• I_am_the_grass@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      Ben White is my favourite player in this current team and even I voted for Sagna. It’s not even close. Dude carried that defense for years and basically in every position.

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        1 year ago

        Because our defense was dogshit for like ten years except kos mert pairing, Benny would have carried it too

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        1 year ago

        That’s funny because I was a big Sagna fan and he never got a lot of credit around here as being a really top player, and he got even less credit with other fan bases. I remember people saying that he wasn’t at that elite level because he couldn’t cross. I thought his crossing was decent. Just seems like the prescription of him really changed around here.

      • TheSciences@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        All through those years I felt a kind of calmness when I saw his name on the teamsheet. Big premier league fixtures, European away matches, whatever. I just felt like it was going to be okay with Sagna on the pitch.

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      1 year ago

      Either him or Tomiyasu. I don’t know if this is recency bias,…but I don’t think we had such an impactful RB since 2010. I know Bellerin and Sagna were good, but what these 2 current players offer (on the ball, moving foward, defensively, passing, control) is something else.

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        1 year ago

        I think Sagna in many ways was a more mature and better Tomiyasu. Trustworthy, plays his role, does whatever he’s asked to do as far as build-up, attacking or anything that’s not defending adequatly; but an absolute monster when defending. Large, fast, agile *and* disciplined is one hell of a combination.

        Ben White might fit Arteta’s plan better than Sagna does/did, but Sagna was a better player and overall more impactfull.