re: Arsenal 2014/15 Season Long Thread

when we went on tour last year, there's a post where i said he had the best vision on our squad (maybe behind santi for no. 2) as a 16yo. you can't teach that type of vision (though hopefully if any american with it does come along, we have the training infrastructure in place to develop and harness that vision).

stewie, i tend to feel the opposite. every time i watched him for the reserves in a deeper role (and for us) he never looked like anything other than a solid prospect (and i love some good DLP play!) for one, he played the b2b role. and he's never shown any range of passing. he's never really showed an ability to break up play through positional acumen (since clearly he's too slight to muscle people out, even in the reserves). i think him the idea of him as a DLP is based on his vision and his generally simple and composed passing of the ball with the hope that he can get the positional aspects of it down.