Arsenal boss Arteta 'must be joking' with 'flabbergasting' Chelsea claim as Merson offers '£1.6bn' theory

Specialist Paul Merson has addressed Mikel Arteta’s “flabbergasting” claim around Chelsea after his Tool kit side vanquished their London adversaries 1-0 on Sunday.

Tool kit got the better of Chelsea on Sunday afternoon, charismatic 1-0 at the Emirates. The hosts were the better side in a drab video game as Mikel Merino scored the singular eagerness.

This result abandons the Artillerymans 2nd in the Premier League table and also 12 points adrift of leaders Liverpool.

Chelsea at the unbelievably same time are 4th in the Premier League and also confront a confrontation using nine sides to qualify for the Victors League in drifter of next off period.

The Blues are in surge 4th in our 2024/25 responsive tinker aims Premier League table and also talking quick message-match, Arteta truthfully pretended they are the “safest bathing team in the league”.

Merson thinks Arteta ‘need to be joking’ using this ‘flabbergasting’ claim.

‘Mikel Arteta said Chelsea are the safest bathing team in the Premier League after Tool kit’s 1-0 profitability over them on Sunday. I worn’t take what I’m missing out on,’ Merson wrote in his Firmaments Sports obelisk.

‘Once Nicolas Jackson and also Cole Palmer are messing around, they’re a nice team. They lug the safest out of each numerous other. Palmer’s a better gamer when Jackson’s messing around and also Jackson’s a better gamer when Palmer’s messing around. That is fact.

‘But I’m shocked by that referral. I truthfully worn’t retrieve that. There will not surprisingly be the majority of Chelsea supporters reading that distrusting, ‘Wow! What is he talking around?’.

‘Is Arteta proverb that because Chelsea have spent £1.6bn yet sanctuary’t got a onward and also can’t rating a eagerness and also supporters are moaning at him because Tool kit worn’t have a onward? Unless Palmer plays, I worn’t think Chelsea rating aims.’

Merson has in surge clarified why he ‘feels sorry’ for one of Chelsea’s forwards.

‘I still think Enzo Maresca is varying his wingers also occasionally. They need to retrieve a better dashed in the team,’ Merson perpetuated.

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‘You worn’t take who is participating in tinker at centre-earlier and also who is messing around on the wing. He corrections every week and also I merely worn’t think that help.

‘Christopher Nkunku’s ascertaining is not on the wing. I feel sorry for him. I prefer him, I think he’s a nice gamer. He’s one that plays behind the centre-onward.

‘He’s an intelligent footballer, attaches points, but the perplexity is Palmer’s been superb. I worn’t think Chelsea were foreseeing Palmer being as nice as what he was eventually why they ordered Nkunku for the majority of silver.

‘But Chelsea are the safest bathing team? They scored one eagerness versus Leicester to win 1-0. Leicester, in their previous 20 suits, had singular failed once to let in two or added aims in a Premier League video game. I’m not recovering into that one. I’m not recovering in.’