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Remind us where Jeff is...I know and I agree. It's the same thing that happened to Jeff. Hardly played u23 football and never got enough first team minutes either. I think that Nketiah is simply between a rock and a hard place - 3 senior strikers on relatively decent form and an U23 team he has outgrown. First team football is his priority and he's not even played a minute. It is concerning.
As far as using the academy more, I think that generally there is still hope they will get games, Smith-Rowe seemingly the golden child right now. I think it still bodes well. Just what to do with guys like Nketiah and Willock, who are better than the level they're playing at but need to be challenged.
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Same with other key players. It would be madness if you played Torreira tonight and got him injured. Madness. Football is not about winning all your battles, it's about winning your wars. Emery is not paid to win matched. He is paid to win trophies.
I take all that into account but I feel posters on here are vastly underestimating how hard it is to maintain momentum in these top leagues. True we should not risk all our key players but there is a need for consistency and that doesn't come from complete shuffles all round. We already have a shaky defence with some players recently back from injury. AMN has just returned.The issue for me is not just about youth or winning games. it's about managing the squad to maximise their potential in terms of winning trophies or getting as far as we can.
In that context this group is effectively won even if we lose tonight but fact is we can put out a team strong enough to get a result (pretty sure a draw wins us the group) affecting the next game as little as possible. A draw tonight does the biz, a narrow defeat probably still means we win the group. If we drop points against Wolves, who will not have had a midweek game, those points are lost and gone forever with an unknown influence on our final league position. So if we have to trade a win for another I'll take the Wolves game.
But it doesn't have to be a trade-off. Nketiah has been discussed and I am certainly of the view he is being wasted. He may not be the next Ronaldo but he might be a valuable squad member. We won't know unless he's tested and it seems to be a home game against a Sporting Lisbon in disarray might not be the worst game in which to do so. We should be able to win the game with him and Welbz. There is absolutely no need to risk starting with Laca or Auba.
Same with other key players. It would be madness if you played Torreira tonight and got him injured. Madness. Football is not about winning all your battles, it's about winning your wars. Emery is not paid to win matched. He is paid to win trophies.
A sentiment which has seen us fail and fail again over the years. Now we have a new manager with a new approach and people are moaning.Our bench and squad can beat Sporting at home .
Every game is different. I'll stick with the manager but thought is free. Wonder when the moaning will start when we lose Torreira playing Rochdale at home.A sentiment which has seen us fail and fail again over the years. Now we have a new manager with a new approach and people are moaning.
I think I'll stick with the manager on this one.
Likely because he was managed poorly. Chicken or egg?Remind us where Jeff is...
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Every game is different. I'll stick with the manager but thought is free. Wonder when the moaning will start when we lose Torreira playing Rochdale at home.
This is not about Wenger but we did not end up battling Burnley for 6th because we played youngsters but rather because our team - including some pretty expensive senior players - were not performing.As long as we keep improving while still getting the results, I don't think it ever will, regardless of player injuries.
It seems to me that Wenger's way of thinking has infected our fanbase more than it should have. Under him we played youngsters regularly while also resting important players whenever we can. And look how that ended, with us battling Burnley for the sixth place, while regularly selling all those prospects we invested so much time in as soon as they get any good. And let us not forget about all those injuries to our key players happening on a regular basis as well.
In a lot of those games the youngsters were the best thing about those performances. Forest last seàson was a good example.This is not about Wenger but we did not end up battling Burnley for 6th because we played youngsters but rather because our team - including some pretty expensive senior players - were not performing.
In fact when Wenger played teams packed with youngsters (not 2 or 3 as the suggestion is here) we often went on very long runs in the League Cup.