“We also have better players, and the games are different as well”.
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“When you are his age you need to play to keep learning”, Karanka said. Victor Valdes came here [on a free transfer from Manchester United], and I can’t guarantee he would play.
“With Bernardo and Calum we have two really good alternatives. I have spoken to him and he understands that is his best position”.
“I have to be pleased for them but we have to stay on the ground”. “I am really proud Arsenal as a club and Arsène sent him to us”, the Middlesbrough manager added.
“But we have to focus on ourselves and play in our style”. He can play at right-back, centre-back or as a defensive-midfielder.
The 28-year-old completed a three-year deal to Villa which will see him at the club until 2019, while Adama Traore moved in the opposite direction to return to the top-flight with Middlesbrough.
Karanka said: “When I am doing a deal I try to do the best deal”.
This move is the ideal opportunity for Chambers to show what he’s capable of and convince Arsene Wenger he still has a future at Arsenal.
Adomah has become the second Ghanaian at Villa, after joining striker Jordan Ayew and he is expected to play his debut game this weekend when Nottingham Forest come visiting on Sunday.
“I have had a lot of experience with players who have come here and maybe they hadn’t played the games they expected to play, but after coming here they went back to their clubs having lived an unbelievable experience and improving”.
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“It means that the club is doing really well”.
