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Former Arsenal skipper William Gallas has asked for patience for new star signing of the club Alexandre Lacazette.

The Lyon striker joined the club recently for a record fee. Even before the season is to start there has been pressure on the French star to impress.

“We have to give him time. Sometimes it’s not easy to change country, you have to speak another language. It’s not easy to settle very quick. I know in football everything is about results so if he doesn’t score many goals people will judge him straight away. We have to give him two years to see what he can do,” Gallas pleaded.

Gallas is featuring in the ongoing Star Sixes event at the London O2 Arena as part of the French soccer legends contingent. The retired player refused to endorse the player for success at the Emirates but he generally wishes the best for his compatriot.

“In France he was a great, great player. He scored so many goals. Now he’s in the Premier League it will be a different league, a new challenge for him,” the Frenchman explained.

Lacazette started his career at Arsenal on a good note though. He scored in his pre-season debut when the Gunners faced Sydney FC in Australia this week. The 26-year old has a lot to prove if he wants to be taken seriously.

Laca, as fondly called, netted an impressive 101 goals in 203 games in the Ligue 1 but he is yet to be appreciated as much as others. Leaving his comfort zone and coming close to such feats would surely earn his the admiration of many. Arsenal for one needs his goals this term as they put up a serious challenge for the Premier League title.

Ligue 1 star KylianMbappe could be the first person to reach the £100 million mark in football going by the buzz around him.

The player only made the first team in December 2015 but after an impressive run in the league and Champions League this term, his value has shot very high.

European sides are competing for his signature. Arsenal reportedly placed a club record fee of £87.5 million for the player while Real Madrid are preparing to better the offer. Monaco rejected the offer to sell their youth star for many reasons; victory is sweet and replacement would be difficult and expensive as well.

Mbappe started well at a young age and he was noticed early. He was at the Clairfontaine Academy – the same famed institution that developed stars like William Gallas, Nicolas Anelka and Thierry Henry. He was in England for a bit but eventually signed for Monaco. He is the youngest player to feature for Monaco, breaking Henry’s record. He broke another record by Henry when he scored his first goal at 17 years.

The French star is touted as one that could potentially develop into something brilliant. His pace, eye for goal and skills are impressive. The player has self-control and not easily impressed like other youngsters. He says he does not have a car yet and his mother still drives him to training.

For every 70 minutes, the kid scores a goal or creates one. This is the reason the biggest clubs want him in their team. Wenger revealed that he went to his home in France to try to convince him but Monaco fought off his offer. Some French sources say the player might be open to a move to Arsenal and have the team built around him like Henry. For now he remains at Monaco.

Former Arsenal and Chelsea defender William Gallas has stated that the Gunners can win the title next season if they do not qualify for the Champions League this season.

He said that it is appearing increasingly difficult for the Gunners to qualify for the Champions League this season and he feels that this could be a blessing in disguise for them.

He said that they could replicate what Chelsea has achieved this season without the distraction of the European competitions and mount a serious bid for the title. However, he is unsure on whether Arsene Wenger will remain as manager of the team.

He said that whoever is the manager of Arsenal next season might benefit from the fact that the team is not playing in the Champions League and this could be a great way for them to challenge for the title.

Gallas believes that Arsenal are paying the price for not investing in quality players and that Arsene Wenger should change his philosophy if he wants to win the title again. He said that the best players are not cheap anymore and that the club should be prepared to invest massively if they want to improve next season.

Gallas said that Arsene Wenger is experienced enough to find out what is not working at the moment and he surely have a list of players that he will try to get during the summer.

Gallas said that Arsenal needs some more physical players as they fail to compete whenever opposing teams get physical against them.

He stated that there needs to be a collective decision taken by the board and the manager to ensure that the team progresses. He said that to win the Premier League you need to invest massively and he feels that Arsenal has not been doing so in recent years.

Former Arsenal player William Gallas has voiced his thoughts concerning what Arsene Wenger and what his squad have to do in order to truly contend for the Premier League title, which is what they have been aiming to accomplish for the past few years but have failed to lift in over 10 years.

For the past few years, Arsenal has been edging closer and closer to the 1rst place spot of the top tier English League. During the 2015-16 season of the English League, Arsenal had to settle with the 2nd position and in the season prior to that one in the 2014-15 season, Arsenal secured the 3rd spot.

It’s evident that Arsenal has been progressing but they just aren’t able to go all out and win the Premier League and according to William Gallas, what the team of Arsene Wenger needs to do is stop attempting to play ‘’perfect football’’

The 39 year old retiree William Gallassaid: “When you play away from home, you have to be ready physically and mentally. Sometimes, Arsenal want to play perfect football too much. Sometimes you have to say, ‘No, stop.’ You have to be solid at the back, reply physically, and after that you impose your style of play. And unfortunately with Arsenal, it’s not like that.”

During the playing career of William Gallas, he spent 4 years performing with the Arsenal jersey and the Frenchman believes that Arsene Wenger needs to stop attempting to implant his own philosophies and teach his team to scrap for points in their away games.

Whether or not Arsenal win the Premier League is something that only time will tell but Gallas is certain that Wenger follows his advices, they are going to have a better chance of accomplishing their primary goal.

William Gallas is a former Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur player who has recently revealed his thoughts concerning the eternal rivalry between those clubs.

The Frenchman believes that when both of those clubs face off, this derby has suffered a significant change as it has turned more tactical and less physical.

“I wouldn’t say the derby is more intense now because I remember playing in this game and it was more intense physically and the impact of the game was more intense too. I hope the derby on Sunday will be electric. I remember 10, 15 or even 20 years ago; all the players were fighting for the ball and running everywhere. They always had big arguments on the pitch and I think the fans were very proud to see their players fight hard to win this game. “Now it changes a little bit, it’s more tactical.’’ William Gallas said.

Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur faced off on November 6 of the ongoing year in this season of the Premier League which resulted in a 1-1 draw with both sides securing 1 point.

Gallas spent around 4 years performing with Arsenal and when his contract ran up, he opted to make a switch to their rival club Tottenham Hotspur which is something that angered many fans.

The 39 year old Frenchman is a retiree that has had many issues in the past with other players and even with his own teammates as he was named as the coach of Arsenal on 2007 but in the following season, he was removed from that role after Gallas had publicly criticized his own teammates during an interview.

Former Chelsea defender William Gallas recently revealed that he was heavily depending on pain killers to star in the club’s matches.

He said for two months he was receiving pain killing injections while he was with the Blues. The former French international said he was in pain. The discomfort prevented him from training, yet he featured for Stamford Bridge as there was shortage of defenders.

“When I was at Chelsea, I’d sprained my ankles really badly and at that time there were no more defenders. It was necessary that I played the next games, and every time, I was allowed injections. They lasted around, let’s say, 80 minutes, and the final 10 minutes was just excruciating pain. I had to do that for more than two months,” the former player said.

He claimed he really couldn’t do without the injections so he would miss training sessions for weekend games until Thursdays or Fridays. Gallas played 159 games for Chelsea, but he didn’t accuse the club of forcing him to take the injections and feature.

During Jose Mourinho’s first spell at Chelsea, Gallas was a regular figure. His prowess helped tame attacks of opponents in the trophy-laden campaign. However, Gallas left the club on a controversial note. He moved to the competition – Arsenal as part of a deal that allowed Ashley Cole move to Chelsea. After a while, Arsenal refused to meet his terms, so he moved to Tottenham in 2010. Gallas remained one of the standout midfielders in the Premier League’s history. His run for Chelsea was impressive.

Daniel Agger – ex-Reds – revealed how painkillers messed up with his system when he used them. He was with Liverpool for almost a decade before he returned to his home country. Many players have opened up on what they pass through due to injuries later in the careers.

In the 20+ year-long playing career of William Gallas, the now retired French player has performed with a number of clubs including: Marseille, Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, Caen and Perth Glory.

It was with Chelsea where he managed to become more well-known as the Frenchman was able to lift the Premier League title on 2 occasions as well as a FA Community Shield and Football League Cup.

The time that he spent performing with the club at Stamford Bridge was the most prolific one for the Frenchman as this was when he lifted the biggest pieces of silverware in his playing career but William Gallas has recently revealed that he was on the verge on joining Fiorentina instead of the Premier League club.

“I turned down the chance to go to Fiorentina before I went to Chelsea. That was down to Pape. His plan for my career was for me to play for France. After Marseille, I wanted to go to Fiorentina, because it’s sunny there. You know, you’re in Marseille, you get up, it’s sunny, you’re happy to go to training and Pape was talking to me about Chelsea.’’ William Gallas said as he stated that his former agent, Pape Diouf told him to join Chelsea instead of Fiorentina.

William Gallas retired over 2 years ago and looking back at the playing career of the Frenchman, it’s obvious that joining Chelsea was the best decision as he made a number of superb performances at Stamford Bridge, his time spent as a player of Chelsea was so impressive that he was included in the Professional Footballers’ Association Team of the Year during the season of 2002-03 and 2005-06.

Even though William Gallas also performed with a few other top Premier League clubs such as: Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, Gallas could never earn as much recognition as he did with Chelsea.

Manchester United and Manchester City coaches Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola continue with the sidelining of players this season.

The Premier League is boiling with excitement as the end is going to be very interesting with the antics the managers have up their sleeves in a bid to outdo one another. Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger already knows this but confirmed it publicly saying:

“It is a very exciting season. It looks like that [more difficult than ever] because it is a little bit world championships of managers as well, which means a lot of ambitions come with that as well and the expectation level everywhere is very high.”

The expectations are really high and the managers are willing to do whatever it takes to reach their aim. This includes expelling any player they do not want. Many have shown their disappointment with the way Mourinho is handling Veteran Bastian Schweinsteiger as the Portuguese tactician sees him as a German injury-plagued liability. He said: “Well, if they were not in my plans, I would not give them one single minute. I wouldn’t keep them in my squad.”

Mourinho didn’t start now, in his two times as Chelsea’s manager, he has sent players on exodus. In his first stint, there was Arjen Robben who has the tendency to pick up injuries every now and then, Mou kicked him out. French defender William Gallas left Stamford Bridge after his issues with the coach. Mourinho kicked out several like Adriano, Hernan Crespo – at Chelsea and Inter Milan.

At Madrid, he upset many by kicking out Iker Casillas. In his second spell at Chelsea, he cleared everyone from Cech to Ashley Cole, Luiz, Essien, Juan Mata, Schurrle, De Bruyne and Lukaku – who they are begging to resign.
In the same city of Manchester, Guardiola is showing he is in charge by keeping out Yaya Toure and Joe Hart from his squad. Despite his initial comments when he arrived at the Etihad, he has done just what he wanted. After pushing out Eto’o, Ronaldinho and Deco, Guardiola made several changes at Bayern Munich to reach his goal. The players that have been pushed out are just the unfortunate ones this term; it’s an age-long cycle.

Tottenham Hotspur kickoff their 2016-17 Premier League campaign on August 13 as they have to face off with Everton and they are going to this match with a positive attitude after having blasted 6 goals past Inter Milan in the International Champions Cup.

On August 5, Tottenham locked horns with Inter Milan in a match that concluded with the English club claiming a 6-1 triumph over the Italian side and this is what the team of Mauricio Pochettino needed in order to bounce back from their previous pre-season matches which saw them losing against Athletic Madrid and against Juventus as well.

‘’I was pleased with all of it! It’s true we need to analyze the game and improve in certain areas but I’m pleased with everything, very happy. The performance was good but in football, you can’t stop, you have to try to improve every day.It was important to finish our pre-season in a very positive way and important to win.

It was the first time the players involved in the Euros played and it was fantastic to see them all together. Now we have another week to prepare for the game against Everton and we will arrive ready to compete.” Tottenham Hotspur’s Mauricio Pochettino said following the dominating victory of his team over Inter Milan.

The 2016-17 season of the Premier League is only a few weeks away from beginning and this kind of triumph is what Tottenham Hotspur needed to finish their pre-season schedule and they are hoping that this triumph will allow them to start the upcoming season in a positive form and win their opening match which is against Everton.

Former Chelsea defender William Gallas has revealed that he congratulated his former manager Claudio Ranieri for winning the Premier League title with Leicester City.

It remains as one of the unprecedented achievements by any club in English football history considering the level of competition at the top division. The likes of Manchester United, Chelsea, and Manchester City have dominated the game in the last decade, while the list extends only to Arsenal when the entire Premier League history is taken into account. Amidst such intense competition, Ranieri was able to take a team that had just avoided relegation in the previous season and win the title.

Gallas was one of the players signed by Ranieri when he was at Chelsea for a period of four years before being sacked after the arrival of Roman Abramovich. His good work done with Leicester have led many people to look back at his time at Chelsea. The blues enjoyed a lot of success from the players signed by the Italian and this includes Gallas, who later went on to play for Arsenal and Tottenham before recently retiring from football. Gallas has also recalled the criticism of Ranieri that the Italian has not won major trophies with other clubs. He believes that the Italian has just not been lucky enough at his previous clubs.

“I was very happy for him because I knew him from Chelsea, we were together for two to three years. I wanted to thank him. I had the opportunity to thank him today.I was very proud for him because he had not won anything for a long time. I think he did a great job at Leicester, especially with the team he had, it was not obvious. He put a lot of rigour in this team and at the end of the championship, they won,” said Gallas.