While Jack Wilshere was playing, things weren’t always as they are in North London, even though Arsenal currently holds the bragging rights. The former Gunners great has now revealed why it was so challenging to play against Tottenham Hotspur, highlighting a specific individual who caused issues.
Due to physical problems, Wilshere’s career never fully reached its potential and should have. In fact, he was forced to leave his beloved Arsenal in order to pursue prospects with a first team.
Now that he’s back at Arsenal, he’s coaching the Under-18 team, and things are going really nicely for him.
You couldn’t get the ball off Mousa Dembele
However, recalling his time as a player for the Gunners, Wilshere remembered finding it extremely tough to grab the ball off Mousa Dembele at the Spurs.
Speaking about the Premier League’s top midfield players, Wilshere gave Steven Gerrard acclaim before explaining why Dembele posed the greatest challenge of them.
“He [Gerrard] would be up there, but it would be Mousa Dembele,” he stated to Sky Sports. I detested competing with him. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t place Dembele there because, when it came to possession, he wasn’t as good or as committed as Gerrard. But when in control, such as when removing the ball from him
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Although we all knew Mousa Dembele was a special player, the amount of teammates and rivals who have praised him since he left Spurs is additional evidence that we had one of the league’s most technically proficient midfielders and that we made the wrong decision in letting him go.
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