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Head of the Wayne foundation for benching Nketiah
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Christ. I'm fully blaming flu lol.You're missing a player there
Christ. I'm fully blaming flu lol.You're missing a player there
This made me laugh out loud.You're missing a player there
I would love to see this come August. It would require a summer of big spending but it's doable for a club with our resources.
End this Xhaka and Mustafi and Chambers nonsense and recoup as much of what was paid for them as possible. Replace them with Fabinho and one of Koulibaly, Benatia or Manolas. Then go after a new keeper.
Auba --- Laca
Mkhi ---------Özil
Jack ---Fabinho
Monreal---Kos---New CB---Bellerin
New GK
Alternatively, if Laca isn't getting on in the pairing he could be dropped and we could play with another midfielder like say Sergej.
Auba
Kolasinac----Mkhi----Sergej----Özil----Bellerin
Jack
Kos---Fabinho---New CB
New GK
Yeah agreed. Ideally he'd be replaced too but I just can't see us going big on 2 CBs in one window and I don't trust Mustafi under Wenger.I don't know if Kos can be relied upon that much. If he continues this form till the end of the season he can no longer be considered an automatic starter. I'd buy another quality CB but I'd keep Mustafi. Three high quality defensive players are needed for us to compete at the very least.
I hope we play 4-2-2-2 though and I hope it works.
Like this, seems like the best balanced side we can put out. I still have time for Lacazette, but maybe next season if we buy a proper defensive midfielder to partner Jack, a switch to 4-4-2 could work.Just with who we have now, assuming Wenger won't drop the likes of Cech, Mustafi and Hector. I think we could see a return to the 4-2-3-1. I'd love to see us go 4-4-2 in some way to get Laca and PEA on at the same time, but seems unlikely. Who knows though.
-----------------Cech--------------------
Hector-----Mustafi--Kos----Nacho/Kola
------------Jack-----Elneny-----------
Ramsey----------Özil----------Mikhi
-------------------PEA----------------
End this Xhaka and Mustafi and Chambers nonsense and recoup as much of what was paid for them as possible. Replace them with Fabinho and one of Koulibaly, Benatia or Manolas. Then go after a new keeper.
Auba --- Laca
Mkhi ---------Özil
Jack ---Fabinho
Monreal---Kos---New CB---Bellerin
New GK
True but we still do have to worry about depth. We don't want to be an injury away from a crisis as it seems we so often are. We need both numbers and quality which can be somewhat of a challenge. Wenger for some odd reason doesn't seem to remember how often we'd bring in sometimes 5 or 6 players in a window so that we always had quality depth and promising youngsters in the club. We clearly can do that now financially but I'm still not so sure we will. Hopefully this window is an indication in the affirmative.You know, if you sell Elneny and Xhaka, it could easily cover half of transfer fee for Fabinho, or even 2/3. Not to mention the wages, those two must be on 200k combined.
that still leaves enough for a senior CB, especially if Mustafi is moved on. the three younguns - Chambers, Holding and Mavro - should be assessed and maybe sent on loan, although that hasn't helped chambers much. doesn't seem to have the pace nor body for the EPL does he?
New GK seems a stretch, but if Ospina leaves, a young but almost ready talent with high ceiling could be it.
I don't think we will try the 4-2-3-1 again, as we haven't got any senior wingers in the team. You also won't play two strikers upfront if you have only two strikers only in the team.
Think we will continue with the 4-3-2-1 formation.
cech - bellerín, koscielny, mustafi, moneral - wilshere, ramsey, xhaka - micki, özil - auba
A GK, a DM and at least one CB is needed in the summer, but I would go for two and play Koscielny as a sub next year. I can also see Micki dropping to a CM role in the future and we will see an attacker coming in in 2019.
Yeah agreed. Ideally he'd be replaced too but I just can't see us going big on 2 CBs in one window and I don't trust Mustafi under Wenger.
Might as well move Xhaka to the middle of a back 3 and call potato a potato - a makeshift 3-4-3 where Alexis is replaced by Auba and Jack covers Ramsey's rambling find desperately trying to get the Hollywood goal------- Ospina
Bell--Kos--Mus--Kola
---Rams---Xha---Jck---
-----------Özil---------
----Auba--- Laca--
I am a big fan of Kos. When I say replaced I don't want him gone. But just as with Kompany at City he is getting to a point where you just cannot count on him. Cazorla should be a warning sign of how serious an achilles can be if it decides to go and given that it's a recurring problem for Kos we should be concerned. That's before we even begin to discuss his obvious decline when he is fit. Don't get me wrong though, he's a wonderful player and I love him. I think he's been grossly underrated because we haven't been able to win the league. He's the only CB who has pocketed Messi on multiple occasions to the best of my recollection and he'll always have a special place in my heart.if there is someone besides Jack that deserves to play until retirement it is Kos
damn he has been great for us
how many partners have he worked thru? 4?
Squillaci? (Djorou )
Vermaelen
Per
Mustafi
he has been our rock . beating himself bloody for us, had we had better cover he would have had a longer career for sure
Auba
Mkhi Özil
Wilshere Ramsey
AMN
4-3-3 which reverts to a counter attacking 4-4-1-1 (Mkhi, AMN, Wilshere, Ramsey - Özil - Auba) or a 4-3-2-1/4-5-1 (AMN, Wilshere, Ramsey - Mkhi, Özil - Auba) in defense.
There's also the option to play 4-4-2 diamond with both Auba and Laca, which could easily shift into a flat 4-4-2 or a 4-3-3
Im generally more in favour of a midfield three, because that's one more body in there and I like the combination of a technical, passing player who can move with the ball and dictate play (Wilshere), a "free radical" floating around, being an outlet to receive the ball and keep ball circulation going, as well as putting in a defensive shift and being an attacking threat (Ramsey), and a holding player who's good enough on the ball to be part of ball circulation, can push up if need be but primarily protects the back 4 and recycles the ball (AMN).
No need to push up