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THE VICTORY. >> PAULINHO, THOUGH, HAD OTHER IDEAS AS WELL. >> THE BOOK END THIS GAME WITH SOME REALLY POOR STUFF. THE PASS FROM SAKA AT THE BEGINNING THE MARKING AT THE END AND THAT COST THEM SO IT FINISHES ARSENAL TWO FULL TIME TO WHO WE WELCOME IN FRANK LEBOEUF SHAKA HERE’S SLOT WITH US BUT CRAIG I WANT TO START WITH YOU. >> I KNOW YOU FOCUS ON THIS GAME. HOW WOULD YOU SUM UP ARSENAL OVER COMPLICATED SLOPPY AT THE BACK LOOKED RAGGED AT THE BACK. >> I KNOW THEY HAVE INJURIES TO CERTAIN PLAYERS. WE’LL GET

TO HAVERTZ AND TROSSARD, BUT PARTICULARLY HAVERTZ. I JUST THINK I DON’T LIKE PARTY IN THIS. I DON’T LIKE HIM PLAYING THIS RIGHT BACK ROLE. I THINK BUKAYO SAKA, WHO I THINK IS A TERRIFIC PLAYER AND HAD AN UP AND DOWN GAME TODAY AND REALLY STOOD UP AND I THINK YOU KNOW BEARING IN MIND HE GAVE THAT BALL AWAY AT THE START TO TAKE THE PENALTY. I THOUGHT IT WAS PRETTY BALLSY BE ON THE MIND ODEGAARD TOOK IT AND MIDWEEK BUT I THINK HE’S BETTER WITH A FULL BACK BEHIND HIM. I THINK HE’S BETTER WITH I

THINK HE WAS BETTER WHEN BEN WHITE WAS BEHIND HIM LAST YEAR AND HE HAD THAT SECURITY AND IT WAS THE LEFT SIDED PLAYER

THAT WENT GALLIVANTING A LITTLE BIT. AND I JUST LOOKED AT ARSENAL. I WAS WATCHING THEM DURING THE FIRST HALF AND I’M THINKING, OH MY GOD , IT’S LIKE SO COMPLICATED. AND I THINK AT TIMES THAT’S WHY THEY LEFT THEMSELVES SO WIDE OPEN TO THIS VERY WELL ORGANIZED FILM SIDE WHO HIT WELL ON THE COUNTER ATTACK. I JUST THINK IT’S JUST WHAT MADE ARSENAL REALLY GOOD LAST YEAR FOR LONG PERIODS WAS SOLIDITY, TEA

WITH A BIT OF FLEXIBILITY IN THE FORWARD POSITIONS, BUT REALLY SOLID AT THE BACK. OKAY THAT FELL AWAY A LITTLE BIT AT THE END OF THE SEASON, BUT YOU CAN PUT THAT DOWN TO FATIGUE AND INJURY TO SALIBA. BUT I JUST THINK THEY’VE GOT AWAY FROM THAT A LITTLE BIT WITH THIS PARTY AT RIGHT BACK AND THEN HE GOES IN AND THEN THE SHUFFLE AROUND. IT’S OKAY NOW AND AGAIN, BUT I THOUGHT IT OVER COMPLICATED WHEN HE MADE THE SUBS EARLY IN THE SECOND HALF, I THOUGHT IT WORKED TERRIFIC FOR THEM. GOT A PROPER STRIKER

ON VIEIRA. COME ON, ZINCHENKO, COME ON. UNFORTUNATELY FOR ZINCHENKO , YOU COULD PROBABLY BLAME HIM IN PART FOR THE EQUALIZER BECAUSE HE GAVE THE BALL AWAY AND THAT LEFT BACK POSITION. THEY WON THE CORNER FROM IT AND THEY SCORED SO I THINK I WOULD DESCRIBE ARSENAL AS A MIXED BAG . >> OUR TESTS ARE OVER. COMPLICATING IT. DO YOU THINK FRANK? >> YES. AND I THINK WE CAN SAY GUILTY FOR THE FOR THE RESULT AND FOR THIS DECISION ON I THINK PARTEY I DON’T REALLY UNDERSTAND. I AGREE WITH WITH CRAIG 100% THEY WERE NOT SLOPPY

. I WOULD SAY THEY WERE FRAGILE BECAUSE OF THE SITUATION. WHEN YOU PUT A CENTRAL MIDFIELDER AS A RIGHT BACK, YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN. I PLAY MYSELF ONE TIME AGAINST ARSENAL ON THE RIGHT SIDE. I WAS COMPLETELY LOST BECAUSE YOU LOSE EVERYTHING AND THE COORDINATION OF YOUR MOVEMENTS AND YOUR BODY DOESN’T GO WITH THE POSITION THAT YOU ARE, THE POSITIONING THAT YOU ARE IN. YOU WOULD HAVE PUT WHITE OR KEEP WHITE ON THE RIGHT SIDE BECAUSE IT WORKS SO WELL WITH SAKA AND WE SAW THAT LAST SEASON HE WOULD HAVE KEPT THAT

THAT DUO ON THE RIGHT SIDE AND PUT PUT PARTEY AS A CENTER BACK. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH BETTER. HOW MANY MID MIDFIELD PLAYERS HAVE BECOME CENTRAL BACKS AT THE END OF THEIR CAREER BECAUSE THEY EXACTLY KNOW WHERE TO WHERE TO POSITION THEMSELVES AND HOW TO COPE WITH ALL SITUATIONS. IT WAS A BIG MISTAKE. HE MADE EVERYBODY FRAGILE, OF COURSE, AFTER CERTAIN SECONDS BECAUSE OF A MAYBE OF A OF A BAD PASS FROM SAKA, BUT BECAUSE MAYBE THEY DIDN’T HAVE WHITE WITH HIM. THEY MADE MISTAKES, BUT HE COULDN’T COPE WITH THE SITUATION. IT’S ONLY THE

SECOND HALF AND MAYBE ALSO BECAUSE OF VIEIRA THAT THEY COULD COPE A LITTLE BIT MORE OFFENSIVELY. BUT I SAW THEM SO FRAGILE LIKE AT THE END OF THE SEASON WITHOUT SALIBA, EXCEPT THAT SALIBA IS IN THE TEAM RIGHT NOW. BUT BUT THEY HAVE TO SORT OUT ALL THE PROBLEMS OUT IF THEY DON’T WANT TO HAVE A VERY BAD SEASON. I WOULD SAY FOR THE FOR THE FOR THE GOAL THAT THEY WANT TO REACH. >> YES SALIBA IS GIVING AWAY A PENALTY LATE ON IN THAT GAME RAMSDALE. ALL RIGHT SHAKA. >> YEAH. LISTEN I DON’T PUT

THAT DOWN TO TWO TO RAMSEY AT ALL. I THOUGHT IT WAS A POOR BALL FROM SAKA TO THE BACK. AND IF YOU SEE THE REVERSE ANGLE RAMSDALE AS, AS YOU WOULD EXPECT IT OR I’M SURE ARTETA ASKED HIM TO PLAY VERY HIGH UP OUTSIDE THE BOX AND SUPPORTING AND SUPPORTING THE BACK FOUR IN THIS SWEEPER KEEPER ROLE AND THEN WHEN SAKA GIVES THE BALL AWAY AS, AS CHEAPLY AS HE DOES, HE IS DESPERATELY OUT OF POSITION AND GETS CAUGHT BETWEEN JUST TRYING TO SPRINT BACK AND TRYING TO COVER THAT LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE OF

THE GOAL AS HE’S LOOKING AT THE AT THE PITCH AND THEN PEREIRA HITS THIS I THINK PEREIRA GOES FOR A CHIP AND IT AND PULLS IT PULLS IT INTO THE NEAR POST AND AS A RESULT THAT RAMSDALE KIND OF SEEING THIS HIS FIRST ACTION IS TO GO TO WHERE THE CHIP IS AND THEN AND THEN HE’S JUST HE’S JUST TOTALLY WRONG FOOTED. I DON’T SEE THAT AS BEING A GOALKEEPING AT ALL. >> NO, I MEAN, IT’S DIFFICULT ENOUGH FOR THE GOALIES THESE DAYS. NEVER MIND WHEN YOU’RE TRYING TO HOTFOOT IT BACK INTO YOUR POSSESSION AND

YOU’RE TRYING TO FIGURE YOUR POSITION OUT AS WELL AS GET YOUR BODY TIME TO SEE WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON. SO NOTHING TO DO WITH THE KEEPER. JUST GO BACK TO THAT FULLBACK THING AGAIN BECAUSE I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT WHEN WE’RE TALKING ABOUT POTENTIALLY OVERCOMPLICATING IT. AND I THOUGHT ARSENAL ACTUALLY BETWEEN BOXES PLAYED SOME GOOD FOOTBALL , RIGHT? LOST A BIT, LACKED A LITTLE BIT UP UNTIL 60 70 MINUTES AND GAYLE IN THE FINAL THIRD AND SOME BAD DECISION MAKINGS BUT THAT IMPROVED WHEN FABIO VIEIRA COME ON AND THEN KATIA COME ON I

THOUGHT THERE WERE SOME GOOD BATTLES BETWEEN THE FULLBACKS AND THE WINGERS. MARTINELLI AND TETTEY AND ROBINSON AND SAKA, BUT ALL FOUR PLAYERS ARE REALLY QUICK. TETTEY OBVIOUSLY WITH A PRETTY POOR CHALLENGE FOR THE PENALTY. BUT I THOUGHT THAT WAS GOOD BATTLES. BUT GOING BACK TO THE HYBRID SORT OF POSITION, AS WE LOOK AT THE FULHAM TEAM, WHICH IS VERY WELL ORGANIZED AND BY THE WAY, PAULINHO, WHO WAS WHO IS BACK IN THE SIDE TODAY WAS HE WAS A BIT OF THE TALK OF THE TOWN IN THE SUMMER THAT HE MIGHT HAVE MADE A MOVE OR

TWO. AND I THOUGHT HE DID A GREAT JOB. BUT WHEN ARSENAL WERE PLAYING THIS INVERTED FULL BACK SHALL WE CALL IT THAT, LAST YEAR IT WAS ZINCHENKO IN THE LEFT HAND SIDE. BUT LET’S NOT FORGET IT WAS GRANIT XHAKA WHO WAS ROTATING THAT POSITION AND WAS GOING AND FILLING IN, MAKING IT A THREE AT THE BACK AND COVERING IN XINCHENG. SO GRANIT XHAKA HAS GONE ZINCHENKO’S HAD HIS INJURY PROBLEMS SO THEY’LL TRY TO DO IT ON THE OTHER SIDE. BUT YOU’VE GOT NO PLAYERS IN THE TEAM. YOU’VE GOT DECLAN RICE, OKAY. HE’S HUGELY EXPERIENCED, GOT

DECLAN RICE IN THERE. SO YOU DON’T REALLY THINK YOU DON’T WANT TO TRY AND BE OVERCOME REPLICATING THIS. IT’S PRETTY SIMPLE. GIVE YOURSELF A SOLID BASE AT THE BACK, WHICH WORKS SO WELL FOR YOU. LAST YEAR. AND IF YOU WANT TO ROTATE, ROTATE IN THE FORWARD POSITIONS A LITTLE BIT MORE, I JUST LOOKING AT IT TODAY, IT JUST SMELLED TO ME AS IF IT WAS JUST TRYING TO BE TOO CLEVER. THAT BEING SAID, THERE WAS MISTAKES IN THE GAME THAT CAUSED ARSENAL, BUT THEY NEED TO PLAY WITH A STRIKER THROUGH THE MIDDLE. THEY NEED TO

PLAY WITH SOMEBODY WHO’S GOING TO HOLD HOLD THE BALL UP OR GIVE THEM A THREAT THROUGH THE MIDDLE. THEY DIDN’T HAVE THAT INTENSITY. COME ON AND LET’S GET TO IT. LET’S GET TO THE BONDING STORY. LET ME LET ME BRING UP THE QUOTE, BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE GOING TO GO WITH IT. >> OKAY. SO THIS IS WHAT ARTEZA HAD TO SAY ABOUT KAI HAVERTZ, WHO’S PLAYED FOUR GAMES NOW AND PROBABLY IS ABOUT FOUR OUT OF TEN THROUGHOUT THOSE GAMES. I THINK HE’S DONE ALREADY REALLY GOOD THINGS TODAY. IT WAS TOUGH. IN CERTAIN MOMENTS HE’S

GOT IN GREAT AREAS AND THE BALL DIDN’T ARRIVE IN A LOT OF SITUATIONS. HE SHOULD HAVE SCORED A LOT OF GOALS ALREADY THIS SEASON. THAT’S THE THING THAT IS MISSING THERE. WELL WE COULD SIT HERE AND SAY THAT’S THAT’S JUST MASSAGING A PLAYER WHO’S LOW IN CONFIDENCE BECAUSE HE STILL IS. >> LET’S GET TO THE FACTS OF THE MATTER RIGHT. THERE WAS ONE POSSESSION IN THE FIRST HALF. HE WAS A LITTLE UNLUCKY. MAYBE HE COULD HAVE BEEN MORE AGGRESSIVE GOING AT IT. HE WENT AT IT WITH THE FOOT. MAYBE HE COULD HAVE GONE WITH THE

HEAD, TAKING ONE IN THE FACE. GOT HIMSELF A GOAL. HE DIDN’T. THERE’S ANOTHER ONE IN THE RIGHT HAND SIDE THAT SAKA WHIPPED ACROSS. HE’S ON THE SIX YARD BOX. HE’S FREE AND HE’S ON HIS HEELS. HE MAKES NO RUN. HE MAKES A DART TO THE BALL AFTER IT’S GONE. AND IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL BALL WHIPPED ACROSS LOW FROM SAKA. SO THIS TALK FROM ARTETA IS NONSENSE. THERE’S ANOTHER ONE IN THE SECOND HALF WHERE THE CROWD GOT ON HIS BACK BECAUSE SOMEBODY PLAYED A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE BALL INTO HIM, YOU KNOW, 70 YARDS FROM WHATEVER IT WAS,

60 YARDS FROM GOAL. HE HAD TEN YARDS TO TOM BECAUSE NOBODY HAD NO DEFENDER HAD GONE AND GOT TIGHT TO HIM AND HE PASSED IT BACK 15 YARDS AND GAVE IT AWAY. OKAY. THERE IS A THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS KAI HAVERTZ PERFORMANCE OR PERFORMANCES THAT SUGGEST THIS PLAYER IS ANY DIFFERENT. NOT ONE IOTA THAN THE PLAYER THAT WAS PERFORMING FOR CHELSEA. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS HE’S WEARING HE’S WEARING A RED SHIRT. HE’S STILL GOT NO CONFIDENCE. HE’S STILL NOT INFLUENCED IN GAMES. HE’S STILL GIVING THE BALL AWAY. HE’S STILL NOT GETTING IN THE CORRECT

POSITIONS AT THE RIGHT TIME. HE MADE 1 OR 2 GOOD RUNS IN THE FIRST HALF, BUT AT THE MOMENT THERE’S A 70 MILLION POUND BOTTLING PROBLEM IN ARTETA’S POCKET BECAUSE HE’S IN MY OPINION, THEN HE’S GOING TO HAVE TO DROP HIM. ARSENAL ARE A BETTER SIDE WITHOUT HIM IN THE TEAM AND TROSSARD BUT HAVERTZ SAYS HE’S THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM BECAUSE HE WAS BIG MONEY AND HE CAME FROM A RIVAL IN CHELSEA. IF MIKEL ARTETA WANTS TO PUT ARSENAL’S BEST 11 ON THE FIELD NEXT TIME THEY PLAY, IT INVOLVES KAI HAVERTZ BEING ON THE

BENCH BECAUSE HE’S HE’S HE’S NOT GAINED HIS CONFIDENCE BACK. WE’RE NOT SEEING ANYTHING DIFFERENT FROM HIM. IN FACT, HE’S A PASSENGER AT THE MOMENT IN THIS ARSENAL SIDE. AND THEY DON’T NEED PASSENGERS BECAUSE MAN CITY DON’T HAVE PASSENGERS AND THEY’RE THE TEAM TO CATCH A VERY EXPENSIVE PASSENGER THAT SCHACHER WHEN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE THAT HE WAS MAKING THAT MOVE FROM CHELSEA TO ARSENAL, I THINK THE PANEL PRETTY MUCH UNANIMOUS IN THAT THEY DIDN’T QUITE UNDERSTAND WHAT ARTETA WAS THINKING, ESPECIALLY PLAYING HIM IN THE POSITION THAT HE IS. >> AND THIS ALL KIND OF BEARING

FRUIT, ISN’T IT, AS ARTETA JUST GOT IT WRONG. >> I THINK SO. LISTEN WE WERE THREE GAMES INTO THE SEASON AND CERTAINLY SEEMS THAT WAY. AND I GIVE, I GIVE CREDIT, CRAIG A LOT OF CREDIT FOR, FOR HOW HE SUMMED UP HAVERTZ PERFORMANCES OR HIS MOVEMENTS IN THE GAME. IF YOU WANT TO CALL THEM THAT, BECAUSE THERE WERE TIMES DURING THE GAME WHERE I SAT AND THOUGHT, OKAY, LET ME LET ME LOOK AT KAI HAVERTZ AND TRY TO SEE EXACTLY WHAT IT IS HE’S DOING, WHAT HE BRINGS TO THIS TEAM. AND YOU KNOW ME, I’M

EASILY DISTRACT AND 30S LATER. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HAVERTZ IS DOING, SO I JUST SHIFT MY FOCUS AND START TO LOOK AT SOMEBODY ELSE BECAUSE IT REALLY IS BEMUSING AS TO WHAT HE’S BEING ASKED TO DO OR WHAT HE WHAT HE GIVES, WHAT HE GIVES TO THE TEAM AND, AND I’M STRUGGLING. I REALLY AM STRUGGLING WITH IT. AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT, HIS NUMBER, HIS NUMBER GOES UP. FABIO FERREIRA FABIO VIEIRA COMES ON FOR HIM. AND I MEAN, DOES DOES BEING BRING DOWN FOR THE PENALTY COUNTERS AN ASSIST. WELL AT THE VERY LEAST

HAS AN ASSIST AND GETS BROUGHT DOWN FOR THE PENALTY FOR THE OTHER GOAL AND IT’S TELLING AND UP UNTIL THAT POINT UP UNTIL I THINK VIEIRA AND CAME ON AROUND THE 57TH MINUTE MARK WHICH IS WHERE ARTETA STARTED TO MAKE HIS CHANGES ARSENAL WAS DESPERATELY PREDICTABLE. THEY DIDN’T HAVE ANY KETCHUP TO SPIN IN BEHIND. I THOUGHT, TROSSARD A PLAYER I LIKE HAD A DAY TO FORGET HIMSELF AND EVERYTHING JUST SEEMED TO BE, LET’S GET THE BALL WIDE AND HOPE THAT BETWEEN SECOND ODEGAARD SOMETHING HAPPENS AND MARTINELLI WAS JUST FRUSTRATE OUT ON THE LEFT. HAVERTZ WAS

DOING NOTHING. AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN FABIO VIEIRA COMES ON. AND THAT’S WHERE THE TWO GOALS COME FROM. AND I MEAN THAT THAT TELLS AN ENTIRE STORY IN ITSELF. THE GOOD THING FOR ARSENAL, IN TERMS OF ARTETA AT THE VERY LEAST IS IN TERMS OF KEEPING THINGS SIMPLE, IS THAT JESUS GETS MINUTES AT THE END. FABIO VIEIRA CLEARLY SHOWS WHO DESERVES TO BE STARTING ON THAT LEFT HAND SIDE. AND MARTINELLI MAY BE BETTER FOR IT. SO AGAIN, IN KEEPING THINGS SIMPLE, IT’S KIND OF LAID OUT RIGHT THERE IN FRONT IN FRONT OF MIKEL ARTETA

THERE’S NO ARGUMENT, IS THERE, LOOKING AHEAD TO ARSENAL’S NEXT GAME? >> FRANK, AS TO WHY HAVERTZ SHOULD START. >> WELL, YEAH, THAT’S, THAT’S A GOOD QUESTION. AND OF COURSE WE CAN ALL AGREE THAT THIS SHOULD BE A BENCHMARK FOR THE NEXT GAME BECAUSE ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU SEE WHAT VIEIRA HAS EXPLAINED BROUGHT WHEN HE CAME ON AND, AND THAT WAS OBVIOUS THAT YOU HAD SOMEBODY WHO SHOULD INVOLVEMENTS INTO THE GAME THE WILL THE WILL OF DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND WE DON’T SEE THAT WITH WITH KAI HAVERTZ AND THAT’S THE PROBLEM THE BODY LANGUAGE IS OF COURSE

REALLY NEGATIVE. AND EVERY TIME HE HE IS NOT REALLY GOING INTO SOMETHING THAT WE ALL SEE AND LIKE THE CROSS FROM SAKA, THE FIRST HALF WE SAY WHAT WAS HIS THINKING? IS HE ON THE FIELD OR IS HE THINKING ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE THAT MIGHT CONCERN ABOUT ABOUT KAI HAVERTZ BUT DON’T FORGET THAT AT CERTAIN POINT DURING THE SEASON THE GUY WAKES UP AND HE’S MAYBE THE BEST PLAYER ON THE FIELD AND WE SAW THAT LAST SEASON WITH CHELSEA. SO THE PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE AND THE PROBLEM THAT ARTETA WE SEE THAT LAST SEASON, OKAY, YOU

HIRE SEASON. >> WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN? >> YEAH, WE SAW THAT, YEAH, LAST SEASON. HE WAS, HE WAS DOING, HE WAS DOING GOOD THINGS. HE WAS SCORING GOALS AND HE WAS THE ONLY ONE DOING SOMETHING GOOD AT FRONT. YOU REMEMBER CHELSEA AT FRONT, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS A REAL PROBLEM AND HE WAS THE ONLY ONE. HE WAS AFTER THE WORLD CUP. I THINK SO. BUT YEAH, HE DIDN’T LAST LONG. THAT’S THE PROBLEM. BUT WE AND AGAIN, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT CONSISTENCY IN FOOTBALL. AND WHEN YOU HAVE A PLAYERS LIKE THAT IN THE MIDDLE. WELL YEAH,

VERY IMPORTANT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PARK OR AT FRONT FOR ARSENAL, YOU KNOW THAT YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE ISSUES BECAUSE ON TOP OF IT, WHEN YOU SEE ODEGAARD PLAYING THE WAY HE PLAYS WITH HIS FITNESS. BUT A LITTLE BIT IN A SLOW GAME COMPARING TO OTHERS, YOU DON’T YOU DON’T WANT A COPY OF THAT. IT’S THE DIFFERENCES OF THE PLAYERS WHO ARE GOING TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE. IF YOU ARE MARTINELLI RUNNING FAST AND YOU HAVE A AND YOU HAVE A FORMER SHAKHTAR RUNNING AND RUNNING FOR THE BALL AND ON TOP OF IT, YOU HAVE

THE GOAL. YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PARK WITH A PARTY TRYING TO GET THE BALL BACK. BUT YOU HAVE TWO PLAYERS WHO SLOW DOWN A LITTLE BIT. THE GAME ONE IS ENOUGH BECAUSE HE GIVES THE GOOD BALL AND THE OTHER IS USELESS. AND THAT’S WHAT I SEE WITH HAVERTZ RIGHT NOW. >> WHEN CITY SIGNED GREALISH AND IT WAS MORE THAN HAVERTZ AND AT LEAST JACK GREALISH WAS THE TALK OF THE TOWN AND THE PREMIER LEAGUE AT THE TIME, OR CERTAINLY ONE OF THEM. SO YOU COULD JUSTIFY THE TRANSFER FEE. THERE’S

NO REAL JUSTIFICATION IN THIS TRANSFER FEE BEFORE OR AFTER. BUT WHEN GREALISH WASN’T PERFORMING IN HIS FIRST SEASON, HIS MANAGER WAS LIKE, I CAN’T PLAY YOU RIGHT? YOU KNOW, I’M SORRY. >> THAT WAS 100 MILLION. >> I’M SORRY. SURMISING WHAT THE CONVERSATION MIGHT HAVE BEEN. I NEED MORE FROM YOU. YOU GOING TO HAVE TO SIT IN THE BENCH, AND IF YOU DON’T GIVE ME MORE, I CAN’T PLAY YOU BECAUSE THIS IS NOT SENTIMENT HERE. THIS IS. THIS IS BIG BOYS STUFF. THIS IS THE PREMIER LEAGUE. IT’S BILLIONS. IT’S JOBS AT STAKE. YOU KNOW, WE’RE UNDER

PRESSURE. SO YOU DON’T PERFORM. YOU’RE A 100 MILLION. I CAN’T PLAY YOU. IS THERE ANY REASON AND I THINK YOU’VE SUMMED UP SUMMED IT UP, BUT THERE IS NO REASON FOR ARTETA TO PUT HIM IN THE TEAM BECAUSE IF HE PUTS HIM BACK IN THE TEAM, IT MAKES THE OTHER PLAYERS IN THE DRESSING ROOM SIT AND GO. WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? I MEAN, COME ON, THIS GUY. I MEAN, WE SHOULDN’T REALLY BE STARTING AND HE’S STARTING THEM. THERE’S THE MANAGER WEEK AND THEN PLAYERS START TO TALK. SO I THINK ARTETA AND THAT’S MORE IMPORTANT THAN

FANS TALKING OR PUNDITS TALKING. I THINK WHEN PLAYERS START TO TALK ABOUT TEAM SELECTION, THAT’S A WORRY. WHO’S HE BETTER THAN, RIGHT? HE’S NOT GOING TO DO A BETTER JOB THAN EDDIE AND K.T. THROUGH THE MIDDLE. THAT’S QUITE OBVIOUS. HE’S NOT BETTER THAN MARTIN ALI. HE’S CERTAINLY NOT BETTER THAN ARGUABLY ARSENAL’S BEST PLAYER IN BUKAYO SAKA RIGHT. DO YOU PREFER HIM IN THE MIDFIELD WITH RICE IN ODEGAARD THEN HAVING PARTEY IN THERE OR JORGINHO? NO, NOT IN A MILLION YEARS. NOT IN A MILLION YEARS. RIGHT I’D RATHER HAVE JORGINHO IN THERE IN ODEGAARD FLOATING AROUND

AND AT LEAST TWO GUYS THAT CAN PASS THE BALL AND BE INVOLVED IN THE GAME. SO UNLESS I’M MISSING SOMETHING HERE, SOMEBODY IS GOING TO HAVE TO TELL ME WHERE AND HOW THIS FITS. ARSENAL THAT MAKES THEM STRONGER AND IF ARTETA SELECTS THEM IN THE NEXT GAME, TO ME THAT’S SAYING THAT’S IT. YOU’RE ALMOST ADMITTING TO YOURSELF THAT I’M HAVING TO PLAY THIS PLAYER BECAUSE I’VE PAID THE BIG BUCKS AND THE LOW TALK ABOUT ME. IF I DROP HIM, I THINK HE’S GOING TO BE A BIGGER MAN. IF HE SAYS, YOU KNOW WHAT, TAKE A

SIDE STEP. AT THE MOMENT, WE’LL TAKE THE FLAK. I’LL TAKE THE FLAK. YOU GO IN THE BENCH. THIS IS MY STRONGEST TEAM. THAT’S WHAT I THINK ARSENAL NEED TO DO. I DON’T WANT HIM PICKING THE BOY BECAUSE HE’S JUST GONE THERE. BUT