Premier League 17/18: Matchday 9

[celestis]

Feck Salah is a good player

 

[<<reed>>]

Ox has now conceded 21 goals this season. No team has conceded more.

Chamberlain FC might get relegated

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Jhow coutinho is called creative playmaker? He always looking to shoot

 

[Rimaal]

Feck Salah is a good player

Very very good. yet of the two Egyptians who played in Switzerland, we bought ElNenny.

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

Liverpool top the table for away goals conceded this season.

 

[MLK79]

It's about making the most of what you've got.

A few years ago, I would have looked at their playing list and thought the likes of Eriksen, Dembele, and or Walker, just as examples, have some real upside but just haven't brought it together yet.

Poch has got a lot of those players to take the next step in their development.

I mean even some of their signings could be considered underwhelming i.e. Trippier, but Poch extracts the most out of such players and gets them playing a valuable role for the team.

Could you imagine Wenger plucking a Trippier from Burnley and making him look like a serviceable option at RB? I certainly don't. Although it's not the same thing, but Wenger tried something similar with Jenkinson and it failed miserably. Guy even failed with Chambers, who has real talent.

His situation is different to the other top teams. If Wenger signed a player from Burnley, he wouldn't get a proper chance to develop with all the scrutiny surrounding him. Fans and pundits alike would be calling saying it's a poor signing and at the first sign of a mistake, he'd be crucified not just in the press but also from our own fans at the game and online.

 

[BobP]

@Trilly

Another example which we touched on a while ago was Sanchez. Poor guy would have had his spirit broken by now had he signed for Arsenal and played for Wenger. He'd be in the u23 'rebuilding his confidence'.

 

[A_G]

Ox has had no effect at all and won't get in the side when Lallana and Mane are fit.

Playing Can who's out of contract this summer and possibly not fully committed over Ox says it all

 

[BobP]

His situation is different to the other top teams. If Wenger signed a player from Burnley, he wouldn't get a proper chance to develop with all the scrutiny surrounding him. Fans and pundits alike would be calling saying it's a poor signing and at the first sign of a mistake, he'd be crucified not just in the press but also from our own fans at the game and online.

What?

I cited the example of Jenkinson and you could throw in Holding as another one.

Since when has Wenger ever cared about what fans or the media think about his decisions?

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

Sturridge on for Firmino. Get a hat trick son.

 

[Marmaduke]

Another example which we touched on a while ago was Sanchez. Poor guy would have had his spirit broken by now had he signed for Arsenal and played for Wenger. He'd be in the u23 'rebuilding his confidence'.

Nah, he has a fighter mentality brought on from a poor youth in Chile. Arsenal would not break that.

It only breaks pampered British academy products.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Aurier is so crap.

 

[BobP]

Nah, he has a fighter mentality brought on from a poor youth in Chile. Arsenal would not break that.

It only breaks pampered British academy products.

I was referring to the Sanchez playing for Sp**s, the young Colombian CB.

 

[Rimaal]

Lloris is a great keeper.

 

[bingobob]

His situation is different to the other top teams. If Wenger signed a player from Burnley, he wouldn't get a proper chance to develop with all the scrutiny surrounding him. Fans and pundits alike would be calling saying it's a poor signing and at the first sign of a mistake, he'd be crucified not just in the press but also from our own fans at the game and online.

Load of paranoid guff.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Liverpool could have been still in the game if they didn't concede that stupid 3rd goal

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

Playing Can who's out of contract this summer and possibly not fully committed over Ox says it all

They're both hit and miss tbh but at least Can has a clue in the CM position.

 

[Trilly]

@Trilly

Another example which we touched on a while ago was Sanchez. Poor guy would have had his spirit broken by now had he signed for Arsenal and played for Wenger. He'd be in the u23 'rebuilding his confidence'.

True.

 

[Marmaduke]

Although I'm happy with Kolasinac I do like Aurier, weird that we passed up on him considering he was basically begging to be an Arsenal player.

*I see some people don't rate him so I'll brace myself

Aaand my positions are all messed up... I'm too tired today to make sense

 

[MLK79]

What?

I cited the example of Jenkinson and you could throw in Holding as another one.

Since when has Wenger ever cared about what fans or the media think about his decisions?

It's not what Wenger thinks. It's how the players handle the situation. If you're a young player at Sp**s, having a bad game doesn't lead to the same scrutiny it does at Arsenal. At Arsenal you'll be spoken about every which way from the papers to TV to online. No matter how much players say that they only care what their managers think, those things bother you. It's a much different profile to being a player at Arsenal than it is to being one at Sp**s.