Yep, I agree with you, he's ballsed up in every game I've seen him play in. Not the standard that we expect, I'd actually prefer Squillaci and Vermaelen as the preferred 2 CB's with Djourou and Koscielny coming on for a few minutes per game. Shame Vermaelen is out injured and hopefully it's as short term as Wenger claims.
I would like to criticize him but I'm sure the moment I do he'll score a wonder goal.
Two things, the sooner you criticise him the sooner he'll score, and so far, I don't really know anything about Squillaci, I can't say this soon if he has more potential or is anywhere near good enough, Kos though, he might take some time, senderos and Cygan looked almost worst in the league over a few games, 4-5 games in the side and they become completely different players, Cygan and Senderos were both part of our record breaking Champs league defence/run, with Flamini in aswell, and they were very good it wasn't pure luck.
Can really only hope one of them turns out like that, I think Campbell, probably after previous disaster with Notts County, looked like he had his hunger back, he was by FAR the strongest guy in the team, imposing, put in some insanely powerful soul destroying tackles, but good tackles, he's the kind of CB people are scared of. He wasn't asking for a silly wage IIRC, or at least certainly wasn't when he was begging for a team when he joined, if we'd signed him to a 2-3 year pay as you play contract on the cheap then we'd have gotten a bargain, instead short sightedness and he had way better offers elsewhere. I think in him we lost a leader on the bench/training, a guy to help youths improve, and a winner whose old, calm, been there before and we lost him on top of Gallas who left purely because Wenger was a **** to him.
2-0 ht in the chelsea game. West Ham had a goal ruled (correctly) offside just before half-time and we have looked a bit too relaxed in the last 10mins so we have to be careful otherwise we could get punished like man u!
It wasn't correctly offside, at all, he got a half yard ahead of the left back and two CB's, in between him and the linesman, the right back was another half yard ahead, he was onside.
