Frimpong could be out for the season and Squillaci could be on his way 19 August, 2010
Posted by lasagnechef in Arsenal News.trackback
Bad news is breaking this afternoon that Emmanuel Frimpong has done his cruciate ligaments and will be out for 9 months (the whole season). The story is spreading on twitter and Young Guns are reporting it too. He’s with the reserves in Ireland for a mini-tournament out there with United’s reserves and Shamrock Rovers but obviously wont play any part after this bad injury in training.
Frimpong played a large part in pre-season this year and was looking to break into the first team as cover for Alex Song but it looks like that’s not going to happen until the 2011/12 season now. It’s such a shame to get an injury like this and I hope he can fulfil the potential he has shown in the future. There’s no official word on this yet from Arsenal.com but I’m expecting something soon, the initial diagnoses says he’ll be out until May so I’m not counting on seeing anything from him again this season.
Edit: It’s official. Six to nine months they say.
So that leaves us a bit short in defensive midfield, our back up to Song is… no one. Wenger will play Denilson there no doubt but I still can’t agree that he can play there. However I don’t think that means Arsene will buy anyone other than a defender or a goalkeeper this transfer window. Denilson will get game time there, whether we like it or not and there’s Craig Eastmond who broke into the side last year but looked like being overtaken by Frimpong this season; this might be Eastmond’s chance to establish himself now.
In transfer news we’ve had a bid turned down for Sevilla’s Sebastien Squillaci. He was left out of the side’s Champions League qualifier against Braga to avoid being cup-tied and Sevilla have confirmed that it was due to an approach from Arsenal. They have described the current offer as ‘insufficient’ but their decision to allow Squillaci to sit out last night’s game leads to me believe they will listen to further offers for him. He’s 30, which would be an unusual signing for Wenger, but we have lost a lot of experience in defence with Campbell, Gallas and Silvestre all moving on. Squillaci has won a lot of trophies in his career so maybe Arsene has seen that as a quality he thinks we need to add to our squad.
He wont be coming in as first choice, but instead a direct competitor for Djourou and Koscielny to be Vermaelen’s partner. That will be really healthy for the squad to have those three fighting to make the first team. Other clubs would just splash out £20m or £30m if they needed a first choice central defender but we can’t really justify spending that much on one player, as much as I’d like to see us make a bold move in the transfer market like that I just don’t see us doing it at the moment. This could be a good addition if it does go through and it would mean we have 4 decent centre backs in the squad. Squillaci plus one more would be perfect but we’ll see how this story develops.
Finally today, it looks like Lansbury could be joining Watt on loan at Leeds and Jay Simpson is close to securing a transfer to Hull.
Tomorrow will be Arsene’s pre-Blackpool press conference so expect to hear a load of news on Nasri, Frimpong, Schwazer and Squillaci. This is the second day in the row I’ve had to report an injury so hopefully no more tomorrow Arsene.
Thanks for reading.
I dont understand how youngguns could know within few hours the severity of the injury lets just wait and see
Such a shame for Frimpong, if true.
However, I don’t believe Wenger will buy anyone to replace him, simply just promote from within ala Craig Eastmond or possibly we may have a look at Chuks Aneke.
Anthony Annan of Rosenborg,buy him now.
blackpool this weeked, we cant underestimte them..coman arsenal!
cruciate ligaments is usually quite long term so that a realistic timeframe to be out – poor kid
official on arse.com
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/frimpong-suffers-injury-to-knee-ligaments
“blackpool this weekend, we cant underestimate them”
Yes we can underestimate them because we are Arsenal and we should hammer them at least 3-0 but hopefully 4 0r 5.
If we cant expect to beat teams like them then it really is time to give up.
Get a brain zap!
just fuck off you negative cunt
time to give up? its the end of the world if we dont beat them…agh ur just a peice of shit just shut up, nobody ever wants your opinion. ever. so fuck off. you prick
WELLINGTON DE SILVA will do the business in 2011.
Forget blooding him in the reserves he will be straight into the first tem.
This fella is mustard and i mean MUSTARD!!!
hes siiick
Frimpong’s injury is just unfair for a player of his age, his season is broke and god knows when he will be back fully shaped.
Anyway, Squillaci would be a very good signing, before yesterday not many people knew him and many were saying that he was just another unknown french man but his footballing career is more important that what people think, he played for very good sides so far, Seville, Lyon and Monaco are not bad teams, he played the CL nerlay every year and even went to final with monaco in 2004. Hope we will get him.
As for Blackpool, comon you gunners.
Zap you dick for brains
you should stay in your bedroom tossing off with your imaginary friend on your shoulder because the real world would be too much for you.
stick to harry potter fuck face!
“blackpool this weekend, we cant underestimate them” lol!
you really are a fucking idiot!
what the FUCK happened when we played hull city 2 seasons ago. We bloody lost 2-1 if your short memory span can recall.
we cant underestimate them!!!
aw your so funny man im sure youve cracked many people up with that comment
and havent u used the extremely hilarious and demeaning ”imaginary freind” joke a bit too much, maybe choose something else to try and insult me with
………..and now we are after a 30 year old for 6 mil and a 37 year old for 2 mil maybe youre right we cant underestimate blackpool!! Fuck me the world is going to end!!!!
all i can say is after getting to know ur intelligence and personality, there is something horriby wrong with ur mom for concieving such a prick.
should have a decent team out tomorrow even with the injuries we are carrying. im going for
Almunia
clichy
djourou
vermaelan
sagna
rosicky
wilshire
diaby
arshavin
chamakh
walcott
i dont think he will risk the others unless the shit hits the fan
no more proof is needed, nobody can argue,this summer transfer dealings prove it. wenger is not living in the real world. we will never never win anything worthwhile with this bizarre man in charge. go to auxerre and ponce about. we want a team to be proud of. gave up my season ticket like all the 80s crewe have. this is no longer arsenal we loved. r.i.p beer buzz smell of horseshit north london boys pride. fuck off wenger and your clueless apologists who stole our club.
never has a true-er word been spoken on this one eyed biased blog for kids that cant sse the light!