🗣️| Tim Vickery: “A month or so ago, I don't think Gabriel Martinelli was in the squad, but he has forced his way in through sheer week-after-week excellence for Arsenal. It has been a very difficult decision. How are you going to get him in? There were two ways.” [@SkySports]
🗣️| Tim Vickery: “One was to only pick one right-back and not take Dani Alves, who is now 39. They could have left him out, used Eder Militao at centre-back to cover the right-back position and opened up a space for a striker.” [Sky] #afc
🗣️| Tim Vickery: “They chose not to do that. Firmino is left out. Brazil are taking a little bit of a risk here. Martinelli is a wide striker and Brazil have more wide strikers than they know what to do with. What they don't have is a straight replacement for Neymar.” [Sky] #afc
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🗣️| Gary Neville: “Arsenal fans come at me every single week, every single week, because I will still continue to question them until I don’t see a moment like I did with five or six games to go last season & they get through those moments and they finish in the top 4” [Overlap]
🗣️| Gary Neville: “They [Arsenal] haven’t proven it yet. It’s like a boxer who hasn’t won a title. You have to question them. But what you can’t question is that was a really, really good performance [against Chelsea on Sunday].” #afc
🗣️| Gary Neville: “I want to see it over 38 games and we’ve seen recently Arsenal found it tough in the last part of the season. That is not being overly negative. It’s just saying let’s see what happens in 20 games time. I do think they’re bang on to finish in the top-four” #afc
🗣️| Henderson on the incident with Gabriel: “I understand why I have to be asked about this. What I tried to do was respect the process, I have spoken before about black players being brave enough to speak out about discrimination so I couldnt then change my stance” [@MailOnline]
🗣️| Henderson: “I still feel I need to show respect now, even though it’s been dealt with. I’ve let the FA do what they needed to do and I still feel it wouldn’t be right for me to speak about it. It is just as important to respect the process afterwards as it is during the case”
🗣️| Henderson: “I could speak to you all day about how I was feeling but I have to accept what happened and move on. By the way, that wasn’t easy. There were a million and one things I wanted to say — emotional things — but I think it would have been wrong.”
🗣️| Granit Xhaka: “I was very, very close [to leaving Arsenal] and when I say very, very close, it was like you guys have the stuff here and I only needed to take the stuff and to leave the door. This moment, you don't see anybody near you.” [@BBCSport Football Focus] #afc
🗣️| Granit Xhaka: “This is the biggest problem. You are sitting in a dark place, feeling alone. You know you have people around but you have no chance to touch them - and this is how I felt.” #afc
🗣️| Granit Xhaka: “You try not to go so deep and to see the message what they [internet trolls] are writing, what the people are speaking in front of the TV but you can't ignore [it].” #afc
🗣️| Mikel Arteta on whether Bukayo Saka’s playing time is sustainable:
“Look at the top players in the world, they play 70 matches every three days and make the difference and win the game. If you want to be at the top you have to be able to do that.” [@arsenal] #afc
🗣️| Mikel Arteta: “And if we start to put something different in the mind of our young players I think we are making a huge mistake, because it’s one yes, one no. Now I don’t play now in astroturf and I don’t play.” #afc
🗣️| Mikel Arteta: “I don’t want that. I want them to be ruthless, every three days, they’re going to be knocking at my door I want to play and I want to win the game.” #afc
🎙️| @FabrizioRomano on Edu: “There are more than two clubs asking around and exploring about the situation of Edu Gaspar. There are clubs interested in his work, vision, ambitions, and ideas, and what he did with Arsenal is something really important.” #afc
🎙️| @FabrizioRomano: “And this is why there is a lot of interest growing around Edu in the last few months. Some clubs are already exploring this possibility internally at the moment.”
🎙️| @FabrizioRomano: “There is no negotiation between Edu or any club, but they are considering his name as one of the potential candidates for the future. From what I’m told, Edu is 100% focusing on Arsenal and he’s 100% focused on the Arsenal project.” #afc