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It's not ideal but at least one of them will be gone.Maybe the plan now is to get rid of Luiz and have Mustafi as our starting CB...ugh
It's not ideal but at least one of them will be gone.Maybe the plan now is to get rid of Luiz and have Mustafi as our starting CB...ugh
Rumours that Edu wants a 3 year contract.
If we give him any sort of contract extension then it says all you need to know about the ambition of the club.
I saw something on twitter today which perfectly sums it up. We didn't want to pay the price for Soyuncu instead we went with Sokratis as a stop gap, then decided he wasn't enough so signed Luiz as another stop gap, now we've brought in a guy from South America in his mid-20's. If we had of just signed Soyuncu in the first place we could be looking forward to a Saliba-Soyuncu partnership going forward. Soyuncu has been on of the standout defenders in the PL this season.
Regardless we need to stop going for stop gaps, or signing CB's just because they have experience. Quality is far more important. We even made a similar mistake with Lichsteiner.
If we give him any sort of contract extension then it says all you need to know about the ambition of the club.
I saw something on twitter today which perfectly sums it up. We didn't want to pay the price for Soyuncu instead we went with Sokratis as a stop gap, then decided he wasn't enough so signed Luiz as another stop gap, now we've brought in a guy from South America in his mid-20's. If we had of just signed Soyuncu in the first place we could be looking forward to a Saliba-Soyuncu partnership going forward. Soyuncu has been on of the standout defenders in the PL this season.
Regardless we need to stop going for stop gaps, or signing CB's just because they have experience. Quality is far more important. We even made a similar mistake with Lichsteiner.
Covid might be useful for once.
You didn't say nothing when he was MVP against ManU. Grow up. He had a bad game after 2-3 months of not playing.@yorch44
Remember when you said I know nothing about football when I was against the signing of Luiz?
I remember saying that he is a bag full of mistakes...whilst you were just focusing on his passing skills.
Don't think he'd throw Luiz under the bus anyhow.
Hope that, at most, he stays here until the season ends. We have zero fit defenders.
I'm not so sure @dashsnow17. Even when Luiz is playing quite well on the ball, he always gives attackers too much space. You could see it against City before the opening goal (with the added frustration that he was pointing at others when Sterling came through on goal).
I didn't want him at all last summer, but was glad at least a CB came in near the end of the transfer window. Think I deceived myself in that he was quite good for us, but the stats don't lie.
At this point it even makes more sense to retain Mustafi than Luiz.
He has been incredibly error prone this season.
Don't think he's as bad as that performance but he's not great.
Not a fan of the lazy sky punditry where they just go on for half an hour about how he's never changed, conveniently ignoring his last couple of Chelsea seasons which were far from a shambles.
Yeah he's been a shambles here but it's an Arsenal problem coupled with what looks to be a decline. Not really a defence of Luiz more just calling out Sky's lazy punditry.