Comments on: Arsenal Should Recall Armand Traore From His Portsmouth Loan

By: mike

mike — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:40:18 +0000

Stymied is a defensive term. Which most will agree doesn't apply to Traore very well.

Ameliorite a conundrum?

At least you were right when you said Traore is not a panacea.

If Arsene was looking for a young left winger he could simply try Kieran Gibbs. He's the reason why Traore is in Pompey.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:55:05 +0000

Written with thesaurus in hand.

By: FredtheRed

FredtheRed — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:17:56 +0000

Hmm. I thought he was garbage on Sunday.
Spurs 27 attempts, Portsmouth 4 attempts. Hardly a deserved draw for Championship Pompey really is it?

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:59:27 +0000

HE CAN'T BE RECALLED AS THERE WAS A FEE PAID FOR HIS LOAN.

what a pointless article.

By: Gooni

Gooni — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:47:35 +0000

Waste of my time reading this piece of shit..

By: akin

akin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:37:44 +0000

Terrible terrible article!wishful thinking.lack of depth and public show if ignorance.cant believe i read this

By: Asmo

Asmo — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:24:47 +0000

What a terrible article. Lack of substance vainly concealed by unecessary and unwieldy vocabulary. Poor point, badly made.

By: VieiraLeg

VieiraLeg — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:46:13 +0000

Traore started out well at Portsmouth when they played five at the back and now is hopefully finding form again. While he is very much capable of providing a decisive moment, he is certainly best served out on loan. Currently, he makes far too many mistakes and gives the ball away too much – these are growing pains, but they are best worked out at Pompey. I think his passing and dribbling percentages need a lot of improvement – he starts a lot of dangerous counter-attacks for the opposition and his defending/desire to work off the ball can look really poor at times (e.g. Newcastle).

By: caribkid

caribkid — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:13:36 +0000

Traore has improved game by game for Portsmouth and with regular playing time has shown he is worthy of the EPL.

I don't know whether he can be recalled or not based on earlier observations but if he can, he would be a welcome addition because he provides pace and width, which only an injured Walcott and Vela can do.

Problem here is, if Wenger is not giving Vela a run on the wing why would he give Traore a chance?

I have no answer, maybe some one should ask Arsene.

By: nightmook

nightmook — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:30:17 +0000

For every game that he's impressed in during this loan spell he's had 2 or 3 games where he hasn't performed particularly well or even been fairly anonymous. Don't forget, he was playing wide left & very advanced in a 5 man midfield against Sp*rs & had virtually no defensive responsibility. Let's see how he gets on in a 4 man midfield when he has to track back & cover the left back or even play at left back himself. His positional naivety makes Clichy, who's always very exposed in our attacking 442 system, look like Maldini!