Edu Gasper’s shock announcement on Monday morning has left many Gooners confused and many more very angry. Edu was seen as a huge part of the ‘Project’, he was Arteta’s ally and a driving force behind the the attempt to overturn City’s dominance of the Premier League. No-one saw this coming, not a hint of what was to come over what was already a very bad weekend.
Fans woke up early on Monday morning to numerous online rumours which at first seemed barely credible, but slowly as the rumours became spread wider and wider across the web and fill the Social pages of channels such as now.afc, AFC Newsroom, AFTV and Arsenal News Channel it started to dawn on everyone that this was not just virtual tittle-tattle; it could actually be true. Then by mid-afternoon, the crushing truth emerged, it was a fact, the man responsible for the recruitment of most of the first choice players, including the captain Martin Odegaard, was indeed leaving.
The initial reaction from fans was that this couldn’t have come at a worse time with the team starting its usual October/November wobble and the squad suffering from the worst injury crisis in years. But as the news sunk, some of the more measured fans questioned whether the news was a bad as people were making out. The overriding sentiment from these fans was that although the club was in a much better place than just three short years ago, it still came up short twice and if anything the supposed final push to win the title in 2025 was withering on the vine. the team looks at least three players short of crossing the finish line ahead of City or even Liverpool. It’s clearly too soon for Mikel to go, but maybe something had to be done and maybe Edu saw this and jumped before he was pushed. Sure he’s ambitious and the rumoured tripling of his wages would have been hard to resist, but not many people believe that he would have taken a sidewards step to join the Group that owns among others Nottingham Forest and Olympiakos unless there was some issue at The Emirates.
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