carlito'sway
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I don't like this, I think Gnabry has great potential. He was very good in the German Olympic team, and they faced some good opposition. It seems to have been forced on us by that useless loan move last year to West Brom. If he'd had a successful loan move he might have come back and been put in the squad, but Tony Pullis has screwed that up for us. It was just a wasted year. (I did read that Gnabry's representatives arranged that loan deal and Arsenal weren't that keen, but I don't know if that's credible or not. ) I think we might well regret letting him go, but I suppose as we're in the last year of his contract we're stuck with this situation.
I did not know about the loan deal details and his rep's role. I would not put all the blame on Pulis for Gnabry's failure at WBA though. If the player was performing well in training, he would have played. Pulis is not that dumb, he will use all the assets at his disposal.
Apparently his attitude was not above reproach either at WBA. When he came back at AFC half way last season, he was not even fit and was never called up by Arsène. So things are not that simple as we may see them form the outside.