🚨 EXCL : Arsenal Football Club have personal terms agreed in principle with Vinicius Junior. Roc Nation will go armed into negotiations with Real Madrid with a monstrous offer from the English Champions…….over to you Vinicius Junior. Story W/ @MrArsenicTM
🚨The days after the 2-1 home defeat to Bournemouth were probably the worst of the campaign, all the more so because it was before that huge trip to Manchester City that had been weighing over the team for months; the great nemesis that had to be overcome.
A growing problem at that point was not just psychological, though. It was physical. Arsenal’s players looked and felt exhausted.
That was partly because of the schedule, but also Arteta’s own training demands. The Basque’s response to any setback was to work even harder on the training ground. It was an ethic that could be construed as admirable in other circumstances, but not with finely tuned athletes. The effects could be seen in the injury crises endured every April.
So, Eberechi Eze, one of the newer players who was also among the most laid-back, went up to his boss.
In so many words, he told Arteta, we can do this, but we need a bit of space.
The manager listened.
Days off were increased. The intensity of training sessions was lightened. In the week before they claimed the title, he gave them three days off followed by a barbecue.
It all worked out.
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People think that all of this was a mistake, an error, not possibly planned market manipulation.
Ok, so when it happens again in the first week of November, don't have a heart attack please.