no they aren't kids but they are bog standard average, over the hill but never great in their hey day. Yes it's all good signing the best kids but if you don't coach them well and/or don't have world class players for them to sponge off, if they don't earn their place in the squad but are promoted because..well they play in that position, they end up like the majority of the talented kids that have cone through the Arsenal revolving door in the last few years, average, mediocre or outright dissapointment.
When people are already looking to a kid to solve our defensive mid problems, there's a;lready pressure and you know it's not likely to end well.
Our problem in midfeild and in most positions is that we try to solve a problem by being cheap, either by buying average players or shouldering kids with responsibilities before they are ready, rinse and repeat, neither of which solves the problem or realizes the potential in the said kids.
I'm all for buying kids for the future, but you start expecting them to solve the problems of a top club and all you are going to do is kill the potential of kid like many before. Firstly because they haven't had had to develop the mental attitude and hunger from the reserves/bench to displace someone of true quality and secondly because the pressure then gets to them and affect their confidence because they hadn't developed the said right hunger/mental attitude.
oh and £2m in Viera's days is probably closer to £10m today. £2m is nothing for a kid today, This kid is 17, Walcott cost £10m i think, Ox cost an initial £12m rising to £15m, Aguero cost £16m @ 18, Pato, Lukaku, the list goes on and on. I doubt in these days where everyone has access to youtube that a player supposedly so good that he is ready to solve Arsenal's midfeild problems would go for a mere £2m. More likely especially untested in the Pl and under an incompetent coach he will end up another disappointment.
I haven't even seen the video, we saw zelalems, tell me we are signing a £10-15m youth and maybe I'll get excited.
