I don’t know why I keep having this fear of tomorrow when it comes to matters concerning Arsenal. Whenever Arsenal is about to start a game, I start getting worried; worried that we will lose the game… I can’t just help it but I am a human being, after all!
Another thing that gives me so much fear is the belief that almost all our stars will dump us next summer if we don’t start showing genuine title winning ambitions! Let us reason together, if you were a Lacazette or a Bellerin, would you still want to stick with a club that is not adding to your trophy cabinet? Won’t you rather jump at any offer from Barcelona, come next summer?
In all honesty, I wish this will be the case but with Emery still in charge of Arsenal’s team selections then we may just resign ourselves to fate to see us through. Has anybody noticed that our star players don’t feel motivated to play for the club again? Is this a sign that they have lost the interest in playing for Arsenal?
Over the years, Arsenal has been known as a feeder team to the bigger clubs; we develop star players, make them marketable, but won’t show the ambition to win a trophy, and then we sell them to a bigger club and make meagre money out of them. Does anybody relate with my school of thoughts? Are we about to continue that pattern this season? I am afraid to say it, but yes!
Unless Arsenal becomes ruthless this season, Emery will remain in charge, and we will keep declining, especially in away games, and we will miss champions league qualification by the whiskers. God forbid, I am tempted to say, but then, can I help it? I pray we don’t get to the point where our players begin to question our ambition and dump us for another club. What are your fears?
Sylvester Kwentua