Cedric Soares has now played the same number of Premier League games for Arsenal as Igors Stepanovs.
Posted Aug 29, 2021, 10:22 AM UTC
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I thought I'll never see that name here. Can someone who's been around enough tell me how bad really was Igors? I'm latvian myself and the whole story is quite amusing, as even in our golden era when we qualified for Euros, he wasn't even our star defender. It's honestly mind boggling that he has ever played for Wenger. Even if Igors was literally the second coming of Sergio Ramos, a transfer from FK fucking Skonto to Arsenal is just out of this world. Sadly, there's nothing from Igors. No books, no interviews, nothing.
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He was completely hopeless. There’s a good story from Ray Parlour’s book that he believes the only reason he was signed, was because all the players were over praising him in a pre-season game to wind Martin Keown up.
https://www.shortlist.com/news/ray-parlours-arsenal-igors-stepanovs-arsene-wenger-denis-bergkamp
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Yeah, I've seen this. I wish there was something from Igors point of view and I'm surprised there's nothing. On paper, it's a huge deal for latvian sports, not only football. We have a tiny country where such things are massively celebrated and Igors case seems a bit sad. It feels like he doesn't want to talk about it.
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He was really, really fucking shit and he's a pretty good barometer to judge length of time watching this club - anyone who claims any of the current players are the worst they've ever seen were not around when Stepanovs was here.
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So has every player that has played more than 15 games for the club. What's the point of this post?
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You leave our Stepanov out of this! He's a god damn Saint! (Said in a jersey accent)
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what is the point of posting useless shit like this here, orbinho is a twat. same level as aftv just nutting at the chance we play like shit so they can get clicks
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Ohh we have another Ostrich. Go bury your head in the sand somewhere else.
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How is he being an ostrich. I can just about understand posting the pointless negative stats that clearly have an unspoken agenda, but this comparison is so blatant and unnecessary it really is just shit from Mr 'I want to educate people about using statistics properly'.
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Why are you triggered mate
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Okay?