Imagine feeling jealous of some footballer. Their lives are so out-there compared to ours that I imagine even the most jealous type couldn’t feel that emotion. Jealousy stems from a sense of injustice so there’s far more chance of being jealous of someone with a similar status to your own than some multi millionaire stranger who you’ll never ever meet and can’t relate to in any way.
I don't think Arteta rates him either. He understands that we have poverty options in midfield. Xhaka has very limited skillset and so many weaknesses. Arteta is just asking him to play a simple role that doesn't expose him much. He will be the first one to be dumped once we get a proper midfielder.
Think this is a good point. Just because Arteta plays someone, or praises them in public doesn't necessarily need to mean he rates them very highly. He needs to try to get the best out of the players he has at his disposal. It's not like he can magically make a new midfield appear. He simply has to work with what he has. No use bashing players Mourinho style. Better to build them us and get them to play better and then hopefully offload them to a decent prize in the summer.
Gendouzi has shown signs of becoming better in few matches. I think he even gave couple of MoM performances this year. But he is still too raw and inconsistent. And he definitely does not fit well alongside Xhaka. Hence Arteta preferred Torreira until he got injured.
There is a correlation between being a not particularly good player but yet getting game time and the number of posts in the player’s thread. It isn’t a coincidence that it's this and Özil’s thread that lead that count. You can call that “hate”. I would call it frustration with a seeing a player, year in and year out, in our kit just not being good enough.
Not really. For his fanboys, if he goes through a match without making any mistakes, it is a great performance or they even call him the best performer. A 6/7 out of 10 performance is his best performance which means there is absolutely nothing to talk about.
Exactly. The only explanation is these fans were too young to really remember players like the 4 you listed.
He was OK for about 6 games.
