Arsenal will step up their training sessions this week, with the first pre-season friendly against Barnet just 5 days away.
The Gunners welcomed back several first team players today, with the star attraction being Emmanuel Adebayor. However, Carlos Vela made his long awaited return to Arsenal, after being granted a extension on his holiday. This means many of the youth players who trained with the first team, will now return to the Reserves.
The first week of training has seen many of the younger starlets called up to train with Arsène Wenger’s men, as the team eased themselves back into action. After a warm-up with Tony Colbert, the squad would then split into groups for 5-a-side sessions.
White –
Sagna – Fonte – Barazite – Denilson – Randall
Blue –
Lansbury – Ramsey – Clichy – Nordtveit – J.Hoyte
Yellow –
G.Hoyte – Walcott – Rodgers – Diaby – Wilshere
Green –
Simpson – Coquelin – Pedro – Bendtner – Dunne
From the ArsenalTV video of the sessions, Rui Fonte was wearing the number 44, and Gavin Hoyte had number 46. A possible sign they may be ear marked for Carling Cup football. The first day of training always brings some strange hair cuts, and Nacer Barazite’s ponytail was certainly interesting!.
One thing was very impressive, and that’s even though it was just a training game, the boys stuck to the same principles, and played attractive football.
Article By – J.Sanderson
nice.
Good!
Interesting. I wonder what’ll happen to Jay Simpson this season…loaned out again, kept at the club, or sold?
hmm.. I really want to see the training is it on youtube?
and why did adebayor and vela take part in the 5 a side
How did the group of youngsters that went out to germany get on?
Magneto – Its an interesting one, im sure plently of clubs would have been keen to sign him, maybe Wenger wants to keep him.
Dutchmaster – I dont think so, and if they are, then they are a breach of Arsenal’s copyright and will probably be taken down.
Vela & Adebayor only returned today.
J, atletico signed jibril like you said a couple of months ago.
P- M – yep they did, shame really but i can understand him wanted the security of a definate contract.
jay can u bring up the link of where we could watch the under 19 championship u did before and i cant find it thanks
What number did dunne get blud?
Nice one Jay. Some great exposure for the younger guys there. Any idea who’s staying and who’s going back to the reserves?
Louis – i am writing an article all about that now, it will be up in about an hour so dont worry.
OzGoonerGuy – We will find out shortly.
good article J
J do you know if nasri is likly to play against barnet and do you agree with me that we should sell adebayor and use the money to buy arshavin and even have enough to buy santa cruz
os the video from the training on youtube? peace out
goonerguy – He will not be coming back to training to next monday, so nope there is no chance.
I dont want Arshavin, he is a known “party boy” in Russia, i just do not think he is the type of person or player we need.
Dutchmaster – why don’t you sign up to AVTO its only a couple of quid a month and well worth it right now with all the pre-season friendly’s going on…
Can’t wait to see Vela!
I agree I don’t want Arshavin either, he will cost too much and is not what we need, J do you see Wenger moving for midfield or centre back enforcements ?
thanks jay do u think that adebayor might stay since milan are about to buy ronaldinho and barca dont have the funds cause they have just spent 42m on helb and alves they need to sell eto for them to bid for adebayor so this is an intresting space
i would be very upset to see Ade go to another club! jus give the guy more money and dont b so cheap! u would rather sacrifice a unique player than give him a better contract. u wouldn’t think twicw about spending millions on 15 Year old, so why not just spread that sum over a new 5 year contract for manny! we need to keep hold of this guy and not sell him for half price like some papers are reporting. u do not sell ur most valuable assets for half the price, even if it is true and he wants to leave! would milan sell kaka for half price? is this not the club that sold a clapped out motor the chelsea for 30m!
David – yep, i think we have to.
Im sure the boss has his targets, we are only 14 days into the window, and already we have been fairly active.
louis – yep i do, i cannot see him leaving due to our valuation, and the fact the other two clubs are looking for a bargin, and Arsenal will not let them have one.
J whaTs that zenit player not arshavin but ther striker with the long name that no one can say i think we should get him as he would be cheap when compaired to ashavin and would score the goals
thats what i think, David. A centre half of exp[erience and abillity. I for one am happy with the rest. Arshavin is not good enough, we have others in theat position who are as good.
I think you mean Roman Pavlyuchenko?
Barcelona are reported to be eying him.
Hi, i am a regular reader of your column and find the youth players inside track very informative, after all they are our future and its nice to know who is coming through. Barnet on sat cant come soon enough for me, as its an annual thing for the lads to meet up for a few swift halfs, and see some of the first team, new signings and younger players in action. Do you know for sure exactly who did report for training today ?
Pavlyuchenko is from CSKA though isn’t he ?
David – yep i think he meant him, but got confused about clubs.
Pogrebniyak
J, whats your opinion on Rui Fonte? I don’t really rate him and would release him, what do you think ?
J no not Roman Pavlyuchenko he plays for spartak moscow not zenit i mean Pavel Pogrebnyak he was brillant for them last season but got suspended from the uefa cup for too many yellow cards
and Pavel Pogrebnyak was injured for euro 2008
hay J I read this news about Pat rice called to Astonvilla manager Martin and ask woh is the situation with Barry is it true? JS
Just want to say, this is by far the best Arsenal-related blog site around.
No sensationalist headlines looking for hits, just decent articles about things that actually happen!
I can tell that a lot of effort goes in and I just would like to say thanks to J for keeping us all up-to-date with all things Goonerish!
Even the comments section is informative!
Keep up the good work.
here is the link
http://www.premiershiplatest.com/news/aston-villa-boss-o-neill-arsenal-linkup–5512085.html
Hi Martin, its Pat here, whats the situation with Gareth Barry..
Ain’t spoke to the little cunt Pat, I sent him home and banned his face from round here..
Aston Villa boss Martin O’Neill has dismissed the reports of Arsenal trying to hijack Liverpool top-target Gareth Barry, and reportedly instructed the Reds to up their offer for the England midfielder, in an attempt to put an end to the transfer saga.
With the Gunners having lost Mathieu Flamini and now Gilberto looking likely to leave the Emirates Stadium with Panathinaikos and Everton linked, Arsene Wenger is now looking to bring in a central midfielder and reports over the weekend claimed Barry was the target with Justin Hoyte set to be thrown in as the makeweight.
But O’Neill, who reportedly wants £17m plus Steve Finnan from the Reds for Barry transfer, denied there is much substance in the reported Gunners interest in the wantaway Villa captain.
He is quoted in the Birmingham Mail as saying: “It is not true. The situation is very clear. I and Steve Walford know Pat Rice (Wenger’s assistant), and Pat phoned Steve to ask how far the Liverpool thing had gone and that they might show an interest. But the conversation was not very long. There has not been ‘lengthy negotiation’ at all. Absolutely not.
“In fact the conversation, when we discussed our position with Liverpool, Arsenal said: ‘That’s fine’ and they’ll: ‘let us know’. That is exactly what happened.”
intresting statement by martin o neal
It is true they have made a inquiry about the situation about Barry. And i say its.And I say it a good one stape to one my best DM player in the primer league
Louis answered your question there.
and Louis – the article is now added.
http://youngguns.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/u19-championships-merida-gibbs-live-streams/
Pogrebnyak is a monster. My mate is a Zenit fan and would be loath to see him leave the club for anyone. Tall and lanky, he has a great scoring record for his club in league and Europe (UEFA Cup).
Able to score with head and both feet, he is an out-and-out striker. I was told if it wasn’t for his injuries before EURO 08, that he was to be Russia’s lone forward with Pavluchenko pushed back into midfield.
I was just thinking how great it was to have Wenger as manager.
No other manager is so difficult to second guess, the media are always frustrated by Wenger because he is far more intelligent than them.
They love people like Jose and Fergie because they can predict their actions, put them into boxes, guess who they will sign. With Wenger the media know as much as the man at the bus stop, and that’s brilliant because we never know what will happen next!
randall in green, from what I observed. I think i’m not color blinder :)
so do you think thats good for us the fans too Arse&nose
we like to see some supersatrs too
I agree with arse&nose, I remember last year, not a single bean of being linked with Eduardo then one day its on our official site done and dusted !! , whats the biggest signing out the blue for anyone ?
cc – they switched teams, you will notice as the video goes on, different players appear in different colour bibs.
Abnet arsenal, no its not nice at the moment for fans because we are kept in the dark. However as David said, we could have a new unknown star like Eduardo.
Wenger is a magician he can pull a rabbit out of the hat on any given day, which is what makes the summer exciting as well as frustrating.
I completely agree with Arsen’s plan of not baying superstars but some time name is scarier than talent only. Remember in last months Euro 08 games how Cecs has that Charisma of a huge player when he got the chance against Russia he almost made them shiver
Patrick Vieira was completely out the blue..we were told Arsene Wenger is your new manager ..ohh and he’s bringing Remi Garde and Patrick Vieira with him .. :-)
abnet arsenal, Cesc became that after being signed as an “unknown” Wenger made him that name and player..
We need at least one or two big name to ease the presser from Cecs for the next season
Cesc is a superstar now so we have to protect our asset very carefully
I agree that Cesc deserves a quality partner in CM, every season he has played with a different CM partner and to get the best out of him we have to maintain some stability for him.
However quality does not mean big names-as Wenger has stated previously.
has anybody got a link to the 5 a side training matches
I have Arsenal TV, I can’t find the link to the training sessions though! Can someone point me in the right direction?
*Trevor that video is not legal, please do not post copyrighted material*
Any reason why there was no Traore or Song or Steer or Ogogo? maybe they might be sorting out moves away? Traore and Song out on loan…Steer and Ogogo being released?????
Mr Sanderson. Was Lansbury sporting a rather severe barnet??
Blue Team may win, haha…
gogogogogoggogo arsenal!!!!
hi all.. this site is looking nice…sathish
Great site J.
hey everyone !
is it only me who feels a little sorry for luton town?
i somehow feel that as a upstanding member of the premier league our football club should generously loan out 1 or 2 of our youth/reserves in order to gain expierience and to more importantly help them survive the black hole that is gaping.
I don’t have ATVO, does any1 know if we get to see some of this training on the Arsenal TV channel or anywhere else?
cheers in advance
arsenal…..the best foot ball club in EPL!!!
Cesc….ayo…maju terus…………………………….
the young gunners!!!!good luck
RUI FONTE IS THE BEST ARSENAL STRIKER AT THE MOMENT