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While I agree with you, that's essentially what he's been at Arsenal, and apparently, that's not what he wants. Clearly someone has promised him CM time, and he's been reasonable there on the few occasions Wenger played him in central midfield. But I'll be curious to see what he does when he's not a starting CM every week at Liverpool.
He'll get plenty of game time at CM with a long season coming up.
 

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Honestly, I feel the same way about Ox as I did about Wijnaldum at the time...meh. Gini's proved me wrong on that count, so I hope AOC can do the same.
 

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Honestly, I feel the same way about Ox as I did about Wijnaldum at the time...meh. Gini's proved me wrong on that count, so I hope AOC can do the same.
Yep. Wijnaldum has been a very good buy. Klopp & Conte see something in Ox and Arsenal were prepared to give him a 165k contract.
 

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No doubt that Liverpool have overpaid for Ox, but that's what you got to do to improve your side, bonus points for weakening a rival.
Sounds ridiculous but personally I don't think it weakens us. We have been trying to shuffle our defence around to fit Ox in to the detriment of the team which can stop now and we can finally play our new LWB at LWB and Bellerin in his preferred position at RWB, along with 3 actual CBs at CB. Also have Reiss Nelson coming through as Bellerin's backup RB who looks like a huge prospect.

Our squad is overfull and we had to get rid of a few players, Ox wouldn't have been first on my list but to get 40m quid for a squad player is a pretty good result for us.
 
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