I think there's enough pressure on young players when they're brought into confident, in-form teams, so whilst I agree that Gnabry would bring pace and unpredictability to the side, it's just not the right time.
Besides I thought he was pretty poor against Reading, and though I appreciate that sounds harsh on him given his age, once they cross that white line, they are first team players and not being ready is not good enough.
Look at Martin Angha against Coventry. Awful, awful performance. Made Santos look a player.
Eisfeld was impressive when he came on against Reading, and is perhaps worthy of a place on the bench. But even he's been erratic for the U21s this season.
If we're to be giving these young guys some playing time, I'd much rather we wait until the team is playing well than hoping they can turn up round, to be honest.
Good article Merte and you are right in saying some players look out of depths at the moment.
I think you have a point to bring in fresh legs and with the mentioned Gnabry and Eisfeld we have some really good youngsters in our team.
However I feel that Gnabry who was given a chance to play some minutes in the PL League tries to hard to do well and personally I think Eisfeld is more up to it and are able to hold his nerves better than Gnabry.
I don't agree with the comparison to the Ox. Ox had played a lot of first team football for Southampton. Despite them being in League 1 at the time, he was a regular, and knew all about English football.
Gnabry and Eisfield don't have any previous first team football. So for that I don't think they will have anywhere near the 'feel good' factor Oxlade Chamberlain had
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posted on 9/11/12
I think there's enough pressure on young players when they're brought into confident, in-form teams, so whilst I agree that Gnabry would bring pace and unpredictability to the side, it's just not the right time.
Besides I thought he was pretty poor against Reading, and though I appreciate that sounds harsh on him given his age, once they cross that white line, they are first team players and not being ready is not good enough.
Look at Martin Angha against Coventry. Awful, awful performance. Made Santos look a player.
Eisfeld was impressive when he came on against Reading, and is perhaps worthy of a place on the bench. But even he's been erratic for the U21s this season.
If we're to be giving these young guys some playing time, I'd much rather we wait until the team is playing well than hoping they can turn up round, to be honest.
posted on 9/11/12
Good article Merte and you are right in saying some players look out of depths at the moment.
I think you have a point to bring in fresh legs and with the mentioned Gnabry and Eisfeld we have some really good youngsters in our team.
However I feel that Gnabry who was given a chance to play some minutes in the PL League tries to hard to do well and personally I think Eisfeld is more up to it and are able to hold his nerves better than Gnabry.
posted on 9/11/12
I don't agree with the comparison to the Ox. Ox had played a lot of first team football for Southampton. Despite them being in League 1 at the time, he was a regular, and knew all about English football.
Gnabry and Eisfield don't have any previous first team football. So for that I don't think they will have anywhere near the 'feel good' factor Oxlade Chamberlain had
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