DO WE NEED A NEW RIGHT-BACK AT ARSENAL?
Dear Gooners,
Our young 18-year-old right-back Hector Bellerin signed a long term contract as the club announced. Long term contracts are usually not less than 3 years so I suspect the young Spaniard signed 4 or 5 years.
Signed from Barcelona in 2001 after going through their famous La Masia academy with fellow compatriot Jon Toral Harper, the young lad has been showing great potential at the club and has developed more. He showed it in the Next-Gen tournament, made the manager name him in two of the League cup fixtures last season against Reading and Coventry and now he is with the Spain U-19 team at the European Championships in Lithuania.
Signed from Barcelona in 2001 after going through their famous La Masia academy with fellow compatriot Jon Toral Harper, the young lad has been showing great potential at the club and has developed more. He showed it in the Next-Gen tournament, made the manager name him in two of the League cup fixtures last season against Reading and Coventry and now he is with the Spain U-19 team at the European Championships in Lithuania.
Now we have 3 right-backs in Sagna (30) who has one year remaining on his contract and still a vital member of the team, Carl Jenkinson (21) who deputised for the former at the beginning of the season and performed superbly which made him get rewarded with an England cap by Manager Roy Hodgson and the young Hector Bellerin (18) who is a special talent with flair.
Sagna, Jenkinson and Bellerin current Arsenal right-backs.
Sagna has not signed a new contract despite remaining with one year on his current deal and he is 30, we all know how Arsene behaves with 30-year-olds, he may not give him a two year contract and may leave either this or next summer or hand him a new contract like it is with Tomas Rosicky.
Jenkinson while playing at the start of last season showed us that he is ready but Sagna's seniority could not be undermined so he retained his place and now being a full international gives Carl an extra confidence that he can do it. Playing for Arsenal is his Passion without a doubt.
Bellerin is more talented of them all, he is a complete modern right-back who balances well defence and attack and more comfortable with the ball. When he goes in attack he can create a lot of problems for the opponents like you see Dani Alves and starting his career as a midfielder helps him but he is still young at 18 so not yet ready.
Jenkinson while playing at the start of last season showed us that he is ready but Sagna's seniority could not be undermined so he retained his place and now being a full international gives Carl an extra confidence that he can do it. Playing for Arsenal is his Passion without a doubt.
Bellerin is more talented of them all, he is a complete modern right-back who balances well defence and attack and more comfortable with the ball. When he goes in attack he can create a lot of problems for the opponents like you see Dani Alves and starting his career as a midfielder helps him but he is still young at 18 so not yet ready.
In my opinion we do not need to buy a right back, we should keep Sagna for atleast 2 years then he will pass on to Jenkinson who will be without a doubt ready, all factors remaining constant then Bellerin will deputise for Jenkinson and that position will be sorted.
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