Dear Emmanuel Adebayor
By: Abby | August 12th, 2008If you’re serious about getting back into the hearts of the fans, tomorrow is an excellent time to start. Not only is it a Champions League qualifier, always a potential banana skin, but we’re without a midfield and could definitely use some of your goals.
For those of you who don’t read links, basically it says that most of our starters/potential starters are injured. Cesc Fabregas is a recent addition to a list that already contained Abou Diaby, Samir Nasri, and long-term placeholders Tomas Rosicky and Eduardo. Oh, and Kolo Toure and Philippe Senderos are also out.
What that means in real terms is that we’re likely to see a midfield that’s mostly young enough to date my sister without me getting upset. And Eboue.
It’s worrying, to be sure. The positive sign is that a similar team, minus our first-choice defenders (3 of 4 who should start tomorrow), kept Sevilla to a draw just a few days ago. And not only first choice of defenders, but first choice of attackers as well. A similar scoring draw would be okay- not ideal, but not a tragedy either.
I’ve touched on FC Twente a bit already, but since this is theoretically a match preview, let’s talk about them. They had some great recent seasons in the Dutch league, but they lost their manager and captain over the summer. (And they brought in Steve McClaren to replace him, which doesn’t even seem worth mentioning any more.) Their pre-season record is decent- wins over Olympiakos and Ankaraspor, although a 0-0 draw against Arminia Bielefeld is nothing to be proud of. They’re also missing their top scorer Blaise Kufo, who’s suspended.
Basically, though, I’m hoping we just get through this without embarrassment. The next leg is in two weeks and we should have a midfield- and hopefully midfield reinforcements- by then.
Until then, Ade, we’re counting on you.
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don’t worry he will deliver.
you can’t blame him if he wanted to leave arsenal when you have bigger more prestigious club willing to give more money for your services
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Its ridiculuous that Wenger has not signed a midfielder to replace Flamini yet, this game is making me more nervous than it should.
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Prestige had nothing to do with it, money did. Arsenal won’t overspend, Milan, Barca, etc. would gladly send a dump truck filled with money to the Adebayor residence.
Wenger has earned the benefit of the doubt for me, Kelly. I agree that it’s strange that he hasn’t signed another midfielder, but it is possible that player is already on the squad. Wenger has gotten it done for long enough to get the benefit of the doubt for me.
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