Granit Xhaka

[Highbury Hillbilly]

Xhaka and Mustafi will both be here long after Arteta leaves. The guys are basically impervious to injury, they will always be picked to play.

[alexafc12]

Xhaka back. Arsenal back.

[elkanofan]

ANOTHER REMINDER!

we have won a total of ONE, yes ONE GAME IN THE LEAGUE ALL SEASON.

without Xhaka.

Xhaka maybe flawed but we are f***ing lost without him. I don't even care if he goes but Partley is the level of player we need at a BARE f***ing MINIMUM to replace him.

IMO Both Xhaka and Lacazette would improve 3 fold with one classy attacking mid playing between them. Or at least a high quality attacking mid with movement.

[Highbury Hillbilly]

Players voted him captain for a reason. He's well liked in the team, and clearly nobody else wants the hassle.

[VCC]

Cue the next loss and Xhaka getting hung lol.
Glad he must of had a decent game with the above comments

[ag6789]

He can't be a good influence on the team. Given away 186 fouls and received 32 yellow and 2 red cards. Won 612 duels and lost 572. He's scored only 7 so far.
How many of his follies have led to goals and defeats or point losses? Staggering!

[Arsenal Tone]

I'm still a fan

[Ach]

Has to go surely now?

[Santi]

Yep, the best bit was he put the armband on about 5 mins before he f***ked up

[Salibatelli]

Average midfielder, how any manager can make him a regular is beyond me, has always been a liability, Arsenal seem to specialise on 1st team era that are a liability!

[ag6789]

Who else do we have? Ramsey left for free , Mikhi on loan,; Ceballos, Willock, Douzi & injury prone Torreira. Will Arteta conjure another one from earth, wind and fire?
Stupid posts all round.

[Salibatelli]

He was picking Xhaka when Torreira was fit, moreover he can play Luiz there, playing Xhaka all the time is nonsensical.

[elkanofan]

Average midfielder, how any manager can make him a regular is beyond me, has always been a liability, Arsenal seem to specialise on 1st team era that are a liability!

Its not just i disagree. I'm going to repeat so people really wake up to the true sorry shit state the club is in midfield.

WE HAVE WON 1 GAME IN THE LEAGUE THIS SEASON WITHOUT HIM,

JUST ONE SINGLE GAME!!!!

This is NOT a coincidence. Xhaka is flawed, makes one mistake usually per match, slow and is not the most intelligent human being or a quick thinker(Hence the mistakes) He doesn't have impeccable vision or super flair skills or nothing.

What he has is a elite passing range few players can touch. His best attribute is his range passing. Luiz also has a good passing range, Ozil was all about precision and through balls but neither can hit a ball as quickly and accurately as him from anywhere on the pitch. It's the same thing Kroos/Scholes/Gerrard/Xabi Alonso have. These players could and did kill opposition with just one mistake, striker makes and run and BOOM pass and goal. This is a serious weapon, not many players can execute to that level. BTW Xhaka can do this with both feet. Not just his favoured left.

He's also by far our strongest and most disciplined midfielder, way, way ahead of the rest of the squad in this aspect. His positioning is excellent despite how poor his actual tackling ability is. His leadership skills are obvious on the pitch, he manages other players positioning and aggressively helps initiate the press. This is much more than i can say for any other midfielder, even favourite Torreria, he's not as effective or as good as Xhaka.

I'm happy for Xhaka to leave as its clear the transfer has not panned out the way we all wanted but we cannot be stupid and we need Partey at the very, very least if he goes. He is the perfect Serie A player so if we do sell him we should be looking a serious quality replacement. If he does go to Serie A he will be awesome there.

If he stays, this guy is our most important midfielder. He's is the only player as mentioned before off the ball on defence who is disciplned enough to hold our shape. He needs like I said with Matteo a quality attacking mid ahead of him. Then maybe his talent which he has in good abundance will be more clear, rather than the scapegoat label he is chastised with despite being our best midfielder.

Emery lost his way totally at Arsenal when Xhaka had his hissy fit, Arteta hasn't won yet in the league without him, infact i think we have only just beaten Bournemouth in the Cup without him.

I like Xhaka, i love playmakers and players with his passing range. These players define football skill. So I feel the need to disagree with you strong here to show everyone the benefits of having a player like Xhaka because we all f***ing know his flaws but we are totally unaware of how many strengths he has.

[Dejan]

It is a coincidence because xhaka is f***ing shit

He costed us alot of f***ing goals and points. You are going overboard with the statistic

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[Highbury Hillbilly]

I'm over Xhaka tbh, the storyline has been boring since the shirt throwing incident resulted in literally nothing.

Thankfully Arteta spiced things up with the David Luiz side plot. Left us on a real cliffhanger with the sub today. Will he give away a penalty in his next game? Don't touch that dial!!