Brooking – England need 10 Jack Wilsheres!
The England legend Trevor Brooking, who works for the FA as their Director of Football Development, watched the England U21s draw their second successive game at the U21 European Championships, and bemoaned the fact that the young Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere wasn’t there to add “creativity and subtlety” to the team.
He said: “Before the tournament, we said the challenge would be to score goals,”
“Creativity and subtlety in the final third is probably something neglected in all the age groups.
“Jack could have made the difference in all our teams – Under-19s, Under-21s and seniors – because he does epitomise what we’re talking about.
“But we shouldn’t be looking at one Jack. The reason we’re talking about his ‘red zone’ – the fact that he is risking burn-out – is that we only have one Jack.
“We should have more than that, 10 of them.
“Against Ukraine, in the first 15 minutes there were many opportunities to knock it between people, but we tend to play safe.
“And that is what you have to do much earlier in development – encourage to make mistakes in matches: ‘It doesn’t matter about losing five games in a row, just play that way.’”
“I think when we won the Under-17s [in 2010] the majority were comfortable on the ball. You get one or two moving to a higher age group then you don’t have the depth.
“You need 10 outfield players who are comfortable. Ukraine worked hard and our composure went in certain situation or people didn’t offer themselves up for angles. That’s when it breaks down.
“Four years ago, there was an issue when we [the senior England side] didn’t qualify for the European Championship and Steve McClaren left. We don’t keep the ball as well as bigger countries, and Spain are the obvious ones.
“We don’t want to lose our other strengths, but then it’s about composure and technique. Seeing the pass, let alone delivering the pass, is the other issue.”
Maybe that’s what Arsenal needs as well! Could you imagine ten Jack Wilshere’s running about the field getting stuck in at every opportunity! Classic!
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i agree with u england av good players but they carnt play together.
i think arsenal av a few more jacks up there sleve whach this space.
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it was arsene wengers trainging methords that gave jack the technice an desire with the way he wants his players to play football like the spaniards an the dutch. arsenal av a few more england surprises in the futer.
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Why would you ever compare the most creative team in the Premiership to an uncreative U21 team. That team lacks creativity. if that was a team in the league, it would be ‘Wolves’ or a stoke without any ability to score goals.
Jack even isn’t on our top 5 creativity list. 1. FAB 2.Nasri 3. RVP 4. Arshavin 5.Rosicky (when he’s fit)
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Premier League 2011-12
1. Newcastle vs Arsenal Aug 13
2. Arsenal vs Liverpool Aug 20
3. Man Utd vs Aesenal Aug 27
Title bid over by September?
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Does anyone else feel the Samuel Eto’o rumours are the most exciting so far? Can we stop feeding this nonsense that no world class players want to come to Arsenal. And on another note, stop putting Patric Viera’s name in your comments to come back to Arsenal, many forget that he was the first player from the invincibles to pull a ‘Nasri’ and ended up going to Italy for more money.
Let’s move on and wrap up Samba or Cahill preferably and look to start August with a blast. We only need an attacking mid if Nasri goes, for now let’s worry about what we don’t have.
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@H; lol
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yay only draw…with all the expensive value being put under english talent only that they can do?????no we should put the young ukraine player a hafty price tag especially the defender..
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