It’s easy to make snap judgements when you don’t watch a player week to week.
I loved Auba. Growing up with Wright / Anelka / Henry / Adebayor spoilt me in terms of always having pacy, powerful forwards as spearheads. RVP left after a single (magnificent) season as a 9 and then we had years of Giroud.
Auba was great. But then he started playing trash. Arteta is hardline, but he only discards players that aren’t contributing. He hasn’t shown the door to anybody that was playing well.
You’d think that after Sanchez debacle, United fans would take Arsenal fans word for it when we say our talisman is in decline.
Also, who on earth was going to pay us £15m for him?