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Originally Posted by aoFrantic
Well, you don't get it because you've just been glossing over posts over and over. It's been stated many times.
This is just not true.
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Originally Posted by aoFrantic
Arsenal fans have said that we have a young squad for one that can hopefully contend. The last few years our team has been younger, but players like Ramsey/Wilshere/Ox etc were just promising teenagers, now they're in their early to mid 20s. Just being young for the sake of youth leads to inexperience and usually falling short. We now have a mix of youth in our core with experience sprinkled around in Arteta/Cech/Rosicky/Mertesacker for leadership. It's just better than the squad being led by Vermaelen or a 22 year old Cesc or a "here's the armband, plz don't leave" rvp/
As others have said, only Cazorla, Mertesacker and now Cech of our best ~15 players will have to be replaced with someone younger in the next 3-4 years. Being able to be excited about the current situation and realize he future is very bright shouldn't be some foreign concept to understand.
I get all this, I just think there is a lot of mixed logic itt regarding this conversation.
It's really back and forth between future and present.
For example, what you're saying is the now-not-very-young-but-actually-matured players are going into their prime while having older players give experience to the team for a healty mix.
Which is fine.
But your point does not really support the young-player-theme. Maybe it's a linguistic issue and we should all find the correct word to replace 'young'.
Also: it was definitely mentioned here that the team will be better in 2-3 years which is a completely different discussion.