Meatwad - yeah I’m not sure the Championship is the right play for him next season. Perhaps a team like Norwich could better suit his style, or a loan to Spain/Germany.

    Flo's a machine, but he might want to save the ones where someone actually marks him for the highlights reel. Don't think he'd have scored that so easily if Saliba had followed through on his threat to stay at Marseille.

    Hale End Haaland. Coming for Jesus’ spot.

    Gotta piss Guendouzi off to see an Arsenal player score against his team. Lol.

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      Guendouzi. Now there’s a blast from the past. Let’s revisit that conversation. Lots of anger when he left about Mikel being unfair - some podcasters called Mikel El Caudillo. Where would Guendouzi start on this team?

        I think guendouzi would sub in for Xhaka. He’s played in more advanced roles and has typically favored the left side. Had a stormer there vs Tottenham once.

        Xhaka is miles better than Douzi. The latter was a nutcase when it came to positioning and discipline. Whenever he played our midfield turned into a sieve. Maybe Arteta could have refined his game and having Partey in behind would have helped but I'm not convinced.

        I'd lost patience with him before he was banished and it's definitely not one I look back at thinking what could have been.

          goon -- agreed on all counts. I was just referencing where he would sub in (2nd choice), but not a chance he'd start here nor do I see him returning.

              MistaT he’s too much a headless chicken to play for us. He’s the most undisciplined midfielder I’ve seen in recent times at the team. This system requires positional discipline. The jazzing is an elaboration on this foundation.

                He was 19 when he was playing for us. Positional discipline comes with time and coaching. He's much better now and he's still only 23. We got rid of him and brought in Sambi who's not on the same level. Badly handled all round.

                  Qwiss I think this is one of those decisions that with time have vindicated Arteta to a certain extent. It was clear that at that time, Guendozi would not be able to espouse the values and what Arteta wanted to instill. At the time, I thought more effort should have been made because of the raw talent there. But given how the squad has evolved and where the team is now, it's hard to say that he didn't get that one right in the end. Of course, having a more mature Guendouzi that would have bought in to what is happening now would be ideal, but it's impossible to know if that was possible or would have come at a greater cost.

                    Being top now doesn't mean everything that happened 3 years ago was the right decision.

                    True but don't think Guendouzi gets into this team currently.

                    Nor do I care that he's gone.

                    Doesn't really matter how good Guendouzi was or wasn't strictly as an individual in football or even personality terms, he seemed poor on every intangible to do with restoring unity to Arsenal, from the tactical to the interpersonal.

                    I'd agree we don't need to retroactively assert every decision has been good but on the other hand, with the limited information we have, I've been willing to do that with some decisions on the basis of the abundant need we had for psychological transformation—itself all the more proven in retrospect—after Wenger, a need Arteta's decisions have met profoundly well in a way that's surprised everyone.

                    Arteta has systematically gotten rid of some troublemakers or problem characters, while at the same time demonstrating widely loathed misfits like Xhaka had been mismanaged in the wrong environment. Makes it hard to refute him on these particular cases by this stage. We don't know what we don't know so I find it easy to interpolate a Guendouzi who was even more of a dickhead than he seemed to be.

                    I was unhappy with Guendouzi getting frozen out over attitude (the narrative at the time) because I thought his attitude was his best quality. Hates losing, always looking to push forward. But he'd be a very bad fit for our current style of play, both technically (loose touch, big turning radius) and tactically (lack of discipline), so it's just as well he's gone. I will always have a soft spot for him however. I quite enjoy Marseille at the moment as a home for Arsenal loanees and former players.

                    Not convinced by Balogun. Don’t think he’s the total package. Lex Lacazette looks like he’ll outscore him this season so make of that what you will