mdgoonah41 the key thing now is we only have 4 midfielders + Nwaneri for the mammoth stretch of games going into winter.

Havertz might need to play as LCM.

But if Jesus is injured again who plays up top? Do we have any youth strikers?

      Clrnc

      Play Zinchenko in there if need be, he's better suited to it than Kai anyway.

          I can't lie, I burst out laughing when I saw this news. And of course it had to be Gabriel. Welcoming him to the club I bet. You get a feeling our training sessions are going to be pretty rough from time to time. Oh well, get better asap Miki

          Clrnc moving Havertz to midfield and playing Jesus up top weakens us in 2 positions. I'd rather just play Nwaneri or Trossard in midfield.

            Am I missing something? Why would we move players around? Is Partey already injured?

              HomeSteak Need to rotate players if there's midweek games. I don't think everyone now is going to be free of injury anyway. Looking at the fixtures the amount of games this year that we have is quite intense.

              Arteta said we are very short up top and need to bring in someone, now Merino is also out we are quite short in midfield too.

                Apparently our practices are proper. Our players give it to each other. This is the cost of being the boss

                  Claudius proper stupid. A broken midfielder, a backup defender, and a nothing keeper on loan is all we have to show for this window. It's really bad.

                      never been so happy for the upcoming international break. that should eat up a couple weeks of his rehab time.

                      well at least he learned that an arsenal practice duel hits different from those la liga duels he was winning.

                        Yeah hard to look at what's happend and think we've made steps forward on where we were last year as a team.

                          awooga83 the only consolation is that at the start of last season we looked worse for a while before we looked better. That's enough to lose you this league. I don't expect that to happen now, we 'just' need a miracle in terms of injuries.

                            Coombs

                            Vieira played almost 600minutes last year.
                            Nketiah played around 1400 minutes.
                            ESR played around 500minutes.

                            That means our existing players (+ Merino when he comes back few months later) need to share an additional 2500 minutes (about 28 matches) amongst themselves, with more matches scheduled this year due to new UCL. It's insane and by next year they might be burnt out already given that most of them also played the Euros this year.

                            It's a huge gamble by our team to not sign depth up front. Even a free transfer for Depay would be better than what we have currently.

                              It’s been a while since we’ve had deadline day meltdowns 😆

                              Disappointed by the lack of reinforcements in attack if this is how it ends. Seems like we’re gambling a lot of Jesus staying fit and being a good option on the wings, and on Martinelli re capturing some form.

                              But we will still win the league.

                                Yeah I much prefer this squad to the one that started last season. This time last summer a Saliba or Partey injury was as critical as an injury to Odegaard and Saka. We’ve at least neutralised those two risks.

                                But either way, we’re not competing against ourselves - the real question is whether we’re better than City and I’d say no. Unless we get lucky.