![[kicker/Squawka] Granit Xhaka has registered 129 successful passes into the final third - more than any other player in Europe‘s Top-7 leagues.](https://alien.top/pictrs/image/8ec95e49-bd65-450d-81f1-bb39193a2694.webp){kind=link}
So the fuck what? Havertz put his own pants on like a big boy a few times since we signed him
Shown up the people in the last two years who thought he was the problem at Arsenal
Rock solid
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.
There were buyers for Xhaka, there were no buyers for Partey. Can’t sell players to nobody
It only looks worse because Partey is not playing. We should have kept him one more year to better integrating Rice (maybe Kai), but doubt everyone will be happy with the play time if Xhaka stays.
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 wanted to leave a year earlier but Arteta convinced him to stay, fair fucks man had his best season with us and deserved to leave as he wanted to
Happy wife happy life
We are missing him at The Arsenal
why arsenal didn’t want him?
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.
Greatest swiss footballers are probably either Shaqiri or Xhaka?
Might be the greatest Albanian-born player on top of that
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.
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
technically both were not “born” in Albania.
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
!ping Switzerland
Good to see that “the Top 7 leagues” establishes itself as measurement for stats
Belgium in 8th place crying.
At least they have chocolate
I don’t really know what it means tbh. The 6th biggest league in Europe is probably 2. Bundesliga or English Championship, looking at clubs’ facilities, signings, revenues. Of course those teams don’t compete in Europe, but that’s the system in Europe, not the league. The highest revenue top-flight competition after France was Russia, now it’s probably not so it’s Turkey. In terms of sport results and famous clubs, the big one in Europe is Portugal, but Dutch clubs had some good results in UEFA competitions in recent years.
There are also several non-European leagues that are smaller in revenue than France but bigger than any other European top-flight - actually six of them by most recent data - so hard to say which two would be in the “7”.
All in all I don’t know what people mean saying “top 7”, but seeing the publication is German I assume Western European ones.
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.
According to Opta u/farqueue2 ranks last in percentage of passes completed in the top 13,895 leagues.
Honestly…Should be top 8 leagues, imo.
I feel like the gap between Belgium/Portugal/Netherlands isn’t really that big. Portugal and Netherlands have a stronger 'big 3", but Belgium has the stronger league on average with more teams capable of competing in Europe.
That, and Belgium has historically always been a top 10 ( even top 5 at times ) league.
He was brilliant last season, selling him was a huge mistake. Happy he’s still smashing it
Selling him wasnt a mistake… buying Kai to replace him was
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
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.
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.
What about Europe’s top 8 league though?
Gladbacher Jung !
Trying to replace him with Havertz is one of the most idiotic things in Arteta’s tenure.
Please come back
Yeah not adequately replacing him has really screwed our fluidity this season.
It’s not even adequately, he didn’t replace him in any sense as Havertz is nothing like Xhaka to what he brought in that midfield LCM role. Basically just bought a donkey-shaped Trojan Horse for no reason other than his own ego of thinking he can fix him.
Arsenal fans looked for any reason to skate him, now they look for any reason to rate Havertz
He played good for 1/2 years out of 7, it was always a meme about XHAKA REDEMPTION ARC??? and it finally happened, a big reason a lot of us are patient with Havertz
I remember when our fans used to call him a sideways merchant who didn’t have the legs to play in midfield
Lol when most of emeryball was xhaka pinging diagonal balls to koalsinac and bellerin to cut inside
He never did. Arteta just stuck him in the final Third and told him to stay there.