Nagoya Grampus: Nazaraki, Masukawa, Abe, Tanaka, Tanaka, Nakamura, Fujimoto, Ogawa, Danilson, Tamada, Kennedy Subs: Takagi, Muta, Daniel, Ishibitsu, Jakimovski, Isomura, Tanabe, Taguchi, Tanaka, Yano Arsenal: Fabianski, Jenkinson, Mertesacker, Sagna, Gibbs, Rosicky, Arteta, Ramsey, Miyaichi, Walcott, Giroud Subs: Martinez, Miquel, Wilshere, Olsson, Aneke, Gnabry, Eisfeld, Zelalem, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Podolski, Akpom Score Nagoya Grampus 1-3 Arsenal Giroud 3 Ryo 26 (Pen) Walcott 55 Yano 72
Kaaaching! All about the shirt sales my friend. On a serious note, is he ever going to make it? It's got awfully quiet on the Ryo front. I was hoping he was going to make it.
Call me naive but it could be because he's in his HOME country to give him and the fans a memorable time. He had a crap loan but he's young and has lots of time to readjust.
As I said, I do like Ryo and he did show some magic with that pace of his, but the cynic in me is thinking we've picked him for publicity reasons.
So if I was a manager and I went to tour to a young player's country and we were playing his childhood team (said player has been looking forward tot his for ages) I wouldn't start him? I'd have to be a piece of **** not to start him.