I like Myles Lewis-Skell of Arsenal. The attitude leaves him and that is why I think he will be a real player.
He presented a strong performance during the 5-1 defeat of the Arsenal of Manchester City last weekend, which included him to imitate Erling Haaland's goal after extending his team's leadership.
I love attitude in all areas of life, and not only in the world of football. The people who go out and say: 'This is me. I'm going to do this. I also like to see players who have b ****** s.
But I have to say that, after having seen that celebration, I think he needs to put his neck.
At 18, it is a bit early to go to the way to imitate a player like Haaland, someone who has achieved great things in our league.
Wait until you won some things in our game, son. Just give him a few years. Listen and learn every day until then. Know that someone so young that goes on that path is not a good look.
I really like Myles Lewis-Skelly, but he needs to wait until he won some things first
I love Lewis-Skell's trust, but making fun of Erling Haaland is not the way to continue
I like to see the players affirm themselves, but in this case you need to put your neck
Mikel Arteta has built a really good team that is still a couple of best strikers to challenge Liverpool to be the best.
Those strikers are the most difficult to find. The most important ingredient in the construction of a winning team, and much the missing ingredient of the Arsenal.
Put Alexander Isak of Newcastle United in that Arsenal team, because he is the player who wants to buy this summer, and you are looking at a team that would be the finished article and ready to have in his hands to either large trophies.
The Semifinal of the Club Cup this week demonstrated my point. Yes, Arsenal was defeated by Newcastle United, but for me they were the best team.
Statistics never come to tell the complete story, of course, but Arsenal had a 68 percent possession in that game, 69.5 percent possession in the first leg and still came out 4-0 together because not They had anyone to put the ball on the net through those 180 minutes.
Arsenal should have had those games. One day, five against Manchester City go. Three days later they dominate Newcastle and say goodbye.
I assure you that they will have left the thought of St James 'Park:' How have we not gone through two legs? 'They cannot afford that inconsistency.
It is the fundamental difference between them and Liverpool. My old club has better goals, which means they don't have to play well to win games and depend less on pieces. But without those strikers, Arsenal has to play well to win games.
The Arsenal will have left St James 'Park thinking' How have we not happened? '
The gunners should have had both legs against Newcastle but they had no scorers
They spent £ 65 million in June 2023 to take Kai Hvertz del Chelsea, believing that Mikel could make him a better player. Well, I'm afraid that has not happened. Hvertz has not improved. He simply is not the answer to them.
I am not surprised that Mikel has left this week and said he is disappointed with his club's business in the transfer window. The fact that Arsenal tried to buy Ollie Watkins from Aston Villa in the last Knockings of the winter transfer window tells you how bad a striker wanted.
If Arsenal had completed the initial price of more than 60 million for that 29 -year -old player in the window, and before Jhon lasts sold to Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia, they could have received it. If that had demonstrated the difference between them to win the title or be the almost men again, they would have felt that the price was worth it.
For them to make a last minute offer as that tells you that Mikel was desperate. Really desperate. When they get the right striker or the strikers, that club will be a force for anyone and a Temer club. Until then, when it comes to the title, I fear that they look like a nearby failure.
Why the Champions League returns to England
It would not judge any of the players that Manchester City has just spent more than 180 million, between now and the end of the season.
Everything will be about the next season for them. The city's priority will only return to the horse, dig results and be in the Champions League next year.
But despite the fact that they play Real Madrid in the first play-off game of the two-legged champions League on Tuesday, he would be a brave man to bet on City in that competition and possibly win it.
There is no one out there that Liverpool, Arsenal with a little luck in front of the goal, or Manchester City, if they appear the night, should be afraid. I see that the Champions League is in an English trophy cabinet, at the end of the season.
New Man City signing Abdukodir Khusanov had a difficult trip in his debut against Chelsea, but I won't judge him
Omar Marmoush is part of an expenses of £ 180 million, and can still help City to the glory of the Champions League at the end of the season
What Mainoo is still missing
I was not surprised to listen to Ruben Amorim to say that he felt that Kobbie Mainoo was not “comfortable” with the defensive side of his game in the center of the field.
I said in these pages last June that from the young harvest of players from the center of the field of England, Adam Wharton of Crystal Palace had a much better understanding of the defensive duties in that role than Mainoo.
Mainoo is striking because it is very good in the ball, it moves, it appears to the left and the right, but it still has no sense of danger, and empties the midfield area too easily.
I was lucky, because I went to the equivalent of Oxbridge football for my education in football, with Joe Fagan, Ronnie Moran and Bob Paisley. It was not too difficult for me to understand the defensive obligations and I got it almost immediately.
Kobbie Mainoo does not understand all the disciplines of her position, but she is only 19 years old
Liverpool's assistant coach Joe Fagan said he had no doubt about my defensive duties
The game in which the penny fell completely was against Nottingham Forest in the second leg of our match of the first round of the Europe De Forest scored his second goal.
Joe left me silent after the game and said: 'You know what you did wrong, right?' I replied: 'right?' He pierced it with me.
It was a roll without being a roll. Both he and Bob had a way to deliver them. I learned a lesson that night. 'Never do that here again, son'.
Mainoo does not understand all the disciplines of the position, but he is only 19 years old. It can be developed, with adequate orientation and instruction.
Everyone greets 'the doctor'
I was pleased to see that a mural to my former teammate of Liverpool David Johnson, a great server for my old club and for Everton, was presented near Anfield on Thursday.
'The doctor', as we knew him, was a jewel of human being, without a bad bone in his body. We call it 'the doctor' because he always wore this leather bag with priests and potions for a hangover, a bad stomach or anything else. We never need a doctor!
In my early days, I remember caughting him several times in training from the beginning and he asked Ronnie: “Do you have an AF license ***** to kick people in training”?
David 'The Doc' Johnson was a jewel of human being, without a bad bone in his body
The doctor and I congratulate Ronnie Whelan (right) after his late draw in our final victory of the 1982 League Cup over Tottenham in Wembley
That stayed! The doctor obtained a ruthless stick with the fraglais pronunciation of 'License', in the style of Peter Sellers on the return of the movie Pink Panther!
I can also remember having played a game in Anfield one day and be dispossessed. When the ball was extinguished, I was looking for someone to blame my additional touches and began to tell the players we had in the field.
I could only reach 10. The doctor had left the field for a call of nature! Every day in training I was in him and every day of the game, he gave his luck.
It was a great servant of Liverpool and Everton. Both clubs will remember it with affection on the night of the last Good Derby on Wednesday.