Arsene Wenger is renowned as a manager who is an expert in developing young talent, but there is one area of the field where he has struggled to produce homegrown players. For all his coaching ability, Wenger seems to have trouble turning out a top-quality centre-half.
On the evidence of Arsenal’s first three Premier League games, Wenger has an exciting young defender on his hands in the shape of Rob Holding. As impressive as he has been, it’s time to take him out of the firing line—for his own good.
Holding is not the first defender of promise to be under Wenger’s care.