Morning all.
I promise this will be my last moan and grown about Arsenal selling Gabriel Martinelli but after his exit was confirmed yesterday, I just wanted to reflect on his time at Arsenal and remember his moments of greatness. I guess what I’m really struggling to come to terms with is how could be deemed less important than his right wing counterpart and no, I don’t mean Bukayo Saka.
Frustrating as he might have been at times, although he’s been far from alone in that category, when he was good, he was very good. I think a trick was missed with him though as my thinking has always been that he’d make a great striker. He was certainly a great defender when that side of the game was required.
I’m going to miss him. As he’s said in his farewell message to the fans, “from 35 to 11, once a Gunner, always as Gunner”.
Thanks for everything Gabriel, you leave as a Champion….
Enjoy this little clip….
I should think that we have all read the message in full , he did not want to go and I think a fair number of the fans didn’t want him to go either.
Kev said recently that it doesn’t pay to get attached to a player and he is right but in this case it’s hard not to .He came as a kid and in my opinion was not always used correctly but he grew and stuck to his tasks and on the surface never got out of line and caused trouble.
My fear about this is how the rest of the squad will react , he was their friend and he was pushed out . How many will now be looking over their shoulders and will the much vaunted family atmosphere be dented.
Morning Rico and all, very well put Rico he will be missed, hopefully we have someone to replace him.
Looking at the younger players we recruited our future is looking good