RJG23 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2023 8:38 am
Anyone else think Havertz was a bit better yesterday? Thought he did a good job defensively and also won the pen (which shouldn't have been overturned). Only issue was the lazy pass that led to their goal.
Trouble is RJG, this is exactly what is going to happen....as with Xhaka, the bar is going to be set so low, that anything other than an inexcusable own goal, missing a couple of open goals to score for us, misplaced / underhit / overhit passes every single time rather than all the time and failing to get sent off, will mean the performance was ok.
We paid £65m for this bloke and we're entitled to expect him to improve the side. I don't dislike the guy the guy on a personal level and it isn't his fault that we bought him and that the chavs mugged us with the fee, but he's not up to it and the fault lies with Arteta. I actually have some sympathy with Havertz, because from the things that Arteta openly says about constantly reassuring him, the poor bloke must be playing with zero confidence and that will only make his performances worse. After a duff 3 years at the chavs, he'd have done better to go back to Germany, or another European country, where his failure in those 3 years wouldn't have been so much in the spotlight. As it is, he's going to have one hell of a job to win over Arsenal fans who are fed up with signing chav cast offs.
Btw, you forgot his virtual air shot when it was easier to score.