Nuno Tavares’ loan spell at Olympique Marseille is quickly turning into a bad one for the Portugal U21 international.
The defender was loaned to the French club in the summer as Arsenal looked to help him earn more experience.
He was in superb form in the first half of the season and earned praise almost every week.
However, his form in 2023 has simply been terrible as he struggles to replicate his early-season shape and has now been accused of not listening to instructions.
The defender is set to return to Arsenal when the term ends, but he would want his final weeks in France to end well.
However, he is running out of time to leave the Ligue 1 side with a good name. A recent report on Sport Witness reveals he is now annoying staff at the Ligue 1 side mainly because he ignores instructions.
This makes him struggle in games for the side and he is hardly helpful nowadays.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Tavares had a very good start to the season which gave us hope he would return to do well for us next term.
However, his form in 2023 means he is still not ready and we must find a new home for him to move to in the summer again.
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He doesn’t listen to instructions yet you keep playing him. What really is going on? I have weird feeling he will come back and be another defender/midfielder as Arteta prefers. That’s probably why he held on to Nyles. We missed Nyles in the Liverpool game.
Every single news about Tavares now is negative. Knowing how this site always enjoys saying negative things about our loanees and look for every opportunity to praise our manager for sending them away, I will take whatever pops up on this blog with a large pinch of salt, even though thay always claim to reference other blogs. If Marseille doesn’t want the player, they should stop playing him and send him back. The negativity is becoming childish
It’s not the site it’s AdMartin that as a problem with Tavares,I very rarely slag off writers but Martin as a personal problem with Tavares for some reason ,rather than watching him himself he’s taking quotes from some gutter press .
Maybe start interacting with the fans again Martin like you used to when you first came on JA .
I used to enjoy those days .
Funny how if he’s so bad he still plays. Hopefully though, he comes back and AMN doesn’t .
If Tavarez can master the inverted leftback role currently played by Zinchenko then he would definitely improve the squad next season. He is an absolute beast of an athlete. I rate him very highly.
I don’t see a future with Tavares. I don’t rate him highly I think he lacks natural instincts to become a defender. He’s a flat track athletic player but lacks simple things like passing and positioning also timing tackles and whatnot. I don’t want to see him at Arsenal we already gave him an opportunity which he failed and his opportunity in France looks to be a failure too
Tavares is having a brilliant season. He’s cscoring, he’s providing assists, he’s playing almost 90 minutes every game. Maybe the negative comments are to keep his price down, a-la Guendouzi, who is the rock in Marseille’s midfield for 8 million.
With Tierney likely to leave, stuck as he is behind Arteta favorite Zinchenko, Tavares has a route back into the team as Zinchenko’s back up.
paul 35mm, you are way out of date. Tavares is stinking the place out over there and their fans are fed up with him.
You are several months behind in thinking as you do and you have failed to keep up with events, plainly.