Quote Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult View Post
What's the point in giving the young Jock a medical if he's injured?

And why are we buying a LB when we have two of those but just one RB who's both injured and injury-prone?

The season before, when we had a manager who knew how to use full-backs in a 4-4-2, Nacho and Kola scored 11 between them.

So we'll start the season with 3 LBs and no RB. We have a whole host of young kids who can play MF or wide attacker - AMN, Willock, Nelson, Smith Rowe, John Jules, Saka etc - but none who can play FB or CH. Yet we sign a winger and an on-loan MF. And now a LB.

It's a bit like the cricket - loads of sexy sloggers, no-one that can play a forward defensive.
This transfer stuff amuses me in the sense that fans clamor for a generic superstar in a needed position. "We need a world class CB!" Well, maybe the available pool doesn't have one, or maybe there is one but he isn't interested in The Arsenal, or wants too high a salary, or the club wants too much, etc., etc.

Specifically, if we do have two LB's one is clearly on the back side of his career. Love him but it be da truth. The other scowls when he is required to track back into his own half. As for Right Back, AMN in my view he is by far our best athlete and that allows for him to be adequate at any position but at this time a master of none. I saw improvement last year and a high ceiling IF he commits to RB. Not bad for what at this point is a long term backup.

Much like what has happened here in the USA! USA!! USA!! the off season has become a clickbait hunting ground for the virtual experts ... and now the overcrowded podcast and UTube space. Call me old fashioned but I like to wait until around Guy Fawkes Day to see where we are and what we got. Don't get too high (our unbeaten run last season) or too low until then.