It’s telling that even now when people are talking about their memories of him 90% focus of the Barcelona game. Even with injuries surely there should’ve been a more recent game that blew people away.
It’s telling that even now when people are talking about their memories of him 90% focus of the Barcelona game. Even with injuries surely there should’ve been a more recent game that blew people away.
But Emery also needs to respect the old hands. He could have made a bigger effort to keep him at the club (I have no way on knowing that he didn't try).JC, talk about being dramatic. This club needed change. This is a good thing. We can't have players who spend months on the sidelines soaking up massive wages and we can't be a club constantly being patient with someone who by now should be tearing the league up.
He is leaving for free mate.Anybody who thinks Jack leaving on a free is nuts.
How, by adapting his whole system to accomodate one player that has barely impressed since a one off game against barce some 8 years ago.But Emery also needs to respect the old hands. He could have made a bigger effort to keep him at the club (I have no way on knowing that he didn't try).
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Um no, but the drugs you are on to believe that must be great!Jack was the best player many times last season.
Wenger did let his contract run down though (or Wilshere didn't want to sign).Wenga wouldn't have let him go, methinks. He is the first victim of the changes upstairs.
hope he comes back to us one day.
It is our misfortune that we do not have any player who has been consistently our icon/talisman and drags us out of trouble. Kos, Ramsey, Özil, Monreal, Bellerin could all become that but it remains to be seen.
We've lost a major part of our identity when Gibbs, Walcott and Wilshere go. Maybe it is time for this change, but it still hurts and perhaps these guys should have been kept around.
dunno really.How, by adapting his whole system to accomodate one player that has barely impressed since a one off game against barce some 8 years ago.
Amen. Hopefully the hierarchy realise this and keep playing our youth players.With an ageing Koscielny & Ramsey on a 11 month contract the squad is dangerously close to losing that succession of players that I feel is important for any team.
We need the young gooners to break through & Iwobi to kick on while they remain.
... Or just get good again that always helps! Huge couple of years coming up for Arsenal. Ambivalence towards the club, manager & players is what will kill attendance.
That post alone shows how bad we were if he was our best many timesJack was the best player many times last season. Its amazing how lazy so many analyses are.
Who is to say the new players won't though? Can't field Liam BRady, lad.dunno really.
Just want us to play people who respect our club, and who I can recognize.
Sorry but your reasoning baffles me. Football emotions are completely separate to real world emotions. Nobody in their right mind thinks a player leaving a club is akin to poverty or war. Football is a trivial thing that we all take very seriously, that's the whole point of it: to avoid having to take serious things seriously.
It seems to me that people pick and choose when to bring reality back into football. If they personally don't feel sad about something, they'll say how well-paid footballers are and that there are starving people. But then they'll be sad about something else or happy about something else. Just say you personally don't feel sad about it.
When Wenger left Claude from AFTV trotted out a line every 5 mins saying how he saw a homeless person in the street so it wasn't sad that Wenger was leaving. He was using that to get around the fact he just personally didn't feel sad to see Wenger leave. That's his right, and it's your right to not care that much about Wilshere, but don't bring real world problems into it. Once you do that we might as well just pack up and go home.
Brilliant post!We live in a real world whether there's football or not. I'm supposed to feel sorry for a guy who lives a privileged life, has a mansion in Harpenden, has been making £90,000 a week and could afford to turn down a new contract because he's not good enough and not a fit for what the new manager wants to do? Oh, poor Jack. He's going to have to play for Wolves or Palace! What a tragedy!
Jack Wilshere is going to be just fine. He's still going to be a professional footballer. He's still going to be paid an exorbitant amount of money. He's still going to live a privileged life. He's just going to be working for a different company. He won't even have to use a moving van.
Since you bring up Arséne Wenger, you know that there's nobody who loves or respects Arséne more than do I. While I felt sorry for the way he was treated in the media and by a segment of the fan base, I do not feel sorry for him moving on to a different part of his life. He has all he will ever need in terms of security. He will have a choice of new jobs. Or he could simply retire and enjoy days with friends on yachts in Turkey or the south of France. He'll be fine. Why should I feel sorry for him?
You see, none of these things are actually about football. I felt sorry for Jack when he endured all the injuries. I feel sad that he never became the player he could have been. But to feel sorry for him because he wanted to be guaranteed a regular or semi-regular spot in the starting lineup and decided to leave because the manager couldn't give him that guarantee? Well that's just silly.
Jack was the best player many times last season. Its amazing how lazy so many analyses are.
Tell me about it. It’s amazing (or not so really—maybe ‘telling’ describes it better...) how many times he’s been best player on the park or had a great game and it just gets conveniently discarded. His performance in the Barca game is remembered for a number of reasons—not just because he had a great game. Might also have something to do with beating Bacelona as well, I reckon.Jack was the best player many times last season. Its amazing how lazy so many analyses are.
Point is, if he was that consistently great the Barce game would be one of many but at present it is the go to game for reference. Which is VERY telling.Tell me about it. It’s amazing (or not so really—maybe ‘telling’ describes it better...) how many times he’s been best player on the park or had a great game and it just gets conveniently discarded. His performance in the Barca game is remembered for a number of reasons—not just because he had a great game. Might also have something to do with beating Bacelona as well, I reckon.
More people should actually analyse that game, because if they did and didn’t get lost in nostalgia, they’d see that he’s had many games as good as that, just not against Barcelona.Point is, if he was that consistently great the Barce game would be one of many but at present it is the go to game for reference. Which is VERY telling.