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Titolo: Articolo lungo sullo scambio Cole/Gallas

Scusate, e' in inglese...ma ci sono riferimenti a Cannavaro e altro.
Si fanno i paragoni sullo scambio Cole/Gallas e chi ci ha guadagnato..e poi 
si parla della politica dell'Arsenal basata sui giovani.
Mi pare un buon articolo e buona lettura.
During the World Cup, I proclaimed that Touré was the best central defender 
in the world until Cannavaro changed my mind a day later. In the France v 
Italy final I remembered watching Thuram and thinking of what he legend he 
was.
However, Thuram had not had a great season but he looked good in the World 
Cup. I realised then that Gallas was contributing a whole lot to making 
Thuram and the French defence look good. In fact, watch John Terry with 
other partners in Chelsea and at the World Cup, you realise just what a 
player Gallas is.
William Gallas is 29 and is still faster than most 23-year-olds. He scores 
goals too, from headers and shots. He is vastly experienced, versatile and 
has at least 3 years at the very top level left in him.
Gallas also has character. He is the first player to voluntarily leave 
Chelsea with a guaranteed first team spot (as far as I know). He's a mature 
player and a mature man who will easily make friends with Touré who has the 
same disposition. The two of them could be formidable together. I cannot 
think of another defensive pairing that looks better on paper anywhere in 
the world right now, let alone the Premiership.
Chelsea have taken a great player from Arsenal from a non-vital position. 
But luckily it is a player for whom Arsenal have a ready made replacement, a 
replacement that has been in the club for a few years and plays almost 
exactly like Cole and could be as good as Cole soon.
Arsenal have taken a great player from Chelsea from a vital position. 
Chelsea don't have a replacement for Gallas and we have taken a player from 
a very, very important position from our rivals and left them with a problem 
while solving our long standing problem in that area. Carvalho is only a 
decent defender who is the king of professional fouling and if referees paid 
enough attention, Carvalho will give away one penalty per game. Terry and 
Carvalho are inferior to Touré and Gallas.
Chelsea bought their replacement for Gallas a week or more ago since they 
knew he wanted to go. Arsenal, however, could not do any business until they 
knew what was happening with Cole. The fact that Arsène effectively had no 
shopping hours left when the Cole deal went through makes me wonder whether 
Arsène would have done something different had the Cole deal been sorted out 
two weeks ago. We did well under the circumstances anyway.
Baptista skipped Arsenal last season because he wanted a Spanish passport 
and wanted to play alongside Brazilians to increase his chance of the going 
to the World Cup. He will get his passport but he failed to make the team 
for the World Cup.
Now Real have made him dispensable. He's young and has to get back to the 
glory he had at Seville - he has to get back on track.  It is clear that 
Baptista didn't really want to come to Arsenal but his attitude seems good 
enough to accept the challenge and make good of it.
I have no idea what Wenger is going to do with him along with Ljungberg, 
Hleb, Rosicky, Fabregas, etc. I keep telling people that since last season, 
Arsène doesn't know his first team for the first time in 10 years and that 
things will really click when he has his first team.
But I think Arsène may have changed in this last season since he has bought 
several players in the same position at the same age. Before Arsène had his 
first team players and a young protégé but last season was full of injuries 
and vulnerability may have changed him a little. We now have a team full of 
players who have to fight for their place.Watching Rosicky in the national 
team convinces anyone that he needs to be in the middle a bit more. I also 
still firmly believe that Arsenal must not play Fabregas in a four man 
midfield away from home.
I watched Freddie against Latvia and he is also far more dangerous coming 
centrally from the sides than running on the wings. Hleb is also the same, 
he's got better as winger but his runs coming up through the middle are more 
dangerous and direct. Arsenal lack width because they don't have real 
wingers anymore.
With Baptista, Arsenal can have a four man midfield that turns into five men 
in defensive situations and two strikers in attacking situations away from 
home.
I know Fabregas can dynamically move to the wings while Rosicky comes into 
the middle. Cesc has played on the right before. I know Baptista has 
functioned on the left at Real and can move there dynamically while Hleb 
comes in.
We know Baptista can score as a half striker like he did in Seville and we 
know he can cover midfield if Cesc goes forward. I don't know what Wenger is 
planning but if we have a fluid and dymanic midfield with these 4 players 
moving around while Gilberto stays back, then we can demolish teams and 
attack with full backs since we don't have natural wingers.
They could finish games in the first half once again.
This is bad news for van Persie and Adebayor but I am sure Henry will not 
play an injury free season. Also with Gallas, it is not as bad for Senderos 
as it seems because Touré and Gallas will not play an injury free season 
after the World Cup and Champions League and almost two seasons without 
injury. The loser is Djourou but he's only 19 and the Carling Cup team will 
be strong enough to give him many games.
I was making noises about Bendtner here in 2005. I recommend that you watch 
the next Birmingham match to check him out yourself.
The future is Walcott and Bendtner. With these two, Denilson, Clichy, 
Flamini, Kerrea Gilbert, Muamba, Larsson, Lupoli, Vela, Djourou, Hoyte, 
Clichy and then Senderos, Fabregas and van Persie, Arsenal have the next 5 
years all sorted out.
You could even put out the above team now and be competitive!
in poche parole ho stampato l'articolo e conservato in un quadro nella sala 
da pranzo.
:D
max
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 Chelsea with a guaranteed first team spot (as far as I know).
Gioca spesso, ma non credo sia mai stato considerato titolare e comunque...
chi ha scritto l'articolo, il capo ultras dell'Arsenal?
Ciao
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L' intelligenza è  una pianta che va curata continuamente; dovreste vedere
come è bello il mio bonsai

 chi ha scritto l'articolo, il capo ultras dell'Arsenal?
no, pero' ho voluto postarvelo per farvi vedere che non siamo solo io e 
Fabio a pensare benissimo della politica economica della nostra squadra...
;-)
ciao
max
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chi e' Mauro Suma?