My concerns are the heavy minutes Saka will have to play with PSG in mind. It’s a short recovery window, and he’s only recently returned from a serious injury that might be related to overuse.
Arteta should still be managing his minutes. Racking up mileage in a match that wasn’t particularly important in the grand scheme just doesn’t sit right with me.
Saka doesn’t need resting, he needs similar quality to him to take the pressure off because Havertz, Trossard and Jesus are barely adequate and would never start for any other decent club.
The negligence of not strengthening our attack with top quality players has cost us the title.
I don’t think he believes enough in his ability. It’s in there, but he doesn’t seem to realise he can get past just about anyone in world football and has enough in his locker to be unplayable. We’ve seen glimpses over the years, but he’s not that young anymore. He could do with coming out of his shell.
He genuinely could be scary good, up there with a Salah.
He’s a fucking magnificent player there’s no doubt about it but that miss is gonna haunt for some time. Watched it back many times it honestly looks harder to blaze over. Terrible, terrible miss by a sure to be great player.
It’s amazing that before this new contract, Saka was earning less than Havertz.
What was the club thinking when we signed Havertz to make him our highest paid player?