Tactics wrote:
Gunner89 wrote:
Depending on a nutcase who can go ballistic is not. Having Ramsey partner one of the most immobile players would leave him tracking back far too often for him to make any of the purposeful runs he makes and doing most of the defensive work. Sure it might hit Burnley for 6-7 goals but any decent opposition and we're going to be thrashed as well.
Cesc immobile? He's easily one of the most mobile players in world football. Covers huge amount of ground each game.
Immobile might have been the wrong word but he's very slow and that's a bad quality when you are tracking players even when you're an excellent interceptor like Arteta
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Robin van Persie, Arsenal's Dutch forward, explains this eloquently. "Cesc is slow," he told the Dutch magazine Hard Gras. "He's one of the slowest here. But he's still the quickest of us all. He always thinks two seconds ahead. I sometimes think, 'why doesn't the opponent take the ball off him?' And then he comes, peep, with a very little feint. In training I catch up with him and think, 'now I'll get you'. And with his toe he gives - peep - a very little pass for a one-two. That gets him another metre-and-a-half. So irritating!"
Now of course because he's very intelligent he can compensate for it in his attacking game but in his defending I doubt it
