I know he wanted to go back to Germany and we rightfully respected that, but at the time I thought it was a big mistake to sell him and keep Partey. Should have been the other way around and that decision looks worse now.
It’s not really a decision if he wanted to go. Xhaka had earned more than enough goodwill for the club to respect his wishes.
It’s kind of interesting that he had his best season and felt he wanted to go.
It must have then been the best decision for both parties.
He was brilliant last season, selling him was a huge mistake. Happy he’s still smashing it
He wanted to leave and we respected that, what good is keeping a player against their will going to do?
Wasn’t it mutual? Sure we could’ve convinced him to stay if we weren’t looking to bring in havertz
Don’t think it was a mistake to sell him. He was amazing but he was limited. He would eventually need to be replaced by someone better. The issue so far has been that the replacement Kai Havertz has been very underwhelming and Partey has been injured.
He was more a sign of how well we were playing than a cause of it. He’d get a goal or assist in games we played well, but he was never carrying the team or the best player on any day.
Selling him wasnt a mistake… buying Kai to replace him was
What about Europe’s top 8 league though?
Rock solid
!ping Switzerland
Arsenal fans looked for any reason to skate him, now they look for any reason to rate Havertz
Shown up the people in the last two years who thought he was the problem at Arsenal
Trying to replace him with Havertz is one of the most idiotic things in Arteta’s tenure.
Please come back
I remember when our fans used to call him a sideways merchant who didn’t have the legs to play in midfield
He never did. Arteta just stuck him in the final Third and told him to stay there.
Lol when most of emeryball was xhaka pinging diagonal balls to koalsinac and bellerin to cut inside
Good to see that “the Top 7 leagues” establishes itself as measurement for stats
Can we expand it to top 13,895 leagues so I can quote my unimpressive soccer 5s stats?
Yes.
u/farqueue2 is dead last in shooting accuracy in the top 13,895 leagues according to Opta.
Belgium in 8th place crying.
With the next game he will also become Switzerland‘s most capped player for the national team. Despite his (for some people) controversial ways, he is truly one of the greatest swiss footballplayers.
He was my favourite Arsenal player when he was there. Sad that he left but also glad that he’s at a club and league that values him.
It was so frustrating reading the shite Gooners were spewing about him online, and listening to the clueless English media was as bad.
Might be the greatest Albanian-born player on top of that
That’s Broja bruh. But fr at least on a potential level Broja is unlike nothing that came from Albania. Whether he can translate that to efficiency and a good career is diff thing
As much as I think Broja has high potential, he’s 22 and struggles to get minutes for Chelsea (amongst injuries and other things). At 22 Xhaka was cooking for Monchengladbach and one of the most promising midfielders from the Bundesliga, plus his record for Switzerland is very respectable. Broja still has a long way to go
technically both were not “born” in Albania.
Isn’t he Swiss born?
Oh shit, yeah thought he was born in Kosovo like Shaqiri
I think it’s so strange to call it nationality-born. Wouldn’t it make more sense if that word was related to the place of birth?
English makes no sense sometimes.