ETHAN IS NWANE’ TO WATCH
another experience.
In your career all the steps are not going to be forward.
“After that maybe he needs three backwards to go another forward, but I think he deserved it. It sends a really strong message about who we are as a club as well.”
Brentford manager Thomas Frank backed Arsenal to carry on challenging at the top all season — and refuted speculation linking him with the Leicester job where
Brendan Rodgers is under fire.
Contenders
“They are top of the table so you cannot argue with that, they have done brilliant,” he said.
“Looking at the quality, they must be title contenders.
“But we lost the game, I hate losing.
“And as for my future? I’m reading very little, these rumours.
“I’ve been told to be a little aware of it if you get questions and of course it’s nice to be linked with it because it’s something we have done here and done well.
“That’s positive.”
THIS time it was a nice kick about for the men, not the boys.
Unless you count the recordbreaking 15-yearold Ethan Nwaneri that Mikel Arteta brought on for the final few minutes.
Much to Ivan Toney’s frustration, it is an impressively different Arsenal team that go into the international break with a smile on their faces than the one that started last season so dismally.
“Nice kick about with
Saliba 17, Jesus 28, Ferreira Vieira 49
the boys”the latest call-up to the England squad had tweeted after Brentford’s comfortable 2-0 win last August sparked a three-match losing run that sent Arsenal to the foot of the table.
Exorcised
Now they sit at the top and Mikel Arteta can snuggle up to his manager-of the-month award peacefully having
IVAN TONEY was kept quiet for 90 minutes yesterday after making a big noise as Brentford’s newest international call-up.
And the biggest noise came from the travelling Arsenal fans who took their chance to taunt the new England striker after a post-match tweet last season when Brentford triumphed 2-0 in this stadium on the opening