Nuno Tavares (20)

[Highbury Hillbilly]

Him or Kolasinac for the rest of the season?

He doesn't look PL quality at all, and being yanked at HT twice now suggests Arteta will be getting rid in the summer, loan or otherwise.

[Salibatelli]

Kolasinac is at Marseille.

Tavares doesn’t look good enough however, doesn’t look good for him.

[Highbury Hillbilly]

Kolasinac is at Marseille.

Tavares doesn’t look good enough however, doesn’t look good for him.

Jesus, can't believe I forgot !

We're screwed. If we'd at least kept Calum Chambers, we could have had Cedric fill the LB slot.

[Ach]

Lack of a quality squad haunting us

Who'd have thought

[alexafc12]

we gave Chambers away lol.

[Power n Glory]

Kolasinac is at Marseille.

Tavares doesn’t look good enough however, doesn’t look good for him.

Jesus, can't believe I forgot !

We're screwed. If we'd at least kept Calum Chambers, we could have had Cedric fill the LB slot.

Chambers or Maitland-Niles would have been handy. But I think he'll move Xhaka to left back and play Lokonga or Smith Rowe in midfield.

[jayramfootball]

Kid was excellent at the start of the season.
Has looked shaky in his limited role since Tierney was brought back in.

Works better in a back 4 where the opposite full back tucks in when he goes forward.

[Fran Solo]

Kid was excellent at the start of the season.
Has looked shaky in his limited role since Tierney was brought back in.

Works better in a back 4 where the opposite full back tucks in when he goes forward.

I think the key is Tomiyasu. When he plays, Tavares or Tierney can bomb forward and we (sort of) turn into a back three. It is different with Cedric as a lfb. When Cedric plays, Tierney sits back more.
Cedric and Tavares are not really good at defending, so it will be harder for our CBs if we play them together.

[swipe right]

Kid was excellent at the start of the season.
Has looked shaky in his limited role since Tierney was brought back in.

Works better in a back 4 where the opposite full back tucks in when he goes forward.

Interesting. Which league was he bought from? Maybe he’s not ready for the prem?

[jayramfootball]

Kid was excellent at the start of the season.
Has looked shaky in his limited role since Tierney was brought back in.

Works better in a back 4 where the opposite full back tucks in when he goes forward.

Interesting. Which league was he bought from? Maybe he’s not ready for the prem?

Where a player comes from is irrelevant.

[swipe right]

Kid was excellent at the start of the season.
Has looked shaky in his limited role since Tierney was brought back in.

Works better in a back 4 where the opposite full back tucks in when he goes forward.

Interesting. Which league was he bought from? Maybe he’s not ready for the prem?

Where a player comes from is irrelevant.

Except when you want to discredit them I suppose.

[jayramfootball]

Kid was excellent at the start of the season.
Has looked shaky in his limited role since Tierney was brought back in.

Works better in a back 4 where the opposite full back tucks in when he goes forward.

Interesting. Which league was he bought from? Maybe he’s not ready for the prem?

Where a player comes from is irrelevant.

Except when you want to discredit them I suppose.

Nope - I have correctly stated that many of the European leagues are crap.
That has nothing to do with SOME players from those leagues being good - when they are good they find their way to better leagues, like the PL, leaving the crap in the league they came from.

Tavares is a player who looked very good. Brilliant, in fact, in his opening few games, but made an awful mistake against Liverpool to blot his copy book (ironically after playing very well against Salah up to that point). He got dropped for Tierney and since has had a couple of very poor cameos.
He's young and I expect him to regain his confidence and contribute.

[swipe right]

Kid was excellent at the start of the season.
Has looked shaky in his limited role since Tierney was brought back in.

Works better in a back 4 where the opposite full back tucks in when he goes forward.

Interesting. Which league was he bought from? Maybe he’s not ready for the prem?

Where a player comes from is irrelevant.

Except when you want to discredit them I suppose.

Nope - I have correctly stated that many of the European leagues are crap.
That has nothing to do with SOME players from those leagues being good - when they are good they find their way to better leagues, like the PL, leaving the crap in the league they came from.

Tavares is a player who looked very good. Brilliant, in fact, in his opening few games, but made an awful mistake against Liverpool to blot his copy book (ironically after playing very well against Salah up to that point). He got dropped for Tierney and since has had a couple of very poor cameos.
He's young and I expect him to regain his confidence and contribute.

Yet Saliba couldn’t have been integrated into the squad? He had to be sent on a “transition” because he came from France and couldn’t even be a part of Arsenals first team let alone a starter. You see where your double standards get you in trouble?

[jayramfootball]

Kid was excellent at the start of the season.
Has looked shaky in his limited role since Tierney was brought back in.

Works better in a back 4 where the opposite full back tucks in when he goes forward.

Interesting. Which league was he bought from? Maybe he’s not ready for the prem?

Where a player comes from is irrelevant.

Except when you want to discredit them I suppose.

Nope - I have correctly stated that many of the European leagues are crap.
That has nothing to do with SOME players from those leagues being good - when they are good they find their way to better leagues, like the PL, leaving the crap in the league they came from.

Tavares is a player who looked very good. Brilliant, in fact, in his opening few games, but made an awful mistake against Liverpool to blot his copy book (ironically after playing very well against Salah up to that point). He got dropped for Tierney and since has had a couple of very poor cameos.
He's young and I expect him to regain his confidence and contribute.

Yet Saliba couldn’t have been integrated into the squad? He had to be sent on a “transition” because he came from France and couldn’t even be a part of Arsenals first team let alone a starter. You see where your double standards get you in trouble?

No I don't see any double standard. You are conflating two things.

French league is shit , but some French players can be great as we know... Not sure why you would mistakenly think those things can not both be true.
if a player is very good but comes from a country with a weak league more often than not they will leave that league.
That is what happens in France. Same with the Belgian league, or the Dutch league etc.

Saliba was not integrated because he was deemed to be not ready as a kid to be playing in the PL. Doesn't matter what you think on that score - you have no idea what the kid was like in training but at 18 yrs old and 19yrs old when he came back from the initial loan it's not surprising he wasn't deemed to be ready. It's rare to see a player that young get serious game time in the PL. Only the exceptional young talent will do that. Saliba obviously was not. We did actually see him play in the U23s a few times and we was very poor.

He needed to learn and get more experience which he is now doing. The club wanted him to go to a PL club, but Saliba chose to go back to France.

Now Saliba is playing in a weaker league and doing well. Getting game time and getting recognition.
We are yet to see whether he can make the jump to the PL.

There is absolutely nothing unusual about loaning out a teenager to get experience and game time.

[swipe right]

Kid was excellent at the start of the season.
Has looked shaky in his limited role since Tierney was brought back in.

Works better in a back 4 where the opposite full back tucks in when he goes forward.

Interesting. Which league was he bought from? Maybe he’s not ready for the prem?

Where a player comes from is irrelevant.

Except when you want to discredit them I suppose.

Nope - I have correctly stated that many of the European leagues are crap.
That has nothing to do with SOME players from those leagues being good - when they are good they find their way to better leagues, like the PL, leaving the crap in the league they came from.

Tavares is a player who looked very good. Brilliant, in fact, in his opening few games, but made an awful mistake against Liverpool to blot his copy book (ironically after playing very well against Salah up to that point). He got dropped for Tierney and since has had a couple of very poor cameos.
He's young and I expect him to regain his confidence and contribute.

The difference is Tavares was given a chance and Saliba wasn’t. This despite Saliba coming from a stronger league. Saliba has gone on to become a fine starting center back at another club while Tavares is a flash in the pan who can’t seem to deputize for an injured full back. This has been a case of poor judgement and double standards from a manager who seems to think he’s the last word on everything despite having no accomplishments to his name.