Does anyone else think this was a stupid decision to make. I mean 5mil for a 19 year old german international is a very low sum in todays market. It feels as if werder robbbed us. I hope there is a buy back clause.
Does anyone else think this was a stupid decision to make. I mean 5mil for a 19 year old german international is a very low sum in todays market. It feels as if werder robbbed us. I hope there is a buy back clause.
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It is very low but he was running into his last year on his contract so it was either £5m then and there or nothing a year later. So no, it wasn't a stupid decision (financially).
There's obviously an argument we should have done more to make him stay, namely by giving him games. Every week Ox flops it does make you wonder. If it wasn't for the homegrown rules I think we might have done more to hold on to Gnabry.
Personally I don't feel like it's much of a loss. I know a lot of people rate him here but I don't really see what's so special about him. He'll become a good player but I doubt he'll be a £40m signing for Real/Barca.
We'll never know what could have been. I think Wenger has lost his touch anyway. It may have been for the best for Serge to leave and develop elsewhere.
I thought he could have been a useful player for us, but time will tell on whether it was the right decision to let him go.
A hatty against San Marino certainly isn't an indicator of anything.
Wasn't he out injured for ages anyway? I'm sure he would have been given more game time if he'd been patient. Sending him to Tony Pulis on loan was a bad decison though.
He was out of contract and wanted to leave. What can you do?
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When fans get mad about stuff like the Gnabry situation, we tend to gloss over facts like he tore his ACL at a critical time in his development.Originally Posted by Gooner23
Still, I liked him when he debuted as I saw he had the intelligence needed to play Wengerball. Something Oxlade has never shown. He also has the technique to play it as well, which is something Theo has never shown.
I always felt the club should have kept him but it seems like he didn't want to stay.
Agreed. Wenger mainly holds players back these days. There's nothing to say that if Gnabry had stayed here he'd be even playing, let alone banging goals in. Gnabry was a casualty of the Bif era.
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Of course not. We were going to give him another contract but he wanted to leave. Simple as that.
He always did do the simple things right which players like Ox, Theo, Ramsey and Wilshere don't do. Sometimes he played it too safe though and didn't have that little bit of guile or skill to create something the way the best wingers are capable of. Neither do the four I mentioned apart from Jack (occasionally) so maybe we should have done more to keep him around.
But we should be aiming higher anyway so it's not a big loss.
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