Think Bellerin is first choice at RB at the moment and rightly so. He was convincing in so many games but of course he made mistakes and he will make mistake. He is 20 years old.
Debuchy has to fight for his place but surely over a season every player will get enough playing time knowing our luck with injuries.
Bats, agree with you....we need a DM and maybe a striker/wide player. Not easy to get in the market. Striker who are decisive are rare and clubs like Bayern, RM wont sell their players.
We missed out on Schneiderlin/Kondogbia which is a mistake in my view. Not sure if Kondogbia is worth more than 30M which Inter obviously paid for him. That is another story though. Let me make that clear. I dont want to replace le Coq, I want to give him a breather when he needs it as I dont expect him to go through a season without suspension, injury or drop of form.
I would honestly take somebody like Cambiasso, experience proven PL player with energy and experience. Arteta simply does not have the legs to do what Coq does, even at 34 Cambiasso would offer us what none of our back up options can.
Nah.....Bats, we are not desperate. I would be happy with someone like Victor Wanyama allthough not my first choice.
I have read a lot of crap in my life but the crap said about Bellerin is disgraceful.
Show some faith in your young players and support. He has the potential to play for barca. Obviously he isn't going to be world class this season but I doubt many teams in the league would turn him down.
We need a DM. I don't think the DM needs to be world class. Just able to do the same job coq does when coq can't play or even have the potential to displace him.
We can stick with Giroud and be happy with top four every year or we can sign a top class striker or wide forward and really challenge for the title.
Other positions we can sign is a winger (if we just get a plain old striker), CB and left back but these aren't desperately needed.
We need a back up DM and a ST if we want to challenge and come out winners though
Can't believe we paid 12 million for Debuchy injury prone and average thankful for Bellerin's emergence
Bellerin is such a special talent. Has always been good going forward but improved defensively, immensely.
Give it a couple of years and Bellerin will be on the way back to Barca to replace Dani Alves
Can't believe some idiots still don't understand the difference between the DM position at Arsenal vs CM.
At the moment our "cover" for DM is the equivalent of having Keiran Gibbs as our 3rd choice CB.
We do not have any player capable of adequately covering for the Coq and therefore we are one injury away from zero chance of a title challenge.
A ball hit Giroud on the foot at Everton, he spent three months on the sidelines; Debuchy motioned towards a ball , fell over his ankle and wasn't seen again for three months.
We can't rely on our luck . Coquelin out for any length of time will see our challenge crumble. There is no other in the team that bring his skill set to the table; certainly not the useless " I only leave on a free" Flamini or the flagging " my calves can't carry me" Arteta.
comment by Science (U19684)
posted 7 hours, 23 minutes ago
Can't believe some idiots still don't understand the difference between the DM position at Arsenal vs CM.
At the moment our "cover" for DM is the equivalent of having Keiran Gibbs as our 3rd choice CB.
We do not have any player capable of adequately covering for the Coq and therefore we are one injury away from zero chance of a title challenge.
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We all saw how successful Nacho Monreal at CB was last season. People actually cited him as cover for Kos because we played him there in pre season 😂 😂 😂
Jack out injured,probably long term
Your shocked and surprised I guess
comment by Bats (U18355)
posted 1 day ago
We all saw how successful Nacho Monreal at CB was last season. People actually cited him as cover for Kos because we played him there in pre season 😂 😂 😂
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Monreal is actually more capable of covering CB than Arteta is DM - and Monreal is a terrible CB..
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posted on 4/8/15
Think Bellerin is first choice at RB at the moment and rightly so. He was convincing in so many games but of course he made mistakes and he will make mistake. He is 20 years old.
Debuchy has to fight for his place but surely over a season every player will get enough playing time knowing our luck with injuries.
Bats, agree with you....we need a DM and maybe a striker/wide player. Not easy to get in the market. Striker who are decisive are rare and clubs like Bayern, RM wont sell their players.
We missed out on Schneiderlin/Kondogbia which is a mistake in my view. Not sure if Kondogbia is worth more than 30M which Inter obviously paid for him. That is another story though. Let me make that clear. I dont want to replace le Coq, I want to give him a breather when he needs it as I dont expect him to go through a season without suspension, injury or drop of form.
posted on 4/8/15
I would honestly take somebody like Cambiasso, experience proven PL player with energy and experience. Arteta simply does not have the legs to do what Coq does, even at 34 Cambiasso would offer us what none of our back up options can.
posted on 4/8/15
Nah.....Bats, we are not desperate. I would be happy with someone like Victor Wanyama allthough not my first choice.
posted on 4/8/15
I have read a lot of crap in my life but the crap said about Bellerin is disgraceful.
Show some faith in your young players and support. He has the potential to play for barca. Obviously he isn't going to be world class this season but I doubt many teams in the league would turn him down.
We need a DM. I don't think the DM needs to be world class. Just able to do the same job coq does when coq can't play or even have the potential to displace him.
We can stick with Giroud and be happy with top four every year or we can sign a top class striker or wide forward and really challenge for the title.
Other positions we can sign is a winger (if we just get a plain old striker), CB and left back but these aren't desperately needed.
We need a back up DM and a ST if we want to challenge and come out winners though
posted on 4/8/15
Can't believe we paid 12 million for Debuchy injury prone and average thankful for Bellerin's emergence
Bellerin is such a special talent. Has always been good going forward but improved defensively, immensely.
Give it a couple of years and Bellerin will be on the way back to Barca to replace Dani Alves
posted on 5/8/15
Can't believe some idiots still don't understand the difference between the DM position at Arsenal vs CM.
At the moment our "cover" for DM is the equivalent of having Keiran Gibbs as our 3rd choice CB.
We do not have any player capable of adequately covering for the Coq and therefore we are one injury away from zero chance of a title challenge.
posted on 5/8/15
A ball hit Giroud on the foot at Everton, he spent three months on the sidelines; Debuchy motioned towards a ball , fell over his ankle and wasn't seen again for three months.
We can't rely on our luck . Coquelin out for any length of time will see our challenge crumble. There is no other in the team that bring his skill set to the table; certainly not the useless " I only leave on a free" Flamini or the flagging " my calves can't carry me" Arteta.
posted on 5/8/15
comment by Science (U19684)
posted 7 hours, 23 minutes ago
Can't believe some idiots still don't understand the difference between the DM position at Arsenal vs CM.
At the moment our "cover" for DM is the equivalent of having Keiran Gibbs as our 3rd choice CB.
We do not have any player capable of adequately covering for the Coq and therefore we are one injury away from zero chance of a title challenge.
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posted on 5/8/15
We all saw how successful Nacho Monreal at CB was last season. People actually cited him as cover for Kos because we played him there in pre season 😂 😂 😂
posted on 6/8/15
Jack out injured,probably long term
Your shocked and surprised I guess
posted on 6/8/15
comment by Bats (U18355)
posted 1 day ago
We all saw how successful Nacho Monreal at CB was last season. People actually cited him as cover for Kos because we played him there in pre season 😂 😂 😂
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Monreal is actually more capable of covering CB than Arteta is DM - and Monreal is a terrible CB..
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