Granit "The Hacker" Xhaka | Likes his reds

I'm just not sure he was what you needed in the midfield. He can pass a ball but so can most of your players. He's not a creative genius and lacks drive and energy. Other than being tidy I don't see much else or the potential for any more.
 
His range of passing is quite impressive (when he has time on the ball), but the game can bypass him a bit easy.
 
For a player that is trusted with the key to his parents house ahead of his older brother he sure does shy away from responsibility a lot.
 
I actually thought he'd give them the much needed steel/tough-man mentality but he just seems to be a, yet another one alongside Elneny, below-the-needed-level-player.
 
SwansonsTache said:
For a player that is trusted with the key to his parents house ahead of his older brother he sure does shy away from responsibility a lot.
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He's a boring cnut that's why they give him the key. Granit would get a strop on if the key was left under the doormat whilst Taulant went out on a sesh with the Benders.
 
Didn't think he would struggle this much... Still think he will come good when fully adapted.

Xhaka and Coquelin as a partnership is unbalanced though. They are both holding midfielders, just different type of holding midfielders.

Wenger should put Elneny or Ramsey next to Xhaka, let Xhaka focus on dictating play from deep. When Cazorla is back, they should play a three with Xhaka as the pivot and Cazorla + Elneny/Ramsey in front of him. Ozil should probably be dropped, he disappears too often.
 
It's too early to make a judgement on him. He's a technically a good player. Young, can impact a match. His ceiling is higher than he's currently showing.

That said, he's looked poor recently.
 
top1whoisman said:
Probably not :lol: Don't know, whoscored has different figures, but I guess all sites count them differently.

Edit: True according to Squawka.
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IIRC Whoscored.com has total tackles attempted whereas Squawka gives both tackles attempted and tackles won. Might be wrong though.
 
roonster09 said:
IIRC Whoscored.com has total tackles attempted whereas Squawka gives both tackles attempted and tackles won. Might be wrong though.
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It says ”Total tackles” in the column (whoscored) but under the numbers it says ”Total tackles: Tackles won”.
 
I think both him and Elneny are a bit short of top class, yeah. They move the ball so slowly.

Xhaka's got a nice through ball on him, but he so often slows the play down or takes half a second too long to release the ball.
 
Sometimes I wonder how low standards are these days or if most people actually watch a football game. I watched every Switzerland match in the Euros and he was just meh/decent but nothing special or brilliant yet people were raving about him.
 
What's his strength?

Seems like his defensive contribution is crap, his attacking creativity isn't great either. Is he just a good passer?
 
VorZakone said:
Sometimes I wonder how low standards are these days or if most people actually watch a football game. I watched every Switzerland match in the Euros and he was just meh/decent but nothing special or brilliant yet people were raving about him.
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Easy.

They don't.
 
Reading the Caf before he signed for Arsenal, I was under the impression that this guy is a combination of Scholes and Keane..
 
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