Vermaelen injury leaves Wenger desperate for left-back loan deal
It was always on the cards that Arsenal would suffer an injury to one of their centre-backs as all four have to play in every game to cover for the four injured full-backs, and it finally happened yesterday when Thomas Vermaelen suffered a calf strain during yesterday’s win over Queens Park Rangers.
Arsene Wenger admitted after the game that a left-back was now desperately needed for a loan period in January. “We have lost Vermaelen for two or three weeks so I have to look if I can find somebody on loan,” he said.
“It would be stupid for us to drop points because we don’t have a left back,”
“We now have three left backs out. Francis Coquelin came on in this position and did quite well but he is a central midfielder.”
Kieran Gibbs is not expected back until the end of January at least, and Bacary Sagna should not be far behind, but Gooners everywhere will now be desperately hoping that no other centre-backs get injured in the next few weeks.
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Considering another reftback on loan basis can be ideal but that should not eat the cake set aside to bring poldosk
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yes arsenal should bring a left back on loan
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why not try and sign jodi alba?
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Van Persie
Podolski Wilshere Arteta Song Walcott
Santos Vermalaen Koscielny Sagna
Sczesny
Dreams!
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As some leftbacks will soon get out from injuries, to me it is better to opt for a striker like Poldoski if there is only one opportunity
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wayne bridge is the target loanee i really hope this is the beginng of some purchases for arsenal
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We should do what Arsene won’t do : Buy a defensively strong left back of experience. That way .. when Santos regains fitness we would have the option of one or the other according to circumstances. Arsene is hugely loyal – excessively so. He should not worry about Gibbs .. who may never make it and may seldom be fit to play. Gibbs will be better off through just being at the Arsenal and if he does make it big time … he too will return Arsene’s loyalty by leaving us when it suits him. That is how today’s players are.
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please we only need vertonghen great player a replica of vermaelen with great fighting spirit
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Anyone but Wayne Bridge. I don’t think I’m able to build a mental bridge to get over having this guy in the red and white.
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A left back on loan could suite arsenal well. However I feel bringing in a versatile defender or midfielder would suite the club well. As Gibbs has always been and always is injured. We need someone who can play across the backline.
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I thought Armand Traore did really well yesterday lol. Pity Wenger sold him, as he said we have too many full backs!!! Im sure Wenger never considers injuries an beleives we will sail through the season without one player getting injured.
Anyway realistically Wayne Bridge wouldn’t be a terrible signing however he’s English so would want big wages.
Personally id put in a cheeky bit for either Maxwell or Adriano from Barca!!
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So where,s Squillaci as he has tons of experience and is a
mature player,now that Armand Traore has been moved out of
the Emirates,too late for handwringing and other bs,just
play him if he,s still available ?
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sign vertonghen and send gibbs out on 18 month loan
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Coquelin played well there yesterday. I would keep playing him there, because at the same time he is gaining vital experience. I wouldn’t bother with a loan.
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Hector Bellerin Anybody?
I hear he can play full back
and besides wasnt Cesc the same age when he made his Arsenal Debut
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just buy verthonghen,M’Vila and podolski….
SELL—- Squillaci, bendtner,Chamakh and Almunia….
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The folks that gave my formation thumbs-down must be Spuds fans, ha ha!
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4 me wenger shld buy taye 4rm AC Milan it ‘ll hlp very wel pls poldosky is also accepted.
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why hasnt ignasi miqel been given a chance i think he deserves it?got to be better than playing our best cb at left back..who is now injured,DISASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!IF BRIDGE TURNS UP AT THE EMIRATES I WILL PERSONALY WALK THE STREETS OF LONDON FIND HIM AND GIVE HIM A KICK SO HE CANT PLAY LOL
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give a chance to ignasi miquel.. now his turn to show his potential
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Why not do the sensible thing and buy Baines
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well arsene doesnt want to buy another left back because we have 2 already, we defo need one on loan.
i wouldnt mind podolski at arsenal, but everyone are forgetting about chamberlain? this is his time to shine now gervinho has gone, we need an attackive midfielder, someone like gotze, gourcuff spend some MONEY wenger
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happy new year!!!!! to all my gunners!!!!!!!! love every gunner in the world!!! i see light at the end of the tunnel i get a feeling that we will get better as the season goes to the end. they say u never know but i know one thing arsenal will win a cup this season: maybe champions league!!!!!
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taye taiwo?
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Everyone has been critisizing Arhavin lately, but I thought he was great yesterday. He worked off the ball which we haven’t seen for a while, and he played a beautiful pass to RVP for the goal. He would have scored if it hadn’t been for a great block. He rewarded Arsene for putting him in the starting line up.
For the defensive crisis, we do need a full back, but as Arsene thinks, it should be short term, as we have been unlucky with full backs so far. Someone consistent.
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@Vazza
i must have been watching another game…
woulda – coulda – shoulda
one swallow don’t make a summer —- one pass don’t make a player
get rid
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Bridge is useless we should’ve signed baines in the summer leave bridge at city also sign podolski soon as poss and wait until the end of the window
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Bridge is useless we should’ve signed baines in the summer leave bridge at city also sign podolski soon as and dont wait until the end of the transfer window
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get taye taiwo, he wants to leave Milan and is available for £5m. He is a quality LB, really quick and strong. If not hi, get Alba coz hes quality as well. plus vertonghen,shaqiri and podolski/huntelaar
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I say we should bring back Nigel Winterburn at Left Back.
I sure Mr Wenger will get him at the price he likes to pay.
NOTHING.
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Happy New Year fellow gooners!
City, United, Chelsea and Spurs all drop points. The title race isn’t over if we make the right moves ASAP! Get Vertonghen & Podolski now!!!
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Make room in the squad to bring in foreign players. Sell Vela, Diaby, Squid, Alminia, & Arshavin & put the money to good use. Bring in the players so many people can see that we need so badly that we all know will fit in well with the team. Signal some intent with those signings to the players we so badly need to keep. Sign Podolski and Vertonghen then pick from
M’Vila, Reus, Gourcuff, Shaqiri, Loic Remy, etc. Forget Goetze cause he wants to go to Spain which means Barcelona (another headache we don’t want to deal with)
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CITY S GOING TO LOSE AGAINST LIVERPOOL AND WE ARE GOING TO WIN AGAINST FULHAM AH AH AH AH
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Thx month wil expose Arsenals problem.if AW didnt sign trophy wining players then i be damn sure he x our problem.imagn!sagna,gibs and wilshere nt makn t til feb endn,we wl surely goNA END UP lYK LAST YEAR.he knws who to sign but hx policy must prevail despite we fans hunger for ¤¤¤.al hope lies n wenger.up Arsenal nd hapy nw yr 2u al,hope we gt t ryt thx year
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If he`s available Vertonghen, he`s very versatile.
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Is that really the solution? Personally i would instead have a look at what exactly the coaching and physio staff are DOING with these players.. i mean it’s season after season we have multiple players out at every point of the year! Gibbs, Santos, Vermaelan, Sagna, Jenkinson, Wilshere, Diaby… this happening every year can’t be coincidence! Some better physios/ fitness coaches may be needed instead of paying the more expensive wages of new players…
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We can still win the title, 9 points is nothing… we just have to beat Man u and Man city …3 points behind, win all other games and hope someone helps us out…..but that is only if AW buys the players we need this month.
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@Nick
Could not have said it any better!
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@Dood
Interesting theory, but I have to point out that
2 of the players currently out are ones that are almost always out through injury (Gibbs, Diaby) who obviously have problems that keep recurring and cannot be fixed by physio (Diabys broken ankle is seemingly beyond repair)
Wilshere is out with a broken foot Sustained on International Duty (nothing a physio or fitness coach can do)
Sagna – Fractured ankle from a collision mid-game
Santos – Fractured ankle from a fall mid-game
TV5 is only out for 2 weeks with a strain and was out last season due to an Achilles tear and tendon damage that 3 different world class surgeons took 7 months to notice.
There are also several players in the team who are almost always fit, and if the entire squad are put through the same training and fitness regimes then it would stand to reason that the current injury crisis in defence is down to bad luck rather than poor Fitness coaching or Physio treatments.
The problem is that when Arsenal pick up 4/5 injuries at once, we do not have the squad to cope (unlike ManC ManU and Chelsea
Arsenal need to cut a fair amount of dead-wood (Arshavin, Diaby, Djourou, Squidy, Chambles, Almunia,)
And but in some better squad players to take up some of the flack when things like the current injury crisis in defence happens.
- It speaks volumes that in the current state of affairs Squiddy still cannot get a game
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Also it doesn’t make sense to keep players that are not even first team quality and that never play to be paying them while they are injured. Its like they are permanently subs. We need to get rid of these injury prone players and spend the money on players who are first of all BETTER and are not injury prone. Arsene keeps going on about the huge squad we have, but half of them are injured for crying out loud. As soon as a player begins to show these signs of prolonged injuries, there is no point keeping them at the club, because end of the day they are just costing us.
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Vertonghen and Podolski are the players we need. We won’t be struggling to stay fourth but challenge for the title. Imagine, with these players in and we have Santos,Sagna, Wiltshire and Vermalen available?
Man u- home
Man Shitty- home
Chealsea- home
Spuds – home
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@ big gun
if dat had happened in 2009 we would have lost van persie
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How about we get Podolski – Striker, yoann gourcuff – Creative mid on loan and Taye Taiwo from Milan on loan. As these 2 are on loan it will be enough time for the boss to decide if he want to buy them permanent or not plus good cover for our shortage. Taiwo is a very good leftback.
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that is a great idea eozes
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happy new year everyone in the whole wide world including arsenal football team and get great players
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From bottom of the tabIe to where we are now I say “weII done AW and weII done Gunners”
LB?? Go for a Ioan move but if that pIayer is not better than Vertogenhen then buy Vertogenhen and use him as the make shift LB untiL our reguLar LB gets back and then move Vertogenhen to the middIe with VM.
Strikers and the rest of the team, seII aII the dead wood i.e squid,chamahk,ashivan, aImunia,diaby,deniIson and take that money and buy a WORLD CLASS pIaymaker/attacking midfieIder that’s as good as Cesc & Xavi and that’s IoyaI and wiIIing to give his Ieft nut before he deserts AFC. Then u buiId the team around that pIayer Iike we did wit Cesc…
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We all know what we’re going up with after this window, a sub standard second rate foreigner that wouldn’t be fit to lace the great Nigell Winterburns boots. Oh and let not forget a whole two months of Herny ego boosting in which he probably won’t score a single goal but might improve the atmosphere slightly! We need to sign quality players in their prime not unproven youngsters, washed up hasbeens and injury prone Rubbish that nobody else wants!
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@Whizniz I’m talking about sub par players like Diaby, Gibbs etc. I knew from day one RvP was going to be a star, he has been my favourite player even when Bergkamp and co were around. When our ‘good’ players get injured, its fine because at least when they recover, they have something to bring back with them. (Jack Wilshere.) But what do players like Diaby have to bring back that players like Ramsey, Arteta, Coquelin, Wilshere, Frimpong, Rosicky don’t have to offer?
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