santos gibbs and botelho competing for left back whilst adding a right back to compete
with sagna and jenkinson.
But, credit to Jenkinson, he's stuck in there and -
with Sagna now sadly sidelined for a few months - he's been given another opportunity to show his worth as a first - team player.
With Sagna turning 31 in Febuary and a new deal yet to be signed, Montoya appears an interesting option for Arsenal, even if the Frenchman was to stay.
the third goal was something rather special
with sagna crossing to van persie and he set up a rampaging, yes rampaging, fabregas who slotted it pass the keeper lovely lovely goal.
And I was looking at that interview
with Sagna earlier today.
BACARY SAGNA - 5 - Average defensively, but the main issue
with Sagna was his play going forward.
There were no surprises in the Arsenal line - up,
with Sagna, Arteta, Giroud, Walcott (plus moustache) and Oxlade - Chamberlain all passing fitness assessments to be included in the squad.
I think Monreal did absolutely well, same
with Sagna..
Rumour had it that the Gunners injury list was starting to ease, and so it proved
with Sagna, Henry and Arteta all named on the bench and also the young Frenchman Coquelin was deputising at right back.
With Sagna out I wouldn't change the defence as Jenkinson has proved a little error prone.
England were on course for a quarter - final meeting
with Sagna's France before they were dumped out by the minnows in humiliating fashion in Nice on Monday.
In one or two years, Wenger will move him to Center back like he wanted to do
with Sagna.
And honestly, Debuchy is a total upgrade compared
with Sagna.
Chambers was rash at times debuchy did ok and is easily on a par
with Sagna.
That's mainly because he is a more defensive player and the offensiveness of Debuchy forces teams to not press us so much whilst
with Sagna, teams didn't mind pressing us as we couldn't offensively hurt them.
You can't blame Kos, if he is looking for a big payout at this stage of his career, will Wenger make the same mistake as he did
with sagna??
Jenkinson is expected to become Arsenal's first choice right - back next season
with Sagna, a transfer target for Inter Milan, expected to leave the club in the summer when he will have just 12 months remaining on his contract.
The same applies to Debuchy last year, why let Sagna go free to Manchester city and then go and spend # 12 million on debuchy who is almost the same age and plays the same standard of football
with Sagna.
Oh and he also changed things on the pitch
with Sagna replacing Zabeleta.
Welbeck went toe to toe
with Sagna and went out for almost a year.
He has undoubtedly started that process with the signings of Gabriel Jesus and Leroy Sane to name but a couple, but it remains to be seen how successful he is in continuing that push at the end of the season
with Sagna likely to be the first of many moving on.
Not exact matches
In right back, we replaced Bacary
Sagna with Mathieu Debuchy.
However, City will still be quite strong
with Sterling, De Bruyne, Silva, Fernandinho, Nasri and Bony They also have solid defense
with Kompany, YaYa,
Sagna, Kolarov, Mangala, Clichy.
«We've seen it
with Cesc Fabregas,
with [Bacary]
Sagna,
with Robin van Persie,
with [Gael] Clichy
with [Samir] Nasri.
I have nothing bad to say about
sagna he stuck
with us through the hard times and not only was he loyal he was a top class player.
I bet Kos treasures his 2 FA cup medals
with more personal pride than
Sagna has for his bit - part PL medal.
The Spanish boss is believed to be keen on bolstering his options at right - back,
with both Bacary
Sagna and Pablo Zabaleta in the latter stages of their footballing careers.
At full back both Clichy and Bacary
Sagna continued to be ambitious
with their attacking runs, but now lacked the defensive support previously afforded to Arsenal by a flat midfield four — as a result Arsenal became particularly vulnerable down the flanks.
Sagna was the only starter in that list and we've replaced him
with Debuchy.
Arsenal have been linked
with several right - backs in this summer's transfer window as it looks increasingly likely that Bacary
Sagna will be leaving the club.
However Wenger is confident he can convince Remy to join fellow national team colleagues Laurent Koscielny, Olivier Giroud, Bacary
Sagna and Abou Diaby at the North London club,
with the carrot of Champions League football, if secured, perhaps a likely motivating factor.
With Chambers and Debuchy arguably not of a higher quality than Jenkinson and
Sagna, it leaves Wenger only improving in quality through a substitute goalkeeper and a striker who he is currently playing out of position on the left wing.
Off topic, I'm very glad
Sagna left,
with all due respect.
Arsenal can say that they are quite blessed
with options in the full back position, after things were originally looking relatively bleak when
Sagna announced he was leaving.
However,
Sagna is thought to be keen on staying in England, and will sit down
with City officials after this months FA Cup final to discuss terms on a deal to take him north.
How can you dream of winning the PL
with Hart
Sagna Kolarov Fernando Fernandinho Kompany Demichelis Nasri Jesús Navas Y Touré Agüero Jovetic Dzeko — Silva It just does not make any sense City 0 Stoke 1
I have to disagree
with the article Debuchy is arguably better than
Sagna.
As for the full - back situation though, having released the likes of Gael Clichy, Bacary
Sagna and Pablo Zabaleta, that was always going to be the priority for Guardiola and he has seemingly addressed the left side
with the arrival of Mendy.
With the exception of Ozil and Alexis, nearly all of our purchases have been young players or players brought in to replace outgoing players who have either betrayed the club (
Sagna) or we allowed to move on for first team football (Fabianski).
Gallas (hamstring),
Sagna (knee) and Bendtner (ankle) will all miss this weekend's Barclays Premier League clash
with Everton and next Tuesday's Champions League trip to Fenerbahce.
According to The Telegraph, Bacary
Sagna could be amongst the first group out of the door,
with West Ham United keen on signing the Frenchman.
Arsenal defender Bacary
Sagna is set for talks
with fellow Premier League side Manchester City as negotiations to keep him in north London threaten to break down, according to the Metro.
The strong competition for places at City have not been thought to put him off, and
Sagna's arrival could finally spell the end of Aleksander Kolarov's time at the club as he continues to be linked
with Italian sides Roma and Inter Milan.
He blatantly plays cazorla out of place, sticks
with Giroud, he knew TV5 was leaving all along, he knew
Sagna was leaving last yr so he could've bought a CB and sold sagna then LO
Sagna was leaving last yr so he could've bought a CB and sold
sagna then LO
sagna then LOL....
Jesus just look at his stats since 2007 and get back... And there are lots of decent fullbacks who are not troubled by pace alone and Walcott can't dribble
with ball never could never will... Granted
Sagna ain't one of them and you were probably one of those calling for us to match his daft wage demand as well and upset when he left last year though it only took a19 yr old reserve to demonstrate just how easy it was to replace him....
We let TV go, rightly so, and didn't pay
Sagna with good reason.
Efforts to tie down Bacary
Sagna to a new deal appear to be stalling and
with just months left to run on his current deal Arsene Wenger has drawn up a list of potential right - back replacements and Everton's Coleman sits at the top of the pile.
The Frenchman is a top quality right back, who is chosen over Bacary
Sagna for France when fit, and he has the added bonus of bags of experience;
with 44 Champions League and Europa League games under his belt and 26 full international caps.
We merely replaced
Sagna, Vermalen and Fabianski
with Debuchy, Chambers and Ospina.
We didn't replace Vermaelen and didn't replace
Sagna with same quality