Mike Dean wrote:Santi wrote:Ozil
Auba
Mkhi
Lacasweaty
Iwobi
by Va-Va-Voom » Wed Jun 20, 2018 3:51 am
Mike Dean wrote:Santi wrote:Ozil
Auba
Mkhi
Lacasweaty
Iwobi
by Santi » Wed Jun 20, 2018 6:38 pm
by DialSquaregooner » Wed Jun 20, 2018 8:28 pm
Va-Va-Voom wrote:Mike Dean wrote:Santi wrote:Rob Holding
Callum Cambers
Bellend
Mustafi
Iwobi
by Callum » Wed Jun 20, 2018 9:03 pm
by LMAO » Thu Jun 21, 2018 5:23 am
Callum wrote:Kieran Gibbs, Francis Jeffers, Denílson, Fran Merida and the ghost of Pascal Cygan.
by joleg » Thu Jun 21, 2018 6:23 am
by theHotHead » Thu Jun 21, 2018 8:53 am
by matelot » Fri Jun 22, 2018 10:13 am
by 22-0 » Fri Jun 22, 2018 2:42 pm
by Yago » Fri Jun 22, 2018 2:57 pm
matelot wrote:Xhaka is underestimated,he completed more passes than any other player in the Premiership last season and keeps the game flowing.
by King of Highbury XIV » Sat Jun 23, 2018 10:49 am
Yago wrote:matelot wrote:Xhaka is underestimated,he completed more passes than any other player in the Premiership last season and keeps the game flowing.
keeps the game flowing slower than a sleeping snail
by UFGN » Sat Jun 23, 2018 12:01 pm
by akindele1082 » Sat Jun 23, 2018 2:37 pm
coach8smallball wrote:I understood xhaka to be the steely player we've needed for years in the middle. some pointed out his number of cards etc as a reference of his combative play.
little did we know and eventually discovered why all the cards.....he's slow and had to foul as a courtesy to the defense.
look at what brazil did to him, they over ran him and he even had to grab/hug/pull on Neymar to slow him down. xhaka may have good numbers with the ground he covers on the pitch, but most of that is running from one side of the field to the other constantly with a wee bit of side ways passing to boot.
I can understand the Pirlo comparison, but that's way off the mark. Pirlo was a genius, xhaka has a 2 cent head but a million dollar left boot. what it amounts to is that you have to pair players up with him that can deal with his shortcomings. i'm not a fan of that approach at all. covering for a player that we over paid for is just plain stupid.