Per Mertesacker

Mert however is suited to plauing with kos, And the same vice versa. I dont think we'd be in a mich better position had kos been fit playing with monreL than mert. I think with them its a case of the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Both counter each others weaknesses and maximises each others strengths. As shown by the clean sheets when played together.

Never rated him tbh, always thought Koscielny made him look good.

I cannot for the life of me work out what's up with Per. He just seems like so much of a worse player than he was for the previous couple of seasons. Normally you'd put that down to his age catching up with him, but it's not like he particularly relied on his physicality before anyway. His strengths always used to be the mental ones like positioning and anticipation, and those shouldn't really weaken over time, so I'm at a loss as to why he seems unable to do even the simplest of marking jobs these days.

I still dont understand how anyone can understand carragher when he talks. I dont speak scouse

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Thought Carraghers analysis was spot on, and I'm happy the vast majority of Gooners actually agree with him. Mert has been shocking this season. You can sift through almost every goal we conceded and pick out Mert fúcking up in almost everyone of them. Even Monreal has been head and shoulders better than him.

Now i'm not sure what is wrong with Mert, but the hope is it's just temporary. We all know the passion he showed last year. That bóllocking he gave Ozil after the City away defeat and he was many fans favourite to be team captain. So it can't all suddenly go downhill. And it's not as though he's lost any pace, because he never had any.

So although I agree that Mert has been awful this season, I will hold on until he gets a run of games together with Koscielny, whom he looks infinitely better with. Personally I think we haven't a natural replacement for Koscielny, which gives us a problem when Chambers and Mert are the CB combination.

So first port of call in the January transfer window should be a CB replacement for Koscielny.

playing out of position on the left.

What did people expect.

You can see why AW stuck with Nacho on the left instead of doing what every one was saying about playing Chambers.

I dont want to get on any bandwagen with slagging players off.... that said, I have always thought per was a decent squad player but not a starter when all are fit.

He seems like a really good bloke and has decent moments, but I hate seeing slow and clumsy CB's at the best of times, but when Arsenal play the way they do, its a disaster waiting to happen.

the most dire positions to address in January are at least 1 CB and 1 CDM

in the summer I would go as far as saying another one of each is needed.

the whole defensive staff at Arsenal need looking at (including GK and MF) as I think we have Debuchy and Kos and the rest are ordinary and need replacing ideally.

so with that in mind, be will sign a young winger in the summer.

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Carragher was SPOT on!