Fran Merida Watch

[brady_style]

Anyone know how Fran Merida is faring over in Spain.

I alway thought he was a smashing young player although he had no real appetite for tackling or tracking.

Is he impressing at his new club ?

 

[USArsenal]

only started 4 La Liga games (9 sub apps).. 1 assist

started a few Copa del Rey games, got 2 goals there..

overall, not much impact thus far

 

[brady_style]

Wow.

That's bizarre.

Is he about to join that long list of players who end up drifting through the rest of their career once they leave here.

Hope not. Always liked the kid.

 

[USArsenal]

well, not like he was getting any games with us either...

 

[brady_style]

Yeah but the whole reason he wouldn't extend his contract with us was because he wanted game time.

I thought he would definitely feature more for Atletico this season.

 

[redanddread]

Seen him once or twice but he hasn't done anything big yet. He's been coming on as sub. Atleti are waste of space anyway. So much talent and they never do anything (well, okay the won the Europa League last year) anything in La Liga- a real schizophrenic team. Wish Fran well but he'll only be frustrated in that team.

 

[Gooner_Stu]

Wonder if Fran would have been playing as part of the team, rotated with Wilshere, had he stayed?

Im sure he'l get football, he is still young and has many years ahead of him.

 

[Mark]

He'll be at Barca soon. It's in his DNA, don't you know?

 

[Shadow Moses]

Watched him earlier this week against Real. The word anonymous is an understatement. Perhaps it's cos Atletico were so bad but I honestly forgot he was on the pitch until the commentators screamed his name after a poorly placed shot.

 

[redanddread]

Watched him earlier this week against Real. The word anonymous is an understatement. Perhaps it's cause Atletico were so bad but I honestly forgot he was on the pitch until the commentators screamed his name after a poorly placed shot.

They were that bad. I stopped watching that match in the 1st half as I knew Atletico were not going to come back. I wish the lad luck but what a team to play for. Really not sure he would have had much playing time this season though. He was always behind Jack, Denilson, Diaby et al so he probably did the right thing in moving.