Arsenal: How can Denis Saurez be this irrelevant?

Arsenal brought in Denis Suarez for a reason, didn’t they? So how is it that he is so irrelevant that he might as well not even be here?

I know I’ve been talking a lot lately about Denis Suarez and what the newest Arsenal man is meant to be accomplishing at the club, but that’s because it is complete and utter confusion. Given the rapport that he already had with Unai Emery, I assumed that Suarez had a purpose to serve, that he would get his minutes, prove if he was worthy or not, and we’d all get the picture.

But it’s been nothing of the sort. It’s been a big helping of irrelevant stew with this guy, his loan move looking more like a shrug of the shoulders than an emphatic fist pump.

I wouldn’t say that I necessarily expected Suarez to start against Rennes, but with each match that passes that Suarez doesn’t play, I wonder if he ever will play, and if you look at the schedule ahead, and the raising stakes, you’ll see the same thing.

Suarez clearly isn’t going to be starting in the Premier League, barring an emergency. I’d go so far as to wager that he won’t get a single start this season, because in a race for the top four, a guy that can’t even get a start against BATE Borisov or Rennes (or anyone, obviously) isn’t exactly going to be high on the priority charts.

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I wouldn’t say that I’m angry at his lack of involvement, it’s just confusion, like I said. What was the point of him at all? We needed someone just like him, yet when we got him, there was literally no impetus to get him into the match.

Maybe Unai Emery didn’t see what he wanted in training. Maybe this is why they insisted on a loan move, so that Suarez could be their emergency fallback, if things went really wrong, and there was never a feeling of optimism that Suarez would feel at the club. Who knows.

But over a month into his time at this brand new club, he’s not even had a proper chance. I have a hard time wrapping my head around it.

Needless to say, he’ll probably see his way back to Barcelona when the summer rolls around and this loan move will fade away from our consciousness and, in time, we will forget that it even happened.