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piresistible wrote:One thing (and I am not trying to defend wnger here as I would have loved Samba in jan) is that had verm been fit we would have started with him and Djourou as our centre halves. Koscielny and Squillaci would have been blooded in the Carling the FA cup alongside one of our main guys. BOTH players have moved up a league, changed country and never played together before. Seriously you cannot blame either this season and I think that you will see a marked improvement from both next season. Rarly do players play well in their first season and it has been known for pairings of players to take a couple of years before they start to play as a unit. What I am trying to say is get off their backs. I would probably find ALL of you writing 'get rid of Djourou' over the last few seasons now look at him.
Nah, vermaelen/koscielny would have been our first choice had all four been fit, perhaps even vermaelen/squillaci depending on how well koscielny was fitting in.
Wenger didnt anticipate that Djourou would be as good as he has on his first season back, he was pencilled in for 4th choice imo.
So really, Wenger stumbled across the formula of Djourou + vermaelen or koscielny. He would have gone with Vermaelen/koscielny which imo isnt an ideal partnership - both are quite similar players with similar strengths and weaknesses.
