Klaus wrote:

I think we're looking at a midfielder, but if we can't close it we won't bother. Someone will leave before the window closes too.

This.

CB if Vermaelen and that's us done imo

CM in. CB if Verm goes. Possibly Podolski gone. 10-15% chance of a Cavani explosion with some heroism from Gazidis.

Really have no idea though, this is uncharted territory for us.

Amazed by how much we've done so far. I expected a right back to replace Sagna and a deadline day scrap for Remy or Ba on loan or something. Think this is it aside from a CB to replace Vermaelen if he goes. Perhaps even a 4th CB anyway, unless Chambers is that. Certainly no more attackers.

One more madness.

CM and CB if Verms goes

Le professeur wrote:

CB if Vermaelen and that's us done imo

This thread is so July 2014!

I'd say one more madness (i.e. 15m+) in centre mid and maybe a centre back if the Verm leaves, otherwise that's it.

Personally think we are going for 1 more player, a midfielder. And that will be us done.

If Vermaelen leaves we will get a last minute random defender in. Squillaci style.

I think we will sign another top quality player, either forward or midfielder, depending on what Wenger plans with Wilshere.

Debuchy, Chambers and Ospina are essentially replacements for Sagna, Jenkinson and Fabianski respectively. Debuchy isn't even an upgrade in my opinion.

We have essentially just added Sanchez and I don't know if it's enough to win us the title.

We definitely need another top quality first team player and I think we will make that signing.

We've upgraded Jenko and Flappy

We have upgraded on Sagna, Jenkinson and Fabianski plus added Sanchez and maybe Campbell.

If we add a CM and a few younger guys take a step forward in development we will be getting mighty close to closing that 7 point gap with the league winners.

Agree with Rohit. Think we've basically just added Sanchez and need at least one more. I reckon we will get one more player and a replacement for Vermaelen as well. My guess is we'll get a starting CM.

Wenger is still out there for sure, after the fireworks of Sanchez it's been pretty quiet apart from the strong/weak links to Kedhira.

I think we'll still get Kedhira and then that will be that.

Forget a striker at this stage, we've signed our marque guy for this summer.

As previously stayed here if Tommy V goes them we'll get some last minute replacement.

That is the most likely scenario, yeah. Khedira + Verm replacement. Just hoping for a Deadline Day Madness from Wenger regarding a striker which may become available.

A CM of Khedira's quality would be 'madness' enough. Ordinarily I'd say we've punched above our weight with the Sanchez signing and apart from a Vermaelen replacement that'll be it. But Wenger seems very intent on not settling. He has been chasing an energetic CM for some time and really hope he lands one.

Rohit wrote:

We have essentially just added Sanchez and I don't know if it's enough to win us the title.

Yeah, I don't think it will be enough either. Sanchez and Khedira would be a good transfer window (we'd need one more forward signing to make it great). Signing only Sanchez and a few replacements is a failure.

The way I see it, Sanchez is a signing to counter the ones United and Chelsea made in January when they brought in Matic and Mata for big money. We're still well behind in our transfer business and haven't addressed some of the biggest flaws from last season. Some of them will be sorted out by internal improvements like Chamberlain and Wilshere, but we're not going to magically solve all our problems that way. If we don't make a few more signings we're gonna collapse again during the spring.

I don't think it's good enough either, but don't think you can call Chambers "just replacing Jenkinson". We've added Sanchez and Chambers, the rest are just replacing other players. If we get one more signing (CM), we're good. If we get two more (a forward) I'll be the happiest man on earth.