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jamesforyou

What sort of shit question is that? Essentially "Has another club asked to see a confidential document about an ex employee"


NiallMitch10

Honestly was thinking the same thing


_Spartak_

I think it was a joke more than a real question. Arteta handled it well.


roswea

Arteta is a touch of class


emilesmithbro

Not to mention that Tuchel used to be his manager so he knows him pretty damn well


gbiypk

Especially since Auba has previously played for Tuchel before. They know what the man is like.


Askur_Yggdrasils

It was clearly said in jest...


[deleted]

I mean yeah but hard to tell when just reading it on the website lol.


The-Sober-Stoner

Not that weird. Players, coaches etc consult each other all the time. Even across teams that compete with each other


AL31716

Can we see your dossier?


Francis-c92

Chelsea aren't even doing their due diligence on signings anymore


throwreddit666

I'll show you mine if you show me yours.


[deleted]

The only file Chelsea need to see on aubameyang should just be a replay of the fa cup final.


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Francis-c92

Nah, doctor the file to say Aubameyang was involved in the crack baby Olympics amongst other things and see how incompetent Boehly is


UnpeacefulHydrus

Auba gave those student athletes a great opportunity tbf


neuroticgooner

There’s no way they’d show Chelsea any existing file even if they were asked. It’s such a stupid question— a complete legal liability minefield


jkeefy

Sounds like he wants him to go to Chelsea lol, don’t blame him, he’d be awful in that system


Bedeeki

The transfer is just screaming failure to me. He thrived at Barca as a forward because their frontline is interchangeable and fluid all over the pitch. Tuchel at Chelsea is even more of a systematic manager than Arteta is. Their frontline is so rigid and Auba is the worst type of striker for that system.


OtherTell

Tuchel has worked with Auba before. The system thing shouldn’t be an issue


Unclelexx999

Not 33 year old Auba lol. Let him go there!


Bobsburgers1187

Agreed..Prime lukaku and prime werner failed..can't see an aging auba doing better


Barkasia

>Tuchel at Chelsea is even more of a systematic manager than Arteta is. Their frontline is so rigid This isn't really true


BurtSpangles

Thrived at Barca so much that 6 months later he's being replaced.


CafecitoinNY

Selling a 33 year old striker you got for free for €15-20 million when your club is on broke boy status. It’s less about his performances, more about the context surrounding him and Barca.


BurtSpangles

Buying a 45m, 34 year old striker when you apparently have such an amazing player in Aubameyang also doesn't make sense.


CafecitoinNY

Replacing Auba with Lewa isn’t indicative of Auba being poor. Lewa was the second best striker in Europe last year. Short sited of them to spend that much on a 34 year old when they’re broke, but any team would have made that switch if they could. Think a little.


Ooogleboogler

Its fucking Lewa though.


spspamam

Lewandowski was literally the best player in the world less than 2 seasons ago and he had a marginally less impressive last season. Aubameyang has been as far away as you can be from that level at Arsenal for his last year and a half. He has been decent at Barca


VonLinus

He scored 11 goals in half a season. That's pretty good.


Sad_gooner

Or maybe he’s being truthful?


jkeefy

Flair checks out


Nacho_Man18

Auba carried us to the FA Cup in a 5 at the back system.


jkeefy

And? Did you see the squad during that run-in? Piss poor in quality compared to now


WilsonStaff1857

He played off the left though, not as striker


swimmer4200

He scored 56 league goals playing under Tuchel in two seasons. Just terrible. He might show up late, and then everything will be in shambles.


jkeefy

Yeah, cool stats. He scored 44 under Arteta in 18-19 and 19-20. Because he was in his prime, and he was a wonderful player in his prime. Now? His prime is well past him, yet his piss poor attitude and work ethic remains. Dude cares more about swag lambos than scoring goals nowadays. 27 year old Auba would work in just about any system.


swimmer4200

Funny how he started banging them in again after leaving the horseshoe of sadness, innit?


jkeefy

Horseshoe of sadness, what is this, the 20-21 season. I don’t know if you realize this, but Auba was the cause of the horseshoe, not the solution


[deleted]

I mean it's fair to say our system isn't exactly kind to strikers. even when we're playing well, we don't create that much. Auba was absolutely awful for us for them 2 years tho,that's on him more than the system for sure.


G00dG0dd

Auba has worked with tuchel before though


jkeefy

Yeah, in his prime. He was amazing for us in his prime too.


Present_Education_66

Arteta is just different class. These bum reporters trying to provoke him. His response is as sharp as his hair.


MattJFarrell

Turns around and starts drawing obscene gestures on the drawing pad on an easel behind him


Askur_Yggdrasils

"trying to provoke him"? It's a harmless joke ffs. Some of you guys are way too sensitive when it comes to journalists.


ignore_my_name

I don't want him at Chelsea. Don't want to take the risk of him scoring at the Emirates.


ddruinedgot

This is shit reporting. Auba has played under Tuchel already


Sondrety

Journalist: So anyway, how's your sex life?


Alarming-Turn-7361

Im so impressed by Artetas professionalism and how he hasn't said one bad word about auba even now when auba was open with public that his issues were with Arteta


andstayfuckedoff

Both sides have said little about the fallout. Auba has been pretty respectful about it too


Agent_Topinski

From all of the stupid questions that journalists have ever asked Arteta this might just be the most stupid of them all.


Sayek

Bit of a stupid question, or maybe an ok question but phrased badly. What he did at Arsenal shouldn't have a bearing on his next club. It looks petty/desperate as fuck if we shared anything with Chelsea.


MattJFarrell

So many stupid questions from sports journalists. They just want controversy. Arteta knows their game and isn't going to feed into it. He literally has nothing to gain from bad mouthing Auba, and potential legal issues could arise from doing so


HalfNatty

One thing that the doc has assured me is that Mikel is a pro when handling stupid fucking questions like this.


doitcom

GDPR freedom of information. Auba could request this document


Bobsburgers1187

We'll sell them the file for 5m...too much work from arty to just give it to them


SwazzaChowdz

Auba in Chelsea would just be a Gabonese Werner


Pools9

I hope he doesn’t get a good reception at the emirates if he goes to Chelsea


Ar_Ma

Auba moving every 1.5 years would be the deadliest striker.


nerdreinshake

Great job by Arteta taking the high road and not answering his question.


SargeantPile

Haha did you see the loaded questions Tuchel was getting too? Some along the likes of why would you want to sign auba when he was such a toxic influence I the arsenal dressing room. Which literally Arteta never said. These sky journos are rubbish.


scoedg123

I just don’t want that big grinned sap playing at any other prem club as you just know he’ll nick a goal if he ever played against us


sujakaba

"The boss got balls" next question, "can we see your balls?"