It is. Mari didn't look have troubles against Newcastle he complete 120min without problems it's just an excuse until January is overFunnily enough that wouldn’t surprise me if it was actually true
It is. Mari didn't look have troubles against Newcastle he complete 120min without problems it's just an excuse until January is overFunnily enough that wouldn’t surprise me if it was actually true
Amazing post.need to fire more staff to afford to play Mari
need to fire more staff to afford to play Mari
They are good at this even hide him on recent training sessionWe have some 'Q' level conspiracies going on at Arsenal currently
It is a crap signing.
...can't you believe it's already been a year!
Only seems like yesterday that @GDeep™ was calling this signing worthless.
It is a crap signing.
This forum is funny, I’m always labelled as negative or a moaner but the club finished 8th last season, is mid table today, and has spent record amounts over the last 2 years.
8m for a third or fourth choice CB who is happy to be a squaddie and compete for minutes is fine. All clubs except for perhaps City need this kind of player. He’s mostly been injured, so we can’t lump final table position last season or even current table position on him. When he’s played most recently he has looked pretty solid. If you want to go there with injuries then that would be a problem because it would drag in Tierney, Partey, etc. That stuff (injuries) happens.
He doesn't want Ødegaard because its a loan only. He wants to play totally out of form Willian as AMF rather.
In this case he doesn't want pretty cheap left-footed CB backup. He'd rather we do a "Liverpool", and play CMF's as CB's.
We have Elneny and Xhaka after all. Almost as good as Fabinho and Henderson as CB's. What Liverpool does here is ideal for GDeep.
Of course we don't have as good CMF depth as Liverpool anyway, but that doesn't matter to GDeep either.
He’s going to say the Mari signing should have been a worldie CB signing because Holding-Gabriel shouldn’t be first choice, but last season we blew our wad on Pepe and Saliba, and that can’t be blamed on Mari. Our club business was shocking, can’t argue with that, but it is a different argument.
It's a bit sad, but do we need GDeep here? We can basically play a game "What would GDeep say?" and do his part ourselves!
Farewell GDeep, to bluer pastures!
I think both Mari and Cedric have shown themselves to be more than serviceable back up option, Mari in particular.
I still have issues with the length of Cedric's contract but he's more than serviceable as a back up RB who can also fill in well at LB.
Mari's barely put a foot wrong in the games he's played this season and has looked pretty solid. He seems quite a shrewd signing now to be honest.
Yep and both of these signings weren't Arteta's imho, I've always maintained that and didn't blame him for them.
At the same time it's only Cedric I really had an issue with (I thought it was outright stupid at the time lol) and I still think it was the wrong type of profile but I didn't expect him to be as good as he's shown so I'll admit that I got that wrong.
Hopefully they will continue to be useful in the squad.
The problem has been that we have problems all over the squad. It's a long process.
We don't have money to buy great players to every position, so have to patch up with cheaper players until we can afford more expensive ones.
To me it seems like more people should go support City rather than complain non-stop here about the signings.
Next summer will be interesting with all the freeing wages. Let's hope we get European Cup qualification again. I hope Arteta is trusted until next year unless he face plants totally in next few months.