Phil71 wrote:Yago wrote:starmandb wrote:Yago wrote:It's not purely about the age of a player, it's about giving youth players a chance. I'm struggling to see how you get to 4 youth players vs southampton? Martinelli already broke through last year, and is an integral part of our first team. That's not "giving a youth player a chance". Nketiah would qualify, sure, but there the complaints are more about him being given plenty of chances already why Balogun doesn't get any opportunity. I have no clue where you get the other 2 from, unless you mean that Saka sub who again is already a key player for the first team.
What we're asking for is giving Azeez, Cottrell or Balogun a go.
And why have these youth players become an integral part of the first team
Is it because arsenal have always been a progressive club for giving youth a chance?
If there is a development league for under 23 players why are they not considered young
It’s the collective doom of everything’s shit
Saka and Martinelli are Emery pruducts, nothing to do with Arteta. ESR only got his chance against Chelsea because there was no one else. Had WIllian not been injured, we'd still have been playing him over ESR.
This isn't all "doom and gloom", we just want to continue that tradition, and seeing Willian and Pepe fail again and again while not giving the youth a go is frustrating.
They're not 'Emery products'.
Saka was a youth player before he arrived and Martinelli was signed by Mislintat.
Not gonna argue with that, just saying they were given their chance/had their breakthrough under Emery / not under Arteta.