augie wrote:QuartzGooner wrote:
One of the most biased pro-Wenger PR pieces I have read in ages.
There are a lot of words that can be used to describe that piece but the best one I can suggest is that it is pathetic, Stillman should be embarrassed to have written it.
The spin is hideous.
For Stillman to label Sanchez as "profligate" is as extraordinary as it is misguided.
He also throws up a straw-man argument that converting incoming players from one position early in their careers to a new one with Arsenal is not a bad thing and uses the example of Petit moving from defence to midfield and Ashley Cole moving from left midfield (as a youth player) to left-back as reasons why Arteta can play defensive midfield.
It is disingenous of Stillman (who wrote the article for those who have not clicked on the link); Arteta simply is not top notch as a defensive midfielder, regardless of where he played earlier in his career.
And as for Cole, many youth players move around positions until they find their most effective one in their early 20's.
Moving positions is not the worry.
The worry is are players good enough?
At least one commenter points out how Petit's physique and style of play naturally suited his midfield role with us.
Stillman also calls our start to the season "Slightly underwhelming".
Again, some of the better comments point out we have been lacking for the last six seasons!
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Did anyone see Wilshere's post Slovenia interview?
He said that Gary Neville had been drumming into him the need to look up and play longer passes rather than 5-a-side passes, and Wilshere laughed as he said this.
I might be reading too much into it?
But it came across to me as a nervous laugh, that Wilshere knew his training at Arsenal was too focused on short passing at the expense of longer passing.
