At the age of 21, 22…basically a player has already established most of his skills… Shooting, passing, crossing, tackling, dribbling, and goal keeping.
As his career moves on his vision, timing, decision making will improve also.
A veteran may have most some speed, strength and stamina, but the experience compensates.
I have asked several times on this site… If there is any famous footballer that had shit/not well developed skills at the age of 21, 22, but suddenly improve significantly at 25, 26 or after???
If your skills are not good at 21, basically you are who you are for the rest of your career.
I couldn’t give a toss about his interests in fashion or whatever hobbies he wants to do outside of football, that is up to him and he can do whatever he pleases.
I do however give a toss about him being a better player when he was 19/20 than he is now, he can’t cross doesn’t know how to position himself defensively & has lost that confidence to take on the game he had when he first broke onto the scene.
I don’t think it matters what he does off the pitch and I trust his integrity to continue putting his football first.
I do however see him as the perfect example of a player who is coasting at the moment. I don’t think for one minute he believes in Wenger anymore, he’s now one of our longest serving players and might benefit the most from a managerial shake-up, with new coaching and pressure on his place in the team
He’s a big talent and that hasn’t just gone away over the space of a few months. Selling him would be a further step back and delay more time before this club is back at the top, basically.
From Bellerin’s point of view yes, good time to jump ship
