Morning all.
Arsenal announced yesterday that Martin Odegaard sustained a medial collateral ligament injury to his left knee during the first half in Saturday’s win over West Ham United. It’s a common injury in contact sport and occurs when the knee pushed/knocked inwards, towards your other knee. In Odegaard’s case, his knee collided with Crysencio Summerville‘s knee with him coming off worse. Sod’s Law eh!
Whether our captain will need surgery or not remains to be determined but having read about this type of injury online, if it’s not a bad one, he could recover quite quickly.
Better news for Declan Rice as his bad back isn’t bad enough to keep him from going away with England although I’d like to think Thomas Tuchel will use him wisely. Same with Bukayo Saka, Myles Lewis-Skelly and Eberechi Eze. England are playing Wales and Latvia with only the latter being a competitive fixture.
I read somewhere that Tuchel has suggested that Lewis-Skelly not playing regularly for Arsenal could affect his England career long term.
It maybe become a problem for him, yes. To just be a good citizen in camp will not be enough over the course of a year. He was a very good player in camp, a very good team-mate in camp. But to just be a good team-mate can maybe not be enough to stay the whole year with us.” Of course, you have to perform at club level on a regular basis. At the moment, in the last camp he got the credit that I was convinced we have to take care of him and nominate him, because we accelerated his career.”
“It was our responsibility to call him into the camp in the first place at the end of last season. He was now part of a very successful camp, so he gets the reward. But, as you remember, he was not part of the 20-man squad in Serbia.”
Personally, I find Tuchel’s view bonkers. On one every football fan wants to see their club manager rotate his players regularly to avoid fatigue and injury then you have an international manager suggesting otherwise. What is it with international managers who think they can put such pressure on footballers? Perhaps in this case, Tuchel should concentrate on his England job and squad selection because watching his team play is about as boring as watching paint dry!
A bit like Man City were yesterday by all accounts as they huffed and puffed their way to a 1-0 win against Brentford. Newcastle won the rugby match at St James Park between themselves and Nottingham Forest piling more pressure on Big Ange early in his new job and in the other games, Aston Villa beat Burnley 2-1, Wolves v Brighton ended 1-1 but the shock of the afternoon was at the Hill Dickinson Stadium where Everton beat Crystal Palace 2-1.
That’s this league for you though, any club/team can beat another if it’s their day and it was certainly Jack Grealish’s day.
Catch up in the comments…
Good morning Rico.
I would guess that we are unlikely to see Odegaard in action before Christmas. Knees are complicated joints and can take ages to heal. I have done medial ligaments in both knees due to skiing accidents and was off work for months in both cases.
Tuchel is locked into just one thing, The World Cup, win that and the World is his oyster. Player welfare is way down his priority list.
Just as well we bought EZE then and maybe this is Nwaneri’s chance for minutes. All we need is for them all to come back from international managers unscathed.
Afternoon Potter, Cicero.
Quiet day, I had to head back to my old stomping ground for the day. Thankfully, the roads were clear with a good journey each way.
Nothing much happening in the Arsenal Universe.
Good night Gooners, everywhere. 😴
Night Cicero..
A little argument about the clubs support of the manager and the way their spin doctors are peddling success. They have listed the number of games won during the first 300 games and compared his record with 6 previous managers
Effectively it shows that statistics can be moulded to prove anything if you shape them to prove your point.
These figures merely say something that is undeniable . Over a certain period our present manager has been the most successful in terms of won matches to those played.
It doesn’t state the number of trophies gained in that time ,
If you look at their chart Wenger won 4 plus 2 charity shields
Graham and Mee 3 each
Whittaker and Chapman 2 plus 1
Neill 1 plus 2
As Mark Twain said Lies damn lies and statistics, it all depends on how you spin them.
Totally agree, success is about trophies and not imo, how many fixtures are won out of 300.
Arteta has changed the club a lot, but to suggest he’s our most “successful” is bonkers..
I see that millionaire property developer Gary Neville took a Union flag down from one of his building sites, I wonder if he would have taken it down if it was a Hamas flag?
Don’t get me started on Neville, Sky should sack him imo.
I’m not sure that Roberto di Matteo, Ange or Erik ten Hag would necessarily agree because did they not win trophies but eventually lost their jobs because their teams awful performances in the league?
Sky are cut from the same cloth Rico
According to radio reports there were 3 flags and he only removed one .Not confirmed .
I’d imagine that Gary Neville doesn’t employ white British workers because of their racist views but probably employs Eastern Europeans because they’re libertarian and more importantly cheaper.
Afternoon Rico and all.
I hate these break so early in the season, interm’s of judgeing a managers success, I look at the silver wear won,
This is the same Gary Neville who, on Have I Got News For You in 2022, was skewered by Ian Hislop for his hypocrisy for condemning human-rights abuses in Qatar at the same time as agreeing to be the face of World Cup coverage for BeIN Sports, the Qatar state-owned TV network.
That’s because unlike them Kev, Arteta had a “project”, or was it a process? 😜
Indeed they are re Sky..
The same Neville who played for England yet never sang the national anthem apparently.
Hi Geoff.
It’s a process Rico and it’s why all our best players are renewing their contracts. 😉
Not knocking it Kev, it’s just Arteta had a plan, those other clubs and managers were making it up as they went along.
You know what? Arteta is the only manager in the Premiership who has never been sacked.
😂😂
It is reported that Arsenal have rewarded Raya with a new deal. Improved pay but no extension to his present contract which runs until 2028 however, there is a clause allowing for an extension.
That’s good news…
Arsenal Women are playing tonight in the Women’s Champions League. To watch the game you need a subscription to Disney Plus. Best part of a tenner a month. Another rip off channel showing mostly old junk movies and other trash. That’s not for me.
Commentary available on BBC radio 5 live.
Cicero….. Pep Guardiola..!
Oops, there’s a new post up… 😂