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The Shopping List—aka We've got flipping great wadges of cash

Claudius

Lagos wrote:
Nasri, Cesc, Clichy, Arshavin and possibly Sagna are all vulnerable to a move, obviously they won't all go but it's open season on them. The only key players I am 100% confident will be here are RVP, Schezney, Wilshere, Vermealen and Song for different reasons, the rest are either not the sort clubs like Real, Barca, Chelsea etc will be interested in and will probably not seek a move because this is as good as it gets for them or I couldn't care less if they moved on!

A football player's career is too short to wait to see if Wenger's mad science will yield results. If I were any of the above players, I'd have my agent on the lookout for offers.
Unfortunately, the rubbish players won't attract attention, so most will stick around and continue to make us snarl and spit at our TVs.

CitizenNo9

Ricky1985 wrote:
I bet no one leaves who Wenger doesn't want to leave. Not a single player.

I'm not betting on it but I'll be shocked if both Cesc and Nasri are here next season!

Timbob

Agree with Ricky. Nobody will leave unless Wenger wants it to happen.

Rex

OUT - Almunia, PHW
IN - Messi

Claudius

Lagos wrote:
Ricky1985 wrote:
I bet no one leaves who Wenger doesn't want to leave. Not a single player.

I'm not betting on it but I'll be shocked if both Cesc and Nasri are here next season!

To be honest, they've helped our cause by being subpar for much of the season. The only way I can see one of them going is if Barca have a wretched end to the season vis-a-vis Champions League and wish to appease their fans with a new signing. If they come hard, we should squeeze them for 45m Pounds and be done with this saga

Captain

Captain wrote:
Maybe the best player in Germany right now but we need a Klaus summary to confirm that.

I'm seeing him live on Sunday and I'll report back.

He went off after 20mins.

Captain

Also, interestingly enough, most of the Dortmund fans that I spoke to seemed to think that their team will struggle in the champs league next season and Bayern will buy the league again.

They also said that the Sahin clause genuinely does exist because of the last regime.

Claudius

It would be nice to get a No. 9 in there, but for now our priority, the players Enos must get are

DEFENSIVE PLAYERS, and
LEADERS

Discuss.

lorddulaarsenal

New left back priority

clichy is just woeful

Pepe LeFrits

Striker and a forward, still.

Claudius

You still feel that's THE priority after all these defensive calamities? I think the defense is doing greater damange to our players' psychology than any striking woes

Pepe LeFrits

Our attacking calamities have been more damaging.

We also have additional defensive players out injured. Can't say the same about the attack.

Claudius

Vermaelen?
who else is out injured?
we need a new centre back, left back and midfield hardman.
The fancy goalscorers can get to work once we have that foundation in place

Pepe LeFrits

Fabianski.

Our fancy goalscorers have been less than fancy several times this season. I can't really think of a more important foundation than being able to score goals.

Claudius

If you don't concede, you go home with a point. Now that's a foundation

Pepe LeFrits

We've gone home with a point lots of time, that doesn't win you the league. I believe we've drawn something like 8 out of our last 15 league games.

You have to score to win games. We've failed to score 8 times this season, and on numerous occasions we've struggled massively.

Bad days defensively:

5 Sat Barclays Premier League H W.B.A. 2 3
03 Sun Barclays Premier League A Chelsea 0 2
20 Sat Barclays Premier League H Tottenham Hotspur 2 3
27 Sat Barclays Premier League A Aston Villa 4 2
29 Wed Barclays Premier League A Wigan Athletic 2 2
05 Sat Barclays Premier League A Newcastle United 4 4
27 Sun Carling Cup N Birmingham City 1 2
12 Sat The FA Cup A Manchester United 0 2
19 Sat Barclays Premier League A W.B.A. 2 2
20 Wed Barclays Premier League A Tottenham Hotspur 3 3

Bad days offensively:

15 Sun Barclays Premier League A Liverpool 1 1
18 Sat Barclays Premier League A Sunderland 1 1
03 Sun Barclays Premier League A Chelsea 0 2
30 Sat Barclays Premier League H West Ham United 1 0
07 Sun Barclays Premier League H Newcastle United 0 1
23 Tue UEFA Champions League A Braga 0 2
13 Mon Barclays Premier League A Manchester United 0 1
05 Wed Barclays Premier League H Manchester City 0 0
08 Sat The FA Cup H Leeds 1 1
12 Wed Carling Cup A Ipswich Town 0 1
20 Sun The FA Cup A Leyton Orient 1 1
23 Wed Barclays Premier League H Stoke City 1 0
27 Sun Carling Cup N Birmingham City 1 2
05 Sat Barclays Premier League H Sunderland 0 0
08 Tue UEFA Champions League A FC Barcelona 1 3
12 Sat The FA Cup A Manchester United 0 2
02 Sat Barclays Premier League H Blackburn Rovers 0 0
17 Sun Barclays Premier League H Liverpool 1 1

Claudius

Interesting. On our bad offensive days, we're not getting blown away.
Really only lost by two goals against United and Barca, and I both scores are not reflective of the actual proceedings in both games (in different directions)

kamikaze

i dont want to sound negative, but we need to be better in both attack and defence. our defensive stats look better than they should cos we waste like 40 mins each game just passing the ball around midfield, and our attacking stats look better than they should when you consider how long we have the ball and all the promising situations we let slip.

starting forward, starting leftback, squad player CM who can defend

Burnwinter

Caligula wrote:
Interesting. On our bad offensive days, we're not getting blown away.

This is a good point. We concede far more when we're scoring.

Biggus

Because we place too much emphasis on attacking rather than defending.
If you only score 1 you might win/draw/lose.
If you don't concede you might win/draw but you can't lose.
It's impossible to over state the immense boost in confidence and momentum a team get from not losing, remember the Invincibles.
Ask any coach if they'd rather win 1-0 or 5-4.

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