On Sunday, Arsenal beat Newcastle United 1-0, and after the match, with its last 2024/25 home game, it gave supporters a chance to say goodbye to some players who are unlikely to be revised in red and white.
Kieran Tierney will bow out of the Emirates stadium, who will go to Celtic, after a transport of 143 appearances for the Northern Londoners.
Jorginho will also go at the end of his contract. Although he may not remember as affectionately as Tierney, his last professionalism during the two years he was in Arsenal was a joy to see.
It will be sad to see them go, but it was certainly not as emotional as certain farewells that we made in the modern era.
The release of Arsene Wenger in 2018 will fall into history, while it is difficult to forget tears that a certain Hangar Aaron Ramsey when he left under Uny Emery in 2019.
Since its release, Arsenal has not had too many fields in the field. That said, they may well have found one now.
What made Aaron Ramsey so special
Winner of three FA Cups, a marker of two final goals of the Cup in Wembley, Ramsey will forever remain in these games as a great game player, an icon that has overcome so much adversity.
The way he entered the club rather set the tone for his dramatic time in the English capital. Manchester United announced that he was about to sign them on their official website, only for Welsh to write the terms with Arsenal instead.
Signed by Cardiff, it didn’t take Ramsey for a long time to make an impression, but this horrible leg break against Stoke in February 2010 was a colossal backhand.
After several months, the international Wales fortunately had a wonderful career in the game.
Who can forget this remarkable season in 2013/14? Ramsey scored the winner in addition to the time of the FA Cup final against Hull City, one of the 16 goals in just 34 outings throughout the campaign.
A real box-to-box star, the international Wales international, has become a master of arrival at the end of the course and to mark the midfielder.
Since then, however, Arsenal has not had too many players capable of finding the net from similar areas, ghosts in the region.
The last one was granite Xhaka. During the last Swiss year with the Gunners, he marked nine times and recorded seven assists in 47 games.
So how did Arsenal replace the dynamic duo?
The new granite Xhaka and Aaron Ramsey d’Arsenal
A few years ago, the shape of Martin Odegaard suggested that he could replace the pair. Indeed, in 2022/23, no midfielder marked only the 15 Norwegians in the Premier League.
That being said, it is not a box-to-box midfielder. He presses hard, but he does not make the dirty job further on the field.
Instead, Mikel Arteta’s modern response to Ramsey and Xhaka is a certain Declan rice. Oh, where would the Gunners be without him this season?
Of course, you have these two remarkable free kicks against Real Madrid, but he also offered vital moments elsewhere.
He is not only a master of free kicks, but his corner delivery was one of the best in Europe this season. We salute Nicolas Jover for having placed the former man of West Ham on the sets back of last season.
Curiously, Rice initially signed as a defensive midfielder, but throughout 2024/25, he was largely selected like the left 8 and it was a position he made.
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Declan Rice – Season by season |
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Season |
Games |
Goals |
Aid |
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2021/22 |
50 |
5 |
4 |
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2022/23 |
50 |
5 |
4 |
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2023/24 |
51 |
7 |
10 |
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2024/25 |
51 |
9 |
10 |
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Statistics via the transfer market. |
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The difference was felt during the first stage of the bond in the semi-finals of the Arsenal Champions League with PSG. The employee of £ 240,000 per week had destroyed Madrid on the two legs of a more advanced role in the midfield, but due to the suspension of Thomas Parte, he had to play further.
Although Rice is certainly excellent to sit in front of the defense, Arsenal could not put up the ground so quickly and they also lost one of their threats of objective. This may explain why the club would have liked to call on Martin Zubimendi de la Real Sociedad this summer. More Jorginho type, Spanish would give Rice the keys to make this n ° 8 its permanent position in the team.
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So why was he so prospered? Well, like Xhaka, he has a great engine and his technique is first -class.
Meanwhile, like Ramsey, he becomes pretty good to arrive late in the region or by the box to score a goal. In the words of the writer of Arsenal Connor Humm, he is a real “monster”.
We saw this first hand against Newcastle on Sunday. Odegaard found the ball on the right side and placed it in the rice path, which was ready and waiting on the edge of the penalty area to sparkle the ball in front of Nick Pope.
It was the ninth strike of the campaign of 105 million pounds sterling, one that equaled the transport of Xhaka two years ago. He also scored Rice’s best return from goals in a single season. Not bad at all.
When the Arsenal season player is announced in the coming weeks, there are surely only two candidates: Gabriel and Rice. For this magical night against Madrid alone, Rice is our man.
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