Arsenal: Sead Kolasinac alone crushes ‘papering cracks’ argument

Arsenal are, naturally, being accused of simply ‘papering over the cracks’ with the Bournemouth win, but Sead Kolasinac alone defeats that argument.

It was just before the Bournemouth game that people were already asking the all-important question. No matter how badly Arsenal beat the Cherries, how long would it take for someone to say “well, that just papers over the cracks”?

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Sure enough, just a few days later, that exact claim was made. That the convincing win against Bournemouth just papers over the cracks in the team. That this team is close to the brink of destruction.

Honestly, for the life of me, I don’t see how anyone can deny the bias of the media against Arsenal. Here you have teams like Liverpool and Tottenham who haven’t won sh!t in years, yet they are a powerhouse, yet Arsenal miss the Champions League one time in two decades and we are on the brink of total collapse?

It’s stupid.

And if you want to say that all the win did was paper over the cracks, then all I have to do is point to Sead Kolasinac. Papering over the cracks would mean doing the same thing and pulling out a win in the same way. Nothing changed.

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But things have changed. Just because three games in those changes inexplicably hadn’t been allowed to occur doesn’t mean that the changes aren’t there.

Take Kolasinac for instance. To say that they are just papering over the cracks is to say that Kolasinac is no different than who the Gunners have utilized in the past. That’s a bold-faced lie. Kolasinac is everything the Gunners haven’t had in the past.

He is a fighter, a warrior, a firecracker and he is not just papering over the cracks. He is solving a problem and we saw that against Bournemouth. Don’t pretend like the problem isn’t solved just because it’s “only Bournemouth.”

And Alexandre Lacazette can fit here as well. Again, the phrase ‘papering over the cracks’ means that you are hiding the problems. Both of these new signings don’t hide anything, they fix them. Lacazette is everything the Gunners haven’t had in a decade. He’s a class finisher, which is enough said right there.

It’s more crap. Bashing Arsenal is a past time of these talking heads. If the Gunners won the Prem, they’d say “well, I still think there is room for improvement; certainly the worst title winners in years.”

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They’re spoiled by the Gunners success, so they look for every chance to downplay it.