with the recent exposure of our youth in the recent carling cup games this season, it's given us a chance to play 'wenger' and assess their chances of making 1st team.
I'll start with bentley who got his 1st team goal tonight vs boro.
(first goal if I'm not wrong.)
on to bentley.
dodgy haircut but he's played ok on the left in the Carling cup
and had a brilliant bergkamp-esque goal against boro tonight.
I think his position is in the 'hole' area since he doesn't have a
long passing range or the ability to make shuffling runs in search of space and passing lanes like pires.
But he's handy around the box area and takes a good free kick.
plus he makes runs into the box and make little 1-2s around the area.
I'm thinking that there is a reason why he's not on loan like pennant or volz. and that's becos he's being groomed.
like clichy, bentley definitely has a future in arsenal though it will be interesting who he might eventually replace since henry is king and aliaderie is just breaking through and he definitely needs to improve to inherit pires's position.
and clichy's position is tricky since he's an ashley copy and ashley's pretty young. I can't think of where he will go except to cover for ashley once in a while.
aliaderie's definitely featuring in our future since it seems wenger thinks very highly of him but I think he will need an instinctive partner because in all the matches I've watched him, he's not really trusted with the ball yet and some of his runs goes to naught if he doesnt get picked out.
the rest who didn't play much..
quincy is lively but too wasteful of his chances.does seem to like to run with the ball too much.
ryan smith's speedy but like to dribble too much as well.
I'll start with bentley who got his 1st team goal tonight vs boro.
(first goal if I'm not wrong.)
on to bentley.
dodgy haircut but he's played ok on the left in the Carling cup
and had a brilliant bergkamp-esque goal against boro tonight.
I think his position is in the 'hole' area since he doesn't have a
long passing range or the ability to make shuffling runs in search of space and passing lanes like pires.
But he's handy around the box area and takes a good free kick.
plus he makes runs into the box and make little 1-2s around the area.
I'm thinking that there is a reason why he's not on loan like pennant or volz. and that's becos he's being groomed.
like clichy, bentley definitely has a future in arsenal though it will be interesting who he might eventually replace since henry is king and aliaderie is just breaking through and he definitely needs to improve to inherit pires's position.
and clichy's position is tricky since he's an ashley copy and ashley's pretty young. I can't think of where he will go except to cover for ashley once in a while.
aliaderie's definitely featuring in our future since it seems wenger thinks very highly of him but I think he will need an instinctive partner because in all the matches I've watched him, he's not really trusted with the ball yet and some of his runs goes to naught if he doesnt get picked out.
the rest who didn't play much..
quincy is lively but too wasteful of his chances.does seem to like to run with the ball too much.
ryan smith's speedy but like to dribble too much as well.
