🚨 Leandro Trossard on his emotional Arsenal departure. ❤️
“I feel so sad about leaving because this club has been everything to me.”
“This is probably the hardest decision I’ve made in my career. It wasn’t easy to say yes, but I also feel it’s the right time to begin a new chapter.”
“One of the reasons I chose Beşiktaş over some clubs in England is because I didn’t want to be playing against Arsenal. This club means too much to me, and I didn’t want to find myself on the opposite side.”
“No matter where my career takes me, a part of me will always belong to Arsenal. I’ll always be grateful to the fans, my teammates, the manager and everyone at the club.”
“The thing I’m most proud of is that I was able to win the Premier League with Arsenal. That’s a memory I’ll carry with me forever, and nobody can ever take it away.” ❤️🤍
🔴⚪️ #LeandroTrossard #Arsenal #Beşiktaş #COYG
🚨 Wayne Rooney fires back at Jürgen Klopp over his comments comparing Germany's disallowed goal to Arsenal's set-pieces:
🗣️ “Listen, you can't keep dragging Arsenal into every conversation.
Every time there's a controversial decision, somehow Arsenal become the reference point. It's getting ridiculous.
People spent an entire season trying to discredit Arsenal's set-pieces, calling them lucky, calling them boring and saying they were exploiting the rules.
Now Germany have a goal ruled out after a VAR review, and suddenly Arsenal are being mentioned again.
The two situations aren't the same.
Arsenal's set-pieces were worked on relentlessly on the training ground. They were legal, they were effective, and they played a huge part in Arsenal becoming Premier League champions.
Let's stop being hypocrites. When Arsenal score from a well-worked routine, it's called 'boring football.' When another team is on the wrong end of a VAR decision, Arsenal are somehow blamed for changing the game.
Enough of that.
Give Arsenal credit for what they achieved instead of using them as the benchmark every time football throws up another controversy.”
Arsenal lost the champions League final to the best team in the world at the moment and on penalties but won the league with 7 points.
Yet Arsenal is getting clowned while the media and rival fans ignore Chelsea who spent over 2 billion since Clearlake took over and finished 10th.
No one cares about Tottenham finishing 17th back to back and escaping relegation just on the last day of the season.
It doesn't matter that Liverpool spent £500m to add to a title winning side only to finish 5th.
Manchester United have spent over £500m in the last two years, but finished 15th last season, lost the Europa League to a piss poor Tottenham side and finished 3rd this season not for once competing for the title.
In contrast, Arsenal spent almost the same amount of money as Manchester United over the last 2 years and have 1 league title, one Carabao cup final, 1 champions league final and 1 champions semi final appearance to show for it and a team good enough to challenge for the title.
It is now obvious that Arsenal get clowned by the media and rivals because we are big and people are jealous as a result of.
Arteta spent £900m over 7 seasons having taken over a squad that he has to rebuild from the ground up and in the last 4 years he has finished 1st, 2nd, 2nd, and 2nd and and we were minutes away from a Champions league victory too.
Yet he gets criticized but no one is talking about;
Tottenham who spent over £1bn and have been in back to back relegation battles.
Manchester United who has outspent Arteta in the same 7 years period but can't even compete for the title.
Chelsea who spent £2 billion to become a mid table team.
Manchester City spent £500m but ended up bottling the league having led with 5 games to go.
Liverpool spent £500m only to become the worst defending champion after Leicester City.
It is only a problem when Arsenal is involved, when it is Arsenal's rivals, it is totally fine.
@vitusdoom1@talkSPORT So? They needed penalties to win. Guess you think the right play was to open the game up isi? Like Bayern did with a far better attacking talent and got slapped for 6. Think mun.
Rival fans are laughing at us for failing to win a Champions League they either didn’t compete for - or didn’t even qualify for - after we’ve already lifted the Premier League title.
Carry on lads. This season was only a taste of how dominant we’re going to be in years to come.
@vitusdoom1@talkSPORT Hardly. They beat us on pens. Literally the best set up to play them. Had some favourable decisions to get them over the line. Football gets played in more than 1 way. We won the prem this year, we’re brilliant at the game