Quote Originally Posted by Mac76 View Post
Jesus was excellent when he first came to the club, that great start to the season two years ago simply wouldn't have happened without him

but the injury he got at the World Cup seemed to affect him from then on and he's since regressed into a player who not only can't score but doesn't do much else of use either

A real shame but the point is, he is no longer the player we bought, it doesn't make it a bad signing

Zin on the other hand - I genuinely believe we would have won the title last year without him in the side
I have to say the whole Zinchenko thing is one of the biggest examples of a post hoc fallacy I can think of…unless you’re saying he was responsible for us losing to Villa at home as well (and whilst his casual meandering certainly didn’t help, that was a game we needed to win, not just not lose and we created shit). But if you want to attribute the dropped two points in August to us not winning the title, there’s a far more explicit culprit and that’s Arteta. The guy who dicked around with the lineup so we looked second best to Fulham for two thirds of that home game.

And Jesus was missing chances, right, left and centre even before he got injured at the World Cup. Yes his work rate was good but it was Saka, Odegaard and Martinelli creating space for him. I think apart from the fact that Arteta insists on playing him centrally which doesn’t work, he’s a lazy shit. Often just won’t make runs or make himself available for passing

For me you can tell the difference between a player who has lost something as a result of injury and a player who isn’t trying. Eduardo fell into the former category, I always think if you suffer an injury shocker like that it can stay in the back of your mind and it affects your reactions and instincts.

You’ve got to be prepared to do the leg work in the premier league even if things are not going for you. Trossard has been having a stinker at times this season, but what I will say for him is that the effort is always there