Edu : "If we got Champions League last season, we would have advanced one year [ahead] in the project,".
" we have a [good] squad, but we need a bigger squad with personalities, with some behaviours, that say, 'I don’t lose that game. I will kill someone but I don’t lose the game.
"I think we’ve added some more players with that kind of character," he says. "Talk to Gabriel, talk to Zinchenko, talk to Fabio. [Points to head] Here is the win. Ah, Champions League, ok — I accepted that, because I want to be realistic. But here [head], I want to win. A club like Arsenal, at our size, is not building to be fighting for fourth place. I’m sorry.
"We have to realistic — there’s City, Liverpool etc — that’s fine, I accept that. But also, you can not accept that. Here, when you join this club, when you see our size, we cannot accept it.
"That’s why I was really really hurt when I arrived. I said, 'That’s not the mentality of this football club. What’s happening? Everybody’s comfortable, everybody’s ok, ok, ok…' F*** you, “ok”! “Ok”?! No, I don’t want to lose games! We have to be there again.
"And I want to see the physios, I want to see the scouting, I want to see everyone with that kind of feeling, where you say, “F***ing hell, now we are going to really go for things”. And I think we are changing. Again, it doesn’t happen overnight, but I think we are changing and putting some good mentality in the squad. Characters."
[Kaya Kaynak]