The guys awareness is shocking.
I'm in awe of how inconsistent he is within a 90 minute performance, to the point where at full time I'm not even sure if he's had a great game or an awful one.
by ALLCAPS_ » Mon Oct 23, 2017 1:15 pm
by StLGooner » Mon Oct 23, 2017 6:18 pm
ALLCAPS_ wrote:The guys awareness is shocking.
I'm in awe of how inconsistent he is within a 90 minute performance, to the point where at full time I'm not even sure if he's had a great game or an awful one.
by Losmeister » Mon Oct 23, 2017 6:21 pm
GoonerAlexis wrote:Sims wrote:Mesüt wrote:Told u all along sims
Need big17 back to admit his xhaka mistake as well
Mesut & KG3 - team bin xhaka from the start
Every time I start to hate him he pings a long pass with his left foot and I get lured in again
I can’t help it
That pass from deep to Sanchez that led quite a few passes later to the equaliser.
He's so good at that. Think we should give him time, he's not completely hopeless like Ramsey.
by Cripps » Mon Oct 23, 2017 6:36 pm
by CaptGooner » Mon Oct 23, 2017 11:11 pm
by Santi » Tue Oct 24, 2017 3:17 am
by thebigbangtheo » Tue Oct 24, 2017 3:19 pm
by Arsenal Tone » Tue Oct 24, 2017 4:10 pm
thebigbangtheo wrote:Xhaka isn't and wasn't meant to be a defensive midfielder for us. He was brought in to play the deep lying playmaker role when Santi and Jack were both injured and Rambo proved it was detrimental to his natural game which is more box2box. Wenger didn't announce it like that so as to not put a negative slant on Santi's or Jack's future and deflect from not having bought the out and out defensive midfielder we are crying out for. The endeavour, selflessness and inspiration of a Petit or Gilberto Silva is what allowed for our arrays of talent to prosper and keep us on the front foot and as such defending was kept to a minimum so when called upon looked as good as man u or Chelsea's. De Bruyne, Silva, Sterling and Sane would not be destroying team's and essentially opposing midfield's without Fernandinho working his bollocks off at the base of that midfield quartet winning the ball and harrying anyone who dares to get within 40m of their goal. That is not Xhaka's game, give him a proper dm partner to play off and we will get to see the best of it.
by Fenice » Tue Oct 24, 2017 4:34 pm
Tony_Adams wrote:thebigbangtheo wrote:Xhaka isn't and wasn't meant to be a defensive midfielder for us. He was brought in to play the deep lying playmaker role when Santi and Jack were both injured and Rambo proved it was detrimental to his natural game which is more box2box. Wenger didn't announce it like that so as to not put a negative slant on Santi's or Jack's future and deflect from not having bought the out and out defensive midfielder we are crying out for. The endeavour, selflessness and inspiration of a Petit or Gilberto Silva is what allowed for our arrays of talent to prosper and keep us on the front foot and as such defending was kept to a minimum so when called upon looked as good as man u or Chelsea's. De Bruyne, Silva, Sterling and Sane would not be destroying team's and essentially opposing midfield's without Fernandinho working his bollocks off at the base of that midfield quartet winning the ball and harrying anyone who dares to get within 40m of their goal. That is not Xhaka's game, give him a proper dm partner to play off and we will get to see the best of it.
Spot on!
by Tex Texas » Tue Oct 24, 2017 5:23 pm
by thebigbangtheo » Tue Oct 24, 2017 7:20 pm
Fenice wrote:Tony_Adams wrote:thebigbangtheo wrote:Xhaka isn't and wasn't meant to be a defensive midfielder for us. He was brought in to play the deep lying playmaker role when Santi and Jack were both injured and Rambo proved it was detrimental to his natural game which is more box2box. Wenger didn't announce it like that so as to not put a negative slant on Santi's or Jack's future and deflect from not having bought the out and out defensive midfielder we are crying out for. The endeavour, selflessness and inspiration of a Petit or Gilberto Silva is what allowed for our arrays of talent to prosper and keep us on the front foot and as such defending was kept to a minimum so when called upon looked as good as man u or Chelsea's. De Bruyne, Silva, Sterling and Sane would not be destroying team's and essentially opposing midfield's without Fernandinho working his bollocks off at the base of that midfield quartet winning the ball and harrying anyone who dares to get within 40m of their goal. That is not Xhaka's game, give him a proper dm partner to play off and we will get to see the best of it.
Spot on!
And part of the issue with that, is he can’t do the job he was hired for. Sure he is young, but if we were looking for a Santi replacement, for that money, we could have gotten closer. And honestly, Santi contributed way more defensively than Xhaka does. He doesn’t fit this system and he didn’t fit the system before. He doesn’t fit our team. It was a mistake. Recoup what we can and move on.
by Santi » Fri Oct 27, 2017 10:26 pm
by EliteKiller » Sat Oct 28, 2017 12:39 am
by Nuggets » Sat Oct 28, 2017 6:39 am
EliteKiller wrote:You can't coach 'intelligence' we have a whole bunch of players who are naturally gifted in certain areas, sadly speed of thought is not one of them ... Jack, Theo, Aaron, Granit can all play football what they can't do is consistently be in the right position, track the right player, make the right tackle, pick the right pass .... all good players but none will ever be great ....
Players with far less ability but far more brains .... will always do a better job in a good team .... Wonger just keeps buying clones of what we already have .... good players, no brains, easy to manage .... we need fighters not more pussies .....