Per Mertesacker: The BFG

[GDeep™]

Penny for Tony Adams thoughts?

Does anyone care anymore? He was offered a role, started it, but quickly left when offered more money from elsewhere.

Adams is a pretty sickening character when you think about.

 

[cloista]

I prefer to think of it as Adams has finally got all the alcohol out of his system these days.

Personally I preferred him drunk

 

[GDeep™]

I love Adams, but you can't slag off the club, finally get a role but then quickly leave, and then continue to slag off the club again.

 

[GDeep™]

Says a lot about Wenger that he gave a role to Adams after being criticised by his former captain in public. Yet, Adams throws the role back at him after he was showed more cash from elsewhere.

 

[Song Billong]

One of Arséne's greatest signings in terms of the stability he brought in 2011/12 and his influence in the dressing room and will now become a coach here. All for just 7 million.

Plus he has been a genuine Arsenal fan since he was young.

 

[Song Billong]

Adams is irrelevant. Great player but Adams the player and Adams the coach are two entirely seperate characters.

 

[Rain Dance]

delighted to hear this news, no two words about it

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

Good news. He'll hopefully do a good job on the players in every way. Good luck Per.

 

[Godwin1]

One of Arséne's greatest signings in terms of the stability he brought in 2011/12 and his influence in the dressing room and will now become a coach here. All for just 7 million.

I don't think Per gets enough credit when compared to someone like Arteta.

 

[benjamin86]

I don't think Per gets enough credit when compared to someone like Arteta.

He seems to be a great guy, so i'm really happy we're keeping him at the club.

Quote from Welbeck on Mert

"And I think he helped me a lot. He's always there talking to you, giving you advice, asking you how you're feeling. I think once you're injured it can be quite a dark place, but Per was one of the reasons that kept me smiling throughout."

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'He helps me on the pitch because when he sees things, he corrected me a few times. He's not just the type of player who says, 'You didn't do that well enough' or, 'You have to do it this way', he tells you why.

'In the short time that I worked with him in the national team, I learned a lot from him.'

I've seen a lot of fans moan "why do we have a captain that doesnt play" those quotes illustrate why.

 

[cloista]

Think he would make a great manager in the future. Perhaps the academy role is the club attempting to groom him for the top job one day.

 

[Jury]

Per made the FA Cup final one of the best days I've ever had on earth. He can do what the **** he wants and when he wants to do it as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Makingtrax]

Hugely underrated player.

Big fan of Kos, but it was Mertersaker that contributed most to our excellent defensive stats last season . . best in the league . . . despite a depleted midfield in front of him for a lot of the season.

 

[BBF]

I don't think Per gets enough credit when compared to someone like Arteta.

I'd say Mertesacker stabled the ship but Arteta took us up a level

 

[GDeep™]

FA Cup final one of the best days I've ever had on earth.

 

[Mark Tobias]

Hugely underrated player.

Big fan of Kos, but it was Mertersaker that contributed most to our excellent defensive stats last season . . best in the league . . . despite a depleted midfield in front of him for a lot of the season.

Per was injured most of the time. Don't you mean the season before?

 

[Makingtrax]

Per was injured most of the time. Don't you mean the season before?

Are we in next season already?

 

[Mark Tobias]

Are we in next season already?

We're in purgatory mate, there is only past and future. The present is too unbearable.

 

[berric]

I like this pic.

 

[GDeep™]

Interesting we now have a German who'll be in charge of the academy, this at a time that when the German system around youth development is lauded as the best.

You guess he has links and ideas that will probably stem back to Germany.