Our Rivals Squad next year - Arsenal

You have to question Wenger's ambition if he undertakes another season with Giroud as his best natural striker.
 
City and Chelsea fans must be having a laugh amongst themselves right now. City didn't really need to improve via signings and Chelsea have brought in 4 world class players.

Meanwhile, ourselves, Arsenal, and Liverpool have all raided Southampton.
 
Chambers is a good signing, but I'm not sure why Southampton are selling him now. They'd probably get Shaw type money next summer.
 
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/28497920

£28m on two right backs (16M Chambers and 12M Debuchy)?

That fee can't be right and now I'm not sure who out of the two will start, can't believe either would be happy with a squad role.

Article says were in for Schneiderlin as well. If we wrap that up sharpish then we would have completed a majority of our transfer business before August, leaving us with an entire month to sign a striker. Do that and we will seriously compete this year.
 
JSArsenal said:
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/28497920

£28m on two right backs (16M Chambers and 12M Debuchy)?

That fee can't be right and now I'm not sure who out of the two will start, can't believe either would be happy with a squad role.

Article says were in for Schneiderlin as well. If we wrap that up sharpish then we would have completed a majority of our transfer business before August, leaving us with an entire month to sign a striker. Do that and we will seriously compete this year.
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Which strikers do you like the look of for Arsenal?
 
I really rate Chambers. Think he's the most promising out of himself and Shaw. Excellent signing for the future if it goes through.
 
I have a friend claiming Man Utd don't have a single player who would make their starting xi bar Van Persie. Anyone agree with this?
 
Eboue said:
Van Persie and Rooney would. De Gea too. But that's about it?
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I thought Maybe Herrera over a player like Arteta but i'm not sure he'll start for you. I hope for your sake he doesn't. Also maybe you could fit Mata in a wing role. So theres 3-5 imo.
 
Rykker_4united said:
I have a friend claiming Man Utd don't have a single player who would make their starting xi bar Van Persie. Anyone agree with this?
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Who would you take from arsenal's first XI though, Koscielny and the newly appointed Sanchez is all i would like here, that's pretty much it, mertesacker probably too, but that's at a stretch. So tell your friend to suck eggs.
 
BEST No7 said:
Who would you take from arsenal's first XI though, Koscielny and the newly appointed Sanchez is all i would like here, that's pretty much it, mertesacker probably too, but that's at a stretch. So tell your friend to suck eggs.
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I don't think I'd sacrifice any of our centre backs for Koscielny or Mertesacker. I'd take Sanchez, Ramsey, Wilshere.
 
Rykker_4united said:
I have a friend claiming Man Utd don't have a single player who would make their starting xi bar Van Persie. Anyone agree with this?
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That's a plain stupid claim from your friend.
Van Persie, Rooney, De Gea, are definitely going to start ahead of any other Arsenal players. Shaw and Rafael are better options for me as full back. Herrera are also going to start ahead of Arteta, Wilshere or Flamini. Mata you may argue he won't start if they play Ozil in the hole and Sanchez on the right hand side though if you are an Arsenal supporters, but he is just as good as any of them and it really depends on form and personal likings.
So that's pretty much over half of the starting xi.

De Gae
Rafael Koscielny Mertsesacker Shaw
Herrera Ramsey
Ozil
Sanchez Van Persie Rooney​
 
RedRonaldo said:
That's a plain stupid claim from your friend.
Van Persie, Rooney, De Gea, are definitely going to start ahead of any other Arsenal players. Shaw and Rafael are better options for me as full back. Herrera are also going to start ahead of Arteta, Wilshere or Flamini. Mata you may argue he won't start if they play Ozil in the hole and Sanchez on the right hand side though if you are an Arsenal supporters, but he is just as good as any of them and it really depends on form and personal likings.
So that's pretty much over half of the starting xi.
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That was my sentiment too
 
Eboue said:
Ramsey, Ozil, Wilshere, Walcott would all be upgrades.
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Now we've got Herrera i don't think Ramsey (well maybe Ramsey) and certainly not Wilshere would be an upgrade, Ozil proved exactly why madrid got rid last season, failed to turn up in any of the BIG matches... as usual. except for one game against Napoli, were, i admit he was excellent. Walcott....C'mon, feck sake.
 
BEST No7 said:
Now we've got Herrera i don't think Ramsey (well maybe Ramsey) and certainly not Wilshere would be an upgrade, Ozil proved exactly why madrid got rid last season, failed to turn up in any of the BIG matches... as usual. except for one game against Napoli, were, i admit he was excellent. Walcott....C'mon, feck sake.
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Walcott is easily better than any of your wingers. I wouldn't look down my nose at him if I had Valencia and Young out there. How many of Herrera's games did you actually watch?
 
Eboue said:
Walcott is easily better than any of your wingers. I wouldn't look down my nose at him if I had Valencia and Young out there. How many of Herrera's games did you actually watch?
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I've seen plenty of Herrera's games in the last few years. Can't really argue with Walcott being better than our lot, but that's hardly much of a complement. He (Walcott) is injury prone also, so thats another reason i wouldn't see him as an upgrade. Better, probably but not what i'd call an upgrade.
 
Well I haven't seen a lot of Herrera's games so I can't comment on how good he is but from the general reception, I find it hard to believe that he is on the same level as Ramsey, who was incredible last year.
 
Eboue said:
Well I haven't seen a lot of Herrera's games so I can't comment on how good he is but from the general reception, I find it hard to believe that he is on the same level as Ramsey, who was incredible last year.
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Well i beg to differ, i guess we'll see in the coming months.
 
Brown Toothpick said:
They're in advanced negotiations with William Carvalho of Sporting Lisbon. Does that rule out Schneiderlin?

They still need a GK and a striker too. Wenger should just take a quick look at Chelsea's forwards and realise that his team lacks in that department. Balotelli is not the solution and is more of a liability. Remy could've been a cheap and effective addition to the team. Goalkeeper wise, Im still astonished nobody wants to acquire Victor Valdes. I know he's coming off a serious injury but a world class keeper on a free is very tempting.
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Ospina is coming in, the deal is done and just needs announcing. We won't sign a striker, possibly a defensive midfielder and a replacement for Vermaelen.
 
Spiersey said:
I really rate Chambers. Think he's the most promising out of himself and Shaw. Excellent signing for the future if it goes through.
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Not sure how many times you've seen them play but Shaw is 6 months younger than Chambers and have played 50 or more matches in the premier league.
 
I kept thinking I've heard of Chambers somewhere but couldn't quite place it (didn't follow Saints last season). I just remembered that he played well against Arsenal. Not sure who's better, but Chambers appears to be quite good.
 
Chambers is a good signing for them and it will be interesting to see who starts most games from him and debuchy

I still think they could do with a striker (unless sanchez or walcott plays through the middle?)

If Ramsey stays injury free and if Wilshire manages the same they have a chance next year
 
Can any resident Gooner's shed some light on Sanchez role this year? Will he be taking Walcott's place or Giroud's place? If he's up front, I need to shuffle my FPL team about.
 
Tarrou said:
Can any resident Gooner's shed some light on Sanchez role this year? Will he be taking Walcott's place or Giroud's place? If he's up front, I need to shuffle my FPL team about.
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Walcott is out till September, so initially Sánchez will play there. After Theo returns, I think Wenger will move Sánchez up front against the big sides at least. It's hard to tell really.

We've got Sánchez, Walcott, Özil, Rosicky, Podolski, Ox and Cazorla competing for the attacking mid/wide forward positions. My guess is the boss will play Walcott and Sánchez up front once in a while.
 
Has Sanchez played for them in preseason yet? I haven't really heard a peep about him since he signed.
 
Having seen his purchases so far, I think they're better than they were, but I dont think they're going to see a quantum improvement. When they were linked with Khedira I thought it could be the missing piece of the puzzle, but that seems to have gone cold and I dont recall them picking anyone in that mould yet.

Its still more of the same - one of the best attacking midfields around, but lacking the depth in striking, DM and defensive positions to deal with a tough season. No-one ever said Arsenal lost the title due to the quality of their midfield. The problems most people see are still there waiting to be fixed.

But Arsenal are clearly still in the market, and there are deals still to happen. I think they might make another couple of big purchases and make themselves proper contenders.
 
Combined 11 I'd go with

Dave
Rafael - Mertesacker - Koscielny - Shaw
Ramsey - Herrera
Mata
Sanchez - van Persie - Ozil​

6 United - 5 Arsenal.
 
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