Caqueret was good Vs City I thought.
Yep, and against Juve too.
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Another bit from the Fabrizio interview on AFTV.
Arsenal have offered Guendouzi to many clubs, with their valuation of him at 40m.
No club wants to spend that money on him right now and the clubs we have offered him as part of a swap deal have all(Atleti for Partey confirmed, Lyon for Aouar not) asked for cash only.
He says that Spurs are in similar situation for Skriniar and Ndombele.
Might as well try to integrate him into the team or we’ll watch him go for £10m next season
He seems like a very good option to have in a 2-man midfield with his engine and workrate. It seems quite a waste not too use him for as long as Arteta plays 3-4-3. I guess Guendouzi must have really disappointed Arteta.
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If we don’t sell him Arteta will have to reintroduce him too the side.
Probably have to learn a lesson as of how much you highlight about situations at the club.
New manager whose making a good start but got lots to learn.
Not been handled good this situation on all involved. Going too be slightly undermined on this one it seems.
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Yep. Limit the drama, reduce his minutes, teams would have come knocking for him on their own. Send him the message that way.
Instead, we kept him off the side for a month and a half, which was around 10+ games? We haven’t even allowed him to train with the boys(not even Ozil got that treatment). Massive article on The Athletic making him look like a total knobhead too.
And then we had the balls going to teams asking for 40m pounds with most of Europe being tight as fuck due to coronavirus. I genuinely have no idea what they were expecting. 
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I doubt that’s true tbh.
I don’t agree tbh. He let the player involved know if you don’t get in line you don’t play. The fact that he can’t be sold is not on Arteta. The quality of Guendouzi has been overrated on this board anyway.
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I’m not against his course of action. I do think in hindsight though it’s been played a little too long and portrayed as a disciplinary issue.
I’m fine with him keeping him out just sugar coat the story a bit.
Pre season now. Its easy too make platitudes about wanting everyone pulling in the same direction. Everybody being on a learning curve. The importance of learning from mistakes etc.
BS diplomacy whatever. Just better than advertising the fact we have a problem for people to pick over.
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Massively. To the extent that excuses now need to be made for why nobody amazing has signed him, because people spent ages telling us that every big club would be in for him at great expense, and how he’s one of the world’s biggest talents blah blah blah. Turns out he’s not that good, cos people still aren’t moving for him despite us currently having a pretty awful negotiating position with everyone knows how badly his relationship with the club has deteriorated.
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He is that good but teams are probably deterred by his shit attitude.
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He’s definitely not shit either. Attitude aside, he’s a well rounded CM, compared to say, Joe Willock, who is the same age and seems to be less developed.
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FUCKING GEOBLOCKED WHAT THE FUCK
@Bl1nk we are not the only ones!
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Fuck this I’m gonna have to get my laptop with my VPN out just to watch this
Our club is expanding.
Can’t relate.
Imagine not having a VPN app on your phone
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Yeah I should probably get on that
No he isn’t, it’s not my position that he is shit, or that he isn’t better than Joe Willock. Which I’d consider pretty faint praise tbh.
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