Oxlade-Chamberlain

[Midz]

How many more seasons should Ox be given to prove he's good enough?

Just asking

They gave Theo 10 and are still waiting so Ox is still a 'potential'.

[GoonerMuzz]

How many more seasons should Ox be given to prove he's good enough?

Just asking

Judge him in May. How can he compete with the financial doping of other clubs? Who else is there? How can he expect to do the job properly when the board make decisions for him? Why don't you have a go at it then?

Sorry how inconsiderate of poor Ox's feelings, i'll rephrase the question:

Should Ox be given as many 'Mays' as his fellow perennial 'nearly/not quite/never going to be' colleague Theo to prove himself worthy of our glorious badge

[Blade]

FW Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, 5 -- Despite a bright start, familiar bad habits quickly crept in to Oxlade-Chamberlain's performance. All too often, he dribbled down blind alleys and was careless in possession.

Really?

[Blade]

So that's Ox 10 months out then.Even though Aw will 6 days initially.

[donaldo71]

The Ox and Walnutt should be packed off to Charlton.Shit and Shitter

[augie]

I thought the ox worked hard for the team tonight - he had a couple of woeful touches at vital times, but overall it was a much improved performance imo

[donaldo71]

I thought the ox worked hard for the team tonight - he had a couple of woeful touches at vital times, but overall it was a much improved performance imo

augie there is no difference between the Ox and Walcott.If they werent English they would have been out the door.Walcott has been at the club 10 years the Ox 5.And we still talk about potential.They wouldnt last 5 minutes if we had a real manager

[northbank123]

I thought the ox worked hard for the team tonight - he had a couple of woeful touches at vital times, but overall it was a much improved performance imo

It was but he fluffed a sitter at 0-0 that any player with an ounce of composure would have picked his head up and realised that all he needed to do was not roll it along the floor, and then blew a great counter-attacking chance with 3 on 3 getting injured.

[armchair]

I thought the ox worked hard for the team tonight - he had a couple of woeful touches at vital times, but overall it was a much improved performance imo

It was but he fluffed a sitter at 0-0 that any player with an ounce of composure would have picked his head up and realised that all he needed to do was not roll it along the floor, and then blew a great counter-attacking chance with 3 on 3 getting injured.

Yes and imagine Walcott had fucked up those couple of chances. Dont think we'd be hearing how "overall it was a much improved performance"

Im done with both of em. So sick of hearing about "potential" from ox (never, ever seen it myself) and so sick of theo underperforming.

[DB10GOONER]

I thought the ox worked hard for the team tonight - he had a couple of woeful touches at vital times, but overall it was a much improved performance imo

It was but he fluffed a sitter at 0-0 that any player with an ounce of composure would have picked his head up and realised that all he needed to do was not roll it along the floor, and then blew a great counter-attacking chance with 3 on 3 getting injured.

Agreed to a certain extent. But, for me, running about a bit more is not enough really to say it was a much improved performance. Yes, he did a bit more leg work but his actual performance was dire again; constantly making the wrong choice with the ball (his injury was caused because he chose to run with the ball an extra ten yards when he should have crossed to one of our lads wide open on the far side, and his subsequent poor touch into that last 10 yards), his snatched "effort" from 6 yards that anyone else on our team would have scored, his passing was mostly awful again, the list goes on.

What do we do with him? I'm for either send him on loan somewhere and see if he comes back a footballer or as soon as we get him out of the treatment room (most likely January 2017) sell him whilst there is still some coinage to be had from his name and all that "potential" we keep hearing about.

[northbank123]

I would loan him out. Young footballers these days are perceived as having 'made it' once they have played some PL football and a few token England caps.

He is far from too good or too experienced to go on loan. Send him out for a season to another PL club where he will have to fight for his place, will get bollocked for mindless football and will be cut adrift from this grinning idiot social media hero persona he is trying to cultivate.

He is stagnating badly and chucking him out of his comfort zone and into regular football is the only thing that might salvage him.

[casgooner]

I would loan him out. Young footballers these days are perceived as having 'made it' once they have played some PL football and a few token England caps.

He is far from too good or too experienced to go on loan. Send him out for a season to another PL club where he will have to fight for his place, will get bollocked for mindless football and will be cut adrift from this grinning idiot social media hero persona he is trying to cultivate.

He is stagnating badly and chucking him out of his comfort zone and into regular football is the only thing that might salvage him.

I totally agree, send Chambers and Gibbs with him. Anyone else?

[youngw]

I would loan him out. Young footballers these days are perceived as having 'made it' once they have played some PL football and a few token England caps.

He is far from too good or too experienced to go on loan. Send him out for a season to another PL club where he will have to fight for his place, will get bollocked for mindless football and will be cut adrift from this grinning idiot social media hero persona he is trying to cultivate.

He is stagnating badly and chucking him out of his comfort zone and into regular football is the only thing that might salvage him.

I totally agree, send Chambers and Gibbs with him. Anyone else?

Want to get rid of any more solid squad players? Lets have the under 16s on the bench and get rid of Iwobi, Walcott and Welbeck too

[Redarmy]

From the Walcott thread, but also applies to this over rated "star"

Why the fuck should he be arsed ...he probably has millions in the bank, its our wanker of a manger that keeps these deadbeats covered in cash...Wally, Chamberlain, Metersucker, Ospina, Arteta, Flamini....etc.....

[StuartL]

I would loan him out. Young footballers these days are perceived as having 'made it' once they have played some PL football and a few token England caps.

He is far from too good or too experienced to go on loan. Send him out for a season to another PL club where he will have to fight for his place, will get bollocked for mindless football and will be cut adrift from this grinning idiot social media hero persona he is trying to cultivate.

He is stagnating badly and chucking him out of his comfort zone and into regular football is the only thing that might salvage him.

Wasn't he on the cover of Fifa 12 (or 13 or pro evo cant remember)

That along with getting in the England squad regardless of form, being used in the BT advert must have made him think he was a superstar - yet so far has set up a last minute 4th goal in an already won cup final as his biggest achievement.