Sentences with phrase «vermaelen went»

If Song or Vermaelen went through bad patches I'm sure they'd have people defending them because the alternatives in their positions don't fill everyone with confidence.

A great signing initially for Arsenal, it's fair to say that Thomas Vermaelen went downhill in his latter years due to injury problems.

Sagna, Jenkinson and Vermaelen gone.

Eg if we told manolas or Sokratis to come before we got rid of vermaelen we could have included them in any potential deal eg vermaelen going Roma or Dortmund as part of the deal.

I actually have no issue with letting Sagna and Vermaelen go.

In retrospective letting Vermaelen go was a good move for 15m pound with his injuries but getting only Chambers and trusting him to play at a high level every game filling multiple positions wasn't a wise one.

The reason we have had to.let vermaelen go is he can't get past per and kos.

We can say he's trying on the transfer market, but why, for instance, let Vermaelen go when you don't have a replacement lined up & yet you know defending is our biggest problem.

He let Song and Vermaelen go to Barcelona.

Letting Vermaelen go when he wanted to, ensured our reputation among players for doing the decent thing.

He still charges forward like a mad man, all the top defenders stay back unless it is crunch time, Vermaelen goes forward even if we are winning, that is stupid.

Not exact matches

Two years ago Wenger promised to replace Vermaelen but strangely went for Debuchy and Chamberlain and then even more weirdly spent 16 mill on Wellbeck.

Sagna and Vermaelen have gone and Podolski and Ozil admitt to being unsettled.

If Wenger does Buy Vermaelen this makes a statement about which direction Arsenal are going.

Worringly, Mertesacker seems to be going drastically backwards rather than forwards this season in a quite erringly similar fashion to Thomas Vermaelen.

Every Arsenal fan was left bamboozled this summer when Arsene Wenger allowed Thomas Vermaelen to leave (and Carl Jenkinson to go out on loan) but failed to bring in adequate replacements.

Players who have gone out: Bacary Sagna, Thomas Vermaelen, Lukasz Fabianski and Nicklas Bendtner.

He let sagna, vermaelen and jenkinson go and only brought in 2 replacements when Stevie wonder cud have seen we were way too short at the back.

Thomas Vermaelen was allowed to leave for Barcelona without Wenger signing any defensive cover, and going into the season with only two recognized center backs is just asking for trouble.

Letting go of Vermaelen and not getting another defender (in addition to Debuchy and Chambers who replaced Sagna and Jenkison) was not a good decision.

It did not go down very well with a lot of Arsenal fans when Arsene Wenger seemed to put up no fight to keep our captain at the time Thomas Vermaelen from making the transfer to Spain to play for La Liga giants Barcelona in a deal that was worth around # 15 million.

got a funny feeling the falcao deal might go belly up yet at this late stage and we wont get welbeck as untied will need him as cover they will get us back for vermaelen yet the sods

I think it might go even further than that and Vermaelen is actually hoping for a return to Arsenal, especially as he knows we are in need of defensive cover with the BFG beginning to look too slow for the modern game.

Vermaelen looked like he could've been a strong captain, but injury concerns kept him out of the side, the same of which goes for Mikel Arteta.

Over the summer we saw Jenkinson go out on loan and Thomas Vermaelen sold for 17 million and Sagna go to Man City on a free.

Apparently the 100M GBP went up to 130 after cashing in on Vela, Fabregas and Vermaelen, leaving our summer spending of approximately 80M incredibly 50M under budget.

If its a crisis, Arsene Wenger is to blame for letting go of Vermaelen, Sagna and loaning out Jenkinson

We were also fully aware that RVP would be in the last year of his contract, and the same goes for Thomas Vermaelen.

The signings of Chambers and Mathieu Debuchy have gone down well at the Grove but the need for a new centre half is a box which still needs to be ticked, especially now Thomas Vermaelen has gone.

Vermaelen ain't going to happen we need to move on we should have kept him and Sagna and added cesc and song to solidify the team.

Let Sagna go for free Let Fabinaski go for free Sell Vermaelen (okay he is still injured) Sell Miquel (could have been better than Monreal, maybe even Mert right now) Sell Djourou (not good but, If we talk numbers we only have two real CB in the squad) Loan out Jenkinson Loan out Coquelin

Arsenal Almunia 7 — Had little to do, but what he did do he did well Sagna 7 — Lost the ball a couple of times but reliable as ever Gallas 9 — Excellent game, this season will be an important one for the Frenchman and this was a great way to start it Clichy 7 — Didn't put a foot wrong Fabregas 9 — Wonderful performance capped with a brace (Ramsey) 7 — The Welsh Cesc is coming along nicely Vermaelen 9 — An assured debut that left me forgetting about the absence of Kolo Denilson 8 — Top notch display Song Billong 8 — Solid and measured Arshavin 8 — Kept going from the 1st to the final minute Van Persie 8 — No goals, but two assists and a hand in an other (Eduardo) 7 — Lethal finisher showed what he is all about in his cameo Bendtner 8 — Really impressed me and is continuing to improve every game (Eboue) 7 — Helped close out the game.

I have longed for Vertoghen after we concluded the Vermaelen deal, I'm still in bewilderment why we never went for him.

Lots of research went into buying Chamakh Park Bendtner Girvinho Santos Ryo Squilacci Flamini Arshavin Djourou Sendeross Cygan Kalstrom Sanogo Vermaelen Podolski Campbell The stats also show Wilshere Walcott Ozil Ox are badly injury prone so should never be sold.

Our club captain Thomas Vermaelen will be leaving to barcelona in january if all goes well, otherwise over the summer.

With Arsenal's penchant for injuries, an already injury - ravaged back - line, three - quarter of our defence (Koscielny, Sagna and Clichy) involved with another «meaningless» friendly which claimed RvP and Vermaelen last season... I'm not very excited about it and I wont celebrate it until I know TV5 is back to ensure that Arsenal's season doesn't go up in flames due to some «meaningless» friendlies!

They would have looked at Vermaelen, refused a transfer, never getting a game, and said, «I'm not going to Arsenal».

By now all of you should be well aware of the news that Thomas Vermaelen has finally gone in for surgery on his troublesome achilles tendon problem.

Vermaelen - Much better in supporting Ox going forward and unlucky with a great strike early on.

Vermaelen did look way, way off for me... did nt know where he was for the first goal after Kos went out... how could he not block that cross?

The same goes for a defender who makes a habit of scoring — Thomas Vermaelen a few years ago at Arsenal — or teams who put a lot of emphasis on set - pieces, like any managed by Tony Pulis.

I went with William Gallas and Thomas Vermaelen (or Johan Djourou) and unsurprisingly I received a fair bit of criticism about leaving Kolo Toure out of that selection.

Well, that's a hard question, but personally I would have to go with Laurent Koscielny and Thomas Vermaelen.

Vermaelen slid in on Belhanda at the far right edge of the penalty area and the Moroccan went down in a heap.

Thomas Vermaelen will be available for selection, himself, and is expected to go right back into the first team, despite the bossy performance of Laurent Koscielny last week.

Vermaelen: [6.5 / 10] The Skipper returned, and despite some questionable defensive organization for the first goal, Vermaelen looked confident in the second half when going in for challenges.

I am not sure how arsene is going to teach them.When the going gets tough Henry and the XI consistently pushed opponents with long range shots and scoring on free kick which our present team lacks except from Vermaelen and sometimes Arshavin.

Nahki Wells, however, almost heaped more agony, as he tangled with Vermaelen again, but his shot went just wide off the mark.

When Thomas Vermaelen was signed I expect a whole load of people went «Thomas who?».

Vermaelen has been deprived of playing opportunities at Barcelona in the recent past and that is worrying him because he doesn't want to go off the selection radar as far as the Belgian national squad for the World Cup is concerned which can happen if he remains at Barcelona and keeps warming the bench.