#oliteta

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olivier giroud & mikel arteta

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more pictures of this moment because yeah

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Do meeeee

you are definitely hug and trust with my life. ily. also I would kill you without a second thought

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ok but like they really were next to each other a lot weren't they

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ideal height difference

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big day for annoying people (me)

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After Arsenal's victory in the 2020 FA Cup final, two previous winners get together to reminisce.

rated g | 1k+ words | mikel arteta/olivier giroud

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I'm so happy I was not the only one who noticed that Mikel named his third son Oliver after Giroud! And in general noticed the chemistry between them

What do you think about them at the 2020 FA CUP final between Chelsea and Arsenal when Arteta was already a manager and Giroud was a Chelsea player? They must have felt a lot of feelings :')

yyyyyesss!!! i didn't make the connection between their names at first until i realized that they both shorten to oli.... then i was like holy shit but youre right they seemed quite close like they even stood next to each other a lot for training 🥹

i particularly like this one... ^^

anyway that fa cup final is something i would really like to think about..!! i saw a quote where arteta said that he was very happy that giroud was doing well at chelsea because he was always a fighter and worked really hard etc. giroud's feelings towards arsenal seem a bit complicated on the surface but i believe arteta would understand why giroud had wanted to leave (he knows the feeling of leaving a club you love to gain more experience for yourself, because he did the same thing when going to city).

i do hope they'd meet up again after the match (especially since arsenal won lol). and just like arteta was glad that giroud's doing well in his new chapter, giroud is also glad that arteta is seemingly doing well as a manager after winning the trophy. they've both grown in different ways in the years apart. and it's been long enough that they're able to look back at their time together with fondness but also maybe a slight twinge of longing for those simpler days... though with two men who work so hard on their individual careers (and it's what they admire about each other) it was always going to end up this way

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hi everyone this is my (newly coined) oliteta indoctrination post. at first it was a joke because they're two of my favs and i just wanted to see them together but then it became not a joke anymore so just hear me out ok. awesome

so yeah here's a bit of my idea for their backstory/dynamic i guess. disclaimer i am not an arsenal fan and obviously have no knowledge of the state of the team and dressing room a decade ago so i'm basing a lot of this on this article. arteta joined arsenal in 2011 and giroud joined a year later. at the time arteta was well respected yet allegedly kept his distance from most players. but that was never going to stop giroud, ever the outgoing and friendly guy, also eager to make an impression in this new country. arteta grows intrigued in giroud because to him it feels like giroud is the only one purposely trying to connect deeper with him (but actually giroud is just treating him like how he treats everyone else) so he makes an effort to try and get to know him more.

it's after a while of their budding friendship (and after arteta defends giroud's slow start at the club) when arteta tells giroud of his feelings, because arteta has always been upfront about what he wants. upon which giroud is surprised, because in his head he hasn't been doing anything particularly special to warrant someone being attracted to him. but hey arteta is attractive and clearly likes him so why not. thus begins a sort of strange relationship where it is purposely left a bit undefined, as they are able to find comfort in each other but also know that they're going home to different households at the end of the day. they each admire different qualities in the other, giroud with arteta's leadership and tactical mind and arteta with giroud's hardworking and positive mindset. etc etc. i don't actually have much else to say here you can just look at the chart to see what i imagine their dynamic is like. to me it's also not an official "romantic relationship" but more of a homoerotic qpr maybe where they're weirdly devoted to/affectionate with each other without being officially together and all the history books would say they seemed like very close friends. and maybe they were. or maybe they weren't

also i just need to say this here too. arteta's third son is named oli and he was born in the summer of 2015 when arteta's contract was supposed to run out, and before it was announced he had signed an extension. coincidence? probably. but for the purposes of my ship? arteta named his son after giroud to still have something to remember him by even after arteta retired and left arsenal. thanks for coming to my tedtalk everyone

(i do also think that their activities probably ended as easily as they begun. they both knew it was the right time for arteta to move on with his career. there was no "breakup" as they were never "together" but it was a parting all the same. maybe it ends with giroud telling him "take care of oli for me" and arteta responding "oli will always have a place in my heart")

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*sighs* (WILHELM SCREAM) how do you think oliteta’s first date went

hi daniel :-) thanks for the lovely question that i'm sure you were very happy to send me.

but anyway! like i said in my original post i don't really see them as having a conventional or traditional sort of relationship. therefore im not sure how they would feel about going on dates? but hmm let me think. i think arteta would still be a fan of certain romantic gestures so perhaps at the very least they'd have some dinners together (like after midday matches and such). or maybe strolls at night along the thames. other than that i'm not too sure

regarding a hypothetical first time though. by that point i think they would know each other quite well so there's not really any awkwardness, just weird levels of confidence on both their parts. its like not much has changed but their "swagger" is different knowing how they each feel about the other yk? don't know if i'm describing this well enough but whatever

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i didnt include these in the big post from last time but just know i'm still thinking about it

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happy birthday mikel arteta

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*sighs* (ALARMS BLARING) who said "I love you" first for oliteta (and kloppep!!!)

ur so funny i giggled. but thanks for the ask <3

you know after thinking about it for a while (approximately five seconds) i kind of feel like these two pairings have a similar dynamic. like it's the straightforward more introverted person who feels emotions very intensely x the friendly loving extrovert who has a lot of relationships but not really any Deep ones. and for this reason i do believe that arteta/pep respectively would be the first ones to declare love (or at least the first ones to properly mean it, because of course you can say you love someone but does that mean you're really in love?). on those ship charts i also have them both down as first to confess which i think is similar. but yeah i think they'd want to be upfront with how they're feeling in that moment

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at least we can imagine an oliteta meetup amirite