Nedum Onuoha

so what should we do should we stop talking you know what i mean like there's more time away from the football pitch than there is on it and i think for him to try and address one of those issues and try and push to help all these fans from all these nations around the world i just don't see how it's a problem so i personally wouldn't take it well and i hope as craig said actually a few other members of this u.s menace national team i hope they start to revolt a little bit and speak up more because the end of the day pochettino can't drop them all but they can still make a difference socially to all those people who are going to go to the tournament

Oh, honestly, it's one of the worst, like, takes I think I've heard from a manager in such a long time.

It's just a ridiculous thought.

Like, it's not, like you said, it's not political, it's not left-leaning, it's not right-leaning.

It's about the price of tickets to a tournament, like the most expensive tournament ever.

Is that not just like an objective truth as such?

Unless, you know, someone can tell us otherwise.

So why can't he just speak in that manner?

Why can't he try and speak up for those people to try and help them so the tickets become cheaper instead of FIFA taking every single last penny from people to get the chance to go and watch this spectacle, you know, that they get a chance to see every four years?

You know, it's so disappointing that, as I say, Pochettino's taken that side of it.

Maybe at some point he'll be able to walk back some of those comments when there's a bit more pushback.

Maybe Weah and other players will speak to him and say why it's a concern.

Mm.

But if he insists upon this being his stance, I think very quickly we start to see the way that he sees football and all those other players start to creep itself out as this tournament starts to get closer and closer.

Because if he then turns into the manager who people don't want to be around, I'm sure there'll be a level of performance which will match that.

That's quite well put for you, to be honest.

But yeah, I think it's a valid point.

And for Arsenal, in these last few weeks, you would have thought that given the stumblings of City, the general stumblings to a certain extent of Villa, they should probably have a 10-plus point gap now between themselves and others.

They've been the most consistent side.

They should be rewarded as such.