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    the problem with eisfield and gnabry is that they're playing a position we already got filled by really good players for the next many years.

    That 16 year old kid zelalem or whatever his name is... damn! I hope he'll get some carling cup games this season, his passing is ridiculous good.

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    well eisfeld certainly is in a filled position but gnabry may get more game time on the wings. essentially we havent really got a proper winger so players like theo or pods are the only ones filling the wider slots.

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    What happened to the beast that was called JET that people raved about?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
    I've lost interest in the youth development stuff.
    Yeah me too, too many in the door not many made it. Once upon a time the thought of a youngster coming through and getting some games was exciting, not anymore.

    Project youth

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    Zimm, nothing excites you. We could sign Higuain, fabregas, Suarez and MESSI and you still wouldn't be excited because we would have wenger or some other reason you'd make up

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    Hard to be excited about youth tbh, a lack of success at present means any star's will be fucking off to the big boys as soon as they have one decent game. More likely they'll have bags of talent but won't cut it in this league and eventually fuck off to spain.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ollie the optimist View Post
    Zimm, nothing excites you. We could sign Higuain, fabregas, Suarez and MESSI and you still wouldn't be excited because we would have wenger or some other reason you'd make up
    Wrong, nothing excites me at Arsenal because everything is very stale.

    Same thing happens over and over and over again, nothing ever changes, from our competitiveness, to our transfers, to our style etc etc

    Wenger is so boring it has to be said, he claims he wants to entertain and yet has no concept of the meaning of the word excitement.

    The kids, well we've seen it all before haven't we, hundreds of kids coming through the door and most of them disappointing with those few that don't moving on when they realise they're never going to win anything here.

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    Messi

    Doubt he'd excite anyone

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    Quote Originally Posted by LDG View Post
    Yeah, but he's only 16 isn't he? Should imagine he has a couple of years in the ressies for now?

    Unless he's really awlsome....shame I've missed the games so far...
    Watch them on the Arsenal Player, Zelalem and Gnabry look very good.

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    IMO I think the priority for the Youth development program should be to only integrate "special talents" into the first team. If they are not good enough they shouldn't get in and we certainly shouldn't be investing millions in youth players who are not of the required standard.

    I accept that a lot of our youth may not quite make the grade, but I'd rather we have 1 or 2 "special talents" every 3 to 4 years make the breakthrough than stacking the squad with above average "youth" which seems to have been the case over the past 5 or 6 years. We're even buying in a lot of "youth" who don't seem amount to much.

    The only "youth" player I have seen who I think could turn into a gem of a player is Gnarby, the rest don't seem to be of the required level IMHO and that includes players such as Miguel who is already in the first team squad and the likes of Joel Campbell and Ryo.

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