Country: England
It’s begun already. Wow.It's a mistake to give Auba his big fat contract, and it seems we have learnt nothing from the Özil debacle. How can we go around whining about Kroenke not giving us money to spend, when we are doing a terrible job getting the max out of the money we do have? When we pay a player 300k-350k per week you expect someone who can do more than merely playing well, you expect someone who is able to carry the team by himself the way Sanchez/Henry/Cesc/RVP carried us in the past. Auba is incapable of being that player, just like Özil he's icing in the cake and will never be the cake. He can only perform when the rest of the team is performing. And at his age his decline is something that is inevitable and totally expected, so no one can say they can't see his decline coming before he signed his contract.