Sentences with phrase «coquelin is in the squad»

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I still haven't figured out whether Elneny is going to be competition for Coquelin or the squad player addition that will fill in for Wilshere in short period and replace Rosicky for next season onwards.

It was hoped that despite the eagerness to see Xhaka in a starting role with the squad, that Coquelin's injury wouldn't be anything too serious.

mate, I was more talking about 2 free slots, Elneny, Coquelin were there in that squad already, not in terms of replacement personnel

not me mate, your making up you own arguements, which are flawed by the way.So if Coquelin were to leave where would he go?According to you theory obviously it will be to another Champions league team, so are you saying they won't have legitimate competition in the team?Competition breeds winners, we havent had this at Arsenal in a long time and we still don't have it upfront and in dm, we sort of have it at CB with Gabriel, but until we correct this competition deficit in our squad with at least arguably WC players then we won't win the BIG trophies as usual

We really miss Santi there and the backup option of Coquelin again doesn't fit the idea of dominating teams with possession by putting a player who's success in the squad came from breaking the play of the opposing team.

Even though Coquelin describes this European match as a massive game for us in an Arsenal.com report I think Wenger will also be thinking about squad rotation.

Jenkinson for RB, Mert and Gabriel / Calum for CB, Gibbs for LB, Coquelin and elneny for CDM, Ramsey or Cazorla whoever is not in starting XI for CM, for CAM Wilshere or basically half of our squad, Wingers could be campbell / Iwobi / and either one of walcott and ox and Giroud is good enough for baclup ST.

Having sold Giroud, Coquelin and Walcott and, of course, swapped Alexis Sanchez, to bring in Mhkitaryan and Aubameyang, it is no surprise that he was asked last night if he thought he now had a much stronger squad after the January window.

That is why it is great news today that Francis Coquelin has recovered more quickly than expected and is back in training, in fact, according to the Mirror today, Francis is even likely to be in the squad for next weekends FA Cup game against Burnley in preparation for the midweek League game against Southampton.

Space in the squad is one thing however, but accommodating Xhaka, Kante, Wilshere, Elneny and Coquelin is another conundrum altogether...

Coquelin is a name that can be thrown around but he's still a decent squad player in my opinion and you need that in a team.

Now although Mikel Arteta and Jack Wilshere are both back in the squad, I fully expect Arsene Wenger to continue with Francis Coquelin and Aaron Ramsey, who have formed quite a partnership of their own in central midfield.

Coquelin was the only true DM in our squad and we have sold him..

For me, the obvious gap in the squad is the backup for Francis Coquelin, especially as Jack Wilshere's ankle fracture could mean him being unavailable for the next couple of months.

In terms of the impact on the Arsenal team I think it is good that we have to think of who we will play we have a big squad fully of talent we still have Walcott, Wellbeck, Coquelin, Wilshere to come back into the ranks..

So while the players on loan are not in the squad anymore, Wenger has been able to add the names of Giroud, Gabriel and Coquelin, while some players like the Akpom, Ox and Bellerin can be included in the B squad as they are young and have been with us for at least two years.

However, Coquelin and Gabriel have been introduced to the squad, Bellerin and Monreal are looking amazing fullbacks and our results with their inclusion has been up there with the best form in Europe.

El Neny and Coquelin are at best squad players that should only feature in Cup games.

Coquelin will continue in the team until the summer, he will not make the France squad proper, will not become world class, WILL in fact be replaced by someone like Schneiderlin and be relegated to squad player, and will never become Arsenal captain.

Arsenal will have a slightly different team to put out in the Champions league, given the squad depth we can currently boast about, although the likes of Ramsey, Giroud and now Coquelin are all missing.

He also spoke about their being a fair few Frenchman in the current squad which would help him to settle, but Coquelin has played a bigger role than that, as an Evening Standard report explains, as the two have kept in contact since those international days and are clearly quite close, so Coquelin has had the chance to put in a lot of good words for the Gunners.

But it must be remembered, coquelin and miquel are in the squad as association trained.

Arsenal's Midfield is a complete mess at the moment.The Ox has presumably had enough; Coquelin frankly isn't good enough although is currently the only combative midfielder that the Club has in its ranks; Elneny is nothing more than a «squad player»; Wilshire has regressed over the course of 3 injury ravaged years and Cazorla is unlikely to play at the same level again following on from his current injury crisis....

«The squad is better equipped now, Gabriel is putting (Per) Mertesacker under huge pressure and (Francis) Coquelin is in midfield instead of (Mikel) Arteta and (Mathieu) Flamini who are maybe coming to the end of their careers.

We have already lost Francis Coquelin for the next three months and anyone who thinks that there will be no more injuries picked up by the Arsenal squad in the coming weeks and months is set to be severely disappointed.

Yes we've brought through some great players, Bellerin and Coquelin being the most recent examples, but you looks at our U21 squad, they're mid table in division 2.

Laurent Koscielny is also in the squad, while Francis Coquelin has been regularly overlooked, and could be boosted by Wenger agreeing to switch to Les Bleus.

After all, we have a massive squad and as has been proved by Francis Coquelin just this year, it is important for young players to play in order to progress and make it as professional footballers.

But we have Arteta, Flamini and Coquelin to play as defensive midfielder, if they all get injured there's not really that much you can do as manager — you can only name 25 players in your squad at the end of the day, it can't be an endless list of backups.

Buying someone inferior to coquelin wud mean only adding a squad player, buying someone superior to him wud mean showing lack of faith in coquelin, and it wud b hard to convince vidal by saying dat u will b competing wid an improved 24 year old instead of being d first choice directly.

Having vidal and coquelin is not at all like having schneiderlin and vidal in the same squad, coquelin has plenty of rough edges to smooth in order to be a bonafide Arsenal DM.

These are the very current 18 man first team squad of the Boss as Coquelin is unavoidably absent to start and Flamini has come in to hold brief.

To be fair to the current Arsenal squad, the likes of Francis Coquelin, Mohamed Elneny and Granit Xhaka have given Arsene Wenger better and more varied options than before in that position, but I would still say that none of the three have yet convinced me that they can help Arsenal to the EPL title.

Coquelin is always an unused sub and Diaby is never in the squad for some reason.

With the Sanchez saga dominating headlines it's easy to forget that in the background we have made our squad weaker with the selling of Szczesny, Gills, Ox, Coquelin, Gabriel, Walcott and other fringe players.

But Arteta is not in the squad to compete with Coquelin, they play very, very different roles.

This is how Coquelin came in the squad.

Walcott replace with a signing Welbeck replace with a signing Ospina replace with martinez Cazorla not in squad anyway Debuchy replace with sheaf Mertesacker replace with Bielik Koscielny replace with a signing Elneny replace with willock Coquelin replace with a signing Akpom replace with nelson Jenkinson replace with niles If ozil, alexis and Wilshire leave they should be replaced with signings, which would still leave us with space in the 25 to improve

monreal coquelin elneny ox iwobi and campbell are only good squad players Bellerin is not the best right back in the league.

Coquelin's ball - winning efficiency is going to be a massive loss and we don't have anyone close to it in the squad, but there's only a handful of players in the league who can claim anywhere close to that... Monreal showcased his adaptability last season when he played at CB.

It is unfortunate for Coquelin as he was in a good run of form and was starting regular games but this is why a club like Arsenal needs a good squad.

the only reason we are challengers for the tittle is because of new players in the team like Sanchez, Coquelin, and even Hector Bellerin and even with them we come 3rd, Chelsea the title winners are strengthening their squad even with the announcement of 1 billion in dept, ManU will be spending heavy, Liverpool have already started bolstering, City for shore they will spend

«Coquelin has been replaced by Olivier Giroud in the squad.

Notwithstanding with Santi's recent injury problems, and with Coquelin and Elneny having turned out some suspect performances this past season, it wouldn't be imprudent to have Jack in the squad — his obvious talents isn't of the type you let go off too quickly.

Agree on Ox but to say «Iwobi on the bench is just not good enough» makes me wonder how many squad members some of you guys want in our PL roster — if you have Ozil, Sanchez, Rosicky, Wilshere, Welbeck, Carzorla and Coquelin injured the bench is always gonna look thin.

Given we already have Flamini and Arteta to back up Coquelin in that position, it seems to make sense he would prioritize a winger who we have far left of in the squad if it is just about numbers.

So in that way the squad is same but Bellerín coquelin and Gabriel only came to d front after December so to have them from the start this time is the only plus point going into this season.

I say if wenger doesn't strengthen the squad by mid july he should go because if anyone hasn't realize we are going 12 years without the premier league and untill us fans wake up and see that wenger is done we will end up like Liverpool pathetic and holding on to past glory get that specialist in failure out soon like come on we are short on bloody first team players and we will be going in next season with coquelin as our first choice cdm and Walcott as our striker lol pathetic

not surr who that player is in current squad other than Coquelin..

The report goes on to say that Flamini is looking for a payoff for the last year of his contract before he leaves, to compensate for the loss of wages by not seeing out the end of his deal, and further (if this is true) it seems that Wenger is trying to make a space in the squad for th arrival of a new defensive midfielder as competition for Coquelin.