✍️ OFFICIAL Granit Xhaka (Out)

[A_G]

Xhaka and Mustafi will always be the poster boys for Arsenal's decline from being a Champions League team, I also put Lacazette there.

Lacazette joined after the club fell out of the CL.

 

[BigPoppaPump]

Lacazette joined after the club fell out of the CL.

Yes I know that why I said I put Lacazette in there since it's my own personal opinion. He didn't make us drop out but helped in us staying out because he's poor for 3/4 of the season. What was the away goal drought he had? Him and Özil being so poor away from home was a big detriment.

 

[Taneruit]

He’s a fraud.

He's unreliable, but there's more and more people reporting that the deal is done.

Can still be absolutely fake, and it probably is, but it begins to reach a certain point.

 

[A_G]

Yes I know that why I said I put Lacazette in there since it's my own personal opinion. He didn't make us drop out but helped in us staying out because he's poor for 3/4 of the season. What was the away goal drought he had? Him and Özil being so poor away from home was a big detriment.

Giroud played a bigger role in the decline of the club.

 

[Sammy1887]

Giroud played a bigger role in the decline of the club.

Coupled with our ineptness in the transfer window. Still remember the summer where we only signed Cech.

Wenger + Gazidis towards the later years was a disaster..specially the bald head.

 

[Macho]

Giroud played a bigger role in the decline of the club.

This guy cost of so much I am actually tired of seeing his name on the forums he completely sabotaged the ting.

Definitely got better with age, but nah f*ck that guy.

Let me delete my praise I don't even wanna show any ratings kmft.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

18M€ euros could be the number will make this deal happen we really need to move on taking too long and we not in position to listen to other bids because his stubborn head set to Roma

 

[BigPoppaPump]

Giroud played a bigger role in the decline of the club.

Yeah exactly, and Lacazette was even worse than Giroud. We spent 50 million on a downgrade. Regardless we qualified for CL with Giroud multiple times something we never did with Laca so how did he play the bigger role?

Once Alexis and Özil declined the writing was on the wall.

 

[A_G]

Yeah exactly, and Lacazette was even worse than Giroud. We spent 50 million on a downgrade. Regardless we qualified for CL with Giroud multiple times something we never did with Laca so how did he play the bigger role?

Lacazette played in a much worse team. Put him in that 2013-2016 side and he'd outscore Giroud.

 

[BigPoppaPump]

Lacazette played in a much worse team. Put him in that 2013-2016 side and he'd outscore Giroud.

That's you're opinion though, I don't agree. If Lacazette was so much better than Giroud then he'd play for France.

 

[rich 1990]

The day Olivier Giroud retires will be a good day when hopefully people shut the **** up about him.

 

[BigPoppaPump]

@rich 1990 bottled it.

 

[A_G]

If Lacazette was so much better than Giroud then he'd play for France.

If he had played in that Arsenal team he'd be outscoring him, that's the point. Whether that's enough to get into the France team doesn't really matter because Deschamps seems to want a big target man in his team.

 

[BigPoppaPump]

If he had played in that Arsenal team he'd be outscoring him, that's the point. Whether that's enough to get into the France team doesn't really matter because Deschamps seems to want a big target man in his team.

The guy can't even finish 90 minutes you ain't outscoring anyone if you're tired after 30 mins. But again this is just opinions so no point going back and forth if we won't agree.

 

[Riou]

That's you're opinion though, I don't agree. If Lacazette was so much better than Giroud then he'd play for France.

He didn't say he was better, he said he would score more, which he would...style wise, Laca would have suited that team better than Giroud...feel Giroud and Laca are about the same level as players though, with Olivier being more useful for teams that could cover his flaws like France can/could.

Even in that little six month spell in 17/18, Sanchez-Laca-Özil were very good to watch together, despite the team pretty much falling apart around them...shame we didn't get to see that attack for longer, and when Alexis and Mesut were in their prime.

 

[BigPoppaPump]

He didn't say he was better, he said he would score more, which he would...style wise, Laca would have suited that team better than Giroud...feel Giroud and Laca are about the same level as players though, with Olivier being more useful for teams that could cover his flaws like France can/could.

Even in that little six month spell in 17/18, Sanchez-Laca-Özil were very good to watch together, despite the team pretty much falling apart around them...shame we didn't get to see that attack for longer, and when Alexis and Mesut were in their prime.

That spell where he kept getting benched/not even starting at all? I remember people being mad at Wenger for not giving him enough game time and dropping him lol. He just never had the fitness for the PL you could see form day 1. Also wasn't Alexis pretty much finished by then? I really don't remember this period you're talking about and you tend to have rose tinted glasses for the past.

 

[GDeep™]

Stan was the reason for our decline, he simply didn’t back Wenger to maintain or push for more. You can’t blame the players, it’s not the fault of Giroud that there was no other striker to take his place.

We had to sign Özil OR Higuain. Both would’ve cost 80M and won you the league definitely.

Xhaka is actually a good footballer and a strong character, he’s just maybe in the wrong league and a toxic club.

If he wasn’t an Arsenal player and we watched him in the Euros, most of this would be saying we need a leader like him.

 

[GDeep™]

If he had played in that Arsenal team he'd be outscoring him, that's the point. Whether that's enough to get into the France team doesn't really matter because Deschamps seems to want a big target man in his team.

Might be out scoring him, but so would Darren Bent. All round though, Giroud was a better player.

Should’ve signed Higuain AND Özil. I don’t even rate Higuain but he would’ve put away all those easy chances Giroud missed for 3 months when we were on course for a title.

 

[Monstar-Gunn4r]

Might be out scoring him, but so would Darren Bent. All round though, Giroud was a better player.

Should’ve signed Higuain AND Özil. I don’t even rate Higuain but he would’ve put away all those easy chances Giroud missed for 3 months when we were on course for a title.

Di Maria was the one to sign, needed a bit more pace in the forward line when Walcott was injured, could've followed it up with Fabregas the following year then. What could've been

 

[A_G]

Should’ve signed Higuain AND Özil. I don’t even rate Higuain but he would’ve put away all those easy chances Giroud missed for 3 months when we were on course for a title.

Imagine if they'd let Walcott go to Liverpool in January 2013 and signed Sturridge as his replacement like the rumours said? 2013 Studge ahead of Özil was a guaranteed title.