Morning all.
As expected, we’ve had a few fixture times and dates in January moved to suit television companies.
The first is Liverpool at Anfield. This one has moved from January 12th to the 13th. Kick off now is 8pm on Wednesday evening.
Next is Stoke at The Britannia Stadium. This match has been moved from Saturday the 16th, to Sunday the 17th for Sky Sports. I’m not surprised really after last seasons result but have they forgotten we aren’t too bad on a Sunday afternoon? I’m actually surprised they haven’t moved this one to a lunchtime kickoff…..
Finally, it’s Chelsea. A fixture which now takes place on Sunday 24th instead of the previous day, and this one kicks off at 4pm.
Oh the joy of television eh but selfishly, at least I’ll be able to watch the boys play.
Hopefully we’ll have a fully fit squad by January, maybe even a new signing or two by the time Chelsea roll up at The Emirates.
Talking of injuries, how much do they cost clubs? I found this in the Daily Mail, so I’ve stolen it…
The full cost for clubs last season is detailed in a new UEFA-recognised formula that calculates the monthly costs of an injured player. Results found that Premier League and leading European clubs pay out an average of £413,000 a month for every player injured.
Sergei Palkin, chief executive of Ukrainian high-fliers Shakhtar Donetsk and a former PricewaterhouseCoopers accountant, has come up league of clubs who suffer the most injuries and at what cost.
His calculation considers wages earned by injured players, the costs of treating injuries, insurance premium costs and the financial implications from fielding weakened teams in domestic and European competitions.
The formula has subsequently been scrutinised and accepted by the UEFA Medical Committee.
How exiting, and guess who’s top?
No, it’s not Arsenal, it’s Newcastle with 62 months lost on injuries last season at a calculated cost of £25.6 million. We are a close second with 49 months lost at a cost of £20.2 million. Staggering really.
Bottom of the list sit Chelsea losing just 14 months of injury and at a cost of just £5.78 million.
The entire table is in the Daily Mail if you’re interested..
Matilda Lundblad, a highly-respected club doctor for Swedish outfit Elfsborg, said:
The UEFA Medical Committee now uses this figure, as do other leading medical figures working in football.
The costs really highlight the importance of medical teams within clubs. The clubs with the fewest injuries in the Premier League usually end up among the top teams in the league at the end of the season.
That’s not entirely true is it and we are the perfect example of why it’s not, as are Spurz who sit second from bottom in the table but are seldom found among the top four when the season ends. We however, finish in the top four season after season but imagine how much better we’d do if we didn’t suffer so many injuries.
What I don’t understand is why the club and it’s medical team haven’t yet bottomed out why we suffer more than most of the other clubs in the league. Is it simply down to not warming up properly as suspected in Walcott’s case? Is it down to the manager for overplaying certain players because he hasn’t ensured we have a deep enough squad which would allow more rest/rotation? Or are our forever injured players simply fragile and breakdown all too easily?
Or is it a combination of the above?
I sure wish Arsene Wenger and the medical staff knew the answer and did something about it because if they could, even I’d put a few pounds on us winning the league again..
That’s it for Sunday, have a good day guys and gals…
I’m out for most of the day so apologies if anyone has their comments stuck in moderation…
Morning good people and please pray for Europe. Merkel wants to bring in 800000 refugees from Syria. God help us all.
800.000 ?
https://youtu.be/V8yvZYevR2w
I can’t esoteric for this lid to have an injury free season. Then the world ll see why we call him our very own messi 😀 get well soon Jacky boy.
J.M so I read my friend. So I read. 800000 refugees from Syria gives me the creeps. That’s the sum total of all ISIS members their families and livestock. God help us all.
Heheheheh esoteric? ?? Lid??? God in heaven my phone has ebola I think. That was meant “wait and lad ” yet this fucking phone came up with esoteric and lid 😀
God I give up. Meant to say sheesh. Seriously guys what’s up with auto correct. I personally can’t stand it. Grrrr
Where is everyone?
Goonster.
Adamant 😀
How are you adam?
Please be careful our there buddy. Matter of fact get yourself a gun. Am doing so soon. These guys want to kill us all. Let’s not go down without a fight. ISIS is a cancer eating us all up. Something needs to be done and pronto. Am really worried about the amount of refugees they are allowing into europe.
My mum told me last week she saw a suspicious looking fella loafing about our neighborhood. Then he got into his car and zoomed off without saying a word to the locals. Am petrified adam. Mama is all alone all by herself. Am not there to protect her.
Bloody injuries ?
How about impact tackles on our players during matches and or training.
Quite well thank you Stan. I hope you and Brianna are doing ok.
Perhaps you should live back in Arnhem for a while?
I noticed some suspicious looking people last time I was in your town too. Tall, slim blondes with prominent lips they were.
I’m afraid that us Brits are not allowed to own guns. Thank God.
Stay safe Stan. 🙂
Morning joe you said it. Eduardo and rambo comes to mind. Anyway I believe we can do it this season. Welbeck wilshere and theo ll all be back in the new year for the title push. Am especially excited with wilshere and welbeck’s return. Our bench had looked empty lately. I think we ll see a resurgence of Danny welbeck. You heard it here first. Come on you gunners 😀
Lol adam you old twit 😀
Brits are not allowed to own guns…Yikes I ve been a redneck for too long adam. I forgot all about that. Guess you re right. I ve been thinking about it lately. Moving back home that is.
Morning goonster hope the family are well, looks like Europe are in for whole lot of hurt over next few years sadly.
You said it joe and it’s a scary prospect. These guys kill with impunity. They could just show up and slaughter tens of thousands. Something needs to be done. We re sitting ducks right now. God help us.
What are the odds? ? I just wrote a few minutes ago that I can’t wait go have Jacky boy back and bam he’s due back on boxing day 😀 I can’t wait.
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It will be great to see jack back
Good Morning to The Lady of the House and all fellow Gooners in residence.
Rico – You little minx. “Three Arsenal moves confirmed…” – and here I thought Christmas had come early and old Ebenezer Wenger had bought some players.
Of course, I should have known better. We’ll be left turning in the wind to the last day of the January transfer window to find out IF we have signed anyone at all. Oh well, back into hibernation till the end of the inter-lull.
As for our unending injury crises, I’m sure there are many reasons for them. However, I think much has to do with the quick high tempo game Arsenal like to play, when they are allowed to, and the type of players that requires. Few of our players are what you could call robust in the Tony Adams, Martin Keown, Emmanuel Petit or Patrick Vieira mould. Add to that our reputation for not liking it “up ’em” and our resulting treatment from that, especially ‘oop north’.
Unfortunately, as long as we have Neanderthal managers of the ilk of clueless Tony Pubis and Fat Sam, that shall continue to be the case. I can’t see Arsene or Arsenal, and I wouldn’t want them to, changing their style of play to accommodate coaches and teams like that. God forbid we should turn into Boring Boring Chelski, but even their luck seems to have run out.
I can’t wait joe 😀 he looks world class anytime he’s been on a clean bill of health. Some of his play is Iniesta-esque 😀 plus he ll really thrive wirh our current counter attacking philosophy. Who better to drive down the middle with pace when we break than wilshere. We ll score tons of goals with him through the middle.
Afternoon, Can,t wait to see Jack back too, until he fails to release the ball, instead of giving it and gets chopped down and is out for a further 2 or 3 months.
1 example of our increased likelyhood of continued injuries and how they effect our players.
Danny Welbeck Days missed through injury in 1 year at Arsenal: 189 Days missed through injury in 5 years at Man Utd: 138 Incredible.
As I have said about ,Theo, Wilshere,Welbeck etc, until we see a full season out of these players,
What,s the point in getting excited about them, I just don,t trust them, to take us to the next level.
Until someone is deputised to kick his ankles again .Unfortunately he is a target everytime he plays . Just ask that nice Paddy McNair.
Maybe it,s about intelligence, knowing when to recieve and give the ball, which he can only learn through experience if he can manage to stay fit, we,ve seen players of his style, i.e Iniesta etc, who don,t seem to pick up injuries, but play the same style. only experience can improve his game.
But at the moment he is the most frustrating player at Arsenal.
A very interesting interview with Arsene Wenger, especially the part on how the English game has changed in his twenty odd years at Arsenal.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/475658/Arsene-Wenger-speaks-out-Arsenal-future
I guess everyone is having a long Sunday brunch?
DG – Iniesta may play the same style, but he doesn’t play in the same league. Some of the foreign players never truly adjust to the physicality of the English game.
Afternoon All…
Good post.
Nobody but nobody plays like jack Wilshere in the modern game. The boy is insane! He dives into tackles instead of evading them.
I once said(maybe I exaggerated, yes) that if ever Wenger wanted to play like Barcelona that we have Messi’s clone, maybe a poor man’s version, in Jack. The close control, quick bursts, neat dribbling skills are all present. Even JW’s goal sense will improve even if it’s nowhere near the demi-god’s.The major differences is that Messi is much cleverer…he knows how to evade tackles and when to pass to stay out of trouble.
Makes me wonder – don’t they tell Wilshere in private moments that him and only him will ruin his career!
I just think Wilshere will be plagued with injuries throughout his career.
Obviously knuckle draggers kicking the living day lights out of him isn’t helpful, but I genuinely think he’s another perma crock!
The squad has too many injury prone players and Wenger needs to address this situation. This season he has to win the PL imo and by adding reinforcements in January it could give us the necessary impetus to achieve that!
I’d like to see Messi, on a wet Wednesday evening, up at the Brittania, skipping and dancing as Ryan Shawcross launches into a challenge…
Messi will never play in England…
Because the game here is too physical…
In Spain, Wilshere would be a different player, minus the injuries…
JW is NEVER on the fragile group. He’s far stronger than anyone could imagine. The tackles he lumps into make me lose some heartbeats many times while watching him. The way he plays, it’s a miracle he survives any 90 minutes of football without being stretchered off. Even in training, Wilshere will run risks of career-ending injuries.
Brings me to my earlier question – doesn’t Wenger speak to Jack about the importance of playing safe?.
It was interesting to listen to some of the post match comments following the Spain vs England game…
Seems that despite Hodgson having Barkley, who I like, the player most commentators said that England missed, was Wilshere….
Jack might have ankles like Charlie George, but he remains, imo, England’s most intelligent and technically gifted midfielder…
With Jack, a fit Jack, in the England team, they have a chance.
No Jack means no chance…
Amen Kev!
What stands out from that article CG, apart from playing against the likes of Kendall and Cloughie and to be still going strong today is a testament to the man, but how Ownership of the Clubs have changed over the 20 years from british owned to Russian, Arabic, American and from other parts of the globe, although the so called Foreign owners get at times, bad press, Can,t help thinking if it weren,t for these and their invested money, we might not have the pleasure of seeing the likes of Aguero, Silva, Ozil, Sanchez grace our screens on a weekly basis.
Tai, I agree, it beggars belief, why AW, doesn,t pull Wilshere aside,
I think whether Jack played in Spain or wherever, His game can be at times suicidal, he still has a lot to learn, For the sake of Himself, firstly and the team secondly.
Dublin – Yes, the additional/new money brought in by the new owners does allow us to see those great players. Playing with their like and being coached by the likes of Wenger has also changed the English players and their clubs and their style of play. Like many other things these days, it is a global market and there is no going back.
CG…
Bless you my son…
Do I detect the re-emergence of the Reverend Kev, allezkev’s pious alter-ego?
With that, I’m off for the day.
Has Rico gone walkabout again?
http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jack-wilshere/verletzungen/spieler/74223
Looks pretty fragile to me…..
JW attracts injuries to himself. I’ve never seen Jack pull up during a game based on hamstring..hamstrings, groins suggest fragility.
I’ll say it anywhere any time – there’s not physically fragile about Jack…he’s just excessively careless with contacts…most times he goes into reckless shoulder-to-shoulder challenges with players far bigger. I still remember one tackle against Jurgen Kohler The smallest man on the pitch(Wilshere ) uprooting the biggest man (Kohler), who fell as if pole-axed. No fragile player does that!.
Evening guys…
Not walkabout Cg, just sometimes I have a day with the family… Think I might have a few more when the international breaks are taking place…. Lol
Didn’t Arsene Wenger say recently that Jacks injury problems are down to playing too many games when he was young?
I’ve equally read Wenger suggesting JW should maybe go easy with challenges when he gets over his present injury.
Just watched Cristiano Ronaldo on the JR show. He’s quite a nice guy….
Sorry to trump you rico but just watched Kermit on the Muppets show, looks like he’s finally given in to Miss Piggies advances and moved in with her, never saw that coming.
🙂 Micko….
Night guys…
Fozzie Bear with be heartbroken…
Night All
will be, even…
Lee 😀
Morning….
New post up.