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Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

tazmania

terrible highlights 😆 skipping every 2 seconds

tazmania

y va marquer wrote:
Captain wrote:
Hopefully we will be able to sell Arshavin in January.

Yep, Shava's time has passed.
Replace him with youth, fresh attitude, pace and skill.
Seems like we have all of that lined up, he'll be rendered even more redundant over the coming months.

Sad to see it. Always liked him despite his dodgy attitude.
He had some great moments.

Well he paid off his fee by getting us into the cl that season so it's all good in Wenger land. That and he excited the fans for a bit

Ricky1985

When you look at his numbers in the last two and half years, and what he cost, he hasn't been a bad signing, just not the player we all hoped he'd be. I just can't wait until he's gone now.

Gazza M

Arsh is like a relic of the old days now, and comes across as a bit of a malcontent, although that could just be that dour Ruski-ness coming out. Either way we need everyone in the squad pulling in the same direction with no dead weight.

Captain

It's a shame because after Theo, Andrei has the best goal potential of our wide options but we'll have to do things a bit differently now.

y va marquer

naz wrote:
y va marquer wrote:
Yep, Shava's time has passed.
Replace him with youth, fresh attitude, pace and skill.
Seems like we have all of that lined up, he'll be rendered even more redundant over the coming months.

Sad to see it. Always liked him despite his dodgy attitude.
He had some great moments.

Well he paid off his fee by getting us into the cl that season so it's all good in Wenger land. That and he excited the fans for a bit

The goal against Barca was his last great Arsenal moment.
Bought him months of grace from me but I've run out of patience with him at this stage.

I'd love to see Oxlade get some time on the pitch against Swansea.
At home against a newly promoted side might offer him more freedom and a better experience than being flung on during a massacre away to United.

Captain

IBL

What I like about Ox is that he always seems to have a plan in mind and makes the right choice at the end of his runs. He's also a natural dribbler, great close control at pace. With Theo possibly injured and Gervinho suspended we might see him against Swansea, it'd be a good game for him to start.

Captain

I would think The Youn and fatty will start ahead of Chamberlain.

IBL

yeah probably, would be nice for him to get some play time though

Gunner89

This guy's in a great run of form. Seriously if walcott can't play i'd take ox over 20 seconds of awesomness since february arshavin

Qwiss

Our front line will be way too slow if we play Shava and Yossi wide at the same time.

Ricky1985

Plus Arshavin will have played two tough/important games for Russia - Macedonia and Ireland - whilst Chamberlain will be fit and raring to go.

Thanks for that video Capi - the kid looks amazing! Not sure I see Juan Mata in him as you said previously. Looks a lot quicker and more dangerous in his dribbling than a player like Mata. Maybe you mean his touch and passing? - Which would be scary if he has that in his game too, because his close control when running full-tilt is crazy, which, for me, is just about the most difficult thing to deal with in football.

Qwiss

Well its one thing skipping past an U21 Israeli and another skipping past most Premiership defenders like that. I don't think we should expect too much too soon.

Claudius

In full agreement, QS. Let the boy be.

Captain

Well, he skipped past a fair few ManU players in his cameo last week.

The similarity, ricky, is in the control of the dribbling inside and out and the use of the ball with forward movement. It will come.

YounGunner

Ricky1985 wrote:
Plus Arshavin will have played two tough/important games for Russia - Macedonia and Ireland - whilst Chamberlain will be fit and raring to go.

Thanks for that video Capi - the kid looks amazing! Not sure I see Juan Mata in him as you said previously. Looks a lot quicker and more dangerous in his dribbling than a player like Mata. Maybe you mean his touch and passing? - Which would be scary if he has that in his game too, because his close control when running full-tilt is crazy, which, for me, is just about the most difficult thing to deal with in football.

He has bags of awareness and he's a very good passer of the ball. In the first u21 game he sprayed a 40 yard ball across the pitch so effortlessly.

He isn't the type of winger to put his head down and run. When you look at him off the ball, he's always looking around for options like a typical central midfielder.

He's very similar to Eden Hazard imo.

Ricky1985

Didn't want to say it, but that's who I see too when I watch those clips of him.

Captain

Nah, nothing like Hazard.

Klaus

Looks more like an English Di Maria to me.

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