Starting to grow into that ‘Xhaka role’ now. Looks to be a decent goal threat on set pieces too, whether it’s scoring or flick-ons for other players.
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Very happy with him so far. Reliable player.
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I think he is integrating well. Very assured when receiving the ball under pressure as well. Looking forward to finally seeing Rice, Merino, and Odegaard all play together.
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He really needs to kick on now. Too many start-stops with injuries and Rice sometimes preferred over him.
Whole point about signing him is that he could hit the ground running. Got a nice schedule now till January.
Time to establish himself as a nailed on starter. We need him in top condition for January because we’ve several tricky games in that period.
Ask that cunt Big Gabi to apologise on his behalf then 
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He’s just the backup, needs to perform when we rotate him in. That was the point of buying ready made.
All I see is a bog standard bang average player here.
I think we can do much better.
Just a unfortunate fact, we were spoilt having a reformed Xhaka under Arteta in that LCM role. We lost intangibles and quality on the pitch
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If I’ll be generous I think he needs time, but we don’t have time to afford.
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Not really seeing the quality in him. Maybe he needs time but the whole purpose of signing a player of his age profile meant we were supposed to be getting a ready made player.
Just don’t see it tbh.
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He’s a squad player and if he’s our 4th or 5th choice CM that’s fine if he needs to come in and do a job, but this ain’t a starting midfielder for Arsenal. To make a quick comparison based on what we’ve seen of him so far, Partey is 10x the player.
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Very expensive and quite limited in his play.
Don’t see all these duels he’s supposed to be winning.
He was like 27m, come on
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To be brutally honest, there is nothing remarkable about him, so far. Can’t remember one good thing he did today.
I think this is by and large who he is
That is a problem and also another is he has been parachuted into a team that is devoid of creativity, ideas, fast and effective transtion play, combinations
He isn’t really someone you look to for any of that and so you’re left with a stale team where he may defend well enough but he won’t do much on the ball
I don’t see how he’s a better player than Xhaka
We can’t afford to carry this guy whilst Rice is at 6, and Ødergaard is up in the night changing diapers.
I much prefer the Partey/Rice/not a dad yet dynamic.
I forgot to add ‘for what he brings’, but yeah I thought the fee was north of £32m+ 
27m up front, possibly a shade ober 32m with add ons.
I wasn’t gonna upset @Sol by being all BBC about it 
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What can we do?
White is out, Tomi is out, Calafiori is out.
Need someone as RB back up
Is it still scapegoating now @Josh ? 
Give it a rest I haven’t mentioned it in ages