top Club you moron! Look at Shitty's bench, look at Cheatski's, look at the Spuds, Liverpool etc. They all have far better players warming their butts and never getting a game but at least Djourou wants to play and has the talent, as he has already shown. The ONLY malaise is your type of whiny doomer criticism of a player who has the courage to openly admit he had an off season BUT desperately wants to recover (a la Eboue) and he will I am sure. You are kidding? mertesacker is just a tad older than JD with almost 100 caps for germany. next season he will be.on the pace and i wouldnt be suprised if by the mid point of the season he is kos regular partner with tv5 playing at left back again. most teams play their best 4 defenders in their back 4 and ours are bac per kos tv5 Don't agree. Don't know why our defenders get slaughtered in their first season with exception of tv. I for one will rip my clothes off and run around the house in excitement when the BFG nets his first goal for the club next season. He played 11 games at RB.... HIS NOT A RB, HE JUST FILLED IN, 4 games at CB..... 2 OF THE 4 AM SURE CAME OFF THE BENCH, so people saying he played bad yes he did at RB, remember Koscielny-Djourou 2010/2011 against Barcelona at home, Djourou is a good 4th choice, cant