I think the biggest thing is that in the last 2 years we've not only had a much stronger 1st team but also the 21/22 man squad in general. For example on the right where ramsey has been playing, if he gets injured we had ox and walcott who could both play there. On the left we've got sanchez, ozil can play there if needs be, up front we have giroud and walcott, central defence we have per kos and gabriel with chambers as back up. Right back bellerin debuchy, midfield a lot of options. The problem is theres no easy way at all for the youngsters to get into the team. In the past we've had maybe a decent first 11 but thats about it, so when they got injured we bought the younger players in and they got experience quickly. That isn't happening at the moment which is affecting their development.
Ultimately though, i love seeing young players come through but reality is that isn't happening much anywhere now. The competition is so high you need ready made top players to compete.
You seem a tad touchy, considering you're out of a crap cup that you don't give a damn about ;-)
Seriously the Capital One Cup is a trophy, if you're still in it, but a crappy little competition if
you get knocked out. By you, i mean most of us.
Wenger throwing the youngsters under the bus was surprising.
Surely he must he must have known before the game that "none of them are good enough"? They weren't even that young, the lad Kamara who started in centre midfield turned 20 yesterday. Same age as Sterling.
Why does every English player at Arsenal seem very injury prone? Wilshere, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Welbeck, Walcott and Chambers are all injured regularly.
Surely he must he must have known before the game that "none of them are good enough"? They weren't even that young, the lad Kamara who started in centre midfield turned 20 yesterday. Same age as Sterling.
All I hear from Arsenal-fans is they are happy to be knocked out of the LC because this competition could hurt their titlechallenge. Arsenal and Wenger have never taken this competition serious and not paid the respect it deserves based on it's history. It's close to arrogance to state you are happy for your team to bow out because you feel entitled to challenge for more important silverwear when it's the end of October. There is a difference between rotating and purposely keeping away your best players. The latter is showing disrespect to the competition and to your own fans who did pay a lot of money to travel and get a matchticket.
Any fan loves to see his/her team play a final at Wembley. The last two years the winner of the LC also won the PL-title. So it's hard to defend an excit from this competition will help a titlechallenge. Especially at this time of year.
Its strange, g lineker tweeted the same thing the other day, it seems all our British players are very injury prone. You can add gibbs and ramsey to that list as well (although gibbs isn't injured right now but usually is). Cant be anything to do with training otherwise it would affect everyone.
That team shouldn't be losing 3-0 to Sheffield Wednesday whatever their squad is like, and blaming youngsters isn't an excuse, they only started with 3 non regular first teamers.
- 33 Cech
- 02 Debuchy Booked
- 21 Chambers
- 04 Mertesacker
- 03 Gibbs
- 20 Flamini
- 47 Kamara (Bielik - 60' )
- 28 Campbell Booked
- 15 Oxlade-Chamberlain (Walcott - 5' )
- 45 Iwobi
- 12 Giroud
And one of those non-regular first teamers has won the Greek title and played in the Champions League knock out stages with Olympiakos as well as playing in the World Cup knock out stages with Costa Rica.