I Feel So Sorry For Ben White

He was solid throughout, his passing range was spot on,sounds like you were literally waiting for him to make a mistake so you can spout your negativity. Try being objective 👍

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I genuinely wasn't that's just it, he's a non entity to me because I never noticed him at Leeds. Had no bias either way and just saw the price tag as the usual "10 mil extra at least because he's English." My sentiment comes from HIM standing out with errors early on that nearly cost goals. Particularly one indicident where a ball came in. He should have comfortably beating Pookey to it, instead Norwich narrowly missed scoring because he didn't even know where Pookey was...behind him.

Others have commented on his lack of physical presence and zero aerial ability, so all I can really say to you on that is there's now such thing as a "Solid" CB who has no aerial ability and lacks physical presence because you can't be the first without having the second and third.

A solid CB who can't jump and header for sh !t, come on man, really??

White looked better next to Gabriel rather than with Mati

*Mari

He did an annoying dummy that almost led to a goal but apart from that he wasn't that bad

There are many different things that make a player a good defender. Being good in the air is one of them but not being absolutely brilliant in one department doesn't make you a bad player. At 50 million though we will see if he's good enough in the other areas of defending to see if he is value for money. He's got to have some time. Gabriel is good in the air and Tomyiasu seems like he should be good in the air so hopefully that will mean whatever defincies White has will be lessened.

Tbh a cb not being good in the air in the PL is usually a massive no no especially if you play for a team like Arsenal who are known for being weak and very poor in the air.

comment by PowerkingHenry27 (U18930)
posted 23 hours, 41 minutes ago
White wasn’t bad at all don’t know what game you was watching.
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Kind of my comment.
But indeed you are right.

comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 10 hours, 38 minutes ago
comment by PowerkingHenry27 (U18930)
posted 23 hours, 41 minutes ago
White wasn’t bad at all don’t know what game you was watching.
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Kind of my comment.
But indeed you are right.
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Same one as you except I didn't ignore errors which could have caused a goal had we not been lucky elsewhere nor the fact that he got out just at the far post by a midget he'd completely lost track of anyway. IMO if that few pathetic attempts at heading, I've seen from him are anything to go by then I don't care what else he can do his price ceiling is (or at least should be) no higher than 40 mil.

You don't pay 50 million for a player who can't be at least reliably competent in all basic fundamentals of his position. White is the equivalent of paying 70-80 mil for a striker who is so weak at shooting, he has to be in the 6 yd box to get it on target .

Have none of you thought about resale? We paid 50, nobody out there is going to be mug enough to pay even more than that for a CB who can't header. So we're LUMBERED now. 50 mil wasted on what'll become a long-term benchwarmer who cost the combined amount of the two players he warms the bench for because they can both head the feckin ball and he can't

Need to give White more time before we judge. I wasn't able to watch last weeks game but from what I read everywhere, he had a decent game and we looked more secure at the back with him

Honestly for me it's not the pricetag - it's the fact that we sent out Saliba for him to come in