Jack Wilshere: Where to now?

[Brown Gooner]

Really needed a big sacrifice to convince Wenger. Jack chose the lure of NT and is now injured . What did we learn about Jack?

That representing your country in the WC is the biggest possible honour and achievement for a sportsman.

You never see South American players dodge NT duty. James, Alexis, Vidal, Aguero, Higuain, Neymar, Coutinho, Suarez and even Messi almost always play for their respective National teams when they are selected.

 

[Gunners4life]

Give him a new contract already ffs

When Sanchez can be on £500k a week for 1 goal in 10 appearances Wilshere can be on £95k a week

Way cheaper than signing a new player which may or may not adapt and ask for higher wages.

 

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[Camron]

I bet Jack is rushing home to put pen to paper, before Arsenal withdraw their offer.

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

I bet Jack is rushing home to put pen to paper, before Arsenal withdraw their offer.

. I bet Fahmy has shredded the papers already.

 

[Rimaal]

Wilsh? Injured? Shocker.

 

[Gegen Pressing]

Wilsh? Injured? Shocker.

Instant KARMA. Especially for a meaningless friendly . We really needed jack healthy for the EL campaign when pretty much everybody's future is hanging in the balance .

 

[Tosker]

Frustrated.

Sometimes a bit of fun in a warm up can seem like just that but I've heard from a friend who works in sport science who has heard the consensus is that Wilshere's knee tendon flaring up was caused or a contributing factor was a warm up game which involved finding a teammate to jump on their back and not to be the odd one out.

Seems fairly incuspicuous however he says the day after a recovery day with a player whose fitness needs to be managed carefully at the moment due to his past, the last thing he needs is a fully grown man jumping on his back with the weight being multiplied by the jump and the force being distributed much more unevenly across the body than a fixed barbell in the gym.

That's what he's heard from a colleague. Good one England.

Must have been Kola

 

[Mark Tobias]

I get that playing for England is a massive honour etc. I'd personally work on my club career though if I was Jack. He unfortunately needs to limit the competitive football he plays if he is going to have a lasting career. Hugely unlikely as that is, if I were him, I'd be angling to be fit for the people who paid me the most and that is Arsenal at the moment.

 

[Brown Gooner]

I get that playing for England is a massive honour etc. I'd personally work on my club career though if I was Jack. He unfortunately needs to limit the competitive football he plays if he is going to have a lasting career. Hugely unlikely as that is, if I were him, I'd be angling to be fit for the people who paid me the most and that is Arsenal at the moment.

It would be Jack’s first World cup, right? I think that is why he seems determined to make it to Russia.

Anyway Jack, Reus and Badstuber, some of the players who would’ve had very different careers if not for injuries.

Even Robben and Bale could come in that list. These two would’ve been Ballon d’or contenders had they not got injured at crucial times.

 

[BBF]

I'd resign him given the dross that occupies our midfield.

 

[Gooner Zig]

I'd resign him given the dross that occupies our midfield.

Even if he isn't in our long term plans we should resign him to protect his value. If we're selling him in England (almost guaranteed) we're going to get at worst 20M from the likes of Everton. He's still only 26 years old.

Sign him on a new deal with increased wages, if it doesn't work out, fine, sell him, we can absorb the 7ish M in wages as we'd be able to sell him for anywhere between 20-30M in the PL.

 

[tap-in]

I've always wanted Jack to stay but if him staying means we dont add to our midfield then it changes my view. We desperately need a dominant midfielder to pull the strings, basically a Cazorla role. We wont sell Xhaka, Elneny has just signed a new contract, and Ramsey is also unlikely to be sold (he's better than all of them anyway) so that leaves Jack to go or we carry on as we are, in every way. I still think Lemar would be good for us.

 

[scytheavatar]

I'd resign him given the dross that occupies our midfield.

Dross that occupies our midfield have all outperformed Wilshere...... hate Xhaka all you want but he has more good performances since Dec than Wilshere did. Don't think I need to get started on Elneny who has actually been better than both Xhaka and Wilshere.

 

[BBF]

Dross that occupies our midfield have all outperformed Wilshere...... hate Xhaka all you want but he has more good performances since Dec than Wilshere did. Don't think I need to get started on Elneny who has actually been better than both Xhaka and Wilshere.

Absolute rubbish.

 

[Gooner Zig]

Dross that occupies our midfield have all outperformed Wilshere...... hate Xhaka all you want but he has more good performances since Dec than Wilshere did. Don't think I need to get started on Elneny who has actually been better than both Xhaka and Wilshere.

Elneny plays a couple of forward passes and all of the sudden he's some amazing CM

 

[YeahBee]

I've always wanted Jack to stay but if him staying means we dont add to our midfield then it changes my view. We desperately need a dominant midfielder to pull the strings, basically a Cazorla role. We wont sell Xhaka, Elneny has just signed a new contract, and Ramsey is also unlikely to be sold (he's better than all of them anyway) so that leaves Jack to go or we carry on as we are, in every way. I still think Lemar would be good for us.

You wanting a new cazorla is part of the problem with arsenal

Same mistakes Wenger makes

Trusted small technical playmakers when we should have gone for big atlethic guys

 

[scytheavatar]

Elneny plays a couple of forward passes and all of the sudden he's some amazing CM

Elneny is not an amazing CM, but he has been the most reliable of our 4 midfielders. He is no Arteta but he has the intelligence and ability to read the game that our other midfielders do not have. Just the simple ability to run into the right positions to receive the ball is something people take for granted but is lacking in our midfielders other than Elneny. Wilshere in comparison still frequently plays like a midfielder Akpom at times, tunnel vision and dribbles his way into giving the ball away.

You wanting a new cazorla is part of the problem with arsenal

Same mistakes Wenger makes

Trusted small technical playmakers when we should have gone for big atlethic guys

Why not both? You need midfielders who can defend and midfielders who can control the game. Unfortunately we have been lacking those types of midfielders in the club ATM......

 

[tap-in]

You wanting a new cazorla is part of the problem with arsenal

Same mistakes Wenger makes

Trusted small technical playmakers when we should have gone for big atlethic guys

tbh I originally wrote Cazorla type but more physical, I then thought that type of player is hard to come by but yes I agree, we need a more powerful midfield.

 

[Jae]

hate Xhaka all you want but he has more good performances since Dec than Wilshere did.

The season started in August mate