Bannacer? Musah?
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Correct because it was a stupid deal from the start. We couldn’t afford the luxury of buying a player who wasn’t going to play for us and depleted our transfer budget when we need other positions filling.
Imo we can’t afford the luxury of a shit arrogant coach, setting us back years, more than anything.
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I was just fishing bro. I don’t actually blame Wenger even slightly for Gnabry, wasn’t his fault the kid had zero interest in losing weight or playing in England. At a certain point players have to take responsibility and that’s my whole take at the moment with Arteta.
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It wasn’t stupid, it’s how actual big clubs operate. Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea and City do it all the time. What was stupid was not having a plan for him after he spent his initial year on loan.
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I’d agree with u if that was the problem if our players were out of shape ect but there are tons of examples of players in our team that have performed much better under different managers who actually have a fucking clue how to manage a football team. Auba from scoring about 50 goals in 2 seasons with us to being as shit as Laca. Partey, Willian, all our loan players, Dani Caballos, Willock, Ødegaard…
It was decent planning for life after Koscielny tbh. But that relationship completely broke down. Still wonder what happened there.
I agree about Partey and Auba but that latter is getting older and his decline will eventually come naturally. Though we should be doing more to accommodate his age and accentuate his natural talents. Playing him at wing back doesn’t help him.
Partey bad injures and new league, give him at least one more season.
Lacazette’s always been shit bro, just like Elneny, Ceballos, AMN, Bellerin, Holding etc.
I thought we knew! Emery was playing Kos through injury and he didn’t appreciate it.
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With Koscielny? Wenger probably had him on some sort of special training regime to manage his broken down body while Emery chucked him straight back into action the minute he was back from his achilles injury. Come the summer he probably thought fuck that and bailed 
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https://twitter.com/chief_afc/status/1391406390837719047
More like Auba plays under a manager who has an absolutely anemic offensive output and doesn’t know how to fix it or play direct football.
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It’s not how them teams operate. Only after they have sorted the nucleus of the first team squad and had some success do they invest in youth because have the luxury of time.
Regardless of if u think they are good or not, Arteta signed Luiz, Mari, and Gabriel and has been playing them in the first team…clearly the forehead thought he sorted his first team defense.
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Still can’t work out how he’s good enough to play week in week out in the French league, but not good enough for the EL group stages.
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He is though, that’s the thing. He was absolutely good enough to play at least two games against Dundalk. It’s just Arteta not rating him.
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I’m probably one of the Auba’s biggest supporters on here, doesn’t mean I ever thought his goal return from the left wing was going to be sustainable. It wasn’t even Arteta who set that precedence. It was the two fools who came before, all to accommodate Laca.
Auba could absolutely get 30 goals next season at CF, no chance from wing back though.
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We can name them, sure. None of them have achieved all that much really though have they?
And one slightly older defender lying on the ground behind that wall.
My gripe is more the mismanagement. Think of what a better position the club would be in if we could play someone like Malen right now or Musah. Even if it was just to sell them for a bunch of cash.
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None of those guys were worth putting in the team when they were here so their value wasn’t gonna increase. Our loans are almost always shit too so I don’t think that would have helped.
Bar the very odd exception (Serge) I just don’t see youth players leaving for small fees as a significant stick to beat the club with.