Quote Originally Posted by selassie View Post
I don't entirely disagree, but you can't say for sure that this will be the outcome with Xhaka without the game taking place. I am not sure exactly where you are taking this conversation now. I have admitted Xhaka has weaknesses and was moved into a position to mask them to an extent...I have said we can upgrade on him...he is not the only player we can upgrade on if we really want to cement ourselves as a top 4 team / challenging team.

It’s not we can upgrade on, it’s their presence in the side is detrimental to that progress. There’s a difference between we can do better than that player, and that player is harming us. We laugh at United for getting done over by Brentford….that would have comfortably happened to us (not necessarily conceding the amount of goals) but we would be under constant threat with the amount Xhaka gives away the ball.