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He plays with such nonchalance, he's a joy to watch. He clearly sees things quicker than others too. During the first half he was back near our own penalty box and the ball came at him from a height and with pace, now other players would have hooked the ball clear anywhere, he however obviously saw Guthrie in space some 40 yards to his right and played such a sublime ball. If we can keep him fit, starting and protect him, he could be mega massive for us. I personally feel he has made the difference in recent weeks.

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Was also funny to see how far from him were the Liverpool defenders when he made his assist to Cisse, like they were scared. French commentators underlined it many times...

 

What is the feeling in France wrt him getting in the squad for the Euros? Is the media making a case for him now he's starting games for us?

 

 

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Heard someone say on football weekly he's unlikely even to make the euros because laurant blanc is notoriously lazy at going to watch players who may break into the team, and normally rather prefers to keep side settled. That and he's still got a reputation to shake off there.

 

Would be  shame, him behind benzema would certainly be formidable. Whether he'd be played with nasri and ribery behind benzema is to be seen, would be scary but wonder if would suffer from being narrow, which tends to happen when you try and cram multiple creative attacking midfielders into the same team.

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gwaaan hateeeem

 

for those who think that he "became" a new player and that's why he starts, i want to say that during his last 6 months in Marseille, he was better than that, and he was tracking back.

Now he is playing, so he plays better and better. Hatem just needed confidence and lacked some fitness, credit to pardew 10 per cent credit to ben arfa the rest.

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Heard someone say on football weekly he's unlikely even to make the euros because laurant blanc is notoriously lazy at going to watch players who may break into the team, and normally rather prefers to keep side settled. That and he's still got a reputation to shake off there.

 

Would be  shame, him behind benzema would certainly be formidable. Whether he'd be played with nasri and ribery behind benzema is to be seen, would be scary but wonder if would suffer from being narrow, which tends to happen when you try and cram multiple creative attacking midfielders into the same team.

 

 

 

Isn't Laurant Blanc supposed to be a big fan of Ben Arfa's though ?

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Think he'll make the Euro squad.

 

Seriously when you look at the french squad and even the starting XI team, there're not many players with his talent.

 

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Slightly getting paranoid about arsenal thinking he'd fill the fabergas shaped whole in their team now Gotze is staying at Dortmund.

 

Please please cling on to him no matter what, his style and ability is so very rare.

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Slightly getting paranoid about arsenal thinking he'd fill the fabergas shaped whole in their team now Gotze is staying at Dortmund.

 

Please please cling on to him no matter what, his style and ability is so very rare.

 

Would Arsenal spend the money? Would cost a fortune surely.

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Arsenal are pretty ok with fair play and have a reasonable war chest from various sales including the nasri and fabergas ones iirc. That's normally the gunners complaint, the money is there, wenger stubbornly refuses to spend it, like a reverse dagliesh

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Was also funny to see how far from him were the Liverpool defenders when he made his assist to Cisse, like they were scared. French commentators underlined it many times...

 

What is the feeling in France wrt him getting in the squad for the Euros? Is the media making a case for him now he's starting games for us?

 

 

 

His appearances are much followed in France of course. Lot of journalists talk about him when he makes good performances and think he should make the Euros considering the current French squad...

Considering the French commentators, most (if not all) of them are behind him and only make positive remarks on him.  O0

And Laurent Blanc like him and think he follows him.

 

gwaaan hateeeem

 

for those who think that he "became" a new player and that's why he starts, i want to say that during his last 6 months in Marseille, he was better than that, and he was tracking back.

Now he is playing, so he plays better and better. Hatem just needed confidence and lacked some fitness, credit to pardew 10 per cent credit to ben arfa the rest.

 

100% true. Tbh all Hatem was lacking were confidence, fitness (ie games) and above all consistence. He already made similar matches in the past...

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He would improve any of the top four, with the possible exception of Man City.

 

This lad is something special, it's great having that feeling of expectation and excitement whenever he's on the ball. The only thing I can complain about about is that we didn't give him the ball enough in the second half.

 

Yeah, felt like we didn't come out with the same level of intent in the second and didn't look to go for it as much, instead looking to feel the game out a bit.

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