Just so we're clear, I've been in the front line of White's cheerleaders on here. I still don't think he's an amazing attacking fullback, but even in the past few posts I've hailed his contributions.
Claudius wrote:
RocktheCasbah wrote:
Still this sniffiness persisting around White, who was singled out for praise by Wrighty on Saturday night's MotD and it's very hard to understand.
I think a lot of it comes directly from a sense of injustice relating to Saliba. It was very evident in many online spaces that White was never accepted because of that early last year. He took a lot of heat in the Brentford game and never recovered amongst that crowd. He has one of the biggest perception - reality gaps I have seen.
That, the way that Saliba situation fed the Arteta-out agenda, and the way White's £50m fee fed the Arteta-out agenda.
We had a whole season of people swearing that Saliba would mutiny because Arteta was such a dickhead, and that signing White had literally taken the money out of Edu's hands for a deal on a central midfielder. I'm still traumatised by those debates, but our current league position is taking the edge off my pain.
