Of all these 'exciting' prospects that we've had on the books over the years. How many actually have

[Pat Vegas]

done anything? (with Arsenal)

Fabregas obviously.
Wilshere


Then there are the likes of Vela.
Frimpong
JET the mighty JET
O Jay Simpson.
Merida (Who was Fabregas's 'replacement')
Lansbury.
Watt
the list goes on and on.
David Bentley.
Then you have the wons out on loan. Will they ever do anything too?
Beef Wellington, Joel Campbell, etc

[One Wilf Copping]

Please don't forget:

Samuel Galindo
Pedro Botelho
Ryo Miyaichi
JET – Jay-Emmanuel Thomas
Benik Afobe
Alberto Mendez-Rodriguez
Kaba Diawara
Luis Boa-Morte
Fabian Caballero
Tomas Danilevicius
Juan Maldonado Jaimez Jr
Omer RIza

Etc, etc, etc.

'Wonderkids' one and all...

Then a special sub-section reserved for the defensive stars coming up:

Ryan 'New Tony Adams' Garry
John 'New Tony Adams' Halls
Kyle 'New Tony Adams' Bartley
Scott 'New Tony Adams' Marshall
Niccolo 'New Tony Adams' Galli (very tragic)

and not forgetting...

Stephen 'New Liam Brady' Hughes

[redgunamo]

to be lots of spoilage.

It's impossible to build a decent team if you only have twelve players to choose from; twelve-hundred players and you've got a chance.

[The A*ntöniö]

[7evens]

[redgunamo]

I think the point is that we don't.

[Peter]

Maybe we feel that the players we would be buying are not different enough

[7evens]

to the team :scratcheshead:

[One Wilf Copping]

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Yes, Quincy is the PERFECT example. Cool name, outrageous skills (very occasionally) and complete and utter inconsistency and lack of application.

The Quintessence of the could've, should've, never was gooner legend.

ALL these prospects need to do one thing outrageously well to whet the appetite of fans, other players and coaches. The fact that they can't do anything else is usually their fatal flaw.

A bit like Carlos Vela, arguably the best in the world at the dinked lob running into the box from an angle. But what else can he do??? Ahem...

[redgunamo]

than the players. It's less fuss, trouble and expense.

[Doublespeak]

It's not easy to be the flash goalcreator/scorer when on loan

[No-one knows LESS about Wenger than Myles Palmer]

There was also Popadopalous and Lupoli

And Theo 'the new Thierry Henry' Walcott

[Peter]

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[redgunamo]

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