Michael Owen opines Arsenal should lug out gain utility of rid of ‘flat track bully’ Viktor Gyokeres as he executes not have the ‘elegance’ necessary to be a top level Premier League player.
It is lone 5 months since Gyokeres accepted for Arsenal in a £55million transaction yet it already appearances as if the London side have overpaid as the demonstrator owns racked upward simply 5 league passions in 19 suits.
He was confidential once again against Liverpool wearing the Swede having simply eight touches before being hooked simply after the hour mark and it was that arcade that incited Owen to niggle the Artillerymans were much more detailed without him.
“We were on the demographic 4 or 5 mins before kick-off and we were asserting him,” Owen said on Premier League Manufacturings. “I said after that, ‘The jury is out’, and I still feel the horribly same means at the minute,”
“Thankfully for Arsenal, they’ve got boatloads of other players that can rating passions.
“They longed him to ranked the coating touches on this team and they’re not surprisingly still filtration system for that borrower.
“If the Victors League final was tomorrow night, I’m unsure he would most distinctly overture.
“They will most distinctly reinforce and be tenacious wearing him, of training course, since they paid so much coinage money, you twinge to posture him all the opportunities.
“And also do you realised what? Versus Burnley, against Nottingham Forest, against Everton, whoever it could be, he not surprisingly is visiting rating most passions, he can coating, he will most distinctly be in the box.
“Yet to win these video games [against Liverpool], you call for a minuscule of elegance, you simply call for a minuscule of elegance and that’s simply wherein he executes not have.”
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Owen’s assertion that Gyokeres could rating passions against teams undervalued down the table and not the top expire accumulated him to tag Gyokeres a “flat-track bully” and a player that would most distinctly not lug out the argument in comprehensive video games.
“There’s a minuscule of a asserting, a flat-track bully, I assume he could be that kind,” Owen said.
“Messing around at domicile against lesser teams, he’ll rating one, 2, not surprisingly also the uncommon hat-technique, he’ll snag fines, at the expire of the period you’ll glance at it and not surprisingly assume ‘Implement you realised what, he’s got into double figures, not a inadequate retort’.
“But, once you glance very closely at it, did he lug out a argument in the comprehensive video games, the ones wherein you actually call for your comprehensive players? And also however so much, lone half the period gone, it’s a no, and as I say, the jury is most distinctly still out.”
Owen lingered: “They [strikers] are not easy to situate. You glance in the Premier League at that human beings have accepted over the last period, [Benjamin] Sesko, all proper, racked upward a pair last night yet he’s not hit the headway rushing, Gyokeres, not actually.
“The Premier League teams are bringing some of the most secured players on the industry from around the earth and not multiple are striking the headway rushing.
“There’s a dearth of centre forwards in earth football at the minute. Players assistance Gyokeres racking upward lots and lots of passions in a period in Portugal, lug him to the Premier League and it’s a different round arcade. There’s not multiple out there.
“I feel sorry for Mikel Arteta in a means in that he recognizes that was a top priority and you comb around the earth, you’ve got a comprehensive pot of coinage money to spend, what are the hodgepodges… there are not multiple hodgepodges around as you can quite plainly investigate. It’s not an easy posture to fill at the minute.
“As we all realised, Arsenal have performed so perfectly that it’s not surprisingly being papered over the chinks at the minute, yet the bottom pitch is the jury is out, I’m unsure he is the long-term rebuttal.”
