I disagree he is not meaningless he is the guy who picks up a yellow in the tunnel and who the other team presses when he has the ball in hopes he will turn the ball over for gilt edged opportunities. Our chances of getting a red card increase by 50 percent every time Xhaka is capped. And we know how great we are defending 11 on 10.
Just another aspect of the quality of Giroud. A player we should never have sold. Top man!Exactly, why can't our good players over the years be like this?
Meanwhile...I don't remember Mustafi every really being injured, ffs...while the likes of Xhaka and Giroud are just walking off broken bones
Yeah, looks like he’s just on target for what’s the usual amount of recovery and rehab for this type of injury. They just like to take pictures.
He’d have just left sooner, probably not for Utd though he would have had more choices.
There were so many ifs from 2006-2012, nothing worked in our favor especially on the injuries front. People here think that we should admire a bum like Xhaka for his recovery ability when we have a better chance of getting Europe without him.
We will likely sell him next summer yes. He should have been a squad player for a long time now.
If we didn’t sell Giroud we wouldn’t of been able to get Auba, it was three way deal with Dortmund
Giroud has better hair, not to mention beard. In the end, we all know that is what really matters. Gervinho was doomed from the start, the hairline gave it away.
The Frenchmen is a handsome fellow, if I looked like Giroud I’d never get married I’d go Shawn Kemp and have like 17 baby mommas.
Dude is 6’4 and ripped with good hair. The money helps immensely but you wildly over estimate the rest of us if Giroud isn’t good looking. Let’s get a poll of the ladies on the Giroud question. If he is ugly then I should shoot myself
With options I assume Arteta picks the best performers and does some rotation when needed. A manager who wants to succeed, does that.
This is where I am at too. Recent matches have put to bed the idea that Xhaka is indispensable or our midfield will be completely lost without him. Partey, Sambi and AMN at their best are doing much better than Xhaka and at their worst are pretty much the same as the results we get with Xhaka in the mid.
I prefer Elneny as a number 6, and I prefer everyone else to Xhaka as a number 8; so in my book he should be out mate. If we are short handed due to international competition I would prefer we call up a youngster or hold tryouts in pubs close to the stadium. People bag on Elneny, he is very safe and limited player who is a decent specialist as a pure defensive midfielder. I would hate him as a box to box midfielder.
