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By Boris Mellor
January 8 2008

Well it is hard to know for sure that is exactly what he is saying, but we do know he has said: "Johan Djourou and Theo Walcott are available and apart from them it will be the guys who played in the last round. It'll be another young side." He does talk in riddles sometimes, but if he is not being evasive, it must mean Diarra is playing.

This was written before the full squad announced, and it is now clear Diarra is not playing as full list published today shows.
 

 2 Abou DIABY
3 Bacary SAGNA
6 Philippe SENDEROS
9 EDUARDO
11 Robin VAN PERSIE
15 DENILSON
19 GILBERTO
20 Johan DJOUROU
21 Lukasz FABIANSKI (GK)
26 Nicklas BENDTNER
30 Armand TRAORE
31 Justin HOYTE
32 Theo WALCOTT
36 Mark RANDALL
40 Vito MANNONE (GK)
41 Gavin HOYTE

So yesterday's report below is now out of date: 

However, he is far clearer on the issue of RvP, “Yes Robin van Persie is back in the squad,” he said. “He had a little set-back coming back from his knee injury, it was a muscle problem. But the positive side of it is that he could forget about his knee and work on his fitness.”
 

For Djourou will replace Song, not Diarra, Walcott cannot play a holding midfielder role, so therefore  Lassana should be there to give Spurs the shits. He has played excellently in this competition and gave the impression he wanted to be around for the final in one post match interval.

 Further evidence, although not always that reliable is the BBC website, which claims the team, will be taken from:

“ Fabianski, J Hoyte, Senderos, Djourou, Traore, Diaby, Gilberto, Denilson, Diarra, Eduardo, Bendtner, Mannone, Walcott, G Hoyte, Randall, Lansbury, Gibbs, Perez, van Persie.”

 The fact Diarra was not in the FA cup squad may not mean very much at all, Wenger intends to use all his squad in next few weeks, therefore he could have been keeping Diarra free from risk of injury for the Carling Cup. If Wenger rests all his senior midfielders, then Diarra would be a key man to play alongside Denilson.

Tomorrow morning all will be revealed with the announcement of the full squad. 

 

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Wenger - Diarra and RvP will be in Squad

Discussion started by Arsenal Times , 08/01/2008 18:49

Arsenal Times
08/01/2008 18:49

Wenger - Diarra and RvP will be in Squad

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Zainy
08/01/2008 19:01

Really glad to see the chances of Diarra staying are better than I first thought. Even if he gets loaned out to Portsmouth or Newcastle I would be happy as long as he isn't sold.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2008:01:09:14:27:39 by Padre Pio.

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eduardo
08/01/2008 19:12

~I'd expect the team to be


Fabianski
J Hoyte Djourou Senderos Traore
Walcott Diarra Denilson Diaby
Eduardo Bendtner

Subs
Mannone
G Hoyte
Randall
Merida
Van Persie


Gilberto not likely to be used after playing on Sunday and Lansbury and Gibbs played for reserves last night while G Hoyte Gibbs and Randall were left out due to cC game

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Padre Pio
08/01/2008 19:57

Yep I agree Eduardo, should be quite a few goals with that defence.

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Philly the kid
08/01/2008 20:00

whose defense? I hope you mean theirs!!!

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Zainy
08/01/2008 20:30

38 goals conceded in the league and 2 more at home to reading... more like what defence.

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Padre Pio
08/01/2008 20:46

No I meant ours, but I know theirs is even worse

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Zainy
08/01/2008 20:49

Ahh come on lets give our swiss rolls a chance!

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Varial
08/01/2008 21:15

Their defense is horrid but ours is a bit weak as well. Then again, Senderos and Djourou managed to hold Chelsea to one goal at Stamford Bridge while under siege from Drogba, Robben, and J. Cole.

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Optimistic Gunner
08/01/2008 23:24

I agree with eduardo's line up.

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Zissors
09/01/2008 02:28

Cant wait

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nomi_gunner
09/01/2008 03:06

we will win ... eduardo--bendtner partnership is unstopable

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Padre Pio
09/01/2008 08:01

According to this mornings Guardian Diarra has now been dropped from the squad because of transfer speculation

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Zissors
09/01/2008 09:16

Hrm... Im sick of all this "I want to stay" "I dont want to stay" from Diarra, get rid of him if hes going to be like that, it disrupts the squad... I know hes a class act and i dont want him to leave, but at the end of the day you have to make the right decision for the team.

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PKGooner
09/01/2008 11:59

Sagna, Gilberto and RVP are the 'experienced players'.

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Padre Pio
09/01/2008 13:48

Oh well he is going, Boris has updated the article with the full squad

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~-X-Gooner-4-Life-X-~
09/01/2008 14:02

Fabianski
J Hoyte Djourou Senderos Traore
Walcott Gilberto Denilson Diaby
Eduardo Bendtner

subs.
v.persie
sagna
Mannone
G Hoyte
Randall
Merida

goals will come i know BUT im not sure bout djourou an senderos ............we have 2 finnih spurs off in the emirates tonight.

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eduardo
09/01/2008 14:29

3 Bacary SAGNA
11 Robin VAN PERS
36 Mark RANDALL
40 Vito MANNONE (GK)
41 Gavin HOYTE
Fabianski
J Hoyte Djourou Senderos Traore
Walcott Denilson Gilberto Diaby
Eduardo Bendtner
Subs
Mannone
Sagna
G Hoyte
Randall
Van Persie


Looks like not only Diarra going but Fran Merida too, thankfully Merida is only going out on loan, hope we can do a loan deal with Diarra too if he is intent on leaving for more games

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nomi_gunner
09/01/2008 19:20

we shld let diarra go .. he is a gud player bt the club is much much bigger then a player

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