Archive for August, 2008

Senderos on loan to Milan

Senderos on loan to AC MilanPhilippe Senderos is undergoing a medical today ready to complete his year long loan deal seeing him join AC Milan. The deal is set to be agreed and signed today.

Wenger says that Senderos is not going to get the games he needs with us this season; “He does not get the games here, and so now he can play somewhere and remain in a top-level club,” said Wenger.

Now that we’ve got Silvestre from united you can see why Senderos has decided this will be a good move, Wenger said; “We have Djourou, we have Kolo, we have Senderos, we have Song, Gallas and Silvestre now who can play centre-back so we have a congestion there.”

“We want him to play without losing him it has not been decided yet whether the transfer will be permanent.”

Personally I think that Senderos isn’t up to scratch when it comes to top, top flight Champions league and Premier League games, he just looks too nervous to me and it’s, unfortunately reflected in the quality of his football during these crucial games.

Give Adebayor our backing says Wenger

Adebayor signs new Arsenal contractArsene Wenger says that all Arsenal fans should lay off Adebayor after some fans booed him at the pre-season Emriates cup games.

Wenger said: “We have to get behind him and support him. He is a tremendous force and is of tremendous importance for the team - you want your own fans to be behind him.”

“What happened in the transfer period did not always reflect his deep desire and there was manipulation from agents on both sides, but overall I am positive he will recover.”

This follows the news that Emmanuel Adebayor has now signed a new £80,000 a week, long term contract with Arsenal. The deal should keep him at Arsenal until 2012, but with players these days who knows exactly!?

I think this is great news for us even though Adebayor has been, or seemed to be, a bit under hand in his dealings with other clubs during the summer transfer window.

Then again perhaps you shouldn’t believe everything you read in the press and on football web sites!

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Lawro’s verdict for Arsenal this season!

Arsenal football club

Lawro’s Verdict for Arsenal this season!

I’ve just taken this from here; http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7540723.stm

 Nickname: The Gunners
Ground: Emirates Stadium
Capacity: 60,000
Position last season: Third
Manager: Arsene Wenger (September 1996)

DO YOU AGREE WITH LAWRO?

Lawro’s verdict: The Gunners look a little short of quality to me and I think they might slip from third to fourth this season.

There have been a couple of high profile departures from the club in Alexander Hleb and Mathieu Flamini. New signing Samir Nasri looks like a scaled down version of Hleb and I’m a bit worried about Emmanuel Adebayor, who I think did want to leave over the summer.

We don’t know for sure when Eduardo will be back and although I like the look of youngster Jack Wilshire I think this year might be a little too early for him. It must be a big season for Theo Walcott.

KEY MAN: Cesc Fabregas. A fabulous player who must score plenty of goals from midfield.

Well now - DO I AGREE WITH LAWRO?! Not really to be honest! Just becuase we’ve not spent millions this summer on overrated, overpaid players who are NEVER worth the money clubs have to fork out, doesn’t mean we have no strength in depth.

Just look at all the fuss when Henry left us for Barcelona! OK Henry was/is a great player, one of the greatest if not THE greatest player for Arsenal, but we still did OK without him didn’t we?

If we’d had luck on our side like the lucky, lucky Liverpool in the Champions League I’m convinced we’d have got to the final. Liverpool bascially rolled over and died at Stamford Bridge, what a waste!!!

And come to think of it if United hadn’t relied entirely on the goal scoring of one man, whose name I refuse to write on this web site, then their season would have been a very different one…

Just wait until Eduardo comes back, and until then we’ll have to put up with Adebayor, Theo Walcott, oh and that new Welsh lad, oh well!!…we’ll see.

Wenger insists Adebayor is staying

Adebayor is staying at ArsenalYou might need to turn the volume up a bit when you watch this, the sound quality isn’t the best!

Watch Arsene Wenger talk in a press conference about Adebayor staying with us for next season and interestingly see how he defends Adebayor and stands up for him. Wenger also comments on how he sees other foreign clubs affecting things for Premier League clubs…

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Bischoff signs from Werder Bremen

Amaury Bischoff

We’ve signed an under 21, Portuguese midfielder from Werder Bremen in Amaury Bischoff.

Bischoff has only played a handfull of times for Bremen because of groin injury problems and Wenger says it will take a few months for him to get up to speed with his fitness levels;

“Amaury is a young, promising player who we have taken a gamble on because he has been out for a long time.”

“We have to get him to a very good fitness level.”

“He has talent but we’ll have to wait two or three months to get him competitive. He has had two surgeries on his groin so it is a gamble on his talent.”

Let’s hope Wenger has plucked another Veira from thin air! At least we’re buying young talent again, let’s hope we can keep hold of these players for a good few years…