I don’t see what Abou offers the team apart from making up the numbers at the club. Yes he is still young and will supposedly learn and improve his game as the years pass by, but you simply can’t teach football knowledge…you either have it or you don’t. 6 years he’s been an Arsenal player, and in my view, doesn’t seem to have developed since the day he arrived.
Moving swiftly onto Denilson. In my opinion, this guy is just frustrating to watch. The 23-year-old Brazilian lacks pace, desire and above all his positioning, and all round awareness, is appalling. Although his statistics may show that his ball distribution is great, my argument would be – 5-10 yard passes aren’t exactly hard to pull off are they? Like Diaby, I don’t quite get what Denilson offers to the team. It’s come to the point where by when I see him in the starting line-up I know we will struggle to get a result. Reports suggested that Wolfsburg were plotting a move for him during the January transfer window. However, nothing transpired as I believe (in my opinion of course) that the Bundersliga side realized they would have wasted £12 million on a very, very average player.
Thanks to official statisticians on Twitter I was able to find out that Arsenal’s win percentage with Abou Diaby & Denilson starting (since June 2008) stands at 41%. Whilst with only one or neither starting is vastly superior at 64%. This ultimately proves that the Arsenal team suffer when both or either one of them start.
As stated earlier, I think Arsenal must offload a number of players during the upcoming summer, but in my opinion Abou Diaby and Denilson must be the first two out of the door.
Please Wenger do us all a favour and get rid of the deadweight when the transfer window re-opens. Recoup a nice amount of cash from Diaby and Denilson in the summer (as we don’t need them anymore) and find a proper midfield enforcer to challenge Alex Song, Aaron Ramsey and young Jack Wilshere for a place in the Arsenal midfield next season, or simply splash the cash elsewhere on the team. I’m not really fussed, just as long as those two are not at the Emirates next season.
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Denilson must go sell him to shaktar so he can play with willian. But personally, I like Diaby and would love to keep him. Many forget that even though he is a squad player, he starts and plays good for France, but in a more attacking role. The problem is that Cesc is turning more and more into a Xabi Alonso type player, creating from deep.
I’l tel u new story. . Diaby had a fi8 wit van persie durin half time . . .Van told diab to stay calm. . .Diaby ovr reactd. . .Van got pissd nd thy fo8. . . Nw nybody wants diab to stay???
well Diaby has some ability and we shouldn’t let our impatience prevent us from giving him some more time.
Denilson I can’t defend so much. He needs to get his confidence back and begin to take the game on more. At the least, he’ll be a buddy for Wellington when he comes to ARsenal if he can get his head right.
But bottom line: with players like Frimpong, Ramsey, JET, etc returning…both players will need to seriously lift.
They definately need to be sold, they are both absolutely useless. I feel sorry for anyone who has to play with them.