Wrong signings that what happened. Since Cazorla Arteta Özil our midfield been so unbalanced and bad.
Some ok triangles, but none of that looked like dominating the midfield.
Took us back years eh?
Again, I have been critical of him often because I've felt it was justified but it does show at least a bit of character to go out and give 110% after the guy froze him out and acted like he was some kind of malignancy while he allowed actual human garbage like Xhaka to stink up the pitch week after week and then rewarded that with the armband. Has he been worth the money? No, of course not but he's shown more fight than a lot of that dressing room in recent weeks in spite of the manager singling him out when there are plenty of others whose performances didn't flatter them.
Cesc is under appreciated because the way he went about leaving stung. He truly was incredible though. The job he and Wenger did playing beautiful football sometimes with Cesc and 10 wastemen on the pitch was really staggering. Looking back you kind of wonder how on earth they dragged some of those squads we put out to top 4 and even title challenges in those years. Then you look at someone with 200 million worth of a front 3 at their disposal playing like 2005 Stoke without the clean sheets and it really makes you sick.
All anyone can do is do well when called upon, and he's done that tbf. No point in looking back, I suppose. Sad thing is he's probably been reinvigorated by the negativity it surrounding Emery, but any kind of motivation has to be good motivation at this point.
Exactly. I just thought it kind of summed things up today in the first couple of minutes of extra time when you had the midfielders who are supposed to be operating behind him jogging back as Southampton were on the counter and it was Özil coming from his more advanced position trying to prevent them from getting clean through to Leno. It just really kind of put a bow on what his side has become under Emery, disjointed and nonsensical.
It definitely warmed my heart a bit as sad as that may sound. Game basically lost, season basically lost, manager hates him but he was out there on dead legs trying to get a result. It would have been easier for him to just kind of accept the way the season began for him and just keep collecting his wages but instead he's chosen to fight which is at least something. Then you have players like Bellerin who want to piss and moan about togetherness but can't be assed to do something as simple as stay engaged during a free kick.
