{"id":6020,"date":"2016-10-20T08:43:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T06:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/?p=6020"},"modified":"2021-08-18T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:09:00","slug":"alex-oxlade-chamberlain-place-at-arsenal-wenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/alex-oxlade-chamberlain-place-at-arsenal-wenger\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;His Place is Here&#8217; says Arsenal manager of forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leading up to the 6-0 drubbing of Bulgarian side Ludogorets in The Champions League on Wednesday night, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger offered words of encouragement to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. <\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old England winger made a rare start at The Emirates on Wednesday and duly scored in the rout of the ragged Bulgarians.<\/p>\n<p>And while there is no doubting the player&#8217;s ability his levels of consistency are often brought into question.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN TO THE TFF PODCAST <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/288944203&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The player himself suggested earlier this season that he may have to assess his options at the end of this campaign. <\/p>\n<p>But there Arsenal manager has moved to assure the player that his place is in North London if he can keep his performance levels up.<\/p>\n<p>Wenger is quoted as saying in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/sport\/football\/arsene-wenger-denies-suggestion-that-alex-oxladechamberlain-will-leave-arsenal-his-place-is-here-a3373456.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The London Evening Standard<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cHe didn\u2019t say that. He said he will consider the situation at the end of the season. That is completely different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can understand, but on the other hand, you buy a young player at 17 years of age, you spend a lot of money, then you would like him to stay at the club.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI think his place is here. We like him. I personally rate him as a player and I hope that he will show that he can have a stable position in the team until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis season he has been similar to Walcott. He has not got rewarded yet. But he is in a similar position because he has worked really hard.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe that the youngster has been at the club for 6 years and he has seldom been a regular in that time. When his form has been good enough to get a run in the team, injuries have regularly stymied his progress.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s played 159 times for Arsenal since his big money transfer in 2011. That averages about 26 appearances per season but most of these have been off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>But he has found form this season with 10 appearances and 3 goals. With a long run in Europe likely on this form for The Gunners, the England winger should expect more starts. <\/p>\n<p>TFF thinks he can be a top player. Arsenal fans: a potential first team regular this season alongside Ozil, Sanchez and Walcott? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Great game  <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/alex-oxlade-chamberlain-place-at-arsenal-wenger\/\" title=\"&#8216;His Place is Here&#8217; says Arsenal manager of forward\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[151,161,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12184,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020\/revisions\/12184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}