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Carl Jenkinson Contract Typifies the Way Arsenal do Business
By Josh Sippie
If you are not going to use a guy, you sell him. It just makes sense. When you look at Carl Jenkinson’s situation, on the surface, it would be hard to blame Arsenal if they were to sell the right back, seeing as how Hector Bellerin, Mathieu Debuchy and Calum Chambers are all clamoring for the position.
But instead of selling Jenksinon, Arsenal locked him into a new five-year contract and loaned him back to West Ham. Genius? Yes, genius.
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Arsenal is known for the loyalty they show towards their players. They go out of their way to maintain good relationships with anyone who passes through their ranks. It is more so a family than a team. These guys all grew up within the same system, they are all friends and they all root for each other.
You can not just sell that.
And Arsenal did not. In a typical piece of Arsenal business, this five-year deal that has been reported by SkySports is a brilliant move. First of all, given the road block facing Carl Jenkinson at right back, it had to have taken a massive amount of negotiations to convince Jenkinson to stay. He is older than both Bellerin and Chambers so his potential move to snag the right back position looks almost unattainable. But because of this family-style loyalty, Jenkinson had the faith in Wenger to commit his future to Arsenal and immediately leave his childhood club behind (temporarily, again) to return to West Ham.
You do not see those kinds of moves on many other teams. The solution is usually to sell the guy and purchase someone later if the need arises, but Arsene Wenger is treating Carl Jenkinson with respect because of the loyalty he has shown Arsenal, and that mutual respect will pay off.
After all, it has in the past. Look at how superb Aaron Ramsey is playing nowadays. That play would not have been possible if Wenger did not maintain faith in the Welsh midfielder through all the criticism after the horrific injury. That faith led Ramsey to accept being played out of position and in many ways, thrive in it.
The same applies for Francis Coquelin. Who would hang onto a guy that long when he has shown very little to lead us to believe that he could ever be a Premier League star? Arsene Wenger would. And I would say it paid off.
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Hanging onto Carl Jenkinson makes so much sense from an Arsenal standpoint. Consider that Mathieu Debuchy is turning 30 this month and Calum Chambers is going to be a center back. All of a sudden, two or so years from now, Arsenal only have one right back in Hector Bellerin.
Suddenly Carl Jenkinson has a chance. Plus, he has a size advantage over Bellerin that Wenger will most certainly find useful. He can even form a decent little partnership at right back, feeding off of that internal competition that Arsenal value so much.
Arsenal and Carl Jenkinson are both going to benefit from this deal. It is just a matter of time.
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