The Arsenal it continues to grow little by little after difficult years. The defeat at Old Trafford to Manchester United is just a small bump for a team that wants to grow little by little, but knows that it still cannot compete against the best teams in the Premier League.
Mikel Arteta has everything clear. Most of the pieces of the starting team are established with a couple of doubts in the shuttle area (Thomas Partey’s companion in the first line of shuttlecocks and the playmaker where Martin Odegaard or Alexandre Lacazette can appear). But, after the match in Manchester, the Spanish coach has lost patience with a footballer and has communicated to the board that he wants to get out of it in order to find a new signing. We are talking about Pierre Emerick Aubameyang.
A necessary sale
The Gabonese is the highest earning footballer in the squad and the one with the most experience at the first European level, but his performance is far from the range he has at the club. He does not end up becoming the team leader in games against important teams (Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United) and in games against inferior rivals he does not prove to be better than the rest.
Mikel Arteta is tired of his poor performance, so he wants to get out of it and use his money to sign another younger, top European center forward. The Gunner team plays well and has things clear, but the absence of a first-rate center forward complicates everything. More if we add that it does not have an experienced leader and it has to be the young people (Bukayo Saka, Emile Smith Rowe and Ben White) who show their faces for the team.
A necessary sale for the team to move away from the vices of previous templates or at least it is what Arteta feels.
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