Granit Xhaka: 2019/20 Performances

[hydrofluoric acid]

I'm watching Santi at 34 and I'm wondering why we couldn't have given him a year or two year rolling contract . The guy is killing it , The improvement he would make to this midfield ffs and no I wouldn't expect him to play every week ,.

Doubt he would make it to this age if we kept him in PL. It was killing him with injuries playing midfield here. At least I sleep better telling my self that.

 

[Mark Tobias]

I'm watching Santi at 34 and I'm wondering why we couldn't have given him a year or two year rolling contract . The guy is killing it , The improvement he would make to this midfield ffs and no I wouldn't expect him to play every week ,.

Miss that infectious smile as well!

"Oh the way they'll miss me when this clown is all they have there"
https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/04/18/mesut-Özil-santi-cazorla.jpg?w968

 

[Dennis_Bergkamp_10]

I'm watching Santi at 34 and I'm wondering why we couldn't have given him a year or two year rolling contract . The guy is killing it , The improvement he would make to this midfield ffs and no I wouldn't expect him to play every week ,.

@YeahBee

 

[YeahBee]

@YeahBee

Smh

 

[Mark Tobias]

Praying this fool turns me into one of his fanboys over the next 6 months,

#feelingblindlyoptmistic

 

[Maybe]

I'm watching Santi at 34 and I'm wondering why we couldn't have given him a year or two year rolling contract . The guy is killing it , The improvement he would make to this midfield ffs and no I wouldn't expect him to play every week ,.

Didn't Pirlo and Scholes play well in their late 30's? Santi was never about pace and physicality so he should be fine. I can't blame anyone really because at the time nobody knew he would continue playing football but now it looks like a huge mistake.

 

[EmeryCouldnt]

Didn't Pirlo and Scholes play well in their late 30's? Santi was never about pace and physicality so he should be fine. I can't blame anyone really because at the time nobody knew he would continue playing football but now it looks like a huge mistake.

It’s impossible to predict what could have been. Anyone looks like an improvement on Xhaka and I love Santi. The truth is that it is quite possible he wouldn’t be playing so well in a league as physical as the EPL. I’m happy he could return to Spain and end his career on a high note.

 

[Eduardo_da_Silva]

22 minutes and allready im disgusted.

 

[Toast]

I will never understand why this is the hill Emery is willing to die on.

 

[Vibra]

He's a nice guy, quite good at long shots too

 

[Pepes blue pill]

this dude is our ****ing captain, boris trying to get his **** deal through and **** over the majority of people in the country and emery trying to **** over arsenal. fml

 

[El Duderino]

Water, fire, air and dirt
****ing Xhaka, how does he work?

 

[roz]

Lose the house keys . just please. lose them

 

[RunTheTrap]

2nd time this bum has been hooked off early while Guendouzi stays on but Xhaka is the undisputed Captain. Says a lot that Emery trusts the kid over his own captain.

 

[MutableEarth]

Solid 5/10 performance for me. Average as ever, story of his season so far.

 

[Big Poppa]

I will never understand why this is the hill Emery is willing to die on.

Beggars belief...

 

[Dennis_Bergkamp_10]

I'm so goddamn happy that we quit technical football with the likes of Cesc, Rosicky, Hleb, Santi because that never led to any trophies. Physicality and sprinting more than your opponent, maybe adding another 10 kg to your body mass as your hoofing the ball to your strikers to salvage a point vs Sheffield..

I totally get you know @YeahBee

 

[boonthegoon]

Shocked that he was taken off but thinking about it, I think the reason for the sub is that inevitably Xhaka would have got booked for stopping some Sheffield counter attack and he would miss the next league game. I'm sure Emery will make sure Xhaka gets booked in a PL game just before a league cup game, so that he misses that instead. Emery is truly a genius.

 

[Ash10]

I think now even the regular apologists for this nothing player will defend him for the time being.
Even his biggest apologist took him off ffs

 

[Red London]

Cons:
He's slow
He can't tackle
He concedes stupid fouls and penalties
He can't handle being pressed by the opposition
He can't take players on
He can't play with his back to the opposition
He can make very sloppy passes at times
He goes to sleep positionally

Pros:
He sometimes executes decent long passes
He has a decent shot on him

If you're going to put up with so many downsides in a player he better be elite in certain aspects of his game, Xhaka miserably fails at this.