Quote Originally Posted by 21_GOONER_SALUTE View Post
There's nothing going on with him behind the scenes.

Almost every poster here creamed themselves on how perfect our transfer window was and how Pepe was going tear this league apart, everyone clearly having amnesia on how terrible our defending was and how that should have been our only priority last summer.

Anyway I told you so's won't help anyone, he's a good young talented player, but expecting an attacking player to come from a different league and instantly set it ablaze, choosing to ignore all the inherent problems we had with the poor management, was so naive of so many on here.

Also if we now decide to turn on him and start discussing flogging him off, that would make us even more stupid and silly. Go ask Chelsea fans and they'll tell you about Salah and De Bryunne.

We've got to get our house in order first, get a decent manager, get some worthwhile defenders.... and after a period of stability, we can talk about Pepe.

Oh, and I think the only part of the lineup Freddie got right was the ozil-laca-Auba part.
It was something of a rhetorical question/position.
I think given the car crash that was the end of our season and varying degrees of interest/disinterest from the ownership, our window was a success. Even if we hadn't lost Iwobi, Pepe was a missing part of this squad. The fact we didn't bring in a top defender shouldn't mask that, however the priority list was drawn up.

Pepe has been playing well and actually should be playing. The fact he didn't see the light of day today despite a change in management is a concern. We are not a club that can afford to have 72 million signing polishing his boots on the bench. We need that singing to work and this isn't a good way about going about it.