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Mathieu Debuchy (Latest: Reports of medical)

lorddulaarsenal

I'm actually quite excited by this signing

Qwiss

Burnwinter™ wrote:
Good as Sagna was you don't win that many matches from right back.

No but you lose them when your right back does something stupid in the box.

lorddulaarsenal

Like when Sagna stupidly swiped at RvP that time?

MistaT

Pisssah dules - could name plenty of times Sagna did something brilliant in the box. Single examples are shallow at best in pushing an argument.

lorddulaarsenal

Maybe so but a year or so back so many of us were moaning about Sagna. He's on the decline and his performances are only going one way

Coombs

Debuchy is a better signing than Aurier or the like.

marv3llous

Sagna was a great player and i have nothing but love for him, but he was a really limited fullback when it came to passing, build up play and attacking. His strengths were defence, headers and crossing. Now we're getting a RB who is pretty much a polar opposite and its exciting for me to see how this works out for us.

lorddulaarsenal

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jul/07/newcastle-mathieu-debuchy-arsenal-transfer-deal

Eh?

FantasticMrFox

DarrenArsenal1 on twitter just confirmed it's done, he is as reliable as it gets. So has

marv3llous

Another paper saying we're selling them Jenkinson.

Would actually be impressive if we would do that and sign Aurier also.

Jed

Jenkinson is going nowhere.

marv3llous

Yeah. We're most likely announcing a 20 year extension instead.

y va marquer

Going nowhere you say?

Question on Debuchy as I've not watched him much playing for Newcastle - is he a tough character?
I know Newcastle fans won't be the most objective on him but quite a lot of the criticism of him centres on the fact that he went into a sulky decline once Cabaye was sold.
Sunderland fans thanked him for being useless in derby games 🙂

I'm neutral enough about this signing, RB is a position where I just want us to have a player who is not a liability and who allows Theo do his thing, or Chamberlain, or whoever fills in ahead of him.

Timbob

He likes a tackle and I think he can be quite spikey.

Definitely think he had a habit of picking and choosing his games at Newcastle, generally did well in the bigger matches but couldn't be arsed at other times. Always had half an eye on his next move I reckon.

DiabyKungFu

He's the most talented footballer of his generation.

flobaba

marv3llous wrote:
Now we're getting a RB who is pretty much a polar opposite and its exciting for me to see how this works out for us.

Debuchy is far from the polar opposite of Sagna.

In fact they are more similar than different, with Debuchy perhaps a bit better with his ball use going forward, but much Sagna stronger on the defensive end.

Clrnc

Not sure Sagna is "much stronger" in the defensive end. We will see. Always thought Debuchy is much more tenacious in defence and gets alot of tackles in. Sagna is definitely thrice as strong in the air though.

Jed

I saw a stat that shows that Debuchy won more aerial duels than Sagna last season.

Captain

Played for a far shitter team.

marv3llous

flobaba wrote:
marv3llous wrote:
Now we're getting a RB who is pretty much a polar opposite and its exciting for me to see how this works out for us.

Debuchy is far from the polar opposite of Sagna.

In fact they are more similar than different, with Debuchy perhaps a bit better with his ball use going forward, but much Sagna stronger on the defensive end.

What are you basing this on?

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