Was Granit Xhaka Always This Good? | In focus
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You can look at all the stats you want football is a team sport. Yes individual players can lift or even carry a team but not at this level. Being a leader he is but as a individual and his talent has enhanced due to MA being the manager. He deserves the credit like I said team game.
Patrick Vieira was no saint
The difference between a boss and a leader is pretty obvious. The other players follow him not because of the armband, it's because of their respect for him. He has proven many fans wrong, including myself.
Granit Xhaka the quarterback has always had this in him. Many of us have stuck by him over the years and what he is doing now is no coincidence
Granit Xhaka has always been good, he just need good players around him and he is still arsenal captain but not wearing the arm band
Cool
I find it funny how many people in the comments "always stood by him". Shameless people, let's go back to when he threw the shirt or the red card against City or the OG against Burnley or the other uncountable mistakes on aftv and see how many of you were "standing by him" then.
I hated the guy and would have paid his contract out personally if I had the money, but now I love him so much I'd be gutted if he left or got injured. Nothing wrong with saying how it is
I agree with you. I was so frustrated with yellows and reds but I guess now I recognise that he was out of position. Essentially the manager did him dirty and the fan's lashed out. So yes we, the fans, need to always understand that there is a different. There were definitely games where he's been fantastic, every single season but the Mikel has transformed him.
A former team mate and now manager has made such a difference.
I found this video after saying, "if we win the league, I'll get his name on my shirt"
I'm waiting for the next testimonial…. Perhaps he's changed hearts that much? Perhaps too soon but when we win the league, I'll call it.
Wenger didn't actually coach and it left a lot of players frustrated and disoriented.
He isn’t good… do get ahead of yourself!
Own goal against juventus
There was a certain guy who used to comment under any vid about xhaka, constantly hating on him, and hating on anyone who liked xhaka and believed in him as a player. Now xhaka has shown his quality this season, that guy has all of a sudden disappeared. I'm glad our performances this season so far have smoked out all the little weasels that were only around to hate, and enjoyed when we were down.
He has limitations and strengths. Before he was played in a way that highlighted his limitations and didn't play to his strengths.
Wenger didn't produce a balanced coordinated team from back to front and left a crap storm.
Great videos James
I think he's just grown mentally over the years, think the stress and the fans doubting his ability got to him. Now he's older and there's a bit less stress on the pitch for him and now he's playing a position he likes so he showing us fans what the managers and player have always seen from him in training
He was always a great player. Fans were in the wrong, but have learnt from it. He may make mistakes but everything he does on the pitch comes from his passion.
He was not out of position, he played just fine in his deeper role, it’s just that he elevates our attack when higher up this is why he was moved, to take us to another level. Arteta said this twice. It had nothing to do with his weaknesses.
He was played out of position. Put Neymar as CB and we will se how good he will be. Xhaka is playing in the perfect position now. A manager needs to put a player in the right position to get the best out of him.
I remember when Gareth Bale was horrible as left back and then the manager changed his position to LW and after that COM and then he mooved to Real Madrid. So there is a lot of examples where players played better when they played ln the right position.
What you saying James is he always has been this good….we just used him wrong for 4 years. Ive Said this all the time.
No, Arteta has worked wonders. Credit to them both