Arsenal Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2020/2021

MonsterCookie

Gabriel has tested positive for C19 apparently.

emmetlego

OmegaGene wrote: »

No doubt there will be plenty more cases, Everton v city was called off

BBC tweeted this about an hour ago, with a picture of Martinelli up.... Some of the replies were hilarious, tried to screenshot it, but they deleted it fairly sharpish!

Only thing in Gabriel's favour here is that he was identified as a close contact and isolated immediately, then tested positive, meaning he will not have spread it too much hopefully. Well, you'd hope anyway...

jonneymendoza

OmegaGene wrote: »

No doubt there will be plenty more cases, Everton v city was called off

Yea I was going to say that many city players got tested positive too

greenspurs

DenMan wrote: »

I like Arteta as a person but this crap cannot continue. He's great with individual players as he was at City but it's clear he has very little management skills. You can't go through a 38 game season and lose 30 or so of those games and call that progress. That's what we're looking at right now. He has to go now!

DenMan wrote: »

The mighty spurs title charge is taking a massive nose dive. Only 9 points behind them now and we'll claw that back in the new year. COYG

Best of luck..
Its amazing how 1 win can change outlooks ?

Trigger

OmegaGene wrote: »

i think you are lost

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L'prof

greenspurs wrote: »

Best of luck..
Its amazing how 1 win can change outlooks ?

Or a few seasons...

djan

greenspurs wrote: »

Best of luck..
Its amazing how 1 win can change outlooks ?

Will be needed for sure!

It's all irrational feelings with this in football. Objectively unless this is followed by a comfortable win at Brighton we are back to square one. Important not to let the Chelsea win cloud judgement too much!

Deeper Blue

greenspurs wrote: »

Best of luck..
Its amazing how 1 win can change outlooks ?

Granted it may have altered some people's outlook on Arsenal, however everyone's outlook on Spurs has remained the same for decades - that they'll win nothing

I was reading online that Harry Kane dived to try to win Spurs a game the other day. Did anyone see it?

beer enigma

Partey trained with the 1st team on Monday

beer enigma

beer enigma wrote: »

Partey trained with the 1st team on Monday

Can't see them rushing him back in again

greenspurs

Basil3 wrote: »

I was reading online that Harry Kane dived to try to win Spurs a game the other day. Did anyone see it?

the ref didnt ...... :rolleyes:

Deeper Blue

Basil3 wrote: »

I was reading online that Harry Kane dived to try to win Spurs a game the other day. Did anyone see it?

That happens pretty much every game so you'll have to be more specific?

Quazzie

greenspurs wrote: »

the ref didnt ...... :rolleyes:

Never does. :rolleyes:

I'm assuming Partey is still a couple of weeks away from playing?

greenspurs

El Sueño wrote: »

That happens pretty much every game so you'll have to be more specific?

I think its every other game, he swaps it with the backing-in thing he does that could murder someone ?

or something like that......

greendom

Quazzie wrote: »

Never does. :rolleyes:

I'm assuming Partey is still a couple of weeks away from playing?

he's back in full training so should be sooner than that !

Hope he's been told not to leave the field when the other team are on the counter in future. Pretty basic stuff but every day's a learning day!

greenspurs

OmegaGene wrote: »

on a serious note, are you happy with jose and his style of approach to playing in the league ?

We were only discussing it on the Spurs thread..

After the 1-6 Man U win, i thought, "Hey this man is changed, its all out , gung ho attack"...

But the last 4 games have changed me back to my original way of thinking.
Its turgid, its not attractive, and now, its not working!

But, were stuck with him now .... :rolleyes:

He 'might' win the League cup , but once the stadium is full , the home fans wont stomach scoring in the 1st minute and then retreating to the 18yd line for the last few 89 mins remaining .....

I see we're on Amazon Prime Video today.

tayto lover

On Arsenal Injury Room it says that Partey and Gabriel are unlikely to be back until the 9th Jan.
Hopefully they’re wrong and the boys are back today or at least on the bench.

tayto lover

OmegaGene wrote: »

gabriel has covid19 so i hope he isnt on the bench

Didn’t see that but that means he’ll be out at least for two more weeks at least.
Hope nobody else caught it from him.

tayto lover

OmegaGene wrote: »

he sat out the chelsea game for being a close contact and since tested positive so he is out for this game and west brom

I have a friend who’s a doctor and had Covid.
He said that whatever he took for the headache it caused ( he has access to lots of medication )didn’t really ease the pain and he could hardly make it from the bed to the en suite through lack of breath. Hopefully Gabriel hasn’t got it as bad as that.

tayto lover

OmegaGene wrote: »

some people seem to be knocked out completely while others are fine, hopefullay for any of the players it passes without a major symptom

rumours floating around there was a Christmas house party in london with a few Brazilian lads and willian and luiz had symptoms too

If we’d known we could have sent a few non-Brazilians.
The forced changes to the team against Chelsea might prove to be a blessing in disguise if we keep winning.

CatInABox

tayto lover wrote: »

I have a friend who’s a doctor and had Covid.
He said that whatever he took for the headache it caused ( he has access to lots of medication )didn’t really ease the pain and he could hardly make it from the bed to the en suite through lack of breath. Hopefully Gabriel hasn’t got it as bad as that.

It seems to be so random. A friend only found out that she had it because she was being regularly tested because she worked in a care home. Absolutely no symptoms, but if she wasn't caught by the testing, she'd probably have killed off a load of patients.

tayto lover

Wilshere training with Bournemouth. SSN.

tayto lover

CatInABox wrote: »

It seems to be so random. A friend only found out that she had it because she was being regularly tested because she worked in a care home. Absolutely no symptoms, but if she wasn't caught by the testing, she'd probably have killed off a load of patients.

A local teacher had a Covid test two weeks ago because he was a close contact. He had no symptoms then.
He foolishly arrived back into school after the test and had to be ordered home until he received the results. The test was positive. He too could have spread it to the entire school.

Ol' Donie

tayto lover wrote: »

If we’d known we could have sent a few non-Brazilians.
The forced changes to the team against Chelsea might prove to be a blessing in disguise if we keep winning.

I still find it impossible to believe that Arteta insisted we got Willian and insisted on playing him every game.

No way he couldn't think of a better plan than an aging Chelsea castoff, even less chance he would persist with him in the face of the worst run of form in the league, and less chance again he'd be happy with that trip to Dubai the day before a game, considering how he's approached disciplinary issues with better players.

allinthehead

Basil3 wrote: »

I see we're on Amazon Prime Video today.

Also on Premier 1

Soups123

ARSENAL TEAM NEWS

Team to face Brighton: Leno, Bellerin, Holding, Mari, Tierney, Elneny, Xhaka, Smith Rowe, Saka, Martinelli, Aubameyang.

Subs: Runarsson, Ceballos, Lacazette, Maitland-Niles, Cedric, Pepe, Mustafi, Willock, Nketiah.

Auba for Laca, that’s a good change, Auba could feed of the energy better if repeated

Ol' Donie

OmegaGene wrote: »

decent enough team tonight

Martinelli & Auba.

If nothing else, this is gonna be interesting!

tayto lover

Can’t get a stream.
Is Auba sticking in at CF or is he roaming?

Jmac24128

He is sticking so far, Saka and martinelli off him on the wings

Jmac24128

Could do with more tempo in our passing. Very slow so far

Bobby Baccala

It’s on Amazon prime go on the live chat and tell them you’re in England and they’ll switch you over to the uk version took me 30 seconds

Arne_Saknussem

tayto lover wrote: »

Can’t get a stream.
Is Auba sticking in at CF or is he roaming?

I can't send you a Private Message because "tayto lover has exceeded their stored private messages quota and cannot accept further messages until they clear some space."

Bobby Baccala

Although Jim Beglin is on co commentator so you’re probably better off with a Latvian stream

Jmac24128

Elneny & xhaka need to take less touches. Quicker quicker quicker transitions needed.

Azatadine

Jmac24128 wrote: »

Elneny & xhaka need to take less touches. Quicker quicker quicker transitions needed.

How Elneny is now a starter for us saddens me.

Ol' Donie

Boooooooored

jonneymendoza

Azatadine wrote: »

How Elneny is now a starter for us saddens me.

Boring game so far

Bobby Baccala

Brighton are a boring team, not even a striker on the pitch

Jmac24128

OmegaGene wrote: »

This keeper should be getting tested and we haven’t had a shot on target yet

I do think we try to be one of these sexy teams that probe away until we create that one opportunity.

Can be ****ing boring though. Even the movement off the young fellas isnt great today so far.

Underground

Nice by Pablo Mari there.

Elneny v poor on the ball yet again, matter of time before that costs us.

Soups123

Such a **** off performance so far, taking nothing from the Chelsea.

Brighton just sitting back letting Elneny Xhaka and Holding have the ball and not one of them can play a pass. Said it so many times choosing Elneny and Xhaka is bull**** from Arteta both ****e both negative

Elneny has already fcuked up 3 times on our box, shambles of a footballer on the ball

Azatadine

Soups123 wrote: »

Such a **** off performance so far, taking nothing from the Chelsea.

Brighton just sitting back letting Elneny Xhaka and Holding have the ball and not one of them can play a pass. Said it so many times choosing Elneny and Xhaka is bull**** from Arteta both ****e both negative

Elneny has already fcuked up 3 times on our box, shambles of a footballer on the ball

I dont rate Elneny at all. Its a reminder to me of how far we've fallen when he's a starter for us.

Jmac24128

Saka's corners have been ****ing ****.

Underground

Bellerin with an absolutely pedestrian attempt at a ball down the line to Saka there, he's lucky nothing came of Brighton's attack. The contrast between himself and Tierney is unreal.

Auba's touch is so off as well, he looks shattered.

x PyRo

Elneny is rubbish, super fit and will do a job when you're playing with a low block but he's afraid to play the ball forward.

Him, Mari, Holding and Bellerin are all huge problems here. None of them can progress the ball properly. Boring stuff.

sonic85

This is pretty bad. No penetration whatsoever.

emmetlego

Turgid half of “football”!

Soups123

This Arteta ball is boring as Fcuk, for a guy seen as a top coach his brand of football is as basic as it comes.

He encourages no freedom, a midfield of Xhaka and Elneny smacks of negativity. He’s walking himself out the door here.

If he allows Elneny start the second half he deserves what’s coming his way