He’s automatically legend status now.
When I saw the score and Gnabry’s contribution, I’m not kidding but my eyes welled up 
Christ. Arsenal fans are obsessed with Gnabry.
It didn’t work for him here, it was never going to work for him here. He’s just made Spurs look like extra muggy mugs. Enjoy it and move on 
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I mean, it was never going to work for him here the same way we weren’t going to ever win a title even if Leicester City could under late era Wenger and Gazidis (and for some of the same reasons), or the same way nothing was ever going to be any other way than it was when you look at it after the fact, that doesn’t really mean we don’t lament it.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that “it was never going to work for him here” reminds me of Tony Soprano and his mob buddies repeating “at least she didn’t suffer” at his mom’s passing in that it means precisely nothing but does fill a space and sound vaguely comforting, and comes from a desire to avoid saying or thinking really anything. 
Arsenal fans are obsessed with Gnabry for a reason. He’s a world class player who showed clear signs of potential world classness both in our academy and for our first team, and whose mishandling is rather symptomatic of our club’s disease over recent years.
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And yet it was none of our decision to let him go yet there are people taking some very odd ‘highly than thou’ stance on this.
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No he wasn’t and no he didn’t. He was a talent but at Saka’s age nowhere near the same level. He’s obviously blossomed since leaving but saying he was anywhere near his current level is hindsight.
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He was overweight and out of shape, that’s why he wasn’t starting when we loaned him out
Then he had a good olympic tournament, got tapped up by Bayern, the end
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Firstly, I take your point and I had to spend some time in the car to work thinking about how to answer that.
What I would say is that although I accept what you say about what Gnabry’s management says about Arsenal at the time he left, I’m not sure it says much about us now. The leadership of the club has changed, it seems to me this season that management of youth talent is coming on well. I’m not sure the need for the wistful looks at Gnabry are quite as necessary as they were a year or two ago.
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When you rate every single youngster that goes through the Academy’s revolving door, you’re bound to be right about one.
Can understand why Abou doesn’t wanna let this one go. The 2% success rate, need to hold on to that for dear life and make sure posters old posts are quoted and old threads are revived.
Who were the other players? Wonder how Sanogo is doing right now.
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And the thing is we wanted to keep Gnabry but he had 1 year left on his deal and Bayern tapped him up. Before that he had a failed loan - and blaming that on the club is ridiculous, he got a loan to a PL club, he should of buckled down. And before and after he was injured
It’s not like we were ever anti-youth, Bellerin, Iwobi, Coquelin, Sanogo all coming through the youth ranks
You could argue Adelaide and Malen are 2 that got away but Adelaide got chances and wasn’t impressive at the time and their root to the first team looks clearly blocked
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I reckon the club haven’t done badly, historically, in terms of selling a youth player who’s gone on to be a world beater. As @Stroller says, Andy Cole is the one that got away. Gnabry is second to that- but it might still be a big ask to see if he could do it in the PL. (It’s all conjecture of course)
There are other players who I’ve been concerned with when we’ve sold them and I’ve thought “this could be wrong”. They include Lupoli (for his fantastic scoring record in the reserves), Stokes (again, a great scorer in the SPL), Bentdner (seeing as Chelsea were reportedly showing interest). The club were right about selling them and numerous others.
Funnily enough, the player that hurts most for me is Gio van Bronckhorst. He did so well for Barca when he finished with us that it makes me wonder if we could have kept him on until about 2007 when, arguably, we needed an experienced head.
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I don’t know.
Buying Xhaka, Mustafi and Perez in the same window for 90m and keeping hold of Wenger for so long comes pretty close.
But in terms of selling cheap, I would agree, there aren’t many worse than this.
Saying that, we sold Walcott, Chamberlain, Giroud and Coquelin for around 100m between them, so sometimes we do ok selling players.
Yes he was and yes he did.
This is fun. Your turn again.
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Youngster Serge Gnabry was also impressive and after firing narrowly over the top he was instrumental as the Gunners took a deserved lead after 31 minutes, laying a perfectly weighted pass into the path of Cazorla, who did not break stride before firing a first-time finish high past Lloris.
Here’s every touch vs Spurs below, while good I don’t think it’s nearly as impressive as what Saka’s shown this season
If you traded what he might have been for last night, I’m happy with the way it’s worked out.
I don’t know about Gnabry, some players have that one game that makes them look world class and last night’s game could be that for Gnabry. Anytime I’ve seen him he look’s a good player but nothing out of this world. I think a lot of our fanbase like to over react when it comes to players who didn’t make it here, a bit like that guy at PSV. And act like if we had them now they’d turn us into a title winning side.
I think Gnarby found a league that suits him to the ground, that league is less intense then the premier league and let’s not pretend it ain’t. Found a spot in a rebuilding German national team and is doing well for himself. A bit like Ox, he needed to move on for the better of his career. It’s clear management at the time didn’t rate him as highly. Life moves on and I’m sure we see more cases of Gnarby’s slipping through the net, for every Willock and Saka that make it here, there will be more that will slip through the net.
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Just seen the contribution Gnabry made to distroying Spurs in the Bayern game. The very few times I remember seeing him play for us he looked hungry if not the finished article. Wish him well sorry we couldn’t keep him under Wenger!
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This guy put those white Lilly cunts back in their place. What a performance.
North London is Red 