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  • MHPengwingz
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    34 months ago

    I do think they were overly cautious with ESR after his injuries, us crashing out of tournaments don’t really help with increasing his game time either. I hope he doesn’t leave, but at the same time he deserves to further his career if Arsenal can’t give him the opportunity

    • @sensiblepuffin
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      24 months ago

      Coldest take ever but Emile was so unlucky as well this season with the few minutes he got. I can’t help but think he’d be more willing to stay if he’d just scored one goal after coming back from his groin injury, just to prove to himself that it can happen.

      As you say, the last thing I want is for him to rot on the bench. And we’ve already done the loan thing, so he probably won’t agree to do it again.

      • MHPengwingz
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        34 months ago

        Unlucky certainly is it, he did look good when he came on. But is it good enough in Mikel’s eyes?

        • @sensiblepuffin
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          34 months ago

          Obviously there’s no way to tell, but it seemed like a lot of the problem MIkel had with him was in regards to training, and that seems to have largely resolved itself in the latter half of the season - it’s just that by that point we were firmly locked into a title race.

      • ThePowerOfGeek
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        24 months ago

        He was so damned unlucky with some of his shots on his return too.

        • @sensiblepuffin
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          24 months ago

          0.13 xG per shot would be 6th best for this season, albeit with a very small sample size. If we lose him, we’ll always wonder what if…