17 Jan 2024 09:47:06
Just read that Gallas has been slating our players mentality as the reason we didn't win the league and the reason we're sitting at 4th and wanted to ask about peoples memories of Gallas. My memory is short because I was a teenager at the time but pretty sure I remember him having a shoddy mentality as captain and despite perhaps being okay for one season, overall I remember him as being pretty poor! Wondered what others with a better memory than myself thought about him. Is it hypocritical for him to comment? Is he just trying to get himself heard through talking breeze? Or does he genuinely have a point?

1.) 17 Jan 2024
17 Jan 2024 19:06:29
I like to think I have a fairly good memory, William Gallas’ time at Arsenal was in the main forgettable at best.

2.) 18 Jan 2024
18 Jan 2024 09:22:31
Gallas … what a ?. did naff all at Arsenal. supposed to be a leader. he’s definitely in the top 5 worst ever Arsenal signings. baffled as to why we signed him in the first place.

3.) 18 Jan 2024
18 Jan 2024 18:07:18
#1 memory of him is Birmingham City away in 2008.
He sat down in a strop. Was captain at the time.
Not one to talk about mentality.

4.) 19 Jan 2024
18 Jan 2024 23:29:45
Gallas was a rock at his peak but due what happened to eduardo in the Birmingham game he had a mental breakdown at the end of the game. If you saw eduard’s leg you wouldn’t blame him plus the realisation that was the end of the opportunity to be premier league I think the whole team mentally collapsed. Not a leader but not a waste in my opinion understands how important mentality is to winning the league.

5.) 19 Jan 2024
19 Jan 2024 15:16:08
Not going too much into Gallas' mentality but i'm of the opinion that he should have a right to comment even if he himself didn't have the strongest mentality. I myself haven't played proper football since i was 13 and yet i feel i should have a right to voice my opinion.

6.) 20 Jan 2024
20 Jan 2024 08:56:01
Nice to see varied responses. Absolutely Iceman, the the right to voice opinions is what makes the site so great and discussions around football so engaging! I too believe Gallas has a right to voice his opinion and was just looking to drum up a discussion around it to see if people remember his time differently to me. I think the media also take snippets and quotes from other sources without context which often makes things said sound wildly different to the original but I suppose Murdoch and his cronies have to make money somehow and clicks on articles generate revenue!