Vermaelen Surgery?

[Özim]

Worse news:

the sun is the only one reporting that he'll be out for a month. Everywhere else is saying 2-3 months.

Why the fuck didnt we buy another CB?????

2 reasons:

1) Wenger saw Djourou, Squillaci and Koscielny as good centre backs when they are in fact sh*t
2) Vermaelen was like a new signing and Wenger never took into consideration the fact the guy was out for a year and probably need to be brought along very slowly, as after such a long period players tend to be more prone to further injuries - a la Eduardo

There's another reason too to be fair, we're cheap and wanted to make a profit this summer, that's why we also bought the German barge, he was relatively cheap.

[Ashburton2006]

2 reasons:

1) Wenger saw Djourou, Squillaci and Koscielny as good centre backs when they are in fact sh*t
2) Vermaelen was like a new signing and Wenger never took into consideration the fact the guy was out for a year and probably need to be brought along very slowly, as after such a long period players tend to be more prone to further injuries - a la Eduardo

There's another reason too to be fair, we're cheap and wanted to make a profit this summer, that's why we also bought the German barge, he was relatively cheap.

This has completely wiped out any joy that we gained during the transfer window! Wenger and the Board MUST have known that Verm had a bad injury! We were tight with the money again and only bought one CB when we really needed two. They should have offered 15m for Cahill and we may have got him. I also hear that Theo has a hamstring problem. When are we going to get rid of our so called Medical team? We are a joke, and it is depressing.

Is there going to be a demo at the Swansea game?

[Fats]

It was mentioned more than once that we needed two centerhalfs not just one.

These idiots couldnt organize a piss up in a brewery.

Please leave our club you incompetant fuckwits.

[AKBapologist]

Thankfully this injury is on the other foot and not a continuation of last years injury. It was sustained during a challenge in undine - not a muscle/stress injury so this points towards unluckiness more than anything else.

[selassie]

Central Defence has been a mess for years, if Wenger was pragmatic he'd have bought at least one more quality centre half in addition to Mertesacker.

If Vermaelen is injury prone and continues to miss large chunks of a season then Arsene absolutely must buy in the January Window and he must buy a QUALITY centre half.

Aside from being garbage, Squillaci & Djourou don't have much left on their contracts and should be tossed aside, Miguel is too young and should be loaned out, Kos should be 4th choice and we should bring in someone like Cahill to duke it out with Mertesacker & TV (when fit).

Not forgetting Bartley who is still learning and should be loaned out until we've sorted out the mess in Central Defence.

I'm sick of Wenger and his passive nature towards Central Defence.

[Grebbo]

And that my friends is why we needed to buy two CB's this summer - not one.

DJ and Squillacci cannot be called CB's.

So that leaves German and Vermy.

Now we just have the German.

Oh so predictable.



Wenger

[IBK]

I agree with Syn - this is absolutely pathetic. Definitely tempers the lift that the transfers have given us.

Still - look at Spurs http://www.physioroom.com/news/engli...jury_table.php

[Darth Vela]

I don't get this at all. Are you saying Kos may have to account for Mertesacker's deficiencies? Kos can barely keep his own shit together, he's a skin of the teeth defender with even the simple stuff stretching him to his mediocre limit. If Mertesacker doesn't give us twice as much, pace or none, then we've just thrown £10mill down the drain again, as we did with Kos last year. Some of our defenders are so awful it can make players like Kos look good, but he isn't good by the standards of any other PL team and he wouldn't get in any other PL team. Remember, it was his unique reading of the game and his general inability to kick a ball that started our ongoing collapse.

That's precisely what I'm saying, Kos has zero leadership but is a damn good defender (I know I seem to be pretty much alone in this so feel free to ignore everything else), Mertesacker knows how to organise and has the leadership to pull it together, I believe the technical term is 'partnership'.

[Özim]

That's precisely what I'm saying, Kos has zero leadership but is a damn good defender (I know I seem to be pretty much alone in this so feel free to ignore everything else), Mertesacker knows how to organise and has the leadership to pull it together, I believe the technical term is 'partnership'.

From what I've seen it's been mentioned Mertersacker isn't really a leader, certainly not a vocal one anyway.

[Flavs]

That's precisely what I'm saying, Kos has zero leadership but is a damn good defender (I know I seem to be pretty much alone in this so feel free to ignore everything else), Mertesacker knows how to organise and has the leadership to pull it together, I believe the technical term is 'partnership'.

no i agree with you son, Kos has done well IMO or at least as well as any other of our defenders who are left to get swamped by our useless DM's