Arsenal: No Risk Involved In Jack Wilshere Bournemouth Loan
Arsenal did a shrew piece of business by finding a loan spot for Jack Wilshere to get some fitness. So why is there talk of risk?
Arsene Wenger was equal parts brilliant and ruthless in finding an appropriate loan spot to send Jack Wilshere. The still-relatively-young Englishman will be heading to a Bournemouth side where he will be a centerpiece and a leader – everything he was meant to be at Arsenal.
If everything goes accordingly, Wilshere lasts the entire season, stays healthy, makes a massive impact and learns what it’s like to lead a team and live up to expectations.
The only thing that could possibly go wrong is Jack gets hurt. And since we are all already expecting it, how ‘wrong’ would that even be?
That’s why I don’t understand all the claims that this loan is a massive risk or that Wilshere is risking throwing away his talent. There is no trace of risk or wasted anything with this loan. Not a trace.
Wilshere was never going to fight his way into this Gunner midfield, meaning that the next time he was looking at a good string of games, he wouldn’t be at full match fitness and he’d probably get hurt.
Yet, come next year, Cazorla is probably on his way out, Ramsey is at a decision point and Coquelin is too. The options will be there next year where they aren’t this year.
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At Bournemouth, Wilshere will have all the time he needs. We know how talented that Wilshere is and he knows it too, so there is no risk that he could inexplicably throw his talent away because it doesn’t work like that. How does one just throw talent away? The only imaginable way is to not practice and give up, but that sounds like the exact opposite of Jack Wilshere, whose tenacity hasn’t deadened in the six, injury-ridden years he has spent in North London.
The only other explanation I can think of is the off-chance that Wilshere enjoys his time with the Cherries so much that he elects to stay there, but again, does that sound like Wilshere? Jack has been with Arsenal since he was nine. He loves the club through and through, says that he has never had another home and will always give his everything to make it at with the club of his heart.
No brief loan, even with a good friend like Benik Afobe, is going to take him away from the Emirates.
So what risk is there? Answer: Absolutely none. If there is an injury, nothing is lost, it’s just misfortune. This loan has the capabilities to make Jack Wilshere, but it definitely cannot break him. Not so long as Wenger is at the helm at Arsenal and shoveling fresh opportunities at the guy.
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