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Kieran Tierney: Top Tier
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grange
Losing my brain cells 🥸
Country: USA
Player:Havertz
Nice find.
Yeah but he then goes on to say that he played the next 5 games without any problem. It can’t have been very relevant if he didn’t find it enough to mention after the game and it never stopped him playing afterwards. Kind of stretching to make out he was deliberately hiding something that wasn’t actually a problem at all.
BergMan
Betrayed by Xhaka
We don’t know. Whatever it was he didn’t tell them about may be what aggravated the eventual injury he did get (even after playing 5 games) which kept him out for the rest of the season and cost the team in the run in. Just because he didn’t think it was relevant doesn’t make it so.
It’s guess work since we didn’t get the full details, but what we do know is that he wasn’t 100% forthcoming and that the medical team and/or Arteta wasn’t happy about it.
If what you are implying was even the case, it would be utterly horrendous management from Arteta to freeze out and get rid of a player on the basis that he didn’t mention an over extension that didn’t bother him at the time or cause him to miss any games.
All this “trust” stuff is bullshit, what he did should not amount to more than a telling off or a fine at worst. It’s not as though he deliberately did anything wrong, or broke any rules.
All this “trust” stuff is bullshit, what he did should not amount to more than a telling off or a fine at worst. It’s not as though he deliberately did anything wrong, or broke any rules.
lomekian
Essays are my thing
The club were pissed off with him, I saw it mentioned more than once at the time, but that's not why he's not here - its because we gave him a season to see if he could invert and go outside, and he couldn't, so he can't provide the level of control Arteta wants. Simple as.
Country: Norway
Really hope it goes well for him. He seems a good bloke.
Country: Norway
Arsenal could recall loan star as problems stack up for Mikel Arteta
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has plenty of problems to deal with at the moment, with his side losing three of their last five matches.
www.express.co.uk
Rather than convoluting the transfer thread, this seemed best placed here.
Other media outlets have picked up on the Express' speculation. Chris Sutton being enthusiastic about the idea, which probably ought to serve as a red flag...
I'm not sure this one has legs, mostly for the sake of the player, but Tierney trying to play as an inverted fullback was rather awkward to behold.
Kobi
I Know Who You Are
I might be missing something obvious but why are we unable to play football without an inverted left back?
Tierney is a very good overlapping full back, totally unsuited to the midfield role (though I‘d still take him over Kiwior) Ben White is a centre back/right back, decent on the ball who played DM for a season at Leeds why can’t we just switch sides?
He already tried it with falling Apartey, with predictably disastrous results.
I mean that’s assuming he can’t play without an inverted fullback at all, god forbid.
Tierney is a very good overlapping full back, totally unsuited to the midfield role (though I‘d still take him over Kiwior) Ben White is a centre back/right back, decent on the ball who played DM for a season at Leeds why can’t we just switch sides?
He already tried it with falling Apartey, with predictably disastrous results.
I mean that’s assuming he can’t play without an inverted fullback at all, god forbid.
Pop Tart
Established Member
Tierney should tell super prik to do one
Ash10
Chairman of the Bum Brigade
Yeah bring back a guy who can actually play the position instead of persisting with some waste of space gimmick
Country: England
That and if we're not going to play him like a normal LB then I don't even want to see it.
HollandGooner
Established Member
Country: Netherlands
Player:Ødegaard
Never understood the decision to let him leave he is a pure LB and it's not his fault that he cannot invert into midfield like Zinchenko.
If Partey is fit within the next 4 weeks and being forced to play RB for the rest of the season then I'd be all for bringing Tierney back to play as a conventional LB. You're not going to find a better LB in the loan market.
coleio
Active Member
If I see Partey at RB ever again I'm going to shoot myself.
coleio
Active Member
I don't think it's a gimmick, I get what it does and why it can be effective.
To sort of piggy-back off your point though, why can't we do both?
In some games we could play an inverted LB and others a more conventional/overlapping FB.
Am I missing something? Is this too complicated to sort out or too cognitively taxing for the players to learn?
Same with why our wingers don't swap sides etc. Just seems obvious but we aren't doing it and seem quite predictable at the moment.
Country: Iceland
I call him back. If we lack creativity and control in midfield then try Zinchenko there.
GK
Whitr Saliba Gabriel Tierney
Rice Zinchenko
Saka Ødegaard Martinelly
Jesus/Havertz
GK
Whitr Saliba Gabriel Tierney
Rice Zinchenko
Saka Ødegaard Martinelly
Jesus/Havertz
