Joe Aribo

[Gloucester Saint]

On 01/12/2025 at 12:19, East Kent Saint said:

Obviously bigging him up for the Jan window !

 

 

 

TBF Tonda can hardly say ‘yeah, he’s a lazy fat layabout’ even if he thinks it. The likes of Redknapp used to but only after a long career. Not at the start they didn’t. 

[Baz Fl]

On 01/12/2025 at 05:54, AlexLaw76 said:

Eckert told the Echo, “I am very happy with Joe. He has been excellent every time he has come on, and he is in very good shape. "

Round is a shape to be fair 

[die Mannyschaft]

13 hours ago, chivvy said:

Ari-bo more like Arib-go. Zero effort for a lot of weekly wage.

I thought he was injured when he came on. It could be in his contract that he must play a certain amount of games. 

Edited 2 December, 2025 by die Mannyschaft

[IOWSaintDaz]

Just hope he pisses off in January, wages must be costing us a packet which would be better spent on someone who will put a proper shift in

[pingpong]

Usually I'm blinkered about our players, while they are here, and blindly optimistic. As an example, I still think downs needs minutes. I like Stephens.  I thought Mara was ok. I wanted Carrillo to have more of a chance. I thought dia showed flashes of skill. Baz is in my top eight all time saints keepers.

Even I can see aribo has been hopeless. What is his top speed? I don't think we know, because his acceleration is so slow that he never gets there. He needs a hundred yards to gather momentum and as such, just lopes around and watches players run past and away from him. I always consider it game over when he comes on. He's like the antichrist. Or the Antiscienza.

[swannymere]

 It is a real shame as he's shown he's a good player on the rare occasion, so is it just consistency or laziness or indeed both?

Edited 3 December, 2025 by swannymere

[lambtiss]

4 hours ago, pingpong said:

Usually I'm blinkered about our players, while they are here, and blindly optimistic. As an example, I still think downs needs minutes. I like Stephens.  I thought Mara was ok. I wanted Carrillo to have more of a chance. I thought dia showed flashes of skill. Baz is in my top eight all time saints keepers.

Even I can see aribo has been hopeless. What is his top speed? I don't think we know, because his acceleration is so slow that he never gets there. He needs a hundred yards to gather momentum and as such, just lopes around and watches players run past and away from him. I always consider it game over when he comes on. He's like the antichrist. Or the Antiscienza.

Antiscienza, love it 🤣

[Toussaint]

Shockingly terrible again today. Looks like he’s finished, embarrassing.

[S-Clarke]

Yeah he wasn't very good, we lost the entire control of that midfield once Jander went off and he came on.

He was awful. That tackle by the way - red card worthy, no idea wtf he was doing. He's so off the pace it's unreal. 

[ErwinK1961]

Feels like he’s been bought back in purely because he’s getting paid a meaty salary so we want something for our money. But it’s time to just pay him off and be done with it. The fact he wears number 7 adds more insult.

He doesn’t want to be here, we don’t want him. See ya.

[Turkish]

It’s a shame about Aribo. When he joined I was quite excited. He was highly rated had been good at Rangers and started off pretty well but never really did much with us. Always thought he was better than given credit for but probably best for everyone he leaves and probably should have gone 18 months ago 

[AlexLaw76]

He looks lost when playing further forward. How we now play is stretching teams and running/passing into space etc

Aribo is very much a player who wants it to feet. Him coming on further forward seems to allow their defence to step up that little bit.

[Fabrice29]

The very definition of a player who needs a run of games to get rhythm but there’s no way he deserves that here. Uncomfortable with the talk about his attitude though, it’s lazy. He’s clearly just lost all rhythm and his qualities do not lend themselves to being a sub at all 🤣 

[Badger]

1 hour ago, S-Clarke said:

Yeah he wasn't very good, we lost the entire control of that midfield once Jander went off and he came on.

He was awful. That tackle by the way - red card worthy, no idea wtf he was doing. He's so off the pace it's unreal. 

I think that lungeing tackle came from his not controlling a ball when it came to him. He then appeared to chase it recklessly and go in for a challenge. At the time expected a red card to come out. 

[ally_uk]

Fuck him off in Jan, past it 

[Patrick Bateman]

1 hour ago, S-Clarke said:

Yeah he wasn't very good, we lost the entire control of that midfield once Jander went off and he came on.

He was awful. That tackle by the way - red card worthy, no idea wtf he was doing. He's so off the pace it's unreal. 

Agreed on both counts. I do think he's past his best too and should be moved on gracefully. He has been a decent squad player but not any more. 

[LeG]

Putting a player in the shop window - It's never been more obvious.  

[Gloucester Saint]

9 minutes ago, LeG said:

Putting a player in the shop window - It's never been more obvious.  

Trouble is, Joe will eat the whole display if it’s edible.

[Lighthouse]

I just hope he doesn’t drive to Leicester in the manner that he plays. He’ll stop at three service stations, make a wrong turn at Brackley, sit in the middle lane of the M1 doing 55 and arrive 20 minutes after the transfer window closes.

[SNSUN]

5 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

I just hope he doesn’t drive to Leicester in the manner that he plays. He’ll stop at three service stations, make a wrong turn at Brackley, sit in the middle lane of the M1 doing 55 and arrive 20 minutes after the transfer window closes.

Rumours their new manager could be Russ too. That would be doubley funny.

[spyinthesky]

Just now, SNSUN said:

Rumours their new manager could be Russ too. That would be doubley funny.

Interesting that Rangers have won their last 5 games and now are above Celtic in the League table.!!!
I wonder why?

[Gloucester Saint]

Just now, spyinthesky said:

Interesting that Rangers have won their last 5 games and now are above Celtic in the League table.!!!
I wonder why?

You gotta Rohl with it.

[Saint Fan CaM]

Bye Joe. Thanks for all the…errr…strolls.

[Turkish]

A player that you very often forgot played for us. Contributed very little which is a shame as I always thought he was technically very good, physically big and strong so should have done more than he did. Another one of the famous 9/10 2022 transfer window that did nothing for us 

[beatlesaint]

24 minutes ago, spyinthesky said:

Interesting that Rangers have won their last 5 games and now are above Celtic in the League table.!!!
I wonder why?

Russ will tell you it’s because of all the work he put in coming to fruition 🤣

[Badger]

29 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

You gotta Rohl with it.

As we should have done. 

[Badger]

Isn’t Aribo out of contract at the end of the season. If so, this could be the last we see of him. 

[Colinjb]

How the hell has he made 95 appearances for us? Played for us more then any other club he's been at.

[IOWSaintDaz]

Just wish he'd piss off really, nothing but a wages leach this season with nothing good to offer

[Lee On Solent Saint]

22 minutes ago, Badger said:

Isn’t Aribo out of contract at the end of the season. If so, this could be the last we see of him. 

Let's fuckin hope so

[Sheaf Saint]

Yeah he won't be missed. The very best you can say about his time with us is that he was a useful squad player in our 23/24 promotion season. That's it. 

Never done anything of note, and certainly did nothing to warrant having his own song (that our fans bizarrely seemed to love singing even when he wasn't playing), when much better players than him never got one. 

Very glad to see his wages off the books finally.

[St. Ciervo]

<y nipples are hard. This is all great news. 10/10 window.

[coalman]

On his day, capable of looking like a footballer for whole minutes at a time. Nobody can remember what day that was.

[Wade Garrett]

Lazy fucker, will not be missed.

 

[Thripp87]

Surely bankrupt Leicester won’t be paying his ridiculous wages?

Never rated Aribo, lovely to see dross like this out the club. And even better news we won’t hear that silly song we sing for him whenever he appears. 

[beatlesaint]

39 minutes ago, Wade Garrett said:

Lazy fucker, will not be missed.

 

He had a much better terrace chant/song than his ability deserved.

[Chez]

32 minutes ago, Thripp87 said:

Surely bankrupt Leicester won’t be paying his ridiculous wages?

 

They will be paying some of them if not all. I seriously doubt he is on anything like some of the shite player wage websites suggest. 

[Midfield_General]

15 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

I just hope he doesn’t drive to Leicester in the manner that he plays. He’ll stop at three service stations, make a wrong turn at Brackley, sit in the middle lane of the M1 doing 55 and arrive 20 minutes after the transfer window closes.

If he drives, he won’t get further than Newport Pagnell because it’s got a KFC, a Burger King and a Krispy Kreme

Edited 6 hours ago by Midfield_General

[Badger]

2 hours ago, Wade Garrett said:

Lazy fucker, will not be missed.

 

After his time at Rangers I was expecting he might offer us something. But no.

I think his running style didn’t help fans perception of him. He always looked as if he was the player that was trying to keep going in the 97th minute. Trouble was that was his style from kick off. 
 

Agree with you, won’t be missed. 

[CB Fry]

9 minutes ago, Badger said:

After his time at Rangers I was expecting he might offer us something. But no.

He was a significant contributor in our Championship season to be fair to him. I had higher hopes that he would be similar this time out but not to be. 

Fully expected him to be off to a lower standard league (like Fraser). For him to get a spot at another big Championship team seems mad to me. Thoughts and prayers Leicester.

[bpsaint]

I remember some of the comments on social media from Rangers fans when he joined about how he was too good for us, or that he deserved to go to a bigger club. Guess that shows just how fucking awful Scottish football is if this guy was a world beater up there.

[redkeith]

My abiding memory of Aribo was the cup game against Blackpool. 

We were 2 nil up and I was hoping we might get a bit of much needed confidence. Blackpool broke away and aribo was running back with one of the Blackpool players, but decided to leave him and Mark someone else who was stood still. The player that he was originally marking ran on and scored. 

Add to that they turning away from the Ipswich equaliser last season and the same again for the 2nd Millwall goal this season . 

Apart from being lazy and a coward , he is a top player !