Don’t know if we are interested, I was referring to the negativity on here that if he was available for a loan we had no chance of getting him despite him being on loan at Middlesbrough last season.
Why send him back to a club he's already been at? If you want him to get experience, he needs a new challenge at a different club.
We can push for BNC all we want, doesn't mean they will consider sending him here.
BNC is so raw though. No way Arsenal will play him for a long time. He developed well with us last season (certainly defensively) but as a wing back I don't remember him hitting in any decent crosses. His octopus-like runs where always around the half way line and nothing much came of them.
Agreed, hopefully we can look to bring in someone better now we have a few bob.
Jamie Allen played in the play off final?
I’m not sure that is true but it will also come down to which club will offer Arsenal the most money for the loan / cover the most % of wages, and whether Arsenal feel that the player would benefit more from a different experience / set of coaches than simply repeating his last 5 months again. It’s increasingly unusual for Premier loans to go to the same club on more than one occasion. We have this issue with McNally too.
Don't think we could afford the sort of money Villa would want for him. Sadly I think they will do well this year as well.
Bite their hand off.
They’ll do better than people are predicting. Odds on to go down, sure. But they’ll put up a fight. They’ll have a very good team in the championship if they do go down, and it would seem that’s what they’re building towards.
But surely if they are of the calibre to make a difference to results (like Doyle did) then we are missing opportunities to be as competitive as possible. I get the wish to polish our own diamonds but we also are not a top tier academy yet and need to use all the markets appropriately
You have a point but to me it looks like we have polished a diamond for Leicester to benefit from.
Don't you think if he had gone on loan to Middlesbrough etc he would not be an asset to his next loan club? Good players improve and if we can get a reputation for improving players (like we did with Doyle) it bodes well as to the level of talent we might be able to access.
Well if this happens then I think the entire league would sit up and take note of us
It would be a ridiculous signing. Go and get it done DK.
