Recent content by kelvinwong2026

I guess it could be related to ETH's intention to justify the expensive purchase of Antony. i.e. if Pellistri plays and plays better than Antony, people would say ETH has wasted 80m. If this is the case, Pellistri's playing time would be limited to several minutes here and there at most.

True. But it seems unlikely that any other top-6 teams are going to have openings in the near term. So I can understand him grabbing this chance.

While I think Bailly should bear the largest responsibilities for not having games, what he said is not wrong. This has been so obvious in the Ole era.

In terms of the way we play, Eriksen is probably the No.1 most important player to make it work. It is not that other players are not important, but a player of his mould is just so rare. So the problem is we have to find a understudy for him, otherwise we have to adjust massviely when he is not...

He, Saka and Martinelli could be Arsenal's verison of Firmino, Mane and Salah.

his best performance in a while. nothing too spectacular, but very efficient.

we can't buy a no.9 as good as him. not for anything under 60m at least.

I think he has the type of body that will become really slow and clumsy in the later stage of his career(just like Rooney). Yes you could argue he never relies on pace, but just see how Matic has been in the last 2 years. I am afraid the deteriorate rate of Casemiro will be even faster.

Is it too much to ask to have a holding midfielder that is good at not only screening the defense, but also playing passes, just like Fabinho or Matic(before his decline)?

We have to move on. It is not the end of the world. We could have bought him and he is injured for several months. If our season is doomed just because we failed to buy one player, then we are doomed as a club.

So we are replacing the problems of Pogba with two players. SMS as the hollywood-ball-playing midfielder who cannot play in a double pivot. And Rabiot as the French midfielder who is moody and comes with a controversial agent. And we still won't have a midfielder who is natural to the holding role.

If we cannot get Antony, I won't mind him for a fee less than 15m. And if he joins, he would likely start ahead of Rashford.

Is it a sign that Garner being regarded as a first-teamer just as Varane?

Had he not returned last year, we would be 3rd/4th in the league last season, and Ole would still be our manager.

3 years ago we were debating "would you trade Rashford for Harry Kane?"