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Arsenal
Arsenal youngster James Shea has signed a new contract with the Gunners, a source inside the club confirmed.
The teenager was catapulted into the first team owing to injuries to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Manuel-Almunia-c23386. Both the shot stoppers are not expected to take any part in the remainder of the on-going 2010-11 season owing to shoulder and elbow injuries. Third
choice goalkeeper http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wojciech-Szczesny-c36998 will now perform as the first choice keeper for the Gunners.
Shea was impressive in his appearances in the FA Youth Cup and played a major part in Arsenal’s double winning side in the 2008-09 season. That season with the club made him a regular with the reserves side. Also, Shea was asked to train with the Three Lions
national side when they trained at Arsenal’s training facility ahead of England’s Euro 2012 qualifier against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Bulgaria-c2861.
Arsenal are known for their quality academy which has provided them with so many top-quality players in recent history. All of these players have cost nothing as compared to millions spent by others for signing high-profile players. Arsenal are one of the
few clubs who are debt free and spend just 49 per cent of their revenue on the salaries of their players.
Aston Villa
Aston Villa management is sweating over the future of their star winger http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ashley-Young-c6813, who has been speculated to leave the club in the summer 2011 transfer window.
The management is certain that the signings made in the January 2011 transfer window would assure Young about the direction of the club. Currently, the winger has only 17 months remaining on his contract and thoughts about his future would have to wait until
the end of the 2010-11 season.
Villa made two high profile signings in January, signing star striker http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809, Manchester City and Tottenham have been speculated to snap up the 25-year-old
but the assistant manager Gary McAllister had full belief that Young would commit his long-term career with the Villains.
“The conversations with the chairman (Randy Lerner) and the manager were along the lines that nobody http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Gerard-c14664 Houllier wants to keep is leaving. Simple as that. Come the end of the season, we just need to wait and see what happens then. But throughout the
transfer window, there was nobody the manager wanted to keep being allowed to leave,” explained the Scotsman.
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