I wouldn’t be surprised to see Silvestre line up alongside Sol Campbell in the midlands come the weekend. If Silvestre isn’t out of favour then the only reason why he could be left out would be because of the form of our midfield
Apologies in advance if this article contains a host of mistakes, I am currently walking around like a zombie today. Chicken pox has infected the Lean’s and the youngest Lean was awake all night long.
Coming across Andrey Arshavin’s comments this morning my first reaction was jump on his back and stick my hand over his mouth but we have been down this road before. We have had articles involving Cesc Fabregas which were complete and utter nonsense. Bits of quotes from five years ago mixed in with something else from last week. Two minutes later you have Cesc on the official site stating that it is more bull from hacks trying to sell newspapers or gain clicks.
Mr Arshavin isn’t exactly the quiet type so it certainly wouldn’t be a shock if he was to voice his opinions on our squad at this time. Without hearing his original interview, which I believe was in Russian, then I cannot comment and will give him the benefit of the doubt. However whilst we are on that subject, I would like to say that an Arsenal player stating that we are lacking players whilst we are on the home stretch really should concentrate on their own form.
Everybody connected to the club knows how important the psychological side of the game is to our manager and his staff so creating any potential doubts really is not worth doing.
The other side of the fence will say that everyone has their opinion and are entitled to it and that is fair enough. Some or many of the Arsenal playing staff might not always agree with Arsene 100% of the time but those conversations would be better kept locked away in Arsene’s office and not to the Russian, Spanish, French or British media.
The FA have waved away our appeal on the Thomas Vermaelen red card but no extra game has been given. Thanks a bunch but as he didn’t actually do anything wrong apart from letting the ball bounce, can we have him back please?
With our list of injured defenders in that position we could have done with Vermaelen at Birmingham so we are going to have to rely on a mix and match. Song seems to be the one tipped to play further back and I can imagine him doing a fine job but the question I will ask is that why hasn’t Song played in that position ahead of Silvestre until now?
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Silvestre line up alongside Sol Campbell in the midlands come the weekend. If Silvestre isn’t out of favour then the only reason why he could be left out would be because of the form of our midfield. Arsene could want to play all four in the side and dropping Song back could mean not dropping one of his in form players.
Interesting news about William Gallas flying around. I am only commenting without any facts but I find it strange how the news of Gallas possibly returning to the squad coincides with rumours circulating that he may extend his time at Arsenal. This is obviously just conjecture at this point in time but a returning William Gallas would be a massive massive boost not only because we are short in that area right now but he has been one of our best players this season, I would say he has been our best central defender and that includes the great Tommy V.
Fingers crossed that a deal can be struck and that his injury can heal up asap. We need him.
Birmingham City are playing tonight so lets hope they run themselves into the ground and pick up injuries to all their key players. Not Liam Ridgewell though, I want Theo Walcott to take him to the cleaners.
Right, must dash.
Back again tomorrow.
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