Him and Santi were actually quite good together in midfield.
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Complimented each other very well
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He could go from flaccid to erect in a momentās notice.
We really needed them to star in a buddy cop movie.
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This guy sucked. Wenger really Cazorla this to work with.
Still somehow won the Europa League when we couldnāt do it. 
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Emery magic, right place right time
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It works every time ā¦ except for with us
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I prefer not to think about that final. Proper shitting the bed it was.
Yeah the number of accolades that players who left us have won is really not a great reflection on us lol
Except the obvious like RvP, Fabregas. Which players in particular because many of them contributed to us being mediocre.
I donāt know where the line is for the obvious shouts like RvP and Fabregas. But a few players who also won big honours elsewhere were Szczesny, Gnabry, Giroud, Oxlade Chamberlain and Ramsey, who all won major league titles and/or the Champions League.
That they contributed to our mediocre era (save Gnabry) makes it sting a little bit that they managed to win some major stuff later, for me anyway.
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I suppose the idea that it āstingsā is what I find contentious, all of those players joined winning teams (Except Ox but he didnāt do shite to make them better). Who had their star players, spines, etc all sorted. Some of them werenāt even starters (Which I suppose you have to say we had the wrong read in making them first teamers here). To quote Charles Barkley: āAll these bus riders, they donāt mean nothing to meā.
Donāt forget Nasri, Clichy and Sagna, and Iām sure there are others
Donāt disagree, Szczesny and Gnabry aside, they werenāt starters or particularly important to their sides. I guess partly where it stings a bit for me is that it shows they were good enough to be part of squads that won big things, but that we made them key parts of our starting line ups for too long, because like you say, we had the wrong read there.
I did wanna bold the ālittle bitā cos I wasnāt too bothered to see Ramsey win a Serie A, for example. Giroud is probably the one that really bothered me. Cos its Chelsea and cos in the case of the Europa League, they beat us in the final and the fucker even scored. Was really shit to then see him win a fucking CL on top of that.
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Nasri and Clichy I assumed to be obvious ones Rocky referred to, so left em out to only focus on players that came later. Sagna only won a league cup at City so I wasnāt including him for that, couldnāt give less of a shit about that one really.
Well he would say that wouldnāt he? He didnāt win anything.
Did Santi and Coquelin play together at Villarreal?
Sure but I think heās spot on. Which is why I donāt care about the scrubs winning things. When they had the important spots in this team we saw what they were good for.
The only two that really sting are Giroud (because he was a dickhead about it after) and Fabregas.