Arsenal: Alexis Sanchez Fury Falling On Deaf Ears And Blind Eyes

Arsenal has witnessed an increase in the frequency of Alexis Sanchez’s tantrums, but they aren’t even having any sort of effect, as the team has become blind and deaf to emotion.

Arsenal’s crumbling interior is ripe with frustrations, but no one exemplifies those frustrations better than Alexis Sanchez. In fact, no one exemplifies them at all, really. Aside from hung heads and pouty faces, only Alexis has gone on frustrated tirades that involved flinging his limbs around, kicking things and, well, just general tantrum-like behavior.

Alexis has thrown another tantrum with Chile, as the national side fell to rival Argentina to put their World Cup 2018 quest in serious jeopardy.

What I wonder is how these tantrums can be so baseless. As in, here is the most talented player on the team clearly distraught at the results that are being had, and no one mounts any sort of reaction.

Take Alex Iwobi for instance. Iwobi mentioned how Alexis’s tantrums don’t effect the dressing room at all. Not positively and not negatively.

Just nothing.

Why is that? Why is it that seeing an inspiring athlete like Alexis literally lose his mind in frustration has no effect on a locker room. It absolutely should. It should make them realize that they are far too talented to be losing 3-1 to West Brom, or 2-1 to Watford.

It should be eye-opening.

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Instead – nothing. Not a single batting of the eye. Instead, they just go about their work, trudging away like lifeless drones.

Some may look at the Alexis tantrums and say that it is immature and not constructive and I can see that point of view. Losing your head isn’t a means of inspiring the troops. But nothing else has worked. Wenger cannot inspire these players anymore and clearly no one on the pitch is doing the inspiring.

So what else can we do? A tantrum is the token action of an unhappy child, but it normally gets attention. That’s why they do it.

For lack of a better approach, these tantrums should be a red flag. This team has let Alexis down and he is showing that. In the process, they have let themselves down by falling down the Premier League table, far below where this level of talent should be.

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So please, Iwobi et al., keep telling us how seeing your frustrated, superior team mates losing their heads at the lack of success does not change your outlook on things. Just dying to hear more about that wonderful lethargy.

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