Traore Off?

Is it me or are they getting rid of the wrong people? These guys are probably on a low wage and will be okay in the championship, it's the Hughes transfers that need clearing out.

 

You get rid of the players other clubs want.

 

He's Adel's mate, isn't he.

 

Good call Eamon. Wonder if he observes Ramadan too. At this time of year with the late sunsets and the unusual heat strict observation combined with playing sport actually sounds quite dangerous. Must admit the thought of Traore at left back on a chilly Moscow night is a little amusing. Notice he is injured (again) at the moment.

 

No loss worst left back I have seen.

 

I don't think he'll be missed should he go. Injured far too often, doesn't strike me as a team player.

Suk Young played well last night and if we target an experienced left back as cover for the season it'll be a good bit of business.

 

Wouldn't phase me in the slightest if he went. He must be on 35k a week, which is a hell of a lot for someone who isn't a key player nor a guaranteed starter in a Championship side. Agree Suk Young looked class yesterday, give the boy a chance.

 

I always liked Traore i thought he would be decent player for us but has been injured too many times and never been coincident enough.

 

Certainly not the best left back his natural game is going forward so more of a wing back & not what we need.

 

He's exactly the sort of player we should keep and look to develop in my opinion. He's young and talented, got bags of pace, and offers a real attacking threat going forwards. Sure, he's got a lot to learn on the defensive side of his game, and he needs to be more consistent, but that's the sort of thing that should come with age and the right sort of coaching and management.

Getting rid of him is not a move that makes any sense to me.

 

Suk-Young is our new back....but thought Traore would be a new wing back/midfielder in front of Suk-Young.

But agree Traore too frail and too expensive and yet to prove himself in that role...so let go..
That will alter the financial structure...and change the negative team dynamic too

I see the idea of getting rid of negative vibrations (and I am not talking about the vicious negatives Boswinga and Barton...but as bad the passive negatives like Traore, Park, Luke Young, Ferdinand, Hoillet, Diakite)
Positive vibrations....keep the postive people Ned, SWP, MBia, AJ Clint, Derry, Granero, Faurlin...plus obviously the new people who are yet to be disillusioned

 

Beth I agree with most, but MBia and SWP as positives are a huge question mark. Would happily see the back of the pair of them

 

Wenger is much, much better at spotting and developing young talent than Warnock, Hughes or Harold, and he couldn't be bothered with Traore, who strikes me as being less than the sharpest tool in the box. Undevelopable.

 

Fair point, but I still think that he's developing and could do a great job for us in the Championship, probably as a winger rather than a defender though.

 

Don't get me wrong, he has talent, especially going forward, think he's played left wing/half back for us once or twice, but would have expected more than this. Sometimes his end product going forward is superb - cross for Mackie's goal at City, but I'm struggling to think of many others. If we did get Townsend and played him on the left where he should play, that would cut off his options further forward anyway.

 

I can't see him up to the physicality of the Championship, he must have played only half the games last season down to injury more than anything else and with a few tough tackles he would be finished for the season.

 

Injury prone players who misses half of the games because of his fragile hamstrings. And tbh I've never seen a good cross from him, he always ends up being blocked or it goes wide of the target. Defensive skills are not the main concern, it seems he doesn't go 100 % in the game.

 

Can't see a lot of positivity from keeping Granero, either.