Sokratis, Mustafi, Luiz & Xhaka

comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 8 hours, 51 minutes ago
All the Xhaka haters can't get around the fact that he is a key player for Arsenal. He was under Wenger and Emery and he is not under Arteta.
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A key player for a team in 10th, GT.

He has been ok this season, but we really need to improve on him.

comment by Tu Meke - He'sGotRedHair! (U3732)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 8 hours, 51 minutes ago
All the Xhaka haters can't get around the fact that he is a key player for Arsenal. He was under Wenger and Emery and he is not under Arteta.
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A key player for a team in 10th, GT.

He has been ok this season, but we really need to improve on him.


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And?

He's not particularly good.

Full Time. . Monaco 0-1 St.Etienne

Solid game from Saliba after being out since late November due to yet another injury.

He dealt with everything on the ground and in the air despite Monaco being camped inside the St.Etienne half for the entire game. Keeper barely had anything to do over the final 10 minutes of play.

It was interesting to see him slot right into an unfamiliar (to me, at least) left-sided CB position and bossed his way to a very impressive clean sheet despite his team only managing 25% possession all game.

I still have questions though. His various injury problems mean that this was only his 6th league game of the season.

comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 9 hours, 40 minutes ago
All the Xhaka haters can't get around the fact that he is a key player for Arsenal. He was under Wenger and Emery and he is not under Arteta.
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And the Xhaka bum as hers can’t get around the actual fact that we have not qualified for the CL since he joined us.

Bumbashers lol @ autocorrect

Luiz is our best defender currently. Only a idiot would let him go.

I think some want to turn any critique of a player as a love or hate thing. Not very intelligent is it?

Give me footballing reasons why we can't sit back deep and counter attack after we take a lead? Why do we need to be pushed to the half way line for Xhaka to be effective?

We have rightly praised Arteta for improving us but what has he done different to Emery apart from pushing us higher up the pitch? Emery used to play deep to protect his defence. And we looked terrible. Arteta pushes us to the half way line and we look better? But then whenever we drop deeper to defend a lead we look terrible! Who is responsible for that? Xhaka! The man is too slow to transition the ball. His medium range passing is average at best and he is slow physically to carry to carry the ball from defence to attack.

The idea somehow that the whole fanbase hates a player because? Just ridiculous narcissism!

comment by Anti_Stan_KRONK_ee 88 (58 years since Tottenh... (U1179)
posted 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
Luiz is our best defender currently. Only a idiot would let him go.
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if true...this is half of your trouble

comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 1 day, 8 hours ago
comment by Anti_Stan_KRONK_ee 88 (58 years since Tottenh... (U1179)
posted 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
Luiz is our best defender currently. Only a idiot would let him go.
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if true...this is half of your trouble
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Exactly, only an idiot could see Luis as our best defender. He's SHOCKING! Supposed to be an experienced head helping a young defence and he's a liability to them. Baby Torreira is having to tell the supposed experienced top player, where to run. And he STILL runs the wrong way half the time. Luis is a classic example of a lousy CB being made to look WAY better than he is, by virtue of playing in an extremely strong team. A team which was so strong, his flaws weren't too badly exposed.

Nowhere near the level of talent in this team as his successful Chelsea ones. Now the rest of his defence and the MF can't carry him he's been truly exposed for the utter liability he is. Sorry but anyone running Mustafi out of the club, needs to be running Luis out right along with him. Anti Mustafi but pro Luis is some backwardass BS logic, when Luis has been worse in half a season than Mustafi ever was in a whole one.