Kunty McPhuck
Scust Szn has Returned
Exactly right. Even tho he was a good captain it does say a lot that the attitude within the squad has improved since he left. The article in the Financial Times was the end.
Apparently his last few months were filled with fukkery:
Him talking to United, Arsenal trying to sell him everywhere, the meeting at Wenger's house, him punching Ramsey after the City game, and Arteta calling him out in front of the squad in Germany in preseason.
The team wouldn't play that well with him imo. Giroud is really unselfish and the way he uses his body negates the lack of a Unit in midfield.
I didn’t know he punched Rambo, if true (was this the 1-0 win) And what did Arteta call him out on, to just fukk off, if he going instead of double talking and leaving everything up in the air?
With the players Arsenal have now, there really isn’t a need for the CF to be constantly dropping and playing deep and occupying the midfielder players space like Van Rape did at times. It works if you have midfielder runners and players out wide with pace and good movement to run into the space left by the forward but a lot of the time it was just Van Rape and he was 35-40 yards from goal, when really he should have been 15-20 yards further up, especially in a team like Arsenal. And when Van Rape wasn’t on his game/scoring he was kind of useless to the team, with Giroud he’s a trier and keeps going, having #9 like that does make a difference to a team