yup turn him in to Rome. I mean Roma.
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If saying he shouldāve been hooked at half time is āextremeā, then yaāll need to get thicker skin lol.
It wasnāt just about that. Youāve said a lot of stuff about Jesus today, youāve all but asked for his immediate release at this point. 
There are mitigating factors for sure.
He rotated into a team with other rotation options up front, in midfield and defense. He had an early season knock which may have disrupted any momentum coming into the season.
But if I want to be fair, he looks fit but still completely unlikely to score.
As others have said, thatās a low bar. I know you were firmly behind signing him as our main striker but you surely have to start to accept that he hasnāt worked out. We were better as a team without him. He has to be moved on in the summer.
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Low bar or not, he was.
And on another day(if Sterling or Havertz converted their chances), we wouldāve been ahead in the first half because of it.
So I donāt particularly get this outrage over this particular performance. Feels very forced.
All of his performances have been shit and today was no different. We are a weaker team when he plays. Havertz is our best option for No.9. Jesus should remain on the bench and be used as a sub when the game has one or on the wings when needed to provide cover. Next summer he needs to be sold. Instrumental in his first season in getting us back into the Top 4, but no longer what we need going forward. He isnāt a top quality player.
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Arteta isnāt playing Jesus if he thinks heās finished. The club are clearly seeing something different in training and hopefully he can avoid injuries and play himself into form.
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Weāve only just entered October of 2024, July of 2025(when the next summer window opens) is 9 months away.
The least of my worries currently is whether weāll sell Jesus or not next year.
Arteta can still play him and know heās cooked
We have limited options, 2nd string gotta get games sometimes even if the.drop off is steep
But weāve literally seen Arteta leave players he didnāt rate on the bench even when we could have done with rotating through players. We know he doesnāt play people if he doesnāt trust he can rely on them.
Jesus must clearly be showing something in training that we arenāt seeing on the pitch yet and I believe if he can stay fit (and his availability has undoubtedly been a huge issue) weāll get much better performances from him.
He canāt go a whole season leaving those guys on the bench, just isnāt sustainable. Jesus can still run around a lot and be trusted to carry out instructions
Havertz gonna play every single game even if theyāre on the slide?
I just donāt quite see a start against Southampton as proof that Jesus must be showing a great deal in training etc
When can you point to a time this season or last that Arteta has just decided to rotate in a player he doesnāt think is good enough?
He didnāt even want to drop Saka for a mid week league cup game thereās no way heās rotating Jesus in for a PL fixture if he doesnāt believe heās got it anymore.
Heās not playing Jesus if he thinks heās cooked. He said himself earlier in the summer that he looked sharp and determined so whilst it hasnāt translated to anything on the pitch yet Iām quite confident that thereās still a good player that can give us some good performances this season
I disagree with this. Sterling, Jorginho and Jesus starting today shows that Arteta was resting certain players, rather than these guys starting on merit. If we still had Nketiah, he would have started today.
Arteta trusts seniority, even if he knows the player is cooked and not in his long term plans.
I didnāt say he didnāt rest players I said when has he ever rotated players in he didnāt trust or think could contribute for a PL game?
Trossard has not played so many minutes this season that he needed to be rotated out of the team and neither has Martinelli.
Nketiah and Cedric spring to mindā¦
Could be he is showing something in training etc
It could also be heās seen as a squad player that can still be useful throughout a season. He can know Jesus isnāt the same player but also believe he can still contributeand be relied upon against one of the worst teams in the league if not the very worst.
And you may be right and he may need more fitness to produce some good performances but long term I think his future lies elsewhere.
To be honest whenever we donāt perform well and thereās someone in the team who is no longer one of the darlings in the squad theyāll get stick before the others happened with Trossard, Martinelli etc but unlike those guys Jesus is undergoing a sharp decline which is why heās increasingly looking like the odd man out in the attack.
Cedric played 59 minutes in the PL last season. Thatās a serious stretch.
And he trusted Eddie enough to give him games and when he no longer felt him useful he stopped playing him. He didnāt even rotate in ESR and Viera during the run in last season when the players were clearly leggy.
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Well letās see how much Jesus plays this season, obviously when fit and able to!