Are you being obtuse on purpose? van Dijk and Laporte compare poorly to Mustafi stats wise, and van Dijk is on route of winning PFA Player of the Year…
Yep, and I used the stats sev provided. You can see which stat is which and decide whether having a high or low ratio is good. It never says Hugh is always good.
I generally don’t advocate comparison between players at different clubs because the massive variables affect the data, It wasn’t me who introduced VVD into this discussion. Liverpool and City have conceded under 21 goals in the league, Arsenal nearly double that. Massive indication of a better team defensive systems on display.
It’s more than fair to compare two players, on the same team who have occupied the same position for most of the season, under the same flawed system whilst playing similar mins.
We look kind of stupid having a fairly public pursuit of Monchi that blew up in our faces. Whether or not he ever intended to come here, or whether he would have been able to hack it at Arsenal are irrelevant. It’s still a PR loss and leaves us with two options:
Promote someone from within
Scramble
My best guess is that we resort to promoting someone to the Director of Football position because it’s (1) cheaper and (2) easier. It’s already March and a club as large as Arsenal should already be elbow deep in putting together a strategy for the summer. If we have to wait for someone like Overmars to start, we’re already behind the eight ball.
I’m actually feeling quite skeptical about the summer with this latest Monchi development. As I mentioned in his thread, I wasn’t necessarily sold on him being a panacea but it appeared that Raul and Emery were sold on it, which was enough for me.
I don’t love the idea of Raul being in charge of transfers in his idea of strategy is doing his best Uncle 'Arry impression and calling his old friends to swing a deal.