This time the manager is already aware that the player who was thought to be about to get the job, Per Mertesacker, is going to
miss at least the first few months of the new season and knowing the way our players» problems often seem to take a lot longer than first expected to fix, it could be more.
Disciplined in his role, he is very rarely caught out of position, he is strong in a tackle and seems to relish a physical battle His technical ability also developed over the course of the
first few months of this season, and his passing improved along with his ability to twist and turn out of trouble, but of course what we had all been dreading came to pass..., Coquelin was injured vs West Brom, and has
missed the last
month, and is going to
miss at least two more, I am of the opinion that we would be in a much better position than we are now if Coquelin had stayed fit.