Does anyone whats happening with him?..especially with Bolton going down...I'd like to see him and Frimpong back for next season but worried the squad lacks capacity to absorb them. Also why the f#%k did Wenger sign Park? On the subject of players from the far east...remember Inamoto?
Money. Raising our profile in the East, shirt sales, sponsorship, profit heavy pre season tours. Remember reading years ago that we made a huge profit on Inamoto when we signed him on merchandise alone. Don't doubt we made/will make a profit on Park too. Not fair on the players if they're not going to be used and underlines with a big bold marker pen that football is about money.
That right there is messed up and i don't condone such actions. For a club with ethics, this would be truly awful. On Miyaichi though, i do think he has talent and what it takes to make it in the premiership. It will be interesting to see if he has it to make it at Arsenal. It's still early days but the up coming season will give us a better view, as he will no doubt be picked for the cup games...
I think what we did to Park stinks ! Awful bit of business and I am embarrassed by it. He was playing happily in France and we just killed his career for some shirt sales.
I'd hope we thought Park would be a bit like his Man U compatriot and become a useful team player. There's a chance he still could be if he ever got the opportunity but I don't think he's a top 6 club player (albeit taht's based on seeing him play only twice). I don't for one second think Ryo was based on finances. I think he's a bright prospect and brought as such. However, I imagine he'll spend another year on loan at a Premier League side (hopefully) before we use him.
Park was dodgy but i agree with you on Miyaichi, he definately has something about him. I reckon we'll try and keep him for the first part of the season for the cups and then probably loan him out on the second half.
With Bolton's relegation where would you like to see him go? I would say Swansea, but they already have Sinclair and Dyer, maybe Blackpool if they get promoted? Or if Wigan keep hold of Martinez I'd like to see him go there..
I wish the board and coaching staff showed the same imagination in trying to win trophies as they are with making money (at the expense of players careers). We're not the first club that has tried to make money on shirt sales in the far east. However it seems, whereas others have done it by buying players they actually use in their first team (eg Man U with Park, RM with their various non Asian marquee signings etc) we like do it the quick and dirty way. Whichever you look at it, this is treating the fans in the far east with utter contempt. I'm sure they'll cotton on soon...indeed I hear the treatment of Park has generated quite a bit of bad PR for Arsenal in South Korea (quite rightly so, he is their captain after all). This looks especially bad when you consider the manner in which we snatched him from Monaco last year.
@ Collzy. Both good options, maybe even Fulham is he'd get the game time. To be honest as long as it's not a team playing West Ham/Stoke type hoofball I don't think it'd make a huge difference. He needs the fitness and experience of playing at this level, getting used to the speed and competetiveness of the Premier league is no easy matter.
If not Swansea then Wigan or Norwich. But come to think of it, Southampton would be the ideal destination. They play good football, have good technical players. It would also be a way of paying something back to the club that we bought two good players from. Hopefully it will create more good will between clubs and help a quality run/playing one stay in the Premiership.
First of all the sale theory is one of the most loosely backed theories I have heard in a while. He wrought in to be a squad player but with RvP playing so well this season do you really think he'd get in ahead if him, Chammy has always been 2nd choice but because of RvP's form he has been relegated to thte bench, leaving Park, the. Guy behind him, out of the squad. So instead of believing a theory with no base look at it logically next time
Fair enough it takes some a while to settle in this league but it's been a long time since I've seen any player so out of their depth as Park is. We have an extensive scouting system and it's not like the French first division is obscure. I firmly believe they thought he'd be an 'alright' squad player. If he turned out to be more then hooray but wouldn't be a financial gamble either way as we'd make our money back on him. There's no way the financial benefits of signing the South Korean captain didn't cross the club's collective brain!
Don't get me wrong I do think there were financial benefits to be gained from signing him, butto say that we signed him solely for that is BS I agree with you that they though he'd be an alright squad player, but he hasn't reallyy had chances to play, mainly because he's so far down the pecking order
Not sure about your "logic" there. He was never going to be ahead of RVP even if the latter was on decidedly mediocre form. The point is, he snatched a player from Monaco who he clearly rates below one of the most under achieving players in our squad (Chamakh). This does cast a legitimate doubt as to whether football was the dominant reason behind signing him.
I don't agree with the 'pecking order' theory at all. If you're good enough, you're good enough. You can't tell me that if he was amazing in the reserves and scoring for fun whenever he came on that we'd say "sorry old bean but Chamakh has the no. 2 spot on the bench, maybe next season eh?". Maybe I was be a touch blase before but I think money was the primary reason behind signing him (Park).
He will probably be in the squad for the start of next season and might start in the CC games. For Bolton, he started off well and was making an impact playing on the left and cutting in with his right foot. Then, Coyle moved him to the right and Ryo did not look as comfortable when it came to staying out wide and crossing to the big men up front. And by the end he dropped Ryo in favor of Chris Eagles. I think Ryo will go out on loan after the first half of the season, because I do not think his loan move to Bolton was a success.
I don't think we will see Frimpong till the 2013-2014 season, his injury is going to keep him out until November, and then he's going to need to get into match fitness which will take at least another 2 months, which will be February by then, and then he's going to have to have some run up games, and by the time that's all done it will be March, the really important stage of the season, and I doubt we'd throw him right in the team at such a crucial stage, plus he might even got some niggling injuries on the way to recovery, so Frimpong has to be considered out for the whole of next season.
He can play on both the right and left. In his first loan spell with Feyenoord, he played as a left winger and for Bolton he was playing on the right wing. Either way he'll be a quality loanee. Also, i wonder if we'd loan out OXO, Campbell, Ramsey or Coqs next season?
