Match Reaction Stoke 1-0 Arsenal

[selassie]

I can very easily think of at least 7 Clubs that have greatly outperformed us in this window. There will be a host more when we go backwards and leave ourselves weaker than we were when the window opened.

We have lost Alexis already whether he is an Arsenal asset this season or not.

These days Wenger manages to spend vast amounts of money on players that do very little to even improve the team. Have Xhaka and Mustafi improved us at all? He just spends money on players that are not suitable or not even improvements on what we have.

Next summer will be brutal when the contract rebels all walk out and Wenger will then spend the best part of the summer trying to prove everybody wrong by refusing to go into the market to replace them.

[Niall_Quinn]

These days Wenger manages to spend vast amounts of money on players that do very little to even improve the team. Have Xhaka and Mustafi improved us at all? He just spends money on players that are not suitable or not even improvements on what we have.

Next summer will be brutal when the contract rebels all walk out and Wenger will then spend the best part of the summer trying to prove everybody wrong by refusing to go into the market to replace them.

Leicester didn't spend, thus proving Wenger right in advance.

Wenger

[Xhaka Can’t]

What do you mean by "lost"? If he is not here then is he lost? Will he not know where he is? I think it is speculation to assume he will be lost, especially if he has a map. Can he have a map? We will not talk about that now, we will tell you later when the time it right. Speculation is not helpful.

I'm sorry. I wish I wasn't being respectful of the great spirit which is more important than the result because the great spirit and togetherness is always there, always important while the result is yesterday.

[Özim]

Xhaka a liability again, he really is a waste of space, 35 million quid for this unknown guy, someone needs their head checked because he was dreadful last season and looks just as bad this season, sums up Wenger really overpriced and 2nd rate.

[Xhaka Can’t]

These days Wenger manages to spend vast amounts of money on players that do very little to even improve the team. Have Xhaka and Mustafi improved us at all? He just spends money on players that are not suitable or not even improvements on what we have.

Next summer will be brutal when the contract rebels all walk out and Wenger will then spend the best part of the summer trying to prove everybody wrong by refusing to go into the market to replace them.

Why would we replace them when we already have too many players?

You have no idea how lucky it is that we are losing our three best (debatable) players.

[Niall_Quinn]

We need to find the positives. For instance, Kolasinac seems to have settled in very quickly and looked a lot more like a Wenger player yesterday. Although let's be cautious, his performance might have been down to him playing in his new position.

[Niall_Quinn]

Another massive plus - we aren't playing today and Game of Thrones is on. So hardly all doom and gloom, if you discount the army of the dead marching to destroy all of humankind which, I suppose, could be viewed as a metaphor.

Fucking Wenger, he's ruined GoT for me too.

[Power n Glory]

These days Wenger manages to spend vast amounts of money on players that do very little to even improve the team. Have Xhaka and Mustafi improved us at all? He just spends money on players that are not suitable or not even improvements on what we have.

Next summer will be brutal when the contract rebels all walk out and Wenger will then spend the best part of the summer trying to prove everybody wrong by refusing to go into the market to replace them.

Xhaka is terrible. The Ramsey and Xhaka combo was always a bad idea. The goal we conceded was predictable. Play them as a pair and We're going to be vulnerable down the middle if we lose the ball. Counter attack galore for our opponents.

[Power n Glory]

I'm sorry. I wish I wasn't being respectful of the great spirit which is more important than the result because the great spirit and togetherness is always there, always important while the result is yesterday.

That is a top top top quality post.

[Niall_Quinn]

Xhaka is terrible. The Ramsey and Xhaka combo was always a bad idea. The goal we conceded was predictable. Play them as a pair and We're going to be vulnerable down the middle if we lose the ball. Counter attack galore for our opponents.

It may look that way to an ably sighted observer, but there's more to it than that. The large gap in the centre forms a pretty, symmetrical pattern when combined with the huge holes on each flank. If you take a photo from above and cut it in half down the middle then put it against the mirror, you would have the whole photo back. Half the photo, twice the holes. This is not only excellent value but it can also be used to spot any stray coverage and work towards eliminating that too. The ideal contract situation should help next season when half the squad will disappear.