As you well know.....he honours his contracts. He certainly won't break it after Kroenke personally sanctioned him signing on amidst the increasing opposition voices.
As you well know.....he honours his contracts. He certainly won't break it after Kroenke personally sanctioned him signing on amidst the increasing opposition voices.
I've actually enjoyed watching Monreal, Kolas, Jack, Laca and even Ramsey (I missed a lot of his worst patches) this season though. Xhaka has just been a continuous car crash. At 35 million he should be able to do one isolated thing well with a modicum of regularity without having it dictated by his manager.Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
He honours his contracts in the same way a tapeworm honours the intestine.
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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.
Also, the one thing he can do well, he needs time and space to do it well. When under pressure he'll play a wayward reckless pass. When the YouTube clips of him spraying the ball around we're in circulation, you were right to point out that he was making those passes with zero pressure and acres of space.
He really is a one dimensional player and should be a sub to come on for specific conditions.
Deeney was absolutely right.
Agreed, it's just plain weird to be honest, Xhaka was never a player we need, never mind a 35 million pound midfielder, he's at best average, he adds absolutely nothing to the team, even his forte his passing is nothing special, Wenger has condeded the guy can't tackle so why he was bough to play DM is beyond me.
He's not smart, not smart at all, absolutely clueless perhaps but not smart, a smart man would simply not make the ridiculous decisions he does.
I'm going to throw Ozil into that category as well. The introduction of both Xhaka and Ozil has created more problems than actually solving. The tall has been on how best to get more from them and forget about what the team actually needed.
Buying a CM that can't tackle or dictate our flow of passes from the midfield was a mistake. Buying an attacking midfielder who has done little to increase the potency of our attack was also a mistake. We needed a tough tackling DM and striker that can score 30 a season. Now we're having to find ways to bed in players that we didn't need in the first place and don't compliment the other players around them.
Wenger was chasing Xhaka for a couple of years at least, as the natural replacement for Arteta. I liked Arteta, thought he was an honest pro who always gave his best for the club. But, unfortunately for him, Wenger found in him the ideal man to perform the duty Wenger values above all else - keeping possession. If Wenger could introduce a rule where his players could hide the ball for the whole 90 minutes and then claim 100% possession he'd do it in a heartbeat. His absolute obsession with pointless possession is what has killed our game and sucked every drop of entertainment from it. And Xhaka was supposed to be the guy who could step in and keep the sideways circus running. But it turns out Xhaka's hasn't got a fraction of Arteta's composure under pressure. So we've ended up with a guy who can do the sideway routine all day long, provided the opposition allow it. And most do. They must find it hilarious to watch us fucking around, sideways, sideways, backwards, instead of getting it up to out new 50 million quid striker (when he's on the pitch).
Xhaka is doing what that incompetent old fart wants him to do. Keep the ball. Doesn't matter the fuck what you do with it, but keep it. That way the opposition can't have it and that way they can't punish our ridiculous defence that Wenger refuses to coach properly and refuses to allow anyone else to coach properly. This is why Santi is Wenger's biggest loss. Cazorla can not only do all the fucking idiotic stuff Wenger demands, but he's two footed, super composed, ultra technical and can still create chances even from Wenger's joy sapping tactics.
Everything would change overnight if the old cunt just fucked off. I bet you every player (apart from Theo) would improve.
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That summer we made a big mistake going for a xhaka instead of a kante.
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