Yup. And that's when it went wrong.Originally Posted by WES
I'd agree although I do find it surprising that you don't like him.
You are aware that Wenger signed him, right?
Before we had the Chavs and City millions, we could afford to compete. We had DB, TH and Kanu and still broke our record to sign Skiltord.
Even when we were paying for the new stadium, we could have Hleb and Rosicky and still sign Nasri and AA.
But by the 2010s, we were short of cash. If we'd bought a world class striker instead of Cech, we'd have won the league that year.
Xhaka was a mistake {as was Mustafi - the difference was than Vermaelen was a mistake so he just went out and got Kos and then Per.}
That's what he needed to do with Xhaka. But Santi's injury ruined his ability to do so.
He should never have signed Xhaka - AW needed DMs like PV and Gilby, even pound shop ones like Song and Coq.
And he needed no.10s - DB, Cesc, Nasri, TR7, AA, Santi, Mesut etc.
We didn't need a deep lying playmaker who can't defend.
I never got why he signed Xhaka when what we needed with Santi, MO and Alexis was a better Coq. A DM.
I just want to re-create our 2006 CL team. GK - back four - DM {Partey} - 4 No.10s {MO, ESR, Saka and Pépé} - sexy, Francophone striker with no.14 on his back.
Xhaka is the worst regular starter MF AW ever had. At least Coq, Song and Denilson could do a job defensively and just give the balls to the No.10s.
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