African players are a problem tbf.
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Them or their anacondas?
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I was the real Jesus.
Trouble is, most people thought I was a cult leader or a cunt. For years I've been stopped by strangers, begging me to make people walk or heal the sick - fucking liberty! One day I had just finished my shopping in Tesco and walked out of the store and some pillock followed me all the way to my car, shouting at me, asking me to turn his 8 pack of Evian into wine so he could get pissed on the cheap!
Do they think I'm a fucking miracle worker or something !?!
I couldn't put up with it anymore, so I gave up the sandals and white dress (looked twatish anyway)
I'm much happier nowadays :)
Experience CDM, another young CM, CB, GK and RB to push/spell Bellerin
Release Cech, listen to offers for Ramsey, and Xhaka. 1 off the CB's not named Holding and The Greek has gotta go.
Is holding going to be the new Jenkinson, a guy plucked from obscurity who has a few decent games and people think is a great signing who then struggles for the rest of his time here.
Wenger project or not I happen to think he plays full back and have done for some considerable time so that is my view.
He is young and developmental enough that his position should not be cast in stone....
We aren't going to spend a considerable amount on a back up right back either with at least 3 more pressing positions to address.....so we shouldn't we promote from within? If there was a natural understudy RB ready to play back up now I assume he'd already be in the picture but as there is not I see no reason why AMN can't.
Bellerin: "So many people tweet me saying focus on the game (having seen me at fashion shows or whatever) & I am just like don't worry...I am a human being. I have passions, I have hobbies but equally, I am a footballer & thats my main focus" #afc https://t.co/8MvrZAiibp
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I'd like to see AMN be given a run at RB actually. I've been impressed by him at LB and even though he has made some mistakes he has done quite well defensively.
Bellerin isn't a good defender himself and he's not even a good attacking fullback. Apart from running fast what does he do? He's been Wengerised. Safe pass, safe pass, safe pass, weak floated cross to nobody. Not even Giroud could make anything out of his crosses.
AMN is much more proactive in the final third, give him a chance.
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Football isn't a 40 hr a week job. Why can't people just accept he has the time to wear some tramps clothes and be a top professional.
When he over hits a cross into orbit it's not because he was wearing a skirt a week earlier.
Quince wouldnt mind AMN have a run in goal to replace Cech. Some of us are guilty of the same numptiness that Wenger personifies. Somebody plays well in one position for all his adolescence years and more. Wenger buys him and plays him in a completely different position.....Fans start blaming the player. AMN deserves a chance in the midfield. In a few years from now we will hear the kid refuses to extend his contract and we under why.
I actually think Bellerin can be the best right back in the world so am inclined to persist with him there. I just think that I can make my peace with AMN who I agree has been very good on the left as a back up right back, especially if he excels and it actually gives Hector some competition.
To be clear, I actually want to see AMN in midfield but I think he is good enough and young enough to excel in a few positions and to my disappointment, clearly Wenger is reluctant to play him in midfield.
We have Xhaka in midfield not Xabi Alonso and he still won't give him a go.
I think you need to check your facts on how many players are in academies, play 1 position and graduate to full top pros in that same position and actually stay there.
You will happily ignore the times Wenger has successfully identified qualities that were useful in another position because it suits your view but in reality young players positions are more fluid than you want to believe.
Wengers eccentricity should not be the new normal. He ruins players. take Kieran Gibbs for instance. He came through the ranks a a LW, he was excellent for us in an Emirates cup game some years ago. Wenger deployed him as LB did not coach him there and it stuck. 10 years and he is still a rubbish LB
So you think his actual issue is that he was a LW and not that he simply didn't have what it took to be a top player?
Had Messi been a Full back would you be complaining when he got to a point in his career when fans who'd been 'Wengered' had the temerity to question whether he could be an excellent forward rather than full back?
And would you be saying....don't change his position, he's too small, too weak, don't play with a players position etc etc....
If Wenger had been his manager. Yes. The only..success Wenger has had with positional change is Henry.....
Otherwise it has been a catalogue of errors. You should be basing your opinions on Wengers track record...not on winning a pointless argument.
Wenger does these things because he is cheap. Change a players position instead of buying someone fit for purpose. It hardly works. Gio van Bronkhurst...midfielder of some repute. Wenger signs him....Hey presto he is a LB. He also does it because of ego and his insatiable need for adulation....In the offchance it works,, the press will laud him as a great seer. If it doesnt and we still make top 4...then the old legend of fighting the good fight on the cheap goes on.
Because the discussion was about RB not CM. Blink mentioned AMN as competition to Bellerin and I agree that he has the tools to be very good there. Bellerin needs a kick up the arse and I could see AMN doing a job there like Ox did last season.
But yeah CM is a concern. I haven't really seen AMN in CM but I'm not holding my breath after seeing how our other 'home coached' CMs turned out. Wilshere and Ramsey still to this day can't defend or control the midfield. I'm all for giving him a chance though.
It’s not that straight forward. I can see why Blink thinks AMN can play RB. He’s looking at his attributes as a player. That’s always the starting point. There isn’t anything in his game physically or technically that should stop him from being able to play RB. Where Wenger fails as a coach is on the mental side. Helping a player develop their understanding and reading of the game is his weak point. On some occasions, he plays certain players in a position they clearly don’t have the attributes for. That’s where there is a bit of a muddle in your argument.
As I've already stated, my view is based on what I see and what I know of academies and how they actually work in terms of players playing in different positions. You thought it necessary to bring Wenger into this as a factor as you and many seem obsessed with the idea that if an opinion is held that is not in opposition to Wenger's every action, that its a result of being Wengerised.
I don’t object to AMN playing there in of itself, I just think when we lack dynamism in central midfield so desperately it seems to be a waste to play him at fullback
Bellerin seems to have lost confidence, I don’t think he’s suddenly become a bad player
The counter to the argument is to give us a success story of Wenger converting a player to a new position and it being a resounding success. In theory anything is possible wrt to player development. Which other storied manager do you hear boasting about how he converts players to new positions. And yes it is all about Wenger. Did Fergie go about converting players. Do international managers play players in wrong positions. Noi they dont each p;lays the best player in the best position...That is how you win big things.
Please tell me which player Wenger has brilliantly converted to any position. Instead of developing players he befuddles them and stunts their development. Djourou, Senderos, Chambers, and many others.
Do not be confused..it is all about Wenger that was the original position I proposed to you. You are also now finding your self suckered into his delusions. He wont play AMN in CM because his favourites are all there Xhaka Ramsey etc. If all that matters is AMN playing somewhere then so be it. Why not GK, CB?
I could continue this but frankly I simply can't be arsed once I see the pattern of someone repeatedly missing/ignoring key points.
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