Originally Posted by
Blink 1nce Quince 2wice
You and many Arsenal fans can order your thoughts enough to ignore the hype and make an assessment so why do you continually go on about the hype? Who cares.....he was playing for Bournemouth last year, so any hype hasn't precluded him for the lowly likes of a newly promoted side.
He's been one of our best midfielders this season (albeit a low bar) and still offers more than Xhaka. Playing slightly ahead doesn't really suit him and I'd prefer him to be the second midfielder rather than starting nearer the centre forward so that he can be more involved in the build up play and not get clobbered by CB's. His progression has been slow but steady and continuous generally speaking and the off the field troubles that once blighted him are well in the past just as they are with Woicech.
He still has a bit of needle in him, but so what, he hasn't got himself sent off this season other than that under 23 game when some punk kid tried to make a name for himself, but what the hell do we care about that? He is far better at reigning it in than he was these days.
Of course he can improve but they all can....that's why they are playing for Arsenal and not Barcelona.
On his contract, I can see where the club are coming from to an extent but I can also see why he is a little bit aggrieved. There's is nothing wrong in making an extra concerted effort to keep a highly talented Arsenal boy here if we can. That shouldn't be sneered at necessarily.