got the move a free transfer from Arsenal to Barcelona.
Has it been confirmed yet, but it's going through the final
stages. Have a Medicals
Arsenal aren't even asking for a transfer fee for him from
Barcelona,
his wages alone. It's
estimated that going to
save Arsenal. The next 18 months
around thirty three point four million dollars.
So there's that they're saving that money
and he has been someone that
Obviously hasn't delivered pretty much ever since he got
the new contract, what 18 months ago. We all kind of saw
it coming but he almost deserve that contract because he was so
good up until that point there was felt different than a zeros
or situation,
but then it wasn't right. It wasn't. So
Andy,
the Permian situation, very strange, the way it's all
played out. I think over time we'll look back and say
is goal, ratio is very good in the Premier League.
Ask the one, an FA Cup when he was there.
Got to solve our finals, it did. Okay, but what do you make
of that? I mean properly? I don't know how Barcelona could
afford him. I really don't know considering the cash flow
situation, but them it work.
It's a good sport and probably
helps everyone safe face, right. Barcelona about being
an astronaut. It kind of just thought works out for everyone.
Yeah. It's just another reminder. I think that contract
that looking at it as what a player deserves in terms of
money
is not You can do at an elite level of sport where there is
one so much money on the line and to there's so much pressure
and expectation. Because yes, you can say that everything
that he had done for the club and even did a little bit in
the, the first period after reciting,
but he deserved, you know, the the honor of having
a significant contract to kind of end his Arsenal career on but
that doesn't take into account. What does this player have
left? How committed is this player still to being here and
to being
part of the team and fitting in and doing the same?
I'm work as everyone else, and I think that's what it
ultimately came down to, as the issue with Pierre and Marie,
bomb being at Arsenal and with Miguel arteta specifically. And
I think that
this is what I think about arteta and a bobbing I think
arteta is going to miss Pierre, Emerick aubameyang being at
Arsenal rather quickly because when
the whole time that our tent has been there,
there have been a lot of very convenient excuses that I think
have been put into place for him. When the team has
underperformed and a bomb Yang. Has long been the One of those,
it was the fact that
his, you know, control and hold over the dressing room was
something, the arteta had to overcome and that he had some
battle to kind of,
you know, make the team his own because it was a balmy Yanks.
And so, anytime the Arsenal lost a few games or they just
didn't look up to it, that was kind of the excuse. That was
trotted out there. That is no longer there for Miguel arteta
now. And so, my question is,
can we finally get one a true sense of what kind of manager
Miguel arteta is? And what Arsenal are going to be under
him? But to I think more importantly, can we now give
a little bit of,
you know, my old or maybe even harsh criticism of Miguel,
arteta without excuses, like that kind of built into place
for him to protect him, because that's what it was. He was
insulated from real criticism by the fact that PR and
merkabah me Yang was the
face and could take the Heat and he can be made
the scapegoat for a lot of situations that's gone. I think
life for from arteta is about to get really real at Arsenal.
Well,
And he, let me, let me jump in and play a Counterpoint to that
because I think you could be 100%, right? The Hope. However,
let me play that side. The hope for Arsenal is that
with this guy gone? He is this becomes Miguel arteta steam,
you know, Obama and kind of loomed over as this. The
biggest star on the team. And now as we talk about them,
building a new captains in the sort of youthful, exuberance,
and even lacazette, being walked out the door, eventually
its arteta Steam and it It opens the door for one of these
young players to take this team and become theirs. And there
are too many times in the last few years that you can look at
an absolutely instrumental. Clearly. This is the number one
guy, leaving town. We would have seen it had Harry Kane
left Tottenham. But we, you know, we haven't seen a Kevin
De bruyne on. Leave
Manchester City.
Manchester United. Have we seen that in a while? No. Because
maybe they haven't had that guy. So I think it's
an opportunity for our. So it's one that if arteta.
Goals, they're going to feel very much very quickly, like,
they're back at square one. But my argument against what you're
saying, which I think is probably right, your argument
would be. Here's an opportunity for the coach to be the guy
for him to have be. What Pep Guardiola is in terms of
looming over what happens at Man City that can be
art out of here. Let's see if he can do that.
Big challenges that for Arsenal and I'll Tessa see how they
rebuild without really having to recognize Central Striker or
lacazette is trying to do his best but he keeps dropping
deeper and deeper.
Let's see how it's a big gamble. I think for Arsenal.
It's considering how close they are to the top four.