Note number 1 : Try to score goals until you have more goals than them
Number 2 : Dont let in anymore goals
Ben White | Arsenal
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Number 2 : Dont let in anymore goals
Dribbling? The number 1 quality you need in a defender. Who cares about aerial and grounds duels?
White: "OK boss"
*Game starts, Chambers gives a goal away*
White: "What now boss?"
Arteta: "Errr I'm so happy, so so happy"
White: "What?"
Arteta: "So so happy"
It was extremely evident. Toney was eating him up in every duel. White’s in the 9th percentile for aerial duels won!
Inflated English tax. Been White was never the best defender at Brighton so paying 50m for him is nothing but ridiculous. He looks bang average and won't do Arsenal any good in a back 4 system. Strange buy to be fair.
Dribbling? The number 1 quality you need in a defender. Who cares about aerial and grounds duels?
Well yeah, that's why he's so specialised. In a back 3 he could be very useful.
He's a midget for a CB. No wonder he gets dominated in the air.
Time for what? He's an average centre back with a glaring weakness that most decent sides will exploit. What you see is what you get.
He'll probably be the rock behind a clean sheet against Werner and Lukaku next week, you jinxing feckers.
That’s awful. At first I thought it was on the touch line but he’s in the box giving that much space. Definitely shades of Lindelof there.
Everyone saying it was a bad game for him.
Yet you look at his career stats, and its pretty much what he is.
Rashford put him on his backside twice in 20 seconds last season. Now that guy is your defensive leader?
Its just a bad transfer. Not just for Arsenal, for him. He needs to be in a back 3 where he has time to move the ball, and doesn't have to take care of the aerial threat. He will crumble over this season as he is continually exposed.
Guaranteed when we play them, Cavani will have him for breakfast all game.
I mean the got rid of liuz because he's a back 3 specialist and wanted to play back 4, then signed another back 3 specialist to replace him. Its just beyond comedy at this point.
Yet you look at his career stats, and its pretty much what he is.
Rashford put him on his backside twice in 20 seconds last season. Now that guy is your defensive leader?
Its just a bad transfer. Not just for Arsenal, for him. He needs to be in a back 3 where he has time to move the ball, and doesn't have to take care of the aerial threat. He will crumble over this season as he is continually exposed.
Guaranteed when we play them, Cavani will have him for breakfast all game.
I mean the got rid of liuz because he's a back 3 specialist and wanted to play back 4, then signed another back 3 specialist to replace him. Its just beyond comedy at this point.
I know it's popular to bash Lindelof here but he is nowhere near as bad as White is. I don't think Lindelof is good enough to be our main CB but he is a decent centre back and can definitely play in a formation with 2 CBs. Meanwhile I just cannot see White doing it with his shocking aerial duels win rate. He has to play in back 3 where other 2 CBs are very good in the air.
haha that's what I was thinking. They'll somehow end up beating Chelsea next weekend and then next celebrating getting beaten by just a single goal by City.
Some credit has to go to Arteta for settling him in so fast. I was expecting blocks and tackles for 5-6 games.
He'll probably improve but my word, Arsenal are fecked.
It’s only one game but I do feel for him having never been under anywhere near this level of scrutiny, with a £50m price tag. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if he’s shown to be nowhere near good enough.
They'd be a much better team if they have us 50m for Lindelof
He's not that short though at 6ft. Kounde is 2 inches shorter and is far superior in the air.
I have to disagree. Delusional thinking from Arsenal fans is quite a common recurrence and not as rare as you think.
I’m seeing a lot of people saying he needs to play in a back 3 to show his qualities. If that’s the case, that’s a sign of an incompetent player. If you can only look good in a back 3 and not in a back 2, you’re not a very good defender. Only being able to play in a 3 is being not quite good enough to be a centre back and not quite good enough to be a midfielder.
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I reckon Kounde could struggle in the PL as well
We can hope but I don't see it really.
Ben White did get dominated last night but it's also the dysfunctional unit he has around him. Chambers, Mari and Lokonga look like fairly nothing players - or at least for a club the size of Arsenal, and his coach is a clown.
If they want any chance of this transfer working out they need better players around him. White was okay for Brighton last season, but he isn't an outstanding player who will change Arsenal's fortunes on his own. I've said it before and it's not even a joke, the Brighton defence he was part of is better than this Arsenal one, and it's not particularly close.
If they want any chance of this transfer working out they need better players around him. White was okay for Brighton last season, but he isn't an outstanding player who will change Arsenal's fortunes on his own. I've said it before and it's not even a joke, the Brighton defence he was part of is better than this Arsenal one, and it's not particularly close.
Love Island Lindelof
On today's evidence he isn't fit to lace Lindelof's boots
He’s been great for Arsenal so far, apart from his first game
He is good
Great for your fantasy team you mean.
Not particularly, in real life
Joke, he's doing well.
Fair dos. I just remember a lot of people were taking the p*ss that they paid the same as we paid for Sicknote Varane. It’s not looking so daft now.
Oh it's easy to say now isn't it. I remember when you guys were calling him the Love Island Lindelof 
Are you suggesting he’s on the same level as Varane?
He's fitter than Varane at least. Helps when you can play a few games in a row and get some form going.
Not really, although there has not been much in it this season, and White is quite a bit younger so you have to factor that into value as well
Forget Ben White, Gabriel is the main man just now, & he's just been called up to the Brazilian National team.