When Arsene Wenger dropped Szczesny for the CL second leg in Munich and subsequent FAPL games many rejoiced in the belief that our manager had grown a pair and had become ruthless with our players. After all Szczesny was not alone in being dropped, the Captain Thomas Vermaelen was dropped too. But it seems
we may be giving Wenger too much credit. A source close to the club told me that there was more to it than simply our manager deciding that Szczesny was in poor form. Indeed there were two factors, Fabianski’s contract offer and
Szczesny unhappiness at his form and more importantly what Szczesny himself saw as the reasons for it.
seems Szczesny may have upset Wenger, not with his up and down form, but for actually highlighting it to our manager, and the coaches, when he complained that he felt that the training sessions he was receiving were not tailored enough to his game specifically, and to correcting the faults in his game.
It is claimed that when Jens Lehmann was here during the season as part of his coaching badges course he had told Szczesny that although the coaching the Arsenal keepers were getting was of a high standard in general terms, they were not player specific enough to really make our keepers the best they could be.