Welcome to this weekends Loanees Watch – Young Guns’ analysis, reports and updates on the progress of the young starlets currently plying their trade away from the Emirates Stadium.
Arsenal currently have seven Reserves & Youth players gaining experience elsewhere. Jay Simpson and Henri Lansbury are taking part in successive loans in the Championship with Queens Park Rangers and Watford respectively. There are three youngsters in League One with Gavin Hoyte at struggling Brighton and Hove Albion while Wojciech Szczęsny and Rhys Murphy are enjoying their first spells away from the club at Brentford.
The Gunners currently have two youngsters cutting their teeth abroad. Pedro Botelho is spending his third successive loan spell in the Spanish Segunda, but this time with Celta de Vigo, while Håvard Nordtveit is spending the campaign in Germany with Nuremberg.
Read all the latest reports below.
Jay Simpson played the full 90 minutes and scored as Queens Park Rangers drew 2-2 with Coventry.
After Leon Best had headed the visitors in front, Simpson clipped Akos Buszaky’s ball over the top into the net before Buszaky slammed home a second QPR goal via a deflection off Richard Wood. However, Wood levelled late on.
Henri Lansbury played the full 90 minutes and won a penalty as Watford lost 3-0 to Crystal Palace.
Victor Moses, Darren Ambrose and Alan Lee goals gave Palace the win but Watford should have pulled one back after Lansbury was sent crashing down in the box after a lung-busting run. Danny Graham missed the spot kick.
Rhys Murphy played 1 minute while Wojciech Szczęsny was not allowed to feature as Brentford beat Walsall 1-0.
The Bees booked their place in the 3rd round of the F.A Cup thanks to Leon Legge’s 13th minute strike. Murphy replaced Tottenham’s John Bostock with just seconds left as Andy Scott’s side eased by a tricky Walsall side. Arsenal have refused Brentford permission to field Szczęsny in the Cup during his short-term loan spell.
Gavin Hoyte played the full 90 minutes as Brighton beat Rushden and Diamonds 3-2 in the FA Cup.
A Nicky Forster penalty coupled with a Liam Dickinson brace was enough but after two mistakes from Hoyte, Lee Tomlin and Aaron O’Connor made it a nervous finish.
Håvard Nordtveit completed the full 90 minutes as Nuremberg’s poor form continued in a 1-0 defeat to Freiberg.
Nordtveit was again deployed in the holding midfield role and he turned in another hard-working performance. However, Stefan Resinger’s goal for Freiberg proved to be a winner.
Pedro Botelho missed out through injury as Celta Vigo were comfortably beaten 3-1 by Cadiz. Diego Tristán hit the pick of the goals.
Article By – J.Sanderson
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What do you mean mate?
I like the fact that Arsenal haven’t allowed Szczęsny to be cup-tied. That’s a good sign. Hopefully he’ll get his chance if we draw a ‘seemingly easy’ tie.
jay simpson scoring again. don’t need another striker in jan if he continues this kind of form and development.
I would say it’s its more to do with the fact he’s only on loan for one month than anything. Incase we decide to loan him elsewhere.
gd article by the way
I think the Simpson thing is complicated because he’s their for the season which would mean some fee has been exchanged. I don’t think he’ll be coming back.
Matthe – agree
Um I watched Jay Simpson in the leister City game and he went a whole game without doing anything. If he wasnt an Arsenal Player, I wouldnt even had noticed him. Ok he has scored some goals in the Championship but that doesnt make him good enough for Arsenal.
shane i dont think jay will make it with us but everyone has bad games do you not think your maybe being harsh on jay by always bringing up his performance in one game you saw his clearly not doing too badly judging by the goals hes scoring
Jay would still be number 8 in our pecking order, despite RvP injuries. And if we just take the central slot, then Nick, Dudu, Vela and Walcott are all ahead of him. He will never make it at Arsenal, but maybe we can let QPR have him as part of the Sterling deal. I read that QPR will let Sterling play for the first team as soon as he turns 15, which would make him the youngest league player in English history.
No, It wasnt that he had a bad game. It was that he did absolutly nothing for 90 minutes. Just because you score doesnt always meen you are playing good. He will be a championship player and maybe later in his career, a lower team prem player. I just dont like how we as fans always over hype are own players instead of seeing them from an unbias stand point. There is no point in having a message board if we all just say that every Arsenal player is great….We do have some real gems and we have some players that just arent good enough. Simple.
but shane, u dont seem 2 have an unbiased view.
I would love Jay Simpson to be successfull at Arsenal, but IMHO he is limited in ability and that he will have the same kind of career than Sidwell: decent premiership player but nowhere near the quality to play at a Champion’s league club.
He is still not good enough with his back to the goal. Despite being big he does not seems to know how to use his frame to the benefit of the team. Also his technique is good but not very good and often his first touch let him down.
Last year at West Brom, he often miss opportunity because his first touch let the ball bounce far away from him.
http://www.people.co.uk/sport/football/tm_method=full%26objectID=21858735%26siteID=93463-name_page.html
on what are you basing this fact that jay won’t make it? he’s a young lad who has every chance to improve, mature and get even better. if he banging in the goals what more can you ask of the lad? he’ll only get better.
look at song last year and this.. he’s a perfect example of how these young players can improve loads.
The main reason why I believe that he will not make it at Arsenal is his age and his poor technique at least when compared to our other strikers (Van Persie, Bendtner, Edouardo, Vela) and even to the younger striker (Watt, Afobe).
He is at an age where he needs to be paying regularly to progress and he is unlikely to unseat any of those. If in January Arsenal buy another striker, he will be even more unlikely to get a first team place. Next year he will be behind Van Persie, Bendtner, Eduardo, Vela, Van Persie’s replacement.
In order to make it at Arsenal you have to be world class and an international or close to be an international. He is unlikely to be an England international. I do not believe that anybody think that he is near the level of England International.
It is a shame, but realistically a lot of the youngsters (even the so called good ones) will not make it at Arsenal. They will go an and get a decent career away from Arsenal.
Remember a couple of year ago, Quincy Owusu Abeyie was the next big thing. He is gone.
Jay Simpson is not setting the championship alight like Bentner did it a couple of years ago. If he cannot shine at that level what are his chance with Arsenal in the Champion’s league?
I wanna stick up for Jay Simpson, he did really well at Milwall and is now doing even better at QPR. Their fans think he’s top draw. Why are so many on this board so arrogant and say he’s NOT ARSENAL CLASS. Absolute rubbish! How many goals have the 1st team scored in their last two games?
I’m happy having a quiet CF who does nothing apart from bang in 20 odd goals a season. That closes down opposing keepers and harries their back line properly.
While I’m on this one can someone explain to me why two of our forwards yesterday kept going together to (very half heartidly) close the keeper down? Don’t think a Simpson and Bendtner forward line would do this. I’m an idiot of course because according to some of the fans here they both aren’t Arsenal quality, that’s why!