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    Looks like Marlo Stanfield tbh tbf.


    I hope Avon Barksdale isn't around.

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    That nketiah has apparently scored 48 goals in the past 2 seasons

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    He's the main man for the U23s. He played during the pre-season too. Surprised so many people haven't heard of him because he got plenty of attention pre-season, along with Nelson, Willock and the lad we sent out on loan Bramall.

    What the hell happened to Zelalem though? He was supposed to be the American version of Christ.
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    He's also got 2 hattricks at U18 and U21 level for England.

    This kid could go far - and needs to if he wants to avoid being ruined by Wenger.
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    He's got that natural predatory goalscoring instinct that you can't teach.

    Mind you, I'm also reminded of the Arturo Lupoli who bagged tonnes of goals at our youth team level only to fail to make the step up. Outside of the freaks like Ronaldo, Messi, Cesc it's often hard to tell with young players as a lot of it comes down to workrate, application, ability to learn and most importantly, desire to succeed. Harry Kane looked like a bog standard journeyman at this stage and now look at him.

    For the club's sake I really hope he does succeed. Given Jack's fall from grace, we could do with our own top tier British talent emerging from the academy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
    He's the main man for the U23s. He played during the pre-season too. Surprised so many people haven't heard of him because he got plenty of attention pre-season, along with Nelson, Willock and the lad we sent out on loan Bramall.

    What the hell happened to Zelalem though? He was supposed to be the American version of Christ.
    Zelalem is out injured. Has no future here regardless.
    NOTE: The location of this post has been moved and the thread title (which was previously Wenger is Leaving) has been manipulated by a notorious pro-Wenger moderator. What was previously a message that contained no profanity and made a comment on a real life event has now been manipulated by a deliberately provocative title. An old and crude propaganda and censorship technique.


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    Quote Originally Posted by The Emirates Gallactico View Post
    He's got that natural predatory goalscoring instinct that you can't teach.

    Mind you, I'm also reminded of the Arturo Lupoli who bagged tonnes of goals at our youth team level only to fail to make the step up. Outside of the freaks like Ronaldo, Messi, Cesc it's often hard to tell with young players as a lot of it comes down to workrate, application, ability to learn and most importantly, desire to succeed. Harry Kane looked like a bog standard journeyman at this stage and now look at him.

    For the club's sake I really hope he does succeed. Given Jack's fall from grace, we could do with our own top tier British talent emerging from the academy.
    Michael Owen was already a star at 18, banging the goals in. He didn't need protection or special measures, he just needed a shirt and a ball and he did the rest. Now though, enthusiastic youngsters need wise old heads to slow their progress to a crawl and limit their game time. They need to somehow find a way to break into the team ahead of established stars like Theo Walcott. They need to integrate into the modern, ultra negative game and learn how to tippety-tap it around with masters like Xhaka.

    This has to be the biggest fear for any youngster with a bit of energy, the game's not there for them anymore. Sure, 5 minutes to go and the team is losing in a low priority match so there's everything to gain by sticking a youngster on and letting him go for it. But change the circumstances and he'll be under instructions to hold the ball, play it safe, keep the possession, don't drift out of the wing position he's been stuck in. We don't have an ambitious or adventurous enough manager to make anything out of these youngsters during a regular season. How many have we seen that offered promise? How many have come through? Iwobi. Bellerin. And these kids haven't been taught the basics, or else they've forgotten or got confused with all the bullshit that is modern management.

    Theo Walcott and Ox are cautionary tales that every Arsenal youngster should be paying close attention to. Wenger has nothing to offer and if this kid does break through he'll soon be playing with all the uncertainty we now see in Iwobi's game. I hope not, but we've seen it too many times before.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
    He's the main man for the U23s. He played during the pre-season too. Surprised so many people haven't heard of him because he got plenty of attention pre-season, along with Nelson, Willock and the lad we sent out on loan Bramall.

    What the hell happened to Zelalem though? He was supposed to be the American version of Christ.
    Zelalem has gone in the bin alongside Freddy Adu.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Emirates Gallactico View Post
    Looks like Marlo Stanfield tbh tbf.



    I said this five posts above yours.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
    He's the main man for the U23s. He played during the pre-season too. Surprised so many people haven't heard of him because he got plenty of attention pre-season, along with Nelson, Willock and the lad we sent out on loan Bramall.

    What the hell happened to Zelalem though? He was supposed to be the American version of Christ.
    What always happens with these young prodigees or aces as they are referred to, he got nowhere. Over the years I've heard so many names banded about as the next big thing, none of them have ever made it, this guy got a couple goals yesterday that's great, now he should be given some game time to see if he is the real deal or just another kid who is not going to make it.

    Give him 45 minutes here and there to see what he can do, if he doesn't get any goals he won't make it, if he does maybe we have someone worth keeping hold of, if he's good enough he's old enough, not suggesting he plays every game but at least give him a chance to show what he can do.

    Makes me laugh, when Wenger arrived he had a 10 year plan to develop our youth team (he was thinking about it even then), 10 years later he tries to build a team full of youngsters he's poached from other clubs, very few actually from our youth team and fails so miserably it's embarrassing, he carried on with this fruitless dream for years and even now he's always busy snapping up kids from all around the globe who he never seems to give a fair crack of the whip to and don't make it.

    In the past kids flocked over here and seemed to believe in his pipe dream (or maybe they just were attracted to big wages we paid) and got nowhere. My advice to young players is if you want to make it don't come to Arsenal because you'll have noone to learn from, no leaders to guide you and won't make it.

    I think we're actually quite adept at missing out on all the best young talent out there in favour of players who don't make it, when a top youngster is available we somehow manage to miss the boat, maybe it's so Wenger can build the all time best players anyone nearly signed.


    Bale or Walcott - we end up with Walcott
    Lupoli or Rossi - we end up with Lupoli

    We also found the money for a flop like Sanogo but wouldn't pay up for Mbappe, all horrendous decisions which just show how poor the manager is at judging a players talent.

    All those youngsters flopped, but nothing like Wenger, who himself is a flop of epic proportions.
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