I didn't really mean it as a criticism of him per se. More that he's not the most natural athlete, and is still learning when to press and when to hold. Its also a reflection of the fact that he has struggled for full peak fitness for most of this season due to the lack of pre-season. Accordingly, we don't yet know what his ceiling is in this style, but if this is his ceiling, he shouldn't be a long term priority to renew his contract.
He has struggled for peak fitness since he joined, wenger rarely played him the 90mins and same with emery. Football in this country is hard and some players just cant adapt the fitness levels. Also doesnt help we havent and dont play a possesion based game which then requires our players to have excellent endurance.
I have always liked him, if we can play like that every week and laca will last 70mins max then i think its not a bad thing.
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