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Squad Management 2022/23

Coombs

Jorginho's done ok but against a good counterattacking side, it's playing with fire.

Partey too advanced just duplicates the problem with Xhaka in a different way. He's no small-space player.

flobaba

Coombs yep. Partey's home is at the base of the midfield 3. Anchor.

Ideally we want a Bernardo Silva type in Xhaka's position. Technical, dribbly mc drivey mc goaley. Shame about ESRs injuries, and I hope he can get back to his prior levels quickly and then start to develop properly from there. He has some strong competition in Fabio Vieira now though so it will be interesting to see how that all pans out.

As far as we've come as a team, it's clear that we still have lots of room for improvement in quite a few positions. Right Back (Basic Benjamin White) and Left Center Mid upgrades will give us most bang for our buck. Then, longer term we can start looking at CF - ideally you'd want Nketiah and Jesus to be the same player, and a Partey replacement.

MistaT

I think we’ll need Jorginho against teams we dominate possession against, and that’s too both spot Partey a break (for harder opposition) and to keep the ball moving. Partey is a hell of a player but I think Jorginho actually offers more (offensively) in games when we play an even higher line.

Coombs

MistaT I just hope neither of them are much of a factor after this season.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Just had a chuckle to myself remembering that it wasn't long ago we were "strongly linked" to Ryan fucking Fraser.

Clrnc

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Never forget Lee Gunner wishlisted formation

Meatwad

Clrnc
so he got in his feelings because the man suggested Nelson go out loan? what a bitch ass this lee gunner is. i guess he wants to be a piers morgan level of embarrassing.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

What a bizarre fucking human.

I am Arsenal Till I Die

None of our Gabis have been called up for the international break with Brazil, which means some down time for Marrinelli and Big Gabi, while Jesus gets two full weeks of training that gets him ready to hopefully start games in April.

JazzG

Good, they could do with the rest.

Clrnc

Assuming every player is for one position, adding the likely signings* minus the likely departures we will look like this

------------------------------------------Ramsdale/Turner
Timber/Tomi/~~Cedric~~----Saliba/White/~~Holding~~-----Gabriel/Kiwior-----Zinchenko/Tierney
--------------------------------~~Partey~~/Jorginho/Rice/~~Elneny~~
----------------Odegaard/Vieira----------------Havertz/Lavia*/ESR
Saka/Nelson---------------Jesus/~~Balogun~~/Nketiah-----------------Martinelli/Trossard

Is that enough?

Doc

Clrnc

I think it is. I also think a key strength of this team is its versatility though.
Trossard, Jesus, Rice, White, Havertz, Timber, ESR can all play (some in theory/need to prove it admittedly) in multiple positions without their level dropping.... so having the option of Havertz in the front line or Trossard and Rice in the 8 makes it a lot stronger..

My main concern is if we have the balance right between defence and attack, but will reserve judgement until see how we will set up next season

Qwiss

Clrnc I'm not sure thats as strong as last season. Now thats based on hindsight, I don't think anyone would have thought Xhaka would have the season he did so we'll need to have a few players surprise us like that. Even then I think with CL football on top of everything else that squad still needs 2 or 3 with a bit of quality. How many games outside of the domestic cups would you really be confident of a starting XI that had Vieira, Nelson and Jorginho in it for instance?

QuincyAbeyie

For the title probably not, but it probably won't be no matter what we do because City are City. It's good enough to give it a go at least. It would be a lot stronger with Lavia out and Partey in though.

Clrnc

Feels like we could afford to let Vieira leave on loan, but also feels a little short on quality on the wings still.

Also If Tierney leaves we need another LB. Might be too much changes in a window.

Hope Balogun stays

Panda

It looks good. Agree a little light on the wings but if Nelson/ESR step up and become reliably good options then that would probably be enough.

Elneny won't go 🥲 but hopefully Lokonga will. Vieira can have 1 more season. Balogun will go and hopefully Tierney will stay.

Clrnc

Qwiss yeah don't disagree with that. The only area that is really strong is defence. No real drop off in quality with anyone playing

Think we could still do with someone like Simons as an option and ship out one more in attack

Qwiss

Clrnc yeah defence looks very solid. My worry is that it will have to be because that is not a very strong looking midfield defensively on paper.

Simons makes less sense to me now we have Havertz. I'd rather a more defensive player or a player who's more of a traditional wide forward.

Claudius

Meatwad hard this. You can obviously be angry at Partey. But hard to be mad at Arsenal. I’m not sure what degrees of freedom they have over here. They’d be getting sued into bankruptcy if they’d done anything stupid here.

This isn’t like football and football clubs willingly doing things like going to Qatar, playing players into the ground, gouging fans, encouring sports washing, etc. there are so many things where football teams and associations are in control of their actions where I fully hold them accountable for the bullshit.

Tam

Claudius Everton suspended Gylfi Siggurdson pending a police investigation and he never played for them again. That investigation was dropped a couple of months ago. Whether they would have done that had it been charges of sexual offences against an adult rather than a child we’d never know, but the option was no doubt open to Arsenal.

Klaus can speak for himself. But his anger was very much directed at the club and their support of Partey. I doubt he’ll be back but I hope he will.

Clrnc

Tam Yeah. Correct me if I'm wrong but it's actually more common for clubs to suspend the player who is under an investigation than let him play till the results are out.

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