‘What is he?’ – Paul Scholes questions Arsenal star and ‘really boring’ Gunners

Paul Scholes has taken a swipe astatine ‘really boring’ Arsenal and questioned the relation of England midfielder Declan Rice successful Mikel Arteta’s team.

Despite not being astatine their precise champion this season, the Gunners are inactive progressive successful a third successive Premier League rubric challenge, presently six points down leaders Liverpool.

Arsenal person besides impressed successful Europe, qualifying automatically for the Champions League knockout stages aft finishing 3rd successful the revamped radical phase.

But Scholes ‘really struggles’ watching Arsenal owed to their deficiency of an out-and-out striker and Bukayo Saka’s continued lack done injury.

The erstwhile Manchester United and England midfielder besides has increasing concerns implicit Rice’s relation successful the Arsenal squad and claims Arteta ‘doesn’t cognize what helium is’.

Scholes’ comments connected Rice whitethorn travel arsenic a astonishment fixed the England prima has wide been praised for different impressively accordant play astatine the Emirates Stadium and was the Player of the Match successful Arsenal’s emphatic 5-1 triumph implicit Manchester City astatine the commencement of the month.

‘I’m truly bored watching Arsenal,’ Scholes said connected The Overlap. ‘Honestly, it’s the aforesaid happening each week.

‘Without a centre-forward and Saka who brings excitement and accomplishment and tin triumph a game… They bushed Man City 5-1 but you request these large centre-forwards, these big-game players who tin get you the 1-0 wins successful important games.

‘I’m truly struggling watching it. There’s immoderate beauteous football, it’s nice, but it’s not exciting, there’s thing astatine the extremity of it.

‘Declan Rice, I’m not disappointed by him, but I don’t truly cognize what helium is anymore.

‘Is helium the holding midfielder? I’ve heard Gary Neville accidental helium should beryllium getting guardant and scoring goals. I’ve ne'er seen him that way.

‘I deliberation he’s astir got a spot stuck successful not truly knowing what helium is and Mikel Arteta not knowing what helium is.’

Arsenal person travelled to Dubai for immoderate warm-weather training astatine a captious constituent successful not conscionable their play but possibly besides Arteta’s reign arsenic manager.

The Gunners failed to scope the Carabao Cup last – losing 4-0 to Newcastle United crossed 2 semi-final legs – and are already retired of the FA Cup.

That means they volition request to overturn a sizeable shortage connected Premier League leaders Liverpool oregon triumph the Champions League to debar going different play without a trophy.

Liverpool are presently six points supra second-placed Arsenal but Arne Slot’s broadside volition widen their vantage to 9 if they triumph Wednesday’s Merseyside derby against Everton.

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