But Wenger believes turning to a naturalised replacement such as Almunia is a viable option.
Blatter has also warned of the threat of naturalised Brazilian 'invaders' playing for other countries.
Some do and never return: Tunisia's squad at the 2002 World Cup included a naturalised Brazilian.
The idea has provoked debate over whether naturalised Scots should be picked for the national team.
However, opinion is divided as to whether naturalised Scots should be picked for Scotland.
Mr Grunfeld became a naturalised Briton, but never lost his accent, or his German syntax.
Burley acknowledged that selecting naturalised players is a sensitive issue, but one which should be examined further.
Fereshta Ludin, 31, a naturalised German of Afghan origin, says she is simply expressing her right to religious freedom.
Yet Bill Clinton correctly saw the newly naturalised as a source of votes.
Earlier this year, Togo naturalised four Brazilian-born players in the hope they would lead the Hawks to the 2004 Nations Cup.
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It has created a new elite: foreigners, or recently naturalised Britons, dominate the best neighbourhoods and the best schools (see article).
Jim Fahey the upstanding citizen and public figure was a naturalised Canadian.
There was even talk of a move to change the law so that one day, as a naturalised American, he could run for president.
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Although one man of Finnish descent, Marutei Tsurunen, now sits in the Diet as a citizen, only about 100 westerners are naturalised each year.
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But while Wales took time to settle after their changes, Poland seemed livened by theirs with Guerreiro - a naturalised Brazilian - looking especially dangerous.
It calls for the number of foreigners to rise to 10m over the next half century, and for many of these immigrants to become naturalised Japanese.
By 1727 Handel was so well entrenched in London that, as George Frideric Handel, he became a naturalised British citizen (which required an act of Parliament).
Importing American-style affirmative action risks forcing Brazilians to place themselves in strict racial categories rather than somewhere along a spectrum, says Peter Fry, a British-born, naturalised-Brazilian anthropologist.
That is to say (being a lapsed Jew as well as a naturalised immigrant) he would swear the oath as amended by the Jews Relief Act 1858.
In its haste to register new citizens who might vote Democratic, the immigration service revealed that it had naturalised 180, 000 people in 1996 without checking their criminal records.
The White House said Mr Tsarnaev would not be tried as an enemy combatant in a military tribunal because he was a naturalised US citizen (born in southern Russia).
At a time when the very concept of Britishness has been linked to prejudice, it is nice that this point is made by a naturalised Briton of Sri Lankan descent.
Mr Spilhaus, a naturalised American, was born in Cape Town and would sometimes remark that the only thing wrong with America was that it did not have the weather of South Africa.
The 24-year-old becomes the second Brazilian-born player to be naturalised for Tunisia after Jose Clayton, and the Esperance defender has played in the last two World Cup finals for the north African nation.
BBC: SPORT | Football | African | Tunisia naturalise Brazilian
He is actually a naturalised American, who was born in Zambia, and there lies his undoing: the Europeans think the job is theirs by right, and another naturalised American already heads the World Bank, the Australian-born Jim Wolfensohn.
But already ministers were resigning over other, much nastier issues: charges of widespread tapping of telephones, including the ministers' own, and then the sudden removal of citizenship from the main shareholder, a naturalised Peruvian, of the television station that had made the charges.
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