Arsenal is reportedly considering recalling Marquinhos from his loan spell at Nantes as the Brazilian forward has struggled to secure playing time in Ligue 1.
The Gunners loaned Marquinhos to Nantes in the summer with the expectation that he would gain valuable match experience to aid in his development. Despite assurances from Nantes that he would have significant playing opportunities, the attacker has spent much of the first half of the season on the bench.
Given the limited playing time at Nantes, it is suggested that Marquinhos might benefit more from training with higher-calibre players at Arsenal, even if he is not part of the current first team.
L’Equipe has reported that Arsenal is in discussions to cut short Marquinhos’ loan spell in Ligue 1 and bring him back to the Emirates. However, breaking into the current Arsenal team, competing for the Premier League title with Liverpool, may be challenging for him.
It is anticipated that if another team offers to take him on loan for the second half of the season, Marquinhos might be loaned out again to continue his development.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Marquinhos has a lot of potential and showed that in the few games he played for us, but he will not reach them if he does not play.
So we must get him back and find a better place for him to go to where he will play.
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Just rocking my brain (very hard) to name a single player, a real young talent that was signed by our Sporting Director of the year and turned out to be a good signing by the club.
To be honest, can’t think of one. Could Marquinhos be first? We shall see.
Should be loaned to a club that’s going to give him decent game time when fit.
Poor loan agreement and the team obviously didn’t do an accurate viability analysis if he’s just sitting bench the whole time.
He’ll almost never see a pitch if he comes back, he’s behind Saka which is the last player MA would ever drop and then Nelson. I actually think Marquinhos looks like a real talent, unfortunately for him he’s at the wrong club if he’s wanting to move from fringe player to pushing for a start.
But if he was as talented as you suggest, surely he would have played more for Nantes PJ? Is he any better than some of our Academy products who could suffer the same fate.Compare this to ESR who was a standout on loan to Huddersfield,has done well for England under 21s and get still cannot convince Arteta he is worthy of more game time.The days of Arsenal being the Club to bring through youngsters are long gone I’m afraid.
I rate Maquinhos. He has a great left foot. He can be used as in the RW as an inverted winger or on the LW as a traditional winger. I hope he comes back to us in this window and then MA decides to rotate players and use him.
Rotation along with flexibility of tactics (or lack of in both cases) are 2 aspects that has been MA’s greatest failing as a manager IMO.
OT: Keep an eye on our own academy product Mika Biereth (home grown) on loan at Motherwell who is scoring in the SPL (whilst it is a lower league, many great players from there have come south of the border).
Our own KT (but for injuries) and one dimensional tactics by the manager.
Till the time Arteta is here no most of our youngsters will not be given chances. He doesn’t coach. He is just a checkbook manager.