AW has confirmed that Lucasz Fabianski has been ruled out for the rest of the season after surgery on a troublesome shoulder. It means fellow Pole Chesney looks set to play out the remainder of the term as our No.1, with former first choice Manuel Almunia as back-up.
AW has just held his press conference ahead of the trip to Geordieland on Saturday and he has also held forth on other news regarding the injury to Samir Nasri, who he says is expected to back in three weeks. Our leader says Thomas Vermaelen is ‘three to four’ weeks from a return to action while Alex Song is likely to miss the game at Newcastle after getting injured in the 2-1 win over Everton at the Emirates, yet Theo Walcott should be available.
Still on the fiery game against the Toffees in which David Moyes accused Cesc of bad-mouthing the ref in the tunnel, AW said: ‘If Cesc was guilty he would be charged’ and agreed that he thinks there is ‘witch-hunt’ against our skipper. Next up the manager said that was ‘not surprised’ that AA23 is finding his form after his goal against the Goodison outfit on Tuesday night.
As we know, Liverpool stunned football by paying £35million for Andy Carroll this week but AW says he would not spend that money on a striker. He went on to say that be thinks Chelsea still a threat on all fronts. More when we get it…
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