january 9th
Team news ahead of today’s game against Stoke sees new signing Emmanuel Eboue on the bench. Thierry Henry, Freddie Ljungberg and Ashley Cole all get a well deserved rest but Jens Lehmann and Jose Reyes will play.
The club officially announced the signing of Emmanuel Eboue from Beveren yesterday. He’s mainly a right-back, will wear number 27, and has seemingly been bought to provide cover / competition for Lauren. That says something about the future of either Justin Hoyte or Lauren.
Arsene Wenger has been talking about Sol Campbell’s contract situation but not really saying anything more than he has done in the past. It’s a slight worry that his new contract is still unsigned but the boss seems confident enough about the situation: “Sol will stay, that’s a 100% certainty. When will we announce it? I don’t know. But there is no question-mark about it for me.” He’s also pretty much confirmed that Edu will not play for the club again if he doesn’t sign a new contract: “If he doesn’t sign, why should he waste time? If he says the offer is not good enough, I would say ‘go somewhere else now’.” Unfortunately, of course, its unlikely he’ll go somewhere else now since he’s available on free transfer at the end of the season.
And that’s about it.
