Who's off to the African Nations Cup?

• omgukilledkenny

  3 Jan 08, 02:30

  Arsenal
  
  Kolo Toure and Emmanuel Eboue (Ivory Coast), Alexandre Song (Cameroon)
  
  Birmingham
  
  Richard Kingson (Ghana), Mehdi Nafti and Radhi Jaidi (Tunisia)
  
  Blackburn
  
  Aaron Mokoena (South Africa)
  
  Bolton
  
  El-Hadji Diouf (Senegal), Abdoulaye Meite (Ivory Coast)
  
  Chelsea
  
  John Obi Mikel (Nigeria), Didier Drogba and Saloman Kalou (Ivory Coast), Michael Essien (Ghana)
  
  Everton
  
  Joseph Yobo and Ayegbeni Yakubu (Nigeria), Steven Pienaar (South Africa)
  
  Liverpool
  
  Nabil El-Zhar (Morocco), Muhammed Sissoko (Mali)
  
  Manchester United
  
  Manucho (Angola)
  Expected to sign for Manchester United in January transfer window.
  
  Middlesbrough
  
  Mohamed Shawky and Mido (Egypt)
  
  Newcastle
  
  Obafemi Martins (Nigeria), Geremi (Cameroon), Abdoulaye Faye and Habib Beye (Senegal)
  
  Portsmouth
  
  Papa Bouba Diop (Senegal), Nwankwo Kanu and John Utaka (Nigeria), Sulley Muntari (Ghana), Lauren (Cameroon)
  
  Reading
  
  Andre Bikey (Cameroon), Emerse Fae (Ivory Coast), Ibrahima Sonko (Senegal)
  
  Sunderland
  
  Dickson Etuhu (Nigeria)
  
  Tottenham
  
  Hossam Ghaly (Egypt), Didier Zokora (Ivory Coast)
  
  West Ham United
  
  John Pantsil (Ghana), Henri Camara (Senegal)
  
  Wigan
  
  Salomon Olembe (Cameroon), Julius Aghahowa (Nigeria)
  
  Aston Villa, Derby County, Fulham, Manchester City currently have no involvement in the African Nations Cup.
• felirox

  3 Jan 08, 03:43

  wow pompey has alot of their key players participating in the ACN
• ghimpheng

  3 Jan 08, 07:38

  Teams Hugely Affected
  
  Reading, Portsmouth, Newcastle, Everton, Bolton, Chelsea, Arsenal
  
  This 7 Clubs will be Extremely unhappy as most of the players are either first team players or important Subs For The Clubs
• turbo_drift

  3 Jan 08, 11:16

  Originally posted by ghimpheng:

  Teams Hugely Affected
  
  Reading, Portsmouth, Newcastle, Everton, Bolton, Chelsea, Arsenal
  
  This 7 Clubs will be Extremely unhappy as most of the players are either first team players or important Subs For The Clubs

  actually Arsenal not really affected. Let's say Eboue move back to RB, he has Sagna and J Hoyte to cover.Actually the only POS that Arsenal will be affected is Centre Back.
  
  Eboue have backups in RM (Hleb, Walcott, van Persie) and RB (Sagna, J Hoyte). Alex Song not really in the 1st team.
  
  So, Arsenal's only blow is Toure.
  
  No offence but I must say Portsmouth and Chelsea suffers the heaviest.
  
  Cheers.
• Y_Shun

  3 Jan 08, 11:21

  Chelsea GG-ed the most.
• stellazio

  3 Jan 08, 19:54

  Yeah Chelsea hit the hardest.
• Pitot

  3 Jan 08, 20:00

  Benni McCarthy not involved?
• stellazio

  3 Jan 08, 20:02

  Originally posted by Pitot:

  Benni McCarthy not involved?

  If i'm not wrong, he got some dispute with the FA of his country or something like that.
• hiphop2009

  3 Jan 08, 20:24

  me!
• hiphop2009

  3 Jan 08, 20:25

  among the top 4, man utd most heng
• anhydrouscoppersulphate

  3 Jan 08, 20:42

  liverpool thank god that sissoko is off
• ErikaChioBu

  3 Jan 08, 20:43

  Originally posted by anhydrouscoppersulphate:

  liverpool thank god that sissoko is off

  
• Pitot

  4 Jan 08, 00:15

  Originally posted by stellazio:

  If i'm not wrong, he got some dispute with the FA of his country or something like that.

  i think it will solve itself come 2010.
• gunner77

  4 Jan 08, 01:20

  chelsea the most jialat
• ghimpheng

  5 Jan 08, 00:48

  Originally posted by anhydrouscoppersulphate:

  liverpool thank god that sissoko is off

  Sissoko: Liverpool can handle my absence
  
  Liverpool midfielder Momo Sissoko believes they can cope with his absence due to this month's African Nations Cup.
  The Mali international told liverpoolfc.tv: "That's right.
  
  "Chelsea will lose Mikel, Michael Essien and Didier Drogba, who are all important players for them.
  
  "Then Portsmouth have four or five players who will be in Ghana, including Papa Bouba Diop, John Utaka and Kanu.
  
  "It will probably be harder for these clubs to cope than here at Liverpool, where I am the only African player."
  
  LOL Joke Of The Decade !!
  
• glacer

  5 Jan 08, 07:40

  Originally posted by turbo_drift:

  actually Arsenal not really affected. Let's say Eboue move back to RB, he has Sagna and J Hoyte to cover.Actually the only POS that Arsenal will be affected is Centre Back.
  
  Eboue have backups in RM (Hleb, Walcott, van Persie) and RB (Sagna, J Hoyte). Alex Song not really in the 1st team.
  
  So, Arsenal's only blow is Toure.
  
  No offence but I must say Portsmouth and Chelsea suffers the heaviest.
  
  Cheers.

  If Gilberto Silva plays at CB while Toure is on international duty with Senderos as backup, its not such a big blow. Gilberto Silva can play as CB quite well
• T.Ryousuke

  5 Jan 08, 08:22

  By looking at the list can tell that African players r increasing in BPL, I though Arsenal had the most black players, now Chelsea had over take them. Currently young talent r the hottest property, look like the market is very open but not to young Englishmen.
• glacer

  5 Jan 08, 08:33

  Originally posted by T.Ryousuke:

  By looking at the list can tell that African players r increasing in BPL, I though Arsenal had the most black players, now Chelsea had over take them. Currently young talent r the hottest property, look like the market is very open but not to young Englishmen.

  Arsenal has more players who look like Africans(you know what i mean) while Chelsea has more players who are from Africa
• turbo_drift

  5 Jan 08, 09:07

  Originally posted by glacer:

  If Gilberto Silva plays at CB while Toure is on international duty with Senderos as backup, its not such a big blow. Gilberto Silva can play as CB quite well

  forgotten Gilberto can play center back..
  
  my bad.