{"id":311247,"date":"2025-11-27T23:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T23:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/311247\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T23:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T23:55:09","slug":"madueke-brushes-off-arsenal-fan-criticism-of-his-signing-and-gears-up-for-chelsea-return-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/311247\/","title":{"rendered":"Madueke brushes off Arsenal fan criticism of his signing and gears up for Chelsea return | Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Noni Madueke has said he ignored criticism on social media over his move to Arsenal<\/a> and gained confidence from the reception he has received from supporters.<\/p>\n

The England forward scored his first Arsenal goal in Wednesday\u2019s impressive 3-1 win over Bayern Munich<\/a> in the Champions League in his second appearance since returning from a knee injury sustained in September. Madueke said that the injury was \u201chorrible timing\u201d given his good start after joining from Chelsea for \u00a348.5m plus up to \u00a33.5m in bonuses.<\/p>\n

Some supporters voiced opposition online to his arrival and a petition entitled #NOTOMADUEKE was launched. That garnered only 5,000 signatures and the 23-year-old insisted he had \u201ctaken it all in his stride\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are in the public eye, people can say whatever they want about you,\u201d he said. \u201cBut being in the stadium, and how the fans have taken to me in the stadium, is unbelievable. I am not really worried about all of that. It is in the distant past. The last game versus Tottenham was incredible and that gives me such a boost. I play on the side of the pitch, I can feel them [the fans], I can hear them. When they are that positive about me it gives me a massive boost. Honestly, I am made up about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arsenal head to Chelsea on Sunday with a six-point lead over them at the top of the Premier League. Madueke is in contention to start for the first time since the 1-1 draw with Manchester City<\/a> at the end of September, with doubts over Leandro Trossard\u2019s fitness after the Belgium forward limped off against Bayern. Madueke said he was comfortable on either flank and was unsure what reception he would receive from the Chelsea supporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt might be a little bit hostile, it might not be, but I am a professional footballer,\u201d he said. \u201cI have played in loads of atmospheres. I don\u2019t know if anything will faze me. I will just be focused on the task.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Asked whether Arsenal were capable of winning the Premier League and Champions League this season, Madueke said: \u201cOur goal going into every game is to win the game. I don\u2019t know if it is great to be thinking so far ahead in November.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noni Madueke has said he ignored criticism on social media over his move to Arsenal and gained confidence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-311247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}