Bukayo Saka (7)

[theHotHead]

Saka's Achievement in PL
1. Henry :175 G. 74 A 249 G+A
2. Bergkamp: 87 G 94 A 181 G+A
3. RVP: 96 G 39 A. 135 G+A
4. Wright: 104 G 19 A 123 G+A
5. Walcott: 65 G 42 A. 107 G+A
6. Fabregas: 35 G 70 A 105 G+ A
7. Pires: 62 G 41 A 103 G+ A
8. Saka: 55 G 45 A. 100 G+ A
G= Goals, A= Assists
He's amongst the elites.

That's impressive, honestly 'cos he's nowhere close to Pires or Cesc as a player.

In the next 2 seasons I expect him to be clear in 3rd place in the PL

[VCC]

The quality of FB saka plays is not as great as past years.
But what ever year you still have to get the ball in the net.

[Zenith]

Saka's Achievement in PL
1. Henry :175 G. 74 A 249 G+A
2. Bergkamp: 87 G 94 A 181 G+A
3. RVP: 96 G 39 A. 135 G+A
4. Wright: 104 G 19 A 123 G+A
5. Walcott: 65 G 42 A. 107 G+A
6. Fabregas: 35 G 70 A 105 G+ A
7. Pires: 62 G 41 A 103 G+ A
8. Saka: 55 G 45 A. 100 G+ A
G= Goals, A= Assists
He's amongst the elites.

That's impressive, honestly 'cos he's nowhere close to Pires or Cesc as a player.

Whilst he's an intelligent player who often makes the right decisions, he probably doesn't quite have that same genius/specialist ability about him the way Cesc did with his vision and passing range or Pires' outrageous technical ability, but I do feel Saka offers more in the less glamorous aspects of the game, more specifically when don't have the the ball.

Think most would agree he's not necessarily as eye-catching as certain players of the past who often had bags of flair or invention, but there's a degree of efficiency to his game that will prove pivotal if we're to go on and (hopefully) win something in the near future. I don't any evidence to back up this claim, but he seems to have a real knack for being directly involved in our first goal. With that said, I fully echo the general sentiment that we need to to find way to relieve the physical burden of off him in order to reduce the risk of him being physically done by the time he's 28.

The previous description of Saka probably applies to most modern players. The game has rapidly snowballed into a more athletic, ultra-tactical sport with an increased emphasis on fitness, speed of execution, efficiency in all phases of the play driven by science and advanced data analytics. Also, the way a lot of academy players are micromanaged and being built up from a a young age with specialised and personalised training/fitness/diet programs, media training, etc is unprecedented and almost frightening.

The flip side of the coin, of course, is that is that at the highest level we're seeing fewer crowd-entertainers, mavericks who have a more unique, distinctive way of playing the game. More than before the 'entertainment' seems to come from the media narratives, tribalism, memes, content creators, transfer window and referee drama—and it doesn't look like things will go back to the way they once were anytime soon.

[theHotHead]

His goal contributions are key, he is doing his part on the right hand side, if we can get the left hand side doing the same we will win the title, would've won it last year too.

If I remember rightly there used to be an imbalance of goals run the Pires era too, most goals from the left hand side.

[Zenith]

Saka's goal against Wales -

[Zenith]

[alexis2015finalgoal]

Does the club get payments from sponsors whenever Saka plays? It's a serious question. Since whilst he scored, he doesn't need to play EVERY game even if it's 30 minutes.

[ag6789]

It is ok that he came in and assured victory ( got a goal). He wasn't feeling well against CP and was pulled early. Probably needed a bit of run out.
Goals always boosts confidence.

[alexis2015finalgoal]

he doesn't need to play every game though. trossard was on the bench. he could have moved Eze to the left or right.
Henry never used to play in very game. Neither did Cesc, van Persie, Sanchez, or any of what one would call our outstandlingly best players over the years. and he IS our best player. Arteta (and Southgate to be fair) overplayed him. Arteta cnanot control what Tuchel does, but he can control what he does for Arsenal.

[UFGN]

he doesn't need to play every game though. trossard was on the bench. he could have moved Eze to the left or right.
Henry never used to play in very game. Neither did Cesc, van Persie, Sanchez, or any of what one would call our outstandlingly best players over the years. and he IS our best player. Arteta (and Southgate to be fair) overplayed him. Arteta cnanot control what Tuchel does, but he can control what he does for Arsenal.

Arteta will play him into the ground yet again and the Artards will defend their god and blame everything and everyone else yet again

[ag6789]

If I remember correctly, Sanchez played every game ( he wanted to). Also RVP, in his last two years, wanted, and basically played every game. Even then everyone was talking about rotation.
In form top players Want to play Always. Same with Messi and Ronaldo.
Adebayor, during a recent discussion said ,he often went to Wenger's office and pretty much demanded that he be played in coming games. At that time he was competing w/ Bendtner ( promising prospect at that time, around 2006) and RVP.

[alexis2015finalgoal]

top players get rested when needed. ronaldo or messi didn't play ever game, even if it were some lower league Copa del Rey game. It was during van Persie's time that Wegner played kids inthe league cup. so he didn[t play every game like saka does.

[ag6789]

Saka was basically fit tested. He was injured for a while and was unwell during the CP game. Hence given a run about to determine his fitness level.
Wenger played kids in the League cup because he felt it wasn't important, and developed a false belief that we were Big Guns and our only aim was to win big trophies ( PL, CL). Result: we invariably got knocked out in 4th- 5th round.
I think that mentality persisted even after Wenger left, and probably has finally dawned to Arteta, that we are not winning anything so even the Carabo cup can't be trifled with. So he put out more seasoned campaigners in the 2nd half to secure the win.

[swipe right]

He's our Arjen Robben

[swipe right]

Saka was basically fit tested. He was injured for a while and was unwell during the CP game. Hence given a run about to determine his fitness level.
Wenger played kids in the League cup because he felt it wasn't important, and developed a false belief that we were Big Guns and our only aim was to win big trophies ( PL, CL). Result: we invariably got knocked out in 4th- 5th round.
I think that mentality persisted even after Wenger left, and probably has finally dawned to Arteta, that we are not winning anything so even the Carabo cup can't be trifled with. So he put out more seasoned campaigners in the 2nd half to secure the win.

...and the billion dollars Arteta got to spend to build a squad that Wenger never had.