Saka played through injury. Odegaard do have niggles here and there.
As for Salah, yes of course. But that’s an issue, that’s why Nunez is failure. In Liverpool prime seasons, we dealt with losing Salah and Mane to Afcon while producing 90+ and CL final.
Did you deal with it? Because aside from 2018/19 (when Egypt went out in the R16 so you had Salah back early) you’ve struggled pretty badly in every AFCON season by my reckoning?
To be fair on this one, we did have Matip and Thiago playing without injuries. That’s insane luck and both can make a team scale to dizzying heights. I think Matip won player of the month in Feb.
They’re all very different profiles. Trossard was signed as depth. I think Timber is a clear upgrade on Zinchenko and I think Havertz was signed to play *with* Jesus it’s just not panned out that way
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As for Salah, yes of course. But that’s an issue, that’s why Nunez is failure. In Liverpool prime seasons, we dealt with losing Salah and Mane to Afcon while producing 90+ and CL final.
If Arsenal kept 22/23 style and just made signing to improve in LB, CF and probably R winger, you would have been the team.
Again I agree that another attacker would be an improvement but injuries and red cards have done *far* more damage than recruitment this season.