Aaron Ramsey Jr thread - First Blood

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  1. thebigman

    thebigman Member+

    May 25, 2006
    Birmingham
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Ramsey and bale had no defined positions but started out wide left and right respectively
     
  2. footykid

    footykid Member+

    Jan 10, 2005
    Mississauga, Ont
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    Mostly criticism of Ramsey comes down to a fundamental misunderstanding of what a "free" roll is, as perpetuated by mainstream pundits, and most system managers. Its the same effect at ManU where they have shackled most of Pogba's best traits.
     
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  3. bandwagongooner

    bandwagongooner Member+

    Dec 9, 2006
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    He's not good enough to build a system around and he doesn't fit into any of the slots that are currently being used on this team.
     
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  4. DutchCane

    DutchCane Member+

    Apr 6, 2004
    New York, New York
    Because the manager isn't good enough to figure out what to do with him and too stubborn to let him go.
     
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  5. DutchCane

    DutchCane Member+

    Apr 6, 2004
    New York, New York
    No one thinks we gotta build around Ramsey, that'd be stupid.
     
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  6. DutchCane

    DutchCane Member+

    Apr 6, 2004
    New York, New York
    Wenger doesn't know how to do that. But it's all Ramseys fault
     
  7. thebigman

    thebigman Member+

    May 25, 2006
    Birmingham
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    He is a limited player though
     
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  8. DutchCane

    DutchCane Member+

    Apr 6, 2004
    New York, New York
    Which is why he should be let go, not sure why people don't get that. Again it's management and stubborness by Wenger He's not good enough? let him go. SImple
     
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  9. mebeSajid

    mebeSajid Member+

    Feb 16, 2009
    Atlanta, GA
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    We use Iwobi a fair bit in the half spaces.
     
  10. mebeSajid

    mebeSajid Member+

    Feb 16, 2009
    Atlanta, GA
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Disagree that he isn't good enough. He is good enough. It's that he doesn't fit in a midfield with Mesut Ozil. I agree that he should be sold (and think we should sign another ballplaying midfielder), but he's a very good player with a skillset that no one else has at Arsenal. The off the ball movement is fantastic, and he covers more range than anyone else at Arsenal. He just doesn't fit with the personnel we have right now.

    If someone wants to come up with a way to make Ramsey and Ozil fit together in a midfield, I'm all ears (remember seeing data showing that Ozil's key pass numbers dropped like crazy when he was moved to the left or the right).
     
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  11. thebigman

    thebigman Member+

    May 25, 2006
    Birmingham
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Diamond with ozil at the top and Ramsey with a dlp and another sitting cm
     
  12. bandwagongooner

    bandwagongooner Member+

    Dec 9, 2006
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    We don't need any of his skills. We need midfielders that have positional awareness and are good passers. Ramsey isn't really those things.
     
  13. DaPrince84

    DaPrince84 Member+

    Aug 22, 2001
    MD
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    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    I disagree that we don't need his skills. A lot of people say that but would then turn around and want a Hamsik or a Pogba or even a Vidal. These guys are stylistically very similar to Ramsey.

    We also need midfield scoring.

    I think he and Özil can play together, but I have no faith that Wenger will ever figure that out.
    You giving Wenger too much credit here.

    Iwobi does that, I'm not giving credit to Wenger for that based on what we have seen with other players.
     
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  14. daedalus

    daedalus Member+

    Apr 24, 2004
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    i actually disagree. i think he could coexist very well with ozil, specifically for the very reason you mentioned - his off the ball movement. and we finally have the partner for him we need in xhaka. xhaka is a better partner for ramsey than cazorla because he is not as lightweight and more defensively proficient (where cazorla needs coquelin's robustness) but he can still cycle of the ball as well as making penetrative passes out of the back to get attacking moves going on his own and leave ramsey to just dump the ball off and run. as you said, ramsey's engine is insane and he has enough deceptive speed and athleticism to come back and help xhaka defensively because, as you pointed out, he is somewhat lacking in lateral movements. and, at his best, he arrives late from those runs to overload the box and would be an ideal target for ozil - and sanchez, actually, since we are sticking with him as the primary striker and he still insists on dropping deep constantly. in fact, i think xhaka-ramsey are about as ideal a pairing as we can get.

    the problem with ramsey is when he does not want to do the running and just wants to linger around the top of the box waiting for ball to feet.
     
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  15. bandwagongooner

    bandwagongooner Member+

    Dec 9, 2006
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I will continue to think that we're a better team with Elneny than Ramsey in CM. Ramsey is 25 and still hasn't made himself a starter.
     
  16. mebeSajid

    mebeSajid Member+

    Feb 16, 2009
    Atlanta, GA
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Elneny sucks
     
  17. daedalus

    daedalus Member+

    Apr 24, 2004
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    i like elneny more than @mebeSajid :D but i'm having a tough time matching elneny with a partner based on who else we have on the squad at the moment (EXCEPT for end of game time killing where we run an extra central mid and take out an attacker). i feel like ramsey is a better partner for xhaka and coquelin is a better partner for cazorla and, for me, either cazorla or xhaka has to be on the pitch for our offense to be worth a damn. i think he's an intelligent offensive player (defensively, i think he needs to pick out better when and how much to chase) who is not static and i think, over time, he can get even better. he might not be all-world material but i think he can be a damn good contributor as a squaddie.
     
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  18. bandwagongooner

    bandwagongooner Member+

    Dec 9, 2006
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Elneny and Xhaka complement each other very well. That pairing is quiet and reliable.
     
  19. Tonerl

    Tonerl Member+

    Arsenal
    May 10, 2006
    Cincinnati, OH
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You love Elneny.

    Just cop to it. It's cool.
     
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  20. mebeSajid

    mebeSajid Member+

    Feb 16, 2009
    Atlanta, GA
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Both are slow and unathletic, Elneny has a tendency to ball watch and goes on walkabouts so often that you'd think he was a character on Lost.

    Elneny's positioning in the Liverpool and United games was flat out bad, and he was ball watching on Southampton's opener.
     
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  21. bandwagongooner

    bandwagongooner Member+

    Dec 9, 2006
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Nah, I just prefer him to the other options.
     
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  22. DutchCane

    DutchCane Member+

    Apr 6, 2004
    New York, New York
    This is your brain on drugs. El Nenny is not good.
     
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  23. DutchCane

    DutchCane Member+

    Apr 6, 2004
    New York, New York
    Again, don't do drugs kids. Just say no
     
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  24. DutchCane

    DutchCane Member+

    Apr 6, 2004
    New York, New York
    Here is what I want us all to do:

    1) Admit that Ramsey isn't good enough/complimentary to the players we have that are undroppable

    2) stop making up sh*t

    3) stop pretending that just because he doesn't fit/isn't good enough that the other options are better

    4) Coquelin and El Nenny are worse than Ramsey and are not better even when paired with the undroppable players.

    5) In closing, stop lying to yourself just because you don't rate Ramsey
     
  25. casoccerdad47

    casoccerdad47 Member+

    Mar 31, 2006
    You can legitimately say you don't think Ramsey fits with the current team, you can criticize specific aspects of his game, but the argument that he is 25 and still hasn't made himself a starter is demonstrably false. In 8 years at Arsenal he has started more than 150 premier league and champions league games, most of them in the last 6 years. The number would almost certainly be higher, but he missed significant portions of individual seasons with his broken leg and various hamstring injuries.
     
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