Please just let him rest like a baby over the summer.
Saka
Not much summer left with these absurd internationals. We’re back in training in less than a month probably?
Gurgen Usually 1st/2nd week of July, isn't it? Not far away at all.
International guys get a bit of extra time off, but we fly off to the states I think in about 3-4 weeks - I'd imagine all the big hitters will be there for that.
Any mention of an achilles injury is concerning. Hope he gets a rest.
I don't watch or care about international football for the most part, but those are three goals that showcase just what an incredible footballer he is.
For me, he's the best and smartest attacker in the Premier League.
I can definitely agree with smartest, unless KDB counts maybe. However, do you think he should've gotten Premier League Player of the Season @Ricky1985?
I would've easily picked Haaland's and Kane's seasons and it's not particularly close.
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I don't know if he should or shouldn't have won PotS - it's hard to separate the individual's season from the context of the team as a whole. I don't think it matters tbh.
But imo Saka is the best pure attacker in the League on ability alone. Just about every facet of his game is not just good, it's fantastic. KDB for me is one of the smartest players in the League atm, but not when compared to similar players of the recent past - I think he just has absolutely extraordinary ball-striking technique. That's his superstar quality, not his intelligence. For example, I'd say Ødegaard has much better awareness and intelligence.
But I was talking more about pure attackers when I mentioned Saka. Someone like Bernado Silva is similarly intelligent and aware, but he's not a pure attacker who has to also be the tip of the spear in the way Saka is.
The kid is absolutely extraordinary!
A pure attacker surely Haaland is better?
If I'm building a fantasy team, and I get to choose any attacker in the Premier Legaue as my first pick, I'm picking Saka.
Ricky1985 I'm with you. Haaland is amazing and no one will score as many as him but there are strikers in the PL you could put in your XI who'll still score plenty. I don't see anyone else who can give you close to what Saka does. He's not someone who can be measured purely on the numbers, even though they are great too.
madness. you take haaland all day and every day. i can find a winger to give me some numbers. i'll take a combo of say haaland and trossard over saka and whatever striker you think is the equivalent value of trossard.
Any mention of the achilles is worrying. Wilshere's first big injury after the breakout season he had was the achilles. I hope he is taken care of and not pushed.
What a weird thing to say.
It's a joke because of something Meatwad said in another thread.
Oh. Don't mind me then.
a month later
looks about 6 ft now. arteta is 5'9".
Think he'll be widely recognised as the best right wing forward in the world by the end of the season. The boy's a baller!
I think he's slowly getting to that Messi-type finishing where he often places it where he's most likely to score and the shot doesn't look that good in real time but still just out of reach.
a month later
Good interview. I'm constantly impressed with how quickly he seems to mature. He seems to be a very good kid, who displays intelligence and wisdom beyond his years (or at least, beyond his peers - I still can't get over Cole Palmer not knowing what a 'sighter' was when interviwed after the Community Shield, or the stupidity of Jack Grealish in general! Man, these "kids"...) whenever a journalist asks him a question. And he's also ambitious in absolutely the best way.