did we give Carlos Vela a proper chance?

[Master Splinter]

He had better players in front of him and never really impressed with the game time he had, bar a few fancy goals in cup games. Meh.

Hard to disagree.

[Özim]

He had better players in front of him and never really impressed with the game time he had, bar a few fancy goals in cup games. Meh.

I'm not sure Chamakh or Bendtner can be considered "better" to be honest.

[Marc Overmars]

I'm not sure Chamakh or Bendtner can be considered "better" to be honest.

They were, which shows how crap he was.

[Master Splinter]

They were, which shows how crap he was.

Plus, he was competing with Adebayor, RVC, Eduardo, Arshavin and Nasri more so than those two.

[Cripps_orig]

He was shit for us

Good to see he's doing better though away from us.

So called arsenal curse

[Nayan]

If (and im not saying you are, but just for completeness, like) one were looking for evidence of wenger's mismanagement
Then a conspiracy theory with Carlos vela being shit as the punchline is barking up the wrong tree

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

I never felt he had the strength to deal with the physical aspects of English Football and to be honest i almost feel like Messi wouldn't do as well playing in the Premier League as he does playing in La Liga
I'm glad Vela is doing well at Real Sociedad as generally i like all ex Arsenal players to do well for themselves as long as
a) They don't score or play well against us
b) They aren't cunts....and I wouldn't put Vela in that category

[GP]

Totes

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

I reckon we need to give kiwomya another chance.

[Power n Glory]

The kid was played out of position and never got enough games in the first team anyway. It's hard to compare Vela with Ramsey in that regard because Ramsey would start game after game on the right or get subbed on. Ramsey even racked up a whole season playing in his favoured position a year before so he was given way more time to adapt even when he had back to back poor games, he'd never get dropped. Vela could score in the Carling Cup and play a good game but he'd never get a start in the first team following that game. That's got to mess with your confidence and then when you finally get 10 minutes to play and you look nervy or don't do enough in the game you may start trying to force things to happen as we saw last season with the Ox. If you don't speak up for yourself you will get left behind. Remember the story about Theo demanding and answer on why he's not starting games? It's not the way to develop players and why we have to send so many players on loan to get some bloody confidence.

Vela is currently playing on the right wing and that's where he should have played for us. No idea why Wenger does this. Left footers on the right and right footers on the left. It would make their lives so much easier.