Teams affected by African nations cup

Kent Brockman

This causes a bit of disruption to the Premiership. what teams will be most affected (or effected never know the difference:o )
And I dont mean your fantasy football team:rolleyes::rolleyes:

That_Guy

Chelsea, Arsenal (not by much though I would think), City.... em can't really think at the moment.

keane2097

Portsmouth lose four players as well iirc.

Kent Brockman

Kalou, essien and Drogba for Chelsea

Utaka, Kanu, Belhadj, Yebda and Dindane for Pompey

Assou-Ekotto for spurs

Song for Arsenal

Adebayor and toure for Man City

Thats all I can think of so far. feel free to add to the list

1mcampo1

Kent Brockman wrote: »

Kalou, essien and Drogba for Chelsea

Utaka, Kanu, Belhadj, Yebda and Dindane for Pompey

Assou-Ekotto for spurs

Song for Arsenal

Adebayor and toure for Man City

Thats all I can think of so far. feel free to add to the list

Is mikel going from Chelsea?

keane2097

Kent Brockman wrote: »

Kalou, essien and Drogba for Chelsea

Utaka, Kanu, Belhadj, Yebda and Dindane for Pompey

Assou-Ekotto for spurs

Song for Arsenal

Adebayor and toure for Man City

Thats all I can think of so far. feel free to add to the list

Arsenal lose Eboue as well.

A Primal Nut

Yeah Chelsea are losing Mikel as well - they could suffer a lot this January.

SlickRic

chelsea and portsmouth are easily the most f*cked.

chelsea with no essien or drogba in particular.

their only saving grace is that their fixture list is very gentle while they're all away.

Headshot

SlickRic wrote: »

chelsea and portsmouth are easily the most f*cked.

chelsea with no essien or drogba in particular.

their only saving grace is that their fixture list is very gentle while they're all away.

West ham should of been a gentile tie

Kent Brockman

Forgot Mikel, but Chelsea have lots of depth in the squad. seems there is a few young lads able to fill the positions lol!

Pepe LeFrits

Chelsea have Anelka out injured too at the moment don't they?

Headshot

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

Chelsea have Anelka out injured too at the moment don't they?

they do

and himself and drogba will be missing for the fulham game

happy days

Helix

everyones forgetting the biggest one...

villa lose salifou

Kent Brockman

Eboue for Arsenal

Yobo and yakubu for everton

Ferris_Bueller

Heard on some thing on the telly a while ago 17 players are off to the African Cup Of Nations from the premiership, 16 have been mentioned above, can anyone think of the last player?

Kent Brockman

looks like a few more than 17. have been googling in between supping porter and chatting with in-laws:D

Fulham (John Pantsil, Dickson Etuhu)

Hull City (Kamel Ghilas, Daniel Cousin, Seyi Olofinjana)

rotinaj

What about that lad United got a work permit for last week. Is he not going?

keane2097

rotinaj wrote: »

What about that lad United got a work permit for last week. Is he not going?

He only has one cap so there's a good chance he won't be brought I'd have thought...

Kold

Assou Ekotto going means we have to play Gareth Bale... He'd want to pick up his game a little. Thank God Bassong wasn't called up although I have no idea why, it looks like Cameroon have taken only 3 proper defenders.

curry-muff

rotinaj wrote: »

What about that lad United got a work permit for last week. Is he not going?

Senegal haven't qualified for the ANC, otherwise he probably would have went.

Vurnon San Benito

Geremi's off to it.
And he doesn't even make an appearance for us!

The_Kew_Tour

This Aafrican Nations might be the difference between league success for Chelsea and not

BOHtox

Pompey could lose 6

Utaka
Dindane
Yebda
Kanu
Belhadj
and could lose Kevin Prince Boateng if he elects to play for Ghana afaik he holds dual nationality passport with Ghana and Germany .

There rightly Fúcked so

greendom

There was talk of N'Zogbia going if he chose not to play for France. Don't know what his choice was?

Mr Alan

just read that everton lose Pienaar, Yobo & Yakubu.

not good for them at all the way things are going this year.

Spiritoftheseventies

A Primal Nut wrote: »

Yeah Chelsea are losing Mikel as well - they could suffer a lot this January.

Not exactly doing well at the moment either. one win in last eight as far i know. last month they were favourites to win premiership. not so sure now. But will be in the mix no doubt near the end

LiamMc

Kent Brockman wrote: »

looks like a few more than 17. have been googling in between supping porter and chatting with in-laws:D

Fulham (John Pantsil, Dickson Etuhu)

Hull City (Kamel Ghilas, Daniel Cousin, Seyi Olofinjana)

You're maybe right about more than 17, but Ghilas isn't named in the Algeria squad
http://news.b.bc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/8418425.stm
"..
Algeria's full squad list:
Goalkeepers: Lounes Gaouaoui (ASO Chlef), Fawzi Chaouchi (ES Setif), Mohamed Amine Zemmamouche (MC Algiers)
Defenders: Slimane Raho (ES Setif), Madjid Bougherra (Rangers/Scotland), Rafik Halliche (Nacional/Portugal), Anthar Yahia (Bochum/Germany), Samir Zaoui (ASO Chlef), Abdelkader Laifaoui (ES Setif), Nadir Belhadj (Portsmouth/England), Reda Baabouche (MC Algiers)
Midfielders: Hassen Yebda (Portsmouth/England), Yazid Mansouri (Lorient/France), Khaled Lemmouchia (ES Setif), Mourad Meghni (Lazio/Italy), Karim Ziani (Wolfsburg/Germany), Karim Matmour (Borussia Monchengladbach/Germany), Yacine Bezzaz (Strasbourg/France), Hameur Bouazza (Blackpool/England), Djamal Abdoun (Nantes/France)
Forwards: Rafik Saifi (Al-Khor/Qatar), Abdelkader Mohamed Ghezzal (Siena/Italy), Abdelmalik Ziaya (ES Setif)
Reserves: Mohamed Ousserir (CR Belouizdad), Mohamed Meftah (JS Kabylie), Hocine Metref (ES Setif), Chadli Amri (Mainz/German)


Never liked the insular arguments from European Club managers about the Cup of African Nations. Arsene Wenger used to dust off the complaints every two years. Now Avram Grant has taken up the cause.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/8427256.stm
"

Portsmouth manager Avram Grant says he is still baffled that football's world governing body, Fifa, allows the Africa Cup of Nations to be staged in January. The Premier League club could lose Aruna Dindane to Ivory Coast and Kanu to Nigeria, while Nadir Belhadj and Hassan Yebda are in the Algeria squad"

(Apologies the source material is BBC, I know many Premiership members only believe SkySports)

Third_Echelon

Mr Alan wrote: »

just read that everton lose Pienaar, Yobo & Yakubu.

not good for them at all the way things are going this year.

Don't know where you read that....

South Africa didn't qualify for the AFCON, so Pienaar is going nowhere.

Only Yobo and Yak are going for Nigeria.

Kent Brockman

Official from Prem league website:


Four: Chelsea - Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast), Michael Essien (Ghana), Salomon Kalou (Ivory Coast), John Obi Mikel (Nigeria);

Portsmouth - Nadir Belhadj (Algeria), Hassan Yebda (Algeria), Nwankwo Kanu (Nigeria), Aruna Dindane (Ivory Coast)

Three: Man City - Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo), Kelvin Etuhu (Nigeria); Kolo Toure (Ivory Coast)

Two: Arsenal - Emmanuel Eboue (Ivory Coast) Alex Song (Cameroon); Everton - Ayegbeni Yakubu (Nigeria) Joseph Yobo (Nigeria);
Hull City - Daniel Cousin (Gabon), Seyi Olofinjana (Nigeria)

One: Aston Villa - Moustapha Salifou (Togo); Bolton - Danny ****tu (Nigeria); Burnley - Andre Bikey (Cameroon); Fulham - Dickson Etuhu (Nigeria); Stoke - Mamady Sidibe (Mali); Sunderland - John Mensah (Ghana); Wigan - Richard Kingson (Ghana)

Chelsea,City and Arsenal have the squads to cope. Pompey could suffer but cant eally see anyone else being too troubled.