Tony Adams wrote:People said that about cole, that he was great going forward but rubbish at defending, when he first started out. He learnt and developed, no reason Saka can't too. We have plenty of wing forwards, I say keep Saka at LB and let him develop.DiamondGooner wrote:Tony Adams wrote:The next ashley cole but less of a ****
Just no.
Why is everyone making out Saka is a good defender??
He's a LW, everything he does good is going forward.
I'm sure if you asked Saka there's no way he'd want to be a career LB, but that's for him and Arteta to sort out.
I'm not overly comfortable with benching Tierney for Saka, fact is we don't have many if any LW's, we play Martinelli there when I think he's more a striker, we play Auba there who's def a striker.
Come summer Auba will be gone and if we don't buy a ST then its lacazette and a choice of Martinelli for 2nd choice or Nketiah (who I don't think is ready to be a 2nd choice, 3rd yes).
Maybe then Arteta will have the space to push Saka into LW.
Cole was good going forward but more in a traditional LB crossing capacity, he could also defend, Saka isn't great at defending and his forward play, nut megging people, by passing 2-3 players is def more of a LW than a LB getting forward.