Morning all,
Highly-rated Nigerian defender Godfrey Oboabona is set to join the club on trial, and he’s all set to do what it takes to make this time count.
The centre-back impressed for his country during the African Cup of Nations and has attracted interest from clubs around Europe, but has said that Arsenal are his boyhood club and would therefore be his first choice.
The 22-year-old told who currently plays for Sunshine Stars, as a defender professes to be a long time supporter of Arsenal:
Arsenal are my favourite club from childhood. It is the club I want to play for.
Ah, one of those eh, but, he’s a wanted man:
I already have offers from the top five leagues in the world. But like you know the transfer window had closed by the time the Nations Cup ended.
If I want to make any move now then it would be to an African country, and I don’t want such a move when I have offers from Europe.
So, I would rather wait until the summer and make the right choice instead of rushing into any move.
However, in the meantime, he is on his way to The Emirates and history suggests, he could be the one who ticks the boxes for Arsene Wenger.
I know nothing about the player, so as far as how good or bad he is, I can’t comment. But if he impresses, I strongly suspect he’ll be our first capture of the summer transfer window.
Andreas Cornelius is another rumoured to be on Wenger’s radar. The 20-year-old striker from Denmark scored in Saturday’s 3-0 win over the Czech Republic and is valued at around £5m. Stoke are reported to be keeping an eye on him too.
One who maintains he;s not going to be the first departure of the summer is Wojciech Szczesny – he’s clearly full of support for his current manager but you wouldn’t think he’d be trying a lot harder to straighten things out after Papa Szczesny dropped him in the mire?
Making comments like these about this current squad will hardly help his cause:
I can’t imagine it here without the manager. With all due respect to my team-mates it was easier to work with Dennis Bergkamp, Robert Pires and Thierry Henry.
We have a strong squad now, but there is no player of Henry’s class.
Not sure his team-mates will be too chuffed either!!
Stuart Pearce is hoping to nab Oxlade-Chamberlain away from Roy Hodgson’s squad. The under 21’s have a European Championship in Israel this summer and Pearce wants him to be part of that rather than waste his time being involved in friendlies for his country.
All that’s left is to wish the under 19’s the very best of luck in their NextGen quarter-final fixture which takes place tonight at The Emirates Stadium.
Kick-off is at 7pm and tickets are available at £4 General sale Adults/£2 General sale U16’s
COYR’S
That’s about it for another day, have a good one all…..
hello Rico – good to see all the world class ‘make a real difference’ quality being lined up
Oz, no world class players, even if actually on our radar, are going to be mentioned now.
You bloody cynic 🙂
Evening mate.
Morning everyone else.
how are ya buddy?
Morning Oz, Scott and all…
:), Isn’t it just Oz
Bloody hot here guys.
It has been 30 odd degrees for the last 4 days, and humid.
Morning all.
To be fair Chesney’s spot on and he shouldn’t be afraid to say so just because his dad mouthed off.
Agreed Bendtner.
We do all have a chuckle when Wenger tells us how good the squad is, so we can hardly condemn someone for telling the truth.
Ramsey is close, but even he has a step or two before he can be compared with the great ones 🙂
Going to be a heatwave here in the Uk too Scott,
After the snow and ice this week of course…
Bg, I too think he’s spot on, but sometimes there are things best kept to oneself, and I think that’s one of them…
And, some might say, he’s no David Seaman or Jens either…
Lol Rico.
I know.
I shouldn’t really complain, buy i hate the humidity.
Humidity is horrid Scott… But the heat is nice 😉
It’s true he’s no Seaman rico but like the other names he mentioned we have current players with the potential to be up there. I see no harm in the occaisional reality check as all too often I feel that some of our boys think they have already made it.
Bg – But should that come from one of the players and to the press?
That’s the bit I’m not so keen on..
Heatwave in London Rico is to hit double figures for a long weekend…!
Not this weekend Wath 😉
And it’s for 4 days Wath 😉
Maybe August Bank holiday Rico….? 😀
That sounds more likely Wath….
Hi all,
Been in the 30’s here too last week, bit cooler today though, 26 degrees.
Are the youngsters playing at the Emerates and it’s 3 pounds entry? Thought I read that somewhere.
Well good luck to them.
Hi Brad.
They are definitely playing at the Ems, the prices I got for afc.com…
Win tonight and Chelsea up next
Adam will be devastated… Carol Vorderman has broken her nose…. Least it won’t affect her rear of the year…!
Fair enough Rico. I just kinda like knowing for sure that not everyone in the dressing is content with the current situation.
😆 Wath. Poor CV..
So they shouldn’t be Bg, but all Ches is doing is giving the press another stick to beat us with…
But I see your point too, wonder how many more feel that way and how many are fed up with team-mates soft performances…
+32c to -2c in 10hours……..
Welcome back Lee, bit of a shock to your system I bet …
More so to the pricks that were wearing shorts and flip-flops…..but freezing all the same! 🙁
Ah stop ya whingeing Lee…….
Mondays are shite at the best of times, let alone after 10 days in the Maldives….feeling fucking grumpy today! Humbug……..
Fancy wearing shorts home Lee… 😉
Brighten up Lee, freezing temperatures and snow forecast for Easter…
I know Rico what bloody idiots!
But did you have a lovely time Lee? Even though you are now and old grump 😉
Absolutely brilliant time….
1m for a player that i think knows his trade…i will take him…unlike others,i think we hav three good defenders in kos,mert and verm…in as much our nigerian guy is not bought to be thrown into deep..let go for him
good morning rico and other HH’ers..it been a long
seems woj is unsettled….i don’t see many top clubs that would accept him as their NO1…….and if he don’t know,we are missing seaman and lehman class
it been so quiet here..when is the interlull ending
Good to hear, bet you struggled with the clear waters, golden sands and sunshine…..
Hi kc, last matches tomorrow I think then Reading at home on Saturday. Just hope the players come through without injury…
Few tough fixtures tomorrow I think…
Off out into the cold with the woofa…
Catch up later…
rico,
i’m not a fan of international games especially when it had done more harm to Arsenal than good although i will be watching Giroud break spain heart and ox add to his international goal tally….heard Monreal will play for spain…does that mean gibbs at lb against reading
goodluck to next gen lads….hope that Bellerin will have a cracker
The next gen game tonight is being shown on Arsenal player .
There are also other links , where is Emma when you really want her.
Reports say CSK are redhot fav to win the compitition outright, and this could a very hard game for our lads.
Carol Vorderman has broken her nose
Probably had her laugh lines botoxed and a tummy tuck at the same time.
Anyway it might keep her off our screens for a few weeks.
Internationals are dull;
Mario Balotelli scored a screamer;
Schezney might be right but it all confirms the rumor that his team mates dont like his corkiness and over confidence , so he is fighting back;
The Nigerian defender looks super relaxed and easily takes off players twice his size and didn’t let Drogba get a sniff of the ball in the AFCON. Drogba had to congratulate him after the game;
Wenger has started re-organizing then, good to know;
England might loose or draw on Tuesday ;
I hate them all too kc, all they do is cause injury to our players, and watching England these days is awful…
Rick, I suspect emma will be about before the game kicks off..
How rude of me, hello all…
Potter, I take it you are not a fan….
SD, so this Nigerian player is good? Better than Squiili 😉
Mos Definitely. better than Squilli but he might be surprised when he meets the animals of Stoke and Sunderland and the rabbits of Man City in Aquero and Tevez or the betraying left foot of Robin V’ungrateful.
Then his AFCON trophy winning performance will be tested.
Plus if he is bullish enough , he will be better than even Vemalen.
Have you notice our guys collected more yellow cards than Bayern Munich in the last game ?
Even Mathersacker now dives at any shot, Koscieny has always being the only bullish defender we have and he has been rewarded.
If the captain doesn’t play on Saturday , I think that will be it off to Barcelona I guess.
I heard Fabregas was rubbish in their international game but all of Spain was rubbish anyways with Carzola an exception 🙂
But really, why is Fabregas’ game going down lately ?
Has it got anything to do with the fact that he snatched a millionaire’s wife and he keeps watching his back even on the pitch?
Boo!! How is everyone? rico, if we struggle to find things to talk about on intersnooze, imagine what off season would be like. Eeeeek. 😀
I have never heard of Oboabona. i’m sure I’m not the only one. 😛
If anyone interested the @JackWilshere twitter account is legit and he’s back on there…!
sd london
fab is going downhill coz like flamoney..he realy should had stayed at Arsenal…career wise..it would had been btter for him maybe trophy wise…………….
But if he can stop Drog SD 😉
Fabregas needs a wash, just ask agag 😉
Hi agag, how’s you?
I hadn’t either agag…
I didn’t know Jack was off twitter Wath..
Kc, someone here said Flamoney is playing really well now, haven’t seen him so can’t comment…
Decided on Fab then , he needs a wash .
We were lucky to get Carzola damn we would have been really white washed in the PL and be probably 13th now.
Giroud is becoming valuable now and Wenger knows it, his assists are match winners.
Strange to have a striker that might be better for the team other than scoring.
😆 SD re Fab
Not sure Giroud is that good 😉
Off the goal 😀
COYR’s
NextGen: Watch arsenal u21 vs cska u21 here http://nutjob.eu/njtv1.html
enjoy 🙂
Dinner calls….
Thanks emma 🙂
Any score guys??
HT: arsenal 0-0 Cska
Arsenal playing pretty well. Cska playing on the counter
Thanks emma. I have checked the link, it keeps jumping/asking for me to download stuff 🙁
Evening Rico.
Evening Adam.
rico – there are tiny close buttons on the pop ups. You will need to close one after the other
I have emma, it’s the last one i don’t like the look of 🙁
Good goal by Gnabry
1-0 😛
rico – the last one doesn’t go off. You will need to maximize the screen with the icon that looks like a monitor on the right hand side of the player
That should have been 2-0
All done emma, thanks 🙂
We still winning?
Off to watch the rest and then catch up with the soaps..
Night Adam, Emma and all…
‘Til tomorrow….
Hi Kev. 1-0 🙂
Nighty….
Cheers boss….
Roll on Saturday…
Great result boys….
Now I’m definitely gone…..
Roll on indeed Kev. Go steady…
FT: arsenal 1-0 cska
Nighty night rico and everyone
The kids did well…. Should of been more than 1-0 played very well…!
For Godfrey Oboabona, he’s a nice CB, he played 6games in the African Nations cup and the team scored 11goals and consided 4 (2run of play, 1pen& 1freekick)
There a re a few good players in that next gen squad, question is can they kick on now and push to get into the 1st team….?
Akpom looks a proper player and Angha more a left winger than a fullback he caused havoc going forward.
Obaobona is only on trial and, if you ask me, he is unlikely to come in to replace any of the defenders we have now, except maybe, Squillaci or Miguel. He is still raw and may be a letter fit for Eastern Europe or at best, France (no disrespect, but I’d hate to see the lad come to Arsenal and not fulfil his potential for lack of playing time.
*any of the top 3 defenders we have*
Nice win by the kids, by the way. Now, for the chavs. It’s going to be from a Moscow based Russian side to one based in west London! 😉
Morning all…
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