The Torreira and Guendouzi situation is irritating
Obviously I'm happy with the job Arteta is doing but it's utterly baffling to me why he's curb stomping Torreira and Guendouzi out of the club. During the last two years it could well be argued both were among our 5 best performers. This certainly isn't the same as the Ozil situation where against certain styles of teams it was constantly like playing with 10 men. With Torreira and Guendouzi you rarely got a performance out of both that wasn't at least a 7/10 showing, even if the team was playing dog****. You could always count on both to dig in and do their job. I'd actually rate both higher than Xhaka.
The selling prices being quoted for Torreira are a joke as well. I'm hearing barely over £20m. Double that would be cheap for a player of this quality. He's 24 and under a long term contract. Guendouzi is still only 21 and not even close to his prime and again, under a long term contract. It just seems a completely ridiculous situation to be in.
Is Thomas Partey who we seem to be throwing all our eggs into the basket over really worth more than these two players combined? I'm not convinced.
