MaraDon
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fantastic news.
Key member, we go again
fantastic news.
Key member, we go again
Well after that pass, he was quite off pace. One would expect that considering that he this is his first game back after vacation and has had hardly 1-2 days of training.You all hear the ovation he got though? I need to keep in mind that the match going fans and the internet fans are not the same.
I liked how he come on the pitch and did a class outside the boot pass that sliced Chelsea's defence, but then did a bunch of bullshit after. Gargantuan player. All over the place like his Arsenal career.
Keeping Xhaka around to address our other problem areas? Our main problem is cm. He is literally part of the problem.Look, as much as a dislike him as a player I could understand keeping Xhaka around for a season for the purpose of addressing other problem areas. Suppose much of this depends on whether or not the targets the club ha in mind are available and or affordable.
What I don't understand is handing Xhaka a new contract, with a pay rise no less. The club is pushing the boat out to protect an asset which already has minimal value (as evidenced by Roma's paltry offer) and which will only depreciate as he ages. Why not let him run out his current contract if you can't shift him FFS?
Baffling decision making.
I agree with you but we don't live in a fairy tale world where we have the capacity to overhaul the entire squad in the space of one summer transfer window. As I've said in my initial post, much of this stuff depends on the availability/affordability of targets. It's frustrating but as poor as Xhaka is, the CMs we've been linked with don't particularly stand out. It'd be misguided, not to say inflexible, to desist from chasing after obtainable targets in Martinez and Maddison/Ødegaard just so we can go after what is, in this window at least, a chimera.Keeping Xhaka around to address our other problem areas? Our main problem is cm. He is literally part of the problem.
Especially when you can't keep him and put him on the bench. If he stays he starts. It's that simple, and we could walk into the new season with a double pivot of him and Elneny. It literally wont matter if we have Martinez and Maddison. Those two wont get them the ball or protect the back 4.
Precisely. It is the main reason I don't think AM is a necessity. For me the bare minimum this window was a partner for Partey. That came first before anything else for me. Irrespective of whether Xhaka was here or not.I agree with you but we don't live in a fairy tale world where we have the capacity to overhaul the entire squad in the space of one summer transfer window. As I've said in my initial post, much of this stuff depends on the availability/affordability of targets. It's frustrating but as poor as Xhaka is, the CMs we've been linked with don't particularly stand out. It'd be misguided, not to say inflexible, to desist from chasing after obtainable targets in Martinez and Maddison/Ødegaard just so we can go after what is, in this window at least, a chimera.
It's not ideal but it's the world we live in.
lol I'm not mad at Xhaka staying at all, but going from being on the market for 20m and openly flirting with Roma - to extension and supposed key member of the team is genuinely a disasterclass.
I still think he goes personally, but the most entertaining transfer window arc by far.
These amateurs running the show send so many mixed messages to us fans, they had been threatening clear outs all season last season and yet overcharged for players that clearly shouldn't be here for one reason or another.
Interesting take, I've been largely going on reports that have been consistent all season.Well, yes and no.
Generally this situation is probably much less complicated than it seems and comes down to one reason:
Xhaka was never on the market.
Mourinho has been buttering up Xhaka for a while (going back to 2019). Xhaka was never going to join him at a direct rival, because that's not him. So, when the Tottenham split happened and he went to a totally different league Xhaka thought to himself *Maybe its time for a fresh start*. Requests the transfer to Roma. Roma doesn't pay up and drags it along endlessly. Arteta has another talk with Xhaka when he came back and Xhaka decided to rethink and stay.
So, the only thing that happened is that Roma didn't pay up. Everything else was business as usual.
Interesting take, I've been largely going on reports that have been consistent all season.
Your scenario wouldn't surprise me at all though.
Can't wait for you to absolve your master of the blame and heap all the blame on Xhaka when it inevitably goes tits up.lol
Willock is a different sort of player.
Lokonga will get mins but needs time to settle.
Xhaka made a great pass pretty much as soon as he came on & also scored.
What did you expect Arteta to say?
Sorry to the internet that Granit & most of the squad cannot be replaced this summer. Unfortunately its not quite that easy in the actual real World.
Now kindly Please get back to your computer games