15 Nov 2019 06:49:46
That Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain looks a decent prospect. He'd be a handy acquisition.
If only we could decide what position he could play for us in.
Oh.
15 Nov 2019 06:57:59
In the words of Julia Roberts in pretty woman " big mistake HUGE " not playing Ox in our cental midfield and keeping him a gooner.
Couldn't understand it at the time and don't suppose I ever will.
15 Nov 2019 10:47:11
He was injury prone and still is lol.
15 Nov 2019 12:54:15
Oxlade, Gnabry and others were handled very oddly. They clearly had talent, but the club failed to bring them through.
15 Nov 2019 17:26:03
Arsene simply refused to give Ox a run of games in cm or ever play 90 minutes in any position and the lads confidence visibly demonised the longer he was with us, signs for Liverpool under Klopp and immediately plays cm and wins rave reviews, every Liverpool fan I've spoken to thinks very highly of Ox in their shirt.
Gnarby was so so weird as the lad looked class in the very few opportunities Arsenal would give him in the first team .
Ox Gnarby and Joel Campbell all out performed Arsenes chosen favourites every time that got chance, which probably explains why they simply had to go in Arsenes eyes.
15 Nov 2019 22:19:54
Lot of revisionism going on in this thread.
Ox: clearly not a good enough passer in CM for the way Arsenal played. He wanted to leave, we got huge money for him. He is still not a fantastic passer for Liverpool, but he has tons of energy which perfectly fits Klopp's team. Right move for all parties.
Gnabry: Arsenal wanted to keep, but botched loan spell meant he had his head set on leaving and already worked out a deal with Bayern to leave for cheap and move on after a season to Munich.
Campbell: Decent at times. Nowhere near as good as the players he was trying to displace: Ozil and Alexis.
Club have stuffed it up many times in the transfer window but not on these ones.
{Ed047's Note - I agree with you and the Ox is always an injury away from 6 months out.
15 Nov 2019 23:20:27
Joel Campbell only got his chance because of injury but he took it well but was frozen out by Theo not Ozil and Sanchez once he was fit.
Ozil or Sanchez rather than Campbell no argument but the aphrodisiac form of Theo was never enough to freeze out Campbell on merit.