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Is it wrong to still love Giroud

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A_G

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Don't think it is that funny.

Saw this on reddit and many are writing about dyslexic or has a reading disability.

Because most of them aren't even close and he isn't even tryiing to pronounce them correctly.
But he pronounces names wrong even when he’s watching the matches
 

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Gilberto Silva on Coq, Song and Flamini:

He said: ”I remember hearing a comparison with Coquelin when he was playing but when I started to see him I could see there was something missing in his game to be a holding midfielder and sacrifice himself for the team," he added.

"You cannot blame the player for this but but need to find a player who can play there.

"The role is to play simple. I couldn't do the same as Henry, Ronaldo and the like and you have to know this to play there."

When asked what players he believed were closest to really to making their mark at Arsenal in the holding midfield role, Silva added: "I thought Alex Song could have been the one to do this role but he went to West Ham and Barcelona.

"Flamini in my last season he did a great job which is why I didn't play which was very frustrating for me.

"I think those two are the best."

Quite damning about Coq.
 
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Humble as always.

He was, for a time, an elite midfielder.

You don't get selected in 3 consecutive WC squads for Brazil.
really.

One on hand, you might think football has changed and this guy is just an old coot.

But one the other hand, he just wants the players to know their role, and stick to it. Don't really need fancy moves. Like Robben who will cut inside and shoot all day until he scores.
 

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Gervinho playing for Parma, and scored against Juventus.

He is a wonderful player, whatever the majority of Arsenal supporters think.
 

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And Arsène always supported me. He renewed my contract before the first operation, which was an incredible gesture. He called me in: ‘Santi, I’m going to give you the optional year. It’s here, sign it, have your operation with peace of mind.’ That helped me focus on my rehabilitation without fear. I’m eternally grateful for that.”

Personally I love this, reflects really well on the club..

This does not reflect well on the UK doctors treating him first however. City sends all their injured players to Barcelona it seems, maybe we need to do a better job getting the best medical treatment for the players too even if it's abroad.
 
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A_G

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Hopefully people who blame Wenger for playing him against Ludogorets realise that sadly it was a case of when and not if for him getting that injury. Frankly if I was him I'd look into taking legal action against those doctors, surely this comes under medical malpractice.
 

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Hopefully people who blame Wenger for playing him against Ludogorets realise that sadly it was a case of when and not if for him getting that injury. Frankly if I was him I'd look into taking legal action against those doctors, surely this comes under medical malpractice.

Definitely, but it seems like he feels it isn't worth the hassle.. If they hadn't screwed up he wouldn't have been out long, instead he ends up missing 2 years of football.. I would have sued.

I'm baffled at how the doctors in UK basically said he should just give up on playing and concentrate on being able to walk normally again, while the doctors in Spain said differently straight away and now have him back playing professionally. The difference between just being able to live a normal life and being able to compete at the highest level is so big that it has to be incompetence.

How do Arsenal choose the doctors/surgeons? Didn't we screw up with Wilshere too, inserting a pin or something in his ankle instead of letting it heal naturally?
 
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How do Arsenal choose the doctors/surgeons? Didn't we screw up with Wilshere too, inserting a pin or something in his ankle instead of letting it heal naturally?
Yep, they had to remove the pins afterwards in a new operation because they were irritating him.

The Isaac Hayden stuff from a while back is genuinely shocking to see
(for those who haven't seen):
“I remember coming out with the ball, I passed it and then Mathieu Flamini has come in,” Hayden says. “He’s come in and caught me on the inside of my ankle, above the bone, and the ankle has just turned. It has clicked. I actually heard two clicks.”

It was the beginning of a nightmare for Hayden, who now plays for Newcastle United, but he has come to consider it a sliding doors moment. He could not play against Hull – ironically, Flamini replaced him in the lineup – and he would be out of first-team contention for the remainder of the season. Hayden did not get another opportunity under Wenger.

Where one door shut, another opened. He enjoyed a successful season-long loan at Hull in 2015-16, when they won promotion from the Championship via the play-offs, before he completed a £1.5m transfer to Newcastle. The deal contained add-ons worth £250,000. Hayden was part of the team who won the Championship last season and he will fulfil an ambition on Saturday when he plays Premier League football at the Emirates – only not in the colours he originally envisaged.

“The situation with Flamini was not malicious; he didn’t mean to do the injury,” Hayden says. “It was just unfortunate but it was definitely a case of a young pro versus an experienced pro and him saying: ‘Look, I’m still here. This is my position and, if you want to take it, you’re going to have to fight for it.’ Which I was more than happy to do. But with that injury, it was impossible.”

Hayden relives the days and weeks that followed the Flamini tackle in minute detail. Wenger told him to ice the ankle immediately and suggested he come to the team hotel in London later on. The manager did not want to rule him out but Hayden could barely walk and he would stay at home that night. The following morning – the day of the Hull game – he reported for a fitness test. The swelling had subsided slightly and the medical team wondered whether he could play. He was still in pain.

Hayden will never forget his dilemma. If he did not play, would he ever get another chance, particularly in his favoured defensive midfield role? He had made only two appearances for Arsenal – both in the League Cup; the first in midfield at West Bromwich Albion, the second in central defence at home to Southampton. But if he did play and was unable to do himself justice, would that not ruin everything? In the end, the decision was taken for him to sit out the match.

“They didn’t scan the injury,” Hayden says. “They just said: ‘It’s OK to play on.’ I said it was sore but they were like: ‘That’s normal on a sprain. It’ll be fine.’ So I did a rehab session and I couldn’t even kick the ball. Every time it touched my foot, I was in agony. So they sent me for an MRI.

“It showed that the ATFL [anterior talofibular] ligament in the ankle had come away from the joint – it was spraying around in the joint – and, if I had carried on, it could have completely ruptured. It was hanging on by a thread. They also said there was a little fissure in the cartilage but that was nothing to worry about. I thought: ‘OK, I trust them with that. We’ll leave that.’ I was out for two months with the ligament.”

Hayden returned in December to play 72 minutes of an under-23 game against Bolton Wanderers. Wenger had recalled Francis Coquelin from his loan at Charlton Athletic as a midfield selection crisis gripped. Coquelin did not force himself into the starting team straight away and Hayden felt the window of opportunity remained open. Then he tried to get out of bed after the Bolton match. He got back in. The ankle had swollen badly.

Arsenal’s medics were puzzled. They knew the ligament had healed and an MRI scan confirmed it. They prescribed a fortnight of rest but Hayden continued to feel pain. So they called on the ankle specialist James Calder, who sent Hayden for a CT scan with a dye injection, which would highlight everything. It picked up a significant flap tear in the cartilage that needed surgery and up to five months out. Hayden’s season was wrecked. “I was just numb,” he says.
Is it naive to think that a club with the resources that Arsenal have should be doing better than this?
 

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