Both Wojciech Szczesny and Lukasz Fabianski have suffered setbacks, with the former expected to be out for two more weeks while the latter is sidelined until the New Year with ankle ligament damage.
This leaves Arsenal with just two goalkeepers – third-choice Vito Mannone and young Argentine Damian Martinez.
So the question now is – should Arsene Wenger look to enlist the services of an on loan shot-stopper?
Well Wenger has already ruled out this possibility, stating they have Mannone fit and Szczesny to come back in two weeks. But should the Frenchman take the risk?
We have four games to play in the next fortnight (two Premier League, one Champions League and a Capital One Cup one) – Schalke (A), QPR (H), Reading (A) and Manchester United (A).
To be honest, Wenger need not worry or panic about his goalkeeping crisis.
Mannone has done exceptionally well in the absence of Szczesny, conceding just six goals in seven games and keeping two clean sheets, and I think the Italian is more than capable of filling in until Woj returns. In addition, should Mannone need a rest then Wenger can always drop him for Martinez in the Capital One Cup fixture against Reading.
However, should the worse come to the worse and Szczesny suffers yet another set back (ruling him out until say January/February) then I would like to see Wenger take some action as soon as possible.
But as for bringing in an emergency goalkeeper on loan, with Szczesny just two weeks away from recovery, would be, with the greatest respect, a silly move by Le Boss.
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Of course he should but he won’t. We should have paid the nearly £4m for Schwartzer. But we (again) decided to back the youngsters. 3 of these are still developing and 2 will never make it at top level.
What is the financial difference between writing off (say) £2m a year on a necessary 37/38 year old good keeper … versus (say) £2m a year on a necessary 27/30 year old good outfield player ?
Manone is doing his best and I wish him well. Nobody wants to succeed more than he does. But he is just very limited. What astounds me is how many fans think he is any good (??) Why do you think no other club in the summer wanted to buy him for not many £m.?? One reason is he can’t jump very athletically for high balls, another is he does not (yet) make good pressure decisions, another is he does not have safe hands (!!) Simple.
Not that it was all Manone’s fault we lost at Norwich. We should have been good enough to score more than one goal in reply. But we weren’t. It looked like … what a tiresome game we have to play (!!) after the international fortnight.
Am astonished by people trying to solve a problem that exist in their head. Why replacing Manone when our Brazilian left back doe not even know where he works-position when he is not in the poiice custody?. His lack of positional sense caused trouble for CBs yesterday embarrassing both TV5 and BFG. Our team lacked ppl with zeal like Cesc who used to keep ball and try cruise through, or power