Everyone can clearly see where this team needs improving on, but only one man, mr. Wenger refuses to see what everybody else sees, and continues to play blind. It's painfully obvious to everyone that we are greatly lacking in the attacking department, just go take a look at our recent scoring stats and see for yourself. The players Wenger is relying on to bring the attacking flair to this team are just not good enough, you have Ramsey who has been a pile of complete dog sh!t since the start of the season, he is meant to be our creative middle man, the Fabregas of the midfield, the one who will get attacks and plays going, yet he hardly does any of the sort, just to put it into perspective of just how bad he is as an attacking midfielder, Song who is our natural holding midfielder has created more goals than Ramsey so far this season! We then have the other useless attacking player Arshavin, who has also been utter dog sh!t for the entire season, why he continues to be selected into this team, I have no idea, he brings nothing, he doesn't score, and he doesn't create anything, at least when he was rubbish before he still scored and made things happen, now he's just rubbish full stop. Other attacking reinforcements come in the shape of Rosicky and Benayoun, now while I personally feel that Rosicky should be starting ahead of Ramsey, and Benayoun ahead of Arshavin, both of these players themselves lack the cutting edge as well, and sadly are not the solution to Arsenal's attacking players, players like Benayoun and Rosicky are not champion quality or material, they are simply put, good players, nothing more, and nothing less. Then on top of all of this we have the inconsistent Theo Walcott, who doesn't deliver week in week out, who often goes missing in many games, who often makes mistake after mistake in games, he's basically a very hot and cold player. So you look at the attacking players in our midfield, Ramsey, Arshavin, inconsistent Walcott, Benayon, Rosicky and you automatically see why we struggle in attack. As for our strikers, where to begin? We have Chamakh who has become utterly useless for us, we have another striker in Park who hasn't even played 1 second of premiership football, that's how much confidence the manager has in him, and then again we see why we are greatly struggling in our attack. Let's just name all of our attacking players: Ramsey, Arshavin, Walcott, Benayoun, Rosicky, Chamakh, and Park. Good God is it any wonder why we struggle, is this the best Wenger has been able to muster up, is this what we have come down to? The improvements we need to make are pretty simple, we need to start getting rid of players, starting with Arshavin, and Chamakh. As for Park, I really don't see any future for him at Arsenal, so he has to go too. Rosicky I like as a player, I'd keep him around simply as a squad player (who won't play much) and for his experience, but if he isn't happy with that, then i'm fine to see him go. As for Benayoun I wouldn't mind having him as a squad player neither. Getting rid of the rubbish is one part of the plan, the rubbish must be replaced with top quality players, starting with a world class top quality striker, not some average nobody, but a top world class striker who can relieve the pressure off RVP, and who can even pressure RVP for a starting place in the line up, another top world class striker who feels he should be playing week in week out based on how good he is. We then need a new top quality attacking winger, an actual out and out winger, a winger who feels at home on the wings, who feels fully natural playing wide, and excels in that position. We then finally need a top quality creative middle man, surely we can get something better than Ramsey?! Perhaps we could have a 2 in 1 situation and acquire a top quality attacking midfielder who can play both in the middle, and on the wings. It's really strange how things work, for a long while it was always our defence we had to sort out, now that that's been kind of fixed, it's our attack that's fallen apart, I do believe our defence is good enough, and recent defensive weakness is down to losing so many of our first team defenders, and having rubbish in midfield with the likes of Arshavin and Ramsey who are not only sh!t in attack, but are complete sh!t when it comes to defending, and are in fact a liability to the team because of how bad they are. So the changes are obvious, we need a minimum of 2 top quality attacking players, that's a minimum, if it's 3, all the better, but if we don't make the needed signings, then God help us, I mean do the following players really give you any confidence. Ramsey, Arshavin, Waclott, Benayoun, Rosicky, Chamakh, and Park. If that's what we are going to have to rely on for the rest of the season, then we can't really be surprised if we end up out of the top 4. Last but not least, Wenger should get the full blame for all of this, because it's him who has brought us to this point, relying on completely average and rubbish players, so any harm that's done to the team because of these average players, then it's his fault because he's the one who brought them and stuck with them when it was obvious to all, that they weren't good enough, and had to be replaced.
Drop Arshavin, play Chamberlain. That would solve numerous issues. At least Oxo looks interested in what's happening.
I was going to mention the fact we actually want to rely on Chamberlain shows how desperate our situation is, that us fans are really looking to an 18 year old prospect as the bright hope who can fix the major attacking problems within this teams, that's very frightening when you think of it. I mean from the days of Bobby Pires to this.....brings a tear to the eye.
I too am saddened by the situation in which we find ourselves. The squad does seem to have a number of so so players and we have, yet again, suffered a number of injuries in key areas such as defence & the loss of Wilshere for much of this season. Add in the departure of Fabregas & Nasri & it is little wonder we are where we are. Also I look back to the glory days when the team included Bergkamp, Henri(young, hungry & fit), Pires, A back for to die for & of course Viera. We will probably NEVER see such aline up at Arsenal again because AW only seems to buy young players on the cheap in the hope they will bloom & grow. This season may well be over as I don't see us making the top 4 or 5 so Europe is out & apart from a bit of a run in the FA cup thats it. 1 What do you think? 2 Why do we get sooooooooo many injuries? 3 Where do we go from here?
Welcome Mr Red Half I dare say until this board and CEO go too, nothing much will change for us... sadly.
We need to buy a striker a Fullback and a creative midfield all of which need to be TOP CLASS. But its well within our budget. little bit of fantasy football but... Cissoko - Apparently Lyon are only asking for £8 million (according to the tabloids I'll admit). The guy is top class. Goetze - £30 million. We need to replace Fabregas. Goetze is one of the few midfielders around good enough to do so. Podolski - For £10 million he'd be an absolute steal. Thats 48 million. Sell Bendter, sell Arshavin, sell Squillaci. rec-coup maybe £15-20 million.
My friend It wouldn't surprise me if we bought no one at all. There will be the usual excuses of course about no one being available which Piskie will echo and re-echo through these chambers. I'm not sure who would want to buy Squillaci but Arshavin and Bendy should have been sold last summer. Actually if memory serves me, I don't think anyone wanted Bendtner either. On the subject of B52, I had thought at one stage that he was quite good in scoring late goals and getting us out of some sticky situations such as the visit of Villa in the spring of 2008. However as the team is so badly managed, we do not rotate our squad ( not that we have much of one to rotate ) so players like B52 get little play. When we do play them, they are not match fit both physically and mentally. Now of course Bendtner doesn't even want to play for us anyway. We buy badly, select badly, coach badly. Time for a fresh start and the sooner the better IMHO.
Lack of rotation is a big issue, and why I'd argue the non-first-teamers should be playing the reserve games. they might dominate the league, but at least they'd get used to playing with each other and stay sharper than they do just from training.
We cant rotate though because the quality is'nt there. Which is crazy because we have one of the biggest squads in Europe.(hence the high wage bill) It does'nt make sense we have all these young players, they get promoted to the first team, get paid high wages then...dont get played. If they're not yet good enough they should still be in the reserve's.
Two years ago our young players were the best around, where are they now? I can recall many Arsenal fans waited patiently for 2012 when the Manu, the Chelsea etc. would have hit rock bottom, playing second level to what should have been our abundance of talent. sadly life script doesn't always pen the way many wanted it to. to admit the realistic truth, to many it's a hard pill to swallow, but in reality My Arsenal is no longer the footballing force the football world admire. we can no longer boast playing the attractive football that brought applaude from the world over. the fact is we are a mediocre team. Many will find excuses that we are playing without our regular starters, but isn't this the same complain over the past seven years. we make changes to our defense when many complain, even though i reckon it was more of a coaching problem. yet the more thing change the more it remain the same. i will say again it doesn't matter who our players are, if we continue to play the way we do the result will always be the same.
I think we were persuaded that the youth were exceptional - all part of the Wenger brainwash. It is turning out to be a myth.
That my friend and when they came good, they left anyway... Lack of long term planning and planning without regard to success on the pitch. The ' keep in contention ' approach is a total failure. If you aim for 80%, as we all know you end up with less.
Cissokho isn't top class mate, and personally I'd rather a loan full back, than actually buying one... Then the money can better spent on players who are actually top class in the areas we need.
