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Edu, Arsenal’s technical director, has asked fans to believe in coach Mikel Arteta and insists that the results on the field do not match what he is seeing on the training ground.
The Brazilian also warned disgruntled fans that the club will not spend any money during the January transfer window in an attempt to remedy its current poor form.
A home loss to Burnley on Sunday left Arsenal 15th in the Premier League, just five points from the relegation zone and without a league win since November 1.
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Arteta said his team controlled much of the game against Burnley and should have won the game long before Granit Xhaka was sent off.
The 1-0 setback, in which Granit Xhaka was sent off and captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored an own goal, means that Arsenal have lost four league games at home for the first time since 1959.
But, while fighting for form and results, as well as a style of play that appeases fans, Edu has said that Arteta retains the full backing of everyone at the club.
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When asked if Arsenal supporters needed to relax and not worry, Edu – speaking in an interview conducted Monday but arranged before Burnley’s loss – replied: “Relaxing is too much.
“Just believe. Internally here, listen, we’re doing fine.
“My main message is that we are not talking about a single person, it is unfair to talk about Mikel, or Aubameyang because he is not scoring goals, or (goalkeeper, Bernd) Leno because he has to stop goals.
“It is unfair to talk about a person, we are a soccer team, we have to talk about ourselves, talk about” us “and not” him “, so for me that is the main message.
“The way I see things is very simple. It’s normal and easy to get carried away by results. But for me, the main point is when I see something that I can see into the future, see where we are going, the way we I’m building things, starting to see them daily.
“So the way we work, the way we train, the way we behave internally, if you see the quality of the work, if you see the quality of the people, if you see correctly what is happening here on a daily basis, no it’s nothing to compare with the results. “
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Arteta was named nearly a year ago and handed over the FA Cup and Community Shield within nine months of replacing Unai Emery on the bench.
Now that things have gotten worse, Edu wants to emphasize that it is not only Arteta who must tackle the landslide.
“If we don’t talk about patience with Mikel it would be very unfair for him. Because what year have we faced,” he added.
“Preseason challenges, three months without football games, a lot of things changing at the club. It started and stopped, and when he began to understand the entire squad he stopped again.
“He didn’t get a sequence to get to know everyone correctly. It would be really unfair for Mikel to say something about that because the year was very challenging for everyone, but even more so for Mikel, who had just arrived at the club.
“Because if you have a coach who was at the club for two, three, five years, that makes the situation easier. That’s why Mikel always needs, from me, good words.”
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With so many players out of shape, the short-term plan could easily have shifted to recruiting new talent in January.
But, with good deals notoriously hard to come by in the winter and the financial implications of the coronavirus pandemic still being felt, Edu moved to curb any hopes fans had of a busy window at Emirates Stadium.
“We’re not talking about something external,” he replied when asked about looking to buy in January.
“We are here to solve the problem. We have the team, we have the squad, we have the coach, we have the staff, all in the right place to change it.
“Why do people have to wait for a magician to say ‘boom! Come here Messi! Boom!’? No. It’s up to us.
“People might start asking, ‘What are you going to do in the winter window?’ Of course we will try to do something but we have the responsibility to change it, do not wait for someone from outside to come in and be a magician because that is not going to happen.
“Or if you can sign 20 players, which we are not going to do, but that is not going to work anyway. So the main problem, the main thing for me, is that we as a club have to understand our problem.” . . Here. That’s. Believe, because we believe. I believe “.
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