Arsenal News: Snitches and Secrets in the Premier League!

When Arsenal go against the grain, there's problems. When we were crying about time-wasting and injustices in the Premier League, we were told to get on with it and adapt. Now that we adapt, everybody takes the holier-than-thou approach. People don't have a problem with time-wasting or game management or dark arts. They only have a problem when Arsenal Football Club do such people. I do think a lot of Arsenal fans have this woe-is-me-a-victim mentality, and I guess indirectly I share the same, but what you can't deny is evidently we're judged very differently to the refs, and evidently the way we're portrayed in the media and the way dark arts when other teams do it is seen as adaptation, as being smart, and we're told simply put to find a different way to win. Take nothing away from Manchester City, they're the big bad bullies, but their players are whining. When you get away from the fact of a man sent off and the dark arts and stuff, you look at how passive the attacker's actually played, you look at the inability to break down and that's been the regular theme of Manchester City versus Arsenal on a regular basis really and truly, and you look at the amount of chances and passes statistics that fell to their centre-halves despite the fact they played 45 minutes plus an additional seven against 10 men essentially. I don't really care. It is what it is. People don't like us, and I'm not a tribal football fan or whatever, but I must admit the more we're being backed into a corner, the more I want us to have a siege mentality, and whether we win titles or not is another thing. But allegedly Arsenal have a goalkeeping crisis, Premier League clubs are snitching and PGMOL on our case. Some details have emerged about what led to Lewis Skelly, big up to him for making his debut, about why he was actually booked and Martin Odegaard. There's been an update where that's concerned. If I'm completely honest, I'm quite peed off with the way we're being portrayed in the media. Again, I still think there's issues around Arsenal's squad depth and things of that ilk, but at the end of the day, there's been three tough games in Tottenham Hotshire away, Atalanta away, and City away. Now, one win, apologies, I would have loved to have been the case. One win, two draws, it could have been better, it could have been a lot worse. Two young players in two of the big Premier League games in our fixture calendar list technically got minutes as well, so the squad is being tested. The squad is going to have to be utilised. Away from that, though, let's crack on, man. Allow me to share my screen. Therapy session over. Check out the rest of the other videos. First things first, The Mail Sports said Premier League clubs have sent concerns about gamesmanship and Arsenal's repeated use of dark arts throughout last season to the PGMOL. When we was crying when Newcastle did it against us under Mikel Arteta, nobody said anything. We were told to get on with it. For years when Arsene Wenger was our manager and you saw what Stoke did, or you typically see, and I'm not criticising any of these teams' approach, because if we can marry this dark arts with, you know, Wenger ball, Arteta ball, exciting football, it'd be a powerhouse. City do it, Chelsea have done it under Conte and Jose Mourinho. Klopp has done it. It has to be done. It's so ugly. It's beautiful. It needs to be done, and it's definitely annoying when it happens against your team. When your team's doing it, you don't really care, man. You can't keep moving the goalposts. As this tweet says, for years clubs like Stoke, Burnley, Birmingham bullied our players, broke our players' legs, and we were termed as soft and told to man up. Today we have become physical. Everybody's crying. On top of it, rivals and pundits call our teams and fans annoying for pointing out bias. As I said, I do think Arsenal fans do come across, and are at times, the boys and girls who cried wolves, but what we can't sit here and lie about is the double standards in how the narratives around Arsenal, when other teams do it, and we can't sit here and say, you know, referees and VAR doesn't more harshly judge our club. I think the only football club that could say they've been done more dirty than Arsenal is probably Wolves and Gary O'Neill and their manager people. It would have been lovely to win, man. I know Trossach got sent off, I love Shihazri, if I'm completely honest with you. He's been, you know, Mikel Arteta will do well to ever, at the end of his career, be mentioned in the same realm as Jose Mourinho, but considering he's been managing for about five minutes, if you're being likened to a serial winner like Jose, hopefully we can win serial trophies. He has given his press conference, we'll do a more in-depth dive of that in another video. More than influence on Jose Mourinho, he said, I think you learn a lot from other top coaches and you try to understand why they've been successful. You might have an idea at this level, but if it goes in a different direction, you have to have the ability to adapt. And Mikel Arteta would be a fool if he didn't have his own ethos and own system and own way of playing. And if he didn't take little things from Pep Guardiola, from Marcel Wenger, from Jose Mourinho, whether he's crossed paths with them and managed, you know, been in part of their coaching staff, whether he's admired from afar or he's reading coaching books, that's what you should be doing really. So pick him up on that. On if he enjoys the fight in the team, it's not something that we know. This is something that we've had to install on them. You cannot play with that focus if you don't love it. If not, you start to miss things and you get punished. Facts, people. Bernardo Silva, shut up. Akanji, shut up. And Haaland, man, you know what we should do? We'll rumble. On Martin Odegaard, the gaffer said, I think it would be a matter of weeks, but how long exactly, I cannot tell you. We might get a surprise, but I think it's unlikely he'll be back before the international break. So at best we'll see him after October's international break is finished, people. New footage obtained by Mel Sport. And again, you're seeing all the media, they're waffling about City, about Arsenal, about the rivalry, about Haaland against Arteta. You're obviously seeing bench cams and all of these things coming out. I get it. The game, the game, engagement has to engage as a popular topic. And I like the dark arts. Mikel Arteta finds ways to adapt. At the end of the day, he is more harshly judged for being outside of his technical area. So why not get the likes of Jorginho and Lewis Kelly to convey messages to the players that are on field? I think that's quite smart. And I don't think Mikel Arteta is the first guy to do that. And I don't think he's the only one that probably does that. Logically, every Premier League manager must do that. But it's more harshly judged when we do it. Arsenal are caught in a time-wasting storm as it emerged that teenager Miles Lewis Kelly was cautioned for unsporting behaviour after appearing to relay a message to David Ryer during Sunday's frenetic draw at Manchester City. And what I would say with Lewis Kelly, big up you for sharing big bollocks, man. Youngest in charge, you know, he stuck it on Haaland. Obviously, he's taking his yellow card. And yeah, he didn't play that many minutes, but he didn't look out of place. And he could have crumbled in a big game where he ain't got his feet really wet in the Premier League and you're around some established stars and there's obviously high-pressure states and it's become one of those kind of games. I like that. Whether you're old like Jorginho or young like Ethan and Miles, I'm here for it. Apparently, people, Oliver observed the 17-year-old communicating with Ryer before the Arsenal goalkeeper fell to the floor and stopped proceedings as new footage obtained by the male sport. Again, we time-wasted and we didn't get all three points. But if we didn't waste time, even though the ball was in play for 35 minutes, which is up there in all the Premier League games for how the ball's been out there, we could have conceded not just two goals or one in the first or second half, but another one. And the key was to stop. Obviously, the key in that game was to remain compact, was to be difficult to break down, was to obviously adapt to being down to 10 men. And for me, if City got that first goal, which I expected within the first five, 10 minutes in the second half, let's be honest, no matter how good we are defensively, the floodgates might have opened people. Lewis Scaly had returned to the group of substitutes on the main touchline by the time he received his yellow card, handed out before he had played a single minute of Premier League football or professional football. Apparently, Mikel Arteta used the ensuring break in play to deliver a team talk to nine of his outfield players as they looked to keep City at bay. Again, cool, fair enough people. And we obviously saw, you can see what's going on in that in that regards. In the build-up to Lewis Scaly's intervention, Arsenal coaches had been motioning for calm in Raya's direction before he geared up to take a goal kick that was ultimately delayed, people. We know it's a tactic. Gary Neville, shut the hell up, man. You played under Alex Ferguson. You think Ferguson weren't doing all of this? Allow it, people. Apparently, gamesmanship deployed by Arsenal was the talk of the top flight last year with coaching staff and analysts across the division openly discussing the dark arts among themselves. This must mean we're serious now. Clubs have sent concerns about the issue to PGMOL, but when we used to send concerns, people probably didn't even read the post or put the letters in the bin. Alleged delaying tactics are at odds with club legend Arsene Wenger pushed to discourage time wasting. It's true, but at the end of the day, teams used to do this against us. Again, a couple of years ago, nobody gave a flying monkeys when Newcastle did it. And I'm not criticising Newcastle. The game's the game. If you know a team like City can play silky passes, you want to disrupt the rhythm. If you know someone's a good dancer, you want to make sure they're offbeat. It's as simple as that, people. So they're not mad at what we're doing. It's just the fact that we've done it, really. It's like the bullies are bullying now, really. Mikel Arteta has hinted that we could see a young keeper, whether that's Rojas, young Jack Porter, Brian Okonkwo, Lucas Notgard or Tommy Seppard, as well as young 16-year-old Jack Porter. He's quite highly rated, people. Apparently, Raya's got a bit of a doubt. I don't know if he'll be rested. For me, if Raya is fit, you need to play, really, because you can't utilise Neto. Let's see how they are today. We'll try and make a call on that if we believe that's a possibility. And obviously, you'd imagine Timber and Califuri are probably on the bench. But if we can, give them the day off. And maybe, well, even Benjamin Wyatt, because Benjamin Wyatt had an issue going into the City game. Timber's coming back from an ACL and it's been a big seven days for him as well, especially with 10 men. Arteta alluded to it with Califuri. Zinchenko apparently still out for a few weeks. There's been radio silence where Tommy Yasu is concerned, people. So we'll have to see in that regards, people. But yeah, Arsenal could play 16-year-old goalkeeper Jack Porter against Bolton. Bolton seems to be our bogey team and you can't write them off, people. But I do think going into the Bolton game tomorrow, we'll be top heavy. I do expect to see Gabriel Jesus, Raheem Sterling potentially get starts. Who else? I would love to see. I think something's wrong if Lewis Skelly and Ethan doesn't start. I wonder what we'll do with Lewis Skelly. Does he play in central midfield? And you give the day off to Apartheid and you, you know, Rice could, you could get away with an hour for Rice. Jorginho probably comes in. You've got Ethan. Lewis Skelly has played as inverted left-back, technically played there against City. If you can play inverted left-back being a right-footed player, you can surely play on the right-hand side. That obviously opens up. You'd imagine and you'd want him to play as a centre-half, but could he potentially play left-back? So yeah, the whole squad is going to be utilised, people, and the games are coming thick and fast. So it'd be nice to see him play. He only turned 16 in July and he's played six games for our under-18s and just once for under-21s, people. He obviously signed scholarship terms last year and has been involved with England's under-16s and under-17s, people. He's a good keeper from what I've seen. You'd imagine Raheem Sterling obviously was delighted to make the temporary switch to Arsenal. You'd imagine he's in line to get his first start for the club tomorrow. Arsenal have decided they're willing to sell Tom Iassu, allegedly, and two Italian heavyweights are interested. Now, I love Tom Iassu, whether he's a starter, someone you can rotate in the side, someone you can bring on to manage games, that would have been great to have him in the City game we saw. The only thing I could see with Tom Iassu is injuries, people. He was subjected and, or better yet, limited to only 30 appearances last season, people, which for Tom Iassu, the best ability you can have is availability. So I could understand if Patience is wearing thin. If you make an offer Arsenal can't turn down, then fair enough, but it'd be silly, in my opinion, to let him go mid-season. He's been linked with Inter and Juventus, people, and obviously made his name in Italy and we signed him when he played for Bologna, people. So we'll have to see. Apparently, Trostar told his teammates he didn't hear the referee's whistle before he was controversially sent off. I personally think he knew what he was doing, but if that's what you all said, that's what we're running with. Fair enough, people, in that regard. We've been linked with Durant, who I've done a video on, go and check that out. You would see he's probably one of the FPL Premier League heroes. The man can't stop scoring. We all know Aston Villa are not going to let him go in January, much less on the cheap, and he's a key player. Not only have they got Ollie Watkins, they've got him on top of all the quality that Unai Emery's men have, bearing in mind they're still in the Champions League trying to do what they're trying to do in all the competitions. It does not make sense. Arsenal are monitoring Aston Villa striker Durant as an alternative to Yocheres in attack. Now, you would have seen, apparently, they've come out with a shortlist that Yocheres is there, Sesco is there. There's five names. Yocheres, Sesco, I think Osserman is still there, Durant, and there's Marcus Turan, if I haven't said that. I would love Durant from Arsenal. Aston Villa, rightly so, are going to ask for top money. The man's in his early 20s, he's doing quite well, even though he's in a bit-part role, kind of a second-choice striker. It does not make sense for Aston Villa to sell him on the cheap. I mainly think this is just off the basis of us looking for a striker. Allegedly, we're monitoring him as an alternative, people. Yocheres even scored yesterday, still scoring goals for fun, has a hundred million price tag on his head. We do know Monchi and the sporting directors said that over 40 clubs were looking at Durant. Personally, I don't buy that. We all know we're craving a number nine. We were linked with people. He was quoted more than a hundred million for two names there, so I can't see that developing into anything, if I'm honest. Javi Guerrero is not only drawing interest from Arsenal, but also Tottenham Hotshite, apparently has a valuation of £35 million, which equates to about £29 million. He's six foot two, so he would bring physicality or better yet height in midfield. Obviously, 21, he's got more years in the tank than Jorginho or Partey, so he would tie in with the long-termism. He's quite good technically as well, people. He featured 36 times in the league for Valencia, 28 with starts and he got four goals, so there's a bit of a blank canvas. And he averages allegedly 4.9 recoveries per game. So based on that, you could see why he would tie into Arsenal. Apparently, we're reportedly ready to reignite our interest in Joan Garcia. We're not going to sign him until the summer at the earliest, people. Some of you would have actually seen he was trying to do a bit of shithousery of his own against Kylian Mbappe. Maybe that's why he was flagged on the radar, if I'm honest with you, people. Apparently, Arsenal have turned their interest to River Plate, attacking midfielder Franco Mustantiniano. I can't say his name, but some of you would have seen Real Madrid are onto him. He's made his debut for River Plate and he looks quite exciting. I can't see us spending the money River Plate are going to want. Although you look at Salvino, I know he was part of the City group. You look at Julian Alvarez, could emerging South American talents be something Arsenal could look towards doing? Arsenal are not alone when it comes to the attacking midfielder Franco. Real Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea and City allegedly are all interested. Yesterday, you would have seen he was linked with Jeremy Pino. So we've been linked with Jeremy Pino, this young Franco guy, Joan Garcia, Javier Guerrero, Durant, and off that, Sesco and Llores. Rumours don't appear to be going anywhere anytime soon. Manchester City have been linked with Musial and they've also been linked with Barella, who did quite well in the recent Champions League game. That's the midfielder. If I could do it, it would be for us. But that's dream chasing. Gabriel has told Manchester City that Arsenal are waiting for them at their ground and their battle people. Big him up, he said, in reference to the Haaland stuff. Look at this. I don't even remember this. It's normal. They were happy after scoring in the last minute. They were playing at home. So our duty was to win the match. But after our team did really well to resist, it's a battle, a war. So it's normal to have provocative acts in football. It's part of the game. Now this is over and we're waiting for them at our ground. My man stayed humble, said stay humble. You're talking nonsense to Mikel Arteta. You're doing, you know, you're crashing into Thomas Partey. You're trying to bully a young 17-year-old and you're talking about stay humble. Haaland, is everything all right at home? As I said before, Haaland, you've got the energy for the wrong former midfielder because the guy who took out your dad is still on Sky Sports doing uphanding and you're there being an idiot. Goldilocks twat. Anyways, great footballer. Absolute man-child. First time he's shown his age. On Trossart, Mikel Arteta said, finally people, I reflected post-match and it's the same reaction today. I mean, what do we expect the gaffer to say really? So let me know your thoughts on the little transfer news we saw, people. Let me know your thoughts on what I said at the beginning and also let me know your thoughts on what Gabriel said. Check out the rest of the content. Stay safe. Stay blessed. Peace.