Hand on heart, I dont feel sad at all. Im so fucking proud of this group. Won us a PL after 22 years and took us to a UCL final. Kings who will be remembered forever. 99% of Europe would want our season.
Thank you Mikel and Thank you Arsenal.
I recognise my football club again.
1. David Raya - Thank you
2. William Saliba - Thank you
3. Cristhian Mosquera - Thank you
4. Ben White - Thank you
5. Piero Hincapié - Thank you
6. Gabriel Magalhães - Thank you
7. Bukayo Saka - Thank you
8. Martin Ødegaard - Thank you
9. Gabriel Jesus - Thank you
10. Eberechi Eze - Thank you
11. Gabriel Martinelli - Thank you
12. Jurrien Timber - Thank you
13. Kepa Arrizabalaga - Thank you
14. Viktor Gyökeres - Thank you
16. Christian Nørgaard - Thank you
19. Leandro Trossard - Thank you
20. Noni Madueke - Thank you
23. Mikel Merino - Thank you
29. Kai Havertz - Thank you
33. Riccardo Calafiori - Thank you
35. Tommy Setford - Thank you
36. Martín Zubimendi - Thank you
41. Declan Rice - Thank you
49. Myles Lewis-Skelly - Thank you
51. Alexei Rojas - Thank you
78. Jack Porter - Thank you
THANK YOU MIKEL ARTETA
THANK ARSENAL
THANK YOU EVERYONE
Now that Arsenal fans are booing their own team and former players are lining up to criticise, let me offer the bigger picture, the one you hear across Europe.
Arsenal are not seen here as a team that has stalled. They are seen as a reference point. As the team many look at when trying to understand where elite football is heading.
The game has shifted, it is no longer enough to dominate the ball or to attack well. The top sides now compete in, and often decide matches through, the four phases that make teams excellent: organised attack, attacking transition, defensive transition and structured defence. At the highest level, those phases matter more than possession percentages or aesthetic debates.
This is where Arsenal stand out.
Under Mikel Arteta, Arsenal control space, time and another very important element, rhythm. They are aggressive without being chaotic, but can create chaos to find gaps, they are compact without being passive. Their pressing is prepared in detail, lose the ball and the reaction is immediate. The opponent is denied oxygen.
Across Europe, this is understood as modern dominance.
The key battleground today is transition. Not what you do with the ball, but what happens the instant you lose it. Defensive rhythm has overtaken offensive rhythm. Space is smaller and time is shorter. The teams that survive are the ones that arrive first, win duels, plus reset order before danger appears.
Arsenal do this as well as anyone.
In Europe, Arsenal are seen as a team that has absorbed Guardiola’s ideas and pushed them forward, they have strengthened them for a football world that now plays faster, presses harder, and it totally punishes hesitation.
At the very moment Arsenal are being questioned at home, they are being analysed as a model.
Progress is often uncomfortable and it rarely moves in straight lines. Arsenal don’t look lost. In my eyes they look early!
OH YOU, GAFFER @m8arteta,
I write this in pain, but with belief.
You’re not just the manager of @Arsenal you’re one of us.
Yesterday hurt, but it’s not over.
Our future is still in our hands.
This is not the time to lose our heads, but to light the fire and push forward.
You’ve come too far to fall now.
So many of us stand behind you.
You made us dream again after years of drought and we still believe you’ll take us over the line.
Just a rough patch on the road to success.
We’ll get there.
No slander, only respect.
The best thing to happen to this club after Arsene 🫡
ONE OF OUR OWN.
SUPER MIKEL ARTETA 🔴⚪️
Young Duu was talking about how he’s being bullied by Portable’s boys and expressing his pain but people were laughing. This is one of the reasons artistes don’t open up because you all don’t know where to draw the line.