Wenger Drops Almunia for Liege

AFCWozza · Post by **AFCWozza** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:36 pm

Im pretty sure Mannone will start this one as the other fellah whose name i cant pronounce or attempt at spelling played 90 minutes last night for the reserves!

Coppo d' Gooner · Post by **Coppo d' Gooner** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:18 pm

How many times have we heard AW say they are out for a "couple" of days it drives me nuts.
He must wrap them all in cotton wool and the slightest knock and they don't play.
It must be so easy for any of the players to fake a injury if they can't be bothered to play. OR AW uses these "knocks" as a cover up as he hasnt got the bollocks to drop any of them.

Post by **I Hate Hleb** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:41 pm

Perhaps playing Mannone - who makes Fabianski look cool, calm and collected in comparison - is a subtle Wenger plan to get us to appreciate Almunia more?

Post by **brazilianGOONER** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:04 pm

I Hate Hleb wrote:Perhaps playing Mannone - who makes Fabianski look cool, calm and collected in comparison - is a subtle Wenger plan to get us to appreciate Almunia more?

conspiracy theory anyone?

augie · Post by **augie** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:58 pm

flash gunner wrote:
Swale_Gooner1985 wrote:
flash gunner wrote:Chest infections....... Are they career threatening?

No, but a lot of things arent career threatening, Ljungberg missed enough games with a headache, is that career threatening, is a dead leg career threatening? If he is too ill to play then he wont be in the squad, Wenger isnt one to play ill or injured players!
Wish he wasnt one to play shit players

augie · Post by **augie** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:02 pm

I Hate Hleb wrote:Perhaps playing Mannone - who makes Fabianski look cool, calm and collected in comparison - is a subtle Wenger plan to get us to appreciate Almunia more?

The worrying thing is that this very thought crossed my mind too

I suppose thinking like that isnt exactly new ground for us Gooners as many seemed to believe that we had a real chance to win the league this season but only because our opponents were weaker not cos we were stronger

Now we will probably have mannone in between the sticks 2moro nite and he will have "an almunia" (a 'mare

) and average al will be boosted in confidence by another keepers weaknesses more than his own strengths

green gooner · Post by **green gooner** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:36 pm

I was hoping after two piss poor days in Manchester we could get back to winning ways tomorrow, now i seriously doubt it

What is wrong with Denilson's back

is the big yellow streak getting wider

And if Almunia got dropped why the fcuk is Song in the squad then

Kiki · Post by **Kiki** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:36 am

hadareud wrote:Szczesny is better than Mannone.

From what I've seen, I gotta agree with you there.

Post by **brazilianGOONER** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 11:21 am

green gooner wrote: And if Almunia got dropped why the fcuk is Song in the squad then

what??

the playing mantis · Post by **the playing mantis** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:15 pm

liege are turd, easy win. but, denilson not being in the squad strengthens it anyway
we wont challenge in any meaningful comp till we sign the elusive fox in the box, decent keeper, another CB and 2 strong ballwinning CM's. the liege result dont matter anyway we aint gonna win it!

PI7ES · Post by **PI7ES** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:23 pm

I disagree with the fox in the box, that is eduardo. We need a world class defensive midfielder, not a holding midfielder. Song and some part denilson are holding midfielders who break up play with interceptions.

What we need is a defensive midfielder that wins the ball, harrying players making tackles, even making fouls when needed.

Have said since lehman was first dropped we should of replaced him with a new keeper and not our second choice (spains 10th choice) keeper. We missed out on given, and i cant see weneger spending more than 5 mil in this area so if he does decide to buy dont expect to of heard of the player.

I would be very happy with our front line of.

.............Eduardo.............
Arshavin............Van Perise

With walcott, bendtner and vela in the reserves.

SteveO 35 · Post by **SteveO 35** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:16 pm

I Hate Hleb wrote:Perhaps playing Mannone - who makes Fabianski look cool, calm and collected in comparison - is a subtle Wenger plan to get us to appreciate Almunia more?

If that was true, then I hope it works. I'm not saying Almunia is a world beater but if we were exposed without him for long enough everyone would soon agree that he is far better than that fucking joker Fabianski could ever wish to be. And as for Mannone - when we had a TV channel of our own I had the dubious pleasure of seeing him in action for the stiffs. Not a pretty sight

green gooner · Post by **green gooner** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 11:06 pm

brazilianGOONER wrote:
green gooner wrote: And if Almunia got dropped why the fcuk is Song in the squad then

what??

His attempts to break up play against Man City were bloody awful Brazil, that's why

Post by **brazilianGOONER** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 11:30 pm

green gooner wrote: His attempts to break up play against Man City were bloody awful Brazil, that's why

he was overexposed. you can blame him for not tackling micah richards properly, but that's his only big mistake.

he is having a good season. a shame he was already in the squad. if we didn't have him, and wenger had bought him on this window, we'd be glad with him. the problem is, he was already in the hate list together with diaby, ebouÃ©, bendtner and denilson.

Post by **g88ner** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 11:57 pm

brazilianGOONER wrote: he was overexposed. you can blame him for not tackling micah richards properly, but that's his only big mistake.

To be honest Brazilian, I agree that Song has been one of our better players, but the amount of collective and individual errors we've had this season, that has cost us goals, is actually quite frightening!

and we're only half way through September!!!

Song is far from the worst culprit (Almunia, Clichy and Diaby can fight it out for that honour

) but Song's "challenge" on Richards was woeful to say the least... Wenger called that goal the turning point of the match, so Song has to take a huge portion of the blame for not stopping, or holding up, Richards.