he was sent off once iirc, and no one, no one at all gave him credit for his conduct since that sending off. He was a changed player, he is hacked down more than most in the team partially as he's known for reacting, and partially because he runs the ball a lot more than most. He didn't react once since his sending off in probably a dozen or more games. he was very calm, had clearly made a very distinct effort to stay calm and afaik one of the only yellow's he's got since then was that bogus one for well, standing near Park when he fell over.
But Eboue will never get credit for anything because the fans decided to hate him. Can't be sure but RVP's probably been sent off more than he has and reacts a little to often for my liking, but also gets hacked down a lot.
Be very sorry to see him go if he does go, again what I said will be misqouted as me saying he's never been sent off fairly and he's the best player in the world. Neither is true, he's a very good dynamic player though, has real pace and plays the wing incredibly well, good cross, strong, offers something from the wing defensively that no other players we have offer, strength and the speed to get back. He's leagues ahead of Song/Denilson/Diaby and losing him will adversly effect the strength of our squad, while losing any of those other three would help our squad.
MElo was utter crud in the confed cup which to be fair is the only time i've seen him. poor positioning, terrible passing, woeful shooting, that team relied on the very very good Gilberto to make dozens of tackles/interceptions to keep them in it all the way through, Melo offered nothing defensively or going forward........... Don't we already have Denilson for that, infact, Melo looks like a 5 year older, 2 stone fatter, Denilson. Aswell as the fact that we'd be getting him literally days after he signed a new contract with a 21mil buy out clause in it. Surely we could have let his agent know we wanted him before he signed a massive new deal that screwed us out of 15mil extra in transfer fee's. The fact he just signed that contract to me says the whole thing is bogus anyway, but Eboue leaving is a real possibility, just somewhere else.
Ade for Flamini if that was true shoudl have been something Wenger should have done the day the season ended, with "official" notice that Milan have bid for Fabiano I can't see any chance of Ade leaving for milan, so a further several mil wasted on his wages this year, yippee.
According to his stats for this year, Eboue had 1 red, 1 yellow, 25 appearances....... truly awful. Infact he's only gotten 2 red's while at Arsenal, in 5 years, and the most yellows he's ever had is 7 in a full season. Comparing that, Song got 10 yellows with 23 starts this year, Eboue had 1 red card in the league, in 17 starts. From what I can tell, he's never been red carded through a 2nd yellow. So its more mythological BS that Arsenal fans come up as reasons to dislike him. Even despite his non existant discipline problem he STILL made an effort and went from his red card, through the rest of the season only getting that BS yellow, no more in the league or cup, i think that yellow was in the CL when we were getting whoopped.