understand?
He will create something, bro.
Whereas Jesus ain't really creating nothing now, blud.
Do you understand?
And I think if you put a striker with him, like a Tony,
then I think he will start cooking again.
Because right now he's by himself.
That's the Villa game you saw.
A few times he got into the left-hand side.
No one's in the box.
Yeah.
To be fair, he's the one that's meant to be there as well.
But he's not a striker.
That's the thing.
You get me?
I see how Martinelli's not in the best of form now, yeah?
If you had a Tony in there now, you could be like,
Saka right, Jesus left, Tony in the middle.
Pause.
You understand?
Then they would just be whipping it into him, bro.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And we're getting the goals and we're laughing.
When you put it like that and we're laughing.
And then Jesus could get the knockdown off Tony.
You understand?
But then, like, this fan base is,
oh, let's go with Jesus in the KTR.
No!
Sell in KTR and make Jesus plan B.
We have a plan B as a plan A, blood.
It don't make sense.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You understand?
Like City sold him and went and got Haarlem.
Because if Pep's sitting there, yeah?
And Pep's like, alright, cool.
You're good.
I like you.
Pause.
But right here now, I'm playing De Bruyne at full-time.
And you're on the bench.
Brother, come on, bro.
From that, you have to look at it and say,
alright, cool, this man is a full-time.
He's not an actual out-and-out nine.
You understand?
He's more of a 10 than a nine, blood.
Yeah, yeah.
You feel me?
That's his greatest gift.
That's his greatest gift and curse, you're right.
And that Jesus, he's not selfish enough.
I always say Jesus is a weird one
because the easy chances he makes hard,
the difficult finishes he makes look easy.
As you said, you know,
he's never been known for scoring goals.
And I believe to a degree,
while, you know, he was presented a platform
that asked him to do that,
sometimes you need to accept players for what they are.
I'm going to ask you about Zinchenko,
but when I look at Jesus and Zinchenko,
I think we need to learn from City
in that obviously they're two very good players,
but they can't be the main guys.
For one reason or another,
they can be valued squad members,
but in those crunch moments,
we're in trouble.
How much of it is down to Mikel Arteta then?
Because if Saka isn't necessarily firing,
if Martinelli's not got his shooting boots on,
if Gabriel Jesus ain't doing it,
obviously Odegaard should have scored,
but he got 15-odd last year.
How much of our lack of goals
is ultimately down to the gaffer then,
despite the fact of what,
we got 20-odd this year,
we scored like 80-odd last year?
Yeah, man.
With Arteta, yeah.
I think Havertz has kind of changed the style of play,
and Martinelli and Saka
ain't as high up as they was last season.
So they're receiving the ball a lot closer to goal.
They want it further in the opposition.
Yeah, you want them to run onto it.
Do you understand?
They're receiving it like at a halfway line,
they have to turn, beat one, two, three.
Yeah, there's only so many times
you can skip past players as well.
You feel me?
They're managers used to having
one, two man there,
and then bam, bam, they're in.
They're in, yeah, they're gone.
A lot of times last season,
we was singling out the right back
and the left back.
Martinelli and Saka,
every time last season,
every minute I'm looking up,
it's like, bro, one-on-one again.
One-on-one again.
And then, you get me,
the man that's flying through the midfield,
Martinelli will come down the other side.
If Martinelli's running with it,
Saka's coming in from the other side,
Jesus is in there,
all the guys running in.
Now, because Havertz can't play that Jaco role,
that is ******* up Zinchenko as well.
But let me get this in from now.
Zinchenko is ---- defensively.
Yeah, he's terrible defensively.
Absolutely ----, blood.
Yeah?
Defensively ----.
But going forward,
the man's a problem, blood.
Yeah, yeah.
But we need to look at
where he plays for Ukraine,
his international team,
who he captains.
The man that put him in midfield.
Yeah, he's in midfield.
Because they're like,
yo, left, nah, nah, nah, nah.
Yeah, you can't rely on him defensively.
And you could do your little inverted thing.
And if anything,
if the left back is thinking
you can tuck in and support them,
but your role is in the midfield, blood.
Do you understand?
We have to move Zinchenko
out of the left back position.
We have to stop with this
inverting left back thing.
Because it was his fault
for the *******...
The goal.
For the fool's goal, yeah?
He gets dropped for the Villa game,
comes back in,
the Villa goal.
You're at fault again.
So you got dropped for an error.
You come back in
and then you make another error.
Yeah, he's not a natural defender.
He did it against Fulham at home.
I don't like to attack Zinchenko.
Like you said,
we know him, innit?
You've never been a good defender.
I do believe you should improve.
You should be a lot better
because you played there enough times.
But at some point,
you have to somewhat accept him
for what he is.
You're in your mid-20s.
You played for Ukraine,
as you said.
You played for City.
In the same way,
I don't expect Tomi Assi
to be a great player
in the final third.
I just expect an improvement.
I do think Zinchenko's
somewhat improved,
but it's not enough.
And the better we're getting,
we just need a bit more.
Where are you at with our fullbacks?
Because lately Arsenal fans,
and I'm sure you've been
asked the question,
when you look at...
I don't want to praise them
a lot down the road,
but their fullbacks
are flying forward.
Do we need more support
in the final third
from our fullbacks?
Because Benjamin White
ain't really overlapping
or providing anything
when he inverts.
Zinchenko didn't do that
against Villa.
And you could argue
that maybe Martinelli
and Saka need that
on top of what you said,
probably missing Granit Xhaka
in his runs into the midfield
and the space.
So where are you at
with our fullbacks
then, generally?
Since his injury,
I don't know what
he's been on, man.
And from his head top.
I don't know what type
of foolishness that was.
You get me?
He's feeling himself
way too much.
I guarantee his gal
told him to do that,
you understand?
Don't listen to your gal
on certain things.
You understand?
Amen, amen.
But he's fallen off a cliff
and he's lucky
that Timba's not in the side.
And he's lucky
that Tomiyasu
can't consistently
stay fit.
And that's the same
on the left-hand side
with Zinchenko.
He's lucky that Tiddy
can't invert like him
and he can't stay fit
and that he's out of the club.
Yeah, yeah.
Because there's nothing
you can really change
in that area.
You put Kiwior in,
the man gets a nosebleed
when he gets to
the halfway line.
Get me?
You'd be lucky
if he even gets to
the semicircle,
let alone the halfway line.
Real talk, blood.
Luton, I'm like,
yo, what are you doing?
And he had a mare
in that game,
if I'm honest.
He was just standing there.
You understand?
It's like he was admiring them.
It's like he thought,
yo, bro,
this looks like one of the
stadiums I used to play in
as a youth.
Bro, Tid.
Yo.
Yo, hi, grandad.
You understand?
Thought he was back
in his homeland, blood.
Get me?
Kicking ball in a park, blood.
Real talk.
Because I'm like, dog,
what are you doing?
What are you bringing
to this team, blood?
Do you understand?
And that's down
to our Teta bro as well, blood.
Because he bought this brother
last season
and he didn't trust him.
He put Holden over him.
Yeah, until he really
had to utilise him.
You feel me?
So now when he gets thrown in,
he don't get thrown in,
he don't get a lot of opportunities.
So he's going in there
with no confidence.
So you don't really expect
nothing out of him.
And I'm saying to myself,
why are we playing
Motosaka at left-back?
Are we serious?
That's harsh, man.
Are we serious, blood?
We're playing Motosaka
at left-back?
Motosaka would do more, blood.
At least Motosaka would grab
the ball from the fence
and drive to the midfield
and try and pop it off
to Alex Long.
Do you understand?
And try and make things happen.
My man's just literally
there like, yeah.
You know what I mean?
He's just there with his
guy twerking,
international twerk champion.
Why do you bum buckle like this?
Yo, dog.
Yo, man, man.
Speaking of defenders,
go on, bro.
Speaking of defenders, yeah.
Do you feel Gabriel gets
enough respect
within the Arsenal fan base?
Because Havertz has been in
for two seconds,
he's got a chance.
Gabriel doesn't.
If anyone had a decent game
against Aston Villa,
surely it's got to be Gabriel.
Like you kind of said
with Zinchenko,
it feels like Gabriel's
having to play like a left-back
and a centre-half
and do everything.
Obviously Saliba's great,
but I do think a lot
of how Saliba shines
is because Gabriel
does the dirty work.
He's the aggressor
Saliba cleans up.
I actually think Gabriel
might be our most
underrated player.
He don't get twisted,
he gets appreciated and stuff,
but I think he deserves
a lot more applaudits, man,
if I'm honest.
He's a good defender, blood.
You understand?
And he's improved a lot
but when you've got
Saliba next to you,
you're going to look mean.
You're going to look
average, blood.
You get me?
The thing I'll say
about Gabriel is
he hasn't improved
off last season.
I think he's still
at the level he was
at last season.
Saliba's got better
than last season, blood.
Saliba looks even better
this season, blood.
He looks more assured.
He looks more composed.
He's looking like,
you get me?
When I was cussing, man,
saying, yo,
we're really playing Socrates
and we're loaning
out Saliba, blood.
When he had the madness
with his mother
and all of that,
I totally understood it.
But then the second time
I was like, no, no, no.
What's this now, blood?
We're taking the *******
piss now, blood.
And then when there was
talk of him coming back,
I remember my man
was saying to me,
he has to fight
for his place.
Ben White doesn't go
out the team.
I said, what?
Don't fight?
I said, big man,
this man walks straight
in this team, blood.
This man is our best defender
and he's not even
in our ******* team, blood.
And he is the best defender, bro.
And then when he came in
and everyone saw him
at Crystal Palace,
the whole fan base
changed, blood.
The whole fan...
So he had to
stay away.
You get me?
Oh, why we wasted
23 million?
This guy's on loan.
I'm like, bro,
do you man actually
watch Saliba, like?
I watched Saliba, bro.
Like, I kept my...
He's the man,
when we signed him,
I said, yo,
I've heard about this shoot still.
Best 27 million we spent
during the Emery era
sort of thing,
if I'm honest, really.
Him promoting Saka,
like Emery,
gets a lot of hate, blood.
You understand?
And whenever I post
that picture of me and Emery,
the first thing man say
is you wanted him out.
Bro, I was the last one
that wanted Emery out.
I gave up on him that week
he went out just because
he couldn't go.
I remember me and you
used to argue,
why he's still Emery
and da-da-da-da-da-da.
Exactly.
I remember man used
to argue with me.
I'm like, bro,
Pepe is not getting a chance.
Tierney's not even
in this team yet.
Like, there's things
that need to go into place
for him to start playing.
The team at that time
was in turmoil.
No, we was a mess.
We was an absolute mess
of a football inside,
man, you know?
And then I do think
a lot of people look at
Emery with rose tints
that even when you look
at his last, like,
his seasons at Arsenal,
I think personally
Emery failed us
in the league.
I think the players,
I don't even want to
remind you about Baku,
but I think the players
let him down then.
We got absolutely shot,
but you're right, man.
You know, if I'm going
to praise Emery for anything,
it'd be, you know,
I think we signed
Martinelli during his time.
Obviously he spoke on Saliba,
promoted Smith Rowe
and Saka.
We're there, man.
Like, would you make
a Smith Rowe?
Because I'm not
giving up on him, man.
But the man can't stay fit.
I know Arteta was
bigging him up
press conference.
That's bro blood.
You get me like
I don't want to snake
him, but it's looking
peak, man.
Yo, from early.
That's my dog.
You get me?
But it's looking mad,
isn't it?
Yeah.
You need to stay fit,
bro.
I did a list.
Yeah.
And I never put him
on the list of people
that I believe
needs to be sold
in these next two
windows.
You might as well
give us this list, man.
So, Lokonga.
Obviously.
Elneny.
Jorginho.
Nketiah.
Cedric.
A hundred.
One minute.
I ******* tweeted it,
lad.
Let me find the tweet,
lad.
I'm hoping you don't
say another Hey Lemboy.
Nah, I didn't put
Reece on it.
I say, even though he
probably does need to go.
Even though, because
people were saying
in the comments.
All right, so I said
Cedric, Tierney,
but only Tierney
because Arteta don't
rate him.
Yeah, it's clear.
It's done.
He's my dog.
So Cedric, Tierney, Lokonga,
Elneny, Jorginho,
Nketiah.
Ooh, that's a hard...
What?
Jorginho and party?
Yep.
What?
And Elneny?
That's three centimeters.
Why though?
Yep.
Why party?
Injuries.
That's it.
Where are you, bro?
When I go to war,
where are you, bro?
When I'm like...
Let me drop it
like this, yeah?
When man go to...
When man go
Hollywood Bowl, yeah?
You're there, blood.
You get me?
You're there.
You're active.
You're doing your thing.
I know what he's doing.
When man go Trocadero,
where are you, blood?
Where are you?
When man getting run upon
by a 50,000...
If you know, you know.
Yeah?
A bag of West Jutes.
Where are you, bro?
Where are you?
When I'm in trenches,
getting run down, yeah?
It's so funny that everyone
won't understand this example
you're giving, bro.
Bro, where are you, bro?
You're local bad man.
You're not global bad man.
Yeah?
You're bad in your element.
Yeah?
You're right, still.
You understand?
I'm like...
I'm not with it now, blood.
You get me?
And I'm seeing them Saudi men
lurking around the corner
and I'm saying,
yo, 50 million,
go on, man.
Let's do it, innit?
That's the thing.
Who else we gonna bring in,
though?
I don't expect any of this
to be in January, though.
I want Paulina, blood.
You reckon?
I want Paulina and Rice.
You ain't coming through
that midfield.
Would you scream in pause
Paulina before the Lynx?
I've always rated him
but I never thought it was...
I never thought he was
on our radar.
You understand?
Same with Rice.
I always wanted Rice
but I never thought...
Yeah, I think everyone
thought Rice was unrealistic.
Yeah, when I saw it,
I said, alright, cool.
These man better get this done.
When I'm seeing
the Douglas-Louise Lynx
and the Paulina,
I'm more with the Paulina.
I know Douglas-Louise is younger
but I think Paulina,
that's Jaka.
That is Jaka, bro.
If we go to war,
that is him.
I mean, he told us
at the Emirates this season
when he broke our hearts
with the last-minute equaliser.
That's the thing as well.
He can get a goal.
He's defensively good.
He can pass.
He can shoot.
He's 28 as well,
so he's experienced.
He's in his prime.
He plays weak in it.
He's the main guy
in the Portuguese midfield.
He is the...
You understand?
Paulina...
Yeah, he's the man
in the middle with a steal.
He's in blood.
You understand?
And you see that
he's a ball carrier as well, bro.
He's not stiff, Pauls.
You understand?
Jaka was a bit...
When he turned,
taking around an hour,
Paulina could...
Paulina's got that Portuguese in him.
Hey, Zamba.
Oi, oi.
He's just...
Real talk,
man.
He's just skirting
through the midfield.
You understand?
Then you can free up Rice,
Pauls,
because you put him there
and he's supporting
all the guys.
We can see Rice
in that advanced eight
that we was told
we was going to see.
Obviously, he's kind of
being crippled.
Would you sell Jorginho and Jan?
I wouldn't.
If you bring in...
If Paulina comes in,
I'll get rid of Jorginho.
I'll still keep Jorginho.
Obviously, if there's an offer,
just because...
You know why?
Because funds, innit?
Funds to get Tone.
I want Tone.
True.
And they're saying
I need to get people out.
Do you reckon we grab him
in Jan, though, Tony?
Because it's FFP stuff,
what we see in the news.
Obviously, we don't know
how much we got.
how we got FFP problems,
though, blud.
How have we got FFP problems?
True, true.
Probably because we're not
selling enough.
I don't know.
I thought with us being back
in the Champions League,
we'd have a lot more money
and resources.
I think...
We see it all the time, bro.
You've done enough with yourself.
Every transfer window,
we don't have money.
Then we do have money.
Then we don't have money.
Then we do have money.
So it's a bit of a techie one.
I'm not going to lie.
To go back to what you said,
out of Paulina and Douglas Luiz,
you're definitely selling
Paulina to me,
and I like him.
But you see,
because Douglas Luiz is a bit younger
and he's Brazilian,
I would more lean into
that kind of market
if I'm honest.
And just because we tried
to grab him.
He must be enticed
by wanting to join our club.
I'm keeping Jorginho
for squad purposes.
I like El Nene.
I don't really advocate
none of these guys leaving
unless 100% in January.
Kind of what you said
we're bringing people in
because you can see
we've got a thin squad.
In fact, that's a good question.
In August,
did you think we actually
added to our depth?
Because right now,
I did.
But right now,
it's a bit of a sideward step.
Or you could argue
we're maybe a bit weaker
in that regard.
Yeah, we're weaker.
We still haven't replaced Xhaka.
We still don't have a striker.
We still don't have cover for Saka.
We still didn't have a centre-back
because Kyrgios,
you know what I mean,
not that guy.
Probably need another full-back
as well slightly.
You feel me?
Because Nchenko can't defend.
Ben White can't defend
as well this year.
Timber's going to flip in,
take time to get back up to pace.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm writing him off
for this season
if I'm honest with Timber.
Yeah, this season.
That's why I'm saying
it's going to take time.
You've got to give him
the next season.
Let him get his fitness back up.
Confidence and all of that.
You feel me?
So, it's like
I knew straight away.
That's why I said
at the start of the season
I still don't think
we'll win the league.
Everyone was like,
oh, City won't four-peat.
I said, City got a better chance
of four-peating
than us winning the league.
Do you understand?
Because of the manager.
The manager will not allow
the levels to drop.
The players might take
their eye off the ball.
Pep's like,
Pep, where you at?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm trying to do
a legacy season.
I will sell your club
in next summer, you know.
I've got Doku
and that man there now.
You see how Grealish
is up his level now?
Because he doesn't want to leave.
To be fair,
Benjamin White did lock up Doku.
That's a foot in the foolishness.
You're right,
because the minute
he started dying his hair
and he had that little injury.
I don't know what
Benjamin White's injury has been,
but since he's come back
he's looked a bit off the pace.
As you said,
Saka's carrying a knock.
I'm a bit disappointed
with our right-hand side.
I think the only thing
I'm really happy about
in our team is that
Saka keeps doing his business.
Declan Rice,
I mean, we don't need
to speak about him.
The man's quality.
Saliba's doing his thing.
Where you at with
David Ryan Ramsdale?
Because, yeah, man,
I'm sure you've been asked
this question in person
and on YouTube.
You're probably bored of it,
but, yeah, man,
where you at with them two?
See me now, yeah?
I don't think we needed
to address it.
I never once said
in the summertime
I want a goalkeeper.
We need to improve on Ramsdale.
Give anything,
just a number two
because Turner cut.
You feel me?
And I don't trust
this Karl-Hein brother.
All he's good at is pennies.
Yeah, he's bookie.
Shout out to Hay-Lenders
but he's bookie, man.
You feel me?
Mad bookie, blud.
So I'm like, nah.
David Ray is the better goalkeeper,
but the situation
that they're both in,
it's not a good situation.
It's not healthy, man.
Because whenever Ray goes
in between the sticks,
all eyes are on him.
He makes a mistake,
camera pans straight to Ramsdale.
Ramsdale goes in the sticks,
all eyes are on him.
Error, bang.
Ray off.
You understand?
Then you got Rams' dad,
not the best thing to do.
You get me?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm going to be
backing you away
from January,
so if I see pups,
I'll be like,
yo, pups!
Well, you weren't there.
What are you dealing with, blud?
Ramsdale's a big man
to be fighting in his battles,
you know?
I can't lie.
It's moist, man.
I didn't see Nelo's wife
coming out and saying how
when Ramsdale came in
and took his spot.
It's proper moist.
I don't rate that.
I don't rate it at all.
I don't rate it at all, blud,
but because I got that little
with Ramsdale,
I'm just like, alright, cool.
Yeah, we like Ramsdale.
He's our guy.
Yeah, and I get it because
my son, Trey,
he's doing football now.
He's kind of good,
so hopefully he will get
to a pro level.
But I know
if he goes there,
I'm going to be like,
yeah, I'm not saying ----, blud.
Yeah, I'm not saying nothing.
People are like,
all right, truth.
No, no, no.
Like, yo, we know how you are.
I'll be like,
yo, that's my son, bro.
We're working hard
behind the scenes.
You get me?
We got the gaffer.
You know the vibe.
We're in a good place.
We're trying to
fight inside.
PR will run, blud.
Yeah?
I'm protecting him
at all costs, blud.
You understand?
That's what you should do.
Pops is lucky that Arsenal fans
have that bond with Ramsdale
where they never took it
the wrong way, blud.
You get me?
If another player's
pops did that,
it probably could have
gone left, blud.
Yeah, it would go left
very quickly, man.
I don't know.
It's a weird one for me
because I agree with you
in that, you know,
if Raya makes a mistake,
we scream about Ramsdale.
Ramsdale gets a chance.
We start moaning about Raya.
Ramsdale smiles on the bench.
You know, he's got
a crap mentality.
He doesn't smile.
He doesn't want to be there,
et cetera, et cetera.
What I would say with
that, in fact,
I agree with you in that.
I did think there was
question marks over Ramsdale.
Naturally, if you could
upgrade on anybody,
as much as I like Ramsdale,
do it.
But a keeper wasn't
my priority.
If Raya was the first choice
and that's what Arteta
wanted, great.
My problem with Raya is
the only thing I see
that you're at this
moment in time that
you're exceptionally
better at than Ramsdale
is the passing.
I think that's what's
saving you in the team
because you can do that.
You've got a bit more
swagger to it.
I haven't seen this
Raya of Brentford,
you know, because in
the summer, obviously,
I wasn't here for the
Ramsdale improvements,
but I could hear it,
you know.
Difficult decisions
have to be made.
I didn't buy what Arteta
said about I want to
win, you know.
It's bullshit, bro.
You can't do that with
goalies, really.
It needs to be clear.
I don't know if you
sat there and said
you're both number one,
best man wins,
Ramsdale's your place
to lose, or Raya,
you need to do
what you need to do.
But what I would say
is the jury's still out
on Raya.
The passing's great,
but if you go to the
looting game,
the Chelsea game,
the Lens game,
slightly even City
where Declan Rice
has cleared it off
the line, Spurs,
any time Raya's kind
of just needed to be
a traditional keeper,
I'm a bit like,
oh, you're looking shaky
and you was a fairly
established Premier
League footballer.
You was the best keeper
in with a shout,
excluding Ederson
and Alisson.
So I haven't seen that,
but I do think
that was Mikel Arteta's
first love.
He wanted him before
Ramsdale and it's just
become something,
but I don't know, man.
I'm a bit weird
with the Ramsdale one
because I feel sorry
for him as a fan
point of view,
definitely because he's
lost his place,
he signed a new deal.
A lot of fans didn't
even want the man
at the club before
and he was doing his thing.
But at the same time,
we don't owe Ramsdale
nothing really and truly.
This is a football club,
isn't it?
It's not a Sunday league club.
So I kind of have to
temper it in a bit,
but I wasn't happy
with his dad's comments.
Not that his dad
said anything wrong.
He was quite respectful
to Raya, but as you
kind of alluded to,
once you open your mouth,
you've opened the
can of worms, isn't it?
Everyone's going to
interpret things
different ways.
And if I'm Mikel Arteta,
I'm going to sit there
and be like,
boy, you might not
have said it,
but that's your dad.
You're telling him
that in private.
So boy, we do hear
Ramsdale's doing his
thing and performing
and whatnot.
So long may it continue, man.
Do you think Ramsdale's
spot, like,
you can't wrestle that
back from Raya at all
like it's gone.
The man made two errors
against Luton.
He's still in the team,
isn't he?
Arteta's there like,
yo, I have no problem
with David Raya's
performances,
you understand?
Like, you can tell
Ramsdale's done,
isn't it?
Like, it's peak still.
You get me?
Why don't you give him
a new deal then?
You do that because,
like, to come on
the transfer fee,
isn't it?
Like, there's a lot of
times where we've lost
out on transfer fees
because of the contract.
They're into their
last year.
So you can't come
on that big fee.
With Ramsdale,
we will come on more
than what we paid for him.
So we'll get more
than the 25
that we paid for him.
So I do agree.
I think we'll get
about 30, 40 million.
I love that.
I can't,
I want to push it to 50
because crapper players
have gone for more.
He's English,
he's young.
Goalkeepers though,
isn't it?
It's a bit different
in the goalkeeper area.
So yeah,
30, 40 million
I think is a good price,
like,
unless you send him
to Saudi.
But he ain't going to Saudi
because he's levels,
like, you get me?
He will want to play.
And Southgate said that,
yo, if you want to play
for England,
you need to be playing
in the first game.
That's what I didn't agree with,
man.
Southgate scaring guys
for no reason.
**** Southgate, man.
That's one you,
I would send for his
clerk personally,
bloody hell.
Arsenal, man,
I allow you, man,
now, still, like,
COVID made it all PC
and them thing there.
I can't go real troops
on your blood clout
no more.
But Southgate can go
**** himself.
And to be honest,
I know we haven't
really been impressed
with Benjamin White,
but how Benjamin White
isn't in the England set-up,
when you find out,
let me know,
I don't have a clue.
You can't speak about
these players
and not speak about
Kai Havertz though, man.
Like, where you at with him?
Because surely of recent,
based on the last
three, four games,
it's looking positive.
You got player of the month,
no one's talking about
his price tag.
As I said,
the jury's still out,
but you're finally looking
like the Kai Havertz
that Mikel Ortega
may have had in mind,
really.
I think we all are, bro.
I think we all are.
Like, everyone has to
eat humble pie
with Kai Havertz, man.
Everyone will say,
oh, I rated him
and he was lit and that.
Apart from that you
that cries on Twitter
or TikTok.
You know you,
that ball of my ball.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Maybe a girl as well,
blood.
You had a couple
of them, blood.
Dead man.
Us lot?
Nah.
Man was,
no, no, no, no way.
No one was in
for the Kai Tig, bro.
Like, no one was.
Don't buy Kai Havertz.
I went with it, blood.
Yeah, me.
It was humble pie
with Kai Havertz
because he's a man
that I look at him
like I look at Welbeck
when he was at Man United.
When you ban the other team,
that's the first time.
I didn't mind him
when he signed for our club.
I was jazzed
when he signed Welbeck.
I can't lie.
I was crying.
I watched the medical.
God forgive me,
but I wanted him
to fail the medical.
I was so bad, man.
Nah, it's bro.
And then when he played
against City
and hit the bar,
I was like,
I told you,
I was upset
about Danny Welbeck, bro.
I was happy
and he done really well
with us.
It's the end of his tenure.
Yeah, me.
Yeah, we could still
even do with him
in the squad right now.
He'd do more than Eddie
if I'm honest, man.
100%, blood.
We should never have
sold Abera.
I don't want to get you
started on this.
He's actually found form
with France as well.
You understand?
Like,
I said it, bro.
Like,
from we sold him,
he went to Barca,
killed it.
You understand?
I went out and linked him
and said that,
yo, he's happy.
Barca,
I spoke to him
about the whole Chelsea thing.
Barca was wanting to keep him
but
because Dosky
was coming in,
they were like,
obviously,
we're bringing Dosky in.
He's going to have to be
the big starter.
He's the big homie, yeah.
So you're going to have
to hold bench.
Abera was like,
bro,
I'm not holding bench.
I'm capable of playing.
You've seen what I've done
last season.
Bang the hat trick
and the Bernabeu.
He was on crud.
Went Chelsea.
I think if Tuchel stayed there,
he would have been on smoke.
It's part of that road.
That's his old bredren,
isn't it?
You feel me?
Tuchel knows his game,
his mentality,
how he is.
The man's gone to Marseille
and I think he's got 15 goals
in 21 games.
Recently,
he's doing alright,
to be fair.
Even Lacaz finding goals
over recent for Lyon,
even though they're struggling.
He's alright still.
It's like,
I knew you could have
got a tune out of him.
You get me?
It's just...
I tell you,
sometimes,
you get me,
when it comes to big players,
bro,
you've just got to hold
your pride,
blood.
Because they're big players,
bro.
They have that mentality.
They have an aura.
They have money in the bank
that give them
the...
the free reign,
kind of.
You understand?
You kind of have to have
different rules for them,
vaguely.
You feel me?
You have to kind of get me.
Their lead's a bit longer.
Pause.
You understand?
You get me?
Saka and the boy,
you hold it like a chihuahua.
Then, man,
you got him like a rottweiler.
Couple.
Alright, relax, relax, relax.
Saka, no bark.
Stay here, blood.
Before I sit on my lap,
pause.
You understand?
Get away there, blood.
You saved yourself slightly.
How quickly, bro?
What do you mean?
I'm the pause king.
What's wrong with that man there,
blood?
I'm the pause king.
Oh, my days.
You feel me?
Real talk, blood.
They have a whole lot of...
Come on now, bro.
We've had them kind of
wildfires
in the team, blood.
You have to kind of
just give them that little,
alright,
you're doing your job
on the pitch, blood,
so I'm not even going to complain.
Could you argue
Arteta was doing that, though?
Me being devil's advocate,
could you argue that he was
doing that with Aubameyang
and then Aubameyang
is just taking the piss
too much now?
I think, like,
when he dropped him,
cool, but stripping him
of the captaincy,
you're going too far now, blood.
Yeah, yeah.
You proper rubbed him out.
He's not doing things
to disrespect the captaincy, blood.
He's pulling up late.
That's it, blood.
It's not that.
It's wrong,
but, bro,
lateness.
Really?
That's what it is.
Again, being devil's advocate,
if you're trying to get
a new mentality
into the club
and your key man's like that,
haven't you got to
make an example
of Aubameyang
to the sackers
and so on and so forth?
I agree with you,
but devil's advocate thing.
But you don't, like,
you chat to him, bro.
You have to do the vengating.
Yeah, you pull him to the side
and be like,
yo, listen,
you're killing me, blood.
Pause, like, yo,
you're doing your thing
out there,
but, yo,
these men are starting
to pull up late
because of you, blood.
You understand?
Like, you've got to kind of,
you can't, like,
I think the man management
was wrong in that situation.
I don't think you're wrong
and I miss Aubameyang
and it's like,
pause,
because the hottest loves
have the coldest ends.
It's completely different,
but how it started
for Alexis
and obviously ended,
how Aubameyang came
into this club
and what he'd done
to how it's ended
and I wouldn't call
Aubameyang a coward,
but it does feel quite cowardly
the way he had to leave the club.
He kind of left like a rat
through the back door,
so I would have loved him
to have left through
the front door.
Who ever trained him
with the first team, blood?
This is it.
Like, it's very sad
for someone that
was literally like outcast.
Yeah, that's why I'm upset
for Aubameyang
because I'm sure
that would burn him.
He's done it
with a couple of men, blood.
That's the thing.
Ironically,
playing Devil's Advocate,
I know it's reactionary,
but had we had Aubameyang
in this squad right now
with Jesus,
boy, we might be OK.
Maybe just maybe.
If we had Aubameyang
in the squad last year,
we'd win the league.
Forget that.
We'd win the league last year.
Even with Rob holding him back.
We'd win the league, blood.
I mean, KTR,
they're going to get me started.
Allow Eddie, man.
So what?
Remember to tell me
how it's been, Eddie.
Allow him, man.
Allow him.
He's A-lead.
So what?
Where are you at with Arsenal
potentially winning the league then?
If we don't make moves
in the transfer window,
call it a day.
Fair enough.
Put it this way.
If we don't make moves
in the transfer window,
I'll probably zone out
from January in the league.
I'll just probably be like,
all right, Champions League,
where am I at?
Because, bro,
like if Liverpool
are more realistically
going to go out
and get a DM,
and that's what they're missing.
You understand?
That's the final piece
to the puzzle, yeah.
They go out and get that,
bang, they're gone.
We go out and get
Tony,
we win the league.
I keep saying it.
If we sign Tony,
we win the league.
Even just Tony,
we win the league.
See, that's where I disagree.
I think we need, like,
I hear you.
I definitely want to win
Ernest Stryker or Tony, whoever.
But for me,
I don't sleep good at night
with our midfield options.
And now of recent defensively,
I think in January,
not that I would more prefer that,
but like the spine of the team,
man, like,
we're relying on Declan Rice
to do too much.
If he does,
we've seen what happens
when Saliba's out.
We've got Zinchenko
because there are
some good qualities,
but when the going gets tough,
and as you said,
Trocadero days,
Zinchenko, stay at home, man.
Leave your goods at home.
It's not adapting.
I'm quite nervous, man.
I'm quite,
and it's a bit weird
because as much as I like our team,
it's a thing where,
I think me and you,
on one hand,
we don't really have a leg
to stand on when we're
talking about goals
because goals are being
shedded around the team.
But then when you look through it,
we ain't got a 20-league goal, man.
These players are quite volatile.
This is the thing now.
When I say the goal here,
Newcastle,
if we had a proper striker,
we win.
Newcastle and Villa,
we get six points
if we put the ball
in the back of the net.
And that's a striker.
Literally.
And them six points
can cost you the title.
True that.
So when people tell me about,
oh, look at,
I'm like, bro,
six points,
how many points
did we lose the title
by last year?
How many points
did we lose the title
by last year?
Four, five?
Four, yeah, yeah.
I think it was four.
So what's that, two wins?
Yeah.
And we're laughing.
Exactly.
As I always say,
a striker turns some defeats
into draws,
some draws into victories.
So, like,
it's a weird one
because I feel we've improved
defensively,
but we're not necessarily
a title-winning defensive side.
We can score goals,
but there's too many
unanswered questions.
There's a hole in our midfield
which Declan Rice
brings to the fore.
I hope Kai Havertz
can continue this,
but it could be
the Fabio Vieira thing
where you're going to do this
for five, six games.
I think we've got too much
man like that in our team.
Fabio?
Yep.
That's deep, man.
I'll let him...
I hear it,
but you can call off
with the squad, man.
You've got one more year
to really put Saturday down.
But he's been here
two years now.
He just needs to go
eat some food, man.
He needs to eat.
He needs more than food, blud.
I thought it was
a food thing, blud.
He needs steroids, man.
He needs roids.
Nah, he needs to start
juicing, of course.
Certain players,
you just have to cut your losses
and quit while you're ahead, blud.
Do you understand?
I definitely hear that.
Don't prolong it.
Just have it stink out the pit
like a bad smell, blud.
You get me?
When your bin is full,
you take out your bin, blud.
You understand?
Our bin is full.
Santa settings, bro.
Man's got a sack.
Pause.
A man's just there
with all he got,
just there.
Dash for that blood, clark.
This guy knocks off this man.
Big man, dash for that blood, clark.
Big man ting.
Nah, I've had enough, blud.
I swear down.
You know what?
Bro, me and you
are from an era
where man remembers
the wenger days, bro.
I remember our teams
being one, two players away
from winning a league title, bro.
We loved that at this club, man.
Do you understand?
And I'm seeing this again now
with this Arteta guy, bro.
And it's not him,
but it is him.
Because you're making the wrong...
You're making the wrong...
Because you're getting the bag,
but then you're making
the wrong move in the market, blud.
Where you at with Arteta then?
Is he the man to win us
a major trophy?
Where you at?
Do you lean...
I don't want to say quite
Arteta in or out,
but is he the man?
I'm not out.
I'm not out now.
You understand?
I ain't been out for time,
I'm not going to lie.
I think last year...
I wanted him out
after Newcastle.
Two years ago?
When we lost out
in the top...
Yeah, when we lost to Tottenham
and then we lost to Newcastle.
I wanted his head on a stick, bro.
I wanted his head on a stick, mate.
At least you can admit
bad people will lie, bro.
And that's the problem
with most content creators.
I'm out here, bro.
I wanted him out, blud.
I was head of the gang.
You understand?
I was running...
I was this close
to bringing out the banner, blud.
Yeah?
This close.
We love a banner, man.
Trust me, blud.
**** a player.
I'll put out the banner
on a nigga, blud.
You get me?
But last season...
Last season, he saved his club, blud.
He did.
He saved...
He put a lot of credit
in the bank last season
because the turnaround
was a bigger turnaround
than ******* Bruce to Caitlin.
It was mad.
You've never seen before, blud.
You understand?
He took man from fifth
to literally...
He done a mad thing.
In the year we lost
out on Spurs,
he's doing all right.
I just don't know
if he's the man
to win the Prem
or the Champs now.
And that's
with the money being spent
and you're bringing in...
You know why?
Because he's stubborn.
His stubbornness
will cost him, blud.
I think that
and his relationship
with some of these players
that are not quite good...
He's got that winger in him.
I'm going to be loyal.
There you have it.
We said it at the same time.
There you have it.
You can do it.
I believe you can do it.
Bro, he don't even believe
he can do it, blud.
Why do you believe?
And that's why I think...
Come on, guys.
You can score
15 ******* goals.
Gabby, come on.
Gabby's sitting there
like my brother.
I can't even get five.
I'm just here for skillers,
you know.
I'm just here to do skills,
my guy.
You literally allow
that crap play.
You see me?
He's just there to...
Hola!
Hey!
But that's the thing, though.
I'd rather him do that
with Jesus
than...
I actually like Jorginho
but like Jorginho
and Keti
or Fabio Vieira,
there's too much man
in this team.
I'm not even trying
to criticise them.
They'll be amazing
for four or five games.
But as you know,
it's a 38-game calendar.
There's only about
three players,
Rice, Saka, Saliba,
that I know
for at least 28
of those 38 games,
maybe even 30,
that you're going to be
in the trenches.
Even, I think,
the Villa game
was probably Declan Rice's
slower game
or the game where there's
not really much to waffle about
and he still stood out.
But I think that's the thing
where, naturally,
you're going to drop
to the level of your teammates.
If everyone's on the joke thing,
you're going to be
a bit of a joker.
You're not going to excel.
Beyond that,
I do like the other guys,
the Gabriels,
the Ramsdells,
Zinchenkos, et cetera,
but you've not got
too much mistakes in them.
And as you said,
when you're going against
Liverpool,
when you're going against City,
you, near enough,
need to be perfect.
In August,
you've got to be looking
at 90 points, bro.
Are we a 90-point side?
I don't know.
I hope so,
but in my heart,
I probably know the answer.
You're slightly
indirectly doing it
in this whole way.
Fam,
where do we go from here, man?
How highly
do you rate Declan Rice?
Where does he rank
in Premier League
slash World Football
in that midfield role for you?
I don't think no one
rates him as highly.
Do you know what?
I think only Rodri talks to him.
Honestly, like,
only Rodri in World Football
is chatting to him.
Right now,
he's the best.
Right now,
I take him over, Rodri.
If you've got Rodri
in right now,
I'm taking Rice, bro.
Do you understand?
Like, Rodri,
for me,
Rodri's the man.
Rodri's the best.
You get me?
Trae's a DM,
so I tell Trae
to watch Rodri.
I tell him to watch Rice.
I tell him to watch Pirlo.
I take it back
because he's,
Trae's that DM.
He's like a Rodri
where he'll get it
and ping it
and run with it
and make the late runs.
So I'm like,
watch that n***a, bro.
That's what you need
to be watching
and try to catch his stick.
But this season,
I'm kind of like,
yo,
you might have to watch Rice
a bit more, you know?
Because you see with Dex,
every year,
he improves.
He gets better, yeah.
Every year.
Like West Ham fans
try to tell us,
you know,
not everyone was
taking it in slightly
and they were onto something, man.
You've got to be honest.
He is the best player.
He's the best midfielder
in the league right now.
For me,
he's the best midfielder
in the league right now.
In Europe,
I only put Jude above him.
Pause.
Slightly, innit?
Like,
to be honest, you know,
Jude Bellingham is probably
the only midfielder I trade
at this moment
in time for Declan Rice.
I'm sorry, Declan,
but there's just levels in it.
You know, for me,
Declan Rice,
like,
in a nice way,
he's doing everything
he was doing
in West Hampshire
and more.
Obviously,
the way we play to West Ham,
there's, you know,
we're on the front foot
a lot more.
And what I like about Declan Rice,
whether we win games,
when things are going bad
or people need to puff out
their chest,
Declan is on that.
Like,
he just understands it.
Like,
I don't know where you're at.
I don't know if Arsenal
necessarily have
world-class players,
but I think if anyone's
the closest to being
world-class,
one love to Saka
and Saliba
is probably
Declan Rice
because in relation
to his role,
what more can Declan Rice
do in that?
Obviously,
Saka's probably
top-five wing-off.
Saliba's one of the best
centre-halves,
but Declan Rice
has been there,
done it with a T-shirt, man.
And I don't think
we've really seen
how good Declan Rice
can be.
I think next season,
you will see that
kind of what you said earlier
about that number eight
and in the final third,
which he's starting
to get goals in assists.
Like,
he could be a 10-goal-a-season
man in all comps
or something like that.
He's,
bro,
like,
we spent 105 million
and made it look like a bargain.
We owe West Ham
a few extra dollars,
to be honest with you.
It's an absolute mad thing.
Mazza.
He's just going to get
better, blood.
He is captain.
Like,
Odegaard ain't captain, blood.
Nah, I tried to save
Odegaard, man.
He's not my sort of captain,
but Odegaard,
you're my guy, man.
Like,
away from home, blood.
For me,
a captain has to stand up.
Even,
I'm not saying
score a goal.
I'm not saying
assist.
I'm saying lead.
Yeah?
I'm showing,
show them 11.
Show them,
like,
so take you out.
Show them 10 players
on the pitch.
You are the man.
Yeah.
You're the man.
When I talk,
you lot listen.
When I go,
you lot follow, blood.
You understand?
Odegaard ain't got that
about him away from home.
He's not going to drag the team
to victory.
He's never been that guy.
You understand?
Rice dragged us back in
to the Chelsea game.
You get me?
On his chase, yeah.
On his chase.
It was him one, bro.
He's the one that,
and then people started to,
yo,
Trostar came up to me.
Trostar sitting like this,
like,
alright, alright.
I'm doing my thing today.
Alright, come.
Put me on now.
Put me, I'm on it.
I'm casting up the random,
yeah, yeah.
That's what you need, bro.
Like,
you go away with Vieira,
he's going into the trenches, bro.
He's going in the trenches, bro.
Odegaard is leaving you
in the trenches,
respect that.
I love Odegaard, bro.
This ain't me saying
drop Odegaard.
And that's what I mean.
You're right on this.
As a captain,
we need to take that armband, blood.
You get me?
It's like,
Henri wasn't captain
at Arsenal, bro.
When he had the captain armband,
I was like...
He's a diva.
Let's be honest,
Henri was a diva, man.
I said, bro,
we're literally giving it to him
to keep him at the club.
Yeah,
that's what we started to do
around that era.
We was on some nonsense with that.
Yeah, Fabregas,
here, you take it now.
Anyone take it,
anyone take it.
Van Persie here,
hold it for one year.
And then it took an even worse dive
when we gave it to Gallas, man.
That's one thing
I'll never forgive Arsenal.
And we gave him the 10th.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's the worst player
I've ever seen in Arsenal's history,
purely because of how he acted.
Like,
I'll always agenda Gallas.
And with his ---- mumbo,
he can relax things.
He's absolutely terrible.
Obviously,
my final question for you would be,
how far do you think
we go in the Champs then, though?
Or what's the goal?
Or the ambition?
Or what's,
we look back in May,
obviously, if we win it,
great.
If we don't,
all right, you know what?
You lot did what you could
in the Champs.
I think that we'll get,
I think we'll get quarter-final.
I'm shook.
Why?
We've been here in Champions League.
Brother, this is
Champions League.
I'm comfortable in Champions League.
I'm shook.
I'm comfy.
Because it's been too perfect.
We're actually playing in,
bro, Saka's got the most assists
in Champions League.
This is why I'm shook.
Jesus has four goals
in Champions League.
This is why I'm shook.
He's got two in Premier League,
but he's got four in the Champs, bro.
This is why I'm shook.
That's why I'm not shook
because I'm like...
It's too good to be true.
I've been here before.
We're going to get a nice draw.
Do you get me?
We're going to get a nice draw.
But what is a nice draw?
Because some of the bigger teams
might not even top their group, bro.
It's scary.
But let's be real, like,
and people are taking this
out of context, like,
oh, you're gassed,
do, do, do.
Nah, bro.
When I said that I only fear
Madrid, City and Bayern, yeah,
that's in the Champions League.
You understand?
In the league,
I fear Liverpool.
I fear City.
I fear every team away from home
if I'm honest.
Yeah, every team I fear
away from home,
but they're like,
not even fear,
but I'm wary of them.
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's a better term.
I think wary is a better term,
you understand?
But in the Champions League,
the only teams I'm wary of
is City, Bayern and Madrid.
Yeah, but we've got this element
of doing some bulky things in Europe
as a, as a whole.
Champions League, yeah.
This is a new,
this is a new arsenal.
It's a different arsenal.
But then even Mikel Arteta, bro,
like, if I had one criticism.
Like, Rice is in there as well now.
Rice is a game-changer, you know?
He is a game-changer.
Rice away from,
Rice away from home.
I have to be shameless.
Rice away from home
is a game-changer.
Like, when you go to, like,
Atletico with Rice
in your midfield,
all right,
you got someone to go up
against Messi's protector.
You understand?
Mm.
But that's the thing,
everyone has to be a Spartan,
though, like,
Saliba, Saka,
Rice,
I keep saying it,
it's like, you three,
I know you'd have my back
in the trenches.
The rest...
Martinelli as well,
because when Martinelli
plays up against, like...
Yeah, no, Martinelli's a savage,
but...
European teams,
he's gonna kill off these men
because they're not used
to a winger
running at them
at every opportunity.
Consistently as well.
Do you understand?
He's got a bit more confidence
in the Champions League.
You don't really have confidence
in the league for some reason.
And what are we gonna look like
in February, bro?
Like, what's the injury landscape?
What's the form?
I love Zinchenko,
but...
Bernabeu's buying Munich's...
What else did you say?
City away.
When it's crunch time, Zinni,
are you gonna be down for it?
1v1,
are you gonna be strong enough?
I think we can avoid them
three and two quarters.
And that's when
you start bucking them.
And then that's when I think,
all right, we're gone.
And how do we manage it, bro,
in that, like,
obviously, February,
let's just assume
we've got Liverpool at home.
I don't know why I'm saying
Inter Milan,
but we've got Inter Milan
home and away tied,
Liverpool sandwiched
in between that.
Three games in a week
or three games in 10 days.
How are we gonna navigate that?
Because then, Mikel Arteta,
you don't necessarily
have to rotate,
but I think at times
he rotates where
you don't need to.
And when you need to rotate,
you don't.
So this is what scares me.
And I think this season,
like, kind of what we said
about Aston Villa and Newcastle,
I think we shoot ourselves
in the foot.
We did it against Spurs,
Fulham and Chelsea as well.
It's like,
there's been very few times
apart from West Ham away
where I thought,
you know what,
we have been truly
outclassed, outbeaten.
But we shoot ourselves
in the foot,
and it's that sort of
street smartness
I need to see improve
in my team before.
I'm truly confident
in the champs.
That's why I'm on the Edutig
when he sat there
and said,
let's just enjoy
the competition, bro.
Like,
quarters and semis,
I'm here for that.
That should be the minimum.
We've had a great campaign,
but it just feels like
everything is too perfect.
Maybe it's just me
as an Arsenal fan,
you know,
PTSD and whatnot,
but I'm nervous
for champs, man.
Then again,
you know,
Zinchenko and Jesus,
you have got to a final.
You have done something
in Europe.
Plenty of these players
have been there
in knockout stages
of Europa League
where it hasn't worked out
well for us.
So,
Jorginho is obviously a winner.
Havertz is a winner.
So,
I'm hoping it works out,
but I'm scared, man.
what's a good season for us
beyond the obvious then
with what's left of it?
Obviously,
there's Hellermont.
You're doing it.
Yeah.
This year,
you've got to win the league, bro.
Do you know what?
If you don't win the league
and you win the FA Cup,
it's an alright season.
Shameless FA Cup settings.
Yes,
it's an alright season.
It's not a great season.
So,
do you think
there'll be scrutiny
on Mikel Arteta
if he obviously
doesn't deliver
a major trophy
or significant improvement?
100%.
Because he's going into
what?
He's four years here now?
Yeah.
And there's bare money
that's been spent.
And you're the manager.
You're not head coach
like Emery.
You're the manager now.
He's on 300 million
he's spent so far.
Yeah.
And we still need
reinforcements.
So,
it's probably going to go
to that 500 million.
Yeah.
Conversations need to happen,
Black.
I'm not saying sack him.
No,
conversations need to happen.
But like,
next season,
say we don't win
the league this year,
and the next season
we don't win the league,
then we need to start
looking at someone else.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's been here
six years,
no Premier League.
And then,
we're talking what?
That would be
22 years
no league title, bro.
That's not good enough.
There's 22-year-old-age kids
that have never seen
Arsenal win the league.
I'm happy that I'm 28.
I've seen my team
win the league.
I've seen my team win it
at Old Trafford
and obviously Spurs,
but there's bare people
who haven't seen their team
do anything.
People,
and that's why I think,
especially on social media,
you probably get it as well.
You know,
you've got them Arsenal fans
that are overly negative
and them that are
overly positive
to the point where
simply put,
they're just chatting ----.
this is the Arsenal
they've become accustomed to.
And it is a bit loser-ish
if I'm honest with you.
It's like,
football's about winning
fundamentally.
Twitter's changed
since COVID as well.
all the,
I don't know,
all the people with sense
kind of left.
Yeah.
Because you do your head in, man.
People just ignore your mentions.
Yeah,
these new generation fans,
like,
you literally tweet something
and then,
oh, what are you,
what do you suggest?
I suggest you suck your mother,
blood.
Amen.
Now you're asking me questions
like I'm ******* Arteta, bro.
I'm just tweeting my opinion,
my thoughts.
Bro,
I had this last week,
but I must have made a joke
that Emre's cooked Arteta,
bro,
the wolves were coming for him.
Yeah,
and I see you saying
about his hairlines
as far back as...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I said,
Lord,
that was me.
Oh,
look at this child.
Oh,
you've got kids.
Bro,
I batter my kids,
you dickhead.
And that's the thing is that
they expect to be able to hit us,
but you can't hit back.
Like,
it don't make sense.
And I know some of you
wouldn't say this.
Cussing me out
and then I'll cuss him
and then boom.
yeah.
You're the bad guy.
You need to go to jail.
It's ridiculous, bro.
You need the bad guy
so you can point
and say he's that guy.
Yeah.
And I'll be that guy.
I don't mind, bro.
I'm always the bad guy.
**** it.
This is how I feel.
You know,
we're damned if we do.
We're damned if we don't.
They always chat ---- about us.
Even when I'm positive
they chat ----.
This is it.
You're on flip-flop.
Yeah, you're on flip-flop.
You don't make it.
And that's one thing
that jars me as well.
You're not allowed to be wrong.
Like,
I say it all the time,
bro,
man's wrong, bro.
I didn't believe in Havertz.
If Havertz is doing the business,
I want to be wrong.
I want to wake up
and Havertz is the best player
in the Premier League.
That helps me as an Arsenal fan.
I'm not into this,
kind of what you said
about the new age fans.
I'm not into this being right
for the sake of being right.
I'm not trying to be
Arsene Wenger
and be some professor.
I just want to win
the Premier League
or definitely the Champs.
I would do a lot
for the Champions League pause.
I might even swap
the Invincible trophy
for a Champions League
on the lowest of keys,
on the lowest of ones.
Don't shoot me,
Arsenal fans,
because we're too good
of a club not to have
a stronger European pedigree
of a certain age.
In fact,
all Arsenal fans,
young and old,
you think of Europe,
it's bad memories.
It's more heartbreak.
We need to win the Champs.
I've seen Chelsea do it
on a bookie team twice.
I don't know, bro.
I don't know, man.
But let me let you
get out of here.
What content you got
to come out
and all these things?
Can't imagine anyone's
not subscribed to Troops TV.
If you're not,
you know what to do.
Yeah, man,
what you got for us?
Pause.
2024.
When it drops,
yeah,
you lot will be happy,
innit?
I mean,
I'm sure a lot of haters
will be happy.
Very, very early
2024, like.
We're talking, like,
first,
first, second,
maybe,
probably first week still.
So, people,
make sure you're
following him
on all his socials
and all of these
sort of things
so that you don't
miss these updates.
Go and check out
his content.
Obviously,
he's even started to do,
he's started to do
some great content
with, like,
shoutout Flawless
and all of them
more neutral topics
and things like that.
So go and have a
butchers, man.
But let me let my guy
get out of here.
Troops, amazing, man.
We've got to do this again, man.
Come on, you know the vibes,
man.
Yardies as well,
so you know we're
coming together.
Come on.
But like he said, people,
make sure you're
paying attention.
There should be an
announcement in January.
We're out.
Like, comment, subscribe,
follow the channels.
Peace.
Safe.
Come on.
