Arsenal Transfer Rumours And General Chat

patrickc wrote: »

over van persie, he needs a kick in the behind,

Yeah, what a lazy git, getting injured and all.

Personally, I don't think we've a hope of the league now. We'd need to rediscover our form, win every game including away to Man U, and hope that Chelsea also beat them but drop points elsewhere allowing us to move past them.

The league is dead, long live the Champions League.

As regards postmortems, I just think the squad is too thin(not too young!!). Perhaps if Eduardo was still playing and Rosicky and Van Persie had been available we'd be top of the league now but that's basically an admission that our squad can't handle injuries.

To win next year we need more players. I still think Wenger is the best there is but the Premiership has changed a lot in recent years. We need a bigger squad and the fringe players have to be more effective.

In defence I'd look at getting one more player in. This wouldn't be necessary if we felt that Hoyte, Traore or Djouoru were up to the level required after another summer.

In central midfield we need some more quality. At least one more good central midfielder is an absolute must if we want to maintain a title challenge next year. Man U have 4, Chelsea about 40 and we really have two. Obviously a lot of this is down to Gilberto's massive drop in form, Diarra legging it and Denilson and Diaby not really being up to it. Fabregas and Flamini are being asked to run 10k per match each weekend (and often midweek as well) and somehow not lose effectiveness - not possible.

I think we need two more wingers. Walcott should be good for next year but we can't solely rely upon that. We can't rely on Rosicky either and Eboue just isn't good enough. I think the squad needs a left and right winger to go with Walcott, Hleb and Rosicky. Vela may come in but we can't rely on a kid on his first season in the premiership.

Attack I think is fine. Eduardo, Van Persie and Adebayor are all good enough and with Bendtner waiting in the wings, Walcott also able to play there and Hleb too an option, there's plenty of competition. Although another amazing striker wouldn't hurt.

This may not happen of course but I'm fine with that. Wenger's building a team and I say give him as long as he wants ... but in a perfect world I'd love to add Essien, Jesus Navas, Joaquin and David Villa to it.

PHB wrote: »

I still find it amazing that Wenger doesn't employ a counter-attack policy. That have some pace around the pitch, and if they got a really pacey winger this year who provides width, but also a focal point of the counter attack (like Ronaldo for United) they'd get a lot more goals.

We did, and were brilliant at it, but then people stopped attacking us. (and our players changed - IMO pires, Cole and Henry down the left hand side was the best counter attacking the world has even seen)

The tactic against Arsenal for medium to lower teams is now to defend for the first half hour, wait for their defence to switch off, score from your only attack, and then let them try to break you down ... and who can blame them?

In fairness to Utd, they score loads from coutner attacks but are usually one up by then anyway.