Oxlade-Chamberlain, or 'Chambo', as I like to call him.

[Sir C]

Too good to be a bit part player at a top 4 club, but not good enough to be a first team regular at such a club?

Would he be better off going to Everton or Southampton or similar where he'd be the star of the show?

[Billy Goat Sverige]

Too good to be a bit part player at a top 4 club, but not good enough to be a first team regular at such a club?

Would he be better off going to Everton or Southampton or similar where he'd be the star of the show?

Perhaps he can make the midfield position his own? He's definitely behind many a player for our wide positions, but if he can be a bit more consistent with his passing i think he could be a very decent midfield option.

[Burney]

Too good to be a bit part player at a top 4 club, but not good enough to be a first team regular at such a club?

Would he be better off going to Everton or Southampton or similar where he'd be the star of the show?

I think 'Chambo' is somewhat problematic. :-( It sounds a bit too much like something BFR would call him.

[Sir C]

Perhaps he can make the midfield position his own? He's definitely behind many a player for our wide positions, but if he can be a bit more consistent with his passing i think he could be a very decent midfield option.

I think he has great quality, and if we assume poor Santi is finished, there is a vacancy there. Does Chambo have enough great quality, though?

[SWv2]

Too good to be a bit part player at a top 4 club, but not good enough to be a first team regular at such a club?

Would he be better off going to Everton or Southampton or similar where he'd be the star of the show?

May I ask if this is perhaps a small knee jerk reaction to a decent performance on Saturday against a Southampton reserve team?

He has acquitted himself well before in midfield of course but as a whole he is extremely erratic in quality of performance, more often very frustratingly annoying than brilliant. I had huge hopes for the lad only 18 months ago, thought last season was going to be his, but it was not.

I do agree that he is perhaps more fitting of that level hovering just below the elite.

[Sir C]

I think 'Chambo' is somewhat problematic. :-( It sounds a bit too much like something BFR would call him.

:nono: It is how he is referred to by his colleagues. Have you not seen the wee videos of him and 'Jenks' engaging in what I believe is termed, 'epic bantz'? They are really very, very charming. Indeed 'Chambo' presents himself as not only witty, but genuinely intelligent and charismatic.

[Sir C]

May I ask if this is perhaps a small knee jerk reaction to a decent performance on Saturday against a Southampton reserve team?

He has acquitted himself well before in midfield of course but as a whole he is extremely erratic in quality of performance, more often very frustratingly annoying than brilliant. I had huge hopes for the lad only 18 months ago, thought last season was going to be his, but it was not.

I do agree that he is perhaps more fitting of that level hovering just below the elite.

I think 'knee jerk' is uncalled for. Saturday was another example of how good he can be, not the first or second.

[Burney]

:nono: It is how he is referred to by his colleagues. Have you not seen the wee videos of him and 'Jenks' engaging in what I believe is termed, 'epic bantz'? They are really very, very charming. Indeed 'Chambo' presents himself as not only witty, but genuinely intelligent and charismatic.

Of course I haven't seen it! What sort of deviant watches that sort of nonsense?

[Sir C]

Of course I haven't seen it! What sort of deviant watches that sort of nonsense?

Oh, I see. I am a deviant, am I? Straight to the insults. An interesting conversational gambit. One expects such barbarity from our Irish contingent, but hopes for better from an Englishman.

Perhaps if your mind were more open to experiences beyond your narrow, bourgeois, prescribed range of sensory stimulation you would be a batter, more rounded human being.

On that note I shall take my deviancy and bid you farewell.

[SWv2]

I think 'knee jerk' is uncalled for. Saturday was another example of how good he can be, not the first or second.

Fair enough, knee jerk was not meant in any way incendiary.

However to go back to your point, at a club of our stature and our ambition each season, what he “can be” has to really be the norm as opposed to the exception once in a blue moon which sadly for AOC is the case.

We are not miles apart here, as I said I had extraordinary high hopes for the lad as you appear to harbour now, I’m just not sure it is going to happen certainly in his current bit-part role you refer to.

Re-invention as a midfield player has often been mooted as people jumped onto the bandwagon created by an AW comment a few years back, could happen of course but is he really going to surpass the other specialists we have in that very congested area. I would suggest no.

I am neither convinced that he warrants one of the two positions to supplement Ozil and Sanchez. So there you have the issue.

Everton / Southampton / as you suggest.

[Burney]

Oh, I see. I am a deviant, am I? Straight to the insults. An interesting conversational gambit. One expects such barbarity from our Irish contingent, but hopes for better from an Englishman.

Perhaps if your mind were more open to experiences beyond your narrow, bourgeois, prescribed range of sensory stimulation you would be a batter, more rounded human being.

On that note I shall take my deviancy and bid you farewell.

Clearly you're overwrought. I blame Donald Trump and the ongoing rise of Nazism.

[Pokster]

Oh, I see. I am a deviant, am I? Straight to the insults. An interesting conversational gambit. One expects such barbarity from our Irish contingent, but hopes for better from an Englishman.

Perhaps if your mind were more open to experiences beyond your narrow, bourgeois, prescribed range of sensory stimulation you would be a batter, more rounded human being.

On that note I shall take my deviancy and bid you farewell.

Doesn't b claim to be Irish anyway?

[redgunamo]

I think 'Chambo' is somewhat problematic. :-( It sounds a bit too much like something BFR would call him.

There's nothing wrong with it, imo; it's delicious. If you ever find yourself down Nyasaland-way you really ought to try it

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[Burney]

There's nothing wrong with it, imo; it's delicious. If you ever find yourself down Nyasaland-way you really ought to try it

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Nyasaland? You can't just go around making up countries, r. Well, not anymore we can't. Worse luck. :-(

[World's End Stella]

Too good to be a bit part player at a top 4 club, but not good enough to be a first team regular at such a club?

Would he be better off going to Everton or Southampton or similar where he'd be the star of the show?

You could apply that to far too many of our squad, I'm afraid. See also Ramsey, Elneny, Coquelin, Welbeck, Giroud etc

[Sir C]

Clearly you're overwrought. I blame Donald Trump and the ongoing rise of Nazism.

I'd say you're right. I shall dig out my ANL badges, pick up a banner from my local SWP cadre, and pop off to a demo.

[Sir C]

Fair enough, knee jerk was not meant in any way incendiary.

However to go back to your point, at a club of our stature and our ambition each season, what he “can be” has to really be the norm as opposed to the exception once in a blue moon which sadly for AOC is the case.

We are not miles apart here, as I said I had extraordinary high hopes for the lad as you appear to harbour now, I’m just not sure it is going to happen certainly in his current bit-part role you refer to.

Re-invention as a midfield player has often been mooted as people jumped onto the bandwagon created by an AW comment a few years back, could happen of course but is he really going to surpass the other specialists we have in that very congested area. I would suggest no.

I am neither convinced that he warrants one of the two positions to supplement Ozil and Sanchez. So there you have the issue.

Everton / Southampton / as you suggest.

I fear I tend to agree.

[redgunamo]

Nyasaland? You can't just go around making up countries, r. Well, not anymore we can't. Worse luck. :-(

Right. Hell in a handcart, you see.

[Burney]

I'd say you're right. I shall dig out my ANL badges, pick up a banner from my local SWP cadre, and pop off to a demo.

I am wondering if the left can keep up this level of outrage for the whole four years or whether they're going to calm down at some point. Trump does actually seem to have driven them mad, so it's possible.

[redgunamo]

You could apply that to far too many of our squad, I'm afraid. See also Ramsey, Elneny, Coquelin, Welbeck, Giroud etc

In fact, you could apply that to most of *every* squad, not just ours.

[PSRB]

In fact, you could apply that to most of *every* squad, not just ours.

I would also suggest that those 5 would all walk into every other top side's squads

[Ash]

You could apply that to far too many of our squad, I'm afraid. See also Ramsey, Elneny, Coquelin, Welbeck, Giroud etc

You seem to be demanding a squad with no squad players.

[Sir C]

Right. Hell in a handcart, you see.

Do you know that BA no no direct flights any more to Lusaka, Dar, Nairobi, Harare, Kampala or Lilongwe? Our national carrier has removed a whole swathe of Africa from its route map.

Apart from this being an obviously racist act, it also condemns me to fly Kenya Airways :-(

I am considering burning my BA gold card in protest.

[Sir C]

I am wondering if the left can keep up this level of outrage for the whole four years or whether they're going to calm down at some point. Trump does actually seem to have driven them mad, so it's possible.

Apparently the Boy Owen is positively incandescent on twitter :hehe: One fears for his mental health.

[redgunamo]

I would also suggest that those 5 would all walk into every other top side's squads

Right. That's why they call it a "squad", I suppose, because they are full of "squad players" :homer:

[redgunamo]

You seem to be demanding a squad with no squad players.

:nod: 23 superstar strikers and the title would be ours, imo. And possibly even the league cup as well.

[Sir C]

Doesn't b claim to be Irish anyway?

Not at all. For a start, he is perfectly competent with a knife and fork.

[World's End Stella]

You seem to be demanding a squad with no squad players.

I think my badly worded post really meant that while we have lots of players of that level of ability, we seem unable to challenge for the league possibly because we don't have enough truly first 11 players. Kos, Ozil and Sanchez only?

[Burney]

Apparently the Boy Owen is positively incandescent on twitter :hehe: One fears for his mental health.

I must admit that today I'm rather sorry I'm blocked. I imagine he's coming out with some absolutely top-quality unhinged drivel at the moment.

Jack Monroe's bad enough. :hehe:

[redgunamo]

Do you know that BA no no direct flights any more to Lusaka, Dar, Nairobi, Harare, Kampala or Lilongwe? Our national carrier has removed a whole swathe of Africa from its route map.

Apart from this being an obviously racist act, it also condemns me to fly Kenya Airways :-(

I am considering burning my BA gold card in protest.

:hehe: Kenya Airways. looooooooooooooool.

[Luis Anaconda]

I think my badly worded post really meant that while we have lots of players of that level of ability, we seem unable to challenge for the league possibly because we don't have enough truly first 11 players. Kos, Ozil and Sanchez only?
I think Bellerin would walk into most teams - well he would fun bloody fast but you know what I mean. Though he didn't have his best game on Saturday

[Ash]

I think my badly worded post really meant that while we have lots of players of that level of ability, we seem unable to challenge for the league possibly because we don't have enough truly first 11 players. Kos, Ozil and Sanchez only?

Only Kos, Ozil and Sanchez are first eleven now? Blimey.

[Sir C]

:hehe: Kenya Airways. looooooooooooooool.

Actually business class on their new 787s is comfortable enough, with a full flat bed seat; but the food... let's just say that it isn't of business class quality. And they had no ugali.

[redgunamo]

Actually business class on their new 787s is comfortable enough, with a full flat bed seat; but the food... let's just say that it isn't of business class quality. And they had no ugali.

Do they all still do the whole Mumbo-Jumbo deal, where the actual aircraft are really owned by BA and they just change the livery?

[redgunamo]

I think Bellerin would walk into most teams - well he would fun bloody fast but you know what I mean. Though he didn't have his best game on Saturday

Kyle Walker would push him over :-\

[eastgermanautos]

Oh, I see. I am a deviant, am I? Straight to the insults. An interesting conversational gambit. One expects such barbarity from our Irish contingent, but hopes for better from an Englishman.

Perhaps if your mind were more open to experiences beyond your narrow, bourgeois, prescribed range of sensory stimulation you would be a batter, more rounded human being.

On that note I shall take my deviancy and bid you farewell.

Right, fvck off faggit.

;-)

:-D

[eastgermanautos]

I think my badly worded post really meant that while we have lots of players of that level of ability, we seem unable to challenge for the league possibly because we don't have enough truly first 11 players. Kos, Ozil and Sanchez only?

Bellerin, obviously. Mustafi.

[redgunamo]

Bellerin, obviously. Mustafi.

I like the fact that when Das Geschwader plays for us, we don't lose. Long may it continue #invincible