🗣️ Thierry Henry: “When you look at the current Arsenal squad and then at the next generation coming through with talents like Max Dowman, you can see the foundations of something special.
It feels like the club is building for sustained success, not just one good season. That should concern their rivals because Arsenal appear to be planning further ahead than most.
The present is strong, and the future looks even stronger.” 🔴⚪️🏆
Declan Rice and Martin Ødegaard collected assists from their first corners taken at the World Cup 👀
Set Piece FC delivering on the international stage 🔥🚩
In January 2023, Arsenal missed out on £86M Mudryk and signed Trossard for £26m instead.
One became embroiled in a doping scandal. The other helped deliver Arsenal's league title.
Why mention the £26m fee today?
Because it's been exactly 26 days since Arsenal won the league.
🚨 Wayne Rooney on Declan Rice's set-pieces that inspired England's 4-2 victory:
🗣️ “For the whole of last season, people mocked Arsenal's set-pieces. They called them boring, said they were ruining football and claimed they could never win the biggest trophies playing that way.
Now look at England.
Declan Rice is delivering those same quality dead balls and they've played a huge part in a 4-2 win.
I've watched this World Cup closely and one thing stands out: Arsenal players have consistently produced dangerous set-pieces, with several leading directly to goals.
Maybe the issue was never the set-pieces.
Maybe people were simply frustrated because their own teams didn't have players capable of executing them at that level.
Football fans love effective set-pieces when they're winning games. They only complain when someone else is better at them.”