Lost wrote:I am certainly not claiming any superiority at all. Simply stating facts and figures as evidence a team couldn't care less about having English players.Henry 14th wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2019 8:12 amAnd how so different from Man City, Liverpool, United and Chelsea? All foreign owned, purchased English players with foreign money?Lost wrote: You make a good point Henry as in France's World Cup winning squad, Arsenal had at least...
Wait...hang on a minute.
Back to my original point though rather than petty bickering. The fact Arsenal have failed to blood and improve any English talent is a shocker. All foreign players owned by an American. Real quality English club, that! I'd be ashamed and appalled if Spurs went that way.
Your thinking is channeled towards a team that contains a group of English players that are clearly not good enough at both the domestic and international level.
The real problem here is that The FA are not doing enough at the grass roots to develop and produce enough world class players and therefore we have to settle for average players who are unable to complete at the highest level. It just so happens that a group of those players have yet to win any form of competition and are part of a Spurs team that have again been unable to rise to the challenge of capturing a long awaited trophy.
There is no doubt that this period has seen Spurs play some great football, for that you should rightly be happy about, but the rest of your superiority claims just don’t hold any ground.
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City, Liverpool, United and Chelsea, while foreign owned and a history of buying, or trying to buy, trophies, (Something I totally respect Arsenal for. Bar Ozil's ridiculous salary, they have kept to reasonable spending) they all have players representing England. To not have one player in the squad as a top four team is, like I said, unheard of.
You obviously think this current crop of England players is very poor - especially the Spurs players (not surprising). For Arsenal to be unable to escalate an academy player's talents enough to get a foot in the door of, by your accounts, an obviously crap England squad...is even worse then!
You are right I do think the current crop of English players are poor and besides a lucky draw in the last World Cup they will not get close to winning a major honor any time soon. There are better teams with better players.
I also do not claim that Arsenal are a top 4 team. They have overachieved so far this season and with 8 league matches to go I’m pleasantly surprised they are in contention for a top 4 spot. Credit to the new manager for that and thanks to other teams for slipping up and allowing us the chance.....again.
We have several younger players part of the squad and comfortably qualify for the home grown players rule - with all coming through the academy instead of being bought as a senior player.
If they are not good enough to be part of the England squad in the upcoming friendly then so be it. I don’t think it’s shameful or appalling, there are many other premier league teams whose players have not been selected. You chose to single out Arsenal because you are a Spurs fan. Simple as that.
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). United are a team that I actively dislike albeit much less passionately since that moron Pogba has stopped changing his hair daily, player's social media 'me me me' posts have dwindled and Jose is no longer poisoning the dugout. 
