Arsenal Reserve team captain Gavin Hoyte will make his Premiership debut tomorrow afternoon, as Arsène Wenger takes his struggling outfit to Manchester City.
The news comes after first team skipper William Gallas was reportedly stripped of the armband following his arrival from International duty with France. Fellow Reserve team players Henri Lansbury and Jay Simpson will take up places on the bench, as injuries take hold.
Emmanuel Adebayor joins Gallas in being absent, as Wenger puts his faith in some of the fearless Carling Cup youngsters.
Follow all the build up ahead of tomorrow’s clash over at Gooner Talk.
Article By – J.Sanderson
It’s speculation but almost every football-related website and TV channel is covering it, so I can’t see where it would be made up.
Ok and here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1088185/Loudmouth-Gallas-gets-boot-Wenger-leaves-sacked-skipper-City-trip.html
it states that cesc will be our permenant captain!
EVERYONE IS CHATTIN SHIT MAYBE SAMIR DOESNT SPEAK2 GALLAS ITS OBVIOUS WHEN NASRI SCORES GALLAS DOESNT CONGRATULATE HIM BT NASRI N RIBERY I DOUBT IT, DIABY PROBABLY SPEAKS 2 EVERYONE
cheers gooner chris. Presumably sources close to gallas are claiming he resigned and those close to wenger are claiming he was sacked. Bit of a mess.
Yeah, I doubt that though, if anything, he will be sold in January.
few things, its getting like the Arsenal on here- everyone fighting.
Wenger said after last weeks game that Sagna’s injury was serious and that he’d be out until December. Doesn’t matter what the Arsenal website says.
Even Wenger has come out this week and said that FIFA should check that players who pull out of internationals should not play the game after. It would be rather hypocritical for him to pull Sagna out of the France squad and then play him in the next game.
Seriiously, everyone has their own views and they should be respected- no one is right or wrong.
What we have to do as fans now more than ever is really get behind the team tomorrow and show that we’re in this together.
Those going to the game tomorrow, really get behind the players and sing loud and proud.
also in the match preview on the arsenal site (how reliable is that site?) it says Adbeyor and Vela are likely to be involved despite long journeys for their internationals.
Fully agree but the team are not playing like a united camp. But I guess redknapp shows how quickly the atmosphere can change…
well, if this tension happened at the Spurs game, they sure looked united when we played Man Utd
Randall , Merida Left out
Simpson , Lansbury In Its a bit strange Merida ia s top player in the centre of the park , Simpson may get his chance just depends on the situation
yeah they were up for man u, but villa performance was awful, not up for it, no tempo, no desire, no leadership
lets hope all this contorversy has created a siege mentality at the club, where we prove the critics wrong.
Seriously though, there are a lot of young players who may be involved tomorrow, for their sake and Arsenals lets get behind them.
Totally agree with Ben. Let’s get behind the boys tomorrow, it’s a big game for the Arsenal.
Who is going City 2moro? Iam lets go and sign out hearts out
“In Arsene We Trust”
Gallas HAD to be stripped of his captaincy! I don’t give a ‘FCUK’ what people want to say….You have a contract that states rules and regulations and he’s broken them quite a few times. I would’ve dropped him in the summer! Oh and Hoyte is a much better option than Song at RB! And the person who asked about Vela and his red card…he did not try to go for the ball at all! He was very frustrated and lost his head and kicked out at the player. In the replays you can see it was intentional.
This is like the last exclusive you made up? The one about the starting lineup last Saturday that was wrong?
Right now, even the idea that Gallas has been dropped is all rumor, but if he was Wenger will draft in Song and Djourou in the back and put Silvestre on the right and Clichy on the left.
The closest Hoyte will get to the pitch is from his telly at home.
gallas should be sold in the transfer window or swapped for a taller defender as we need more height in our defence
also since walcott will be out does any1 else think Bischoff should be given a chance in the 1st team
great news, it will be great to see the young boys prove a point. I will be happy to see them play, it doesn’t even matter if they lose or win
Nasri and Ribery dont speak to each other even the Marseille chairman confirmed it. Anyway, its Gallas who seems to have something against young players, he openly critisiced Diaby and Walcott before and his Nasri story is a stirr in a cup. Nasri seems to have personality. Cant see Gallas playing for Arsenal again. Cant wait to see the reaction and togetherness of the team tomorrow
lolololololol @ this thread.
good luck to hoyte. hope you learn from your brothers mistakes.
Vela went for the ball the shitty pitch and weather didnt help and of course the player falling on the ground as he was shot didnt help..
Anyone think We should exchange gallas to one of the milan clubs myabe AC MiLan and swap him for flamini? I can see Gallas joining inter milan coz mourinho rates him alot and italian teams like older players. I think Daniel van buyten is a good player but hes what we need hes 6ft5/6 very good in the air which is somrthing we lack and hes experienced
Gallas hasnt any balls ffs! He can’t accept the critism he’s facing and tries to deflect it off to his team mates. Arsene got this decision absolutely right. Can’t see him dislodging Djorou from now on. Arsenal to win 4-0! With Djourou scoring all 4!
is everybody forgettin that hoyte is playing at right bk against ROBINHO???…
i can see robinho putting the ball thru hoyte’s legs and doin endless stepovers…
why cant djourou play at right bk…im sure he would do much better
Does anyone think wenger is missing the influence of David Dein? He’s probably the only person with the balls to tell Arsene he is getting it wrong and the only person respected enough by wenger to be listened too.
What I really dont get is the countless times people bitchin about the first team and how shit they are playing , people sayin bring in the youngsters there hungry to play then AW brings them in and people fuking moan !!! make your mind up !!!
Its time to get behind the boys and get on with life. I for one think Gavin Hoyte will play out of his skin to try and get a first team place. Roll on the new generation with Cesc leading us. Wenger will get new players in January so calm down. Gallas has some points but problem is he aired these publicly which adams and vieira never would do.
I hope Wilshere, Ramsey, Gibbs and Lansbury will push these senior players and we have a good bunch of home grown talent to push on. We need these players as much as in the past we had die-hards like Keown, Adams, Davis, Parlour, Merson and even Ashley Cole until it went wrong.
Come on the Arsenal..I hope those at Eastlands scream all game behind our boys!!
Potential changes – Vela then Simpson [those 2 will add alot of pace] then Ramsey if things dont work bcuz i can visualize the predicted 1st 11 not playing enough at a high tempo.
is adebayor gonna play upfront with van persie or vela
GUNNER789, according to rumours he hasnt travelled with the team, i didnt see him getting off the bus at the team hotel so may be he carrying a knock from international duty.
Hoyte will do great, his pace will stop Robinho
supergunner07 he has been dropped
Gallas = Winning Mentality, Experience, Passion,
RVP = Winning Mentality, Experience, Passion/Temper,
Fabregas = Winning Mentality, Experience, Passion,
Kolo Touré = Winning Mentality, Experience, Passion,
Adebayor = Winning Mentality, Experience, Passion,
Clichy & Sagna = Consistency, but I don’t see the winning mentality in them very quiet guys
I reckon these are our key players and the rest are youngsters who are inconsistent and are not able to carry the team. If you look at all these key players you can say that Gallas and Clichy having been performing well. They have been unlucky as well and had some bad games his season. But you expect if Gallas and Clichy don’t perform there are a whole lot of other who will. For me experience leads to consistency! Something which Wenger denies every single match. I can see why this situation happened, if your Manager is only focussed on the talents and doesn’t appreciate the experienced players (there’s no denying that!!) a certain environment is created which devided the young ones (always protected by Wenger) who have all the time of they’re life and the older players who are desperate for prizes and want to be on top. I think Wenger had the chance to correct this unbalance over the summer. If he would have added an experienced DEFENSIVE midfielder he would not only have pleased the experienced players at Arsenal but also added more depth to our team and pleased a whole lot of fans. I am not claiming that this would be an instant solution and we would win the title.
I don’t want to dwell too much on this subject I just want to say I hope the kids win the Carling Cup and the credit crunsh hits Man Utd, Liverpool and Chelsea so hard that they get points reducted :D
Sanderson you are one thick cunt if you think hoyte is going to play
Confirmed
————Manuel(C)——–
Hoyte Djourou Silvestre Clichy
———-Song———-
——-Denilson Diaby———
RVP——————– Nasri
———Bendtner———–
Subs:
Fabianski, Gibbs, Lansbury, Wilshere, Ramsey, Vela, Simpson
Looks like your informants were right.
Ade carrying international knock after playing on artificial pitch for Togo confirmed by Wenger to John Motson from BBC
Gallas wasn’t much of a captain anyway
I told you supergunner07. :)
arsenal are embarrasing….
we are not better than : man utd, chelsea, liverpool, aston villa or man city
sell: diaby,song, denilson & bendter even v.persie
i really dont kno what to say to be honest,
is this what everyone wants??….to bring in the youngsters and finish 5th or 6th place????
dont sell those players just make them squad players and buy better
there just going to end up wanting more playing time and threaten to leave…like everyone does at arsenal, becus were are anyy club
We are playing badly atm but i will still be supporting arsenal thorugh thick and thin come on arsenal
im the same…but its like
we have money to spend…but our manager refuses to spend.
and becus of dat the arsenal fans,arsenal players, and the football club as a whole, suffer.
Fully expected a defeat today given the last 48 hours but now we have a few days to get all this sorted! (also a reminder which the media and doom-mongers will conveniently forget: tough away game and missing 6 first-teamers ignoring Gallas!)
In good news…Liverpool and Chelsea drop points in easy home games so we’ll only be one extra point off the top – even though I suspect many of us feel 3rd/4th is the best we can hope for.
Make Fab captain, beat Chelsea next week and get this season going!
Come on Arsenal!
I love Arsenal!
Gavin Hoyte’s touch was awful, we didnt cross the ball enough, we played thru the middle too much like many games this year. We need to vary our play when teams clog the middle against us.
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That’s twice now that you’ve been right, Kudos.
I think you guys should divulge Arsenal’s lineup before every match. Because keeping this stuff secret isn’t important.