The other club interested are Lyon, who are usually very shrewd in the transfer market and clearly think they can get their man at a bargain after months of
not playing in the first team.
And finally there are two England internationals that we would want to bring to West Ham according to some reports; Delph of Manchester City, who is unlikely to get too many opportunities of
playing in the first team at his current club, and the best one of all, Alex Oxlaide - Chamberlain, who some outlets claim would be available for # 17 million.
Gibbs has been injured on average 2 times a season
since playing in the first team regularly for us from 2009, all of which (bar 2 injuries in 2011/2012 which made him miss 17 & 11 games respectively) have been very minor where he has missed at most a handful of games.
There is a theory that it is much better to introduce up and coming young players into a strong side so that they get a taste of
what playing in the first team will be like, rather than struggling in a disjointed display because the whole team are unused to playing together.
Don't get me wrong Arsenal fans, because I love what Francis Coquelin has done for the Gunners since an injury crisis forced Arsene Wenger to not only recall him early from his latest loan spell but
play him in the first team as well.
«There will be more difficult tests ahead for him but he did everything that was asked of him tonight as did Nathan Ake, another young player who has
played in the first team before.
Although he's
never played in the first team for Burnley, he's been on the bench a number of times, the first occasion being the game at Millwall in January 2013.
O'Connor came over to Leeds United last March
after playing in the first team at Limerick FC in both the Premier Division and the second division in the Republic of Ireland.
Holding is a dominating figure who should have been played in the middle of the 3, but
when playing in the first team, he often found himself on the left or right.
Tim Sherwood can claim as much as he likes that he left a legacy at Tottenham, but without Mauricio Pochettino, the amount of young
players playing in the first team would be nowhere near as high.
«The end game is to be back out on the pitch and
playing in the first team and I got that opportunity,» Welbeck said.
At Arsenal, being the manager, Wenger decides which player is good enough to be bought, which player is good enough to
play in the first team, which player should start or be «benched», what tactics (formation and style of play) to use, when to bring on or take off a player (substitutions) during games, etc..
He left Chelsea because Mourinho refused to promise to
play him in the first team, and if Ibrahamovich is already signed then Lukaku would spend a lot of time on the bench again.
I think he could still have a role to
play in the first team.
I only made my decision when I knew that the coach wanted me to
play in the first team.»
However we a few more younger under 21 like Bellerin, Chambers, Iwobi that play or can
play in the first team.
Bayern only had gotze and ribery out,, we had 9 yes arguably 9 first team players that can
play in the first team...
As they are all in the first team, yet we have one Holding and one Bellerin, maybe Kos too, it's good, but the other way was done in a shorter time and
they all play in the first team.
Young player with talent has choice 1, Do i go to big club where i will be loaned out, play in reserves or if I am lucky sit on the bench 2, go to smaller club with manager who takes an interest in me and play regularly in the first team so I develop and hopefully later join a big club and play in the first team
I know that I'm not there yet, not quite ready to
play in the first team but it is another step closer to my fitness.
Of course there is also Arsenal's other new signing Krystian Bielik, who may only be 17 right now, but Wenger has not ruled out the possibility that he may be able to
play in the first team in the near future.
Jack Wilshere's Arsenal contract may be up at the end of the season, and he has made it clear that he needs to be
playing in the first team or he will be looking elsewhere in the summer, if not January.
Bielik has
played in first team and Wenger will bring him directly into our first team.
Similarly Fab, he was bought over from Barca at 16 and
played in the first team at 16.
It does not really matter if it is sarcasm or not... In a top club, Wilshere and Chamberlain would not
play in the first team.
Good news on both players if it's true, both are important to the club as it stands but who knows what will happen over the next five years, a new manager might come in and sell them both and get better replacements or the bank of England might decide to buy the club so who might still be
playing in the first team is a bit of a silly question, even more so with Arsenal's injury record.
IMO I firmly believe that this so called buy back system is totally wrong and should be banned by the powers that be.Same as Iheanacho - if a player is not good enough to
play in your first team, then it is unfair to expect another team to develop him and then be expected to sell him back to the original team when they say so.Once sold stay sold.