Title says it all really. We're in good form at the moment, and due to the fickleness of football fans, you're not allowed to offer any perspective that is negative during a winning run.
There are a couple of insane things about Auba's transfer. Firstly was how quickly his relationship with the manager deteriorated beyond repair. Auba by all reports was popular among the players in the dressing room, so I don't buy that he was sooo toxic that he would have somehow impacted the squad negatively just by his presence. Arteta seemed to be the sole issue he had, and his being late a couple of times which triggered the situation seems to have drawn an overreaction - a post-Wenger trend where our managers (Emery and Arteta) act like cowboys with too much to prove and allow relationships to break down irretrievably to prove just how firm they are, and how they want to instill a new culture, yadda, yadda, yadda......Secondly, and more insane, was how we let a player of his class go with no replacement mid-season. It's difficult and very expensive to get top strikers in the modern game and we let ours go for nothing and with no replacement in a market where the Luka Jovics of the world are making mega money moves for having one good season.
Some will retroactively justify his release by pointing out he was in poor form for us. Sure, that's true, but you might also question whether he was well managed by the manager. Auba still has 7 goals in 15 matches for us this season. Lacazette is having his least productive season for us with 6 goals in 29, but no one is talking about how impotent he is because we're winning and we're fickle. I watched Barca ripping Madrid to shreds yesterday with Aubameyang looking lively and engaged and scoring his 7th goal in 7 Liga games. The talent is there and always been there waiting to be unleashed, and if the goals dry up during our run-in, we're gonna be regretting this decision. And I believe that moment will come. Given our top 4 aspirations, to have Lacazette and Nketiah as your main striking options going into the run-in is just absolutely facking insane.
We'll Regret Selling Auba Mid-season
posted on 22/3/22
comment by Rude Van Nist (U22799)
posted 5 hours, 9 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 3 hours, 14 minutes ago
Arsenal with Auba (PL)
Played - 14
Won - 7
Drawn - 2
Lost - 5
For - 18
Since Auba left
Played - 13
Won - 10
Drawn - 1
Lost - 2
For - 26
Quite obviously the team developed away from Auba and he was dragging us down. Lacazette may not score as many as Auba, but Saka, ESR, Odegaard and Martinelli all play better with Laca.
Auba had totally lost his way at Arsenal, and letting him go has worked out for him and the club. Both have moved forward, time for you and Piers Morgan to do the same.
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Youve had extremely generous fixtures.
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Similar sets of fixtures for both
posted on 22/3/22
Him leaving suited all parties. In an ideal world we would've kept a happy, inform and firing Aubameyang but he was neither happy, inform or firing for us for a year and was on mega money.
If Arteta takes the side to CL qualification then he'll be fully vindicated in freezing Aubameyang out, if he doesn't he'll probably face plenty of criticism - that's the nature of football
The fact Aubameyang has hit the ground running at Barca is frustrating, personally I thought his bout of malaria was a major part of the reason for how badly his form dropped off (it's happened to players in the past). However the fact he already looks so sharp at Barca suggests the he just wasn't trying at Arsenal and or Arteta was failing to set up to his strengths. For me it was a combination of both of the above and both player and manager were at fault.
While it's certainly disappointing as we've lost a great player for nothing (or even paid him out) it will have been the right call if we achieve CL this season.
posted on 22/3/22
Key point here is that he gave up. It wasn't, as I thought, that he'd lost a yard of pace it was simply that he wasn't putting the effort in. His form since leaving backs this up.
He was captain and should have led by example but actually did the opposite. Yeah he's a nice smiley guy but would you want him to have your back when in the shat - nah probably not.
Also, Auba was holding back the progress of Martinelli who has come on leaps and bounds since Auba left.
Aubameyang will be remembered by me as the worst-best player we've had in years. Up there with Charlie Nicholas for me as someone who could have been a club legend but ultimately couldn't be assed.
posted on 22/3/22
He's gone now forget about him ffs.
posted on 22/3/22
comment by Rude Van Nist (U22799)
posted 12 hours, 31 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 3 hours, 14 minutes ago
Arsenal with Auba (PL)
Played - 14
Won - 7
Drawn - 2
Lost - 5
For - 18
Since Auba left
Played - 13
Won - 10
Drawn - 1
Lost - 2
For - 26
Quite obviously the team developed away from Auba and he was dragging us down. Lacazette may not score as many as Auba, but Saka, ESR, Odegaard and Martinelli all play better with Laca.
Auba had totally lost his way at Arsenal, and letting him go has worked out for him and the club. Both have moved forward, time for you and Piers Morgan to do the same.
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Youve had extremely generous fixtures.
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We've both had similar set of fixtures actually in the last 3 months.
Here is the difference in some of the games both teams have played in the same time period.
Man United 3-1 Burnley, Arsenal 0-0 Burnley
Man United 0-1 Wolves, Arsenal 2-1 Wolves
Aston Villa 2-2 Man United, Aston Villa 0-1 Arsenal
Man United 1-1 Southampton, Arsenal 3-0 Southampton
Man United 0-0 Watford, Watford 2-3 Arsenal
L for Rude Van Nist.
posted on 22/3/22
comment by Snooker_49 (U10665)
posted 30 minutes ago
comment by Rude Van Nist (U22799)
posted 12 hours, 31 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 3 hours, 14 minutes ago
Arsenal with Auba (PL)
Played - 14
Won - 7
Drawn - 2
Lost - 5
For - 18
Since Auba left
Played - 13
Won - 10
Drawn - 1
Lost - 2
For - 26
Quite obviously the team developed away from Auba and he was dragging us down. Lacazette may not score as many as Auba, but Saka, ESR, Odegaard and Martinelli all play better with Laca.
Auba had totally lost his way at Arsenal, and letting him go has worked out for him and the club. Both have moved forward, time for you and Piers Morgan to do the same.
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Youve had extremely generous fixtures.
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We've both had similar set of fixtures actually in the last 3 months.
Here is the difference in some of the games both teams have played in the same time period.
Man United 3-1 Burnley, Arsenal 0-0 Burnley
Man United 0-1 Wolves, Arsenal 2-1 Wolves
Aston Villa 2-2 Man United, Aston Villa 0-1 Arsenal
Man United 1-1 Southampton, Arsenal 3-0 Southampton
Man United 0-0 Watford, Watford 2-3 Arsenal
L for Rude Van Nist.
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That merely proves my point, weve both had generous fixtures.
posted on 22/3/22
You didn't make a point
posted on 22/3/22
comment by Rude Van Nist (U22799)
posted 2 hours, 41 minutes ago
comment by Snooker_49 (U10665)
posted 30 minutes ago
comment by Rude Van Nist (U22799)
posted 12 hours, 31 minutes ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 3 hours, 14 minutes ago
Arsenal with Auba (PL)
Played - 14
Won - 7
Drawn - 2
Lost - 5
For - 18
Since Auba left
Played - 13
Won - 10
Drawn - 1
Lost - 2
For - 26
Quite obviously the team developed away from Auba and he was dragging us down. Lacazette may not score as many as Auba, but Saka, ESR, Odegaard and Martinelli all play better with Laca.
Auba had totally lost his way at Arsenal, and letting him go has worked out for him and the club. Both have moved forward, time for you and Piers Morgan to do the same.
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Youve had extremely generous fixtures.
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We've both had similar set of fixtures actually in the last 3 months.
Here is the difference in some of the games both teams have played in the same time period.
Man United 3-1 Burnley, Arsenal 0-0 Burnley
Man United 0-1 Wolves, Arsenal 2-1 Wolves
Aston Villa 2-2 Man United, Aston Villa 0-1 Arsenal
Man United 1-1 Southampton, Arsenal 3-0 Southampton
Man United 0-0 Watford, Watford 2-3 Arsenal
L for Rude Van Nist.
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That merely proves my point, weve both had generous fixtures.
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hahahahahaha at no point did you compare Utd and Arsenal's fixtures.
Oh well, Pochettino the only man who managed to fail at mega rich PSG and won nothing at Spurs will be arriving in the Summer. Good luck lad
posted on 24/3/22
I supported Auba's Arsenal cause for longer than anyone I know or anyone else I saw on here but even I had come to the conclusion that his heart was never going to be in it again for us - certainly not while Mikel Arteta was there. Auba was just picking up a wage in the final months and he had no desire to really work hard and turn his form around, the only way that might have happened would have been a change of manager.
Anyone with half a brain knew he was still a world class goalscorer and that's what we're seeing at Barcelona but ask yourself this, given where we are right now and the team's transformation under Arteta, would you pick Auba over the manager? I say again that to get performances out of Auba again a fresh start was required either a new manager or a new club.
Can't knock Lacazette for working hard (although to be fair that's the minimum I expect of a professional athlete earning hundreds of thousands/week) and it's clear he has been a positive influence on younger players. His hold-up/link-up play is actually pretty average and it's both frustrating to see many of our fans overegging this pudding (because they are desperate to find any positives in him to make themselves feel better about Auba) as well as seeing Lacazette miss chance after chance because he's slow in terms of acceleration/movement (if he even gets in the position at all) but all we can do right now as fans is hope the youngsters can keep scoring and he can find a few more goals himself which could be just enough to get us over the line.
posted on 2/4/22
comment by Rude Van Nist (U22799)
posted 1 week, 5 days ago
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 3 hours, 14 minutes ago
Arsenal with Auba (PL)
Played - 14
Won - 7
Drawn - 2
Lost - 5
For - 18
Since Auba left
Played - 13
Won - 10
Drawn - 1
Lost - 2
For - 26
Quite obviously the team developed away from Auba and he was dragging us down. Lacazette may not score as many as Auba, but Saka, ESR, Odegaard and Martinelli all play better with Laca.
Auba had totally lost his way at Arsenal, and letting him go has worked out for him and the club. Both have moved forward, time for you and Piers Morgan to do the same.
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Youve had extremely generous fixtures.
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United get one point from Leicester this season. Including getting battered 4-2 away.
Arsenal get 6 points.
#generousfixtures