Oxlade Chamberlain Thread

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It's probably to do with what happend to Wilshere. He overplayed him and has gone to the extreme with Ox.

Wilshere played 50+ games last season and wasnt his injury from an actual match at the Emirates Cup rather than too much football?

Ox has played 5 minutes

Wenger is doing nothing more than trying to prove a point that we dont need Ox yet and hes failing miserably

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Wilshere played 50+ games last season and wasnt his injury from an actual match at the Emirates Cup rather than too much football?

Ox has played 5 minutes

Wenger is doing nothing more than trying to prove a point that we dont need Ox yet and hes failing miserably

And if he played him 50 times and he gets injured you be blaming wenger for overplaying him.and for someone who thinks OX is overhyped as you use to say now you defend him.

Wenger knows how good he is but knows we can't rely on him.

wenger has said he does not want to risk him i doubt he not play him to prove a point.

Maybe Like syn said he does not want him going to the euros and being exposed.

but with wenger who knows.

[Grebbo]

Seasons biggest mystery for me was why didn't Ox play in the last few weeks?

Even yesterday, when we could have finished 4th or 5th, he didn't get a look in.

He is one of our best players!

Coq, Ramsey, Gervinho - the latter two being utter dross and Coq being inexperienced - all play ahead of him!

WTF!

This keeping him out of the euros thing is nonsense IMO. We were at risk of finishing 4th/5th - fuck the euros. And anyway, Wilshere didn't get injured because of England over playing him, it was Wenger who played him for 50+ games in his debut season.

I can only think Wenger doesn't trust him.

I think the boy isn't hungry enough. I mean look at this tweet last night - surely he should be disappointed at not playing??

15h Alex Ox-Chamberlain ‏ @Alex_OxChambo
Great way to end the season, I'm absolutely buzzin! #AFC

[Marc Overmars]

I'm sure we'll see more of him next year but it was disappointing to see him underused considering the game time shit like Gervais got.

[Cripps_orig]

Arsenal winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has revealed Arsene Wenger is helping him improve the defensive side of his play.

The former Southampton winger enjoyed an impressive debut campaign with the Gunners last season but insisted he is keen to improve his all-round game.

“There are always lots of errors the boss speaks to me about,” Oxlade-Chamberlain admitted to The Sun.

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“He wants to fine-tune my whole game and make me a better player. I think I have to be more assertive defensively to be a better player.

“I will hold my hands up for that. Defending is not a natural side of my game, but it is equally as important, particularly when you are playing in the Premier League.

“So I have to work on defending and I think I can improve on that — that is the main aim.

“I am really looking forward to the start of the season. I am taking it step-by-step and the first aim is to make sure I am fully fit for the start of the season, to get the best chance to get in the team.

“I know it won’t be easy. The new signings are really good while we have good talent here coming through, so if I do manage to get into the Arsenal team, I need to try and stay in there.”

The midfielder scored four times and assisted three goals last season in 26 appearances, but accepted more results were needed from him in the attacking third to cement his place in the team.

“Being more of an attacking player, I need to score more goals and get more assists,” Oxlade-Chamberlain added. “That wins games and people notice that.

“I will always put my own style on things, which is taking people on and being an exciting player to watch. You have to have that confidence otherwise you won’t go anywhere. If you don’t believe in yourself, no one else will.

“But you also have to keep your feet on the ground, realise it is a very hard league and you cannot take your foot off the gas at any time.

Oxlade-Chamberlain was included in England's Euro 2012 squad and described his delight at starting the Three Lions' first game against France and the disappointment of the quarter-final defeat to Italy.

“To get the nod in the first game against France was unbelievable,” he continued. “It doesn’t get any better than that. For the boss to pick me in the other games off the bench was also brilliant.

“The Italy game was just horrible, the fact we lost. You could see how hard the boys worked for 120 minutes. I learned a lot from that game, watching our boys but also from Andrea Pirlo.

“Maybe some people don’t think I am a central midfielder, some people think I am a winger, but to see quality like that on the pitch was something.

“I will learn a lot from that and how to defend against someone like him. It was a good learning curve but still heart-breaking in terms of the way we went out of the competition.”

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/...hone-defensive

If he sorts that out, he could possibly play in the middle

[Power n Glory]

“Being more of an attacking player, I need to score more goals and get more assists,” Oxlade-Chamberlain added. “That wins games and people notice that.

What people? Has he got an eye for the exit door already.

Top player and hope to see more of him this season.

[Syn]

Oxlade-Chamberlain - I want to excite fans

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain says that while he is always keen to excite the Arsenal fans, it is not always possible as the requirements of the team must come first.

The 19-year-old enjoyed a hugely-successful debut campaign at the Club, being nominated for the PFA Young Player of the Season award and winning a call-up to the England squad for Euro 2012.

The teenager is determined to continue his rapid rise in the coming campaign, and says the expectations he places upon himself are as high as anyone's.

“You just have to look at somebody like [Lionel] Messi,” Oxlade-Chamberlain told Arsenal Player. “Whenever I watch him play, I am expecting him to do something amazing.

"I like to take people on and be an exciting player, that is just my game. People expect you to be exciting all the time but sometimes you just have those matches where that side of the game is not coming off or you are working harder to defend for the team and keep it simple.

“Then some people might think 'oh, he didn't play well today' because they are expecting you to take players on all the time.

“But everybody in the team has got massive expectations on them. Every time we step on to the pitch we are trying to do our best because we have a massive responsibility to try to get results.

“I wouldn't say you think about it too much because it is all part of your job and you have to deal with it. More than anything, I put that expectation upon myself.”

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-arc...excite-the-fan

Does he ever say anything different?

"I'm just going go out there and enjoy myself yknow? I'm just going to take players on and play my game and hope for the best..."

Where's he going to play anyway tbf. Hope it's CM until the second coming of Jack.