KG3 wrote:Power n Glory wrote:aniym wrote:Marsbar100 wrote:Wasn't cesc fault Wenger turned him down
I can't blame Wenger for not re-signing him. We had Cazorla and Ozil in 2014 and that money rightly went towards buying Alexis.
Only via a magic 8 ball could we have known that Cazorla would have a serious injury and that Ozils peak would be so short-lived.
Wenger was using Cazorla to play on the wing at that time which was a waste of his talent. Took injuries to Ramsey, Wilshere and Ozil for Wenger to play him as a CM.
We would have seen the best of Ozil earlier if he had given up the ghost on Ramsey and Wilshere much sooner and bought Cesc back.
If we bought in Fabregas we wouldn’t have bought Xhaka 2 years later who was the same price, probably could have won the title in 15-16 also.
That Xhaka transfer was the nail in the coffin. I can't believe the sheer stupidity of it. Sealed our fate. He is the embodiment of every flaw we've seen in our midfield. Pace of Cesc, Ozil level defending, the vision of Denilson (Mr sideways) and about as much as a goal threat as Francis Coquelin. Turns like a tractor on the ball, super one footed, the tekkers of Sokratis and unfortunately, super reliable and hardly injured.
Oh yes and they decided to make him captain.