Originally Posted by
BOBN
Im not talking about youth development.
Show me their Sanogos and Jenkinsons through Fergusons glory years? Effectively league 1 player very much in and around the first team. They dont suffer fools up there. Those twos feet wouldnt have even touched the ground.
A finished journeyman Flamini would never have been given a 3 year contract, he'd never have signed Silvestre and squillaci. Diaby would be gone, Bendtners contract torn up. Vermalean wouldnt have had a sniff of the captaincy. They do things differently up there.
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Back to Arsenal, I remember in Henrys last year or so thinking it was unnecessary having him. Just as Fabregas, Hleb and Rosicky were coming to the boil. It seemed extravagently wasteful to have such a good striker effectively playing lone striker space-maker/holder-upper for the playmakers in behind him. Inefficient. So it was no suprised when we downgraded to Adebayor. A keener runner (at the time) and a real battering ram. We werent wasting his talents by making him do that, it was what he was good for, and it worked.
Welbeck can be our Adebayor, with the potential to be better as his workrate wont drop and his technique seems more assured.
Can Ozil be our Fabregas?
Time for him to prove hes "the best number 10 in the world". If it doesnt work its on him.