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We’ve got that fat plumber coming back from Schalke in the summer as well.
Hope we pay him off, can’t have him hanging around for another year.
Hope we pay him off, can’t have him hanging around for another year.
Maybe I should have stated my agreement to that comment like this. Maybe I wouldn't have gotten a warning from the mods. I have never abused Xhaka on here for anything apart from his severe lack of football intelligence.I hope any abuse is criticism directed solely at his footballing ability and doesn't cross the line. Amen to the latter.
Not scoring costs us games. Attacking every mistake is a sign of a punitive mentality, not a winning one. Mistakes are made every game by every team, every player. ManCity make mistakes, but they score goals to compensate. Xhaka has made 2 this season. Let’s support players who play hard for us.And yet of you take every little "mistake" that we've made this season out of the equation we probably have an extra 10 points, which would have us sat in 4th. Games are decided by fine margins. Mistakes cost you games.
Thanks for reminding us... **** me that is depressing!We’ve got that fat plumber coming back from Schalke in the summer as well.
How about anyone breathing? As long as Xhaka doesn’t feature I am happy!Serious question then, who can we buy this summer to partner Partey?
This is just silly reasoning, don’t you see that yourself? One doesn’t have anything to do with the other.Not scoring costs us games. Attacking every mistake is a sign of a punitive mentality, not a winning one. Mistakes are made every game by every team, every player. ManCity make mistakes, but they score goals to compensate. Xhaka has made 2 this season. Let’s support players who play hard for us.
Does it have to be the same profile though? Maybe go for a more mobile and technical player like Aouar, Bennacer or a similar type of ilkSerious question then, who can we buy this summer to partner Partey?
Ideally, someone with a similar profile to Xhaka (DM, progressive passer, physically capable) without the constant mistakes.
Ooh. Didn't know you ran I to trouble. With Manberg previously policing this thread like Robocop, I've felt it necessary to spell some things out so as not to fall prey to strawmanning and ever moving goal posts.Maybe I should have stated my agreement to that comment like this. Maybe I wouldn't have gotten a warning from the mods. I have never abused Xhaka on here for anything apart from his severe lack of football intelligence.
This is the real killer. Not many will admit it but you have Luiz having to do a fair bit of playmaking and then Laca dropping in to midfield to set up an attack. We then have exhausted forwards who make lots of runs that aren't seen (Xhaka not solely at fault here). Add the slow tempo he sets allowing every opponent to form a low block and and he's a big hindrance. The midfield is what holds any team together. It's the anchor. We need to move on completely. I don't even want him as a squad option.Never rated the Mustafi transfer, something about his face just screamed terrible defender, but I thought Granit was gonna be amazing, thought he was gonna be our missing piece in midfield...instead he just destroyed our midfield more or less, trying to accommodate him.
"Xhaka and Pogba, the new Vieira and Keane"
Like death and taxes, Xhaka’s mistakes are the one of the few certainties in life...Saw the phrase ‘Xhaka tax‘ on Twitter and thought that was a very apt way of describing him. For all his good games, you know you’re going to pay for it at some point.
Don't forget that we have one in Luiz as well, it's just luck that he didn't cost us in the last few games, he is probably saving it to knock us out of the ELYou couldn't make this stuff up. We will always be error prone while we have an error prone player at the base of midfield.