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FA Investigating Over Suspicious Betting Pattern during an Arsenal match

El Duderino

That's, like, your opinion, man.
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All jokes aside.

If this is true, the club should definitely discipline Xhaka for this...getting needless yellows like that can affect team selections.

Havent made it to the other 10 pages, but laughed at the thought of the manager disciplening a teachers pet player like him...
 

Slug457

Active Member
The funny part of this so called report is that everyone "In the know" knows Arsenal are the cleanest club in the PL, particularly so under Wenger. No dodgy deals with corrupted agents, no match fixing/manipulation of any type. Meanwhile in the PL you have rogue referees/VAR deciding the results of games, a professional gambler and journalist murderers owning teams and the media/FA don't care.

This report is selective outrage at best and a load of tripe at worst. A couple of grand bet on a player in the public market (so everyone can see it) whom is routinely carded (if it is Xhaka) to be carded isn't unreasonable and is a pebble in the ocean compared to the 100s of millions, sometimes billions bet on PL games in the underground gambling markets of SE Asia (were actual corruption occurs).

If the FA actually cared about corruption they'd open a investigation into the use of VAR/referring in the Arsenal V City game, instead they charged Arsenal with protesting it. Now they claim an Arsenal player is corrupt. Innocent until proven guilty.
 

bergholt

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Country: Australia
If it is true, Xhaka leaving would be nice and it will force us to buy a good midfielder. On the other hand, this may cause serious dressing room problems. He has been considered the leader of the dressing room. Arteta would have given him the armband if not for the fans. After all this, if the leader is caught in such allegations, it would demoralise the squad, especially the youngsters.
Again, if all the allegations are true...

Instead we gave the armband to Auba who then turned **** and started whinging and is now going out on loan to Saudi Arabia - amazing how few leaders we had
 

Blankety Blank

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If it is proven & turns out to be Xhaka or an experienced player unless there are extenuating circumstances i think they need to go.

If its a young lad you may give them benefit of the doubt?
 

Paperino

It’s Timo Time

Country: Sweden
If it is proven & turns out to be Xhaka or an experienced player unless there are extenuating circumstances i think they need to go.

If its a young lad you may give them benefit of the doubt?

No. I dont care who it is. Get the cvnt out of my club.
 

LittleMo

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If it is proven & turns out to be Xhaka or an experienced player unless there are extenuating circumstances i think they need to go.

If its a young lad you may give them benefit of the doubt?
All of the young players that start are old enough to know that fixing a spot bet is wrong.
 

14Henry

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If it is proven & turns out to be Xhaka or an experienced player unless there are extenuating circumstances i think they need to go.

If its a young lad you may give them benefit of the doubt?
If the bet was placed on Xhaka it would probably have to be him that was in the know.
 

BIoodBrother

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So how will this likely evolve?
They probably know that it was Xhakas friend that made the bet, otherwise no Investigation.
He will say that he knows the guy but that he had no involvement in the bet, explaining that he makes 100k a week, and wouldnt risk his career like that, especcially with smth so obvious as time wasting.
Arsenal will have to stand by the player unless smths evolves, which it only will if they find preoccurences in the past or if the police steps in and puts sm serious interrogation pressure on the xhaka crew.

If they find out hes guilty/punish him he will probably be suspended for a long time, Arsenal will rip up his contract and his career will be over, which means no transfer fee next season.
Loss of 20million for the club.
Financially quite a tragedy. On other levels as mentioned before, for the young players, his mates at the club as well.

Also as a proactive club we will also need to push forward in our ambition to buy a starter CM this window, cause the whole thing could blow up at any time and as a club you gotta prepare for that, no matter if you believe in his innocence and will stand by him for now.
 
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BIoodBrother

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Whats really strange is that the odds were so low.
Why arey the going down when the game is basically won and its only 10mins left. I'd want much higher odds than 2,56 at that stage. If he bets that at the start of the game, ok but betting it immediately before the yellow, it should give you much higher odds, no? Smwhere it said the odds usually are even higher at beginning of the game.
Smth amazongly weird with that.
 

gunner4lyfe

Established Member
All these years he's been holding us back then this comes out...

paranoid meet the robinsons GIF
 

Slug457

Active Member
Whats really strange is that the odds were so low.
Why arey the going down when the game is basically won and its only 10mins left. I'd want much higher odds than 2,56 at that stage. If he bets that at the start of the game, ok but betting it immediately before the yellow, it should give you much higher odds, no? Smwhere it said the odds usually are even higher at beginning of the game.
Smth amazongly weird with that.
Not really, they were very marginally higher at the beginning of the game, Xhaka is a player regularly carded, he had dived into a few wild challenges prior to that and the team was time wasting, you are more likely to get a yellow the longer a game goes on as refs generally let you get away with the first few tackles.

This "investigation" will go nowhere, Xhaka is either a complete idiot who encourages his friends to bet on him on public getting markets that are tracked (actual corruption doesn't work this way) or its just the FA with an axe to grind, trying to portray Arsenal as a corrupt club after just being robbed via actual corruption in the City game.
 

SK___

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one day, he’s gonna get his head kicked in so fast… this would be a frequency in his life if it wasn’t for his job
 

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