nut flush gooner wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 5:23 am
Last time I got a players name on the back of my Arsenal shirt was when we signed DB10.
I am taking the third strip down to the Armoury next week to get Rice 41 sorted. He didn't even have his best game in an Arsenal shirt last night, but he is the best signing we have made for decades, to impact a game like he did in that way after that performance, mind blowing.
If he carries on like this he will definitely be mentioned in the company of the Arsenal greats.
Same here! Bergkamp 10.
Oirish Deckers is still a long way off getting in amongst the Arsenal greats but he certainly has the potential to become one, absolutely. He has stepped up a level since joining us and we all hoped that would be the case. He is certainly a very good singing for us. Worth over a hundred million? Not for me. Not yet anyway. He leads us to a title? Then yep every penny!
I still would not classify him as world class either tbh. He doesn't control the pace of the game like the best midfielders we've had did, the likes of Vieira and Fabregas for example, but then he has had to play a lot deeper for us than they did. Again though, he has the potential.
He also is not a great creator of chances, but that is most likely down to that deeper role. He actually reminds me of a non-psychotic
Roy Keane in a way. Does not do anything spectacular but makes very few mistakes and nearly always picks out the right pass and is an intelligent skillful footballer.
Personally I'd give him the captain's armband right now. He is far more of a natural onfield leader than Odegaard.
It would be a huge shame if like with Ozil and Fabregas we don't build a title winning team around Rice.