Sentences with phrase «with vermaelen»

Even with Vermaelen back, the other central defenders include Djourou (a useful squad player), Koscielny (young and improving) and Frenchmen Sebastien Squillaci (one thought and two steps behind everything happening on the pitch).

Wenger's belief that mobility can better serve than physique for center backs as football moves forward has begin to be vindicated with both Vermaelen and Koscielny having strong attributes in that respect.

With Vermaelen back from injury, this is probably the closest Arsene has come to being able to put out the back four which he considers perfect.

Arsenal were short on all fronts, with Vermaelen, Sagna, Gibbs, Gervinho, Song, Fimpong all out, owing to injury or suspension.

When you look at it realistically we need a top keeper, at least one commanding central defender to play with Vermaelen, a top holding midfielder and a pacy aggressive striker.

Koscielny was solid and confident at right - back against Norwich, however with his ability in one - on - ones against skilful players such as Gotze I believe he should start in the centre along with Vermaelen to combat the fluid attacking line of Dortmund, with Djourou starting out right.

I have no doubt that Jones would have been our starting CB, along with Vermaelen.

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

One player who could benefit significantly is Manuel Almunia, who always appeared to be on edge with Gallas but shares a far better relationship with Vermaelen.

Exactly the same happened thing with Vermaelen, people actually corrected / updated me on twitter after I listed the players to score for Arsenal; they were quick to inform me that Vermaelen should be on the list.

Koscielny (8)-- He seems to have struck a great partnership at the back with Vermaelen.

He did this a few years ago with Vermaelen and his achilles, claiming he «would be back soon»... only admitting he needed surgery once the window had shut.

Same with Vermaelen, even though there could be lots of arguments against changing a winning pair etc..

This new look Arsenal side and the partnership he has created with Vermaelen has revitalised him.

Along with Vermaelen, Arsene takes chances with this type of thing, that's three CB's over the last five seasons who are six foot or a little under, I think TV was 5.10 / 11.

Winning the Premier League requires a strong squad, however, and with Vermaelen particularly injury - prone, Arsenal are taking a risk by keeping a player as poor as Squillaci as back - up.

While Robin Van Persie will have enjoyed playing against his former club more than Danny Welbeck did, it is Wenger who really needs to look at the upcoming January transfer window and make radical changes to his squad, with Vermaelen a potential loan target.

The signs were always there with Vermaelen, he gained a reputation early on largely because he was scoring goals and I think his defending was less scrutinised as a result.

just saw some coment of a dude who mentioned kos first year at arsenal with vermaelen to make a point about pairing and mestersack, and how s... kos was back in the dazs.

Not exact matches

Starting off with a small defensive pool of players after selling Vermaelen and loaning off Jenkison 2.

The 1st summer transfer window with Gazidis and we only spend on Vermaelen and for a fee of around # 10 million.

We needed to sign a top striker (we got a decent one with potential), a quality defender (should have kept Vermaelen if we have only 6) and top CDM

Arsenal centre - back Thomas Vermaelen has been ruled out until the new year with an Achilles tendon injury.

Vermaelen has not played a single minute for Barcelona, having been plagued with injuries since his transfer — thus would have made no dif.

Manager Mark Wilmots will have a near full strength squad to pick from, with Steven Defour having completed his one game suspension for the red card he received against South Korea, while defender Thomas Vermaelen has sufficiently recovered from a hamstring problem.

Despite this, after selling Vermaelen for around # 15 million, he left it too late, with apparent last minute enquiry for centre backs such as Matija Nastasic and Virgil van Dijk not materialising into bids.

3 and 105 goals) Mertsacker (was amazing with Koscielny for 2 years) Overmars Vermaelen Keown Van Bronkhurst

Everyone with even a vague interest in football looked at the six Arsenal defenders had at the start of the year, following the surprising decision to get rid of Thomas Vermaelen and Carl Jenkinson, and said «they haven't got enough defenders», and so it has proved.

23 year old Antwerp born defender Toby Alderweireld forged a good partnership with Jan Vertonghen, filling the void left by Thomas Vermaelen's departure for Arsenal and he is a player Ajax boss Frank de Boer will not want to lose.

Vermaelen had also been linked with the likes of Napoli and Barcelona during the summer, though neither club seemed willing to take a gamble on him, and Arsenal's failure to find a replacement may also have seen them keep hold of him for the time being.

With Sevilla on Saturday night in mind, it seems a pretty sensible move to shuffle things, giving the likes of Yerry Mina, Thomas Vermaelen, Andre Gomes and Paco Alcacer an opportunity to impress.

With Thomas Vermaelen back from injury, Squillaci needs to be replaced by a tall centre - back.

you are probably as close to what wenger might do in the last days of the window he will wait to get c / l qualification in place to reel in one big name and then get a squad filler in d / m but will also use the vermaelen money to get another c / h so 2 more additions and 1 more replacement this is most likely to happen, but as always you can never know with wenger COYG

Having seen Thomas Vermaelen leave for Barcelona Arsene Wenger has been linked with a number of potential defensive signings and now the Metro reports on Arsenal's apparent push to land Greek international Kostas Manolas.

With Javier Mascherano and Thomas Vermaelen the only options in reserve to step in for either Samuel Umtiti and Gerard Pique, Barca are undoubtedly light in the defensive department.

Arda Turan and Thomas Vermaelen missed out due to international duties, while Rafinha is halfway across the world with the Brazil squad ahead of the continental showpiece in the United States.

This lovely lady is reportedly romantically involved with Emirates Stadium centre - back Thomas Vermaelen, but that's not important right now.

Barca B would be the following: Cillessen RB: Vidal (he's not a starter, but he's a pretty decent number 2, he pours out his heart for the team, and he deserves ONE more shot) CB: Pique (He still would be a starter, but like Mascherank was this season, I would slowly incorporate him out as he is more of a liability than an asset e.g super Copa, Roma, etc) CB: Marlon Santos (bring him back from loan and sell Vermaelen a as his time is up) LB: Cucerella (I would promote him, and if he impresses enough, like the case with Umtiti last season, he could even replace Alba in the starting 11) DM: Arthur (Future at Barcelona!

We didn't replace Vermaelen and didn't replace Sagna with same quality

Let's start with Thomas Vermaelen.

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.

LOL... Vermaelen has revealed the difference on that front... Sorry but a team with mertesakher Ramsey Walcott and giroud all starting is not on the same fball planet as barca..

Before we moved up our British core phase, I feel the team with Fabregas Song RVP Sagna Vermaelen Eduardo would have passed that Spu team to death.

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

We had a similar issue with the Verminator - Vermaelen & Koscielny were too similar in style.

With Chambers we are better in defence because Vermaelen hardly played.

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.

Honestly, at times Wenger has surprised us (ie mid summer: Sanchez, Chambers, Ospina, Debuchy) and most of the time disappointed us (end of summer: not getting a defender to replace Vermaelen, loaning off Jenkison and leaving us with depleted defense, getting Welbeck instead of WC striker while he was in Rome on transfer deadline day, getting players like Kim Kallstrom, Squillaci, Silvestre, etc..)

Furthermore, Wenger didn't help not replacing Vermaelen and loaning off Jenkison leaving us with a very thin defense.

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.