Folarin Balogun

[starmandb]

Named premier league 2 player of the month

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Reminds me of a young Wilfred Zaha.

[jayramfootball]

Reminds me of a young Wilfred Zaha.

Would be very disappointing if he was only as good as Zaha.

[#ST]

According to David Ornstein, Arsenal are planning to send Balogun out on loan in January.

[Paywall] https://theathletic.com/2998088/2021/12 ... -for-loan/

So he signed a new deal and sat on his arse for half a season (U23 games notwithstanding), while Eddie gets actual PL minutes despite informing us that he's leaving no matter what.

The results are what matter most of all.
He isn't going to replace anyone at the moment - Eddie has 26 minutes - not like he's getting any significant time.
Balogun had a chance to impress in training, wasn't quite ready, so he will go out on loan.
He's not competing with Nketiah anymore - he's competing with Auba, Laca and Martinelli for 1 place (sometimes 2)

Good business signing him up to a deal because I think he might well be ready in a year or two.

Not sure what the issue is TBH.

Sounds like just more whining at everything for the sake of it.

Whilst I agree 26 minutes arent really worthy of whining about, its still 26 minutes I rather have a young prospect thats STAYING get than a player thats 1 foot out of the door.

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Reminds me of a young Wilfred Zaha.

Would be very disappointing if he was only as good as Zaha.

You’d be disappointed if he turned into a consistent PL performer with a 50 mil valuation? Ok. No pressure then.

[jayramfootball]

According to David Ornstein, Arsenal are planning to send Balogun out on loan in January.

[Paywall] https://theathletic.com/2998088/2021/12 ... -for-loan/

So he signed a new deal and sat on his arse for half a season (U23 games notwithstanding), while Eddie gets actual PL minutes despite informing us that he's leaving no matter what.

The results are what matter most of all.
He isn't going to replace anyone at the moment - Eddie has 26 minutes - not like he's getting any significant time.
Balogun had a chance to impress in training, wasn't quite ready, so he will go out on loan.
He's not competing with Nketiah anymore - he's competing with Auba, Laca and Martinelli for 1 place (sometimes 2)

Good business signing him up to a deal because I think he might well be ready in a year or two.

Not sure what the issue is TBH.

Sounds like just more whining at everything for the sake of it.

Whilst I agree 26 minutes arent really worthy of whining about, its still 26 minutes I rather have a young prospect thats STAYING get than a player thats 1 foot out of the door.

But the 26 minutes were not to develop Nketiah or even to give him a chance of winning a place. It was specific to the game where we needed a goal to save points. Nketiah has form in that regard - he won a game for us and grabbed a point with last minute goals on two instances last year. That is all it was about. If you had to choose between the two to grab a late goal in a specific game, at this point tit would be Nketiah 100%.

In terms of Baloguns development I would hate that to be a few minutes here and there - it's setting him up for failure - just as Nketiah failed last year (he played something like 400 minutes all season in the PL over 17 games - hardly enough to stake a claim or build confidence).

I'd prefer Balogun to go on loan to a PL club and come back ready to play significant minutes - not have a few minutes to try and save points.

[thebigbangtheo]

Rather conclusive evidence on Tuesday of the boy simply not being first team squad ready yet, that's all, but more importantly it supports the notion he'd be a step or two further ahead in his development right now had he gone out on loan and was experiencing the rough and tumble of league football and getting bashed up by men, instead of primarily scoring goals for fun against boys he's already a level above.

[Zenith]

[Ach]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59966748

Middlesbrough are doing well since Wilder came in.

Hopefully this loan will go better than the shocker Eddie had at Leeds

[LMAO]

tbf if we have to rely on a raw 20-year-old ST, our top 4 chances are already in the bin.

[theHotHead]

tbf if we have to rely on a raw 20-year-old ST, our top 4 chances are already in the bin.

[Zenith]

[Highbury Hillbilly]

Lovely backheel for the assist.

Laca would have put it wide

[jayramfootball]

No much of a team there - the striker ran off and didn't even acknowledge it.

[Zenith]

No much of a team there - the striker ran off and didn't even acknowledge it.

Shades of Adebayor celebrating on his own after Walcott carried the ball across the length of the pitch to set him up for his tap-in.