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Yessicajax wrote:

NANNY RED wrote:This post may get slated and laughed at but i dont give a cause its my opinion on Babel

When i first seen the kid play i coulndt for the life of me think who he reminded me of when he was younger. And now that ive seen him a few times and watched his movement and pace and the way he likes to cut inside i know who it is.

A young Thiery Henry ( ill plug my ears now at the abuse im gonna hear). If you look at Henry when he first came to Arsenal very similar style of play. I would have Babel in the same role that Wenger gave to Henry attacking from the left.

If this kid developes anything like what Henry did when Wenger put him in that position we could have a monster in the making.

Babel is gonna be way better then Henry...trust me on that. He just must play more!!!
and now just 10 minuts!!Babel Kicks
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NANNY RED wrote:

Yessicajax wrote:

NANNY RED wrote:This post may get slated and laughed at but i dont give a cause its my opinion on Babel

When i first seen the kid play i coulndt for the life of me think who he reminded me of when he was younger. And now that ive seen him a few times and watched his movement and pace and the way he likes to cut inside i know who it is.

A young Thiery Henry ( ill plug my ears now at the abuse im gonna hear). If you look at Henry when he first came to Arsenal very similar style of play. I would have Babel in the same role that Wenger gave to Henry attacking from the left.

If this kid developes anything like what Henry did when Wenger put him in that position we could have a monster in the making.

Babel is gonna be way better then Henry...trust me on that. He just must play more!!!
and now just 10 minuts!!Babel Kicks
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I only said he reminded me of a young Henry hes got a long way to go yet love before he can be considered anywere near as good.

I hope your right though in what your saying about him gonna be better i havnt seen enough of him yet to come to that conclusion

I did!!!  Babel

EddieC wrote:I think Torres & Babel could work well in theory against certain opposition, but in practice it probably wouldn't be so successful. If it were to work it would be against teams like Reading, Boro or Wigan (Paul Jewell era) as they are teams that aren't the greatest but still have a go. They defend with a high line which gives pacey players an area to run into, and in these circumstances a Torres/Babel partnership should work beautifully. However if a team sits back then having two pacey strikers won't work so well, you need someone like Crouch who encourages the defence to play higher up the pitch to counter his threat.

The danger is that teams like Reading who do defend with a high line will just sit back the second they see two pacey players on the teamsheet, IMO it's better to have two contrasting players which makes it a lot harder to defend against.