Bischoff recovering well

New signing Amaury Bischoff is recovering well from a groin injury, and is close to a first-team debut.

Many wonder why manager Arsène Wenger signed the relatively unknown Portugese midfielder in the summer, especially when Bischoff was still injured at the time.

It seems that Arsenal fans will soon be able to see what the club paid for.

Bischoff said: "The injury is getting better bit by bit. I've been doing ball work for five or six days now and I am running three times a week.

"I'm nearly pain-free and hope to be back as soon as possible.

"It's been difficult. I've been injured for a long time but Arsenal have shown faith in me. They have got me in great shape and been brilliant. They monitor me with a daily programme and a trainer is there for me every day.

"I think that little by little I'm getting there and will soon be back on the pitch.

"I think that in two weeks I'll be training with the team and if all goes well, I'll speak with the manager and coaches here.

"Then I'll be back as quickly as possible."

User Comments

seun oke

Posted on 13 Sep, 2008 at 07:58 PM - Reply

i think ADEBAYOR has proven to all arsenal fans that his heart will always be in the club,showing so with is hat-trick against Blackburn rovers today,and also want to tell jack wilshere that i really believe in his progress and that he is really in the right club.

jordy

Posted on 10 Sep, 2008 at 10:20 AM - Reply

I have neva seen him play so dnt no his style. Not to sure if we need anotha midfielder at the moment though. Wif fabregas bak and denilson playin decent the middle looks settled. Wen van Persie is bak at his best than we will start to hit the bak of the net

onyyy

Posted on 10 Sep, 2008 at 07:51 AM - Reply

wenger knows what hes doing

yakubu

Posted on 9 Sep, 2008 at 10:43 AM - Reply

A well and talented central midfielder has to be augently look for, due to lack of or reletively no any deserved to be placed in.

Pete

Posted on 9 Sep, 2008 at 01:02 AM - Reply

Bischoff is as a gamble and Wenger is entitled like all managers to gamble on players. Please bear in mind this is not the first time Arsene has gambled on players returning from long term injury. Marc Overmars and Kanu both joined Arsenal having returned from career threatening injuries with question marks over their futures and both are now considered legends. Bischoff is a cheap gamble but Arsene likes him so his place in the squad is fine by me.

niyi marvin

Posted on 8 Sep, 2008 at 06:12 PM - Reply

i dnt understand wht what is going on but has 4 the club i knw we are going to win a troph tis season.denfensive midfielder is not the problem, the problem is converting our chances in a match to goals. help me tell wenger to train adebayor well in terms of striking.

William Chibambo

Posted on 8 Sep, 2008 at 10:31 AM - Reply

Guys, i think wenger is at Arsenal for business purposes. How can he buy an injured player and hope to make things better at the wounded club. We had formidable players in the years 2003,2004,2005 to mid 2006.From the time Viera was sold the team strugled to reach the Champions League finals under the captainship of Henry.Now the selling of Henry and the guy who reached his pick, Flamin, has left the team wounded. So what is special with the wounded player Wenger has bouht? For how long shall we keep on building the team? It is now almost thee years we have been talking of buildng the team. What we need is a grown up and experienced diffencive mid fielder. If Wenger continues doing so, we may see Fabregas leaving the squard in the near future and what an Arsenal squard without CESC. Are we after selling or wining trophies? Experienced players can never be bought at give away prices.

zohaib

Posted on 7 Sep, 2008 at 09:34 PM - Reply

if bischoff is just another attacking midfielder, it still doesnt solve our defensive midfielder problem ! dont kno how good appiah is. maybe we should get him. or maybe we should just ask gerrard if he'd like to come. he's miserable at liverpool because he'll never win the league with them.

vincent

Posted on 7 Sep, 2008 at 02:38 PM - Reply

Wenger is not an idiot.I think this Bischoff has a special talent and has something to prove.Surely another masterclass signing by Mr Wenger The Great.

yoyo

Posted on 7 Sep, 2008 at 01:33 PM - Reply

Kool rant on porto dude

simon_84

Posted on 7 Sep, 2008 at 05:36 AM - Reply

hope he can be the new steel in the middle of the park.

André Leal

Posted on 7 Sep, 2008 at 12:12 AM - Reply

Hello there.

Here's a Benfica fan declaring his support to Arsenal against the corruption of FC Porto in the Champions League.

So I let you know this, in order to make you understand how their victories were obtained all over this 25 years:

- FCP's President, Pinto da Costa (PC), and many collaborators were caught in about 50 phone calls to referees or referees' president, asking for easy games.

- The trade was made often with prostitutes, vacations and money.

- Due to the limitations to phone listening by the police, many accusations were drop and never came to court.

- However 3 games went to court and are expecting to be judged. In one of the matches it's known and proved that the referee was in PC's house in the evening before the game.

- At this time the Portuguese FA also started a inquiry in order to investigate the facts involving the 3 matches.

- Porto was declared guilty for attempt to corrupt (?!!!) in 2 of the 3 matches

- Why is that? Why attempt and not consumed corruption? Because the Portuguese FA regulations ridiculously consider that even if you ask for the favour and pay for it (what is proved for the 2 games) it's needed to prove that the referee really helped the paying team. That is so subjective that the experts failed (or were asked to fail) to prove this benefice. However the referee's, incomprehensibly, were condemned of consumed corruption. No need to say that this regulations were made by a very well known FCP Supporter, also involved in football TV shows where he is representing the club.

- So PC, who asked and paid for the help, was merely guilt of attempt to corrupt. The sanction for this is the deduction of 3 points per game (6 in total) in the season when the sentence was read. This was in the end of last season of Portuguese league.

- As they were more or less 20 points ahead at that time and with the fear that if they recur the punishment could be taken this season, they didn't do it, declaring to anyone that they really are corrupts. However, in a personal way and not dangering this season to FCP, PC recurred himself as he was also condemned.

- When UEFA declared that FCP may not participate, due to a regulation made after the calciocaos in order to punish corrupt clubs that are not really punished in their own countries, they rushed to try to involve FCP in PC recursion. This could be possible in Portugal because in a condemnation where more than one person (or entity) are accused for the same facts if one condemned recurs and wins, all the other condemned are beneficed. But that was not the case, because in one of the matches it was not PC that corrupted the referee, but a collaborator. That means that FCP could never recur for that match, as the deadline for that was passed and PC didn't recurred for that match.

- So, in first place, they tried to confuse UEFA, sending paid Portuguese FA members to UEFA, saying that PC's recursion could benefice FCP. Then, when his recursion was about to be decided, in a meeting of a comitee of 7 Portuguese judges, and very close to the UEFA's deadline to solve this problem in order to punish FCP this season, the comitee's president, observing that 5 of the 7 judges were voting for the condemnation, finished the meeting, without any decision made. However the other 5 members dismissed their president (something they could do) and started another meeting and declared PC as guilty of all charges.

- Of course that the confusion created by the comitee's president allowed FCP to recur about the second meeting and UEFA, with no effective condemnations when the deadline came, nothing could do.

- 15 days later, the second meeting was validated and the condemnations were effective, but not in time to avoid the corrupts to participate in the Champions League.

- Apparently, Sir Alex Ferguson knew what he was talking about when he said that FCP buys championships in the supermarket. That was said at the time of the clash between FCP and Man Utd in 2003/04, where FCP beneficed from a Man Utd legal but invalidated goal and also the season of the majority of the phone calls recorded.

What about that?

maya

Posted on 6 Sep, 2008 at 12:22 PM - Reply

An unknown players who next year Real Madrid are willing to pay 20-30m. Well, interesting eh.. :p

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