And Mertesacker is god damn awful against pace or power. He has the turning speed of a cruise ship. He looks half decent alongside Kos because he has the speed to mop up after him.
Mertesacker wouldn't get anywhere near City, Chavs or Manures first teams.
Merts is a turd by any measure. But he has the others watching his back and because we did better than usual at the end of the season we've rolled him into the myth. Is good to see Sagna back in form, Gibbs will be injured most of the season and if Kos gets injured it's back to square 1. You missed Ches who we can squeak by with, shame we don't have a top keeper though. Jenks is willing but a back up at best, Monreal, average, might be okay in his second year. CB and LB deffo needed, plus a keeper in ideal world.Originally Posted by LDG
Caz, Arteta, Wilshere - yes, decent players but look at the cunts they have to work with in front of them. Happily Gervinho is out of here but the sad thing is he's better than Walcott who we are still stuck with. I know people are split on Walnut and see twelve goals against Reading reserves as the ultimate mark of quality but if we had a couple of decent players wide who could link with the three you mentioned then we are in business. Instead we have assholes who break up the play as soon as the ball comes near them. Maybe Ox can fill the role but he's badly out of form at the moment. A couple of decent players needed here and a strong central player.
Up top, obviously get rid of all of them and start again. Giroud's a decent enough sub in the Bendtner class but without the attitude so okay, keep him for when the injury crisis hits.
Basically it's 8 years of selling and underinvestment. A player a year isn't unfair given the cash these bastard owners have raked in. What we have can't possibly challenge and if Wenger really can't see that then he should piss off. It's not even that, I want to see some decent football this year, stuff that's worth watching. Can't be done with players who don't know the basics. Proper players required or at least a coach that can drill them in the basics. True, Utd aren't great on paper but they have the discipline and the one genuine world class player. They don't play the stupid shit we play, they don't make the elementary mistakes. This shit with us has been going on for years, it's unbelievable. And it was all on display again yesterday, as was the predictability of the loss as soon as a couple of decent players took to the pitch.
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If you smear Nutella on the window, it's much easier.
This is so obvious it's painful.
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Everytime I see Metersacker turning I pickup my Sky remote and press the fast forward button to try and speed him up to normal speed. Usually takes the x16 option to achieve that.
Agreed, I can defo detect movement at x16
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I hate comparisons of these types but I don't think he's discernibly worse than Cahill or Ivanovic. Vidic or Rio are often one of the walking wounded so usually they're relying on Smalling/Evans/Jones.
Yeah he's slow but we've had crap defenders that are fast.
To be fair on Mertesacker he is better than any of our other defenders at set pieces, you look at the games against stoke last year....the ball into the box causing chaos scenario didn't come to pass because he was there to clear the danger. He's got f**k all pace, but he's quite a useful player to have in certain situations.
Arteta is a mid table ability player who is being played out of position, Wilshere is just awful since he's come back because he's tried to adapt his game to run past players instead of spraying his beautiful passing around.....Cazorla is quality but played out of position.
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