[Rozay]

I have confidence that he will get enough games. I rate him highly, and the likes of McTominay and Eriksen will be non-factors, as they should be in the long run for any top prospect looking to break through. He and Mainoo are top talents, and a lot of the several midfielders we have are not. No point just listing names for names sake. That’s the name of the game if you want to make it at top clubs. All this ‘he’s 8th choice’ is nonsense I suspect. You don’t only play when a club has nobody in your position.

 

[Mickson]

I have confidence that he will get enough games. I rate him highly, and the likes of McTominay and Eriksen will be non-factors, as they should be in the long run for any top prospect looking to break through. He and Mainoo are top talents, and a lot of the several midfielders we have are not. No point just listing names for names sake. That’s the name of the game if you want to make it at top clubs. All this ‘he’s 8th choice’ is nonsense I suspect. You don’t only play when a club has nobody in your position.

Based on what? We've already seen that McTominay is the guy for him. Putting him on for the last 15 minutes when we are defending for our lives at home to relegation folders. Hannibal won't play any meaningful games.

 

[mav_9me]

This is like the time Ole convinced Lingard, Henderson, VdB that they would be given a chance (costing us tens of millions in transfer fees). In reality he won't get a chance at all this season as ETH is risk averse and will be constantly playing his best team to try to keep up with the pack and win smaller trophies.

Could not agree more.

Players ahead of mejbri: Casemiro, Bruno, Mount, Mainoo, Amrabat, Eriksen, McT. So 8th choice? We can't sell McT and make him 7th choice? Why does he want to keep him?

Extremely short term thinking.

 

[TwoSheds]

I feel like Eriksen gets disrespected on here. We looked an absolute shambles without him so far this season.

 

[King7Eric]

His agent is doing him a great disservice if he isn't agitating for a loan right now. We hardly ever win any games comfortably where we can play youngsters for the last 10-15 mins, and he's not going to be starting games. He needs a move if he's to make anything out of this season.

 

[FerociousCorgis]

Could not agree more.

Players ahead of mejbri: Casemiro, Bruno, Mount, Mainoo, Amrabat, Eriksen, McT. So 8th choice? We can't sell McT and make him 7th choice? Why does he want to keep him?

Extremely short term thinking.

i mean hopefully EtH is thinking by end of season he will pass eriksen perhaps, as eriksen is def aging out quickly it seems (to me at least). Then mctominay gone at some point hopefully as well. So i guess by then he would have bruno, mount, mainoo, and arambat as the other 4 with mejbri being in that same range. Just trying to be positive because im also frustrated we are keeping shite like mctominay here instead of just getting similar production out of someone much younger who could develop into a better player

 

[Trex]

Could not agree more.

Players ahead of mejbri: Casemiro, Bruno, Mount, Mainoo, Amrabat, Eriksen, McT. So 8th choice? We can't sell McT and make him 7th choice? Why does he want to keep him?

Extremely short term thinking.

Add Gore who was on the bench ahead of him last game. He should find a good loan at a top flight club. This time next year Casemiro and Eriksen would be a year older and if he has had a decent loan he could stake a claim.

 

[Ace of Spades]

Personally think he should be given a chance based on pre-season where he was one of the better performers, whether he will get a chance is another story.

Not sure why we have blocked the loan, unless ETH loses his risk averse approach, can't see him getting time here. Even with Mount injured, there is Bruno, Casemiro, Ericksen, McT, VDB and now Amrabat who are senior players ahead of him.

If he gets no minutes and wastes his time, then this is a poor decision.

 

[FerociousCorgis]

Add Gore who was on the bench ahead of him last game. He should find a good loan at a top flight club. This time next year Casemiro and Eriksen would be a year older and if he has had a decent loan he could stake a claim.

yeah this would prob be the best approach overall. Just make it clear to mejbri that he has a real chance to be a starter next season/play significant minutes. Not having to spend 100 plus million with our shit scouting/transfer network on a casemiro/eriksen replacement would be awesome. (assuming mainoo progresses this season in a positive and meaningful way)

 

[Big Ben Foster]

Meh, sending players on endless loans never works out for us anyway.

Think he'll ultimately be sold - probably not today, but next summer.

 

[FrankDrebin]

I think Hannibal needs to move on though, on loan or permanently.
Must be slightly disheartening that, not only does he need to compete with some top experienced individuals, but also Mainoo and now possibly Gore are above him in the pecking order.

 

[dutchred]

I think Hannibal needs to move on though, on loan or permanently.
Must be slightly disheartening that, not only does he need to compete with some top experienced individuals, but also Mainoo and now possibly Gore are above him in the pecking order.

Why does he need to move on? Last Year ETH kept Mainoo at the first team all season but hardly used him but was getting him ready for the first team. I see the same happenning to Mejbri and Gore this year.

 

[Gandalf]

Add Gore who was on the bench ahead of him last game. He should find a good loan at a top flight club. This time next year Casemiro and Eriksen would be a year older and if he has had a decent loan he could stake a claim.

I would not read too much into that. Hannibal was left out of all squads last weekend because he was potentially leaving on loan, I do not think Gore is ahead of him in the managers thinking yet. We do have the injuries to Mount and Mainoo at the moment creating room in the squad and I am not really sure that McTominay will be used other than as a defensive sub to shore things up like he was in the last match. I would imagine the feeling is let him try and force his way into the picture in the run up to Christmas and he can always leave in the January window if it is not working out.

 

[FrankDrebin]

Mainoo was 17 yrs old, of course he wasn't going to feature.

Mejbri, at 20, needs to continue his trajectory in getting valuable game time under his belt. He got it last year at Birmingham and he needs that to continue.

He's got too much competition infront of him.

 

[AltiUn]

I think he'll get chances by pure virtue of being the best fit for ten Hag's stupid double AM midfield.

 

[Adnan]

Add Gore who was on the bench ahead of him last game. He should find a good loan at a top flight club. This time next year Casemiro and Eriksen would be a year older and if he has had a decent loan he could stake a claim.

There was reports going around that Hannibal missed the game with Forest due to picking up a knock.

 

[Trex]

There was reports going around that Hannibal missed the game with Forest due to picking up a knock.

OK but that will still only put him ahead of Gore. I think a loan is the best for him given the options ahead of him.

 

[SAFMUTD]

Players with multiple loans tend to not make it here. The ones that actually do have stayed without loans.

Rashford, McTominay, Garnacho come to mind. Sad truth is you're either good enough or youre not hardly any loans end up working out.

Hannibal won't make it here, he's 20 already I'm know that's still young but he's not even a rotation player at this point.

 

[Rozay]

Based on what? We've already seen that McTominay is the guy for him. Putting him on for the last 15 minutes when we are defending for our lives at home to relegation folders. Hannibal won't play any meaningful games.

Based on his quality, which I expect him to show in his initially limited opportunities, and then again in his more generous ones.

 

[Big Ben Foster]

Players with multiple loans tend to not make it here. The ones that actually do have stayed without loans.

Rashford, McTominay, Garnacho come to mind. Sad truth is you're either good enough or youre not hardly any loans end up working out.

Hannibal won't make it here, he's 20 already I'm know that's still young but he's not even a rotation player at this point.

Agreed. Loan limbo doesn't work. There are some exceptions but the vast majority of the time, you either break right through or you don't make it at all.

 

[Cantonagotmehere]

I feel like Eriksen gets disrespected on here. We looked an absolute shambles without him so far this season.

Last game he was great. Competition is good for everyone.

 

[In Rainbows]

Players with multiple loans tend to not make it here. The ones that actually do have stayed without loans.

Rashford, McTominay, Garnacho come to mind. Sad truth is you're either good enough or youre not hardly any loans end up working out.

Hannibal won't make it here, he's 20 already I'm know that's still young but he's not even a rotation player at this point.

I would hardly use McTominay as following the same route. He was the same age as current Hannibal. If anything, the loan puts him ahead of that 20 year old McTominay.

 

[Ali Dia]

He’ll be loaned out in January after seeing a few minutes in the league cup as a sub. Pointless.

 

[mav_9me]

I feel like Eriksen gets disrespected on here. We looked an absolute shambles without him so far this season.

I would love an Eriksen with legs. But he clearly doesn't have the legs for CM. Maybe at home against the bottom half clubs. But against not many other teams. Which is still great as a squad option.

 

[izec]

Stupid to stay. Should have pushed for a move.

 

[Lay]

Going to rot in the reserves and end up being sold to somewhere like Nantes next season

 

[AshRK]

Poor move to keep him. Reason we sell bad is we just keep players and let them rot in the bench aka Pellestri and not Mejbri. I also don't think he is that good like some say but should have loaned out to say a luton or somewhere else and we could have sold him for 15 to 20m depending on his performance. Now we will sell him for 5 odd million unless he surprises and has a solid season.

 

[Highfather_24]

He’ll be loaned out in January after seeing a few minutes in the league cup as a sub. Pointless.

This.

 

[SAFMUTD]

I would hardly use McTominay as following the same route. He was the same age as current Hannibal. If anything, the loan puts him ahead of that 20 year old McTominay.

Also McTominay should had never made it here tbh. He's below what we should demand from a youngster to make it here. He's a strange case as he was never highly rated as a youngster nor he has made anything to make us think he has potential to be anything superior to what he's been.

 

[Adnan]

McTominay hasn't travelled with the team to London but Hannibal is in the squad along with Dan Gore.

 

[sglowrider]

McTominay hasn't travelled with the team to London but Hannibal is in the squad along with Dan Gore.

He has precisely the level of energy you need to clog up Arsenal's middle. But I suspect ETH doesn't have the minerals to play the kid at the Emirates.

 

[OrcaFat]

On the bench today. Could get on if Eriksen runs out of gas.

 

[Trequarista10]

He'll get games, unsure why people were panicking. He is (or has a chance to establish himself as) 4th choice number 8/number 10 behind Bruno, Mount and Eriksen. Given we're seemingly only going to play one DM, this means he'll get plenty of minutes over the season with injuries, suspensions and when we're playing two games a week.

 

[sglowrider]

On the bench today. Could get on if Eriksen runs out of gas.

Not if but when

 

[OrcaFat]

Not if but when

So true.

 

[jesperjaap]

I have confidence that he will get enough games. I rate him highly, and the likes of McTominay and Eriksen will be non-factors, as they should be in the long run for any top prospect looking to break through. He and Mainoo are top talents, and a lot of the several midfielders we have are not. No point just listing names for names sake. That’s the name of the game if you want to make it at top clubs. All this ‘he’s 8th choice’ is nonsense I suspect. You don’t only play when a club has nobody in your position.

Agree on your sentiment of the two players. Mainoo is obviously much younger but I think Hannibal has a vey similar level of ability, jsut the Birmingham loan where he looke dok to me has people on his back, like they did when Amad was at Rangers.

However, I am not sure Hannibal gets opportunities at all personally, much like Pellestri last season.

For me that would be a shame, he has had very veyr limited game time so he actually may not be good enough for this level or ready, without chances we just dont know....however when I think of the profile of player we need for a number 8 in our side, both Hannibal and Mainoo fit that for me far more than Mount, Eriksen and Arambat personally

 

[top1whoisman]

Good to see him starting again after the lack of minutes in the World Cup. His fifth start in Tunisia’s sixth AFCON qualifier. Needs the minutes too.

 

[Maurice Setters Training]

I hope his teammates pass to him a bit more now. I am biased in his favour, I admit. But in the games I saw, he often seemed to be on the edge of the box creating intelligent passing options while his teammates ignored him and went direct.

 

[jesperjaap]

He’ll be loaned out in January after seeing a few minutes in the league cup as a sub. Pointless.

Fear this is what will happen. We all know he is talented, we all know he has temparament problems, none of us know ih get is good enough for this level of football or the club.....as he isnt playing, froget preseason, forget his loan, the only way we find out if he is good enough is if he gets opportunities and I want to see him get them as think he has the right skill set to play in our midfield plans and I also think most of the other options for number 8.....dont

 

[Adnan]

I watched the game live on Bein Sports and he did assist the first goal which was headed into his own net by the Botswana player direct from a corner kick.