Oh Look, More Injuries
By: travis | January 8th, 2009As if Arsenal fans didn’t need anymore new injury news, word comes that former skipper Williams Gallas will miss up to three weeks with a hamstring injury. This news comes after learning Silvestre will be out for a few weeks himself. Not good news for a team that has now officially been decimated by the injury bug. What this does is remove any pretense the manager has over the “depth” of his side, with the likes of Alex Song now our third-choice centerback behind Djourou and Toure (assuming the Ivorian maintains his fitness). This latest news hardly makes me want to throw in the towel, rather I just shrug my shoulders and wonder what kind of results this team will produce.
In the column of not depressing news, Super Magazine named Emmanuel Adebayor the African Player of the Year. Not to shabby for Ade as he collects his second award in the same vein – he was named BBC African Footballer of the year a few months ago. While the Togonator hasn’t been quite as white-hot as last season, he’ll no doubt play an important role in any sort of Champions League chances this team has.
Saturday’s match up is against Bolton, and I’m imagining the Wanderers given us all they’ve got. It’s going to be interesting to see what sort of starting XI Arsene sends out there – here’s hoping for three points a bit early. I’ll be back when something positive happens.
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Here’s hoping the boys can score some goals, clean sheets will not be easy to come by. :\
Good for Ade though, a little consistency and he will be unstoppable.
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more injuries, surprise surprise…
so now were down to 2 fit CBs, lets hope Toure and Djourou can play good and stay healthy.
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man, what a nightmare with these injuries!
i am happy to see Ade with this second personal award, he deserves it, and hopefully he will contribute to any chance the team has on trophies.
any news on what i read about Barcelona wanting to buy Cesc and Van Persie?Posted from
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Silvestre sucks anyway, but Gallas hurts us–hopefully Toure can stay healthy so we won’t have to call Gibbs into action. Bolton’s lost 4 of 5, is missing a couple of key players through suspension, and don’t have much offensive skill anyway, so hopefully we’ll manage to play most of the game in their half of the field.
Neither Cesc nor van Persie will leave for Barca, if for no other reason than I doubt they’d get much playing time–van Persie would have to compete with Henry, Eto’o, Messi, and Krkic; Cesc would have to compete with Gudjohnsen, Iniesta, Yaya Toure, and especially Xavi. Not sure where you read that, but it wouldn’t make sense for the players or either team involved.
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Personally I think Barca see Cesc as their long term replacement for Xavi. So I do agree with Martin that Cesc is safe here for now, given that Xavi is playing some of the best football of his life right now.
I think eventually though, in a couple years when Xavi starts to lose the fantastic form he is currently in, Barca will come knocking, and it will be hard for Cesc to resist. I’m not looking forward to that day.
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Gallas is very important and misunderstood player, especially by the media, who gave wenger no choice but to replace him. How many games has he saved for arsenal, bailing the offense out with a 80 min goal from a corner? He was also not the reason why arsenal fell apart last season. He will be missed over the next 3 weeks. Though if he has to get injured at some point this term, its come at the right time, we have bolton, hull, everton, cardiff, and west ham this month. Also, hopefully this war of words between ferguson and benitez will shy attention from our team so they can focus on winning games.
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I agree with the sentiments of Gallas not being as bad as the media/a lot of people make him out to be. He has gaffes that usually lead to goals, however, most of the time off a set piece. Which is poor – because he should hold his mark.
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agree again, gallas saved a lot last season (i remember that gaol at the 80 min vs ManU).
I read that about Cesc and Van P at as.com and a site from Daily Star (or somehting like that)Posted from
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