Lexi was asked about how he was finding it easy to adapt to his new centre-forward role, and obviously where do we all go when we want to know something? We Google it of course! And that is what Alexis did. “I like it as a centre forward because I can get involved in the play more,” he said. “I have the chance to drop deep a little bit more and that means I can link up with my team-mates more.
“[The manager] is the one who decides, he’s the one who changes things around and decides where we play. He asked me to play there so I said fine – I looked up some videos on the internet to see how I needed to adjust my movement and I’ve been adapting since then.”
It is certainly an interesting outlook. Personally I would have thought the training ground (perhaps with people like Thierry Henry showing you a thing or two.. Doh!) would be a bit better than Google, but hey! It’s working so far!
Now I’m just off to Google “How to be an Arsenal manager – For Dummies!”
Sam P