Oh come on you enjoyed Iceland beating England in the Euros.
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Netherlands not making the Euroās, Portugal winning the Euroās, Arsenal signing Xhaka/Mustafi, ARSENAL BOTTLING THE LEAGUE. In hindsight it was an awful year as far as football is concerned indeed.
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Donāt forget brexit m8
Lol
I havenāt seen the match so canāt comment on his performance. Never a good thing when youāve given away a penalty though.
He was abominable, the pen was cherry on top and was a premeditated sort of braindead moment, if you can imagine thatā¦ he had to try to get into position and miscalculate horribly on several fronts to commit that atrocityā¦ he also gave the ball away cheaply at least 3 times in the first ten minutesā¦ the guy is an absolute shambles.
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Heās a useless shit house. The club need to fuck him off.
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Yep, I even bumped the thread way before he committed the penalty. He was a ticking time bomb in that game, waiting to fuck up like used to in the past. He has been back to his usual shit form since coming back from his injury.
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The absolute state of him. It felt like Anthony Taylor was itching to even things up all game after he awarded us a soft but legitimate penalty. Of course Granit Xhaka runs into a Brighton player inside the penalty are when we had sufficient coverā¦&$!#%
Probably did us a favour given the fact we were never going to beat Burnley away next week.
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It wasnāt all bad. I married my wife that summer. :giroud:
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Worst summer of her life then 
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:bellcry:
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Xhaka could never
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The highlight can be interpreted as impressive as well as unpolished as heck.
Bielik looks excellent and he passes the eye test and statistical heās also doing bits. Better prospect than Calum Chambers.
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whats the betting we sell him or run down his contract on stupid loans and never give him a chance whilst we keep xhaka on the books stinking the fucking place out 
I rate it at zero chance that Bielek becomes a legit option at AFC. The merits of that I have no idea.
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Iāve significantly waivered on Xhaka in the past couple of days as Iāve been thinking about this match over and over again, and I finally am starting the reach the absolute end of my patience with a player Iāve always liked and tried to defend. The mistakes are way too costly now to just ignore and his positive contributions have not been valuable enough as of late to offset them.
There was a great line that Tim Stillman had the other day on the Arsenal Vision Podcast that summed the situation with him up well. He basically said that thereās no doubt that Xhaka is a very important player for us and we look a totally different side with him in the team, but weāve now reached the stage where the club needs to consider whether or not he SHOULD be important. I think itās becoming clearer now that perhaps he shouldnāt be.
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Xhaka only does one thing though, heās a quarterback. We donāt look as functional without him but I donāt know that Emery wants to play with a quarterback.
You also have to factor in the glaring negatives regarding his focus during matches, his tendency to defend with his hands (pulling, tugging, whatever) in the box and making really bad decisions when he doesnāt have to.
Heās an okay player and probably one of the few assets we have who could get a reasonable transfer fee and who would be worth selling. The midfield needs to be overhauled anyway, we should be building around Lucas and Ramsey. Since we will only have one of those two players next year Iād just as soon rip the whole thing up and start over. It might mean more pain in the short term but Iād rather do that than the half measures weāve seen from Stan and co.
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Thatās all your going to get from Kroenke, just half measures and the bare minimum.
We need a player like Xhaka, who works hard, who can break up attacks, who is aggressive and who can make decent passes and occasionally score from long range.
But unfortunately, the Xhaka we have, is too unreliable.
I really thought heād turn his form round under Emery but instead his poor decision making and rash challenges are losing us points rather than gaining them for us.