Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
Personally, I don't think the Gabriel and Kos partnership is better than Merts and Kos and I wouldn't tinker with that understanding at the tail end of the season.

Check the stats and you'll see we've lost more games with the Kos and Gabriel partnership this season. We've lost 9 games across all comps this season but 4 of those games we've lost with Kos and Gabriel as CB pairings. They hardly keep clean sheets either. Best to explore that partnership next season but for I wouldn't switch things up now when they haven't been successful so far.
Stats don't even begin to tell the story. But there's another way of looking at it. Which club in the top half of the PL would have Merts anywhere near their first eleven? It's like the terrible keeper syndrome, the shitty sideways midfielder affliction, Wenger will persist until the whole world is screaming at him and only then will he... sign him for another 5 seasons.