[Football] Talking point Ben White

[Frankworthington]

I literally couldn't care less how Ben White does at Arsenal.

We just pocketed FIFTY MILLION POUNDS for him and he's now a gooner.

OMG i actually agree with one of your posts!

Spot on

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Yep, wrong system, wrong player, wrong club.

To be fair any CB in the country, with the possible exception of VVD, will be shitting it prior to playing against Lukaku! Ultimately unless Arsenal revert to a system that works for BW we’re looking at a fish out of water, or a duck out of water (waddling about) at best.

It’s early days, but that price tag carries so much pressure… I wish him well.

I reckon Duffy will be counting the days to playing Lukaku!

 

[Easy 10]

If they're insistent on playing a back four, I can't help but think they bought the wrong CB from us. White is exceptional in a three with two warriors doing the heavy lifting, but weak in a four having to do it himself. His game is the tidy up and transition.
White's success I feel will ultimately depend on who's partnered with him. If they don't get it sorted in the first dozen matches I can see Leeds sniffing around him in January.
Best of luck to him, but I feel Arsenal are always likely to be a bit of a shambles under Arteta.

Agree with most of your post, but sorry thats loony tunes. Even if White is a total disaster and scores 6 own goals between now and Christmas, there is NO WAY Arsenal are going to dump a £50m signing who's on a 5 year deal after half a season. And Leeds clearly sniff a lot of things, but they certainly don't deal in those numbers.

White will have a settling in period, he might not entirely hit the ground running. But he has the skill and talent to develop there. Its ridiculous how he's being written off by some after one poor display in the first day at school at Brentford. He'll come good.

 

[redoubtable seagull]

Agree with most of your post, but sorry thats loony tunes. Even if White is a total disaster and scores 6 own goals between now and Christmas, there is NO WAY Arsenal are going to dump a £50m signing who's on a 5 year deal after half a season. And Leeds clearly sniff a lot of things, but they certainly don't deal in those numbers.

White will have a settling in period, he might not entirely hit the ground running. But he has the skill and talent to develop there. Its ridiculous how he's being written off by some after one poor display in the first day at school at Brentford. He'll come good.

Not sure anyone is writing him off. I was telling Arsenal fans at work before last Friday that they have a future star on their hands. Plus they both reckoned they’d lose against Brentford. But they need to be patient as he’s nowhere near the finished article and as others pointed out and we al saw, he’s not too strong in the air. From my limited perspective, Arsenal are still very much a work in progress and have a long way to go in meeting their aspirations of being a top 4 side; years away.

 

[jessiejames]

White last season played in a good team, unfortunately now he players for a group of good individuals.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

White struggled with us for the first third of the season in exactly the same ways he struggled against Brentford. But he/Potter/the team improved/sorted it out and he became fantastic.

I have absolutely no doubt he can excel at Arsenal. If you can excel as a defender on the Premier Lee league at Brighton, under the pressure we often came under, you can excel at Arsenal.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Football and football reporting in particular is a such an in the moment reactionary thing.

From one week to the next the reporting of a players talents can be completely chalk and cheese.

He's been at Arsenal for what a month? Hardly enough time to truly get settled in and form a partnership with anyone.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

White struggled with us for the first third of the season in exactly the same ways he struggled against Brentford. But he/Potter/the team improved/sorted it out and he became fantastic.

I have absolutely no doubt he can excel at Arsenal. If you can excel as a defender on the Premier Lee league at Brighton, under the pressure we often came under, you can excel at Arsenal.

Let’s hope that Arsenal don’t rumble that one when looking to replace Arteta.

 

[Taybha]

I just look at Arsenal and see a team that's managed to ruin in 1 game all that work Bielsa did to make him worth 50 million quid , then laugh a bit .

 

[Milano]

Football and football reporting in particular is a such an in the moment reactionary thing.

From one week to the next the reporting of a players talents can be completely chalk and cheese.

He's been at Arsenal for what a month? Hardly enough time to truly get settled in and form a partnership with anyone.

This will be all about Ben’s mentality if he’s a success or not. At Arsenal the micro-scrutiny from main stream media will be 10 fold what it was at Brighton, add in the fans expectations due to the price tag and he doesn’t have much of a honeymoon period. Jury is out on Arteta and even if they do change manager there is no guarantee with that shite club that a replacement will be any more sensible.

 

[Albion Dan]

My gut feel is that Ben White is going to have a nightmare at Arsenal unless they play a very physical player alongside him to counter his weaknesses. The price tag means he'll get no patience from supporters and many more performances like Brentford and he's going to become a scapegoat quickly. At the end of the day I couldnt care less though. We've massively inflated a fee compared to what he's worth and he is no longer our player. TB has played a blinder.

 

[Surf's Up]

Arsenal were always the wrong club for White to go to but hey....we're £50m better off so does this face look bothered

 

[Don Tmatter]

Arsenal f**ked up 2 or 3 summers ago by not offering us £60m for Dunk & Duffy but brought in David Luiz instead.

 

[GT49er]

Arsenal were always the wrong club for White to go to but hey....we're £50m better off so does this face look bothered

Sadly, I think about 90% of us were telling him (and his agent) just that on here before he went!

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

10 pages of people repeating the exact same thing over and over and over. NSC has finally eaten itself.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Seems to be a pretty unanimous sentiment on this thread.

As a ball playing centre half Ben looked brilliant in a 3 with Dunky and Webster.

He looked horribly exposed on Friday night. For £50 million I suspect most Arse fans would want more of a complete package, but that's not our concern.

 

[The Rattler]

Tough start for Ben at Arsenal. Rumours he has got COVID so misses game today


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