BigPoppaPump
Reeling from Laca & Kos nightmares
In all fairness we expected to loan him out to St Etienne again but admin flopped - which is common knowledge.
Then we planned to loan him out to a championship club and interviewed a number of clubs extensively who were actually very interested in taking him.
In the end - we wasn’t convinced and it was decided he was better off training here and staying with the squad until January. Source - Charles Watts.
The optics aren’t great? But I think the club are being very careful with him and considering he was largely viewed as our saviour for CB it was a very good call. No way he was going to live up to all of that no matter how good he is.
I don't think anyone viewed him as a saviour for CB that's just an exaggeration, people thought we got an elite young talent that would turn world class. I'm pretty sure we all thought he'd be good enough to play Europa at least though, he was starting for St Etienne.
This idea we have to protect him from the fans is so silly, he isn't playing because Arteta doesn't think he's good enough not to protect him from anything. Not even being registered in the Europa squad was disappointing.