Quote from: Sakanwa on August 16, 2023, 11:15:15 PM

Quote from: Leviathan.007 on August 16, 2023, 10:54:45 PM

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain finally left premier league teams and in the next season he is going to play for Beşiktaş in Turkey I'm not sure why Chamberlain choose Beşiktaş, because this player is still young he is 29 years old player which means he can play for the top teams in Europe for years but choosing Beşiktaş doesn't make sense for him.
Chamberlain joined Liverpool from Arsenal in 2017 for 42m and he played 146 games for this team, but after 2019 he but injured and he couldn't play in many games for his team.

Chamberlain was one of the best players at Arsenal back them that he was still an Arsenal player,he was so skillful and quick that I thought he would be a world class player some day,but after he was sold out,things started being different for him,he went to Liverpool where he wasn't seeing regular game time again,he was kept on the bench to be a bench warmer there till injury started hitting him.I can actually say that Liverpool did not really favour him because he is 29 going to 30 now meaning that he is no longer at the age where we would say he still has much to produce,he is getting to the climax of his football career and therefore he has very little to offer in a team now.Nevertheless,let's wish him the best of luck at his new club.

I think a player who has been playing at the top level of competition, does generally have good things to provide for the club, even at 29/30 years of age. But in this case, I think Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain was too worried that if he continue playing in the top level of competition, he will actually get injured more and more. I think that the injuries actually affected him psychologically as well as physically. That’s why he is choosing to play in a competition, that is probably not that hard. But he could have also gone to the Saudi league as well.

Anyway, I think we have to respect players decisions. After all, we have seen really good players retire at the age of 28 before (Marco Van Basten).