He had some heated exchanges with his national team goalkeeper Tim Krul, but had the last laugh (troll)
when Vermaelen netted in the 95th minute.
It started with a narrow 1 - 0 win over Everton,
when Vermaelen's last ditch header prevented Cahill from equalizing for the Toffees.
When Vermaelen was bested by Vassilis Torossidis as he peeled away to meet a corner to the back post,
I effing whacked my knee
when Vermaelen scored.
When Vermaelen did play, he didn't let Arsenal down.
Why was Mertesacker started
when Vermaelen could've probably done a better job with the speedy strikers?
So we did not buy a CB
when Vermaelen left and lost our chance early in the season.
He has made errors this season but will develop into a quality defender with experience and
when Vermaelen returns, Koscielny will benefit from his presence.
and
when vermaelen win the the champions league the curse bout captain winning after arsenal is true then.....
Injury problems and poor form from the Belgian probably helped to make the manager's decision easier though, as did the very good looking partnership between Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny, and
when Vermaelen then spent almost the whole of his debut season in the Barca treatment room it looked like Wenger had played a blinder.
Not exact matches
Used to be a Wenger fan too but gave up on him
when the transfer window closed and he didn't buy a DM and a replacement for
Vermaelen.
Before him we had Thomas
Vermaelen for two seasons, who left to join Barcelona respectively, but
when you look back to the likes of Tony Adams and Patrick Vieira, it really highlights what we are lacking in.
When RVP was sold to united, ut was
vermaelen's mistake that led to the goal for united.
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.
Remember
when all people here were crying to put
Vermaelen in the CDM position after the game at Anfield.
Arsenal fans will most likely be very upset
when they find out that the Reds are asking Barcelona to give them former Gunners star Thomas
Vermaelen.
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.
Paulista CB not Wellbeck 16 mill should have been bought in July
when Wenger promised to replace
Vermaelen.
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.
Wenger promised to replace
Vermaelen but did not because he bought Wellbeck for 16 mill
when Giroud got injured (don't believe the cr # p about the board buying Wellbeck either) 10 mill on Cech, 12 mill on Debuchy and 16 mill on Chambers both failures and 35 mill on Sanchez meant Wenger risked having only 2 specialist CB's.
To be honest I never thought of it myself until the other day,
when I was watching the frankly turgid friendly game between Belgium and Finland and I heard the commentator say that
Vermaelen was set to be a first choice starter for his country at Euro 2016,.
But then again I said the same thing
when he sold
Vermaelen and loaned Jenkison.
Also,
when we lose a top player we rarely get the equivalent or better replacement.ie Vieira, Sagna, RVP,
Vermaelen, we didn't immediately replace them with an equivalent or better player.
And to say Chambers doesn't have the pace to do this is wrong imo, he's got plenty of pace, just needs experience in the position, to learn
when to be aggressive and
when to stand off a bit so he doesn't get caught out as
Vermaelen often did and as Mertesacker does from time to time.
Not hard for Mertz to be decent
when the competition consists of useless Djourou, injury prone
Vermaelen erratic injury prone Gabriel and 16 mill flop Chambers.
It was wrong to sell
Vermaelen,
when in form he had a great partnership with Kos.
You conveniently forget the fact that
Vermaelen is still injured at Barcelona and god knows
when he will be match fit.
Also he is not nearly as good as
Vermaelen and Vertonghen were
when they left Ajax.
When will people give wenger credit for selling
vermaelen for the money we got.
Arsenal fans were sad to see
Vermaelen leave, but a potential loan deal in January would make sense for both parties;
Vermaelen would be able to get much - needed game time under his belt
when he returns from injury, while Arsenal would greatly benefit from having a good quality defender who can lead from example and knows what it takes to play in the Premier League.
While his cater - cousin
Vermaelen tends to attract more plaudits, simply because he's scary - looking and scores the occasional goal, it's Koscielny that knits Arsenal's defence together (
when it's knitted together, anyway).
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.
If memory serves me right,
when Kos had a non-complementary partner in
Vermaelen and squidward (lol), he stunk the place out as well.
This debates also reminds me of
when we had
Vermaelen.
Arteta took over the captains armband from Thomas
Vermaelen in 2014,
when the Belgian left the Gunners for Barcelona.
He wants to be sure Arteta, the Ox,
Vermaelen and Podolski do not stay out of the team for too long
when they come back.
We keep playing Arteta
when there is a faster Flamini and
Vermaelen on the bench.
Why was
Vermaelen not even introduced in DM to have an extra CB
when defending to help Mertesacker, considering Arteta has NIL recovery?
Letting
Vermaelen go
when he wanted to, ensured our reputation among players for doing the decent thing.
I am sure that
when news broke that Arsenal's captain Thomas
Vermaelen had agree a move to switch the Emirates for the Nou Camp, many Arsenal fans where not surprised but rather expecting to know the player that will replace him.
Need for Another Good Central Defender to Replace
Vermaelen: This makes sense
when you consider the fact that we just lost a good player.
Manchester United are looking to sign Arsenal star Thomas
Vermaelen when Belgium exit the World Cup.
and what happens
when the injuries come, who are the replacements for
Vermaelen, Cesc and RvP?????? The same fellas that werent up to it
when entrusted at the end of last season....
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.
When Thomas
Vermaelen was signed I expect a whole load of people went «Thomas who?».
The game turned on its head
when M'bia got straight red for his idiotic lunge on the Arsenal captain
Vermaelen in the 80th minute.
«An experienced player like
Vermaelen should not be getting two cards like he did especially
when you look at the first one he got, but physically we saw that we are in good shape and the mistakes we made were only technical so I am satisfied.»
Anyway, Piers Morgan is the ultimate charlatan; even in politics, he is a vile non-progressive liberal without a single ounce of libertarianism in him; he also has no clue how Wengerball proceeds with 4 -2-3-1 versus 5 -4-1
when Monreal, Flamini, and
Vermaelen are brought in to protect a result for Cazorla, Wilshere, and Ozil.
Van Gaal, who rejected an attempt by Arsenal to buy Smalling last summer
when he inquired about Thomas
Vermaelen, said: «Chris has improved and developed immensely during the short time that I have been at the club and has become an integral part of the first - team squad.
Fernando Torres, subdued as ever, had a great chance to finish off things,
when he beat
Vermaelen for pace, but Szczesny managed to collect the ball from the striker's feet.