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Starting "CM" next season - Ramsey vs Cazorla?

Timbob

One in her underwear, one in yours.

goon

I know you are, but what am I?

Rex

A man in beige pants. Disappointing really.

est

Have I gone sane all of a sudden?

Ricky1985

Arsenal’s Aaron Ramsey: I Want To Emulate Steven Gerrard And Become The Complete Midfielder

Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey enjoyed an up and down season in 2014/15, as he was forced to play a restricted role due to niggling injuries.

However the Welshman admits he is setting high targets for next season and that he is aiming to emulate former Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard on the pitch.

Ramsey is keen to improve every aspect of his game in order to become a complete midfielder who can seemlessly do every job required of a modern midfielder.

Speaking to Bleacher Report, Ramsey said:

“I think a top-class midfielder needs to be able to tackle, get up and down the pitch, pass, create opportunities and score goals.

That’s why I try to do everything, that’s what I judge my game on.

If you look at someone like Steven Gerrard, he combines all of those elements.

That’s what I want to [emulate]… so that’s what I base my game on.”

On becoming one of the best in his position, Ramsey added:

“I want to keep on improving as a player, and become the best…one of the best midfielders in my position in the world.

In all ways I want to be better, in all of these things that top midfielders can do.

If I progress the way that I think I can, the way that I have been, then I believe I can achieve that.”

Ramsey will be aiming to complete a full season injury-free next term as Arsenal look to mount a serious title challenge following yet another FA Cup triumph.

Good to hear Ramsey saying exactly what we all want him too. He absolutely has to become a proper, consistent central midfield player. Concentrated, disciplined, hard working and then all of the other great stuff he can do will come naturally.

Pepe LeFrits

Gerrard, really? Ugh.

Bold Tone

Ramsey missed out discipline. Not the yellow card variety but the intelligence to read the game and provide what is required.
I bring it up because the only time i have been critical of his game was when he seemed to be bombing too far forward searching for goals instead of holding position as our midfield was Coq-less at the time. Last season, however, he played with incredible discipline, well within himself, so i'm sure he knows all this stuff i am spouting.
I like the work ethic of striving to be better at everything but he needs to avoid falling into the category of typical English midfielder.

Clrnc

If he can be as valuable to us as Gerrard is to Liverpool and stay here till mid 30s, I would be delighted.

Shinda

Why any footballer want to play like Gerrard is mindbogglingly he was nothing more than a glorified highlight reel with glaring weakest in his technique.

Clrnc

Glaring weakness in technique? His long range shooting ability is as good as it gets.

His passing ain't half bad either.

Probably one of the best assists of last season.

MistaT

With Ozil in our midfield and Ramsey in "Gerrard" mode we'll keep getting sucker punched in the biggest matches each year.

JazzG

His passing from deep that season was superb for Liverpool, would get the ball and move it very quickly and well. Only problem was defensively he was absolute rubbish which was then exposed later in the season.

y va marquer

MistaT wrote:
With Ozil in our midfield and Ramsey in "Gerrard" mode we'll keep getting sucker punched in the biggest matches each year.

That makes zero sense to me.
What do you mean?

Shinda

@ Clunk
Like I said he was glorified highlight reel. When he does those long pass they look brilliant but 1/2 has those passes miss there mark. His short game was non existence, he lack vision to play in CM and he was also ill disciplined in CM.

Rex

Although Benitez started playing Gerrard behind Torres and he scored quite a lot, I think it also prevented Gerrard from fully blossoming as a central midfielder. I can't see Wenger trying to push Ramsey that far up the pitch though.

Modelling yourself after Gerrard is not bad at all, because in his pomp he was one of the best attacking midfielders in the world. Position on the pitch SHOULD make Aaron a lot more defensively astute though, and it will also most likely prevent him from scoring at the rate Gerrard did. A good trade off for me.

Mirth

Clunk wrote:
Glaring weakness in technique? His long range shooting ability is as good as it gets.

His passing ain't half bad either.

His technique is decent and everything but if you're going to be acknowledged as one of the best midfielders in the past 20 years (which he is), then his general technique is definitely a weakness relative to some of the other players in his position.

Klaus

Personally I think the saddest part about Gerrard's story is that he became less of a player in his prime. He started out as an all-action midfielder and ended up as the defensively retarded guy who chipped in with a couple of insane long-distance goals every season. (Well, technically he ended up back in central midfield, where he helped Liverpool to finish 2nd when they were on route to finish 1st).

It's not something people speak about out loud, because it's considered treacherous to the Scouse cult, but would anyone seriously take the Gerrard post-Benitez over the one who was tearing up Premier League pre-Benitez? Even Paul Scholes and Patrick Vieira were jealous of that guy. The only ones who have been jealous of Gerrard since Liverpool's CL win are people who make highlight compilations on youtube.

Burnwinter

The real Gerrard alternate history is the one where he moves to Chelsea, I'd imagine.

MistaT

y va marquer wrote:
MistaT wrote:
With Ozil in our midfield and Ramsey in "Gerrard" mode we'll keep getting sucker punched in the biggest matches each year.

That makes zero sense to me.
What do you mean?

What I was suggesting is that we are susceptible to counter attacks (from lethal players) when we play with Ozil as an AM and Ramsey as a "CM" in a three man midfield IF Ramsey is constantly surging forward.

Gunner89

Which big-games have we got sucker punched with Ramsey as a CM and Ozil playing?

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