Looked pretty good against us yesterday. Well at least he sounded pretty good from the commentary. Gave our next batch of DM's a lesson in DMing and also he scored. Now this begs the question, do we let our players go too early? Could we have used Muamba last season when our only DM option was Denilson (poor Denny, he was coming off the back of his best season and played like that)? I think so. Obviously we can't hold onto them forever. I mean they want first team football and they need first team football to get that good in the first place. I just wish there was an Arsenal B team like they have in Spain. It would be far more beneficial to keep Watt, Lansbury, Coquelin, Ramsey (last season), Afobe and so forth together in the Championship. Look at Barazite, I'd have liked to see him kept around a B team for a few years to see if he develops. Great talent and I believe he's doing well at his new club. We could have used Upson as a back up many a time and maybe he would have stayed if he was getting regular action at second division. I know it's probably too late in the years to develop such a system. Heck, they'd have had trouble implementing it 60 years ago. But I just wish we could hold onto these players that would undoubtedly have benefited us.
Muamba looks good when all his required to do is tackle but when a team is trying to keep possession he is awful. Terrible technique and not intelligent enough to play for a top 6 team.
Generally we have to take a risk, if we keep a player whose not good enough at the time to get into the team, then he's not going to get any game time and not be happy, his progress is going to stop due to lack of competition and games and we'd just be wasting money a B team would cause to much problems to the whole system and take many a year to get to a decent level, it would have to start right at the bottom and get up the leagues properly, and would probably mean an extra current team goes down the leagues and into problems, add in say B teams from us, united, chelsea, city, spurs, pool, that's 6 teams from each league knocked down would be great though, basically a viewing team for loans/buys for the lower league, and constant pressure, games and real experience for our youths
