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Frustrated Mannone wants loan move

ESPNsoccernet staff
October 7, 2010
Vito Mannone has slumped to fourth choice at Arsenal © Getty Images
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Arsenal goalkeeper Vito Mannone is ready to go out on loan to gain first-team football after being frozen out at Emirates Stadium, and has complained that "it's not as if the other two do that well".

Mannone has not been given a chance to prove himself this season despite the poor form of first-choice goalkeeper Manuel Almunia and his understudy Lukasz Fabianski's history of mistakes.

The Italy Under-21 international, who spent a month on loan with Championship side Barnsley in the 2006-07 season, made five Premier League appearances last term and also started three of the club's Champions League group games.

But this season Mannone has dropped to fourth in the pecking order, with Wojciech Szczesny taking the place on the bench with Almunia recently out due to injury.

He told Gazzetta dello Sport: "I don't get regular playing time at Arsenal. I would consider a six-month loan deal just to play. I am happy in London. I love the Premier League.

"Last year I played nine games and with me, Arsenal never lost. They brought Almunia back (to the starting XI) and then Fabianski started in the game at Chelsea (last weekend). I get annoyed when I don't play, it's not as if the other two do that well.

"But if I've signed a contract extension until 2014 it is because they must value me.''

Mannone joined Arsenal from Atalanta in the summer of 2005.

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