Hello All.
In this latest podcast we look back at the disappointment of the Burnley performance and result and conclude it was entirely predictable as it’s the norn. The outliers of Sunderland and Norwich had us fooled, but the play we have seen for more or less the last 2 years was back, as it was against Liverpool. This is us now,
Pedantic George
Positively Arsenal 
Karl Hein has joined Championship side Reading on loan until the end of the season
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Spot on guys.
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I see we’ve missed out on our main transfer target although from the sounds of it the talk was more PR than reality as the player was sought after by loads of clubs and he was only considering Champions League clubs.
Maybe some of the Wobs will realise the effect of kicking out Arsene and the low view, players and clubs from abroad, have for us.
I did laugh at a comment about a week on twitter when someone said they spent ages trying to learn how to pronounce Higuain only to realise it was pronounced Sanago.
I get the feeling we might be doing the same on February the 1st.
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Match report: Wigan Athletic 1-0 Arsenal U-21s
Samuel Gilbert 25 Jan 2022
Charlie Patino in action for Arsenal U-21s
Wigan Athletic –
Tue Jan 25 – 19:00
Tue Jan 25 – 19:00
The DW Stadium
Papa John’s Trophy
Wigan Athletic crest
Wigan Athletic
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Arsenal U21 crest
Arsenal U21
NEWS & VIDEO
WHAT HAPPENED
We suffered late heartbreak against Wigan Athletic as we were beaten 1-0 in the quarter-finals of the Papa John’s Trophy on Tuesday night.
Kevin Betsy had a strong contingent of players to choose from and deployed our key men from the start, with Charlie Patino, Salah Oulad M’Hand and Mika Biereth all starting.
After an assured opening 10 minutes, in which we dominated possession, we came within inches of taking the lead, Salah-Eddine’s curling strike from outside the box rattling the crossbar and going over.
Salah-Eddine almost turned provider shortly after, when his pinpoint through ball found Biereth, whose strike was smothered by the onrushing Jamie Jones.
Our young Gunners continued to impose themselves on the hosts, Omari Hutchinson’s fierce effort stinging the palms of Jones and falling to Zak Swanson, whose effort was saved well on the rebound.
Chris Sze was booked for simulation after going down under the challenge of Zach Awe, in what was Wigan’s first real charge into our box.
Patino was replaced by Reuell Walters at the break, signalling a change of system for Betsy’s men, but the second half started in a similar fashion to the first, with us taking the game to the hosts.
Swanson saw a good chance go just wide of the post after slipping at the final moment following an impressive team move to work the ball into the box.
Wigan grew into the half and came close to taking the lead, but for some heroic last-ditch defending from Awe to deny an almost certain goal.
The hosts made their pressure tell with eight minutes remaining, Divin Baningime capitalising on a brief lapse of concentration from our defence, running in behind and tucking the ball beyond Ovie Ejeheri.
We pushed right to the final whistle, but were unable to breach the Latics’ resolute backline in the closing stages.
WHAT IT MEANS
We bow out of the Papa John’s Trophy after becoming the first-ever academy side to reach the quarter-final stage.
WHAT’S NEXT
Members of tonight’s squad will now return to their respective age groups.
Betsy’s under-23s are back in Premier League 2 action on Friday, February 4, when we host Chelsea.
Kick-off at Meadow Park is 7pm (UK time).
Dan Micciche’s under-18s host Leicester City on Saturday, February 5, in their return to Under-18 Premier League action.
Kick-off at London Colney is at 11.30am (UK time).
Copyright 2022 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to http://www.arsenal.com as the source.
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Tyreece John-Jules has joined League One side Sheffield Wednesday on loan for the remainder of the season
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Another target gone as Bruno agrees fee with Newcastle
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Looks like Isak staying put and Sky sports reporting deals on this window are looking increasing difficult.
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Just watching the Egypt v ivory coast, there’s a really good midfielder that might be ideal for us he’s names Elneney I think, buy him now!
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seeing as we’ve been on a poor run of late it must be close to that time again for Arteta to imply Wenger is returning in some capacity
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Kaya Kaynak
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Understand that Jack Wilshere is attracting interest from Monza, AEK Athens and several Championship clubs. Player due to fly out to Dubai with #AFC tomorrow, but willing to leave the camp to secure a move and wants to find a new club in the next 2 weeks.
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an odd report from David Ornstein, that despite Edu having got an agreement with Juventus for an 18 month loan deal with a purchase option, for Melo, that KSE have not given the green light for the deal to be completed. Is this the first crack in the trust the process
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silly season they call it, so here is a link that came out in last few days, Iran and Porto striker Mehdi Taremi, (28), to AFC, possibly in a swap for Aubameyang
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Arsenal squad flies to Dubai tomorrow for a mid season break and training camp. Jack Wilshere who is not and according to Arteta will not be, registered as an AFC player, is going, but Aubameyang, our highest earner, is not. He is still in the naughty corner, and will continue to train alone.
There are 5 days left of the January transfer window, Arteta says AFC are trying to sign some players, “level changers” according to the boss.
Reports suggest that along with Aubmeyang, we are willing to let Leno, Cedric and Eleney leave, along with a whole host of youth players. And that we will sign Matt Turner as back up goalie, and we also want a CM and a ST, both to be those “level changers” that Arteta wants. But that if we can’t get main targets, as in those on a short list, we will not sign anyone just to make up the numbers.
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Arsenal being linked with a move for 22 year old PSV winger Cody Gakbo, he is a right footed winger who normally plays on the left wing.
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Callum has gone to Villa on a permanent deal, another very good player gone.
I think Mikel’s new process might be to have to few players to play any game and therefore we will never lose. We might even go the whole season unbeaten.
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its being reported that we got no fee for Chambers, but we might get some from bonus clauses in the move, maybe up to £2M
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Renato
@rehnato
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Players who have now left Arsenal in January: AMN (Roma), Kolasinac (Marseille), Chambers (Aston Villa), Mari (Udinese) and Balogun (Middlesbrough)
Aubameyang (Ostracised and unlikely to ever feature again)
Players signed this month:
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seems Arsenal have agreed a deal with New England Revolution to sign goalkeeper Matt Turner in the summer.
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Arteta’s process is that the players do what they are told and when they are told to do it.
If they don’t like it then they are out, but not always before they have been humiliated in public.
In nearly 60 years as a fan, I have seen some bad managers and poor teams, but this regime takes the biscuit.
What a mess.
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Calum Chambers
@CalumChambers95
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7 years and a lifetime of memories later!! A special thanks to Arsene Wenger for making it possible and all the staff at London Colney Folded hands
Last but not least to all the fans that have supported me, you’ve made this experience one to remember!
Calum.
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Arteta should have gone on a free to Villa instead? Sorry to see CC gone. They’d better extend Aretas contract otherwise we truly are being ripped up for no obvious reason. The battle for 8th continues…
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Callum Chambers is a better player than Cedric and played better for Arsenal than Pablo Mari (my opinion). Players Arteta has bought are not as good as the players he is trying to replace. Ozil > Odegard, not sure Lokongo is better than Guendouzi. is Tomi better than Bellerin?
Also never thought i would say this but I would rather have Mourihino as manager than Arteta. Arteta is the shit version of Mourihnio who was never welcomed at the club but somehow the inferior version of him is welcomed with open arms.
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Chambers was the best CB at the club and on the pitch under Emery along with Holding’s form before his injury (Koscielny was playing with one leg).
It’s impossible to disagree with Gee,
Unless you are a flatulent blagger.
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only Wenger players still part of the first team squad are Holding, Elneny, Xhaka, Lacazette, Aubameyang and Nketiah. With Elneny, Lacazette and Nketiah out of contract in six months, and Aubameyang an outcast,
Leno, Tierney and Pepe the only Emery players still part of the first team squad. The Arteta cull is nearly complete.
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Young Arsenal defender Ryan Alebiosu has join Crewe Alexandra on loan for the rest of the season, he is mainly a right back or wing back, he is 20
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ornstein claims both Juventus and Barcelona have contacted Arsenal about a loan deal for Aubameyang
and reports in Newcastle suggest Nketiah could be joining them this weekend. He is currently in Dubai with Arsenal at their training camp
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and Arsenal are being linked with a loan move for Morata, oh lord
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Are you allowed more loan players in your squad than permanent ones. We could have a completely different eleven each window that’s a unique way of going forward.
The fans would be happy because they could slag them off as much as they liked knowing none would be true ARSENAL players.
It would also have the great advantage of not needing several windows to change the squad everytime we sacked the manager, oh sorry split up by mutual consent.
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well guys just 74 hours of the transfer window left, do you expect Arsenal to sign any players, to sell more players, if so who do you think is likely to leave, and what positions would signings be for
currently the media are suggesting we might sell or loan out Nketiah, Aubameyang, Xhaka, Elneny, Leno, Cedric and that we want a CM and Striker in.
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Ian I think EPL clubs are allowed 4 loan players, 2 from EPL and 2 from outside the EPL
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our first team squad currently consists of these players who have played for our first team
Goalkeepers: Ramsdale, Leno
Defenders: Tomi, Cedric, Holding, White, Gabriel, Tierney, Tavares
Midfielders: Partey, Xhaka, Lokonga, Elneny, Patino(1 FAC game)
Forwards: ESR, Odegaard, Martinelli, Pepe, Saka
Strikers: Laca, Aubameyang, Nketiah
we also have 2 senior internationals in Rekik and Flores who have not played for the first team
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Ed, from what Sky are suggesting our new keeper in and Leno out will be in summer window.
Auba looks persona non Grata and if Eddie is off to Newcastle then they must be confident of getting at least one striker in.
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Ironically there is a possibility next season Newcastle could finish above us and Joe and Eddie would have moved upwards.
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ian newcastle will have to avoid relegation first
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It seems to me that Arteta and Edu having achieved their goal of making us the laughing stock of the EPL with the way we treated our best player, Ozil and others, they are now seeking to do the same in Europe with their treatment of Auba.
Why would any club employ a manager who, when a player annoys him, either in word or by action, proceeds to ostracise that player and refuse to allow him to play, notwithstanding the fact that he is the club’s best striker, and would continue to be so where Arteta to allow the midfield to pass to him in a place where he is most potent?
Why are we the club foolish enough to continue to employ him?
This is becoming surreal.
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just about 50 hours of the transfer window left, and I have the feeling we aint signing anyone, and we will see Aubameyang leave
sky and others reporting that we have turned down a couple of bids for Nketiah, with his contract up in the summer, it would seem to me that we would only be keeping him cos we are not confident of signing any striker, and we can’t go into the last 17 games of the season with our only striker being Lacazette
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I thought all top managers weren’t afraid to drop top name players if their form is off or their attitude is bad, indeed in Aubas case I definitely thought he should have been dropped however surely all players should have the chance to fight their place back and if they come back stronger it is brilliant for them and the club and makes the manager look good.
Unfortunately none of this makes Mikel look good.
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Lewes accepted a bid from an EPL club, thought to spurs, for 19 year old winger Ollie Tanner, but the player has not agreed personal terms and as things stand the deal is off.
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well ian the thing is despite Aubameyang being way off form for a while he was picked, and it took for an off field problem to see him lose his place in the team. And not only is he not being given the chance to get back in the team, he is not even allowed to train with any of our squad, not the first team, nor any of the youth teams. He has been banished to train alone, and I seen one report that said he has to do this training when the first team squad are not at London Colney. I do laugh at the hard man Arteta PR over this, too afraid to drop the guy to the subs bench when he was stinking the place up, but upset the boss on a personal level and its billy big bollocks from the manager.
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The severity of the punishment that many players have suffered makes you think Mikel’s Mrs has been lining for shooting practice of sorts.
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Many Arab countries have their window finishing a day earlier than ours so any deals that way would have to be done quickly.
The agent involved in Ainsleys deal said it took two days to get work permits etc sorted and that was fast tracked and their were also other Brexit related problems.
This suggests any European deals not already started and applications already in will not go through on time unless special dispensation is granted.
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Can anyone imagine any substantial business allowing a managing director to waste substantial assets simply because he does not like them?
The powers that be need to get a grip here as they seem to be allowing the tail to wag the dog.
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Exactly, as this could happen at any time. A favourite now may become ostracized at any time.
Imagine giving someone a massive 5year deal and then just snubbing them, surely that would never happen…….oh.
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I imagine that Wenger must be crying into his white wine as he watches his legacy being dismantled brick by brick.
We are watching the destruction of our club in slow increments, but destruction it is.
What possessed the Kroenkes to allow Arteta to continue to destroy their investment is beyond me.
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the whole Aubameyang thing is just a carbon copy of Ozil, a high earner, our highest in fact, having his named blackened once the club decide to move him on, bloggers backing up and helping the club to make the player worthless transfer wise to the club, in fact less than worthless, as AFC paid to get rid, and it seems we are willing to do the same for Aubameyang. To think that we could so easily have protected either players value by just giving them a place on the bench, and a cameo here and there. But of course if that had been done, then their performances might have cast doubt on the decision to leave them out, and the risk of that is too much for Arteta and Edu to bare.
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Seems Barcelona are the main option for taking Aubameyang on a rest of season loan.
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Elneny with a goal and assist in Egypt’s 2-1 ACON semi final win. He has been outstanding by all reports, in the competition. And is said to have many clubs interested in signing him. Not sure it will happen with him still over there, but he will have no trouble finding a new club in the summer on a Bosman.
A Bosman, or its ilk, what is now Arsenal’s favorite way of selling players. Well at least we no longer sell our star players for big fees, none of that indignation for Arsenal fans to bare anymore, no its Free FC now.
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reports that Nikolaj Moller set to join Den Bosch on loan for rest of the season, and that tim akinola is off on loan too, also to a european club
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Main AFC transfer rumors tonight is that Aubameyang will sign for Barcelona on loan for rest of the season and that we will replace him with the loan signing of Alvaro Morata
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Ed.
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