Arsenal: Mex Meyer a drop in the ocean, but needs to drip nonetheless

Arsenal’s woes are deep and go beyond anything that one player can solve. Even Max Meyer. That said, let’s go ahead and get it done.

Arsenal fans are back to romanticizing about how Santi Cazorla would never have allowed any of these bad things to happen to the club. Of course, that’s a bit silly, because no one player is going to fix how awfully inconsistent this team has become.

That said, if anything would fix the situation, it would be Santi Cazorla, or someone like him. So much of the problem centers on their inability to transition from defense to attack. It sounds so simple, but anyone who has watched the Gunners recently knows that it is absolutely not.

Most of the derailing happens in the midfield, when players are trying to push the ball forward. Also known as the Cazorla job, receiving the ball from defenders and driving. Aaron Ramsey is better off the ball. Jack Wilshere is decent at it. Granit Xhaka is far better at it then people think, but he can improve. That’s going to come in the form of his passing, not his drive.

Finding someone that can do this role reliably is certainly on the top of the lengthy to-do list. As I have said, and as many others are saying now (I said it first!), Max Meyer is like a German Santi Cazorla, only he has been re-tooled far earlier in his career than Cazorla was, giving him more time to acclimate to the role.

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Conveniently, he has already acclimated, asserting himself as the best defensive midfielder in Germany, despite it being his first year on the job.

Meyer recently turned down a contract extension, according to reports, and that means that he is intent on moving on in the summer. There are going to be so many people trying to snap him up, but, of course, Arsenal will be there in the mix.

Make no mistake about how much of a boost this would be, but in the grand scheme of this Arsenal set-up, it’s little more than a drop in the ocean.

As we are seeing, no matter who we add, the team remains bogged down by the same problems. The same lackadaisical mind set takes over when things go wrong and Max Meyer isn’t going to fix that. It’s like a drop in the ocean.

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That said, if, if we can find a way to get over this horrible mental ineptitude, then Meyer is a superb solution to an increasingly pertinent problem.

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