Young Guns has learnt that Arsenal have added 17 year old Frenchman Francis Coquelin to the travelling party for tomorrow’s pre-season certain raiser against Barnet.
Arsenal.com confirmed the news we told you two months ago that Coquelin has signed for the club, but it is thought the deal was only announced today to avoid confusion ahead of the 3pm kick off tomorrow.
It’s not known if he 17 year old all action defensive midfielder will feature, although his late inclusion would seem that Arsène Wenger already has his plans fixed for the game. Just travelling with the squad will offer a fantastic experience for the France Under 17 International who joined Arsenal on a free transfer.
Both sides have opted to play in the classic 1-11 shirts, with the substitutes wearing 12-25. It is not know if Coquelin’s promoting is as the result of any injuries, but we believe he has been added on his own merit.
You can read a complete Match Preview ahead of the game Here, and a Profile on Francis himself by clicking his name at the start of the article.
Article By – J.Sanderson
excellent site mr. J
Thank you Jrgen!
J have you heard the rumour that we are about to try to snap up Sebastian Giovinco?
I have some info on that, i will publish it tomorrow evening, after my match report from Barnet.
I would love Giovinco to come to Arsenal, he’s like the next maradona, check my post on thegoonerforum on him.
I hope it happens because Giovinco amazing
I have to laugh as this was mentioned some 5 hrs ago on Arsenal TV. Tom Watt mentioned that Vela would not be involved against Barnet and that Coquelin was to be included. So as well as young guns finding out about this story, lots of others did as well lol
Love this site J. its like you’re the AW of bloggers with your expertise being young players!
Interesting remarks made in an interview with AW on Arsenal channel. He made remarks about “killing young players” and that Ramsey may end up as a central mid.
Would I be silly to forsee a promotion from within for a DM? Diaby/Denilson/Song?
You could also seem very confident Birscoff (spelling) is coming. He maybe in the mix provided he has a good spell in the reserves Sept-January.
Although we can’t/don’t compete for the superstar signings its good to know we are heavyweights when it comes to signing the very best @ 17-21.
sanderson i dont have arsenal tv so is vela gonna be included cus the guy above me ‘abc’ is sayin he isnt n do u rate mark randall do u think he will make it at arsenal?
abc – Thank you for clearing up the source of the info, i was not aware they broadcast it.
Alex from CV News told me about an hour ago he wouldnt be playing, so it seems not.
I like Randall alot yeah, but in midfield we are very full.
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Hey jay good work! How you doing? Ive read that sotiris ninis could have been part of berto move?(explaining his gpb 1.2M FEE)
who is this Giovinco? iv never heard of this guy
can any1 answer my question about vito mannone is he an an italian youth international and if so which age group?
Giovinco is a young attacking midfielder signed with Juventus. Really small but very very skilfull and swift! He’d be a nice buy. Wonder why Vela isn’t gonna play tomorrow. Anybody know?
Vito Mannone is not a youth international nope.
can someone find oit why vela is not playing v barnet
he is on vacations!!!
I really can’t find any streams. I can only find ManU and L’pool. It’s a shame, i’ve been waiting ages. :D
I was actually surprised that Vela was named in the squad to begin with as he only recently rejoined the team and he played WC qualifiers over the summer. We’ll just have to be patient for a little longer I suppose.
Seedorf – http://livefooty.doctor-serv.com/
Mitch, thank you sooo much. :D
No problem mate.
Vela is taking a holiday after organizing his accomodation in London.
Just a question mitch, Is this the actual site or will they have links to follow?. :D
The exact link for the stream is http://livefooty.doctor-serv.com/sat19.7/Barnet_Arsenal.html
Alright, do i have to wait until the match. Or can i click it now so the Window doesn’t get full :D
You can click now I think, but you may as well wait until 10-20 minutes before the match.
Thanks again Mitch. :D
http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=14912&part=sports
heres another link
Vela won’t Be playing :(
wotz up co.?welcome to the home of footy.
go do your thing.
Now that rosicky is still injured untill september I think the starting line up for WBA (if no one else gets injured) will be:
Almunia
Sagna K. Touré Gallas Clichy
Walcott Fabregas Denilson Nasri
van Persie Adebayor
subs: Fabianski, Eboué, Song, Diaby, Ramsey, Vela, Bendtner
What will be Wenger’s surprise signing?!!
Seedorf, Guardado, Arda Turan, Toulalan or is it just going to be Bischoff :P
Mouhsin, If only we had Seedorf :D
Haha well maybe he’ll be unsettled now that Ronaldinho signed and we can get him on the cheap to play a few seasons for us… Would be great, he can teach the youngsters too! But highly unlikely to happen…
Really looking forward to this game now. Only 1 and a half hours to go, dnt rly care which players play, just cant wait too see some Arsenal lads step out onto a pitch again and do their beautiful thing. It would be nice too see some of the young lads get a run out and they always do against Barnet, id love it if some of the new players get on aswell.
Id also like to take this oppertunity to to say i FUCKING HATE CAMPING. Im covered in Mosquito bites, scabs, scin peel thanks to three layers of sun burn, and a massive ball of puss (its not that big now) attached to my lip thanks to a wasp that thought i needed to be woken up at 8 in the mornin with a nice sting smack on the lips. Ive even got a bite on the Arse and ill tell u summin for nothin, its not fun.
Johnny Mav! I feel for you mate, but who the hell goes camping man?!! Go get yourself a proper hotel next time! anyway is the game going to be 3 pm Amsterdam/paris (western europe) time?!!
Remember, it’s festival season, only real reason for camping.
Just been watching youtube clips of the great barca strikers, stoichkov, messi, eto’o, romario, maradona, and that bojan looks like he is gonna be some player. I wish we produced players like Bojan and Messi. Excited as I am about Wilshere and Barazite, man do I wish we’d be able to come up with Bojans. If only le boss offered them Ade + 10m for Bojan, life would be sweet.
Samuel, how do you know we’re not about to produce someone even better than Bojan?
are the Sebastian Giovinco rumours tue?
Passenal – That’s so true. The prospect of that happening should excite/scare football fans, depending on their allegiance.
Samuel – Bojan is an exceptional talent but it is the only talented striker Barcelona has produced since years. Before him there was Eto’o, Kluivert, Ronaldo, Romario. Messi was bought as a massive talent who could have gone to allmost any club in the world. Johan Cruyff has set up a great youth policy at Barcelona. The focus is on technique and passing and you can see how great Barcelona players are at that. I think Wilshire and Barazite will have a good chance of becoming future stars, no less than Bojan and Messi.
Dutchmaster – I can’t see an italian player (they don’t leave they’re country often) who’s already been told that he’s going to get a chance at Juventus and likely the successor of Del Piero to join us. I would prefer Andres Guardado who looked great alongside Vela in the Mexico squad. I would love to see him at Arsenal… He’s already proven himself at the highest level becoming an instant favourite at Deportivo. Establishing himself in the Mexico squad. The only thing that’s missing is a manager who can make him in a superstar…
good preview
Is Rhys Murphy playing today J?
Sebastian Giovinco would’nt be ideal for. A good player he is but the fact that we have so many short players already having Sebastian Giovinco as well would not be good. Imagine a team of walcott giovinco, rosicky, fab, ramsy, nasri, wiltshire… Where’s the height!!
Messi was bought as a massive talent who could have gone to allmost any club in the world.
Mouhsin said this on July 19, 2008 at 12:21 pm
I know, I know that we are close to creating superstars, it’s just watching those videos you can’t not wish we had them. It’s not true about Messi though, he was bought at 9 as just a talented argentanian with growth problems. Barca made him the star.
Walcott is very similar to Messi, i know hes not close to him yet but if he keeps improving he can become a very similar player to him for Arsenal. He can even catch Messi up in terms of quality as at the moment Walcott creates problems for himself in his lack of composure and tactical awereness, something i feel he has really improved on over the last couple of months of the season and i hope we see more of that improvement next season.
Watching the pre-match talk now, rly (and probably stupidly) exited, just feels great to get those pre-match jitters again, a mixture of exitement, expectations and pessamistic forboding, its not that bad cuz its just a friendly but still, great feeling.
Thanks for ur sympathy btw Mouhsin, my whole family hates camping cept my mom who forces us (and she wears the pants in the house so what she says goes…or else).
Mav: Theo looks like he could be great but Messi eclipses ‘great’. Theo does look he will be amazing though.
I’m just saying, and we have talked about this before, that’s it’s very frustrating being at the start of the academy process. Barca have failed in the past to produce strikers but have refined the process and are now starting to churn out beyond excellent strikers. How long ago was it Cruyff revamped the academy? 20 years ago? So we are say 10, 15 years behind. Our first steps look very similar (focus on technique that made the likes of pep and our current midfield younsgters) and hopefully the learning process will start to bring top class quality in all positions as we figure out how to distribute our learning across the pitch.
I am also way too excited about this game. 3-0 with a goal from someone who hasen’t scored prof. for us yet.
Alunmnia sagna, clichy norveidt hoyte ramsey traore denilson lansbury walcott bendtner
Hmmm no Vela and no Barazite :S too bad! But great line up though I really look forward to seeing Denilson, Lansbury and Ramsey!
Almunia
Sagna Hoyte Nordveit Clichy
Ramsey Denilson Lansbury Traore
Walcott Bendtner
Great line-up, Sagna is my new hero after last season so i cnt wait to see him, it’ll be great to see all of them to be honest, Clichy is the only one im not exited about, not cuz i dnt rate him, hes world class, i just know him 2 well, there again, who else do we have for left back? Answer: Not very much.
Wilshire on the bench. Lets hope he gets one in and it’ll be the beggining of Arsenals england prodigy. Potentialy outstanding player.
Can we please get rid of Hoyte already though? Mo’N wants him, we want Barry and none of our fans really want to see him in our team again (against Barnet it’s ok).
Can’t wait to see Lansbury and Ramsey. I assume this is similar to what our CC team will be. Well, except Hoyte/Eboue for Sagna, Fab for Al, Traore/Gibbs/Vela and no Clichy…
Mav: Wilshere is still very young though, give him time. :D Nacer scored this time last year and still isn’t close to the first team so patience is the keeeeeeeeeeeey.
“Wilshere is still very young though, give him time. :D Nacer scored this time last year and still isn’t close to the first team so patience is the keeeeeeeeeeeey.”
Lol, i know but ive fallen in love with him already, loved watching him for the reserves and i truely believe he can be massive. I know it’ll take time thou, hes small but strong and technically extreamly gifted.
Nice to see Simpson, to be honest i didnt rate him but ive been going over old footage of the reserve side ive seen alot of what hes done and hes very, very good. Whether or not he’ll make it, i duno but ive come round to the idea of keeping him and i believe hes worth a bit of patiance. James dunne is another thats grown on me, if he works really really hard he can be a great player, lacking in many ways but on his day he really stands out.
I don’t know why so many people criticise J Hoyte, he is a very decent player and good backup for the first team. Although his chances may be limited and would probably be first team for a mid table/UEFA cup team he has stayed and fought for his place, doesn’t act like a spoilt brat and always looking to improve. He has had quite a few good games (as well as some bad ones) but if he can find some consistency he would be good. Man U last year, although he didn’t have the best of games he was often let down by the rest of the defence and the midfield in front of him
Which Hoyte is playing? If it’s Justin, do you think he is the reason why Arsene isn’t signing a CB? *shudder*
Bojan is overrated.
kit actually looks good aswell, hated it when i first saw the pics but it looks alright now the plays walk out in it.
is vela in the squad havent seen him yet?
“Which Hoyte is playing? If it’s Justin, do you think he is the reason why Arsene isn’t signing a CB? *shudder*
Bojan is overrated.”
It is Justin, hes a player that has failed as far as im concerned, mentally not strong enough and never let his technical ability to really shine through. Dont think hes the reason we havent got a CB.
Bojan is good thou, very young, dont diss him, he is very likely to become one of the next generations greats.
bison: it’s cool, it’s just a friendly against Barnet, I don’t think it should be taken as what our team will look like next season. Bojan is the nuts.
Mav: My dads a Millwall season ticket holder, he says he looks like the best “midtable premiership team” player of the next ten years. I still haven’t seen him play that I can remember.
“is vela in the squad havent seen him yet?”
No… pretty sure hes not on the bench and hes definatly not starting, duno why but im sure theres a reason..
vela??
Lansbury cut all his hair off?
“My dads a Millwall season ticket holder, he says he looks like the best “midtable premiership team” player of the next ten years. I still haven’t seen him play that I can remember.”
Probably i fair assesmant but like i said, hes still worth a chance. I dont think he’ll make it at Arsenal thou.
“vela??”
Mexican wonder kid, top scorer at the U17s world cup a few years back, done really well on loan in spain, just come to us… Come on Harding, get ur Arsenal brain in gear.
come on Bendtner :(
hot damn.
Probably a fair assesmant*
Yea… dnt think much of Landsbury’s new hair, neva mind.
Looks like it’ll be 10-1 then :D
yeah, the long blonde locks way better than the faux hawk.
no need for sleeping pills when friendlies are available.
lol, yea not been great has it.
ramsy looks like he’s gonna bea great signing!!
running the game 4 me
1st half analysis
ramsey is by far the best player on the field, lansbury is not a good midright maybe hell b better n the centre, denilson average,traore average, bendtner and walcott still rusty in my opinion, nordveidt was playin good at the start, clichy and sagna average, hoyte average
they all look very rusty. nordtveidt (cheers for the fk) and the strikers especially. i’ll watch the second half but it better not be so fucking boring.
Well the players are rusty after not playing so u can excuse them slightly. Almunia shud have maybe saved the free kick but the wall did not move even though there was two passes before the shot!!! Ramsey looks good, Lansbury not a RM, Bendtner decent, Walcott needs to increase tactical awareness (e.g. drop deep sometimes/wide, when and where to run). Denilson- probably the worst player for Arsenal that is playing in their favoured position.
at half time its 1-0 barnet…arsenal have edged possession ramsey is looking good especially long balls and nordtveit looks like a good tackler. but a good freekick puts barnet 1-0 up…bendtner is worrying me wish he could perform for club as he does country
Was that Pedro tat Vela was sitting with?
I went and got a snack, what subs where made?
Reene Steerweger- hollywood superstar
Wilshire looks good, Barazite aswell, no suprises there.
arsenal not playing good, :@
This match is so crap lol!
Great site j, just got a cople of questions!
how come vela hasbeen omitted from the squad?
who do u think out of the reserves will leave?
and whats going on, on the transfer situation?bischoff a replacement for Gilberto or Flamini ?
So its
Mannone
Hoyte Rodgers Steer and whos the other?
Randall Wilshere Coquelin Simspon
Bara Fonte
Simpson has done nothing, Wilshere and Bara are shining, i’m still bored.
Best player first half=Ramsey by a mile
Second half–Wilshire looks fantastic.
Clinical finishing from Simpson!
JAY SIMPSON IS SICK
Wahey! Nice pass, nice goal.
it is one up now. Simpson scored.
Good finish but great pass by Wilshire, hes been great so far.
That Wilshere does look special though. I’ve only ever just seen clips and highlights and I know its only a friendly, but he has that spark of something special.
Can anyone confirm who the 11th player is for me please?
Anyone elses sound fucked up?
Yeah Samuel, the ball seems to love Wilshire—it follows him everywhere!! (:
who is the number 12? Is it ogogo?
Simpson Does Sick ball
beautiful.
Class. Simpson looks good, Wilshire again, brilliant, Barazite, second year in a row, good player.
12 is Simpson i think but ogogo was in the squad so it could be him (the 11th player). Why Mannone taken off?
who was the guy on the touch line coming on with the spiky hair ?