‘Quite frightening what Anthony Elanga might be capable of doing with Alexander Isak’ – Arun Verma | OneFootball

Music to our ears, as Arun Verma declares; ‘Quite frightening what Anthony Elanga might be capable of doing with Alexander Isak at Newcastle United.’

Verma is a BBC Nottingham presenter with plenty of experience of watching the exciting winger these past couple of seasons at Nottingham Forest.

Friday night seeing Newcastle United finally make the official announcement that Anthony Elanga is a United player now.

The BBC Nottingham presenter stating; ‘So when you’ve got a player who can play on either flank, score with either foot, you have got someone that can cause a lot of problems.’

Anthony Elanga and Alexander Isak already have a close friendship and playing relationship with the Sweden national side, now set to work together day in day out in training under Eddie Howe at Newcastle United, it is mouthwatering to think how good this is going to be for NUFC.

“When Forest bought Anthony Elanga, they bought him as a bit of a raw talent.

“People had seen what he was capable of at Manchester United but it wasn’t working for him.

“He needed to be coached, he needed to be understood a little bit more and he came to Forest, and he got given that opportunity. It was very similar to the Callum Hudson-Odoi situation of getting these players that people know are talented and saying ‘come on, try and create your craft and hone it in and see what we can do’.

“Elanga arrived with bags of personality – frightening pace not only without the ball but with it as well – and not only that, he can finish, he can cross, he’s got trickery in his locker but also, he doesn’t know which foot is his best foot.

“So when you’ve got a player who can play on either flank, score with either foot, you have got someone that can cause a lot of problems.

“You look at Chris Wood’s goals from last year and a lot of that came from Elanga being able to split the lines so, it’s quite frightening to think what he might be capable of doing with his Swedish counterpart [Alexander Isak] at Newcastle.”