In Lacazette, Reus, Schneiderlin, Laporte, GK Out Sanogo (loan), Rosicky, Podolski, Flamini, Ospina
GK DebuchybutsoonBellerin - Laporte - Koscielny - Gibbs Schneiders - Ramsey Sanchez - Özil - Reus Lacazette
Wilshere and Walcott as super subs
And what happens to Cavani?
Cavani will not be happy to ride the pine, that's for sure.
Meh. Cavani's excuse was that he was played as a winger because of Zlatan. With the latter injured, he still doesn't impressed. I'd rather get the 23 years old top scorer.
Quincy Abeyie wrote: In Lacazette, Reus, Schneiderlin, Laporte, GK Out Sanogo (loan), Rosicky, Podolski, Flamini, Ospina GK DebuchybutsoonBellerin - Laporte - Koscielny - Gibbs Schneiders - Ramsey Sanchez - Özil - Reus Lacazette Wilshere and Walcott as super subs
Team still lacks height = particularly with Lacazette at CF. What style would you play - counter or would you see him as a Messi/Tevez/Suarez type/roles?
That could be a problem, but I find that you can deal with it if you're good enough. Defensive coaching is more important than height. Mertesacker is tall as a mountain and has lost many headers this season.
Mattia Perin. Serie A's best goal keeper, 22 years old.
Is he 8-15 points per season better than Sneezey? How many Michus anno 2012 would he cost?
My wish is Cavani, Schneiderlin and top defender in. That's a title winning side you're looking at then.
Can't be that difficult either. You get some of the money back by selling the shirts anyway. Or does that work only at Real Madrid?
And one that is not going to happen. One of Hazard or Reus.
CB: Hummels / Howedes / Varane
CM: Wanyama / Carvalho / Krychowiak / Khedira
That's all we need, Theo, Sanchez, Ozil, Welbz, Giroud, Chambo, Cazorla, are enough on the attacking end imo.
First sort out the defensive midfielder (Schneiderlin) in January, then once that's sorted then look at improving the first 11. Starting off with a keeper and centre forward. Then centre back.
Irish gunner wrote: CB: Hummels / Howedes / Varane CM: Wanyama / Carvalho / Krychowiak / Khedira That's all we need, Theo, Sanchez, Ozil, Welbz, Giroud, Chambo, Cazorla, are enough on the attacking end imo.
Thing about the CM is we also need a backup CM with similar attributes so we can set up properly game to game. Maybe that young polish bloke or someone like him as well as a more established CM. Then I'd say we at least have a proper squad numbers-wise. That said, I'd be happy with Wanyama / Carvalho / Krychowiak if we got some competition for the spot in the summer, like Schneiderlin.
Oh, and bring Jenkinson home.
Arteta is fine for at least another year as long as he isn't asked to play every 3 days.
Quincy Abeyie wrote: That could be a problem, but I find that you can deal with it if you're good enough. Defensive coaching is more important than height. Mertesacker is tall as a mountain and has lost many headers this season.
Don't get me wrong - I think Lacazette could well be a poor man's Aguero type CF? I haven't seen him play but he seems similar - more so than being akin to a Reyes or Vela type WF/CF. http://www.whoscored.com/Players/73078/ http://www.whoscored.com/Players/14260/
As much as I'd love to see the likes of Cavani, I'm concerned that he's not been as clinical this season & I want a natural/clinical finisher to convert our dominance into goals. IMO we've dominated large periods of the games v Spuds, LFC, Citeh, CFC & ManU this season, but have failed to convert that into goals. Score first and you then have a better opportunity to dictate.
As for the CMD I'd take a look at Gonalons this season.
Cavani not clinical? He's being played on the wing. The man's scored nearly 150 goals in the last 4 1/2 years.
I'd love Cavani but we need spine players so badly. Some GK, Höwedes, and Schneiderlin and we can begin to look like a proper team again. Cavani's a very expensive gamble.
But I mean, no complaints if we get him obviously. United have snoozed their way to a lot of PL titles with solid team defending and a ton of great finishers in the starting XI and off the bench. I'm not quite sure how he meshes with Alexis but if we have three players in the team who convert chances at a high rate (Ramsey, Alexis, Cavani) we'll win a lot of games we shouldn't.
Or "stuff of champions," as they call it in England.
Gunner89 wrote: Cavani not clinical? He's being played on the wing. The man's scored nearly 150 goals in the last 4 1/2 years.
This season.
WhoScored.com ✔ @WhoScored Follow Edinson Cavani: Has missed more clear-cut chances (14) than any other player in Europe’s top 5 leagues this season #psg 10:30 PM - 26 Dec 2014
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2317871-arsenal-transfer-news-latest-on-edinson-cavani-and-top-january-rumours
