When talking on ESPN over the weekend, ex-Arsenal player Stewart Robson spoke about Kai Havertz:
“He [Havertz] has gone to Arsenal and the Arsenal fans don’t want him in the side. They are booing him, at the moment. They don’t want him in the team. They can’t understand why Arteta is playing the system that he is playing to fit Havertz into it. He is struggling at Arsenal, at the moment.”
These are absolute lies from a very bitter man.
At no point in the Emirates has Havertz name been met with boos.
Yes, there have been a couple of grumblings of miscontent, but no more than someone like Robert Pires had in his early days.
Robson seems to be mixing up social media with what actually goes on in the stadium.
Now Robson has been a very bitter man for a long time when it comes to Arsenal, and during Arsene Wenger’s tenure he became a rent-a-quote gobshite criticising the bluc at any opportunity he had. He became the go to man whenever the media wanted to write a negative story on Arsenal and looked to get a quote from a former player to liven it up.
He used to do Adrian Clarke’s job, presenting pre and post-match analysis of the game for Arsenal Media. In around 2013 Robson was sacked for his “wild rants”.
Not long after, Arsenal legend Bob Wilson had his say on what went on:
“This is a guy who worked for this club up to a few weeks ago, doing the pre-match stuff on the opposition, who then went to a newspaper, without naming anybody who had given him the so-called facts about him [Arsene Wenger] being a dictator,” Wilson told the BBC. “Today, he’s been on every half hour on Radio Five Live, and this is a guy who obviously is a bitter guy because he’s no longer got a role or any employment here.”
There are countless Redit threads discussing why Robson is so bitter towards Arsenal going way to back 2015. The main rumour being that he wanted to become Wenger’s assistant back in 2012, but Wenger opted for Steve Bould instead.
He could do with Arsenal being a “banter club” again. The worse we perform, the more relevant he becomes.
Robson spent the 2010s making a lot of money spreading negativity about Arsenal in the media. Let’s leave him in the last decade.
In other news, Arsenal named their Champions League squad yesterday.
Gighly rated youngster Lino Sousa was included, as was goal keeper James Hilson. The only high profile exclusion was Jurrien Timber.
Timber is out until the new year, so it made little sense to include him. Expect him to be added to the squad if we make it through our tough group.
Sousa is a player that excites me.
In him and Reuell Walters we have two fantastic, young full backs that have been learning the inverted roll from a young age. A bit like Rico Lewis at Manchester City, expect them both to be able to easily slot into the position if called upon.
Walters did not need to be named in the squad due to his age. Sousa had to be included because he has not been at Arsenal long enough having only joined last summer.
Both have a huge future at Arsenal, and in Sousa’s case I can understand why we did not buy someone to replace Kieran Tierney.
We anmed our full compliment of 25, with Cedric Soares also included.
I can not see the Portuguese fullback getting any game time, but if you have a spare slot you might as well fill it!
Enjoy your Tuesday.
Keenos
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