Joe Willock: The True Joerdie

[dka1]

It favouritism and incompetence by Arteta. Nothing more.

Yeah and Willock didn't get a lot of time in his best position.

Which is weird because CM is probably an area in which we're lightweight, yet two viable in options in AMN and Willock were;

1. Never really tried in that position
2. Weren't given many opportunities in general anyway (in the league)
3. Probably not any worse than the back up options for those positions

Arteta ladies and gentlemen the mastermind.

Edit: I saw Willock went down and is now subbed off, hopefully he'll be alright.

 

[GDeep™]

No brainer this.

Bet Micky sells him to buy some crap Spaniard.

 

[Gooner416]

We really have a top midfielder on our hands. People again forget he had a massive growth spurt and was challenged with that for a couple years. He's still so young but he's a top player.

 

[Gooner416]

No brainer this.

Bet Micky sells him to buy some crap Spaniard.

I reckon we'll sell him and buy Joan Jordan.

 

[Iceman10]

Willock was given numerous opportunities under Emery and Arteta.

He needed a loan.

It's hard to get some here on A-M to understand the difference between opportunities for a 19 or 20 year old with a player much older. Don't know why it is so hard to grasp. OK, we loaned Willock out, but for what? Match time for an underperforming loanee from RM.

The main point here though is Artera. Not incompetence so much, but just a person with wrong ideas, and showing no signs that he can evolve.

 

[GDeep™]

I reckon we'll sell him and buy Joan Jordan.

Hopefully we hire Rafa and he plays all these kids.

 

[Rex Stone]

It was a joke after he didn’t play against us because he’s on loan dumb dumb.

Way to ruin it.

 

[Hunta]

With no European footie and Teta still in charge, I’d be absolutely shocked if we don’t sell him. Out of contract in 2023 and the club will be delighted if they get £20-30m. Joe is too good for Teta.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

With no European footie and Teta still in charge, I’d be absolutely shocked if we don’t sell him. Out of contract in 2023 and the club will be delighted if they get £20-30m. Joe is too good for Teta.

You have to subtract from that value at least 5 M for Elneny new bumper contract.

Lovely stuff!

 

[Hunta]

That Brucey diet is doing wonders for our boy.

 

[AberGooner]

With no European footie and Teta still in charge, I’d be absolutely shocked if we don’t sell him. Out of contract in 2023 and the club will be delighted if they get £20-30m. Joe is too good for Teta.

Sad but true. The younger players at the club are the only ones we can make any decent money on. These are the same players people are determined aren't good enough for us. Funny that.

 

[Iceman10]

Sad but true. The younger players at the club are the only ones we can make any decent money on. These are the same players people are determined aren't good enough for us. Funny that.

Just for balance, none of us are saying keep Eddie. It is not just a kids for the sake of kids thing. If we are going to add to ESR and Saka breakthroughs it will probably have to be Martinelli if he can avoid injury, and then possibly Willock, especially if we can fine tune to 433. Players like Balogun and Azeez will be coming through, but still on fringes for a while. It is true though, this is what some of us would do, not necessarily Arteta.

 

[GDeep™]

Spent all season watching El Neny doing his special needs routine when we could’ve watched young gunz like Joey boy and Matteo getting minutes.

 

[AberGooner]

Just for balance, none of us are saying keep Eddie. It is not just a kids for the sake of kids thing. If we are going to add to ESR and Saka breakthroughs it will probably have to be Martinelli if he can avoid injury, and then possibly Willock, especially if we can fine tune to 433. Players like Balogun and Azeez will be coming through, but still on fringes for a while. It is true though, this is what some of us would do, not necessarily Arteta.

I think Eddie is actually one of the younger players who's had a good amount of chances and not capitalised on them enough. To be fair I don't think being a lone striker in this system will ever suit him so I'd have no qualms on trying to move him on. I hope he has a good career.

I'm more talking about the likes of Willock, AMN, Saliba and Guendouzi who I could see us making money on whereas these are guys who are supposedly not good enough for us.

There's next to no chance we'd make any money on an Elneny or a Mari yet they've played loads of games. We wouldn't get much back for Xhaka, Laca will leave for free and eventually Auba will too, Willian as well. Unfortunately that leaves us having to move on our younger players to make any money and that will sadly include Saka and Tierney eventually as well.

 

[RacingPhoton]

Sad but true. The younger players at the club are the only ones we can make any decent money on. These are the same players people are determined aren't good enough for us. Funny that.

I would understand if we sell younger players because we have a surplus in their respective positions. Our midfield is relegation level. We need to buy two starting midfielders this window if we want to compete. We definitely won't be able to do that. Keeping hold of Willock makes much more sense than selling him and wasting the money on some Chelsea reject.

 

[GDeep™]

Been saying all season we’ll sell the kids and sign some average bums, my worst fear.

 

[Penn_]

Scoring for fun under a different manager. Hmm.

 

[Mo Britain]

From the Arsenal-owned players only Laca and Auba have scored more premiership goals this season. Must be the stotties.

 

[berric]

What a goal lol. High pressing, then outpaced Soyuncu and a neat, neat finish. All pure instinct.

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

Hope the lad isn't too badly hurt. I want MOTM performances for the rest of the season and I want it to be impossible to sell him.