Atletico boss stresses Arsenal are an “unknown”
At his press-conference which precedes Saturday’s Emirates Cup opener, Athletico Madrid manager Abel Resino made it known that he feels Arsenal is somehow a declining club.
His inference is as that of a typical pundit today – stressing that Wenger’s sale of some of the best players to ever grace north London is gradually degrading a club which was once scooping trophies and reaching new milestones in English football every year.
His views may reflect on the fact that his side – despite a decent team but once far from Arsenal’s class – are now facing the possibility of meeting Wenger’s men in a Champions League qualifier next season.
At least Abel Resino’s also-runners can find themselves in a certain category with Arsenal even though his evaluation of the Gunners may be wrong.
But the Spaniard does acknowledge improvement in Arsenal’s ranks and will not discount them. Certainly not tomorrow.
He said: “Arsenal are a great team, although you have to renew yourself in the world of football. However, they have the same manager. Arsenal is an unknown because they’ve sold important players and have young players. When you do that, you run the risk when competing with the big clubs in English football, although on the other hand these could take an important step forward. For me, they’re a team that is improving and you never know the limit of young players.”
Who the fuck is Rosino
A slam? Sensationalist drivel.
wtf is he talking about..”arsenal is a great team…”2 secs later”..arsenal are unknown”
prepare to get wasted!
“…For me, they’re a team that is improving and you never know the limit of young players.”
How does his quote reflect that he thinks Arsenal are a declining club??
This man has obviously being contradicting himself in his quoted paragraph above. So I suggest you ask him that, not me.
And to add to that, I also emphasized the positives he stated through: “The Spaniard does acknowledge improvement in Arsenal’s ranks and will not discount them.”
So sort yourself out mate.
Just like “Cescfiberglass” said, he praises Arsenal and then talks shit about us being unknown and not the same since selling the Vieiras and Henrys.
Rubbish today Randy.
He clearly means that Arsenal are currently an “unknown” quantity, not an unknown club. I don’t think he’s denigrating the club at all, he is just suggesting that after the sale of some key players, it is difficult to assess the playing standard of the club at present. Something many Gooners would agree with. We are either two signings away from winning meaningful silverware, or in danger of losing our top four status in the Premier League.
fucking british interpretation! someone says unknown because he doesnt know your current team and you think he says you are weak. he never said shit about decline, u did! why dont u apply for a job at the sun or mirror? they love guys like you who know how to make small things about arsenal look bigger than they are, guys who believe every pre season that sp”rs will overtake arsenal before they even overtake everton. british interpretation! rooney dances on carvhalo’s balls and all u make of it is ronaldo winked. next time give us the quotes and dont interprete them because they are already in english
Hey randy does karlos write for red london?
hwy randy lng time no c lol
kant wait 4 kik off
This man is confused and should be treated as such because he cant admit that Arsenal will be threat to his team.
The boss of athletico madrid may be right, but wenger should study his advise because mistakes are to human that is why we are different in thinking
You are mis-representing what he said. He was implying that there have been quite a few changes at the club so he’d need to study them a bit more just in case they met during the qualifiers. He wasn’t implying that we were weak and it’s so shallow of you to try and trigger of such feelings.
I thought it was Atlético madrid . . .not athletico.
You guys are clearly a bunch of retards
When he says arsenal are an unknown
NO NOT ARSENAL ARE UNKNOWN
he means that we are a unknown quantity, nobody quote knows how this season is going to go for us. He never contradicts himself
LOL how did you guys not get that
he’s not even contradicting himself Randy.
we are an unknown, since we sold ade and toure we dont know how we’ll do against top class opposition.
so why dont you stop telling your prospective readers to ‘sort yourself out’, and sort yourself out, mate.
Sometimes people make contradicting statements to hide the real truth. Let’s be honest. There’s some truth in what Abel Resino said during his press conference. Not all negative comments or criticism is bad ( especially constructive ones) if we take it with an open heart. Wenger is a great believer of young players which is good in the long run. To really compete with the others especially the top 4 teams for the premier league title, it requires more than that.This is where I tend to agree with the Athletico boss.
watching the Rangers PSG match on GolTV and the idiot commentator is making it sound as if Atletico are favorites against Arsenal haha. I really cant stand the morons that commentate for GolTV but hey thanks for broadcasting the Emirate Cup i guess.
Arsenal 0 – A.Madrid 0. Good to see Rosicky redicovering his form after a long lay off.
Solid display by Armand Troare .
Yeah, but I’m still wondering where on earth Clichy is 🙁
Encouraging display in the first half. Lets hope we can see some goals in the second half. Yes Randy, me wondering about Clichy too.
Arsenal had some really good chances. It is still 0-0. Arsenal looks in good form.