Didn’t we opt for this bloke over Soyuncu ? Pretty sure both were available in the same summer ? How much did Soyuncu go for again ?
About £20m
Yeah so very similar transfer fees, another horrific transfer blunder for the Arsenal.
He would be shit for us. This is all Rodgers
It’s just bog standard defending. Basically having a system. It’s not like where reinvented the wheel here.
He was horrendous in his first season though to be fair.
And defending is about more than 2 centre backs, I don’t think he’s been that special they’re just defending better as a team than we are…
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I don’t think the equation is that linear.
Young player adapting to life in the EPL, not the first foreign player that struggles in his first 12 months in England coming at a relatively young age.
I think we could have van Dijk and that geezer who plays in defence for Napoli and we’d still be shit
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Under Bumery you aren’t wrong, but I’d rather have as much talent individually as possible for the off chance we actually appoint a quality manager next.
Shambolic season so far. Keeps on clowning and clowning, and then clowning some more. Fucking hell Papa, what’s gotten into you.
FOOTBALL BRAIN VERY GOOD YES YES
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Guaranteed that first goal Pukki scored wouldn’t have happened with Papa on the pitch. Papa is fast as shit so he can mark strikers closely high up the pitch with no fear of getting beaten in a foot race. Both Luiz and Mustafi played off him and then were on their back foot scared of getting beaten. Papa can also tackle like a beast. Should never be out of the starting xi unless injured tbh.
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Fast.
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Fast food, more like
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He’s the fastest player on our squad homeboy faster than Auba. At least a couple times a game you see Papa beat strikers to those balls over the top that usually unlock our defense.
Edit: okay new info, he’s 3rd fastest this season behind Bellerin and Auba, I read last year he beat Auba but regardless my point stands.
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Sokratis has been shocking lately. If he was on the pitch we’d probably have lost the game after he rugby tackled a Norwich player to give away a penalty!
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Lelelell this is dumb, he hasn’t conceded a penalty all season, that would be Luiz and Xhaka as the main offenders in that category, ppl are so stupid 
