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Arsenal: Lukas Podolski Drank Too Much Of The Kool-Aid
By Josh Sippie
Respect is one thing, but completely erasing history? That is something else, and Lukas Podolski’s remembrance of Arsenal is more of the latter.
Fun fact: Arsenal were not founded in 1996. But apparently Lukas Podolski didn’t get that memo. And in case you didn’t hear, he actually said something along those lines. Have a look:
“He built the club from nothing to now they have a lot,” he said. “It will be interesting when he leaves who comes in because the club is built like in the Arsene Wenger style. Who will come? I don’t know.”
Yup. That happened. The German made Gooner’s nightmares a reality and actually showed that people that have played for the club actually believe this nonsense.
You don’t want to take anything away from Wenger because he has done tremendous things. I’m not going to go into great detail because it wouldn’t be anything new. And that’s the point. Everything that people are coming out and defending Wenger with involves the distant past. There isn’t anything recent and there isn’t a whole lot of “well, going forward, he will do this or that.”
It’s always retrospective. Which is a problem when he is still our manager.
Podolski drank too much Wenger Kool-Aid when he was here. Like, a dangerous amount. And there is plenty of Kool-Aid to go around. Hector Bellerin is drinking it out of a CamelBak throughout the day and Alex Iwobi has an IV of it hooked into his arm.
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But Podolski didn’t seem like the kind of guy to be guzzling it down. I had compared him to Lucas Perez and I think the similarities justify that. Two solid strikers with thunderous left foots, both of whom are/were tremendously underplayed, played out of position and prematurely frozen out.
And they both happen to share a name.
I wonder if Podolski was saying all of these things sarcastically. It’s possible no? He is a jokester, after all. It makes more sense than him actually believing it.
Meanwhile, Arsene Wenger still will not give us an indication of what his future holds, which is forcing the divide to grow more and more between him and the fans. And it’s sad to see. Especially as more and more players come out in open support of him, further alienating the supporters
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