He's like Valencia at United - the kind of player that looks good playing for a lower team, but is not quite good enough for a champions league team. He doesn't have an end product.Originally Posted by fakeyank
He's like Valencia at United - the kind of player that looks good playing for a lower team, but is not quite good enough for a champions league team. He doesn't have an end product.
Good point, big fish, small pond and all of that.
Wanyama at Saints is a decent DCM, young, plenty of PL experience and adds that physical presence and strength to our midfield. Anyone else a fan?
Reading the gossip columns is so depressing as a Gooner. We have linked with no one, not even by the click baiters.
But haven’t we always done this? Plucked a big fish from a small pond? Giroud spent half of his career in the 2nd Division of the French league. Koscielny spent a lot of time there too. Theo, Ox and Chambers came from Southampton with a handful of performances before being plucked up by us and played in the first team. Arteta came from Everton, Debuchy Newcastle….not saying we need a player like Montero.
No, no, wasn't you.
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.
Is there any point having this thread?
We have but there's nothing wrong with signing players from smaller teams as long as they are good enough for our level. Someone like Montero who scored one goal in 34 games for Swansea last season probably isn't.
We can always talk about other teams transfers...oh wait we are doing that already
True. Agree with Montero because I think we need a goal scoring winger and not just a someone that can beat a man. We saw what happened with Gervinho and Ox struggles in the same way with end product. But yeah, in general there isn’t much wrong with signing lower league players if they fit the bill and Wenger can get more out of them.
Yeah, that was me. Might have been a blunder might not have been. But like the point I’m making to Penguin, we’ve signed that calibre of player before but people seem more accepting when they’re from a different league and nobody has watched them play.
If they’re English based then people seem to turn their nose up. Rightly so in some cases but not in all. Chamakh is an example. Sounds great if we’re signing a striker from Marseille but not so much if he came from Crystal Palace. It’s not as if the French is great but we’ve often taken real gambles on unknown players. Some flop and some succeed.
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