Roberto Martínez
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It's Kulusevski, Jokers, Izak and Elanga.
So it's as a national team.
What Jokers is, and I thought Arsenal handpicked.
What he wanted is a player that is always at the space at the back of the centre-halves.
It's not about what he's going to do with his feet in front of him.
It's just if he's got that space and it's the best when he gets 1v1 situations because he's got the power, he uses his body and he's a good finisher.
I always felt that, and probably 20 years ago when you were playing, you knew that the teams that they were competing to win the league, the foreigners were coming to a second, like a bottom 10 team.
And then after two years, they would come to Arsenal, to United.
Because you've got a period where you need to almost find the physicality, adjust to what the league is.
And I find Sesko, Jokres, they are in that period.
Yes.
Yorker is, on top of it, is an incredible psychological task.
When he's been already in this country at Reading, I never got the opportunity to get into a Premier League club.
I had to go to Coventry.
So as a human being, now he's gone to Portugal, comes back.
This is a moment that he needs to, there are many, I think the needs are transitional.
Period.
It's not a player that is going to come in and it doesn't matter how much you paid.
It's going to give you... But he's got the potential to be the leading goal scorer for Arsenal for the next four or five years once he's ready.
And I think the game against Spurs show you what he can do when the space is there and when the style suits him.