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England skipper John Terry has urged his team to look after Jack Wilshere to ensure he reaches his potential as a footballer.Wilshere, 19, is set to start for England against Switzerland on Saturday, despite being pulled out of the Under-21 European Championship due to fatigue.Terry believes if Wilshere is nurtured in the correct way, he could become an England great, providing he doesn’t become burnt-out."He's been different class for us in the last couple of games. I see him as a major part of our set-up here. If we're looking to the Euros next year, he has to be looked after."I see him now as a huge part of our senior set-up. What's happened is unfortunate for the Under-21s, but we need to nurture and look after him."He's obviously disappointed that he's not going [to the Under-21 finals]. But, at the same time, he feels part of the senior set-up. That's the confidence he's brought in. That's encouraging for him as well."I honestly feel we need to look after him - get with him rather than make him feel we're against him, make him feel comfortable in his decision."Not everyone is going to agree, but what he's shown in the last few games has been incredible. The way he glides past players is very much Zola-esque."I don't want to build pressure on him - he is his own player - but I watched him in the Barcelona games and he was gliding through players, confidence in his own half."He shows a huge amount of confidence for someone so young - his ability speaks for itself. For him to play in the Arsenal side at such a young age goes to show what Arsene Wenger thinks about him."For him to make the step up with us and half-cement his place... he has done that well, he could make that place his own by this time next year."England manager Fabio Capello also emphasised the importance of not allowing Wilshere to become burnt-out, but feels one more game will not do any harm."I spoke personally with Arsene, who told me that Wilshere was tired and, because he'd played 50 games, he needed to go on holiday. He told me it's dangerous for a young player to play so many games, for the future."I think one game more he can play without problems. During the training he was really, really good. This is one more game. I'm not concerned at all for this game. During the training he was really good - like the other players."
one more game it is thenwill be subbed if he looks at knackered as he did for us
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England Under 21 head coach Stuart Pearce believes clubs should rest their players so they are not tired for summer international tournaments. Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere and Liverpool striker Andy Carroll were both left out of Pearce's squad for the European Under 21 Championship.Wilshere, who played 49 games for the Gunners last season, was thought to be close to burn-out while Carroll was struggling for fitness.Pearce feels the solution is for clubs to be more considerate to the national sides."We are going to have to look at doing something radically different to what we are doing" He told Sky Sports News: "We are going to have to look at doing something radically different to what we are doing."Say, if Jack Wilshere is very, very tired, leave him out for a month at his club so he is fresh for the summer."Radical, yes, but that might help the national side."It would be very difficult to get a club to do that, there has to be a compromise, I understand that."But across the board, the Spanish do it, the Germans do it, they are all here on bulk."We are probably the one nation out of the eight that is here at the moment with players that have got first-team experience, and we have more missing out of all of those."Those statistics tell you something."
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How that Guy is u21's manager is beyond me
It's unbelievable really.All this talk of bringing the next crop of England internationals through to be more intelligent about the game and in tune with how it's played by the best teams in the world and they put the most glaring example of the 'passion, guts, pride is all you need' school of managers you will ever see.
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Jack Wilshere picks his spot for Arsenal, England and even Great BritainGunners' midfield dynamo prepares for Saturday's match against Switzerland and ponders another disappointing season at the Emirates Jack Wilshere is still 19 but already he radiates authority in an Arsenal side short on leadership. "One hundred per cent it will be a disaster if we don't win a trophy next season," he says. "We know that. The fans feel it. We feel it. We just need to win a trophy."Normally a manager would be straight on the phone to a teenager making such expectation-raising declarations, but Arsène Wenger must know his young English playmaker is right. As he prepared to join the England camp for Saturday's Euro 2012 qualifier against Switzerland at Wembley — scene of Barcelona's demolition of Manchester United over the weekend — Wilshere hummed with a kind of constructive frustration at the collapse across four fronts of Arsenal's campaign."We're a big club and we need to be winning trophies and we need to win them to keep our big players. Sooner rather than later," he said. By "big" names he must mean Cesc Fábregas, who is doubtless more homesick than ever for Catalonia. "He's our best player. In some of our games he has been our best player by a mile and we need to keep our best players if we want to win things. He's the club captain; he likes Arsenal. I'm sure he wants to be at Arsenal. I'm sure if they can reach an agreement then I'm sure he'll want to stay. He needs to stay."But after Saturday's Champions League final, the Camp Nou lure can hardly have faded? Wilshere says: "He's been over in England eight years but Barcelona is his home. It's hard for him so I can understand where he's coming from. But he's the Arsenal captain and he's been great this season and we hope he can be great next season."An obvious virtue in Wilshere's make-up is a lack of fear, in word and deed, and the kind of forthright language he brings to his analysis of Arsenal's six fallow years extends to the psychology of the team. He even pleads guilty to a charge of fragility. "Yeah, I think we are and some of our players would be the first to admit that. We've been too nice in defending. I've heard Bacary Sagna say this year we've been too nice and we have to be a bit more nasty, especially on set-pieces, because we've conceded too many goals from set-pieces."Pushing a good thought down a potentially controversial line, Wilshere also casts an envious look at what he sees as the political pressure other leading sides pile on match officials during games. "It's no use just [Robin] van Persie going because it looks like it's just him having a go at the ref. Man United are the best at it. They get round the referee."If you think this was an action-packed season for Wilshere, next year brings an even bigger array of tests, from ending Arsenal's drought to Euro 2012 with England, for whom he has added a freshness missing from Camp Isolation at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. As a summer of inquests and rebuilding opens at his club, Wilshere is grateful for Wenger's protective stance towards his players but thinks the team should stop hiding behind the manager's loyalty. "It's down to the players he puts on the pitch. He can't run on the pitch and perform instead of us." Why is Wenger so seldom critical of this Arsenal team? "Because he's a good manager he wants to protect his players. But we have to take responsibility."Wilshere has been press-ganged into a semi-midfield holding role for England by Fabio Capello, but will probably establish his fame as a more marauding presence. "My perfect formation would be 4‑3‑3 with one holding and then the two going forward. I would be one of the ones going forward. Like we played against Wales, with Scotty Parker holding and me and Frank Lampard [further forward]."The raised enthusiasm level of Capello's squad can be traced to the introduction of younger players who are free of the fatalism that afflicts the older generation. "It has been hard after the World Cup for England, when it wasn't good and everyone was getting on to them. It wouldn't be a nice place to be. With the last few results since the World Cup we've picked it up, and playing for your country is everyone's dream. It is certainly my dream. I've always wanted to do that. Every time I get in a provisional squad now, I am buzzing."To put on an England top is a dream. Other players feel just the same as I do, especially the younger players — and to play with the experienced players that have been there and done it is great."Saturday's masterclass from Barcelona sent English minds reeling back to the skills and creativity deficit. Among the players now pushing through, Wilshere is the one whose spiritual birthplace looks furthest from Hackney Marshes. "Obviously I look at [spain] and want to play like them because they're the best in the world and won the World Cup. That style of football is the way I like to play," he says. "Yeah, I look at them and want to learn from them."Definitely there are players [coming through]. Josh McEachran is a great player. I hope next year he can break into the England team, like I did this year. If there is one holding, and me and him there. He's still young, so am I, but that would be a good midfield for England.There are players like Ashley Young, and Theo Walcott at Arsenal. He's maturing really well. People say he didn't really find the final ball but this year he's been brilliant for us. He's popped up with some goals. There's Andy Carroll. There's [Jack] Rodwell, Adam Johnson, younger players like John Bostock who haven't really had their chance yet."This season's PFA young player of the year, Wilshere could even pack his 2012 summer with a place in the GB team at the London Olympics. "It's a long way away, but we'll see. If it comes up it's a once-in-lifetime opportunity." But surely Wenger would go loco? Wilshere smiles. "I know."

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He'll draw for that when he fails to land his transfer targets and has to deflect...

As for Wilshere's injury... They say the injury happened while on duty for England, and England passed it off as a minor injury. Arsenal aren't diluted of blame as the current England medical team is the old Arsenal medical team, and why did they take their advice rather than check Jack over before he went on holidays... No doubt it was cos they was going on holiday too...

The problem with the Arsenal medical team is the estimates they make public are terrible, which suggest inept workmen. I know some say its intentional as the club are mindful of the insurance premiums rising and prices of any replacement signings rising too, but fuck off. No club has three players (Wilshere, Vermaelen, Rosicky) that effectively get a year off with the medical team staying constantly puzzled.

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:rofl:

Quality post TF.

Love it when you play the Phd insider of communications, media analytic and professional fly on the wall role.

So tell me professor what is your evidence behind suggesting that Arsenal Medical staff are misinforming public relations on the treatment of employees? can you point to where any beneficial gains are to be gathered through this malpractice and can you point to experience where you've come across such a case before whilst on your closed door detective work throughout The English Premier League.

Thank you sir.

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