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Chelsea secured a comfortable 3-0 win over Burnley in the Premier League yesterday, with Moroccan winger Hakim Ziyech in fine form throughout.
The dangerous playmaker scored his first Premier League goal as a Chelsea player whilst he also laid on an assist for Timo Werner to wrap up the win.
It was a display which had Arsenal fans on Twitter thinking about what might have been.
Arsenal were continuously linked with a move for the former Ajax maestro for a number of years.
First, it seemed an option when Arsenal instead went on to buy Nicolas Pepe. Gunners fans then had to see his name perpetually linked with a move to the club whilst he thrived with the Dutch club.
In the end, he joined Chelsea, in a deal worth a reported £33 million, according to The Times. Considering the amount Arsenal paid Lille for Pepe, that is a huge bargain.
To make matters worse for Arsenal fans, Ziyech is one of them. The Moroccan previously admitted to being a big Arsenal fan in the past and dreamed of playing for the Gunners.
“Well, I have two clubs (I’d like to play for),” Ziyech told Ajax TV in 2017, as relayed by Metro. “They are Arsenal and Barcelona. That is my ultimate dream.”
Ziyech even confirmed that his footballing idol was Mesut Ozil.
So plenty of Arsenal fans are not enjoying watching Ziyech get his Chelsea career off to such an impressive start.
The 27-year-old could have been the perfect Mesut Ozil replacement as the missing creative link in this Arsenal team but, instead, he is now starting to thrive with one of Arsenal’s fiercest rivals.
For some Arsenal fans, it is a transfer error that is near unforgivable…
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