Arsenal News Show: Arteta says ready to be active transfer window! | Free run at Nico Williams!

Seven Arsenal players missed Arsenal's training in relation to the upcoming game against Monaco. Mikel Arteta allegedly has refused to sell Gabriel Jesus. We've been linked with Mohamed Kudus and Nico Williams and Yoko Rez and Marcus Rashford and Ademola Lukman. So there's a lot to go over. If you allow me to share my screen, people, we'll get straight into it. As usual, smash the like button. Now, we will circle back on Mikel Arteta's press conference and see everything he's had to say. But as you can see by this headline, seven Arsenal stars missed training with Mikel Arteta facing fresh injury crisis. We got lucky last season, February of this year, Mikel Arteta said we've got one of the smallest squads. Maybe we didn't take heed of that collectively as a club and we're paying for it. You know, several players are injured at this moment in time. Some players come back. Others are missing. Mikel Arteta has played a bit of a coy game, you know, with players and injuries. And sometimes people come back. Sometimes they've not been involved. So I don't know what to say in that regard. I think we're fourth in the Premier League for injuries as well. No excuses. Everybody gets them. Arsenal face more problems in defence with Thomas Partey, who has been playing right back, and Timba missing training ahead of the Champions League clash against Monaco, with Gabriel Magalhães also still absent. Mikel Arteta has been without first-choice options Gabriel and Califuri for the last two games, with Zinchenko joining the injured list last weekend against Fulham. I mean, Zinchenko picks up a lot of knots. I love Tomi Asu, but Tomi Asu's a no-show. At some point, we're going to have to address this, really and truly. There's too many unanswered questions within this squad for all the money spent, and as long as a couple of them have been here. The trio were absent from training on Tuesday ahead of the visit of the league outside Monaco, with Partey and Timba also not seen among the group. Now, Mikel Arteta does play a bit of a coy game and is a bit of a devil in a nice way. When the cameras are on, you know, Zinchenko can't keep his mouth shut. But, you know, through him, we found out, you know, Mikel Arteta, which I don't think is anything unique to him, tells injured players to get on the team bus. We've also seen reports from the Athletic to the point where rival managers don't take too much stock in what Mikel Arteta has to say around injuries. He's known to play games, people. But I think I speak for many Arsenal fans where we say, you know, to be without Gabriel, respect to Kivu, but the drop-off is too big. Obviously, Timba going from right-back to left-back kind of kills any sort of balance we have owing to the problems on the left-hand side. We miss Califuri. You know, we don't have the luxury of utilising Tomi Asu or Zinchenko. Thomas Partey has done quite well in terms of injuries, but we're never quite confident. And negatively, we were probably due a prolonged absence with Benjamin White not being available. We've played that man into the ground. And we've obviously had to cope with Martin Odegaard's knock as well. So we'll have to see exactly what he said. But you don't want to hear that, man, especially around the defence. I think the drop-off is too big when Kivu comes in for Gabriel. Obviously, Gabriel is twice, three times, maybe even four times the player. But, you know, Kivu doesn't provide us enough on the ball, doesn't give us any real stability in games we're going to be tested. I'm not criticising him. That's just a fact. And obviously, we've got no left-hand side or right-hand side's not on it. We're in issues. You know, Thomas Partey's moved to right-back. You know, I actually don't think that's a problem beyond the obvious. Obviously, I want Partey to play in midfield. He's our best performing midfielder. But it's then the knock-on effect because the midfield don't offer anything. We're not really clinical or creating chances. You know, really, you know, I would describe Arsenal as we play football like Mayweather. And I love Mayweather. It's like we try to win games on points. We jab a lot. We might, you know, the points that the judges in a boxing match might give us a lot of the rounds, but we never go for the knockout blow. This is why I don't, you can't, I can't not say, sound like a hypocrite. I can't not say I don't take too much stock in possession chances, shots on target, XG, field tilts, all of that. But something needs to give, you know. I do think we create chances. I think it's very naive. If you expect any team, Mikel Arteta's team, even Stoke, if you think teams are just going out there to get set pieces and win a game, it's quite a naive way of looking at things. Across the season, every team is going to score more from open play than set pieces. But set pieces at the moment seems like the only thing we have a clue. And we have to be thankful for Niklas Hoover because you take a lot of the goals we've scored from set pieces, we lose a lot of points. And it looks like he is the only man that you could say is 100% doing his job. There's question marks over Arteta and several of the players and indirectly, you know, those that are in charge of the club. So we'll get back onto that, people. Allegedly, Mikel Arteta has also ruled out the possibility of Gabriel Jesus leaving in January. I mean, it doesn't make sense. Obviously, if you're offered something you can't refuse, great, you know, because I do think, you know, for a variety of reasons, whether it's their stock falling, whether it's contracts, whether it's the availability. As I always say, you can make a case of Gabriel Jesus, Zinchenko, Trosser if they're Saudi offers, Thomas Partey, Jorginho, Tom Iassu, you know, Sterling and Neto will probably not be here past their loans. There's a lot of players you can make a case might leave, people. It's quite mad, really. The 27-year-old Gabriel Jesus has scored just one goal in his past 31 games for Arsenal. And, you know, where Gabriel Jesus has never been a prolific man, and there's plenty of question marks in that regard. You know, your general impact across the football pitch is even more concerning to me, really and truly. You know, you look like if we didn't know he's Gabriel Jesus, Brazilian international, won all these things at City, 45, 50 million addition at Arsenal. You'd think this is a nervous, tried and untested young player. And again, indirectly, the players have to take fault. But indirectly, you know, you look at the squad we've amassed. I don't think we have bad players, but you look in the final third. If Saka and Odegaard aren't on song, we're in issues. Trosser, at times, you know, has better games than others, probably the second most reliable. Martinelli's falling off a cliff. Raheem Sterling, clearly not rated by Mikel Arteta. Kai Havertz, I think we've drawn enough blood from that stone in the current role he's at. Not saying we should alienate him. There's too many unanswered questions in that forward line, really. And as much as the players have to take responsibility, you know, on paper, if these players went to other clubs, they'd do a lot more. So you look at that, you look at our really and truly not really playing to our standard in the final third. There's a lot to address. And I do think there's a lot of self-inflicting issues. But when asked if he'd go in January, he said, no, no, nonsense, people. Boy, he said also, like all strikers, they go on phases and moments and that gap is becoming big. It's true that obviously a lot of things has happened, injuries, absence of not playing or starting games that much. But his attitude has been really good. It always is. And we're going to try to help him overcome the situation as soon as possible. But we're going to need to really, because let's be honest, we're carrying a lot of players. We're carrying a lot of people, you know, really and truly. If you're not William Saliba, Gabriel, Timba, Califuri, Benjamin White-Wenfit, David Ryer, Martin Olderguard, Kaio Saka, young Ethan and young Lewis Skelly, we're carrying you. You know, we're carrying you because the left hand side is lucky dip. Before we even talk about the left eight with Rice, Rice, we're not carrying you as well. But before we talk about that, before we talk about left back, you know, whether it's players that are starting or whether it's, you know, players that come on, it's lucky dip really. You know, when, respectfully, I love Trossart, I love all of them, you know, big fan of Trossart, Jesus and Martinelli. But when Trossart starts, you're begging for Martinelli. When Martinelli starts, you're begging for Trossart. You know, sometimes you're saying, yo, where's Sterling? I don't think anybody's saying Gabriel, Jesus, but he's been used. It's lucky dip on the left hand side. Of course, he believes in them because you're there, you see their qualities. But do you really believe they're going to impact the game really? Like the only one you really have faith in off the bench, out of the names I've said is Trossart. I really and truly off the bench. I know people have come and saved the day and all these things. Really, if Trossart's on the bench by default to a degree, but I would say for me anyways, as an Arsenal fan, young Ethan, not really inspired by the bench, if I'm honest with you. And with Ethan, he's relevant but irrelevant in that we can't live or die by his performances. Young man just need, and Lewis Kelly when he plays, just go learn your craft and ultimately have fun and get up to speed with things. Moving on, people. Allegedly, Victor Llores has the exit door at Sporting open to him as the Lisbon club have been plunged into crisis following the departure of Rumin Amirin to United. They've been struggling a bit and falling down the table, people. Apparently, he's been left with discontent. Now, we've previously heard his agent come out and say the big reason he went to Sporting was because of Amirin. I personally think he's going to go Man Utd. Any team is going to struggle after losing a manager that's been doing good things for them. But I mean, the 26-year-old boy, when you've got 25 goals in 22 games, we defo could do with that. Linked with Arsenal, linked with Manchester United, every now and again linked with Chelsea and PSG. Also tipped, allegedly, to go to Barcelona as a kind of longer-term replacement for Mr Lewandowski. We all know about at this moment of his release clause and things of that ilk, so I don't need to waste time. Allegedly, he's hinted at a move to a former club by naming two former Red Devils as his footballing idols. Is that a coincidence or is that mind games, people? I don't know. But what it's worth, I've said it before, I think he's going to go Man Utd. But yeah, he said Cristiano Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic are two of his idols. I don't like to use the word idols, but for a striker, if you're looking at what Ronaldo has done since he became that goalscorer, someone that's achieved what Vlahovic has done, you should be looking at that. And we've been linked with Marcus Rashford. Check out my other video. Obviously, Man Utd's environment isn't necessarily the best, but when you look at Marcus Rashford, you don't have to rate Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as a manager, but there's a lot you could learn from him as a striker. Ruud van Nistelrooy was there for two minutes, but you could pick his brain. Louis van Gaal seemed the best of the best developed. Jose Mourinho. The list goes on. And in terms of players, you've been around Cristiano Ronaldo, Di Maria. I might be lying about that, but Di Maria, Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic, even in people that don't play in your position, there's still no significant improvement. I like the illusion of Rashford and Mikel Arteta getting a trick out of him, but for the wages, the money, it's more unanswered questions. Going back to what I said about how everybody that plays on that left-hand side and two degree can't have hearts, so everyone apart from Saka, we've already got unanswered questions, already got unanswered questions in midfield and in defence. Why add another one? It don't make sense to me, but I'll be the first to applaud Rashford. I actually like Rashford, but it's a madness. Moving on. Apparently, Arsenal hope to pull off a second gigantic raid on West Ham by signing an attacker in January, and a report has revealed why the Hammers could begrudgingly cash in. We all know we signed Declan Rice. We've been linked with Mohamed Kudus. Now, in life, anything can happen. Weirder things have happened. But really, Kudus? Really? Considering West Ham's form at the moment, you really want to let your key player go mid-season? I would love to have these two players in shock. Boeing 747, as I call him. Cold. Cold player. Kudus. Cold. I don't believe this. There's rumours of a release clause. Apparently, he's got 80 million price tag. I would love the club. Love the club to go for him. Apparently, West Ham got their own PSR issues. Not sure how much to stop reading that. Obviously, Kivio is someone that's always linked with moves away. Allegedly, you've seen over the last few days, Napoli have been in talks that's had a bid rejected. Again, there's a reality where the Quirantines, who I forgot to mention, the Quirantines, the Tomi Asus, the Kivios, the Gabriel Jesuses, the Zinchenkos, the Jorginhos, the Parteys, you know, the Gabriel Jesuses, if I haven't said that. For a variety of different reasons, once again, I would be on selling them, dependent on what happens. In January, for an already depleted squad, where you see, hopefully, we've got a League Cup final to look forward to in February. In January, we'll have two extra Champions League games. The FA Cup comes into it. And we'll still be in and amongst of this condensed fixture calendar list, where the games are coming every four days. Whether I believe in these players or not, in terms of bodies, it does not make sense, people. To me, anyways. Keeping up the theme with David Ornstein, or better yet, Viktor Jokeres, apologies. He said on Jokeres, can you predict the next biggest move in the transfer market? Maybe Viktor Jokeres next summer, I think he'll go somewhere. So that is a big story to break. And that will cause ripples within the industry and the market, people. I don't think that's anything necessarily groundbreaking. But there you have it, people, in that regard. So let's keep it moving. We've rejected a €15 million bid, allegedly, from Napoli for Kivu, as we've been speaking about. Arteta has apparently demanded the signing of Nico Williams in January, as he thinks we're very lightweight in the attacking third. We all know Nico Williams has a €58 million release clause, which isn't reachable. I guess it's not the most unrealistic of transfer moves. It didn't happen. So it could happen. Nico Williams has been touted to Barcelona, apparently he's open to a Premier League move. And I'm sure Arteta could sell him a dream, and there's plenty of reasons to want to sign for Arsenal. But surely you want to at least stay at Bilbao until the end of the year, because he has made a big song and dance about wanting to achieve stuff. Apparently, Lukman will be open to joining Arsenal in 2025. He has a contract at Atalanta until 2026. In the next summer of 2025, they've got a decision to make. And I'd be on signing Lukman, especially if he wants to return home. We're apparently still being linked with Dan Ashworth. I'm bored of speaking about this. I don't think we'll go for him. I don't have any tangible proof, but something just rubs me up the wrong way about him. But it wouldn't be too unrealistic for him to be on the list. Just because you're on the shortlist don't mean people are going to go for you. But you get where I'm going with that. Apparently Declan Rice was blown away by Bowen's performance against Wolves on Monday. What's Saliba say? He makes a huge statement on Arsenal future and mid-real Madrid links. He's pledged his long-term future to the club, which is great. Can't expect you to say anything else. But at some point, if we're not winning major honours, you're going to have to keep it moving. Mikel Arteta has given his press conference people. On injuries, he said, we have to manage a lot of the players. So they're probably not going to be fit for tomorrow. And I doubt. I still have 24 hours to make those decisions and hopefully the right ones. And he basically said on the injuries, it is what it is. But us fans have been talking about this, people. We all know not playing with a settled back four affects us. And if we need to create more chances from open play, we need to be a bit more clinical. Stop throwing jabs and go for a killer blow. We need a bit of healthy randomness. We want to create more from every angle and from set pieces as well. We could have created more than we did. And we could have scored another one or two. So we're trying to evolve and be better, which is true. He did say it was kind of difficult to accept how. He was almost a bit baffled as to how we didn't beat Fulham. But ultimately, we didn't beat Fulham because the one opportunity that led to our demise when we conceded didn't defend well enough. We did put the ball in the back of the net, but it was offside. And we huffed and puffed. And you could count on one hand really and truly something close to clear-cut chances. Kai Havertz dragged one wide. Partey had a head-off. Salibre had a head-off. Declan Rice had a left-footed strike in the first half. But you are in that stage now. And we did score, obviously. Where you're being able to count on one hand the chances Arsenal have had. There's obviously a few more that I'm not alluding to. This is new to me. I'm a spoiled 29-year-old. I'm a Wenger baby. This was never a thing. Early Emirates era, obviously, even when we had lesser players, creating chances wasn't a thing. And I'm not saying I want to go back to that. But we were used to Arsenal creating a million chances, maybe not necessarily scoring. The team get one opportunity and they win the game. Now we're not really creating. And when you've dropped off the level defensively, even when players have been fit, when you're not quite clinical in the final third, regardless of there being some positive statistics in terms of open play and doing our set pieces, but we're not scoring enough. When there's questions about the midfield, can you really be surprised? We're having these conversations, people. So yeah, big up Odegaard for becoming a father. Young Josh Nicholls apparently has even got issues, people. So you've got Lewis Kelly and Josh Nicholls getting knocked. On Gabriel Jesus, we've gone over that. Once again, he said no, no sense in letting him go in January. We obviously went through that. On Kieran Tierney, he said, people, yes, he is ready. He's training really well and he's going to have an opportunity for sure with the way the team is looking at the moment. It's for that reason and because he's earned it as well with the way he's behaved and the way he's been with us because he's willing to do it. And when that happens, you have to give opportunities to those kind of players. Fair enough, people. He said he's not worried about our lack of scoring from open play, which I am. And he's obviously going to big up Monaco. He's not going to say anything different in that regard. So we need to beat Monaco. Make sure we get into the last eight. It's as simple as that.