The Arsenal Thread XXIII

Love Juventus but how can they be offering 28.8M for Ozil? That's a pisstake

Man like Ramsey don't wanna be defending fam, half of the time he's in Girouds position.

You think Chelsea's title bid wont be hurt playing Loftus Cheek? No moreso than Arsenal playing Arteta or just Wilshere as the deeper CM.

Youve also been lucky, some injuries cant be prevented and it just happens that none of your players have been clattered by some hatchet man recently. It can happen and the only way for your injury record to go is down atm, reversion to the mean is inevitable. Hazard or JT get snapped and you lot are absolutely done

I'm kinda disappointed we didn't get schneiderlin, except I'm sure it's cos Wengs is going for Carvalho instead.

I think that's an absolute garbage opinion with no real credible reason to think that. Our problems last season were pre Christmas when our defense was abysmally lacking in depth. Since then we've added cech and Gabriel for depth at CB.
If we don't sign a striker or winger we may have issues but other than that I think we have the perfect mix of improvement in the squad whilst not losing squad cohesion.

Nowadays you're calling everything garbage or some one stupid at least

Do take in mind that a CB was bought whilst it was too late (i.e most of our defensive mishaps happened pre January, where we lost the most points, so by the time we bought Paulista it didn't really have any effect due to Merte/Koscielny returning to fitness).

Don't see the need for another attacking player unless someone exceptional become available. We're pretty well equipped up front and in the wings.

Another DM is absolutely essential in my eyes. I'd have no complaints if Cech and another DM was our only business

Sorry but it just seems as though people think the transfer window ends tomorrow or something when it's only been open for 2 weeks. Maybe I'm underestimating the shortcomings at cdm, but when we have 5 excellent players who primarily play down the middle and are playing for 3 positions, as well as ox being capable of playing cdm without even considering flam or arteta is it really surprising that Wenger probably isn't in for a cdm? Only way I see it happening is if Santi is sold tbh.

With regards to defensive issues, I thought we all felt it was due to us not having back up. That problem has now been fixed with Gabriel being signed in Jan (well hopefully he should be good enough).

For me us signing a cdm AND st would make us favourites, but signing a st would still put us right at the top with squad depth AND no loss of cohesion.

Lol City are screwed. They need to do a United style revamp quite soon, more likely that they'll finish 5th than win the title.

With Chelsea, city and united spending like they are, we can only expect a top 4 finish. We need to make quality signings if we want a fair chance at the title. We have made quality signings over the past few years but signings which were only sufficient to compete for the title, not enough to actually have a good chance of taking it home.

Don't mean to come across in a bad way but do you not think that you're more than capable in an attacking sense as it stands? Of course if injuries should come then there could be problems, but Sanchez is exceptional, Giroud will score goals, Walcott as well and your midfielders are more than capable of chipping in. Schneiderlin would have been a brilliant signing for you, you've sorted out the keeper problem now but if you could get a good holding midfielder then you would have a very good squad.

Of course you watch Arsenal more than I do but a holding midfielder should be priority IMO.