Ainsley Maitland-Niles

[John rayner]

2 hours ago, smudger63 said:

I just can't see any reason why we would want him, makes no sense at all to me. 

Madders isn't go to downgrade ,so niles can stay at arsenal, 

[Ric Flair]

4 hours ago, when_you're_smiling said:

Interesting reading Sam Allardyce’s comments on him about his spell at West Brom. 
 

“I think there is just one thing missing. It’s the same that he and Conor Gallagher need to work on - it’s more goals. They need to score, they need to chip in. They’re up and down, they’re box to box, they can get to the edge of the box and in the box. They can get chances but they need to try and improve their finishing if they can.

 

“Ainsley has done the job we asked him to do, he’s played where he wanted to play, he’s made a big contribution. The one thing missing has been those goals that we ultimately needed.”
 

 

Basically decent but needs to score and create more goals, which is basically what everyone was saying about Maddison a year or two ago and he did so, particularly at the start of last season.
 

Losing Maddison and bringing him in would feel like a step back and Maddison has more potential anyway.

 

If Maitland-Niles was that desperate to play centre midfield he went to West Brom, surely he wouldn’t want to come to us anyway given our options there. 

Maddison has always been creative though as a player at all levels. I wonder what level AMN would need to drop down to to hit double figures for goals and assists? I reckon it would be semi professional level at best.

[Saxondale]

If he wants to join us to be fifth choice right back then fine. Otherwise nah.

[majaco]

There are few available places on the squad.   There must be more suitable options than AMN