Kids these days have no patience.
Kids these days have no patience.
People like to bring up Gnabry, but for every Gnabry, there is an Akpom, JET, Sanchez Watt, Zelalem ect ect. If the club can get 5-1om off someone its a great deal.
When Gnabry came into the first team in 13/14, you could see he had something about him...though he was nowhere near as consistent as he is now obviously, I remember him tearing Sp**s apart that season, a couple of great surging runs against the likes of Swansea and Fulham that nearly resulted in goals...and despite clearly being a nervous 18 year old making his first strides in top flight football, his work rate was outstanding in every match he pretty much played for, etc...think he made around 20 appearances that year before his injury, he looked very promising.
Obviously he spent the next season injured, which was just unfortunate and not the clubs fault...but the decision to send him to ****ing Tony Puils on loan was, how the **** would he know how to use a winger like Gnabry!
We should never have loaned him to West Brom and we should have kept him in the first team that season and given him a chance...think it would have turned out differently if we did it this way, would have at least had him smashing it for us for a few years...still can't believe we agreed to give him to Pulis, infuriates me everytime I think about it
Gnabry had experience at this level, Balogun doesn't...Serge will always be a bigger **** up by the club.
I mean, the only "failure" we had with Gnabry was not protecting ourselves more from the Werder/Bayern thing, which pretty clear that was happening.
A better exit contract would've allowed us to get more money back from him. People like to bash the club and Arsène, but at the time he had failed his loan with Pulis and Wenger was honest with him and told him he wouldn't get the playing time he wanted.
He still really likes the club and has visited us on a number of occasions.
Balogun.@MutableEarth Balogun or John-Jules?
@MutableEarth Balogun or John-Jules?
Impossible to tell right now ifnI can share my view too. We should keep both and see how they develop in next years.