Maybe old Marc Overmars can come back at the age of 35...
Tuesday, 12 August 08, 11:42 AM · Comments(1)
but, not unfortunately, as the winger we knew and loved in 1998 at Highbury (he's talking of a comeback with his first ever club). It's been mentioned before but Arsenal have only ever really done well when we've had a wide player that both created and scored goals.
The original and best if you think in terms of goals scored was Ted Drake, anyone that scores seven goals in an away game of top flight league football certainly knew what they were doing. However, in the more modern era we've had the joys of George Armstrong, Brian Marwood, Anders Limpar, Marc Overmars and my favourite, Robert Pires.
Since Bob left though it's been difficult to replace him. Hleb had talent but didn't create or score enough and Rosicky struggles to get out of hospital for more than 2 games in a row. So one of the questions this season is whether Nasri can step up and replace the duck waddling boots of our last Frenchman to play out wide. We'll not know for a while but when I first saw Bob I realised what a player we had signed. Not because he scored immediately or beat players and certainly not for his tackling. No, he did the best thing a player can do - he never gave the ball away and was always available, once he got he pace of the league we saw what a player he was.
So let's give young Nasri a chance to shine - once he recovers from his first injury!!!!
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You are right we have never replaced Pires. What I liked about him was he always scored when I took my lad to watch The Arsenal!! When we signed Marwood and Limpar didnt we win the league in their first season?? Not sure if we did that with Overmars but all just gave us a different dimension of play!!