I'm not a fan of his, I honestly wouldn't be fussed if we eventually lost him for cheap. He's an annoying child with no humility. I don’t blame Arteta for having lost patience with him given some of what we've seen and heard.
What have we actually seen and heard, confirmed?I'm not a fan of his, I honestly wouldn't be fussed if we eventually lost him for cheap. He's an annoying child with no humility. I don’t blame Arteta for having lost patience with him given some of what we've seen and heard.
He was pulling faces behind Atretas back in training or something I seem to remember?What have we actually seen and heard, confirmed?
Just the Brighton incident?
What have we actually seen and heard, confirmed?
Just the Brighton incident? I’m still not sure why Arteta wanted him to apologise to the opposition. He didn’t break his leg or anything.
-Acting like a **** vs BrightonWhat have we actually seen and heard, confirmed?
Just the Brighton incident? I’m still not sure why Arteta wanted him to apologise to the opposition. He didn’t break his leg or anything.
Have no issue with getting wound up in competition.-Acting like a **** vs Brighton
-Messing around in video analysis sessions
-The row with Sokratis in Dubai and his unprofessional conduct off the pitch during the trip
I haven’t heard anything about Dubai, what happened there?
France Football have provided more details on why 21-year-old Arsenal midfielder Mattéo Guendouzi has not been training with the Arsenal 1st team since 20th June, after his scuffles with Neal Maupay and others during the club’s 2-1 loss to Brighton.
Guendouzi then had a major meeting with Arsenal bosses just a few days later, who were notably furious with the Frenchman’s supposed taunting of opponents by indicating that he earned more than them.
This meeting was more of a summons for the Frenchman, who sat down with the full compliment of big brass: Mikel Arteta, Raul Sanllehi, Edu and Huss Fahmy. The contents of this meeting included the Brighton episode, but much more: turning up late at training, the episode in Dubai, which is where Guendouzi’s troubles with Arteta originated. In the Middle East, Guendouzi had a major bust-up with Sokratis in a training session. This tension continued into the team hotel, where Arteta and Guendouzi’s voices were massively raised, with the Frenchman incensed that the Spaniard had taken Sokratis’ side.
After Guendouzi’s spot of bother over the last couple of weeks, somebody has also informed The Athletic that this “is not the only time Guendouzi has been reprimanded for his behaviour.
“The training incident,” Ornstein reveals, “was a mid-session altercation with one of his team-mates, which led to both men being pulled up by Arteta, although the 20-year-old was deemed the guiltier party and given a more stern dressing-down.
“But also during the five-day camp, Arsenal’s technical director Edu had to tell off the Frenchman for his behaviour at an external event,” Ornstein adds. “The group were enjoying some local music when Guendouzi briefly removed his shirt and waived it around in support of the act.”
None of it is really the end of the world. We shouldn’t have publicised any of this until it was sorted.
Still don’t see why they’re trying to get onto him for trashtalk. Feel we were trying to be a bit high and mighty, salary trashtalk happens. He wouldn’t be the first.
Need to play him and put him in the shop window. We’ve killed his value this summer.
Yeah I know it’s not just that. But I don’t think that should even be an issue. Trashtalk is part of sport.No way it's just about salary trashtalk. Arteta isn't that stupid.
Guendouzi clearly has those "qualities" and stubborness to ruin it this way.
I'm backing Arteta on this.
None of it is really the end of the world. We shouldn’t have publicised any of this until it was sorted.
Is he really their captain?I am totally onboard with that. I have a soft spot for the lad. He shows more balls and attitude than most players nowadays. He just needs to channel that energy the right way.
Instead of making silly jokes or talking **** he should lead by example on the pitch. Work hard and fight to help his team win.
The fact that he was captain for the French U-21 is a good sign. Might help him feel he needs to be more mature.
Some guys just need more time to mature and he is still young so I have hope. But he needs to turn it around. Arteta and the club can only do so much. In the end it is on the player.
I would like to see us give it 1-2 more years and if he hasn’t straightened out by then or improved enough ship him out.
“But also during the five-day camp, Arsenal’s technical director Edu had to tell off the Frenchman for his behaviour at an external event,” Ornstein adds. “The group were enjoying some local music when Guendouzi briefly removed his shirt and waived it around in support of the act.”
Guendouzi is a nutter.
I’m not a big fan of his attitude or of him as a player but that’s nothing tbh, I think they’re overreacting.
The club ******* up on this one and ruined any potential transfer by leaking this all to the media. Arsène Wenger would never do that.
Literally this.None of it is really the end of the world. We shouldn’t have publicised any of this until it was sorted.
Still don’t see why they’re trying to get onto him for trashtalk. Feel we were trying to be a bit high and mighty, salary trashtalk happens. He wouldn’t be the first.
Need to play him and put him in the shop window. We’ve killed his value this summer.
Don’t understand the club either. This is stuff you should be able to handle. It’s a telling sign of a lack of leadership in the group, players should be able to resolve it with each other. And I don’t blame him for anything he did around the Brighton game. All day I was furious, we were kicked around like it was nothing. Nobody stood up and said or did anything. Leno was injured by Maupay without retribution, instead of getting taken out he got rewarded with the late winner. **** needs to stop, Guendouzi was the only one incensed that day. We took it like a couple of *****ez. Kid has heart and needs to grow up, club and players should help him, I think he can be an asset.None of it is really the end of the world. We shouldn’t have publicised any of this until it was sorted.
Still don’t see why they’re trying to get onto him for trashtalk. Feel we were trying to be a bit high and mighty, salary trashtalk happens. He wouldn’t be the first.
Need to play him and put him in the shop window. We’ve killed his value this summer.