Apparently Akpom led us to our win against Wolves and Wenger will give him a chance after his impressive loan spell http://www.goal.com/en/news/596/exclusive/2016/04/16/22455752/-?
Watching the winning goal celebration on on Sat AM, where Snodgrass trots off in triumph....the ones floowing him and celebrating wildly are are Robbo, Akpom and Meyler, with Akpom in particular going nuts.
Don't forget he is King Sulker too...his throwing down of the sweaty gauntlets at Steve Bruce's feet marks him down as bipolar as some of the people on here.
"He is calm about everything and he is going about his quest to become a notable Arsenal star with utmost humility." His agent's nailed Chubs there. The only other human being who even comes close to him in the humility stakes would be Ghandi. FACT
He has passion and it shows in every way, scoring goals,celebrating and not wanting to be subbed. I'd choose him and his passion every week.
He also shows it by falling around on the floor when he gets touched and standing still sulking when he loses the ball. That said I'd still say our current plight may be mildly improved by him running around to help Hernandez. Which says more about how bad we've been of late.
I think his 'passion' is an egotistical focus on his own career and status. Outrage when he is subbed or dropped. Doesn't come across as a team player or reliable.
Me too. If you look back at when he first joined us, he just wanted the ball and to run at people. He would lose the ball, but he would get back up and go again. If you look at him now it's like he is scared to lose the ball. I honestly think he has gone backwards with us this season. At the start of the year I thought he would be an excellent player, but he has been really badly managed. I am not blaming Bruce, his aim is to get us up not develop Arsenal's players, but Akpom and Hayden have some talent and I don't think Wenger will be happy how they've being managed.
or Wenker might ring up Steve Bruce and say "Sank you Steve, I now know Akpom's temperament is how you say a bit suspect, he is high maintenance and not really an Arsenal player."
Hayden will most definitely develop into a top player and has been wasted with us this season, Akpom might have gone down a similar path to Iwobi this season if he stayed at Arsenal. Akpoms Youtube interviews he does not come accross as the arsehole as painted on this thread and explains himself very well, I put these up a while back before you started posting regularly on here, he actually seems like a very decent and earnest young fella
Surely a lot of that is media training in the modern age? He might be ok, he might not, you never know these days, but the crux of his issue is he has acted like a screaming diva on the pitch on a regular basis and not really delivered enough.
Agreed. They will have been media-coached, and Arsenal will no doubt have slick editing to optimise the interview. Might be real good lads, but you can't know this from this Gunners PR film.
He explains his behaviour in the interview which I saw, until then I would have probably gone along with the 'screaming diva' kind of stuff, he's overenthusiastic. Just seemed natural to me what I saw, hard to have a 19 year old kid fully media coached and also very easy to judge a teenager too early
Sorry mate this is completely off the mark, going to have to waste five minutes of my life finding the interviews now
Just one video there are several more, you can clearly see he is just a kid trying his best seems very straightforward to me, don't buy into all the cynical stuff
I wouldn't know how Arsenal do things but I would speculate their young players may well have media training. I sat near his family at the Charlton away game, his Dad asked me how he'd been playing, at the time he'd made a good start. He seemed a nice bloke. I think there's some truth to what you say and in his better games he's consistently enthusiastic at least. It's just the shrugging, falling over and general Arsenal-esque behaviour that looks so out of place in the second tier. Wiley centre backs can see that if you give him a little poke or two he can't handle it. Wouldn't surprise me at all to see him do ok when he goes back. Or to end up at Leyton Orient either. Fine lines.
