Best XI of the Emirates era

[celestis]

lol

I watched a bunch of retro Arsenal matches from 10/11 where we pretty much had this team, minus Santi, Tierney, Leno and I think Hleb maybe just left - and these guys weren’t on spit tbh.

Large periods dominating possession with very few shots on goal. Defence was poor and set pieces against was pretty much a guaranteed goal.

With this team we went 2-0 up against Sp**s only for them to turn it around and eventually win 3-2 thanks to a handball from Cesc cause he wanted to turn away from a free kick which led to a penalty.

This team was way too soft and frustrating to win anything major and in my opinion was the very beginning of our decline.

They needed to be mixed with steel and more athletic imposing players - which is how these guys went on to win stuff after they left because they were in more balanced teams. I always bemoaned Wenger for ditching powerful athletic players that got him his initial success, you need both.

I suggest a lot of you should rewatch that period cause I see a lot of rose tinted glasses around here regarding 2009-15

Yeah ,I noticed. What was surprising to me was how underrated Song is and how many times Fabregas loses thee ball. Losing hleb diminished his influence

 

[Trofton]

Surely you're troll?

Podolski is not even as good as Arshavin never mind RVP or Auba.
And no Cesc? Cesc undoubtedly is our best player in the Emirates era.

Toure is more or less an Highbury player.

What did Hleb do to warrant a place in your XI. He was a technically gifted midfielder that was woefully lacking in other areas

True

 

[Trofton]

Surely you're troll?

Podolski is not even as good as Arshavin never mind RVP or Auba.
And no Cesc? Cesc undoubtedly is our best player in the Emirates era.

Toure is more or less an Highbury player.

What did Hleb do to warrant a place in your XI. He was a technically gifted midfielder that was woefully lacking in other areas

Agree I should have Cesc over Hleb

with Podolski he’s such a proven goal scorer in German national team and in German league I think he had 50 goals for Germany and over 100 goals in German league he was a great finisher from in the box and just on the outside Mean left foot
why arsenal played a Left footed steamer of a kicker left wing I’ll never know he would’ve scored 100s goals for arsenal played CF or RW

what about Eduardo I liked him

 

[Furious]

Martinez
Sagna Per Kos Monreal
Cesc Xhaka
Özil Rvp Sanchez
Auba
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[Oxeki]

Martinez
Sagna Per Kos Monreal
Cesc Xhaka
Özil Rvp Sanchez
Auba
​

 

[Furious]

What you laughing at?

Double FA Cup winner.

 

[A_G]

Cesc, Özil and RVP together would be unfair so they had to even it out by putting the helmet in goal

 

[Riou]

Just glad Per deservedly made it into "Set-piece specialists", Mert's freekicks were

 

[Tir Na Nog]

Cesc, Özil and RVP together would be unfair so they had to even it out by putting the helmet in goal

Whitest group of ex-Arsenal players I've ever seen.

 

[GoonerJeeves]

Any team without Santi Cazorla is a wrong'un.

edit: Our man from Montpellier will not doubt be hounded by the misguided punters.

 

[North5]

N/A
Sagna-Saliba-Gabbi-Monreal
Rice
Cazorla-Cesc
Özil -RvP-Sanchez

Edit: Özil for Saka.

 

[Riou]

"Wouldn't it be better to just literally have any keeper from the Emirates era, than no keeper?"

@North5 ... "No, I trust the non-existent man to make less mistakes than any Arsenal keeper that hasn't played at Highbury!"

 

[GDeep™]

N/A
Sagna-Saliba-Gabbi-Monreal
Rice(for balance)
Cazorla-Cesc
Saka -RvP-Sanchez

Same as I picked, but took out Saka for Özil.

 

[North5]

Same as I picked, but took out Saka for Özil.

Fair, I had him for Santi for a moment but Santi just was so great at controlling games.

 

[North5]

"Wouldn't it be better to just literally have any keeper from the Emirates era, than no keeper?"

@North5 ... "No, I trust the non-existent man to make less mistakes than any Arsenal keeper that hasn't played at Highbury!"

If you had to twist my arm I'd go with Raya because I trust that Defense so much I'd like his distribution skills

 

[Riou]

Now of these lot, I tells ya!