The Arsenal Thread XXIV

This is by far the worst team he''s ever come to. From a grass roots level, there's just no desire. Who were the last City academy products to achieve anything? Shaun Wright Phillips is the closest

This is by far the worst team he''s ever come to. From a grass roots level, there's just no desire. Who were the last City academy products to achieve anything? Shaun Wright Phillips is the closest

Holding-Chambers would have been my first choice anyway. Don't rate Gabriel at all. Feel sorry for him though, looks like a bad injury. Leaves us really short.

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Daniel Sturridge and Kasper Schmeichel haven't done too badly...

Having no senior CB's available for your first game is the most Arsenal thing ever.

Surely you'll sign a defender now. Surely?

That's the thing - after a club is taken over by "oil money" it becomes really difficult for anyone to break through to the first team from the academy, and the prospects have to find success elsewhere.

Daniel Sturridge and Kasper Schmeichel haven't done too badly...

We were in talks with Valencia over Mustafi so we were trying to sign one anyway. I think this injury just means Wenger will try hurry it up and get in done before Sunday.

Even if the deal goes through before Sunday, no chance he plays against Liverpool, with less than a weeks training with the first team. This isn't FIFA where you sign someone and play them the next day.

We may have no choice. Scott Sinclair both signed and scored today for Celtic.

That completely ignores the fact that communication and chemistry is far more important in defense than attack. Also Sinclair already knows the language, a player like Mustafi, I would assume, has no English skills, rendering it nearly impossible for him to communicate with his cb partner.

It would be incredibly risky to sign a CB from a foreign country with no experience of the language, and then play him 5 days later.

Also, I know it was only a friendly, but could we at least show some respect for Wengs record vs Guardiola? Managed to beat the greatest football team ever, an incredibly strong Bayern team and now City with a back line of Gabriel Holding.

Based on that friendly I worry for city. So many times they were caught with 7 players up the pitch exposing them to numerous counters. They haven't got the balance right at all.

That completely ignores the fact that communication and chemistry is far more important in defense than attack. Also Sinclair already knows the language, a player like Mustafi, I would assume, has no English skills, rendering it nearly impossible for him to communicate with his cb partner.

It would be incredibly risky to sign a CB from a foreign country with no experience of the language, and then play him 5 days later.

That completely ignores the fact that communication and chemistry is far more important in defense than attack. Also Sinclair already knows the language, a player like Mustafi, I would assume, has no English skills, rendering it nearly impossible for him to communicate with his cb partner.

It would be incredibly risky to sign a CB from a foreign country with no experience of the language, and then play him 5 days later.