- The previous Premier League cult hero seems unrecognisable as he loved a beer
- He attended the Champions League closing on Saturday the place PSG beat Inter 5-0
- The 44-year-old sported a blue cap and black glasses as he held a stein of beer
A former Arsenal cult hero appeared completely unrecognisable as he loved a beer forward of the Champions League closing in Munich final week.
The ex-Premier League star was seen tucking right into a stein of beer alongside former Hull Metropolis and Russia supervisor Leonid Slutsky earlier than attending PSG’s thrilling 5-0 thrashing of Inter Milan on Saturday – as Luis Enrique’s facet lifted their first ever Champions League trophy.
The 44-year-old, who scored 31 targets in 144 appearances for the Gunners, appeared scarcely recognisable as he sported a blue cap, finishing his new look with black glasses and a white t-shirt.
Nicknamed the ‘child confronted murderer’ by some, the Russian additionally seemed to be tucking right into a sausage and chips.
The previous winger moved to the Emirates for £15million in 2009 from Zenit St Petersburg and loved a succesful four-year stint underneath Arsene Wenger.
He’s finest identified for a outstanding particular person cameo the place he scored 4 occasions at Anfield in a scintillating eight-goal draw towards Liverpool in 2009.
It’s certainly Andrey Arshavin.
Andrey Arshavin appeared unrecognisable as he tucked right into a beer stein in Munich final week
The previous Arsenal cult hero famously scored 4 occasions towards Liverpool at Anfield in 2011
The Russian scored all 4 targets for Arsene Wenger’s facet as they drew the eight-goal thriller
The retired ahead, who performed 75 occasions for Russia, can be lauded by Gunners followers for sweeping within the winner towards Barcelona to stun the Spaniards 2-1 of their Champions League spherical of 16 conflict in 2011.
Regardless of his heroic standing, followers had been nonetheless unable to recognise his new look.
‘He seems so harmless and… Regular right here… Cannot consider he is the identical man who scored 4 towards Liverpool,’ one fan wrote on social media.
‘He seems like a science instructor,’ one other added.
One fan stated: ‘Think about seeing him at a beerhall and he is like, ‘Yeah I performed within the Premier League for Arsenal.’
One other wrote: ‘That man put 4 previous Liverpool, let that sink in.’
It isn’t the primary time that Arshavin has stunned Arsenal followers together with his new look.
He shocked followers by carrying a woolly hat and huge black glasses whereas taking the London overground to look at Tottenham beat Fulham 2-0 in 2023.
Arshavin was additionally lauded for scoring the winner towards Barcelona within the Champions League
He additionally appeared unrecognisable two years in the past when he took the overground to Tottenham
After leaving Arsenal in 2013, Arshavin returned to Zenit, earlier than shifting to Russian facet Kuban Krasnodar.
He completed his profession at Kazakh membership Kairat in 2018 and now holds a backroom place at Zenit.
