Quote Originally Posted by Blink 1nce Quince 2wice View Post
I've kind of just lost any real hope for Xhaka already despite his manager's lack of personal instruction or coercion. It's not a one off anymore. He can literally do one thing well and that's when he feels like it and is on his game. Horrific waste of more money.
Wenger called Xhaka a box to box midfielder last season even though Xhaka established his growing reputation over in the Bundesliga playing like an up and coming "Xabi Alonso". I don't really rate Xhaka but Wenger stating this tells me all we need to know about what he sees in him as a player, he doesn't have a clue.

We have never needed Xhaka, he's not what this team needs now and is not what the team needed when we bought him.

Wenger seems to go out of his way to be different, I don't know whether it's deliberate or whether he thinks he's smarter than everyone else but he appears to do it time and time again. I don't understand why we didn't buy Kante when he was begging to join us, it was a no-brainer.