it's the biggest question mark on Emery's performance so far IMO, why he favours these two players who concede goals and goal opportunites on far too regular a basisQuote:
Originally Posted by Özim
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it's the biggest question mark on Emery's performance so far IMO, why he favours these two players who concede goals and goal opportunites on far too regular a basisQuote:
Originally Posted by Özim
I think Xhaka was worse under Wenger and has actually show a reasonable level of consistency this season, granted he still has his moments.
Mustafi is awful though. 35m? We got bumped good and proper there.
Agree with that. Has his moments but every central midfielder gives the ball away - Torreira has done it a number of times recently. The big difference is Xhaka’s mistakes are magnified by the shite defence who, unlike other defences, struggle to bail their team mates out. Would definitely keep Xhaka as a squad player in the short term.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
you cant just a release a player without paying up his contract - its not like the real world.Quote:
Originally Posted by Özim
the problem seems to be that the new stadium was meant to herald this new club where we could compete with the big boys with transfers and salaries. yet we have spunked all the money on salaries on players who don't play and any worth while asset that we could sell the contract runs down.
also surely we can be self sufficient over a 5 year cycle as opposed to being yearly so if we need to push a player to push us to top 4 or Europa league glory then we need to push the boat out.
Mustafi is rubbish.
Ramsey confirmed to leave at the end of the season.
At least Juve have plenty of time to start building his very own treatment table.
He’s been very professional throughout this process to be fair to him.
Great move for him, good luck I say.
I’m struggling to remember if we’ve had this situation before, with a player agreed to go elsewhere still at the club for 5 months?
He’s been professional as you’d expect - although that should be a given really. Not sure how much we can rely on him in the final couple of months as he won’t want to risk anything that might affect his move or start to life at Juve.
The annoying thing is that we will probably need him because of how thin our squad is.
Hopefully the Suarez move happens to boost the options.
It’s nothing new for us. Even if we haven’t had a previous scenario where a player has signed a pre-contract in January, we’ve still had years of man-managing wantaway players. We pretty much all knew that guys like Henry, Cesc, Nasri, van Persie, Adabayeeyore, etc were leaving half way through their final seasons (no one will convince me that they didn’t know exactly where they’d be going and how much they’d earn - the agreements were all just done under the table back then). How many years of ‘Vieira to Madrid’ did we have to put up with? Some carried on playing with pride and professionalism right to the end, whereas others just... stopped. Guess it just comes down to personality?Quote:
Originally Posted by SMatthews
If anything marks the Ramsey situation as unique then it’s that the player didn’t particularly want to leave this time, and it’s the club that have called time on it.
All of that is very true.Quote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible