I AM TIRED of losing to Arsenal! | Chelsea vs Arsenal Preview FT @KavkasView

Are you alright? I guess that's right. Back charging definitely. People deluded, I'm back again. Come on, Ian. And with the big man saying that, what more can I say? People deluded, I'm back again. It's Chelsea against Arsenal on the weekend. I had to get a Chelsea fan in so we could speak about such. How are you doing, my friend? I hope you're well and safe, man. Not too bad, brother. How are you? Thank you for having me on. We've been planning this for a while. I appreciate you. Pardon me? We've been planning this for a while. Like, we've spoken about doing it. And it's always, one of us is busy. So it's good, man. It's good to be on. Looking forward to it. Exactly. You took the words out of my mouth. That's exactly what I was going to say. Something that's needed to happen for a while. Fortunately, everything has now fallen into place. So, yeah, man. Obviously, I know about your content. I know about the team you support. But for someone seeing you for the first time, you know, what sort of content do you make? Again, people, make sure you're subscribing. The link will be in the title. Don't be lazy, folks. I appreciate it. Guys, I make Chelsea football-related content in it. So, transfer rumours regarding Chelsea post-match reactions. I'll say the truth. I'm not planning to work for Chelsea Football Club anytime soon. And I don't think they'll hire me because I speak my mind. So, if you really want somebody that speaks their mind, is open and honest about what happened in the game, come to the Kafka's View. I started on TikTok now talking about everything. Arsenal fans don't like me for some reason. I don't know why, but we'll get into that. The TV support's a clue, man. But like you said, make sure you follow them. And I'm a big fan. That's why I like your content because I'm not a fan of people that, you know, do the over-positive thing or the over-negative thing. You're quite balanced. If there's reasons to be excited, there's reasons to be excited. If there's reasons to be negative, naturally so. So, I've got a lot of time for you. But you set this up perfectly because I actually have one of your tweets. And I saw it and it kind of guides well into what we're going to speak about. What's your thoughts on everything in relation to Chelsea-Arsenal? As you've said here, this Chelsea-Arsenal game feels massive. A victory sends a statement that the top four should remain the main goal. A defeat or a draw just brings more questions than answers. Pochettino needs to step up, show me something. Fantastic opportunity to outcoach Arteta. Yeah, man. What do you make of that? It's your tweet, isn't it? I'd love to hear your thoughts. Bro, I grew up… So, I'm of a certain age and I'm 27. I grew up with us whooping Arsenal. It was normal. Didier Drogba, Emirates was his home. After Stamford Bridge, it was normal for me… Yeah, I mean, you were playing little kids then times. But yeah, mate, you're right. Yeah, it was normal. No, you're right. Big up Drogba. But now, I hate playing you lot. I genuinely hate playing Arsenal. Because it's a lose-lose. We were the better team. But you lot, for some reason, last three seasons, just have beaten us since Baku. But now, this is Poch's opportunity. Because I'm not going to say I'm Poch's biggest fan. I never was eager on him. But I give opportunities to gaffers. 19 games to prove me right. I'm a Roman baby, innit? Roman Abramovich, kid. You've got 19 games, halfway point. He needs to outcoach Arteta and get us a statement victory. Liverpool was a good statement that bought him time for me. A 1-1 draw in a game where we were the better team. And we went away with, oh, that feels like a win. Reasons to be optimistic. Yeah, we had a bumpy journey where, you know what? New signings, OK, cool. You've got 19 games. And this is where you make a statement. Three wins in a row. Let's get the fourth one over a big team. And then we move on. What do you make of Pochettino? Because I'm happy you actually said that in your tweet. Because obviously, you know, there's been a lot of turmoil. And a lot of turnovers at Chelsea. So there's a lot of luxuries, naturally, you could give the manager because of what you're doing. But away from that, obviously, regardless of who's there, the manager's got to manage. So what have you made of him from a tactical point of view and everything else? Poch is a weird one, man. Poch is excellent at making the players love him. And I like that because we needed some feel-good factor. But feel-good factor gets you a certain way. I need a gaffer like Thomas Tuchel where things are going wrong. He got it wrong in the beginning. He can adjust. And I've been really, like, keeping an eye on that. The West Ham game, I feel like he didn't adjust when things turned. When Antonio made it 2-1, it was gung-ho. The Nottingham Forest game, we dominated. But he just let the team, once we went back, he didn't adjust. Against Brighton was the first time where I sat back and I said, you know what? Well done, Poch. Yeah, in the cup. He did something right here where you didn't panic. The team responded to you after halftime as well. And we came out and were the better team against a good manager. So I'm not going to be too harsh because I don't think he's a Chelsea-caliber manager. I'll be honest. Is that because of the Spurs history and whatnot? No, it's the PSG history. And I don't mind him at Spurs. I don't expect him to do anything at Spurs. But I saw what Tuchel did. You and me both, mate. Yeah, like, I saw what Tuchel did at PSG. And Tuchel got them to a final of the Champions League. Record number of goals here and there. Under Poch, Donnie had Messi, Mbappe, and Neymar behind. You're not creating chances. How does that work? There's a certain level of approach I want to see. But so far, under eight games, I'm very likely you've got 11 games left. And then I'll make a definitive opinion. Fair enough. Obviously, I don't watch Chelsea week in, week out. Obviously, we've got you at the weekend. What can we expect from a Chelsea perspective? How do you lot set up? Is it a thing where Pochettino is very flexible, one minute three at the back, then four at the back? What's your strengths and weaknesses? What is it from a tactical point of view? We're going to respect you. I think the way you've got your recent success against us has been very much, we'll have the ball, you'll break on us. And teams love to do that against us. But I think in this game, you're going to have possession of the ball. Because Chelsea will take a draw right now. I promise you. If Poch can get a 0-0 draw, we'll take it. But that will suit us. Because on the break, I think with Raheem Sterling, with Jackson, who I think is just, he's active. Decent player. Very ruleable. Very decent forward. Very good player. And on his day, he's going to bang goals. I know he's the butt of the joke at the moment with how he can't finish. But young players are purple patch players, right? He's going to have eight games where he's going to have Lukaku numbers, where he's going to look unbelievable. And then he's going to go through eight games where he's shaky. So, for me, we're going to let you have the ball. We're going to be compact with Caicedo and Gallagher and Enzo. But then Enzo's going to be spraying those Diags like he's a quarterback. And the midfield battle, I know it's cliche. Like, oh, you've got to win the midfield battle. Oh, I've said that a number of times, mate. It really is cliche. But it's the age I'm saying. It's fact. Like, I'm praying Kai Havert starts in that midfield three. Like, I'm literally praying. Like, I like Kai as a player. But in a midfield three with Odegaard and Rice, I think we can get the better of it. If Partey starts with Rice and Odegaard, I think that's going to be a little bit of a problem, purely based on the fact. Like, Caicedo and Enzo are travelling back. They're saying jet lag. I'm going to say, forget your jet lag. You're playing. Like, no jet lag. It's a big game. They need to play. I'm with you on that. You made a great point about jet lag, because that's us with Partey. Obviously, I don't know. Well, I don't know geographically how far Garner is in South America. South America is probably a bit further. But, you know, Partey's gone. He's played 45 minutes. And the Garner manager was speaking about that. That's where I don't know. Because if it was up to me and we disregard all of that sort of stuff, for me, you've got Odegaard in the 10, Partey and Rice side by side. But if Partey doesn't play, as you rightly said, it could be a game for Kai Havert, rightly or wrongly. There's a bit of, you know, your ex-player, your ex-club and things like that. I do wonder, does Mikel Arteta go with Jorginho? Kind of the same logic, to a degree, with Havert and the City game. So it's a bit political. But I agree with you. If I was Chelsea, I'm going, obviously, Kai Havert's going to cost a lot of money. He's going to play. Enzo's a good player and cost a lot of money. He's going to play. I do think you need to put Colin Gallagher in. I know he's not exactly every Chelsea fan, sorry, cup of tea. But I think you need a workhorse like him. And I think he's done well. End of the day, you look like you was on the door out. And now you're the club captain, allegedly, or you're captain in the club. So you're doing all right. I think what it comes down to is that, you know, obviously we're a lot ahead of our project. We're a bit more of a fluid side. And we've got to take our chances. I do share your thoughts about Raheem Sterling on the left-hand side. That's probably, well, probably the right part. In the channels, I think that's a key battle. But I think it comes down to who takes their chances. You lot are anything but clinical. I know we've scored a lot of goals, but I still think our chance creation and chance conversion is lacking. And as much as Arsenal are on a feel-good factor after beating City, and I think, what, Spurs, City, United, now that's three top six clashes where we've come out of it. I know you lot aren't exactly a top six side right now, but I still class you lot as that. I know, I know, I know. I've never tried to play you, bro. I've never tried to play you. But I want to come out of that game with a feel-good factor. As you said, we've been doing well travelling to Chelsea. I actually think one of our best performances away from home last season was at Stamford Bridge, just because I thought it was going to be a bit more of a closer game, and it looked like a training ground. Beating City means nothing if you've got to mess about. Personally, we should be confident against Chelsea. We should believe we could get something. But form goes out the window. And even when you look at form, there is reasons to be optimistic. I think the last nine points available, you've taken seven. You've got three wins in a row in all comps. I think you've got three or four clean sheets. So you're not exactly poor. So I do think it would be an interesting one, if I'm honest. We're defensively good, man. And I think... I'm going to get that with a watch to be fair. Us sitting back and hitting teams on the break is going to suit us. We've got a horrible run coming up. I don't know if you've seen it. We've literally got Spurs, City, you, Brighton, Man Utd in the next seven. I know it's United. Yeah, it's horrible. It's absolutely horrible. Brentford as well. Some nasty games to be fair. But this is where people have to stand up to be counted. Yeah. And you know what? This is where I say, Potch, step up. This is where you've got all the talent there. You just need to nurture them and develop them into a position where we get four wins out of seven. And then get one or two draws, and everything's fine. Everyone will be like, oh, you know what? You're doing a good job. And the reality is, like, I'm on an Arsenal channel, and I'm going to be honest. I respect your team a lot. I actually respect your board for what they did. The easy thing was to do was sack Arteta. I would have sacked him. He should have been sacked two or three times. Back to back eight, yeah. They backed him. Because they said, we don't care what the fans think. We think we've got the right man, and we believe in our guy. And you know what? At the moment, he's paying dividends. We're next step. Yeah, next step is to win the title. And it helps me to say this. I'm seeing signs that you can win the title. I don't know, my guy. Don't look at the league table. We just take every game as it comes. I've got a couple of the political ones to go. It's the whole beat in the city when you don't play well. Like, you didn't play well. I can't argue with that. That's a great one. Then there's the other performances. Like, you know, like, yeah, you drew with Fulham 1-1. Oh, 2-2, sorry, this year. And you should have won that game. 2-2, yeah, yeah, yeah. Another day, you lose that game. Like, if you look at it, like, in some aspects. But our soldiers don't seem to lose. And that's a good resilience to have. Like, and I like what Arteta's made of your team. Maybe it can be a little bit more flamboyant and a little bit more enjoyment. But now you're a systemic team like the way City are at times where it's like, we're going to win. We're going to bore you to death. We're going to win. And that's the evolution of good sides, right? They get become boring. I can't disagree with what you said there. I think, you know, on our day, I think we can give everyone a game. But as you rightly said, you know, I've seen, I'm 28. I've seen my team win Premier Leagues a long time ago. Obviously, you're a Roman baby. You've seen that. There's only over a 38-game period, I'm pretty sure Pep would echo it, where he probably looks at his team and says, you know what, we were perfect for 90 minutes. I don't think there's that many games. So I agree with your point of not necessarily playing well. And I think there was that against United. Obviously, we didn't beat Spurs, but that was there. And that was to a degree there against City. I agree with your point about winning ugly. Where it now comes down to the league, you're playing this beast of City and you've got to take your chances. Why I'm happy that we beat City is because, as you said, for me, we've dropped silly points. We drew against Fulham. We drew against Spurs. And again, what makes it a bit more annoying is we lost those, well, we lost points essentially from winning positions. When you're playing City, you know, you've seen it. In other years, last year, we probably could have won a league title if there wasn't for City. But you're playing this juggernaut of a side, really. So I agree with you. The next step is to win a major honour, get to the latter stages of the Champions League and et cetera, et cetera. And again, I know the Cronkies haven't always been universally loved by Arsenal fans and I'm not going to say they aren't necessarily. But so far, nobody can really say anything. Arteta's been backed. You've brought in Declan Rice. You've done all of these things. Which brings me to my next question, you know. You kind of touched on it, you know. What are the changes you've obviously seen with Todd Bergey? What have you made of Todd Bergey's regime so far? Oh man, it's... I've had to reprogram myself as a fan. And that's like... It actually makes me uncomfortable because now I've had to accept that the days of Chelsea buy-in for the next two years are gone. And what they did was they got the age right down. I think we've got the youngest squad in the Premier League. Yeah, you've got bare kids essentially now. They've invested in so many kids. And what's going to happen is I think we'll reap the rewards in two to three years' time. So we're going to look bad now in this whole £1 billion spend. Like every rival loves to like... As soon as we lose, that's the first thing... But when you look at what you spend £1 billion... I mean, if you spend £1 billion, you spend £1 billion. But it's not like you've gone out there and I know you've got Enzo, I know you've got Kaisei, though there might be a couple. But you've essentially just spent it on kids that could probably... Some will develop, some could be sold on and you make money and the world keeps spinning. I think you're right with that. And that's exactly what it is. Like, I think winning Kunku gets back is a little bit of experience. In the... So at the moment, I'm happy with what they've done. What I always wanted at my club was get me a proper director of football. Right? And they've got me a director of football. So now, you can't judge a director of football of six months or... Because they came in in January. Yeah. There's not too much you can really do in that year. You're right. What can I say, bro? And I think this is where people lose out on like context. Yes, we've dropped down. We had a horrible season last year. But there's context to last year's season. You sack Potter and you brought in Frank, who the players knew he weren't staying so you get eight losses in 10 games. Can you imagine what I was getting for? It's not that deep, isn't it, really? You're not really playing for your future, per se. A lot of people are going towards... And then Reece James comes out with comments like, oh, the players already knew they were going. Ben Chilwell says people stopped running in training because they knew they were going. Can you... You already know what was happening. It don't sound good. So what I think so far, the metrics, if you want to go by them, we're a decent team. Eye test tells me we're a decent team. We're just not finishing chances. And what happened when we started finishing a few chances? Whoa. Two goals against Brighton. Boom. No, one goal against Brighton. Two goals against... Oh, at least I get three points. Four goals against Burnley. We're going to click eventually and finish maybe fourth or fifth this year. Next year, I think we kick on. Because they're not going to stop spending money, by the way. Like, I'm telling you now. They're not going to stop. Nah, of course not. I mean, if you commit a billion pounds, you kind of have to keep going, really and truly. And it's not even just the fact that you've committed a billion pounds. It's you're doing this project, kind of mirroring the City group where you're trying to get a couple of clubs. And as we said, players are either going to come into the first team or they're going to be sold for 30, 40, 50 and put back in the war chest and stuff of that ilk. As you said, there's been a number of backroom changes. And I kind of want to ask you this, obviously. Do you think Potts, in theory, should get time? Because you look at Graham Potter compared to Pochettino now. Do you think he should get time kind of regardless? Like say you miss out on the Champions League. I assume Champions League's a goal and a trophy of some sort. Does he get sacked for you then? Because again, we're both basically the same age. We've both come up on... Chelsea notoriously are quite ruthless. Like I remember saying to my bredrens, when you lot got Thomas Tuchel, he could win you stuff, which he obviously did. And I know it happened for different reasons. But reality is you could be out the door very quickly. Chelsea have kind of been known for that quote-unquote ruthlessness. Yeah, man. I would, but they wouldn't. I promise you now, you can clip me on this and bring this up at the end of the year. We finish fifth. He's not getting sacked. We finish eighth. I think fifth gets you Champions League, you know, this year. Yeah, subject to how we play and basically how our teams do. Yeah, you need the English teams to do relatively well. We can even finish eighth. They won't sack him because they weren't going to sack Potter because it got so bad that they said, okay, we have to now. The fan pressure, yeah. The fan pressure. And the person that got him sacked, apparently Verville, has left the club now. He's no longer part of the director of football because we had three at the time. So they're fully on, this is our guy. We're going to work this project out. It's very corporate, the way they work. Like they go off metrics. Like we've already had a few statements come out. Oh, statistically, we're meant to be second in the league. So results are going to turn around. I don't think they're necessarily wrong, even though that would annoy fans. If I was a Chelsea fan and I heard that, I don't want to hear that really, but I don't think it was necessarily wrong. I don't want Jackson to finish his dinner from two yards out. Like that's not a reaction. That's fact. But like, this is what they're doing. And I'll be honest, on some standpoint, I love it. Because like I said, with the Arteta thing, they back their man and they eventually reaping the rewards. We don't need instability. Now we just need some stability. And what really, what I like about Poch is, players like him. Like Cowell came out straight away. As you know, player power is very, very difficult in today's day and age. You lose the players, you've lost, don't matter what tactics you've got. Bro, if Enzo comes out tomorrow and says, I don't like this guy. If Caicedo comes out and says, I don't like this guy. He's gone. Purely based. You invested a quarter of a billion in just those two assets. You're making it work. Eight year contracts. it's not going to be easy to flip him. Like look at Sancho. Like, Ten Hag doesn't like him, but they can't move him. He knows he can outlast Ten Hag if certain things fall into place, especially with the pressure he's facing. So for me, it's just like, at this moment in time, I think Poch is staying and we just need to accept what happens. But we're fans, innit? We're emotional. Like, we're passionate into our club. Otherwise you and I wouldn't be running the channel. It's only about the weekend with fans. Oh bro, when I tell you like, my weekends have been ruined in this past year. I don't know how people support small clubs. I don't know how they support a small club. Like, sometimes 12.30, my girl's like, oh, what are we doing this evening? I was like, subject to the result, we'll decide then. Because, I'm telling you that, you might have to go out with your mum or something. Like, at this moment in time, like, I'm hurt. Nah, I share your pain, bro. That's how I felt against Spurs. Honestly, Spurs felt like a defeat, as I said, because we lost from winning positions. And it's like, Arsenal, as much as we were good or bad in some metrics last season, I don't really buy into City were so great last year, which they was. They won a treble. It's Pep Guardiola, it's Man City. But fundamentally, at some level, we had it in our hands and we crumbled. Something that Liverpool didn't do really and truly. Yes, we, quote-unquote, exceeded expectations. No one had us to do what we needed to do. Two truths can live in the same realm. But we had an opportunity of a lifetime. You look at Liverpool, when they were in their prime and they won the Champs and the Prem, if it was a war, they lost it against City. But they won a couple of battles. They ended their Premier League title in 30 years, first time in my lifetime. That's kind of what I want us to be on. And the last two seasons, going back to when we finished fifth when we was fighting Spurs, it's kind of annoyed me that we've kind of done well. And that last sort of eight, nine, ten games is where it's kind of been terrible. So that's where I'm looking at Arsenal and specifically Arteta because as we said, money's been spent. I don't buy into money spent. You have to just succeed because everybody's spending money. The alternative is developing new players. We all know your club, my club, as much as we might waffle about Saliba and Saka and all these guys, people don't really care about players developing because all they care about is free points. They're not going to hear it. We've been here before. So it's a bit of an interesting one. I wanted to ask you about Kai Havertz as well because what do you make of it, bro? Because it must have surprised you. 65 million, let alone to Arsenal. So I'm different to a lot of Chelsea fans. I always thought Kai got scapegoated a lot at the club. Oh, he's getting that to a degree at Arsenal as well. Bro, you need to accept what players are. He's not a world-class player. He's not dead. So there are tools that he has and you use your tools accordingly. It's not my fault you're asking him to be the vocal point of this team and you need to score 25 goals. He's a guy that will get you. He'll get you 14 goals in the league if you play him at number nine, but he'll give you link-up play and he'll give you some nice moments. You know what he did for the Martinelli goal? You're going to get that out of him very well. Big game Kai. That's why we called him at Chelsea because he always showed up for the big games. I mean, he's done it twice against City. I'll allow him for that. So he's a good player in those games, but I don't understand his midfield experiment because he doesn't have the athleticism, in my opinion, to play the role in the sense that he's going to cover so much ground. He doesn't have the passing range. He's good and secure on the ball, but he doesn't make quick decisions. He brings everything down to his tempo. So he doesn't have the robustness to win challenges consistently. And it's like, Arteta, I want to see what you're doing. And a lot of tacticals told me this is his role. Even before at Chelsea, people were like, Frank Lampard wanted a midfield of Declan Rice, Mason Mount and Kai Havertz. I didn't understand it and I still don't. Nah, I don't think that's a midfield trio that will thrive if I'm honest with you. I don't understand it. So I think he made a big mistake, man. Arsenal was not the man. He had to get out of sight, go out of mind, go back to Germany, get forced that Thomas Tuchel move in Germany and just rebuild his career. Right now, he's doing more damage but making more bread. So he just needs to ask himself whether he's happy with money or whether he's happy with a good career. And that's the thing when it comes to Kai Havertz. It's like, the one thing is I don't know what you are. When we signed Declan Rice, for example, you see what he brings. Timber, you see what he brings. Raya, you see what he brings. I can see how collectively they make our squad stronger and our starting XI and ultimately in their own way get us closer to City. With Kai Havertz, it was a thing where I don't back anybody blindlessly but I like Mikel Arteta. You know more about football than me. If this is what you're doing, I'm very concerned but I'll support you. We all know when Kai Havertz was going to sign for Arsenal, he was a player that was scapegoated as you said, by Chelsea fans and he was one of them, myself included. He's a player that's easy target for rival fans. So he was always going to be cut a loose string. What I've seen from Kai Havertz, I do think there's a bit of balance. I think at times he's scapegoated but at times he's not looking convincing. You know, again, he can play as a false nine. Probably looks the best as a false nine now but he hasn't really got shooting boots. You do make tactical fouls and all of that sort of stuff and you do run a lot and stuff like that but I don't want to have to keep watching games to be talking about that. Arguably, he should be doing that already and for me, where the central midfield is concerned for Arsenal, you know, we're stronger on our right hand side. Benjamin White, Saka, Odegaard will pull out there. It's the left hand side which probably needs a bit of added layers. Yeah, you've got Martinelli, you've got Zinchenko who have had knocks and now you've got Kai Havertz. I don't see how at this moment in time and I hope to be wrong, how Kai Havertz, Rice and Odegaard make us stronger not to do with the other two. You kind of wanted a different sort of player there. What I would say to Kai Havertz is at the end of the day I can have my thoughts. The only opinion that matters is Mikel Arteta. He's bought you, you're on a 4-5 year deal. If the world is saying you've played rubbish but the manager isn't then it is what it is and I think one thing that hasn't helped Havertz rightly so is you know, you've jumped in the void that's been left by Granit Xhaka especially this goal scoring kind of Granit Xhaka and that's where my concern is and that left eight I don't think anybody's grabbed it. Smith Rowe ain't had an opportunity yet for whatever reason. I'm not knocking Arteta. Fabio Vieira's done well but he's not grabbed it with both hands. Havertz has kind of played there hasn't grabbed it with both hands. I kind of want Odegaard to play there and Havertz in a 10 if I'm honest but I don't really want to do that. You know, I do speak to a lot of my Chelsea friends and they say we're kind of going they can see Arsenal fans kind of going through the same layers that Chelsea fans were doing in that he's a striker he's this, he's that. You know, Arsenal fans compare him to Ozu you're nothing like Ozu apart from the fact that you might quote-unquote soak which I just think and you'll probably agree in England you know, if you're not running around like a headless chicken you're not doing much. I'm not on to you for that but I just don't see I just don't see it really and truly I don't see light at the end of the tunnel that don't mean that it won't happen but I can't see it. Bro, your fan base is at the stage that I like to call stage 3. They're actively looking for like I'm dead serious stage 1 is you're gassed blind in faith stage 2 you're starting to have doubts stage 3 is you're confessing to yourself that you're seeing what you think you're seeing so you're looking for little things the little positives oh you see he's made this many sprints oh but did you see this and his basic passes like there was a compilation professional football you should be doing these things yeah there was a compilation that went on the other day and I looked at it and I was like this is from somebody that likes Kai Kai done a lot for my club like Kai won me a Champions League that's one of the best memories I'm gonna have like yet I was like he's better than this if this is a good performance what the hell has he been doing in the other games like I think it was the Brentford one you know there was a few passes or something like that and people asked about it I was like there's levels to him to improve bro you're an experienced individual I look at personally Kai Havertz in the same way I looked at Jesus I looked at Zinchenko to a degree Odegaard in that you're significantly experienced coming into this young team you should be a leader kind of I'm not asking Havertz to score a million goals and fly into tackles because as I said I do think he's being scapegoated but you should I should be able to see a difference when I look at Odegaard when I look at Jesus when I look at Zinchenko because reality is the world didn't probably want you or Teta did you do know this league I can't if you have moved house fair enough but I'd imagine there's probably an hour half an hour added to your journey so you've got everything to kind of thrive and you know fair enough at Chelsea not everybody's thriving everyone individually and collectively there's question marks for us it looks like there's a bit of stability so I did think that was a bit of a positive tax that would be there but right now I can't see it at this moment in time personally you're looking like an impact player you can come off the bench you can maybe help us see out games you might do what you did against City but you know what if Odegaard's rocking with you I'm rocking with you there's nothing wrong with that by the way you know the thing is there's no get out like know your role and I think life is simple enough sometimes you need to know like I am not the star player I'm a cog in this rather than the piece this is it yeah and you know what if Kai wants to do that so be it bro like some like like you said Arteta knows what he's doing like he's proven that he might be clueless at times all managers are we're gonna question but there is some sort of like method to his madness you don't accumulate as many points as you did last year and you don't start the season this year the way you have like results wise if he doesn't know what he's doing so like don't give him blind faith but at the same time I also think we're very bad as fans like my fan base does this and I'm guilty of this every signing has to bang there can't be one bad signing immediately like I said this about De Sassi after I saw him against Tony not Tony Antonio Antonio murdered him right absolutely destroyed him that's a tough introduction to the Premier League as well playing against him and my mate messaged me and it was like bro I'm gonna ask you one question how many people has Antonio done that to and I was like yeah he's like so why are you judging him based on 90 minutes like and you know what that's true like so now I was like you know what I'm just gonna wait 6 months before I judge any new signing like and I think that's what Havertz needs at the moment then you'll know what his level is and he won't shift too much up or down from there and that's the thing where I look at obviously week in week out if you played good I'm gonna say you played good if you look shaky I'm gonna say you played shaky but I have to give you the luxury of while it's the same league and all of that jazz whatever managers you had at Chelsea it's very different to what Arteta demands of you so you're getting to grips with that even though you're a German international Champions League and all of that sort of stuff so I do kind of give you until next year essentially the turn of the year but the problem I looked at it is again it's 100 over 100 million close to 200 if that really where you look at Rice and him now Rice, Sick Player see how you bring us into it and with the thing with Havertz it's high risk high failure high reward essentially if it bangs Arteta is a genius if it don't there's 65 million down the drain and there's no get out clause I'm not one to necessarily care about your wages how much you cost and all of these things but there's no get out I can't see that we'll be queuing up or flooded with offers for you I'd love to wake up if that was the case and Bayern Munich want to pay for you etc so it kind of has to work and you kind of touched on it there and I echo that point and obviously for us fans it's like we wake up in the morning and players are saying managers and well some probably are but managers are making calculated decisions he has to have been talking to Havertz on the back burners for a while and you know pitching his case to Arsenal's executives who obviously paid the money of what he could do so I'm going to give the man time but at the end of the day we're in the Champions League don't expect to win it but we have to give ourselves a decent account of ourselves I want to obviously go as far as we can in the league and I want to win I'm an Arsenal man I want to win the FA Cup and I just want to keep succeeding and I do think the better we get the less not less patience but the less patience I kind of have because we're getting better and I shouldn't be saying this if you as Kai Havertz 18 years of age come from the academy overruled cool but you're 24, 25 as we know Champions League winner Lord knows how many Premier League appearances German appearances and all of that jazz you have you know the league and at the end of the day it's football isn't it and I did kind of want to see a more confident Havertz I understand why you don't believe in yourself potentially but I did think you know what I want to prove Chelsea wrong for selling me with their rebuild Arteta likes me I'm still in London I don't have to uproot too much I'm with players that there's more stability in the XI so I wanted to see more from him What do you make of Rhys James' injuries and do you have any concerns because for every rumour that says he'll be about for the Arsenal game there's also rumours that he won't and when you look at this it says since making his debut in 2019 Rhys James has now had 17 different injuries he's missed 482 days due to injury and 90 games in that time or so it takes me back to our early days at the Emirates where whoever was captain we barely saw them really and he's a terrific player Rhys James Rhys is Rhys is one of the one or two players that I could say is world class for Chelsea at the moment like so he walks into like literally walks into 99% of the team like Real Madrid placement Barcelona placement Bayern placement so that's how good of a talent he is but we can't keep him fit and that worries me but I'm not selling it like I wouldn't sell him if I had Rhys James there's this dumb narrative right now at Chelsea oh let's cash in on him what are you cashing in on for real? yeah like if Godber he's in the Twitter spaces and he believes fans get on the phone let's get his squad like if you don't really want to sell Rhys James you just bring him to the carpet man that's crazy there's a section of fans like oh you gotta sell him because he's only gonna some people are like oh he's broken I was like he's not broken because we went through this with Ruben he's just got a bigger body and he's explosive so something either his diet or something is going wrong like the mechanics aren't just working facts you pay enough doctors someone needs to figure this out and what I really appreciate once again that Todd Bowley and everyone have done they went and got a good right back yeah Gusto's decent still Gusto's top top like for me this weekend I don't want to see Rhys on the pitch only because I'm not risking him first game back after this period of time against the Martinelli or against and then you're gonna lose him for a longer period you might as well lose a battle and win a war essentially I've got a one-on-one demon in Gusto who's like Mattoma he's pocketed twice now like he's a good player like he knows how to defend he's not aggressive in a good way yeah very aggressive like what did they ask him they said what's your best attribute he goes I can tackle like he literally said I can tackle it's refreshing to hear a defender say that you actually don't hear that much these days anyways yeah and he was just like I can work on my defensive end and that's like you know when you hear someone talking about themselves and especially in football you're like yeah you know who you are you're not you're not deluded like you are absolutely within your right mind of this is what I am this is what I need to improve on and I love that so for me with Rhys James get him right give him 15 minutes 20 minutes train him up to play one game a week I don't know if you watch basketball right but Kawhi Leonard load management get him on a load management program he plays 25 league games a year at most I don't want to see him cross that threshold until we believe that you've got his body right because losing him for long periods of time one is demoralising two it creates a negative negative atmosphere around the player yeah because you've got dumb fans saying why why is he even a captain like you you're not a captain because you're just the best player you're a captain because of the influence I mean if anyone's Mr Chelsea it's him and again he's not that clearly tells me if he's captain he holds weight in the change rooms he's convinced the manager and he lets his nuts hang and he puffs out his chest really and truly but I do have to ask though at what point does Reece James have to take personal responsibility for this because you know again I don't know we're not privy to your diet your exercise regime you know it could be the training demands but it seems like this is consistent with him really because we've got a couple of players like that so I remember it was like a few years back I did the like he was getting injured so I looked into the weight that he was in comparison to other teams right backs and he was around about 10 to 12 kilos more heavy based on Google numbers right so like I don't know how accurate they are but that's a bit worrying but in recent years he's actually slimmed down like if you look at like he's really lost a lot of weight looking a tiny bit more lean he's looking a lot more lean and I think he took the fat jokes personally because he started like he even started responding with pictures of like top off he's like oh I've got abs and stuff like that you know like they listen you can't let the internet rattle you like that James it's fully like you started seeing all that stuff but I also think they're learning off Ruben like Ruben lost his cheek went through a period where he just couldn't stay fit at all and the thing is when you get them big injuries you start getting the little ones like probably what Reece James is getting now when you have a long term injury coming back next thing you know your hamstring's gone your Achilles gone this gone that gone and like you know bro that ultimately stops you training being fit and showing your quality and then it's just it's just a consistent cycle and that's why I rate James because I do think and every player gets injuries because I do think fans just think oh they're getting paid a lot of money as football it can be lonely especially like I look at last season like if you was an Arsenal player injured you finally had a bit of things to be happy about and yeah you cheer on your teammates and stuff but when they're on the training ground you're in the physio room and it's a long recovery and you know the physical wounds heal but mentally you know we played football you know how many times you had an injury and you're actually alright but you're scared to do certain things on the pitch for fear of things happening so players probably have that and obviously it's probably more heightened because this is an elite level sport essentially and everything they do is more intense like in every aspect like every little detail how many times like I never used to warm up I'll be honest did it you turn up on a Sunday when I got older I had to man I started pulling my hamstring bro yeah like so for me it was just like just start playing but for them literally how many times you hear it oh they didn't warm up properly so you can just imagine the little details that go into them the levels it's a different level of course so man I just feel sorry for him like even though he's not lonely because we have everyone injured like our injury record ever since yeah it's a madness man so it's like a club there right now yeah so speaking to people that like are in and around it and that like ITKs or like but these are actually ITKs isn't it like as in like they're saying it's like a revolving door system they've changed everything that it would take four years to change in a natural process in six months like receptionists are gone or certain individuals allegedly and like kit man's gone this is gone that is like they've changed the ethos of the club and that can't be healthy but it's needed really we've done that we've flushed out a lot of staff and a lot of people wage cuts and a lot of players it's needed you have to go through those teething pains especially if you want to start anew and I think people might look back in 2, 3, 4 years and say you know what we got onto Chelsea them times in 2023 but in 2025, 26 you can see what they're doing and that's kind of what not that our club's anything to necessarily shout about but now people can kind of see the trust, the process and all of this jazz and the buzzwords that came out with Arsenal initially bro the other day we were talking about bad owners right I was like there was this whole rhetoric about the Glazers thing and I was like Liverpool fans hate their owners Enich and Spurs fans it's like a relationship they turn up with their 20 men to protest like 20 fans and then United fans get their Norwich scarves out yeah they get their Norwich scarves but with you lot I don't hear nothing about your owners and that either tells me to be fair that's either because you win so you don't have time to moan about them or genuinely you're starting to get on board with what they're doing because they're spending money and I think it's simple right once you start seeing results you have good owners it's simple as that you're bang on the money and I think with me in the cron case I wouldn't say I'm necessarily 100% convinced but I'm 98% convinced because you're doing what's being told for a long time it's kind of like at Arsenal they were left to their own devices and when you look at then I actually went and looked at because they own quite a few sports clubs you know hockey, NFL bare things innit I started to look at their model and when they bet on a coach they bet on them they kind of like to put the right people in place and they're not as hands on not that it's wrong but they're not like your owners they're not always going to be at the games even though Josh has been there a lot they'll kind of leave you to your own devices that's where I actually believe in the last 2 years 3 years even any success or failings obviously indirectly it comes from the owner if you have a company and you're failing you might not be making day to day decisions but you've got to hold that it's been on the manager or I do because money has been spent you know you look at a couple of January's ago when Spurs picked us to top 4 we didn't bring people in in January we learnt our lessons and that's where I can't really get at them and it's really just on Arteta now as much as I like we know we're not a club that is well we did buy Declan Rice but we're not going to go and get the Mbappes and what not of this world but simply put the owners are doing what I wanted to see that's why there can't really be any protest really and truly and now fans are happy and that's why I actually rate Arteta the thing I rate the most about Arteta is when he walked in the door the thing that stuck with me is we need to get the Emirates rocking again and it's nice to see fans of all different races, religions, sexes, etc just ******* smiling again and being happy and making it noisy like we was called a library we're still probably not the most noisiest ground in the world but it's a difficult ground to come to and it's an entertaining game essentially so you're not only that when people start hating on you again it's a sign that you're doing well there you have it celebration police onto us as well yeah like oh you're playing the celebrating after a win it's only fun I love it because it makes me ******* happy bro I say the same thing like all the time I want people to laugh at us winning because evidently we haven't won properly in a while like we won three back-to-back games I think we won four games prior to that all calendar year like can you imagine what that's a magic yeah I think Chelsea won four calendar like in the year prior to that little three game streak we won four games all year that's a magic it doesn't even sound like a real stat like yeah but it is which is it is and it's damning like so for me it's like with Chelsea now it's what I want to get to the stage with you like I want a top four finish and to look forward to next year like I know people are gonna go oh you're losing your principles yeah but my principles only idiots maintain the same principles when they don't have the same resource you have to like you can't obviously I've seen Chelsea finish eighth and then go win the league but reality is that's not gonna happen now naturally the goal would of course if you wanna over perform but I don't think you're wrong in saying you know what top four trophy we do that next season with some investment that trophy by the way I want the caribou cup he's won that a lot people sorry yeah like people laugh at trophies like you know I saw with you like your fan base we got bigger fish to fry that is a common thing that's been flying around bro the players wanna win how many players actually win trophies and that's a problem you know I think if you get knocked out of the FA cup early and don't win the Champions League and don't win the Premier League doing well is a good thing but it can be a curse at the same time like Saliba playing the way he's playing Madrid isn't far away from saying Militao it's not I've said it before I genuinely think he'll play for one day but this is where I look at it regardless of what these players are worth now where I look at Saka, Odegaard, Martinelli and Saliba if we can win some stuff in a few years with you great but if these clubs try and come for you we need to be getting a hundred odd million quid and that's why again why I kind of rate what Edu did because in previous years at Arsenal with the way Saliba's playing his contract would have been running into the season you look on Sky Sports every game is he going to stay is he going to not but in the summer these contracts were nailed down even to the point where Benjamin White he's got three years left on his deal we're renewing that not that he will field offers to the level of them on one hand I don't want to praise the club for doing competent things but these were things that wasn't said and unheard of really under the previous regime so I'm all for it man to kind of round this up I wanted to ask you a quick fire round both of this it's just one answer just one answer all at the minute no explaining just one answer ready yeah all right let's go right so Kaiseido fair enough Chaucer or Modric Chaucer fair enough Levi Caldwell or Saliba Saliba what else have I got Arteta or Potch Arteta because I prefer his style nah no explaining bro what else David Rye or Sanchez Rye fair enough James or White James Hazard or Salah Hazard Drogba or Omri Thierry Terry or Rio fair enough Lampard Skulls or Gerrard fair enough I knew you was my guy that's a great answer last one Jorginho or Havertz Jorginho fair enough you know what I thought you might go with Havertz because of the Champions League thing you know nah nah nah bro I've got an affinity for Jorginho from like I love Sarri like since Jose Mourinho like take Jose out the equation because like he's my favourite manager of all time because of what he's done for us Sarri was the one manager where I bought in like the way we played football we played amazing football I saw stuff at Stamford Bridge I've never seen like we dominated teams we pressed like counter pressed beautifully in big games but at the same time against little teams we used to pop it around everything we built what came through in Baku you know like that whole performance and the fans got him out he went home not because he wanted to because he knew he was four bad games away from being sacked and I'll go to Juventus and earn the same money and what did he do at Juventus with an agent Ronaldo that didn't want to press won the league and since then Juventus have been horrible like yeah yeah absolutely terrible so for me it's like Jorginho is the identity of that player and I think people focus on what kind of represents the manager they focus on what you can't do than what you can do but you look at your team your players love it off the pitch as well I mean how can you not love Jorginho I just think with me with Jorginho it's a thing where you can't you're not a 38 game man the thing against the experiment against Spurs it didn't work and I think that's where when Declan Rice has come off that's where we need another number eight whose levels are another six but when you've got them city games or it's an exaggeration but if there's 38 games I think there's 10 obviously more but there's 10 games that from a tactical point of view I understand Jorginho like the one game I give Jorginho credit Newcastle away last season absolutely scared I was scared shitless I thought yeah they're high intensity they're gonna put us under pressure Jorginho stood up tall in that game and that's why I'm kind of happy with Jorginho really even if he wanted to stay for another year and kind of just hang around me personally I think him probably gonna be gone next summer but I like Jorginho man I've got a lot of time for him I think there's aspects of Jorginho's game that he could try to pass on to Declarise Declarise said that a few years ago he looked at Jorginho obviously he'll never be that but I think there's similar things in a bit like however long Trossart's gonna be here Saka Martinelli all them young G's you better take bits and pieces from his game and add it to yourself man so yeah I can't blame you for saying that with Jorginho so you know Nathaniel Chalabar Trevor's brother he went he went on loan to Napoli and Jorginho was there at that period and when he came back they asked him who's the one of the best players you've ever trained with said Jorginho he said he was five steps ahead of everyone and I think we don't we don't appreciate sometimes you know the stuff that he's slow like he should not be a footballer with his athleticism he never like and that's why he's such an easy target when he gets smoked because he gets caught with 50 yards behind him so people are like oh he's a pointing merchant but he's just he's a brilliant player brilliant player man technically like really secure and he's just I didn't understand the noise when Arsenal fans were kind of going mad in January we're getting Jorginho don't get twisted I've got it I didn't you know we probably wanted a bit more glamorous or glamorous not the right word because he is robust but I could see I could hear the Jorginho thing as I said there's a couple games he could come in and do a thing for us really and truly definitely not the worst signing we've signed from Chelsea of all the players we've grabbed off you look no no he's not a Willian signing he's not a check that's finished but he literally is backup and if you have players I was annoyed when we got rid of him like I know we got 12 million for all 8 million for a player with six months left on his deal I was like Enzo would be learning from him we need experience and that's the level of like I think in your Champions League runs don't be surprised if he gets that yeah you have it no I should be looking at you really and truly and it goes back to what we were saying earlier about Kai Havertz give or take Gabriel Jesus Jorginho Havertz to a degree Odegaard as well you lot have Champions League or European experience these are the games where the vast majority of our squad are Champions League specifically Virgins there's a couple of them that have played in Europe or Conference League and things like that they haven't popped their cherries bro so Jorginho wouldn't surprise me and the thing I like about Jorginho is his temperament sometimes it goes against you like against Spurs where he wanted one touch too many he got finessed but you need that in them when there's every reason to panic it's like being on a plane if everyone's panicking you want the pilot to be calm if the pilot's panicking then you're in trouble isn't it that's where Jorginho comes into it he's almost too calm I just think at times it's not even with Jorginho because as you said earlier you kind of have to accept footballers for what they are their strengths and weaknesses there's just certain games and again I look back at Spurs when Declan Rice has come off there's no Thomas Partey it's suicidal really Spurs are a transitional team they're aggressive it's suicidal really playing Jorginho in that game but when it's a tactical battle because I've seen Jorginho play quite good in the defeat I think at the Emirates I'm sure it was at the Emirates against City and obviously the last one he's played well when it's just a football match like a chess match a Pep versus Arteta Jorginho's the man and when I look at Arteta I look at Ryan now because he was doing at Brentford I look at Jorginho and I look at Odegaard if you watch our games especially throughout the ground he's always calling these three players over and relaying information and then you start seeing the hand signs and whatnot of course I don't know what they're saying but I just see that as your Arteta's eyes and ears on the football pitch essentially really you're the ones governing it you're the three kind of captains per se Bro there's been three occasions as a Chelsea fan where my allegiances to Chelsea went away and I smiled at an Arsenal goal and I was like you know what I didn't expect it it was it honestly like it was the Thierry against Leeds when he returned oh that brought me to tears bro yeah there was there was one I remember Adebayor's goal against Spurs the one where yeah yeah yeah the volley too it's just a beautiful goal and there was Jorginho's last minute winner that hit like the other last year and it gets Villa away it's the player innit like the players make you have a certain affinity for them so I think he's just got that kind of power a lot of Chelsea fans didn't like him but there was a cult following for him like like there's people that still want him to this day to do well even though it's Arsenal they won't admit it because they're fake like they'll be like oh no you can't say it I'll say it out loud like I've got no problem saying it like there are certain players you want to do well I don't want you lot to win the league but I want them to have like top top performances and you lot not to win the league right I mean I don't think anyone I don't think anyone could disagree with you saying that man last question what's your score prediction then I'm gonna have to go 2-1 Arsenal I think it will be a much closer game than on paper I don't think we're just gonna I love it to be that I don't think it's gonna be we're gonna just turn up there trash the place and walk away three points but I think it will be a very close game because it comes down to personal respect now like you've been getting embarrassed at Stamford Bridge you've got nothing to lose if Arsenal win it's not selling too many headlines if you lot win there's a lot of headlines and it's a positive step into the right direction so I'm going with 2-1 2-1 Arsenal I think we're gonna have a good game I'll be honest I think we're gonna have a good good game everyone's gonna leave oh you know what there's a lot of positives for Chelsea I just think the clinicalness of you lot at times the sacker steps up in big games Jesus loves Chelsea like I don't know what I remember a great finish he scored for Stamford where there was like 20 players in the box next to him he plays with headphones in like he's got some samba bachata on and he's moving around like there's nobody there like Jinkie left right and centre he makes our centre back strong literally I just mean it like I've got a bad feeling in the sense that we're gonna be the better team on the day but you're gonna get the result and once again just continue your own this is a title charge we're gonna win it this year when it comes to top six I'll take that man because again I've seen my team play you know play well against Chelsea play well against it last couple of times excluding the victory play well and ultimately not get the three points and I think of course I want to play well we need to play well the majority of games but now it's just about getting three points and I love the fact of I felt last season we improved against the top six sides this season so far undefeated I hope it don't end on Saturday let people know they can find you man once again hey guys on the gafkas view on YouTube you guys can find me or you can find me on TikTok gafkas view that's the best places to get my opinions on football and video content but on Twitter not your average Alexis like that's where I chat the most ---- and nine out of ten times don't take me seriously on that platform like I just love to troll people I'll be honest oh man you know what yeah people again make sure you follow him man again all his information by the time this comes out you know the TikTok the Twitter the YouTube again everything will be in the description in fact where YouTube's concerned his name will be in the title don't be shy don't be lazy hit the like button comment subscribe all of that good stuff let me let you get out of it my friend man appreciate you for tuning in and chopping up with the guy man I love talking to fans like you I really do because you're honest you know like you gotta be honest man we're fans of the game first of course you're Chelsea I'm Arsenal but I don't do this tribal thing like it's boring and it rubs you off the beautiful game fam bro honestly sometimes people tell me like they're like oh I think you're more of a football fan than a Chelsea fan and I feel like well before like I was so invested about Chelsea my dad was showing me like because I'm Georgian innit I didn't grow up in England I came like I was seeing Raul videos like on TV and stuff like that you fell in love with the game first the game yeah so I appreciate I watch all too much football ask my girl like we've got a common complaint like in this household join the club mate you're not alone with Jack Black like so nah like I talk about all football even though people say I'm not qualified like to talk play you know what I mean if you're a fan you can have an opinion man that's all BS man that sort of stuff pisses me off really everyone's allowed a voice even if you're chatting ---- you're allowed a voice everyone's allowed an opinion now having an opinion means that you're going to be subject to criticism or praise depending on what you're saying but I like people who don't mix their words man so yeah like the man said make sure you're following him on his platforms again let us know your thoughts and everything we've discussed smash the like button comment subscribe we're out man stay blessed my dude one love see ya