Yep and now officially retired.......oh you mean, Henry!Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
haha - took me a while. Best of luck to him - fantastic career
Golf and beers in Portugal for the foreseeable, lucky b'stard.
True, and it would a gross injustice to not mention the role that Wenger played in developing him into the player he became.
There are those of us old enough to remember his struggles in the first few years, especially in front of goal. 'Will never be a natural finisher' was a commonly held sentiment that was frequently expressed on here as I recall.
Wenger at his best imo.
Maybe he could have a word with Eddie?
At one point we thought his finishing was so bad that we decided to sign Francis Jeffers to do it for him
and yet he allowed Almunia to play 109 times for The Arsenal.
Bewildering!
“Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.”
A magnificent athlete, absolutely. Pretty decent footballer as well. Not in the class of Bergkamp, of course.
As I've said before, both amazing players and extremely fortunate to have seen both of them with us at the peak of their powers. I have a very slight preference for DB10....although the not flying thing pissed me off.
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