Return of Senderos means competition for places is stronger than ever
56 comments September 21st, 2006
Arsenal’s Swiss defender Philippe Senderos expects to “get the green light to resume training next week”, and he already knows he’s in for a fight to win a first-team place.
With the signing of William Gallas and the emergence of Johan Djourou, aswell as the continued excellence of Kolo Toure, we now have one of the strongest crops of central defenders in Europe, let alone the Premiership. Senderos’ advantage is that he posesses qualities of leadership and organisation that are arguably missing in the other three.
Meanwhile, a strong Reserve side beat Portsmouth 2-0 last night, Jeremie Aliadiere getting both goals. It’s a while since we saw Aliadiere anything near the first-team, but if he takes the opportunities that the cup competitions will surely bring him, he might just get one last opportunity to make a go of it.
Finally, Arturo Lupoli followed Niklas Bendtner in being sent off for his new club, possibly for spitting. He did score though, so…
