Quote Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn View Post
It’s got nothing to do with the players quality or not. I think Havertz is a very talented player for example, but we absolutely didn’t need him and he’s jumped from the frying pan into the fire at Arsenal.


Rice is an athlete, very fit, reasonably strong and he’s excellent at paint by numbers football. That’s why his stats are good because he does the easy things easily. But anything complicated like winning the ball deep and getting past players that will press him all over the place he’s going to look as silly as Elneny. It’s not his fault, he’s technically limited. Since you believe in God even though I don’t, it’s reasonable to say God didn’t make him that way. Certainly not as anything other than an average footballer.

It is misleading I concede to say he’s proved he’s a waste of money, because there was simply no possibility of him proving otherwise. His transfer fee set him up to fail
The little bit I saw was shocking, particularly Rice. He has a ton of games to find his groove, so not panic stations yet. But what he did in that match was below Sunday league level. The simple things, he got them all wrong. So I don't agree he's a master at that, based on what I watched.

Xhaka was the best midfielder. Any honest person could see that. Not great, just best.

Now it's the old, slow guy from the chavs.

So plenty of scope for the other guys who are pocketing a wheelbarrow of money every week to step up and deliver. Maybe they will.