Wenger rules Sanchez out of Sunderland clash

Arsene Wenger says “world class” David Ospina could still be Arsenal’s No 1 goalkeeper in the future.

In the Premier League, you play on a Saturday. I hope he gets a consistent presence in the squad to perform again.

Spurs, the eight-time FA Cup winners who beat Leicester in the 1961 final, will be eager to avenge a 2-1 fourth-round loss to the Foxes previous year.

Sunderland, of course, have won the FA Cup twice, most famously in 1973 when as a second division outfit, they defeated Don Revie’s Leeds at Wembley in memorable fashion.

The Uruguay worldwide was heavily rumoured with a move to the Emirates back in the summer transfer window, although a move failed to materialise.

The Colombia global is in line to take on Sunderland in the FA Cup on Saturday in what will be his first Arsenal appearance since a high-profile error contributed to a September defeat to Olympiakos.

“If there was to be an offer from somebody else for either Costel or Vito, I’d probably call them in and say ‘What do you want to do?” “We have a commitment, the player wanted to go there and if they want to cancel the loan they have to contact us and speak about it”.

“It’s complicated a little bit but we work hard on it”, said the Frenchman, as reported by skysports.

Sam Allardyce’s hand has been forced ahead of this game, in terms of team selection, “Unfortunately we have restrictions which mean fitting in a Premier League the midweek after, which doesn’t give us the opportunity to play the strongest team at Arsenal”. That’s diabolical. For me, if you want us to respect the FA Cup then you don’t put a Premier League fixture [on the following midweek], do you?

However, it seems as if Wenger could be about to surprise us all and go one something of a spending spree.

The England Under-21 keeper has been capped at every age group from the age of 16 and rattled up more than 100 first-team games during spells with Darlington, Alfreton, Burton, Carlisle and Bradford before his temporary move to Deepdale which was cut short last month. We are the holders of the cup and I know as well by experience that it is very important that you get in the competition and that you have a successful third round. I did not play Laurent Koscielny against Bournemouth, Gabriel comes in and scores, he almost scores two goals.