Former Tottenham manager Tim Sherwood doesn’t think Dani Ceballos is strong enough for the Arsenal squad.
He has, instead, called on Mesut Ozil to take Ceballos’s place on the field. Sherwood insists that Dani Ceballos’s weakness shall be found out this season.
Speaking in an interview quoted by Metro, Sherwood said: “Ceballos in my opinion is average.
“I think he’s too weak for the Premier League and I think he’ll get found out this year.
“I think they need a little bit more guile in there. You need a player in there like Mesut Ozil in that middle of the pitch.
“When teams are scared of the pace of [Bukayo] Saka and [Pierre-Emerick] Aubameyang and [Alexandre] Lacazette and they want to defend deep where’s the guile where’s the player who is going to open the teams up. Ozil is the man to do that.
Although Arsenal have added Gabriel Magalhaes and William Saliba to their back squad, Sherwood doesn’t think that’ll be enough.
He added: ‘For me they are still short defensively. Centre backs, it’s always going to be their problem. They build from the back which is great, some of them can play, some of them can’t defend.’
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