Caporegime
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- 18 Oct 2002
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He's not a great player no, reo coker that is, but he's a good squad player. Personally I didn't/don't rate Young that much but he's doing very well in that setup for now. Richards "is" good, basically exactly what I said would happen at City has happened. With Hamann replaced completely by a VERY VERY good looking De Jong who while on at the weekend tracked back midfield runs perfectly, intercepted and looked superb for a player whose just back from injury. Well as I said, Kompany slipped back to defence, and Richards able to replace the utterly hopeless Zabaleta. Unfortunately Onoura is hopeless also so just waiting for Dunne to get back.
Essentially with two insanely bad defenders in Zabaleta and Ball, and zero cover in midfield to protect them Dunne and Richards have looked poor. But Dunne we know is far better than he's shown this year, as is Richards. Also Richards hasn't played rightback for what 2 years really so will need a little time to get back into the swing. Even then he was getting further forwards and looking far more dangerous than SWP in the second half and its only his second game back in that position. Basically, I think he's VERY good, and has only appeared to be poor due to basically missing 3 decent defensive players around them.
AS for Wenger, can't agree I'm afraid, Fergies had his off odd year, but hasn't gone nearly 4 years without competing properly on any front. Other than a very lucky last year Arsenal haven't been close to anything for 4 years, we've been no where remotely close to the same team and slowly as we lose the "old" team one by one we are getting worse and worse. We're slowly falling back on worse and worse players with no one really coming in as improvements. But the thing is, Fergie never significantly changed his game plan, Wenger used to be all out attack, insane counter attacking speed, goals from anywhere at any second. We have none of that any more, he's completely changed the style of the team, in his first 6 years 4-5-1 was basically laughed at as an option, for 4 years we fall back to 4-5-1 constantly and look utterly turd using it. He won't get back to how he was, he's lost something. Look at the players, 5 years ago Henry said he'd never leave, Flamini wouldn't have just walked away from a first team spot at Arsenal, Gallas would never have spoken out, Toure would never be dropped, Denilson/Diaby/Song would never start a game.
