Welcome: Mohamed Elneny

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augie wrote:
1989 wrote:Reading up a bit on him, he has clocked the highest number of kilometres covered in the CL and Europa over the last two years. Apparently he has the stamina of a marathon runner.

So we know he can run all day, so hopefully we'll have another Alexis on our hands in that regard.

Hope he starts against the chavs. Can't deal with Flamini no more.


It's an enforcer to sit in front of the back 4 we need and not some runner overdosing on red bull
Have to say early days admittedly but at first sight Elneny looks a really strange signing

Yes he seems to pass the ball well enough and strikes the ball well, but unless he's hiding other qualities does not look what we need

Looks very light weight for a midfield role in the premiership, he will until he bulks up a bit get pushed around like a rag doll in the middle of the park, as i say looks a strange choice....ah well Arsene Knows :shock:

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armchair wrote:This fucker was all over the shop today. Needs to be a lot more diciplined and stick to his DM role. (Although having said that Wenger would have given him no instructions except "go and play your game")
He'll get away with it against Burnley but better teams will expose his recklessness.

The Flamster gets rightly slated for being ahead of play and "running around like a headless chicken" This clown is much, much worse than the Flamster for that on this showing Im afraid. Someond needs to have a word.

From the little I saw (absolute shit stream) he showed for the ball well, did some neat passing and was closing down well but

appeared to be at left back at one point, was closing down the goalkeeper at another, not what or where our defensive midfield enforcer needs to be doing. :banghead:

He would have been wiped off the floor against Chelsea, cant see him coping with Wanyama next week either.

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armchair wrote:This fucker was all over the shop today. Needs to be a lot more diciplined and stick to his DM role. (Although having said that Wenger would have given him no instructions except "go and play your game")
He'll get away with it against Burnley but better teams will expose his recklessness.

The Flamster gets rightly slated for being ahead of play and "running around like a headless chicken" This clown is much, much worse than the Flamster for that on this showing Im afraid. Someond needs to have a word.
Agreed. Can't tell a tremendous amount from his first performance but I wasn't really impressed.

Although two DMs at home to Burnley is madness. Both of them ended up thinking that they didn't need to sit back because the other one was, and we ended up with less protection than one DM.

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StuartL wrote:
armchair wrote:This fucker was all over the shop today. Needs to be a lot more diciplined and stick to his DM role. (Although having said that Wenger would have given him no instructions except "go and play your game")
He'll get away with it against Burnley but better teams will expose his recklessness.

The Flamster gets rightly slated for being ahead of play and "running around like a headless chicken" This clown is much, much worse than the Flamster for that on this showing Im afraid. Someond needs to have a word.

From the little I saw (absolute shit stream) he showed for the ball well, did some neat passing and was closing down well but

appeared to be at left back at one point, was closing down the goalkeeper at another, not what or where our defensive midfield enforcer needs to be doing. :banghead:

He would have been wiped off the floor against Chelsea, cant see him coping with Wanyama next week either.
Yeah was thinking about him up against players like Wanyama......

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Thought it was a decent debut.
Looked neat and tidy and tactically, he did very well.
Hope he's retained for Tuesday, but I fear Flamini will be back in the side.

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StuartL wrote:
armchair wrote:This fucker was all over the shop today. Needs to be a lot more diciplined and stick to his DM role. (Although having said that Wenger would have given him no instructions except "go and play your game")
He'll get away with it against Burnley but better teams will expose his recklessness.

The Flamster gets rightly slated for being ahead of play and "running around like a headless chicken" This clown is much, much worse than the Flamster for that on this showing Im afraid. Someond needs to have a word.

From the little I saw (absolute shit stream) he showed for the ball well, did some neat passing and was closing down well but

appeared to be at left back at one point, was closing down the goalkeeper at another, not what or where our defensive midfield enforcer needs to be doing. :banghead:

He would have been wiped off the floor against Chelsea, cant see him coping with Wanyama next week either.
Coquelin is our midfield enforcer. Elneny is mainly box-to-box high energy CM, a bit like Ramsey but more defensively minded.

I don't expect him to play as a sitting midfielder as it's not his natural game, but against the tougher sides I can see him being instructed to tuck in alongside Coquelin in order to provide extra defensive protection.

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I'm not going to judge the lad on one 90 minute performance, in fact think I shall delay final judgement on him until May 8)

Having said that my initial gut feeling is that he looks exactly like what you'd expect to get when you spunk away 5 million snots on some geezer from the Swiss leagues. Meh.

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1989 wrote:I don't expect him to play as a sitting midfielder as it's not his natural game, but against the tougher sides I can see him being instructed to tuck in alongside Coquelin in order to provide extra defensive protection.
:shock:


:?


:lol:


:wink:

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Beginning to get the impression that Elneny has been brought in to replace Ramsey. Box to box , more defensive minded...maybe that £50m Barcelona move might happen in the summer after all.

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Nos89 wrote:Beginning to get the impression that Elneny has been brought in to replace Ramsey. Box to box , more defensive minded...maybe that £50m Barcelona move might happen in the summer after all.
45m profit of which le bumhole will spend a fiver...and split the rest with wiggy

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So were supposedly going for the title, in dire need of a quality holding DM to shore up our suspect defence, (especially when Coq is out) and wenger buys another tippy, tappy midfielder?
Last time he did that Ozil was signed. Whats his excuse this time? :rubchin:

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Watched the whole game on Setanta. He's not a natural DM. He looks more a box to box player so comparing him to Captain Stupid Flamoney is a tad unfair. He looked tidy enough in passing and moving and isn't afraid to shoot. A good addition to the squad if we had signed him last summer if we had unloaded the Ox. But as the only January signing? Why? :|

So we have another attacking midfielder (that's 532 now, I believe!) but haven't signed the DM, CH and striker we need. Top work Arsene, top work. :roll: :x

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DB10GOONER wrote:Watched the whole game on Setanta. He's not a natural DM. He looks more a box to box player so comparing him to Captain Stupid Flamoney is a tad unfair. He looked tidy enough in passing and moving and isn't afraid to shoot. A good addition to the squad if we had signed him last summer if we had unloaded the Ox. But as the only January signing? Why? :|

So we have another attacking midfielder (that's 532 now, I believe!) but haven't signed the DM, CH and striker we need. Top work Arsene, top work. :roll: :x

To think his 24/7 scouting team have searched the world and come up with this guy :D

cannot really make it up, can you

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It is surely TOF's dream to play a 0-5-5-0 formation 8)

Fuck defending, fuck attacking; just endless sideways passing amongst our team of weakling midfielders :barscarf:

The pass completion stats alone will be worth 'doing a Rodders' :barscarf:

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DB10GOONER wrote:Watched the whole game on Setanta. He's not a natural DM. He looks more a box to box player so comparing him to Captain Stupid Flamoney is a tad unfair. He looked tidy enough in passing and moving and isn't afraid to shoot. A good addition to the squad if we had signed him last summer if we had unloaded the Ox. But as the only January signing? Why? :|

So we have another attacking midfielder (that's 532 now, I believe!) but haven't signed the DM, CH and striker we need. Top work Arsene, top work. :roll: :x
So in summing up DB is le bumhole (a) a bumhole (b) a furburger or (c) a hippos yawn :D :wink:
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