elkanofan wrote:NovaGB wrote:elkanofan wrote:NovaGB wrote:If Emery survives to January, i think he needs to push Pepe out left, buy a RW who can cross, play 442 and flog Xhaka and bring in Doucoure.
And do not sign Ceballos, the guy looks lost.
You do know Xhaka was one of if not our best layer today and we lost a lot of discipline when he was taken off?
Xhaka has his flaws but especially looking at how pathetic Ozil has been in his sissy behavior I have so much respect for Xhaka for his leadership of this team and always standing up, no matter the situation.
People have their favorite and Xhaka is a officially a scapegoat player so even like today he was probably our best player along with Pepe but gets no credit at all!
Whether he played well or not hes still a liability.
Xhaka and Doucoure together would look a lot like Petit and Vieira, which wouldn't be that bad.
Eh? Doucoure is a peak version of what we have in Willock now.
Xhaka is nowhere near the liability people make him out o be, hes miles better than Henderson for example but if you play in a lesser team when you f**k up you don't have the players around you to bail you out you get scapegoated.
Hey i'm judging him by what i see, booked pretty much every game, hilarious defensive mistakes, little to nothing coming forward, panicking on the ball, slow as shit, can't tackle, side ways passing, but hey he talks a good game......oh and he scored a long ranger once.
Its not like he makes the odd mistake, hes ridden in them ffs.
Willock is not really like Doucoure, hes nowhere near as physical, Doucoure is a big physical DM that charges forwards in a terrifying manner, similar to Patrick Vieira, a true box to box type, Willock is a attacking midfielder who has a good work ethic and will get back, but they are completely different animals, i'd say Willock was like Aaron Ramsey and Doucoure as i said is more like PV.
We need a intimidating presence in the middle, Doucoure can do a bit of Torreira plus he can attack to, thats what we need....as Emery keeps saying 'Defend and attack as a unit'