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Premier League points since last Christmas
104 Man City
79 Chelsea
79 Arsenal
78 Liverpool
75 Man Utd
72 West Ham
62 Spurs
Ever since Emile Smith-Rowe's introduction into the squad and a change to the 4-2-3-1, Arsenal have been picking up points at an excellent rate.
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In an exclusive audio interview obtained by Gunnerstown, Arsenal academy star and Northern Ireland international, Daniel Ballard, opens up about his time in the academy, playing against Erling Halaand, training under Wenger and Arteta.
We have excerpts available for you
🚨 Aaron Ramsdale is currently being subject to abuse on his social medias. This is not fair or right or proper behaviour. This is not the value that supporting the club represents.
Some frustrations may be understood but keep it cool and classy, eh?
Odegaard on the defeat: "Its a hard one to take. I think it is [a mindset problem]. When you're leading 1-0 you get afraid to lose the win & in my opinion thats what we did wrong. You go for the 2nd goal & that was the intention but we didn't manage to do that on the pitch."
With Arsenal defensively worrying, fans are wondering about the decision of the club to loan William Saliba out for a third year to Ligue 1 whilst spending 50 million on Ben White.
To reveal the thinking behind this decision, we spoke to one of Twitter's informal soccer experts.
We took over a failing Arsenal website in 2013 & changed Welcome to the Gunners Town to the site you know & love today.
We made it into a platform for aspiring writers to offer their thoughts on The Arsenal. 100s have.
Today we went through 6 million site visits.
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According to Di Marzio, Arsenal are in talks with Florentina directors for Dusan Vlahovic, who has just 18 months left on his deal and is refusing to sign a new contract.
Arsenal have one of the most exciting youth cores in the world. It is a youth-led project meant to bear fruit in the future. Mikel Arteta, only 37-years-old, has been asked to oversee the first phase of this project.
Do you see this project turning into a memorable revolution?
Today's game against Watford will be Mikel Arteta's 100th game in charge of Arsenal, with the second highest win-rate in our history.
Let's hope today will be marked with another victory. COYG!
Technical director Edu and chief executive Vinai Venkatesham were both unambiguous in their support of Aubameyang being stripped of the captaincy.
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4-0 to Liverpool. A decent 1st half performance was marred by a setpiece goal. Individual errors and inexperience allowed Liverpool to make the most out of the second half.
Just one of those games. Newcastle next.
🚨 Aaron Ramsdale has signed up for Arsenal. Regarded as the most talented young goalkeeper in England and current England No. 3, the 23-year-old will wear 32 and is available for Sunday.
From Frustration, Anger and Hopelessness to Excited, Energized and Hopeful in a Week! – A World of New Feelings by
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'First of all, Patino is not an attacking midfielder, even though he can play as one.
He is actually a deep midfielder who is being groomed to orchestrate play like Granit Xhaka or Thomas Partey. This is the first step towards understanding why Patino is so highly rated.
FT. 1-4!
An incredible showing in the first half gave us 3 goals and the most shots on target since Premier League records began. Martinelli moved smartly for his brace, Saka put himself on the scoresheet and Smith-Rowe came on again to finish the game.
COYG. Norwich next.
This is not the squad Arsenal started the season with. This is the improved squad from December/January to the end of the season, which gathered the 3rd most points in the league and 2nd highest/game.
But what do you think?
LAST WORDS: "With Gabriel, White and Partey back soon and an easier run of fixtures, the defence from the last season will be back with them. With Saliba getting regular development minutes and getting better every day at the basics, Arsenal fans are in for a treat soon!"
It's not actually been very bad, has it? Pepe for the exaggerated and unforgivable fee of 72 million has been the worst. Sokratis should have been 6 or 4M less. Torreira and Saliba are just... odd.
We've just been acquiring deadwood players, is the problem.
AN ANALYSIS THREAD.
Arsenal were stricken with a COVID-19 bout and the EPL refused to move the match against Brentford.
Arsenal had 4-5 starters out against the European Champions. 5 starters. Yet there is no sympathy from the media.
Refs refused 2 pens in 2 games.
Why are Arsenal treated poorly?
'Without this explosiveness, no matter how good Charlie Patino is, he would never be as good as Frenkie De Jong.
Arsenal coaches know this. As a result, the club hierarchy has hired and assigned the 17-year-old his own personal physical trainer to improve his running power.
And that is it from our in-house expert!
This is the first player in our new youth series, with the boy who impressed Pele and went viral, Omari Hutchinson, up next!
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17-year-old academy star, Charlie Patino, has begun to stir waves of excitement among Arsenal fans. Regarded as the 'best player to have ever walked through Hale End' by Arsenal's academy chief, Patino is already a regular in first team training.
We speak to one of Twitter's
Arteta and the technical team have him earmarked as the inheritor of the lone 6 role in a 4-3-3 system.
For club and country, they can't wait for the English Frenkie De Jong, the boy capable of transforming an average team into a good one and a good team into a great one.
In conclusion, Charlie Patino is a astounding technical and mental talent, with an unmistakable ability to instantly translate defence into attack.
As an 11-year-old, he was famously pursued by Manchester City, Chelsea, Tottenham and Barcelona but eventually opted for Arsenal.
EXCLUSIVE: Richard Lee (
@Dickelee
), ex-Watford, Brentford, Blackburn and Fulham goalkeeper, sat down with
@GKUnion
's The Goalkeeper's Union podcast to discuss Aaron Ramsdale at Arsenal.
Here is a thread of some the juiciest extracts:
1-0 to the Arsenal! A frenetic game which Arsenal dominated and deservedly won courtesy of an Emile Smith-Rowe goal.
Beautiful, beautiful. Now on to the Reds at Anfield after the international break. COYG.
Please vote for your Gunner of the Game beneath. ⬇️
NEW: Arsenal loanee and Northern Ireland international, Daniel Ballard who is having an incredible season with Millwall in the Championship has sustained an injury to his knees and will be out until March.
Get better soon!
No doubt it's a golden generation for the Arsenal youth production line right now. Who do you think joins Saka and Emile Smith-Rowe as first team stars, first?
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AI: 'Charlie Patino is an incredibly talented boy. His first-touch, awareness, vision and passing are all what jumps out at first sight. It is easy to understand the comparisons to another academy star in Jack Wilshere, but a closer look actually reveals something more exciting.'
'It's simple: Frenkie De Jong was capable of turning defences into full attacks every single time he got on the ball.
With him in the side, Ajax's attacking prowess went up 10x. He was a cheat code. If you gave him the ball in defence, you almost get a guaranteed shot on goal.
the role he is expected to play in the future.
It is the Frenkie De Jong role.
Frenkie De Jong is one of the most exceptional young midfield talent to have ever graced the Champions League. Allegri famously called him the heartbeat of that memorable 2018 Ajax UCL team. Why?'
technique to constantly pull off aggressive passes at high volume and success. For him, it is a breeze.
Charlie Patino also possesses similar levels of mental consistency. In fact, he has already captained England's u-16 teams as a 14-year-old in that role. That is special.
characteristics and consistency, he is perhaps the best in the world.
Top clubs in Europe are ready to pay lots of money for any player who has some of this quality—Partey, Jorginho, Keita, Ndombele, Rodrigo, etc.
Charlie Patino has the talent to rival the very best of them.
It is obvious that, by this action, the club sees Patino as a potential heir to De Jong.
If Patino can improve his pace and power, then new angles and passing lanes will open up to him in a similar manner as with the Barcelona star, which he can then exploit with his technique.