It has been confirmed, the green light has flashed on, the thumbs have been flipped up for Robin Van Persie to become part of the Arsenal squad at White Hart Lane
*clap clap clap clap* that is to the Portsmouth players who dragged Tottenham into extra time then delivered the jab and knock out punch in the end. Wilson Palacios picked up a suspension for what I thought was a good challenge
I suppose the other way to look at it is that we would certainly have killed many teams off quicker than we have done in some of our late shows. Giving the manager the chance to remove any tired legs on 70 minutes instead of going full throttle until 94 minutes
Robin Van Persie is set to return to training and this has been translated into him starting and scoring five against Tottenham. I would be a little worried about throwing Van Persie in so early
He seems like a similar type of player as Torres, strong, quick good at leading the line, strong in the air but looking at his statistics and the handful of games that I have seen him play
He is a member of the Arsenal squad that has made a positive contribution at many vital moments of the season? Yes he has, but as with all players who are not flavour of the month or year
Much is being made of Sol Campbell not being able to play two games a week but I think that is being somewhat overplayed. It is not written on his contract that he cannot play twice a week. This is an exceptional circumstance
Jack Wilshere showed his class yesterday for Bolton against Manchester United. The run of games look like they are doing the trick, he has now established himself in their side and is pulling out the type of classy passes that we have seen from him at youth and reserve level
Even with our stupid never ending injury list I cannot see Arsene spending over £10 million shiny sheckles on a forward along with Van Persie, Chamakh (apparently), Bendtner, Eduardo, Vela, Walcott, Arshavin and then our youngsters. It is highly unlikely
fter a quick flick through our line ups, we haven't played with what I would say is Wenger's strongest line up, obviously it is subjective in certain areas. After the spine of the side the remaining variables depends much of the opposition, home or away (not the TV show of course)