Undisputed starter.. The question is Xhaka and who
He hasn’t cost us many games, don’t know why you always make up stuff.
Him and Mustafi our best players atm.
Xhaka makes a mistake and concedes a goal = It is because of our poor formations/we need players to complement him/rest of the players are the reason why it happenedOf course he's cost us many games. I'm not making stuff up.
Him and mustafi has been have been relatively error-free in recent months, but we both know that another feck up is going to happen sooner than later.
FFS Xhaka was mediocre in this game, but his fans are sucking him off because he didn't make a big blunder.
If this is the level performance we praise a midfielder for, then I fear for our club.
I'd prefer to upgrade on him with an actually mobile all-action CM. Pair that player (Partey mold) with Torreira and Saka and that's a super balanced midfield.Feel we either need to upgrade Xhaka in the summer which will require us to spend big
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Find a good partner for him, someone that compliments his game. Any ideas anyone?
Nice to see Mikel backing up what I said earlier ;-)
Xhaka makes a mistake and concedes a goal = It is because of our poor formations/we need players to complement him/rest of the players are the reason why it happened
Xhaka gets by without conceding a single goal doing **** all except passing back and side = That was a man of the match performance/He is a born leader/He gives "structure"
Yeah signing an upgrade such as Partey would be great but possibly unrealistic considering lack of champions league/lack of cash.Obvious starter in the current crop, also obviously flawed. Important for a team trying to stay in top half of the table, detrimental for a team trying to get into the top of the table.
I'd prefer to upgrade on him with an actually mobile all-action CM. Pair that player (Partey mold) with Torreira and Saka and that's a super balanced midfield.
Alternatively, Saka/ESR + Xhaka and a highly tenacious '6' whose able to cover more ground than Torreira seems decent. Konrad Laimer perhaps.
He has been a regular starter in most of the matches after he signed for us. We have been in a downfall since then. Where did that STRUCTURE go in all the matches?Look we all know his flaws, but there is a reason the team has been better with him in it than not over the last couple of years. There's also a reason why the team has better STRUCTURE when he's in it. And why every manager and seemingly every teammate he's ever had seems to think so too.
He has been a regular starter in most of the matches after he signed for us. We have been in a downfall since then. Where did that STRUCTURE go in all the matches?
The two managers who trusted him have lost their jobs btw.
Better structure?. There's also a reason why the team has better STRUCTURE when he's in it.
Better structure?
Meanwhile we've fallen out of the CL and are now struggling to stay in the top half of the table FFS.
Our midfield has been crap since 2016, long before Ceballos, Guendouzi and Torreira.So you are telling me you think the problem is Xhaka rather than most of our best players leaving. As for managers, you are forgetting the other clubs and national team. And Emery had rather bigger issues than picking Xhaka....
I have always maintained that Xhaka is a part of the problem not the entire problem. We have struggled to transition quickly from defense to attack ever since he joined. I have also mentioned that he would do better in other leagues. But he is completely unsuitable for premier league. Emery was a bad manager and Xhaka is a bad player. Both need not be mutually exclusive.So you are telling me you think the problem is Xhaka rather than most of our best players leaving. As for managers, you are forgetting the other clubs and national team. And Emery had rather bigger issues than picking Xhaka....
He's probably better than Ceballos or Guendouzi but that's not a tall order now, is it?And yet we are worse without him. We may still be poor but at least when he's in the team we can usually tell where our midfielders are playing. Or do you prefer Ceballas and Guendouzi playing random position ball?
He's probably better than Ceballos or Guendouzi but that's not a tall order now, is it?
I'm not saying he's the only culprit, I'm just trying to debunk the fact that people are saying he had a great game because he didn't make a costly error, when infact he was mediocre once again.
When he has an average game, you see massive encomiums in the Xhaka thread.
Go look at the matchday thread, you'd think Viera was still playing for us with way posters are heaping huge praise on him