• Thricey@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The recency bias won’t allow Gibbs to get near the top, but he should be basically tied with Monreal. Clichy however has been our best lb since Cole.

      • GoaLa@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Lol. I still remember that stretch of games with emery where he was our best attacking player. Dark times. Not a good player for us but I always appreciated his physicality and effort

  • Mahatma_Gone_D@alien.topOPBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Sagna is the most upvoted (nearly 1k) comment for RB position ahead of Ben White. Unfortunately the previous website I was using didn’t have Sagna so I switched over to another one.

    Appreciate everyone’s feedback with suggestions. I understand this isn’t the best way to determine our best XI, but I thought it’s fun activity over Int’l break regardless. Also, try not to upvote more than one player so we can get at least fair representation. I noticed some people are putting 2/3 players in the same comment so it’s hard to decide on those. I will try to put some suggestions in the comments for each position so you can upvote it. If anyone wants to take over or create a poll, I’d be okay with that.

    • xCharlieScottx@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It was hilarious to watch a man shaped like an upside down traffic cone marauding up the left only to cunt the ball at the first man. Kinda miss him in a weird way

      • Pessimist0TY@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Also when he ran into people, or jumped for contested headers.

        I was a bit upset we never gave him a go up front when Auba was cocking about and Laca was injured. Could have been the new Heskey.

  • snowkarl@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This one is way more difficult. Highest performing player over a short time has been Zinchenko but Monreal was solid for a long time, yet never reached the same heights…

    • KonigSteve@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I know he wasn’t great but you guys need to get him upvoted above Andre Santos at least.

      • copinglemon@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        He was a good passer! I always thought he was a bit like a midfielder out there in his movement and passes around corner. Never had license to go central like Zinchenko tho.

    • Aclrian@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I loved him so much. When he first came over the transfer felt underwhelming, but soon enough I couldn’t imagine him not being in the team.

        • Aianotaku@alien.topBEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I disagree, Arshavin was the biggest purchase before Özil. Monreal could not have the price higher than Arshavin

        • Aclrian@alien.topBEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Nope, he was very cheap. Less than 10m pounds. He just wasn’t the typical type of LB from that time. He wasn’t very fast, but man, he was so good. He would hold his own on the left and going fwd he was perfect possession full back.

        • lalosfire@alien.topBEnglish
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          1 year ago

          He was not, he wasn’t even the highest of that calendar year. Nacho was only about €10.00m according to transfermarkt.

          • racksacky@alien.topBEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Ok I’m remembering someone else. Thought he was around £20mil which was a massive amount for Wenger back then.

      • lalosfire@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I distinctly remember this sub trashing him as not good enough. Which always felt harsh but understandable in that first year. He grew into an absolute machine though.

    • EitherInvestment@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I hate to say it but Ashley Cole was the better player. Do not want Cole to be in there given what a prick he is. Monreal was solid for us.

  • NiallMitch10@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    La Cabra - aka Monreal.

    Super consistent. Big goals. Great player. Never understood why we sold him for as little as wel did

    • cwillard260@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      KT should’ve been the answer here and it’s so unfortunate that he hasn’t been able to offer what Mikel’s looking for. If you would’ve told me 2 years ago that Monreal was getting 5x the votes that KT is getting on something like this, I’d have thought you’re crazy.