Lichtsteiner has left

Sure he tried his best, just not quite good enough. Good luck to him.

comment by You Can't Buy Class (U12019)
posted 2 minutes ago
He was poor to average - fact. Maybe had 1 decent-ish game and made 1 goal line clearance in a Europa League group game.

You're all missing the main point here anyway. He should have never been signed. Signing expired players that are deemed to be too poor to play for clubs that we should be competing with (In Europe at least in the case of Juventus). If he's not good enough ti play for Juventus anymore then he should certainly not be good enough to play for us. Or at keast - that's how it should be, that's how it would be had our standards not fallen so much in recent times.

We should not become a retirement home for the garbage of clubs we have beaten in the Champions League in previous years (quite spectacularly as well when we beat Juventus).
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I'm not sure we are missing the point. Should have / would have / could have is irrelevant in this case. He WAS signed. So with that being the case and with him being ineffectual, we can be happy he's moving on.

What's wrong with that?

The lesson is not whether he should have been signed. It's how we can ensure we don't repeat this with a future signing.

I mean, it's pointless discussing him and what he contributed because he should have never been signed and that was the point being missed. Let's stop reminding ourselves of the embarrassing signing and hope it's the last time this type of thing happens.

We all know in reality it was very little. He tried hard, i'll give him that but he also talked a lot of s/-/it when he arrived, claiming that he had the body of a 25 year old and such.

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Literally only Gillespie Road discussed his "contributions". The only other conversations are with regards the slot created for a better player and the savings to the wage bill.

Surely that's appropriate given where we want / are hoping to go?

Nobody mentioned that he should never have been signed, hence the point was well and truly missed until I enlightened you

comment by You Can't Buy Class (U12019)
posted 14 seconds ago
Nobody mentioned that he should never have been signed, hence the point was well and truly missed until I enlightened you
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Over the course of the season, it's been mentioned several times. So there's no point doing so now he's leaving. But sure, you raised it, you win.

Only messing about mate, in a weird mood today.

You won`t be shifting Lolzil that easy

Best crosser of the ball we had on the right side.
I guess it's back to Ainsley hitting to first defender or Bellerin passing it backwards.

Maitland-Niles crosses much better than Lichtsteiner.