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Best young talent under Wenger

Alex Iwobi is looking more and more like the real deal every time he plays. But I think many fans are little wary to hype him too much and for good reasons. Many young British talents have not lived up to the hype despite showing great potential. Iwobi is still 20, and his first proper season in the first team. He's at the moment ahead of Ox, who will probably be off in the summer.

Anyway who's the best talent to have come from playing for youth and reserves? There have been plenty, but other than Wilshere's debut season, I don't think anyone has matched Fabregas. Even now, thinking back 10 years, he was so ahead of his time. By the time he was 21, he was as good as Gerrard and Lampard, if not better who were at their peak.

posted on 20/9/16

Cesc was bossing the prem aged 16. Messi and rooney the only teenager comparable in modern times.

comment by Herbie (U7136)

posted on 21/9/16

One of the more embarrassing JA606 threads this one. Cesc and Arsenal were bottlers apparently compared to someone like Gerrard who's record against Arsenal in the time Csec was our main man read one league win in five seasons. This whilst playing with Alonso, Mascherano and a Centre Forward like Torres, unlike Cesc who had Denilson, Song, Flamini, Eboe, Adebayor, Chamakh and Bendtner. Lest we forget that at this point, Gerrard had been playing for 7-8 seasons regularly compared to Fabregas who'd come directly from the youth team.

I'm completely embarrassed for those persisting with such a pitifully biased stance of comparison when the original aim of the thread was to simply stand Fabregas out in his own right as the exceptional young talent he was during his entire time at Arsenal. Huge shame it was wasted playing with bevy of complete losers. The one year he actually had a team worth a damn (and hadn't stripped itself of assets) and he plays a pivotal role in a side that came within four points of the best two teams in Europe that year.

posted on 21/9/16

Nobody said he was a bottler. Literally no one.

Some of you are genuinely quite weird.

posted on 21/9/16

How can I completely forget how much of a joke Gerrard became in the last couple of seasons?
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In his penultimate season he made team of the year. I don't think you know what you're talking about.

comment by Herbie (U7136)

posted on 21/9/16

comment by jonafc for real (U1385)
posted 2 days ago
I'm sorry, not to do with that , when the tough got going Fabregas went missing.
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You're right Robbing; literally no one said (in slightly different words). I didn't get the above quote from this very thread.

posted on 21/9/16

I can't account for your own fans and he wasn't comparing him to Gerrard in doing so as you asserted.

As said. Weird.

comment by Herbie (U7136)

posted on 21/9/16

comment by Robbing_Hoody (U6374)
posted 5 minutes ago
I can't account for your own fans and he wasn't comparing him to Gerrard in doing so as you asserted.

As said. Weird.
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My bad in that instance then I don't read profiles and or pay attention to usernames when idiotic, sans meaning rhetoric is being spewed. Apologies.

posted on 7/11/17

comment by 50...feck Giroud (U1147)
posted 2 hours, 19 minutes ago
Iwobi is a terrible player. In big games last season he was so so out of his depth, it surprises me that Wenger sticks by him. I've never seen an attacker in Arsenal colours more inadequate with the ball when there's pressure.

posted on 7/11/17

50 at it again

comment by Tu Meke (U3732)

posted on 8/11/17

comment by Kunta Kinte Kante Conte (U1641)
posted 10 hours, 44 minutes ago
comment by 50...feck Giroud (U1147)
posted 2 hours, 19 minutes ago
Iwobi is a terrible player. In big games last season he was so so out of his depth, it surprises me that Wenger sticks by him. I've never seen an attacker in Arsenal colours more inadequate with the ball when there's pressure.
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