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Coutinho passed his medical, but it did show he has a right thigh injury - which kept him out of Liverpool's 2-1 win at Burnley on New Year's Day.
Barcelona said the midfielder is likely to be out for about three weeks, meaning the earliest he could realistically make his debut is the Catalan derby against Espanyol on 4 February.
Someone should have told Wenger.
I think if you take price into account, Xhaka could easily become one of the worst pound for pound signings under Wenger. The early comparisons I heard to Petit and Alonso is an insult to the pair of them.
Are we going to have any players in two years time? No one is signing new deals, our best players are off within the next 6 months, a number of players are coming into their last year of contract next season, a bunch of our other players want out (apparently), wenget wont spend any money.
I am struggling to imagine what our team will look like in a few seasons.
Yup and that's saying something as there's been plenty of shocking signings over the years. When we signed him, people were saying he was in the Bundesligue team of the year and one of the best midfielders in Germany, truth is he's absolute rubbish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blink 1nce Quince 2wice
Who knows, what we do know is that we're about to lose our best players and our squad is filled with dross due to the fact Wenger is always buying cheap rubbish. Welbeck, Walcott, Iwobi, Elneny, Coquelin, Chambers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thierrymon
We also have expensive rubbish like Xhaka and Mustafi.
Then we have players who are ageing and won't be around much longer Mertersacker, Koscielna, Monreal, Cazorla.
and of course players out of contract, Wilshere, Ozil, Sanchez, Debuchy.
Honestly our squad is in a terrible state.
Some would say it's an ideal situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Özim
Wenger shafted him when started encouraging him to try and win the ball higher up the pitch. Wenger did the same with Song after a successful season as DM. Encouraged him to get forward more and try to 'fool' the opposition into moving into the space vacated by Song. God k owns where that tactic has come from and despite seeing it fail he has tried it again with Coquelin.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
It is an insult to compare him to those players. That's why I'm not even having this deep laying playmaker role attached to him. He's a long ball merchant that can't defend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blink 1nce Quince 2wice
Should have brought Cesc back when we had the chance to. He’s still better than any of our centre mids.
Fuck Cesc