Perhaps, like all our previous best players who were signing new contracts, he was lied to. 
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Yep. He got so many easy assists that year and people were still praising him like a Ronaldinho/Totti/Bergkamp type magicican after he just made a basic pass. Stats are all that matter.
Iāll always say this - he was hugely underrated in his first season here - carrying so much weight on him in our play, constantly drawing people on himself, keeping the ball under pressure, making clever quick passes, always moving.. After his injury, in 2015 he was never later able to do so much difderence under pressure, in tight areas like before, and generally in one on one situations (dribbling etc) and that made a HUGE difference on his impact on the pitch and the difference he was making but most people only look on the most superficial stats and still rated him even higher than in his first season which is pretty crazy from a proper football standpoint.
Iām pretty sure there are some stat categories to back this up if people want to look beyond meere assists but I canāt bother searching that up.
I went far with Ozil but I just used him as an example.
I think Aouar is more necessary for the team right now than Benrahma but in an ideal world weād sign both + Partey / a player of Parteyās profile and weād be infinitely better.
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Iām still seething that we never went for Mahrez when we had the chance. Benrahma looks like he could be every bit as good and heās playing at a level where you could swoop in and make life very difficult for the selling club. Seems we have zero ambition as always though.
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Why do people think Auba only signed because of promises made by Arteta on signings.
It was simply the best offer on the table for a striker in his 30s. Nothing else too see here.
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Yeah. This is the reason.
Anything else is PR nonsense
What I want to know is, why have we spent the entire summer listing after some guy from Lyon for Ā£50m if we canāt afford Ā£50m?
There are other midfielders in the world. This club continues to astound when you apply even a tiny amount of logic to their decisions
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Only logical explanation, besides just being a club run by smooth brain foreheads, is that we donāt really wanna spend the money but want to make the fans think we are trying. I was never a supporter of that conspiracy but my gawd is there any other reasonable explanation?
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Didnāt fancy him anyway
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Pussy. Afraid to leave the farmers league.
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Put this thread in the bin, mods.
Would rather have the Redcafe Meltdown thread here in its place.
We donāt have a bin. @Leper already moved it away from the Rumour Mill. What more can we do?
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Could never get use too his name anyway.
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Enjoy being a plumber for the rest of your career you little rat.
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Lyon failing to break a team down again, with him in midfield. You wonder if he is the guy to solve our ābreaking teams downā issues?
Good. Spent way too long lusting after this randomer anyways.
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He wanted to come, we just arenāt willing to spend the $$$
That statement is PR fluff
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Just spend the effing money
Itās not like we canāt afford it !
Call the thread āthe binā
Just a reminder to everyone. We know whom to ban once the transfer window closes
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Harsh. Samhartjourno is usually very reliable!!!
Another familiar face in the mud again
@A.F bullet dodged. Now I hope we somehow get Partey and somebody who can actually help solve our creative issues properly/play ESR.
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