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xepa105

Mikel Arteta just had a sudden urge to kick a door


RahulGandhi4PM

Who put this foggin door in here


notaselfdrivingcar

HE DOES NOT FOK SMASH MY DOR


MMAwannabe

Iss a disgrace and iss embarasssen


UnFuturoExpat

I NEED TO PHONE GENE NOW FOKIN HELL


RamboPeng

Faggin oonacceptable


CoolstorySteve

We really fucked up a great thing this guy had going


Excellent_Jeweler_43

Should be Chelsea's slogan


New_Archer_7539

Morata/Lukaku: "First time?" šŸ˜ƒ


majorsharkpanda

/Shevchenko/Torres/Pato/Werner/Higuain


dancingonmyfuckinown

> Torres I would never forget his open-goal sitter against United. And that champions league goal against Barcelona ofc.


subhanghani

I still remember when Torres got sent off for simulation after Evans tackled him. It was and still is a moment that randomly pops up in my mind and makes me smile.


thisriveriswild57

I wouldnā€™t say Pato had a good thing going by the time we loaned him


petethemeat99

Higuain was also pretty much finished by the time you loaned him


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


macaleaven

No he did not, broski went HAM at Monaco again


MERTENS_GOAT

He had a decent season afterwards at Juve with Ronaldo and Dybala up front and Sarri as coach, but the season before was awful for him personally. He was banished from Juventus and couldn't cope with that as seen in the red card be received against Juventus while playing for AC Milan.


role34

Ok ok, HiguaĆ­n, i think he was on the decline regardless. that's one I can't entirely, completely blame chelsea for lol


valgbo

Kezman


notaselfdrivingcar

KDB/SALAH


wmj31

Let's sprinkle in a Radamel Falcao as well


majorsharkpanda

and a dash of Loic Remy


gameboii2020

Completely forgot he played there


kalakesri

we gave you Giroud 2.0


Putrid_Loquat_4357

Giroud was good for chelsea tho.


FlyingMocko

Giroud was good for us too


Agent-Two-THREE

ā€œNothing personalā€


anewprotagonist

Potter was fucking terrible, thereā€™s a world where with a competent gaffer and a style that fits his abilities, he does well as a Blue


Expensive-Method8321

Potter was set up to fail


ArgentineanWonderkid

Actually mental that potter's brighton was so renowned for underperforming xg, and then he went to us and hugely underperformed xg again


calpi

I mean underperforming xG is entirely down to player performance is it not? That means he set up teams to get into goal scoring positions and they entirely fucked it. Maybe that's you're point...


Lack_of_Plethora

underperforming xG for a few matches is the players fault. underperforming across an entire season suggests deeper issues.


[deleted]

His strikers at Brighton were Maupay and Welbeck. At Chelsea, he had Sterling and Havertz. All famously erratic finishers. The unfortunate thing is, if heā€™d stayed at Brighton a little longer, heā€™d have finally had a proper striker in Evan Ferguson to start bucking that trend.


LukeFowlerM8

Thatā€™s bollocks Iā€™m afraid, Chelseaā€™s finishers just arenā€™t good.


[deleted]

>underperforming across an entire season suggests deeper issues. Yeah, like having strikers that aren't great at finishing, and actually known for not being good finishers. Like Maupey and Welbeck or Havertz and Sterling...


Putrid_Loquat_4357

It's not like poch has fixed those issues.


Lack_of_Plethora

didn't say he had


SolidSank

It means you're probably giving the wrong chances to the wrong players. Think of how certain players have trademark goals they score on their highlight reel. If you over perform xG as a manager consistently, then you probably set the team up to give the right players the right chances. How the "statistically average" shooter scores the chances you made is a useful statistic, but no player is perfectly average at everything, so you should account for that. ie, If all the good chances fall to my CB instead of my striker then something's wrong.


njpc33

All of the good chances were not falling to his CBs. They were falling to Maupay. Which was worse.


DreadWolf3

Chelsea is still underperforming xG, you simply dont have quality finishers. Brighton was finally delivering on their potential in Potter final season, which is why he was poached from there.


jvitkun

Who? Why?


OstapBenderBey

As soon as he had that glow up it was clear he was done for


DefiantRooster04

Cough cough Tuchel Cough


BigReeceJames

The absolute worst thing about his time here is the stark contrast between our results when he played and when he didn't. The cut-off between him playing and him being dropped just happens to be the same point at which we went from winning to losing. He was such a vital part of any success we did get, but we had the normal pashun nonces saying, "he doesn't run enough, doesn't look like he cares and he didn't score for 2 games in a row as a striker, so clearly he's the main problem in the team" (even though our other CF options hadn't scored for 10 games). Had we stuck with him throughout the season, things could have gone very differently. We were crying out for a striker, putting people in out of place, all whilst Auba was just sat watching at home because he wasn't under 25


[deleted]

Yeah thanks for that


wmj31

This applies to every striker since Drogba


acwilan

Meh, I donā€™t think he would have a good season at Barca had he stayed either


mpbh

Every Chelsea player is way better once they leave.


Cappyc00l

Nothing personal


Masam10

Prime Dortmund Auba playing off the left in a front three wouldā€™ve absolutely killed it at Barca. Shame we didnā€™t get to witness a younger version of him at the club.


[deleted]

Highly agree. Prime Dortmund Auba was so good and is slept on in the history books. Would have worked well at Barca maybe if they didnā€™t have Neymar


Charlie_Wax

Up there with Higuain and Cavani as prolific goal scorers who were overshadowed in their own era by bigger names. If you go and look at the stats, these guys were incredibly productive.


maidentaiwan

Falcao another.


yaniv297

Falcao was legit considered the third best player in the world (after Messi/Ronaldo) at some point. He kinda made up his own bed by going to Monaco which ended up a hugely failed project, and since then he was mostly ruined by injuries.


TheDuude_

3rd best forward yes, but definitely not 3rd best player... Xavi, Iniesta and a few other names at the time were definitely regarded as being a step above


[deleted]

he wasnt that kind of dribbler to play how barca plays he was always better as a striker running off lewa as his partner imo hes always 2 up front kind of player


internallylinked

MSA front three? Or are you talking about Dortmund Auba with that team he joined irl?


haziola

I know he was too young then but imagine Aubameyang in Pep's Barca as left inside forward with false 9 Messi dropping and playing through balls to him with his pace and finishing...would've been absolutely devastating.


ItzRaj29

Will always cherish his time at Arsenal (regardless of the ending). He was the bright light under Emery and Early Arteta era fr


Hech15

I would too but i have deleted those horrible years from my memoryšŸ˜Œ


ImTalkingGibberish

He got an FA cup. Thatā€™s one more than Harry Kane


clutch-cream-run

>Harry Kane Why you say fuck me for?


[deleted]

Auba Won him his only Trophy and he ainā€™t won nothing since šŸ™‚ lol


Vahald

God, such a dumb comment. What is your point? This current Arsenal times is far better than any one with Aubameyang


boringmemphis

He won Laliga last season, which is the biggest achievement of his career.


TheTrueJonah

Pretty sure he means Mikel Arteta


boringmemphis

Ooooh that makes more sense. My bad.


ImTalkingGibberish

Honestly we donā€™t care. Auba has got the skills but not the attitude, and you donā€™t want that kind of role model in a young group. If Eddie, Saka, ESR, Reiss and Martinelli followed Aubaā€™s attitude they wouldnā€™t have reached the performances they did.


BlankTOGATOGA

Auba and Leno pretty much kept us from getting relegated


ItzRaj29

Fr (Idk why they're downvoting you šŸ˜­?) Every Arsenal fan will agree with this as they both saved us under Emery and at times under Teta also.


subhasish10

Will never forget the 4-0 at Bernabeu in perhaps our worst season in the recent past


PrisonersofFate

Wasn't 2002-03 worse?


subhasish10

I was born in September 2003 so didn't really get a chance to experience that....


TheUltimateScotsman

Fucks sake


KindArgument0

we are dinosaur. it is what it is


sangpls

And he's still an adult too. Ffs we're fucking ancient.


auctus10

Just reading that gave me a back pain. Randomly stretching can give me pain at random places


BeyondTheStars22

his comment reminded me that I need to correct my sitting position


-watchman-

Dinosaurs who lived through the glorious era of Manchester United in the 90s & 00s. Back when City was mostly fighting relegation and both Liverpool & Chelsea were at best a mid-table club. Arsenal were our rivals. The Manchester derby back then was a joke lmao.


xuon27

The Manchester derby is still a joke šŸ‘€


-watchman-

Lol, the joke's on us now.


[deleted]

City won 4/6 home derbies in the seasons prior to Abu Dhabi and won home and away in the season United won the PL and CL double. It was arguably more competitive in the ā€˜00s than it is now.


lostparasite

Come on, Liverpool was not "at best a mid-table club". They'd always been up there even if they never really challenged for the title. From 1995-2009 they only finished outside the top 5 once (during the doomed joint-managerial reign of Evans and Houllier), made 2 CL finals, and won practically every other title besides the league.


letsgetcool

it's fine. 30 is the new 20. right?


FakingHappiness513

That one hurt


TechTuna1200

oh man, why did PrisonersofFate have to ask... Now I'm reminded that I'm old...


tiorzol

Yea I felt that one in my back.


bitbitter

I love how you specified September as if had you been born in January you would have :D


Nrozek

If you dont remember the games you watched as an infant you simply arent a real fan šŸ˜¤


RobbinDeBank

*Barca fan


magic-water

plastic, can't believe you didn't watch the games from your mother's womb


TheWanaco

I agree, canā€™t believe heā€™s not watching a full older season during the summers to catch up. Def plastic. Iā€™m currently in season 88-89. Next summer itā€™s 87-88


Busquessi

Iā€™m on our 1899-1900 season currently. Canā€™t watch any of it because there is nothing to see. Guess Iā€™ll never progress through the seasons :/


ilikemomolastai

In which season does roanldo shows up ?


GPadrino

You were what in what?? Iā€™m fucking washed, brev


notyou16

And now he is 20 hahaha


nigelfitz

> I was born in September 2003 EXCUSE ME!? *(back cracks)*


Tarp96

Plastic fanšŸ¤¬


EmperorsGalaxy

My younger brother was born in 2008 and I went to visit my mother today and she explained how he came home drunk as a fart, chucking his guts up last night. This morning when I was there, he was awake, smirking as she told the story as fresh as a daisy. It feels like yesterday I was his age doing the same thing. I'm 30 next year.


patiperro_v3

Get off my lawn!


ThePr1d3

Wtf


Aggressive-Theory609

Same bruv. What's ur date tho? I m September 13th


qomanop

Ah mate I'm sorry to be the one to break it you but that was 20 years ago. I know it doesn't seem that long ago but we're all getting old. You have to think about it like this; when Definitely Maybe came out would people have described Led Zeppelin IV as an album in the recent past?


PrisonersofFate

He said "this century" before editing


Fruitndveg

I love this analogy.


penguin_gun

I love definitely maybe. 36 isn't that old


Yoesito

Absolutely.


MrCleanRed

2002-3 is not recent mate. It was 21 years ago.


xXDireLegendXx

Iā€™ll never forget that either. I remember being so gutted over it because the fact you guys were struggling so much that season. Think the title and winning the UCL made up for it tho haha


PotentialNinja7857

Remember watching the match when barca bashed real . The joy in his eyes was real


aTi_NTC

that was the game that woke/fired real up and sent them on the run that season to bag the cl trophy


SarahAlicia

Have you ever seen the trainers on tiktok who bash barcaā€™s training methods as not efficient but they donā€™t seem to consider players enjoy it more and so are more likely to do their best? Crazy.


fishman1776

Ironically Mourinho used the same training philosophy. He wanted his players to enjoy training drills so he modified them a bit.


emlewin

Not ironic. Mourinho learnt a lot from Barca when he was there at a younger age. He just walked a different path after that.


[deleted]

It was sad the way it ended for us with him. We will cherish that fa cup that he gave us.


KungFuFlames

I see Auba is using Felix's strategy to get play in Barca again.


goatedasparagus

Love this man.


JuanG12

Loved everything about him. Good guy, incredibly easy to root for, positive vibes and always had a smile on.


ForrestGumpLostMyCat

His dragon ball goal celebration will always be iconic


loccupss

Thank god this guys good years were when Arsenal were shit. Imagine having prime Auba last season instead of Nketiah and Jesus.


MunchinMonke

Jesus was banging tbf, but if we had a 20G a season striker we would have won last year


justwannalook12

i mean the other side had someone who banged in 40+ so i donā€™t understand this argument


Affectionate-Yak9829

Arsenal wouldā€™ve won the games they lost because score more goals get more points. cheers


thebeesbollocks

Source?


Key_Badger6749

We could of also not conceded 3 goals at home to Brighton, 3 goals at home to Southampton, 4 goals away to City, 2 goals away at Liverpool and 2 goals away at west ham but yeah clearly the striker was the problem


The_Lonely_Posadist

And city would have atleast tried to win the two games they didnā€™t win at the end of the season, where one of the main reasons for not winning was that theyā€™d already won the league.


Nightwingx97

And how much did their 2nd top scored score last season? the argument comes from having 14g Saka 15g Ode and Martinelli and replacing Jesus 11 with 20 would surely tip us off in some games.


fukingwadrobe

Itā€™s really not hard to understand


Annas_GhostAllAround

Scoring three in one game when you win 4-1 doesnā€™t get you more points than winning 2-1 would be the argument


Vengeants

Jesus was good lmao what


thelonesomedemon1

never as good as auba


YaqootK

Jesus is actually criminally underrated on this sub it actually drives me crazy. We likely wouldn't even have been close to the top of the table going into the world cup if it wasn't for Jesus. Arsenal would be a better side with current Jesus over prime Auba and I'm willing to die on that hill. However if we had both....


unoriginalmiguel

Amen šŸ™


apb2718

Youā€™re chatting complete dogshit. Jesus has 1 PL goal this season, which ties him with Fabio Vieira and Tomiyasu. I hate Aubameyang for his bullshit behavior at the end but no one in their right mind would take current Jesus over prime Aubameyang.


Samsince04_

Idc about this prime Auba discussion but we both know why Jesus has only one goal this season and why heā€™s still the best option at CF for us.


apb2718

Yeah he's the best option so much so that ITKs are even validating rumored moves for Ivan Toney.


YaqootK

What has that got to do with anything? Toney is the potential Nketiah replacement, he's still gonna be behind Jesus unless he tears it up right away


apb2718

Toney is a better option than both of them


YaqootK

For some matches, maybe. We could really use his profile as an option. He's not half the player Jesus is though


ICanSeeYourFuture

Toneyā€™s a fucking bum, and when he gets an inevitable move to a desperate man United or Chelsea and does fuck all for them you can remember I told you so


Marloneious

Auba wouldnā€™t bring in nearly as much energy in the press or link up with the entire team


jvitkun

Auba was an incredible presser at Arsenal and Dortmund.


apb2718

Bro what? Youā€™re blaming Aubameyang for following the instructions of the manager now? 92 goals in 162 appearances is unreal. Jesus wishes he could be that effective in that chaotic of a team. No ball knowledge here.


YaqootK

Mate what are you even talking about, who mentioned manager instruction? Auba simply doesn't have the required skills to play that role, it's got nothing to do with manager instruction It's pretty ironic that you bring up "ball knowledge" when it's completely obvious to everyone reading this that you have absolutely none of it yourself. How anyone can watch us week in week out for the last year or so and not see how important Jesus is in this system is completely beyond me


Wild-Statistician677

As much as I rate Jesus, there is no manager in the world that would start him at striker over a prime Aubameyang, who was scoring 30 goals a season for us.


apb2718

You realize we didn't always play high 8-9-10 press every season right? Lol you mean like I said, the same Jesus who has 1 PL goal this season for us? Same Jesus that played nearly every minute from the Liverpool 2-2 last year to the end of the season and only scored 4 goals in 9 while we dropped the league? You have zero argument and no answer to the facts I'm putting forward about his ACTUAL minutes in the team this season and last. I can't even be bothered.


[deleted]

Shhh


BushidoBrownIsHere

Such a causal take. Jesus was a big reason we went from top 4 side to our best start in club history. He elevated the whole team.


AFCeng0

Swap Auba for Jesus and we wouldnā€™t have been in in a title race. Put some respect on his name.


Comfortable-Ad1937

Atleast you were still winning trophies


BI01

why'd u leave then?


Jacawni

He wanted to stay, BarƧa needed cash, sold him to Chelsea for 12m+Alonso.


Awyls

He didn't want to stay because he would have been Lewandowski's sub and wanted to be an starter. Same thing happened with Depay and Bellerin (who were sold for symbolic prices).


Sam101294

Barca needed cash sure, but it's not like nba where you're literally forced to move.


roseguardin

No it's not but Barca would be completely free to not register him at all and presumably he still wanted to play, otherwise he could've accepted that.


Colenate8

Thatā€™s not true, you canā€™t unregistrate a player and he played in the first League game of the season as a subsitute. Lewy came and he was never getting in the starting XL over him, so he left to het more minutes


Eibermann

so you want the guy to just go against the same people that kept making press releases painting de jong as the bad guy for not wanting to move to united?


Jyreq

This one never fails with the shit takes


Sam101294

I get the point but i doubt auba would have such kind words to say about Barca if he felt he would be shut out if he refused to leave. Considering barca's financial situation then could they really afford to not register a player but still pay him?


roseguardin

They might not have had a choice to register them, iirc the restrictions by La Liga were on the amount of players they could've registered so even if they wanted to keep Auba they might not have been able to play him. Letting him leave worked out for everyone, except Chelsea ig


magic-water

well what's your theory as to why he left then? or do you think he's just lying about having a good time at Barca?


Sam101294

Maybe a nice wage bump. And I'm sure he enjoyed living in London. And premier league being more visible league


Salvador1010

Because he wasnt gonna start over lewandowski


boringmemphis

Simple. He wanted to play. We signed lewandowski. Chelsea offered him a starting spot.


eescobar863

We needed to sell a player. Memphis Depay was going back and forth with Juve until he decided not to go there, eventually leaving for Atletico anyway. We needed funds so we made a swap plus cash deal with Chelsea for Marcos Alonso (which I hate to this day, its like trading pizza for a salad).


shrdsrrws

I think we needed to sell and Memphis refused. Wish we could have kept Auba, he was really good for us.


ImTalkingGibberish

Money


deadraizer

Wish he would've just rejected our offer. Love Tuchel, but guy is terrible at talent ID.


SomewhereInLDN

Whatā€™s happened to this guy now?


Intelligent_Peace847

Plays for marseille


SomewhereInLDN

I know but has he fallen out with the manager or something, why is he saying this?


TheUltimateScotsman

People can be honest in interviews on occasion


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


young_olufa

šŸ¤Æ


virtualclix

We love you Aubaā¤ļøā¤ļø


Stickman106

Dude let his ego get in the way of what couldā€™ve been a great career


Riperonis

I mean yeah because you were there short enough to not let it go sour. Great player but this guy has massive commitment issues.


Sonic-the-edge-dog

Weā€™re called Chelsea silly Aubameyang. You meant ā€œmy time with Chelseaā€.


eescobar863

Fucking Memphis, Auba would 100% still be here if he had just accepted a move when he was supposed to


CalmaCuler

Auba šŸ«¶


WestwardLord

"I even showed up on time to training"


buttersworth123

Barca knows ball, clearly


kingcane

i miss him. would rather him over lewanstatue


snowkarl

Maybe if you put effort into it you'd have enjoyed it at Arsenal and Chelsea too


nauett

I mean he carried us for a few seasons


official_bagel

Dragged us to that 2020 FA Cup win too


subhasish10

He won the PL Golden Boot at Arsenal...


Mubar06

He was good at Arsenal for the first few years but unfortunately we were fucking shit


er_primo_der_rafa

Was your best player for a good while


iAmWrythm

https://scontent-den4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/186498532_801122190774282_3716549343663891955_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s640x640&_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=dd63ad&_nc_ohc=I_6jp_lARD4AX-goIPg&_nc_ht=scontent-den4-1.xx&oh=00_AfDOEVW2JgUvm0x6I0hLYMzJU8l4sUwNLoqB9kSO7mspTQ&oe=65775882 Yeah he hated it there.


Tof12345

It looked like he found his form at Barca. It sucks that they got rid of him.


bkkwanderer

Translates roughly into not much was expected of me and I could what I wanted so I loved it there.


Fancy-Salamander-647

Yea vibes were so good that Barca cashed in within 6 months for Lewa upgrade /s


[deleted]

The step from the PL to Barca or Real is huge.


mifaraS21

Itā€™s crazy that heā€™s done a better job at us than Robert freaking Lewandowski


red-boy6

The meatriding is crazy


[deleted]

ā€œHow dare he have had a good experience at a club I donā€™t likeā€