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Striker.If Arsenal strengthen one more position what would your choice be
Right Back
Striker
Central Midfielder
Striker.If Arsenal strengthen one more position what would your choice be
Right Back
Striker
Central Midfielder
If Arsenal strengthen one more position what would your choice be
Right Back
Striker
Central Midfielder
Partey was our top tackler last season with 1.8 tackles per game....that ranked him 55th in the division. We desperately need a ball winning CM!Right Back - if we can get our right side as good as our left, it'll open up space for the rest of the team because every team in the bloody league knows we just go down the left all the time.
We can manage without a CM as long as Partey is injury free for the season and with Xhaka extending. Strikers we still have two decent ones in Auba/Laca so that can wait until one of them goes.
Ideally we would have upgraded all three but hard to shift so much deadwood we've accumulated over the past 5 years in one window.
Arthur Cabral (ST)
12 in 8 games already this season:
Good alrounder:
I really need someone like Bissouma. Xhaka and Lokonga are too weak to get the ball backPartey was our top tackler last season with 1.8 tackles per game....that ranked him 55th in the division. We desperately need a ball winning CM!
I like Lokonga but he's not a ball winner. We spent 50m on White but really i think we need Potter and Bissouma i think we could be miles better with those 2. (Conte would also massively improve us (honestly think he might be able to get us top 4 this season) but i can't see him wanting to come or the Kroenke's hiring him)I really need someone like Bissouma. Xhaka and Lokonga are too weak to get the ball back
I like Ten Hag, but its worth watching this Tifo video on his tactics and compare it to what Arteta is trying to do now. It’s just an interesting juxtaposition.Plus a new manager (would be happy with either Ten Hag or Conte)
Alexis, nice suggestion. Was thinking about him too tbf. He had some thing about him when I saw him play at Anderlecht. A bit of a character, like Tierney is on the left but a bit more hot headed. Very good going forward, but defesively he wasn't that solid. Don't know how much he improved in Italy. But it was still a chame that he wasn't an option for the Euro's for Belgium.
Out:
CDM - Mohamed Elneny
RB - Hector Bellerin
CDM - Lucas Torreira
RW - Willian
CB - Pablo Mari (too slow, I want a strong CB that's also mobile)
GK - Bernd Leno (I don't mind him staying but I prefer a more commanding GK)
LB - Sead Kolasinac
In:
RB / RM - Alexis Saelemaekers
CM / CDM - Ryan Gravenberch
GK - Justin Bijlow (if Leno leaves)
CB - William Saliba (recall him) or Takehiro Tomiyasu / Benjamin Pavard
Plus a new manager (would be happy with either Ten Hag or Conte)
-------------------------------------------Bijlow/Ramsdale----------------------------------
Saelemaekers/Chambers----Saliba/White------Gabriel/Holding-------Tierney/Tavares
-------------------------------Partey/Lokonga----Gravenberch/Xhaka--------------------
--------Pepe/Saka---------------------Ødegaard/ESR------------------Saka/Martinelli/ESR
-------------------------------------Aubameyang/Lacazette------------------
Sambi being 3 years older is a positive not a negative. Nothing appealing about getting 18 year old central midfielder in our current stateI've decided this is the one signing I want from the rest of the window. Tired of not having a world class midfield talent in central midfield, this guy is that. Lokonga looks quite good and able to adjust to this level despite coming from the Belgian league. He's 3 years older but Ilaix is a supreme talent and has already shown aptitude at a much higher level than Sambi had before coming here. It's time to make bold moves to push the club forward already. Bring this guy in and I think you'd see him and Thomas end up being our best midfield partnership earlier rather than later. Sambi is quality too behind them and Xhaka for his faults too, though I wish we would have more balls and we would've sold him, signed Ilaix and promoted Azeez as our 4th CM.
Yeah I know it is a positive. That's why I said 3 years older but... and then said positives about Ilaix.Sambi being 3 years older is a positive not a negative. Nothing appealing about getting 18 year old central midfielder in our current state
Interesting. What would your starting lineup be, just curious.He's comfortable coming deep and getting the ball and in the construction phase deeper. He's definitely an option as an 8 beside Thomas or Lokonga against sides that sit deeper, it would be Arteta's job to make it work.
After yesterday I am convinced I want either him or Ilaix before the window is over. Need top quality in central midfield. Tired of being bossed there consistently.
I said when we were first linked with him I was sure City would go for him because he's the ideal 8 for a Guardiola side. I was wrong about City going for him but I stick to that statement. Guardiola would absolutely make him work as an 8 in his side. Arteta wants to play like Guardiola so it's his job to make it work.
Against lower ten sides:Interesting. What would your starting lineup be, just curious.
It will be like Wengerball in the hands of the right manager. It will be like broken subuteo in Arteta's paws.Next Narsi (and Guendouzi)! Supremly talented, sulky French-North African, baller. Have some reservations about the impact on team morale, but a midfield with Aouar, Partey, Ødegaard and ESR will be like Wengerball 2.0. Like when we had Hleb, Rosicky, Fabregas!!