Lehman had two or three mistakes, but so has Cech, Cassilas, Valdes, VDS, all players make mistakes, the difference is with keepers mistakes lead to goals FAR more often than mistakes by other players.
Lehman was excellent, and we've not replaced him, I think that last season Wenger was in his usual "lehman is old, must get rid rather than offer a realistic wage for a guy doing his job" mode. He started playing Almunia more and more to get him more used to first team action before letting Lehman go, which just sort of naturally led to Almunia becoming number 1, though it wasn't for ability, but because Wenger wanted to get rid of Lehman end of the season and didn't want a keeper with no where near enough experience. however he seemed to forget that was the reason he was playing Almunia and started acting like he was good enough.
The Sun has it that we are offering 4mil for Schwarzer, a ridiculous fee for someone whose 37 and just about done for his career and isn't THAT good, Casillas, Cech, Valdes at 37, maybe 4mil. Jesus Given at what 32 was 8million.
But the truly ridiculous thing is, had he offed 4mil 3 months ago before the world cup, Schwarzer would have had an entire preseason to get to know the players and establish a bit of communication and get some practice with the new defenders.
Also 4mil 3 months ago would have been a pretty easy choice for Fulham, who would have plenty of time to find a replacement. 4mil on the final day of the transfer window, if Given isn't allowed to go to work under Hughes, then they've got no time to find a replacement and the deal is off, all for 2 million that Wenger wouldn't offer 3 months ago despite pointing out Arsenal need a new keeper 3 months ago.
I'm completely fed up with his ridiculous "lets save a million" last day tactics, its worked, not once, ever, its cost us players time and time again, and frankly the quality of players available in the dying seconds of the transfer window are players people simply don't think are "that" good and they really don't want to spend a penny more than they have to on. Players who are THAT good, are snapped up earlier without too much fuss.
Its pathetic, what if 4 million 3 months ago gets us Schwarzer and already may have won us 2 points by being better against Liverpool? To be fair, we've got a stupidly easy start to the season, but come the big test games in Oct/Nov, Arsenal will still be 2 months further behind where they could be if we just did the damn deal.
Though Silvestre sucked balls, we're WAY down defensively on where we were last season, Djourou's a non entity, in the past season we've lost Senderos, Gallas(the real captain as EVERYONE said last season), Silvestre(probably/maybe useful in training/dressing room), Sol(again tonnes of experience, won loads of stuff, HUGE, captain like figure). We've gotten two untested, not particularly experienced never before played in the league defenders in replacement of what have been two giants and one incredibly experienced player in the league, even if he's utterly turd now.
Then theres Chamakh, who I said........ why, why why are we going to pay 80k a week, for a guy who will end up playing on the wing. Where did he play most of the second half, the wing, with Theo the completely incapable of holding the ball up pratt upfront as a lone striker. Yes they might end up being great defenders, but we lost two great defenders, we lost all the actual experience at the club. Sol and Gallas have won loads of things, are the old heads at the club, Gallas considered by much of the club as the real captain last year.
So on top of being worse than last year, are last gasp attempt to become a title challenging side is to buy a 4million quid, overpriced 37 year old whose not world class anyway, and for no reason we've made it 100 times harder than it needed to be?
Its funny when Liverpool say "its our year" every year, its funny when Spurs said it(when it wasn't true), its no longer funny seeing Arsenal say we're a little older now, its our year finally....... again, and again, and again.
. 6pm isn't it, the deadline?
