Ahhh in their days playing for Norwich and Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship
He was taken from us to soon
never really liked Monreal
He turned out good I think. Had a shaky first 6 months coming in January and declined physically in his last season but apart from that, he was pretty good. Better overall than Kola and Gibbs(big shame he couldn’t get a full season in).
The kind of guy we kept in the side just because we had bigger problems to worry about. In an ideal world he’d have been shipped along a lot sooner than he was or at least replaced in the starting line up.
Turned out to be the best LB since Ashley, although admittedly not much competition
Monreal was better than most of the players in other position.
In a better side, he would have looked much better.
I really hoped Gibbs would catch a break but every time he got things rolling he got injured.
Who remembers Andre Santos?
I remember when he didn’t know Benayoun had to return to Chelsea from loan
Monreal was underrated. Extremely technical player.
Cazorla and Monreal look world class compared to what we have now.
Cazorla was a classy player but had too many injuries and Monreal was a pretty decent defender, as well as being versatile.
Our best LB of The Emirates Era.
Until Tierney takes it in a few seasons
Gibbs for me was
Gibbs could have been but as mentioned before, each time he hit consistency, he would get injured. Even worse for his international career was that he would get injured just before international selection.
I liked Gibbs but Nacho was different levels
Gibbs was shit. Nice guy but terrible LB
Come here, join us you fat ballerina you. join Arteta. You don’t even have to really do anything here, just walk around being yourself all day, guaranteed it’ll make us play better football somehow.
This sounds strangely familiar :pires1:
Yes! haha just like Pires :pires1: