That is one disgusting picture.
I really hope he comes back
The year is 2011, and Jack meets a psychic.
Wilshere: Tell me my future, itâs bound to be super successful after the way this season went for me. Titles, PFA awards, maybe even a Ballonâdor?
Psychic: Your future looks bleak, Jack, Your time at Arsenal is going to be plagued with injuries. Youâll be spending more time playing FIFA, than actual Football. Wenger uses you as a right winger. Going to drop down the pecking order. Then in 2016, you leave the club to join AFC Bournemouth on loan.
Wilshere: Bournemouth?!
Psychic: * Nods *
Wilshere: Nah nah nah. * Waggles finger * Youâre telling me, Jack Wilshere, who just had a banging season at Arsenal, winning PFA young player of the year, telling Tottenham theyâre shit, that Iâm going to play for some pokey old coastal club who arenât even in the Premier League?
You guys are nuts lol
Youâre all operating under the assumption that Roma were instantly going to put Wilshere in the first team and that heâd stay there for the rest of the season. They have four other very talented midfielders, particularly Paredes who they would 100% be more invested in developing and growing since heâs one of their own and staying for the long term rather than buggering off back home. Wilshere would have been nothing more than a luxury depth player whoâd probably only get cup games and the occasional league game when fatigue hit Strootman or Paredes.
At Bournemouth heâs going to be the main man, one of the first names on the squad sheet with the team likely being set up to get the most out of him. Heâll be playing in the league we want to play him in while still getting consistent minutes and experience and proving he can physically handle it.
This isnât a fall from grace, this is a very clever move to get his career back on track and will hopefully pay off for us in the future.
Good luck Jackino
Hopefully this loan will be the ânewâ start to his Arsenal career
Loaning out a 25 year old is a very odd decision IMO, maybe we are hoping he has a top season and we cash in on him in the Summer ? Because lets be real if he does stay fit this season the chances of him doing it 2 years in a row are next to none.
Just got a bad feeling this is the beginning of the end but Arsenal are kinda trying to rip the band-aid off slowly so to speak, slowly putting him out to pasture. Maybe the board are getting tough with players that donât play and are constantly injured, to be fair Wilshere for all his talent is a waste of a wage he is on 100k a week is out injured constantly when he plays he is not up to speed and just as he is getting there he is injured again.
Coyle and Howe, two definite Wengerite coaches. Heâll learn absolutely nothing but heâll âexpress himselfâ.
Absolute scenes when he plays a full season for Bournemouth but sustains a nine month lay off as soon as he returns to Arsenal.
Absolute certainty this is.
Ramsey higher on the technique scale than Jack. Nice joke.
Ridiculous move this. Shouldâve sold Ramsey after the Euros, Ox before, and kept Wilshere and Gnabry.
Canât wait til Arsène leaves tbh. Heâs not even good at rating players anymore. Something that, for all his faults, I used to take pretty for granted with him.
Is it me, or does the girl behind Wilshere look like Lucas Perez?
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/770629411431415809/Jelil7v8_400x400.jpg
she kind of looks like him, I can see where youâre coming from
tbf both Gnabry and Jack wanted the move. If you really want to argue that we should have kept a player who was one year from going on for free or a player who may or may not survive 5 games in a row youâre simply putting emotions above rational thoughts. Not that I rate our current options really that high, but neither Jack or Gnabry would have made a lot of difference to the team this year or the future.
She does, but that doesnât mean i wouldnât put it in her buttâŚor Perez for that matter, heâs mighty tasty
Donât know on what basis you can say âor the futureâ there. Both are extremely talented players who absolutely can help us in the future, and, for me, in the now. Jack needs tactical instruction that heâs not going to get here, indeed, but is not going to get much better with Eddie Howe in Bournemouth. Wouldâve sooner kept him and played him at false RW to see if it covered up some of his flaws like it does for Ramsey, and had him as a back-up for Mesut where he is actually an option (where Ramsey is not, never seen Ramsey play a good game as a #10), and had him as an option to bring on in games when we are chasing a goal or playing offensively against a lower side at home as a CM.
Gnabry is better than Ox now. So yeah, why shouldnât I argue that he shouldâve stayed instead of Ox?
Gnabry is one year from on for free because he doesnât have options to play here. If you had kept him and given him a role in the squad he wouldnât be desiring to leave. Same with Jack re: the loan. Hence why I say we shouldâve sold Ramsey and Ox.
As @Burgundy always says, a huge problem is how slow we are to move on failed projects or just bad players. Ramsey and Ox very much fall into this category, and while we offer them important roles in the squad (/donât capitalise on their market value, which is quite good given their lack of quality), we lose opportunities, including our own (Gnabry, and potentially Jack).
Itâs disastrous management, and we will pay for it. PPB you are very strange, tbh I think you try to put âreasonâ over âemotionâ so much that you end up just taking the opposite side of an opinion that appears to you as âemotionalâ so you can play your voice of reason game.
Well, that was in regards to Gnabry. HIm going to Werder Bremen on a permanent deal isnât something that has âWerder Bremen offered me a huge futureâ written over it, but exactly that there may be bigger clubs involved that are monitoring the situation. If it was all about going to Bremen for a year or two he could have very well signed for Arsenal and then moved there on a loan. They would have taken him without hesitation, knowing that he could very well be their star player if he performs to his potential.
As said above. Just a matter of not making myself 100% clear.
With Iwobi and now Perez we have options there though. Itâs not like a couple of minutes here and there are really going to make that big of a difference in Wilshereâs future. He needs playing time and useful experience more than being subbed on here and there with the idea of him performing to the needed standard. Iâm sure weâd be close to Ox level of criticism if he didnât perform well enough during that time and everyone would be asking for him to be benched until heâs up to the required level.
Cazorla can cover as a #10 just fine and honestly, Jack isnât that great when weâre chasing a goal. Iâd rather put Walcott on the pitch if we were in that position.
As said above⌠It wasnât our decision anymore the second he played a good tournament. If his fatherâs comments are anything to go by he was long gone after the played a couple of solid games.
Thatâs speculation at best.
I agree, we should be looking to make a lot more signings that have potential. Iâve been saying it myself quite a couple of times.
Meh⌠Jack is very much a gamble in the end. While I donât really like the options youâve mentioned itâs still very much a case of having the replacement ready before you sell. In todayâs market you have to have the required quality available before you go out and clear players that can at least offer something. If not, youâre left with exactly what weâve been seeing the few year, which is going into a season year after year being a player short. At least in my world iâm hoping that weâll have a significant clear out next summer when a lot of the under-performing players are 1 year from being out of contract and we can build up from scratch.