Arsène Wenger has included Emmanuel Frimpong, Henri Lansbury, Benik Afobe and, providing he is granted a work permit, Ryo Miyaichi in his first-team squad for the new season, Young Guns has learnt.
All four players are yet to have their first-team squad numbers confirmed, but were told of their promotion before today’s opening training session for members at the Emirates Stadium.
More to follow.
Wohoo! Lansbury, yes!! :)) Will he travel to Portugal?
Guess Bartleys loan will be sooner rather than later then
Frimpong and Lansbury were promoted last year.
Say Ryo doesnt get a permit, would another young gun get promoted? or is that it and we’d be a player light in the 1st team squad?
Squillaci still in Bartley’s way then.
great news!! i will be really pissed of miyaichi doesn’t get a work permit since he’s gone from schoolboy football in japan to arsenal’s first team squad… how is that not a special talent? considering how man utd always seem to get work permits for their players.
I’m really not convinced about him in the PL at this point. Hope I’m wrong, but I’d rather he didn’t get the work permit this year and spent another season getting plenty of games abroad. The French league would be a good test for him imo – better defenders than in the dutch league, and a bit more physical, but not quite as good as the PL currently.
No doubt he’s a massive talent, but I’m a bit concerned that he would look like walcott when he first started getting games. He will be better than walcott in the end though, I’m quite sure of that.
Glad to see lansbury and afobe have been included (frimpong was expected), but what does coquelin have to do? He was at least as good as henri last season.
Feel bad for Le Coq. Not only is he better than Frimpong, he actually has the more experience (a whole season on loan in Ligue 1 playing for a great manager), whereas Frimpong (as talented as he is) has yet to play a single senior game.
I don’t know if he’s better than frimpong to be honest. I think frimpong’s physical strength has given him the edge, but coquelin’s energy would be very welcome in this squad. True about the experience, though.
Lansbury, frimpong and coquelin all look like quality young midfielders, so I guess Wenger has decided he has to leave one out this year. Hope coquelin gets a chance soon.
All worthy. Frimpong and Afobe impressed this past weekend.
Delighted for Afobe and Lansbury. Both real Gooners. Aneke next please!
Bartley’s new deal suggests to me that we will not be buying a new CB this summer, but that he will likely step up after his loan spell to replace Squillaci next season.
So with Bartley’s new deal and Afobe in the senior squad, does that mean our investment this summer is over?
bartley instead of squillaci all day long wenger open your eyes
afobe? nice for him :)
although arsenal really needs a better striker soon to have as backup if RVP gets injured.
Chamakh and Vela doesn’t look like they will be able to do it well enough :(
and Afobe isn’t close enough to do it on his own either – yet.
I agree to a point: Gervinho might be able to that job on a fill-in basis.
Dont think its crazy to say we try Walcott at striker this season if RvP gets injured…If Miyaichi gets his permission to play this season, there is still him, Arshavin, Gervinho, Nasri (when Ramsey plays central), and Afobe to play on the wings.
Obviously Vela isnt a reliable option up front, and Chamakh simply doesnt have an attacking presence (besides headers).
Happy for all of them, especially Lansbury. Excellent player and an excellent guy!
I think Bartley might be going out on Loan at least till January and Wenger is going to get a New CB….I have high expectations from the coming seasons for Lansbury, Frimpong and especially Miyaichi…I believe they are going to really push for the first team and hopefully it might help get the best out of the current First XI especially Song as for the first time he is going to have some actual competition rather than fighting with Denilson
It wasn’t much of a fight with Denilson was it?
I don’t understand the criticism of song. He was our most consistent player for the two years prior to this. In that period I can’t remember a single game (except when he played in defence) where he wasn’t one of our most impressive 3 or 4 players.
Last year he had a bad spell at the start which was basically because he was attacking too much (not sure if that’s his fault or something he was told to do) but after that he was fine again. He basically won us the game against Utd as well by completely nullifying rooney.
I don’t get the criticism of Song either. He is a special talent to me and is as good as an defensive mid in the world.
Shane, if Song was English he *would be regarded as one of the best in the world by people in this country, and fans would be nothing like as fickle about him. He’s one of our most important players.
I am extremely happy to hear that these are the guys i’ve been looking at being promoted! Absolutely no complaints here! Especially for Afobe. I get the feeling that he is going to explode this season after having to replace a couple of the injured players who will find it hard to get back in the starting 11. Lansbury has that extra urhmph and desire needed to make it. So full of energy, and hitting those long rangers regularly now! Something we’ve been missing. Frimpong needs no explanation. If Miaychi gets that permit, we’ll have 2 exciting direct dribbling entrants this season which we lacked last season, can take on the opposition and beat players off the dribble. Miyaichi’s crossing has also improved vastly just over a few weeks. 3 pacey wingers, not forgetting that Afobe can play there, I believe we’ll be ok after all…
Surely Wenger will get a CB – how can he not after witnessing the usual defensive ineptitude recently? Bartley has a future but I think it will eventually mean Squill and possibly even Djourou moving aside/down the pecking order.
Great news for Lansbury – really hope he is not sold. I would like to see our youngsters given a chance.
Lansbury can go for a free at the end of the season right?
Yes, Lansbury’s contract expires at the end of the season.
to all wenger haters: what whould happen to these youngsters if we bought 2, or 3 players… i guarantee miyaichi will be better than mata, bartley will be better than cahill, lansbury will be better than barton (hah already is), frimpong will be better than vidal, and all for free…
“i guarantee miyaichi will be better than mata”
really? You can guarantee that? And exactly when will that happen? It certainly won’t be next season – I can guarantee that! Mata is a top winger and would have been a really great signing for us.
I think Miyaichi will be a quality player, and if he becomes as good as mata, let alone better, I think everyone will be happy – but let’s not get carried away. He’s only played a bit in the dutch league. His rise from basically nothing has been absolutely incredible, but that doesn’t mean he can just walk into the PL and start taking teams apart. Even C.Ronaldo took 2 or 3 years to start doing that, and I can’t say with any confidence that miyaichi will ever be as good as him. Hope so, and I wouldn’t put it past him, but it would be foolish to make a prediction like that.
LOL….you can’t guarantee any of that and it sure want be anytime soon. Frimpong better then Vidal? Please. The only thing that I can say about Frimpong is that he is strong. I don’t think any other attribute has really stood out yet. Ryo is a talent but he has a long way to go. Of course who knows how fast he will develop but still, chances are it will be a good 2 to 3 years before he is a starter.
your not getting it… our top talents won’t wait for 10 years, and than settle for 3, 4 years of good football… you need to trust the youngsters, and buying mata would mean that miyaichi won’t get a decent chance any time soon, so he would probably leave… imagine if wilshere didn’t get a chance cos a good player in his position arrived… it would have been a waste of a perfect player… maybe i overpraised those players, but i guarantee at least two of those four will become supper stars, maybe all…and need i remind you that mata would cost around 35 millions, and we got miyaichi, who can, i still think be as good as mata, even better… i agree that arsenal made a huge mistake when they were late to bid for mata, as he would be an excellent signing, but it’s not the end of the world… i just wanted to say that everyone who have something bad to say about the board and especially (!!!) wenger, should do it now, two weeks before the season… lets see how these kids do, than criticize or praise…
No, your not getting it. Our constant reliance on young players turns into young players thinking that first team football is a right instead of something they must earn. Not all 19 year olds need to be playing first team football but now that is what they have come to believe at Arsenal.
Iniesta was a back up to Deco for a good amount of time. Guys like Darren Fletcher worked for how long until he got his time. You earn your place….it should never be given to you.
I was responding to the “guarantee” that miyaichi would be better than mata.
But as to your point – we tried that already. We let vieira and edu go and replaced them with fabregas, we let cole go and replaced him with clichy. We let walcott play over and over when it was clear he wasn’t ready, ditto denilson and bendtner – and we won nothing. End result, the youngsters who we gave a chance to got impatient and now want to leave. They didn’t all develop as everyone expected because there weren’t enough proven winners in the squad to pass their experience on. We gave them too much responsibility, too soon; they couldn’t handle it, and now we’re letting them go.
Who cares if miyaichi stays with us if he can’t help us to win anything. Same goes for all the young players in the squad.
Now don’t get me wrong, I like miyaichi a lot, and I’m always supportive of the young players, but there’s no point in keeping him around, giving him games, just to keep him happy when he’s not ready to really contribute to the side. That’s exactly what we did with walcott and it was worse than playing a man down a lot of the time because he just wasn’t ready.
Imo lansbury is ready to contribute, I’m not quite sure about afobe or frimpong (or coquelin), but I think they’re worth a shot, but I don’t think miyaichi would be able to add anything to the side at this stage of his career. He has shown he is capable of doing damage to teams in the dutch league, and as I said, his rise from school football in Japan has been miraculous, but that doesn’t mean he can walk into the PL and do anything like the same thing. Kuyt was a 30-goal-a-season striker in Holland, and while I think he’s a very good player, he’s nothing like that here. Imo Miyaichi deserves a chance to play at a higher level, which is why I suggest a loan to the french league, but I really think the PL would be beyond him now.
Don’t be a cunt.
I just don’t understand how Ryo hasn’t been picked for Japan yet. They aren’t Brazil, for chrissakes.
Lansburys just said on twitter that he didnt get promoted?
I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade here but wasn’t Frimpong promoted to the senior side this time last just before his unfortunate leg injury?
Frimpong never had his leg broken.
He doesn’t say it was broken – he says it was injured. It was cruciate ligaments in the knee (and the knee is a part of the leg – last time I looked, it was anyway).
Lansbury denying it on Twitter??
Truly pleased with these ‘NEW ADDITIONS’
in the 1st XI. This will give competition in all departments and will be for the good of Arsenal.
Waiting to watch them in action on the field ….. even from where I am in Singapore. As I have always watched and been entertained by Arsenals game / type of football!
All The Best To The Gunners in this new season!!!
Noah, I think we are trying to block Miyaichi from playing for Japan in a friendly.
Anyway, I wouldn’t expect much from these players for another 3-5 years so we should all relax until then.
If we did buy one of Cahill or Samba, Bartley moving out on Loan to one of their respective clubs could ease their worries of being short at the back. It’d be perfect for Arsenal – Probably why it’ll never happen.
great new thnx for the update js
Henri did this before a few weeks ago. He denied a tweet I put out saying he wasn’t fit enough to play a Reserve XI game.
He didn’t play in the game, and didn’t say why.
It’s always frustrating when a player denies the story, but lets wait and see.
Its frustrating when you found out that your story is false?…..Yah, I guess that would be frustrating. lol
No. Frustrating when players lie.
He was included in the first-team photoshoot today: http://t.co/hcZIadO.
Kyle Bartley also there, but he’s going on loan.
Seems like Lansbury wasn’t included, which would be an absolute shame.
is there any chance of miquel getting a squad number because i think he would do better then squillaci aswell.we should just sell that guy but i doubt we will get are money back on him.and as for afobe well absolutely brilliant. he is the next ian wright wright wright.now lets get miyaichi work permit sorted and we are looking dangerous offensively even if rvp is out injured.
ITs good to send Bartely on loan. We want him to build character and gain confidence to become a vital part of the team in the future.
You dont do that by putting to much preassure on to young shoulders.
He needs time to become the leading defencive tower we all know he can be.
no use getting all those starlets if we dont provide them the opportunity,expected ignasi miquel,to be in the squad aswell especially after his u19 heroics.fimpong especially looks ready for the first team.not sure about afobe especially if we are after joel campbell,both aren’t anywhere close to the first team.wenger might be contempleting to use them in carling cup.we need atleat another first team striker since bendtner will be leaving,strangely after all the several reports linking us to lukaku..any news about jose rodriguez & the serbian guy not to mention oxlade
What about Francis Coequlin
Firstly, i would like to commend your efforts, you are unquestionably one of the best football bloggers around.
You recently reported about us offering a trial to nenad lukic. Any further updates on that situation?
Also, i think the future of our central defence seems to be in safe hands, with koscielny, vermaelen, miquel and bartley.
Was really impressed with afobe’s decision-making in the last friendly. That’s the most common problem with young players, but it looks as though he’s already got that part sorted. He obviously has the technical ability and his movement is good, but that was really impressive.
Am out of topic but did anyone watch the under 20 world cup involving costa rica and australia?JOEL CAMPBELL score two spectacular goals and am surprised no blog has reported this but u can watch it in you tube.am sure his price will triple..get him now wenger!he is a big talent..
i watched it live.
he’s already an arsenal player unless we do the usual, haqqling over few quids till we get gazumped.
yes he can play first team but this year we are already promoting too many kids.
i prefer he hooks up with wellington at levante for a whole season, awsome!
We also have Gilles Sunu there and he’s scored 2 in 2 for France!
They are 4 promising youngsters, good for them to be involved with the first team. Considering, the 25 man limit to the squad, as well the age of these youngsters (except for Lansbury), should they really be included as one of the 25. They can still play for the first team as one of the registered youth players. I mean we can take advantage of the fact that many of our players are quite young and have a bigger squad to accommodate all the injuries invariably we suffer. As well as to increase the competition for places, so there is no slump in performance when we face ‘lesser’ teams.
miyaichi is ready for first team and afobe is not, how do you people work that one out?
my only problem is wenger might end up promoting too many kids and tell us these are our new summer signings.
afobe, miyaichi, bartley,lansbury,frimpong are all ready for first team but arsene have to back them up with experienced signings to build a strong team.
We’ll see if the actually get to play in a first team game. Untill then, they are all still reserve/youth players
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Yeayyyyy they got their 1st team number hahaaa…we need to promote this talented english player to be arsenal future backbone..and english press will love arsenal and write all the good things..that’s all…
Any word on Ignasi Miguel then? or is he assumed to be apart of the first team since he was last season as well?
i recommanded ryo miyiachi and lansbury,frimpong
Irrespective of who gets promoted one thing is for sure we need a LB and a CB,without those signing no way next season will be easier than last season,thats for sure
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!
Brilliant news, can’t wait to see the likes of Wilshere, Lansbury, Frimpong and Bartley forming the Spine of the team in the near future.
How will that be the spine of our team? Song is miles ahead of Frimpong and a much better talent. Ramsey is miles ahead of Lansbury and they are the same age. I would hope that Vermaelen, Ramsey, Song and Wilshere would be this “back bone” of the team assuming we did lose Nasri and Fabregas (which I hope does not happen).
Frimpong looks a better player than the 19 yr old Alex Song to be fair. I think they’re both great talents though.
If we could tie Lansbury down to a new contract I don’t think there would be any harm in sending him to Norwich for the season. Would be better for him to get say 20 pl games under his belt in the immediate future
Coquelin having another year at Lorient is the best option for him imo, he’s still in Wenger’s plans long term
Its a shame Huddersfield didn’t get promoted because I feel a year in the championship at a familiar club would see Afobe able to make a more concerted push for regular playing time in his preferred position in a year’s time
Frimpong is no where near what Song was at 19. Why do people always seem to under rate Song? I remember Song at Charlton and he had attributes that were great. His ball control, vision, passing and tackling were top notch. He has just improved on all of those and added more mobility and positioning to his game.
Great news, miyaichi is the best out of the 4. Can’t wait to see him in action.
@Shane – Is ramsey really ahead of lansbury? I’m not convinced. We’ll find out next season but aaron is really hit and miss atm.
Ramsey after coming straight back from a leg break is still far ahead of Lansbury. It seems like some people have forgotten what a talent Ramsey was before his leg break.
@Shane – Is ramsey really ahead of lansbury? I’m not convinced.
By a mile.
Ramsey is forging a great partnership with wilshere, he has broken in to the starting 11 for the second time now.
Dont forget that prior to the injury, aaron had earned his position playing alongside cesc through merit.
Lansbury although talented is no way ahead of ramsey. He has not even earned a prem league start yet.
You confused me lol. Your comment sounds like you are agreeing with me. Ramsey is much better then Lansbury. Ramsey is a special talent. Hopefully, he can get back to his old self which I believe he will.
Ok…..nevermind. Did not see the comment right above yours mate. I get it now.
Hahaha If ryo doesn’t get the work permit then bartley should be promoted
U cant hav it bothways guys bigups to de promoted youngguns its not all doom and gloom lyk u couchcoaches predict let evbody sell their moms to buy evbody we scout but AW is de Mastermind
Lansbury denies being included in the first-team squad, but is photographed with the rest of the first-team today. You can find all the photos here: http://t.co/hcZIadO
song lacks pace and positional sense. good player nothing extra ordinary. frimpong will be first choice next season he is fast and knows how to impose physicality.
reality check….this comment is a joke
Alex Song is an incredibly fast player, especially for a DM. He does not have the STYLE of an Olympic sprinter like Walcott, but dont let than confuse you. Even Wenger has gone on the record saying that Song is one of the fastest players on the team in Sprint tests.
jamie the photo means nothing.. they were photographed last year if you remember… no way will he promote all these kids..get real ..
Afobe don’t need to go on loan again. He’s already better than Chamakh and Vela and can be our new Anelka. Anelka was here at 19 and scored 22 goals to enable us win the league.
I can see Anelka in Afobe. Anelka at 19 replaced Ian Wright so will Afobe replace Chamakh and Vela.
I think this just goes to show that arsenal do produce good English talent..I think adobe and frimpong will be great players..I see bits of Ian wright/Defoe in afobe,I think he cud be that proper goalscorer we all have been craving and I think that with work frimpong has the physical attributes to be our own essien..and I’m usually very negative wen it comes to players being hyped..i also like Lansbury but I just don’t see where he will fit in at the moment and I can see him moving on and having a great career elsewhere
Afobe and Pongo are not English and never will be.
Afobe is English and plays for the England U20 team. Anyone who says he isnt English either has no command of the facts or is just trolling for the BNP.
No chance of Bartley being seen doing anything this season. He’s off to Rangers for the entire season.
Risky if we don’t add a 4th CB as we cannot rely on Squillaci. Be interesting to see if Bartley carries on in midfield for them like last year.
It really gets my goat when ppl say that Song gets dissed because he is black/African! It has nothing to do with that at all. You do not see any other DM doing the things he does, i.e.
Consistently get caught on the wrong side of his man and then have to make a clumsy foul, giving away a FK and prob earning a(nother) yellow.
Winning the ball, but then instead of passing it on, sticks his arse out to keep the oppo away while he fannies around!
Pass the ball simply FFS! He wins it well sometimes, but just give it to a more technical player who will do something with it!
If he could learn these things/eradicate the mistakes, he can become a very good DM, even good enough for us, but he must learn them now!!!!!
Jamie, keep up the good work. Difficult to understand why HL says he is not in first team squad, but in the photo. Surely HL must know by now if AW has said he is in or out???
The problem is for one, you are blaming Song for the system. In the 4-2-3-1 both Wilshere and Song are suppose to rotate who holds depending on who goes forward so how can you just blame Song.
Him holding on to the ball is because if a player is not moving to get open for the pass then he has to hold onto it. Song passes as much as anyone on the team so come on mate.
The problem is people seem to have a vendetta against him for some reason. Wilshere does all those things that you just moaned about but I never see anyone on here complaining about him. Song is one of our best players period and the one of the best defensive mids in the world period.
@Zorr0
What you’ve just said Song should do is exactly what Denilson did. Get the ball and pass it to somebody else to do something with it. we all know how much grief Denilson got for that!
Are you sure these photos are evidence that they are 1st team squad? I can’t see Chesney on the ‘photocall’. Unless I’m looking at the wrong thing?
Any news of Gilles Sunu??? I think it is time now that the be given an opportunity in the first team
Not good enough. Sell him for £500’000
we all know that arsenal and arsene is the man who lifts nontalents to talents.cesc waz 16 and now is 24,he waz amatuer in bercelona and now is well talented in arsenal.meaning frimpong,afobe,lansbary and ryo are not news.lets here now for strengthening our team by buying quality players and sell those who don,t fit in arsenal the club like bentner,eboue,allumunia.try hard and hard to keep cesc,nasri,vpersie,ryo on first team and in arsenal to win tittles to droght.remamber venger we give u this only year 2011_2012to win if not u must to go.we need to win everyday every year.born awinner
So Wenger has decided that the gunners will be the finishing school. Let’s hope these four gunners can bring the club to the next level. If not it will be a case of I told you so.
Gilles Sunu, Traore, Diaby are all overrated.
i think it is time for frimpong to show how good he really is at this stage of his career i can assure you he is better than song when song was 19. Coquelin should still be in wenger’s plans he is a versatile player who has energy similar to john o’shea and would like to see him go on loan to boost his chances next year. The next loan move wenger needs to sanction is chuks aneke who is massively talented and skilful on the ball loan him out to a league one team which would really improve his development
He is not even close to what Song was at 19. I don’t know why these comments are getting to me but they are flat out nonsense. Please do tell me what Frimpong is better at then Song was at 19. At 19 Song was playing premier league games for Charlton and you could see his obvious talent and skills. What can you tell me about Frimpong’s skills?
One of the reasons I like Arsene Wenger but this season we need trophies not a trophy. I’ve seen this boy Frimpong and I know he can challenge the big boys in the EPL which shows that we can stop their play and play our style as it is difficult to defend against us especiall now that we have Giovinho. All I can say they must play like internationals and keep telling themselves that they are better than other players who are rated so highly at our rivals.
Keep up the good work Gunners and show the world we can be invicibles again this season.
Ryo is something special. Really hope he can get a wp.
Posted by Zorr0 on August 4th, 2011, 23:00 [Reply]
It really gets my goat when ppl say that Song gets dissed because he is black/African! It has nothing to do with that at all. You do not see any other DM doing the things he does, i.e.
Consistently get caught on the wrong side of his man and then have to make a clumsy foul, giving away a FK and prob earning a(nother) yellow.
Winning the ball, but then instead of passing it on, sticks his arse out to keep the oppo away while he fannies around!
Pass the ball simply FFS! He wins it well sometimes, but just give it to a more technical player who will do something with it!
If he could learn these things/eradicate the mistakes, he can become a very good DM, even good enough for us, but he must learn them now!!!!!
Jamie, keep up the good work. Difficult to understand why HL says he is not in first team squad, but in the photo. Surely HL must know by now if AW has said he is in or out???
I couldn’t agree more with that mate. Shane, I find myself agreeing with a lot of your views but not this one mate. I truly believe Arsene has done Song a massive injustice with instructions. It’s obvious he is instructed to get forward to support the attack and to try and create goal-scoring opportunities himself. Here’s where the problem lies with that though: this is NOT Song’s game! It isn’t his strong point so he shouldn’t do it! Period! JW can do it because he has it in his artillery! He’s got a better engine than Song so can get up and down far more easily. He can link the play brilliantly and always makes clever runs forward. He can play killer passes, tackle, move quicker and he has even proved on many occasions last season that he is willing to take more responsibility with things like positioning and leadership! In fact, Jack only sits in holding midfield when he’s covering Alex’s latest (ineffective) slalom forward! I think a box-to-box midfielder suits JW just fine. But definitely NOT Song!! He should only ever shield the defence. Still, Frimpong is already a much better ball-winner than Alex and that’s the primary role of a DM! If Wenger ran things correctly, then Alex Song really should be feeling Manny breathing down his neck at this moment in time. But u can bet ur ass that’s not the case! Even Frimpong got forward far too much for my liking against Boca which is a ridiculous tactic employed by Wenger! He really is atrocious with such things!
Davi mentioned how Song kept Rooney quiet last season when we beat those shits at the Grove. That game there is THE best performance Alex has EVER produced in an Arsenal shirt – bar NONE!! He actually did his job. It was obvious Arsene showed them shits respect by employing such tactics for that game. They hardly looked like scoring as a result – Hernandez ended up touching the ball about 5 times in the whole game as a result of Wenger getting his tactics spot on for once against those shits in the past few years! In that game, Alex did what De Jong did in every single game last season that he represented his arse-clown team in – namely protect your defence! It’s the sole responsibility of a DM. They should NEVER try and get forward to create leaving a massive gap in behind leaving the team susceptible to the counter! Maybe i need to explain this to Wenger? Maybe i know more than him about the game of football although i have never worked in the game!? ;)
For one TJ, you agreed with me in that. I said, Song going forward was because of team tactics not his position and yes Wilshere was suppose to cover when Song goes forward (which he never really does). I have always stated I prefer the 4-3-3 with Song sitting in behind Fabregas and Wilshere.
Now on the rest, yes we disagree mate. This is where Wilshere is put on a pedestal while Song always takes the blame. If you say Wilshere has a better engine then you are also saying he is lazy because he rarely ever works hard to get back. I disagree with the creating and passing part as well. Song is just as good as any on the pass and creation (out side of Fabregas.
At the end of the day, it is tactics but Song is amazing when is the holding role. No player tackles better then him in open space. Also love how he plays tough without trying to break peoples legs. Song is also good going forward but in that system, all the blame can not be on him defensively because other players are suppose to help defend.
By the way…no body get the wrong idea. I am a big fan of both Wilshere and Song so I am not through Wilshere under the bus. Just telling it how it is.
There would be be space of we demoted nasri to the reserve team for a year…..
I strongly believe that since last year, Arsenal began a phase whereby 3-4 well trained and potentially explosive players will be joining the squad from among the Young guns annually.
However, last year also shows the type of risk that the club will have to get better at taking:
The potential of Scezeny and Frimpong last year most likely affected Wenger’s hesitance in going for a replacement for Alumnia and a cover for Song.
Now, I can see why we may not need a Parker or Barton if Frimpong is already in the team and Le Coq is in the wings and how Bartley and Miquels’ potentials may be messing up Wenger’s decision about getting a CB.
We have to realise that if a player, especially a defender is bought for $20m and has a 4year contract, we cannot pack him on a bench and have a 21year old costing nothing paying for him.
Nonetheless, I think Wenger should sign more of the 29-30year olds, on 2year contracts as stop gaps for such positions instead of leaving the club 100% without cover.
That will assure some redundancy in the squad in much the same way that engineers have margins of error in their designs.
song is one of the best DM in england now….anytime wenger plays him, i feel comfortable….its the tactis that can make song defective…why wud he have to attack whiles there is ramsey/fab4 and wilshere on the pitch//his is too shiled the defence…well wenger can pair him with emmanuel frimpong on very physical games cos they have that and wilshere or rmasey plays in front of them
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