🗣️| Wayne Rooney on Arsenal: “How do they stop Erling Haaland? With William Saliba injured, there’s no prospect of matching his pace and power individually, and the only way is to go out and try to impose their own game.

“City can be vulnerable when you hit them in the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 🗣️| Rooney: “Arsenal should focus on how to expose those City defenders rather than focus too much on Haaland. The mindset needs to be: nobody thought we’d be here, and now we’re playing for the title – so let’s go and take it.” #afc

🗣️| Martin Ødegaard: “We went into our last two games knowing that they would be difficult away matches, but as always with the aim of winning – so the results in themselves are disappointing, but it’s even more frustrating the way they happened of course. 

“We started the game… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 🗣️| Ødegaard: “After the final whistle we were frustrated with ourselves, but we also knew that maybe it was a hard-earned point in the end. Aaron Ramsdale was brilliant for us and made some unbelievable saves. Next day at the training ground we spoke together as a team.” #afc

🗣️| Paul Merson on #Arsenal v Southampton: “This is a big game in the title race, and Arsenal need to get back to where they were. They've run out of luck a little bit - for all the last-minute goals they've scored this season, it's coming the other way now.

“Arsenal aren't… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 🗣️| Merson: “Bukayo Saka was incredibly brave to take a penalty after his miss at the Euros. People miss penalties, and I'd be shocked if he didn't take the next one for Arsenal.” #afc

🗣️| @FabrizioRomano: “Chelsea are on a mission in Poland, where Shakhtar are, to try and sign Mudryk. Chelsea are now in talks with Shakhtar, very advanced talks, to reach an agreement on the fee of the deal for Mudryk. Chelsea will also try and focus on the player side.” 🗣️| @FabrizioRomano: “We know that Arsenal are more than advanced talks, because in the last few days Arsenal made a third bid. Shakhtar and Arsenal were also speaking today (Saturday) about this bid. But then Chelsea arrived in Poland to negotiate with Shakhtar.”

🗣️| Ben Jacobs on Danilo: “The other name that people are talking about from Arsenal’s perspective is Danilo as well. And a bit like I suppose Tielemans and Leicester over the summer, it’s a case of trying to get a fee that Arsenal feel is of value,” [@GiveMeSport, @JacobsBen] 🗣️| Ben Jacobs: “and not make that mistake of paying more than they have to. I think that Danilo is going to be a bit more of a kind of bargain fee from Arsenal’s perspective. If they do proceed, Palmeiras are probably looking for around £20m, maybe even a touch less than that.”

🎙️| @charles_watts on Arsenal and Bukayo Saka’s contract:

“Edu’s got a big job on his hands when it comes to sorting out his future. This World Cup is probably going to put even more money on the table, in terms of what Arsenal are going to have to pay him.” 🎙️| @charles_watts: “And that’s why any agent in the world would be mad if they’re committed to a new long-term contract before the World Cup. I’m talking about Martinelli, Saliba and Saka here. It just wouldn’t have made sense.”

🗣️| Bukayo Saka: “I remember my uncle came to my house around the age of six and he said ‘oh, you're playing football a lot. You should try and go to a local team’. So we researched our local team, which was Greenford Celtic, and we went there.” [@England] 🗣️| Bukayo Saka: “I was there for around six months to a year when I started to get a lot of scouts contacting my parents and I started going to trials at different clubs. There were quite a few. Arsenal, Chelsea, Watford, Tottenham and there were more.”

🗣️| Emmanuel Petit on Arsenal: “They need at least 3 or 4 players if they really want to compete for the title. I think they need more wingers & another option as a striker. I like Jesus, Saka, Martinelli, Ødegaard, but they won’t be able to play every single game.” [CompareBet] 🗣️| Emmanuel Petit: “Especially after the World Cup so they’ll definitely need one striker, one winger, they need more competition for Saka and Martinelli. And of course, if they can add one more midfield player, and one more central defender.” #afc

🎙️| Simon Jordan: “Saka is one of those players that’s on the cusp of launching what will be potentially a stellar career. We move into the territory for the purpose of what you value players at, how good players are often determined by their price tags.” [@talkSPORT] #afc 🎙️| Simon Jordan: “What [Saka] is, is a player that has unique ability, he’s on a journey where he can probably write his own ticket. When we talk about ‘what is a £100million footballer?’ You look at Jack Grealish because he is the incarnation of it.” #afc

🎙️| @charles_watts on Nicolas Pepe: “Arsenal just need to find a way of selling him at the end this season, need to cut the losses. Look, they’re not going to get much money for Pepe, it’s clear. At the end of this year, he’s only going to have a year left on his deal.” [YouTube] 🎙️| @charles_watts: “They’ve got the wages that they need to try and sort out, so any club who are going to be coming in for him are going to have the issue of trying to take on the wages that he wants.”

🗣️| 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

🗣️| 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”

Cancelo red card. Man City down to 10 men. Fulham tied the match 1-1 from a penalty. 👀 Would like Fulham to do us well here, but it's City at the Etihad. Won't be easy.

🗣️| 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

🗣️| 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

🎙️| @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.”

🗣️| William Gallas on Gabriel Martinelli: “I think Arsenal have to get that deal with Martinelli signed as quickly as possible. I’m sure he’s hearing so many things about him, like Real Madrid being interested. Sometimes the player can be confused.” [@GentingCasinoUK] #afc 🗣️| William Gallas: “At the moment I think he’s [Martinelli] playing well and Arsenal have to close that deal as soon as possible so he feels better in his mind.” #afc

🗣️| Rio Ferdinand on Gabriel Magalhaes: “As centre backs, you don’t really want to be talked about a lot during a game. If you can just ghost through most games and put an eight out of 10 performance in you’re flying. [@FIVEUK] #afc 🗣️| Rio Ferdinand: “But every week he’s in the headlines or he’s in underneath with a little bullet point next to his name and a bad incident. I don’t know if you replace him. Sometimes someone with that energy, as much as you maybe call it a liability, he’s performing.” #afc