Hmmm a shit load of stuff to sort.  How would you make a start on it player transfer wise Biggy!

Be plausible with it.

I doubt we'll spend big so maybe something like Reid in at centreback plus Ki in midfield would help us

I have no clue if we can fix anything in Jan.

You can't find players of the quality of Arteta or Koscielnt or Debuchy in the middle of the season so our best hope is that everyone stays fit in the 2nd half.

We'll need a centerback just to cope with the sheer number of games though.

We will probably just add to the list spiff. Our squads in the red zone

DEF: Jenkinson (if possible)
CM: Wanyama / Carvalho / Krychowiak

Don't bother wasting money on a defender if we can't get someone better than Mert. Most plausible yet effective wish I can come up with.

Should've done it rollcall style, Dula.

Name: Patters
Games managed: 0
Substitutions made: 0
Weight that Wenger would place on this opinion: (games managed) x (substitutions made) = 0 x 0 = 0. 
First priority: CB that could challenge Mertesacker for a place. 
Second priority: Big physical presence in the centre of midfield that can break up play. 

Don't particularly want any stop-gaps but already Wenger is talking about bringing a 'body' in which never really ends well. Don't watch European footy much so can't name names but would love either of the Southampton CMs. 

Attacking players would also help but can wait while we have no hope of the title now. That's work for the summer, atm just need to stop going 3-0 down at HT. 

I would pretty much agree with that, but looking internally we need to stop shifting players all over the place. The defense needs immediate reinforcing of at least 2 first XI players, but I'd like somebody like Chambers have a set position first.

If he'd just gotten Song from Barcelona and kept Jenkinson.. Well it wouldn't be superb, but we would've been fine until the summer.

Our best hope is probably some solid team unexpectedly having some financial issues and needing some $$$ (just like Malaga in the Cazorla deal).
Another way to get a decent player would be snatching some quality player who was benched this season just because there are 2 top class players in the same position who do not get injured and play every week (somewhat like Juve situation with Vidal, Pogba and Marchisio or Dortmund with Hummels, Subotic and Sokratis).

Other than these two (quite unlikely) situations I do not see how else we could get someone above Kallstrom level.

Hummels would sort out a lot if he was available.

Top quality or not at all is what I am thinking. Possibly someone where you think they are at the brink of getting to that 'top quality' level. Season is a wash anyway, and we don't need more mere decent players.

Irish gunner wrote:

DEF: Jenkinson (if possible)
CM:  Wanyama / Carvalho / Krychowiak

Don't bother wasting money on a defender if we can't get someone better than Mert. Most plausible yet effective wish I can come up with.

Why the fuck did he loan Jenkinson btw? This manager will drive me insane.

Loaning Jenkinson out was the best possible move for the boy's development. The real problem is that Wenger thought it was ok to go into a season with only 6 defenders when conventional wisdom says you need 8.

I just players that have a developed, well fitting game rather than those who need some Wenger development.

So Arshavin-esque (first season) top quality.

Both Morgan Schneiderlin and Winston Reid fit the bill of players who look ready to step up at a big club. I'd try my very best to sign both of them in January.

Then go for Reus and Hummels in the summer...

Rex wrote:

Loaning Jenkinson out was the best possible move for the boy's development. The real problem is that Wenger thought it was ok to go into a season with only 6 defenders when conventional wisdom says you need 8.

Yup, the loan has been brilliant for him so far.  Like you say the main problem is leaving us a CB short which was negligence imo.