Who should Wenger fire or sign this summer?

May 11 2009 88 Commented

With many bargaining to end this season right here, next term will not seem to come any sooner and so will the summer never be longer.

Concrete foundations are needed for 2009/10 - which must, at last, at last, see an end to this trophy drought. Last year, new signings only came to compensate unwanted losses of Flamini and co. But should the squad maintain it’s face for once this summer, there should be some incomings also. Any recruits could also be aided by the sale of the sour grapes.

So may Arsenal SPOT ask; how would you like to see Wenger manage matters from June to August?

Who should come and who should go?

Give your best suggestion and it might be the likely move.

88 Responses to “Who should Wenger fire or sign this summer?”

  1. Franny says:

    Bye bye Diaby – replace with Gourcuff
    Bye bye Ade – replace with Gomez
    Bye bye Silvestre – throw him in the bin

    Buy buy Hangeland, Chiellini or Lescott
    Buy buy Lorik Cana

    Thanks for your time.

  2. Stan says:

    Go
    Bendtner, Adebayor, Silvestre

    Come
    Hangeland, Santa Cruz, Barry

  3. London Gooner says:

    All players must stay EXCEPT Silvestre and Adebayor. They must leave, wenger musnt have silvestre around to be tempted into playing him and adebaoyr is a joke. we will win nothing with him. bdetner is a very good direct replacement for the ‘target man’ role but is better. when he begins finsihing he will be one of the most leathal strikers in europe, the way he finds space is fantastic. then use the money from ade, 18mil to bring in TEVEZ. he’d be 25-30 mil. Bring back senderos and he can replace silvestre for 4th choice defender. then we need to keep kolo and gallas, gallas is WORLD CLASS, but a Hangeland esque defender is required to attack the ball all day long. song is good, i like song. Gareth Barry would be a great addition, he can play alongside cesc and if games need chasing barry has the ability to go forward. but defensivly song is better. So i guess I’m saying ADEBAYOR and SILVESTRE OUT. TEVEZ and BARRY IN plus HANGELAND or SAHKO.

  4. London Gooner says:

    he paid 5 mil for ramsey, you think hes going to buy someone to put ahead of ramsey?? he should but i dont think he will

  5. stan says:

    Ade for Santa..lol…we lot are mad,, Santa will flop at big stage like a certain Berba,

    Keep the strikers, fully git dudu will make the difference next season

    out- Silvestre, Gallas ( we will need the money) Senderos, Traore, Diaby

    In -Hangerland, Sakho, Yaya

    If we sell Ade only for Benzema but that want happen

  6. adam says:

    out bendtner,adebayer,sivestre,eboue,danilson,fabianski,

    in eto,tevez,hungerlend,lescot,yaya,god

  7. M.Johnson says:

    Sell Adeybayor – Buy Tevez

    Sell Walcott – Buy Ashley Young

    Sell Silvestre – Buy Matt Upson

  8. Franny says:

    People still want Bendtner out?? Seriously get off your armchairs and open your eyes FFS.

  9. the kinG says:

    Out::: !DiABY!, Adebayor, Silvestre, Rosisky,

    in::: LEScott, Villa, ribery (if not then silva/cazorla)

    thats all we need. we need match winners. diaby is so crap, he isn’t technically good at all! i don’t know y wenger playz him…can somone tell me?

    i believe we can get all the players i mentioned. this players won’t let us down (like arsha) they are ready to go!!!!!!!!

    (maybe we shud bring back cygan!!! lol)

  10. Sean says:

    Out-Adebayor,Silvestre,Toure,Senderos and Eboue.

    In-Cahill,Hangeland,Pogrebnyak and Toulalan.

  11. jonny says:

    To all the fans…

    please try to be patient with wenger for at least one more year. this year we had alot of injury crisis, it’s a little bit unlucky. im sure wenger loves the club just as much as the fans.

    im sure wenger is planning for the future somehow, he is very shrewd. He knows what is best for the club…i believe 100%.

    i belive next year we will rule the world

  12. Dave says:

    Out : Diaby, Rosicky, Adebayor
    In : Veloso,Agbonlahor, Matt Upson

  13. Stone says:

    I can’t even remotely understand people wanting Bendtner out. He has scored 15 goals this season. What other 4th striker (okay, technically 3rd because of Dudu’s injuries) has been as prolific? He is a great talent and those who don’t see it don’t know much about football. And M.Johnson, I’m supposing you were joking about selling Walcott. I wouldn’t mind Ashley Young but we should never, ever sell Walcott.

    We don’t need much, just couple of players. Adebayor is a good player who turns very good when he runs. Unfortunately he has lost the will to run for us, so sell him for all I care. RvP should stay but man, he is the most frustrating player in the squad. No kidding, he has missed more good chances this season than Nick has.

    We should get rid of Ade, Kolo (or not play him regularly at least), Silvestre, Diaby, maybe Denilson although I like him. Then we need Marcos Senna in midfield to have a very good midfield of Cesc, Song, Senna, Ramsey and Merida. We should buy a DM who has passed 30 because in couple of years, Song will be as good as Essien (maybe not quite, but close). I’m afraid of Fabianski but we mainly need a new CB. I want Kolo out of the starting line-up, Senderos back and a monster in there. We need our own Vidic. If we had Vidic and United didn’t, we’d be top of the table with them flying ten points behind.

  14. JJ says:

    Couldn’t agree more with Franny on both counts, Bendtner deserves some credit! Out of your list i would most like to have Gourcuff, though we probably need Cana and Chiellini more. Cana’s probably the most realistic target out of them all, can’t see Chiellini leaving juve sadly.

  15. Gerry Gooner says:

    OUT: Silvestre, Adebayor, Rosicky (retirement)

    IN: Senderos (back off loan), Inler, Upson, Some Winger/ Striker no one has heard of.

    This is realistic people. WE are not going to sign david villa or some 25 million player. Not goingto happen.

    At a stretch maybe Frey or some goalkeeper

  16. Allenko says:

    When the mancs played us in semi of the CL they had £100 million on the bench. We need our existing players and those mentioned above to even have a sniff.

    Ade wih decent competition will get a kick up his arse instead of tinking we owe him a living

  17. jakobsson says:

    wenger needs to be ruthless like he was with pires who surely even now wd be better than diaby! Fabianski prob just needs a season at a championship side, but silvest de is going to have to go. Hopefully senderos will have got his confidence back and can fulfil his potential otherwise upson or taylor from newcastle. Who knows what will happen re:rosicky-hopefully we can get a year out of him. Song may not have had best week ever, but in fairness neither has cesc and up til then he had shown progression. Nik is showing resilience considering the bashing he gets from sections of the fans and definately links the play well. Plus, dont think he wd have dived against chelsea ade! AW please sell ade-he is not content here and we can get someone who doesnt have an ego and loose mouth but wants to do well. I would say an unknown or contradicting my ego comment(!) ibrahimovic for a curveball

  18. jakobsson says:

    but please never use 4-5-1 again

  19. Garth214 says:

    Sell first off bentner,silvester,eboue,fabianski,senderos,diaby,rocisky

    And buy : tevez,veloso,alonso,lescott,quersma,babel,upson

    There a quality side not too expensive beside tevez or maybe get ibrahimovic

  20. Garth214 says:

    Or nani

  21. anto says:

    Sell Ade- Buy Andre pierre gignac
    sell diaby – buy niko krancjar (he plays good with a fully fit dudu)
    Sell Sendoros – buy hageland

    Bam thats it Thats all we need

  22. anto says:

    also If we can try to buy alonso…. which i highly doubt but you never know till we try!

  23. USA Gunner says:

    I would rather keep Bendtner than Ady, Nicholas attacks the goal and hustles, in my book that is a lot better than what Ady has done. Ady has only scored in the games against weak teams.

    Sell Diaby, Denilson, Ady
    Loan out for the first half of the season, Gibbs, Vella
    Promote Wilshire, Couglin, Frim Pong (spelling)
    Buy..Lescott, Hangeland,Teves and Barry

    Trust Wegner, 4 years without a trophy isn’t that bad, we will prevail and will be amazing!!!

  24. USA Gunner says:

    I don’t think we need him but with his team going down I would see what we could get and do with Stewart from Middlesburo.

  25. Moff says:

    Some of the arsenal fan have no clue ? You lot listen too much to the media- the anti arsenal Media i say
    Firstly Bendtner is a far much better footballer than Walcott both as a stricker and on the wing and how some people want him out i dont understand. A 21 year old 3 rd choice striker scoring 15 goals ? a better return than A certain Berbatov and people want him ? u lot make me laugh. Ok he made some horrible misses this season but he is young and was mainly due to lack of confidence coz his own fans were on his back. i reckon he could have score 20 this season if he had got lots of support from fans
    Look around and see if there is anyone better than him at his age at the moment.

    secondly I dont think Arsenal neccessarily need to buy anyone … i think we need to sought out our defending as team not just the defensive players.
    Individually our back four is good they just dont defend well together as a unit ? and we dont defend well as team.
    Too many a times our players are caught ball watching. Anelka’s goal on sunday is an example. Nasri was the closest to him but his tracking back was laughable. its in the psychological thing. The whole team has to change the attitude to defending but Wenger knows this.
    same thing happened in 2003 when everyone was saying we needed a defender and wenger converted kolo to CB and challenged the team to defend better as team and we all know wat happened in thats season. INVICIBLES

    People talk about how we need experience but we do have that in abundance.
    Kolo
    Arshavin
    Rosicky (if he ever plays again)
    Gallas
    Aluminia
    Sylvester
    Eduardo
    even to some extend Clichy and Cesc… they have played close to 300 top level football btwn them
    people confuse Age and experience. thisteam is young but not neccessarily inexperienced
    Some of the names being called here dont even have CL experince at all and they are meant to give us the experience
    I admit though we might need an old head in DM. As good as song & Denilson might get in two years time they still very naive tactical and thats one position u need experience. Look around europe there is no good DM under 25. If we buy anyone he has to be a Monster as well to compesate for our lack of size in midfield. I think Momo Diarra is available at Real Madrid or maybe Yaya Toure(But I doubt )
    Do we need a striker ? Depends on Eduardo”s Fitness.
    i Think even if we sell Adebayor which i dont think will happen coz no one wants him now. we still be fine. RVP,EDUARDO,BANDTHER,VELA,THEO
    Theo should be drooped though. he is just not there yet. he offers nothin but pace which we can get usefully from other players. He a useful sub at best.
    I think AW challenges are as follows

    1. Keep this team together? well most .They got to two semis, they can only get better from here as a team. its his challenge to get them over the line. The psychological bonding thing aswell will work particularly in our midfield. ARSHAVIN, CESC , NASRI, ROSICKY havent played together that much and dont have the understanding on and off the field that Flamini. cesc, hleb had last season. something that we lost and would be helped by keeping this lot together.

    2. Keeping this team healthy. This has proven to be our major undoing in the past 2 season or . we just seem to have the most injury prone player in our side. Diaby hasnt played 5 consecutive game for arsenal and have destroyed his confidence some that has been visibly lately.

    3. EDUARDO, ROSICKY. We need these to guys fit.next season. If we can get 50 games between them ill be happy. They are not the best player in the world but they each offer us something different and they dramitically increase our depth.

  26. MGP! says:

    Out: Diaby, Silvestre, Denilson, Toure.

    In: David Silva, Wilson Palacios, Mario Gomez, Matthew Upson & Joleon Lescott.

  27. gultigooner says:

    Out : Diaby, Ade, Silvestre.
    I hope he keeps gallas. he is our best defender.

    In : Hangeland (or) Chilleini.
    Alonso (or) veloso (or) gago.

    Formation :

    ———-Almunia———–
    Sagna-Gallas-Hangeland-Clichy
    ——Cesc-Alonso-Nasri——-
    ——RVP-Eduardo-Arshavin—-

    Subs : Rosicky, Toure, Djourou, Song, Bendtner, Theo, Gibbs.

    And the likes of vela, wilshere, ramsey, merida in the mix.

    This team can challenge for a title.

  28. anto says:

    GUys like i said before… David silva will NEVER join arsenal because arsene will not spend 25- 30 m for one amazing player when he can buy 4 good players for the same price

  29. anto says:

    he barely bought arshavin how is he gonna get silva?!

  30. Tyler Drake says:

    Guys, you’ve got it all wrong! It should be

    OUT – Fabregas, Van Persie, Walcott

    IN – Crouchy, Nugent and Titus Bramble

  31. RassHenry says:

    Arsenal need experience worldclasss player’s to blend with the young talent. Some of the players needed to be offloaded in order to bring the quality experience in.

    Players/Donkeys need to be offloaded :

    1.Adebayor(25m) – Useless piece of shitte.
    2.Bendtner(5m) – Useless piece of shitte.
    3.Diaby(4m) – Useless piece of shitte.
    4.Rosicky(5m) – Injury prone & made of toilet paper.
    5.Silvestre(1m) – Useless piece of shitte.
    6.Febregas(Use for swap) – Useless piece of shitte.
    7.Sanderos(5m) – Useless piece of shitte.

    Total Earned : 45m.

    Player to brought in :

    1.Thierry Henry – Top class ready made striker.
    2.Jermaine Defoe – Good quality back up striker.
    3.Yaya Toure – Good defending midfielder.
    4.Micah Richards – To balance our defence with Toure.

    A : Swap Febregas for Henry + Yaya.
    B : 10M for Jermaine DeFoe.
    C : 20M for Micah Richards.

    Total need to be spent : 30m.
    Total Earned : 45m.
    Balance : 15m + transfer kitty allocation for wages or others.

    Arsenal squad for 2009/2010 season onwards :
    With new numbering.

    1.Almunia
    3.Sagna 6.Richards 5.Toure(c) 2.Clichy
    4.Yaya
    7.Walcott 10.Arshavin 8.Nasri
    9.Eduardo 14.Henry

    Supersubs :

    21.Fabianski
    27.Ebue 20.Djourou 13.Gallas 22.Gibbs
    17.Song
    16.Ramsey 15.Denilson 12.Vela
    11.Robin 18.DeFoe

    This is what we call a competitive squad. Without doubt, we can challenge for honours from next season onwards. We can rule BPL or Europe accordingly.

    **Thierry Henry can play at the highest level for another 2/3 years, can show our young strikers on how to put the ball into the net accordingly & can be our quality strikers coach in future.

    Cheers :)

  32. anto says:

    Tyler lost it..

  33. anto says:

    Yeah rass got it somewhat right…:p i like his ideas. Esp bringing henry back..:]

  34. citygunner says:

    Rasshenry did you hit your head somewhere?

    I hope so cuz if not, I’m going back to sleep.

  35. Arsenalku_Malaysia says:

    OUT
    Forward – Ade, Bendtner
    MidField – Diaby, Song, Denilson
    Defender – Silvester, Eboue, Gallas
    ——————————————
    Bring IN
    Forward – Benzema, David Villa, Huntelaar
    MidField – Alonso, Velonso, Flemini (Bring Back) or David Silva
    Defender – Micah Richard, Chiellini, Vidic (ManU)

    This line-up really bring Arsenal back to Glory… Hopes, AW and Club owner really serious to bring back Arsenal to the grory years…

  36. Arsenalku_Malaysia says:

    Keep exiting players:

    Forward – Robin, Eduardo, Vela,
    MidField – Cecs, Samir Nasri, Theo, Arshavin, Ramsey
    Defender – Toure, Clichy, Sagna, Gibbs,Djourou
    Keeper – Almunia

  37. Arsenalku_Malaysia says:

    Formation 4-4-2

    ……………Almunia……………
    Sagna, Toure, Chiellini or Micah, Clichy
    David Silva, Alonso, Cesc, Arshavin
    ……….. Benzema, Robin…………

    ——————————————

    Formation 4-3-3

    ……………Almunia……………..
    Micah, Vidic, Toure, Clichy or Chiellini
    ..Alonso, Cesc, Theo Walcott or Silva..
    …..Robin, Huntelaar, Arshavin……..

  38. Shelak says:

    Out: diaby, Eboue, silvestre, denilson, ade, bendtner in: Gourcuff, upson or hangeland, silva,
    Alonso or senna, huntelar, benzema

  39. bob says:

    I think some of you are crazy.

    Let Ade go. If we get anything close to 20M that’s a HUGE net gain.

    Bring in a really good DM and CB.

    Other than those two additions I think we’re going to rock next year.

    In the front we’d still have RVP, Eduardo, Bendtner, Arshavin, Vela, Walcott, and potentially Rosicky to score goals.

    In midfield we’d have Cesc/Nasri/Rosicky/Arshavin as creative players along with whoever of the first group Wenger decides to play on the outsides. Couple those with a strong DM and Denilson/Song would make great backups. Let Diaby/Ramsey play Carling Cup/lower level competition to rest the starters.

    At the back we’ve got Clichy and Sagna as very very good starters, with Gibbs and Eboue as very very good backups. Pair either Toure or Gallas with the new big ass mean CB. Problems solved. Djourou, whichever of Toure or Gallas that’s left out of the preferred starting 11, Senderos, and Song are plenty of cover for the CB spots. Let Silvestre finish his contract as a coach or beer vendor.

    Adding those two players and letting only Ade go gives us a much bigger squad without letting go players who are still relatively young and have a chance to be really good if they can become consistent (Diaby, Song, Djourou, Senderos et al).

  40. frankie frankie says:

    Sell Adebayor- Bring in one of these: Gignac, Benzema, Hunterlaar, Mario Gomez.

    Sell Diaby and Denilson- No need to buy Just Move Kolo toure into midfield and bring back Traore to replace Diaby

    Sell Gallas, Silvestre- Bring 2 of Hangeland, Richards, Lescott, Metzelder, Zapata.

    Would buy Sakho and loan him back to PSG for one season.

  41. Denis says:

    I think we need Babel to solve what Ade Can’t, Let’s advocate for him to step the great Emirates.
    Sell Diaby, Denilson, Silvestre.

  42. DD says:

    Sell Ade! Sell Ade! Sell Ade! Buy Oliech(Kenya). Upson, that Russian Ronaldhino guy, Alonso and one lethal striker from south America! I see plenty in their leagues! What the hell are our scouts looking for! more Ades?! goons they can buy for a packet of peanuts?! OOH! DO NOT SELL BETNER! He’ll be our best stricker soon,ya’ll be patient! He’ll prove himself!

  43. jakobsson says:

    we can forget about cahill now if bolton want 20m. Ive been disappointed too many transfer windows now to get my hopes up. AW says he wont go big, its about time we realise he means it. He’s got to start rebuilding soon though and by his standards, thats back to youth again otherwise its not a youth policy. I fear the draw for CL as if we fluff that, its adios cesc and robin for sure and maybe arshavin, who may already wonder why he bothered in the first place

  44. fabrecas says:

    players in
    1-Benzema or Villa
    2-Philiph Mello or De Rossi or Barry
    3-Hangeland or Lescot Or Bruno Alvez or Chiellini
    4-Albiol or Micah or Sakho
    5-Hernanes (sao polo)
    Players out
    1-Adebayor
    2-Gallas
    3-Senderos
    4-Bentner
    5-Rosiscky
    Formation 4-4-2
    Almunia
    Sagna Toure Hangeland Clichy
    De Rossi
    Nasri(Hernanes) Fabrecas (c) Arshabin
    Van Persie Benzema(Villa)

  45. Risje^ says:

    F*ck everyone whom wants Ade away, he just had a bad season (I admit), but look wat he did last season. We just need to get those injured guys back. Like Wenger said no desperate buys…

    My suggestions are (If he will buy), Vincent Kompany and maybe Henry back. Yaya Touré would also be a good suggestion.

  46. fabrecas says:

    players in
    1-Benzema or Villa
    2-Philiph Mello or De Rossi or Barry
    3-Hangeland or Lescot Or Bruno Alvez or Chiellini
    4-Albiol or Micah or Sakho
    5-Hernanes (sao polo)
    Players out
    1-Adebayor
    2-Gallas
    3-Senderos
    4-Bentner
    5-Rosiscky
    Formation 4-4-2
    ……………..Almunia
    … Sagna.. Toure.. Hangeland.. Clichy
    …………… De Rossi
    …. Nasri(Hernanes)… Fabrecas (c)… Arshabin
    …… Van Persie … Benzema(Villa)

  47. albrim struga says:

    arsenal 2009/10

    ———-almunia———-

    sagna—-toure—-lescott—-clichy

    arshavin—-veloso—cesc—-nasri

    ——-eto’o——van persie—–

    than we have fabianski as no.2 for almunia when needed,eboue as sagna cover,at CB gallas and silvestre out,sakho,djourou and senderos as cover,on the left is gibbs and traore and lescott can play there as well…walcott as cover for arshavin and dont forget that he can play as a striker too,rosicky as nasri cover,at CM diaby,denilson,song,who also can play very good at CB and ramsey….up front eduardo,bendtner,vela,simpson will come back,we should definitely not forget him,i think that he will be a very good player for us…..with this formation and fabianski,eboue,sakho,walcott,rosicky,eduardo and bendtner on the bench we will look pretty good i think

  48. Zeki says:

    Adebayor, Denilson & Silvestre OUT

    I would love to see this line up next season

    ———Almunia———–

    Sagna-Toure-Jagielka-Clichy

    -Theo-Fabregas-Barry-Nasri-

    —V.Persie – Benzema—-

    Bench: Rosicky, Arshavin, Diaby, Bendtner, Djourou, Fabianski, Gibbs

    Now the bench is worth about 60m!

  49. raisonar says:

    outs–silvester,gallas,sendros,eboue,adebayor,bendtner and of course DIABY.

    inns– chiellini(lucio),hangeland(bassong or cahill),veloso and tevez

    if this happens we will conquer europe next season(of course if we reach group stage)….

  50. Sidsbarca says:

    I think Silvestre should be removed, Traore should be recalled ASAP and Senderos too.
    Buy Hangeland and a striker who can finish, maybe even get HENRY back!!! He has hit his top form once again and could work wonders. Once players like Fabregas, Arshavin, v.Persie, Walcott, Rosicky, Eduardo and Gallas have an injury free season, we’ll win for sure.

  51. Steve says:

    I’m not convinced anyone should leave. Maybe loan out a few younger players but I think the foundation is solid.
    I would suggest Gourcuff, the guy’s on fire at Bordeaux. Lille’s Hazard could be good too, but still very young.
    We need to strengthen the back, urgently, and we need more versatile players. Richards or Onuoha would be nice, but unlikely.
    If we could land a big name like Eto’o or Villa, that would be ideal, but again not likely to happen.

  52. gunnerman says:

    ade out for huntelaar
    silvestre out for nobody
    theo sierously out he sux and is extra wieght
    let bentdner stay he is gonna have a higher tally than ade by the end of the season
    bring in alonso or barry or somebody who can cdm/cm at the same time alonso preferably he can pass to death and with two magical spaniards in the middle and a good striker+RVP we can conquer the prem and europe
    eboue is imperitive to our success he can play RB RW LB and LW walcott sierously dead weight don’t let him start and with arsh and nasri and hopefully rosicky where is he gonna fit imo Betneder is good better than him and has can pass and has settled nicely into our game of give and go
    KEEP HIM

  53. gunnerman says:

    and hangleand
    we really need him

  54. reezal77 says:

    Out: Adebayor, Rosicky, Diaby, Sylvestre
    In: Agbonlahor, Ashley Young, Yaya Toure, Micah Richards

    New team lineup (4-4-2):
    Almunia
    Sagna, Toure/Gallas, Micah Richards, Clichy/Gibbs
    Walcott/Eboue, Fabregas, Yaya Toure, Ashley Young/Nasri
    Agbonlahor/Arshavin, Bendtner/Van Persie

  55. dan says:

    Sell Ade.
    Buy Dzeko quick bosnian goal scoring machine.

    Sell Diaby and/or Denilson. Will never take the required level.
    Buy Marchena or toulalan. Both is exellent ballwinners and can pass the ball. Marchena is great in the air an can also play as a center back.

    Fuck off to Senderos and Sylvester.
    Buy and ugly/hard playing monster who wins 9 out of 10 in the air. Chiellini???

  56. LB says:

    I suppose that’s what we are armchair coaches and Wenger puts his neck on the line and faces the fire. Before even considering who leaves or comes, you have to think about what a team needs for success. And most of these comments make no sense in this context. You need quality, depth, experience (not age!), chemistry, leadership, organisation and fan support. Which of these does Arsenal have?

    In my opinion, we have quality, but not depth, and it’s down to youth, not number of players. Leadership is lacking and organisation suffers as a result. Chemistry seems to be affected by some characters within the team like Ade.

    Conclusion, sell Ade, not because he’s not good enough but because he’s bad for chemistry. Keep Eboue because he gives us depth in 5 positions. Buy a vocal, physical leader for central midfield and central defence. Arshavin brought leadership in attack, we need it in DM and CD. Think hard about the style of football. Arsenal is made for 4-5-1, but not like Chelsea plays it, more like the way Barca does it. Very compact in midfield with great pace on each wing. Our left side is not pacy enough without Arshavin.

    Gilbert will be back next year to give us RB depth, one problem solved. Rosicky seems to be ok, that the left sorted. Eduardo should be more resilient. THat’s depth upfront.

    90% of the problem: Leadership and organisation. The other 10%: fan support.

  57. Flex says:

    I think Arsenal need to lose one or two players and get 3 possibly 4 of the right kind in. I have to stress, the right kind i.e. players in the mould of Campbell, Parlour, Vieira, Lauren etc.

    Now this is easy to say, i know. But we need winners. In todays market these type of players are not cheap and are certainly hard to find but Arsenal need to find them and for the right price.

    We have many potentially fabulous young midfielders but this club can not wait the 2 or 3 years for them to develop. True great players usually show their potential in glimpses at a young age anyway so we could argue some players should be bumped down the pecking order and superseeded by players who can do the job now.

    I feel Adebayor should leave Arsenal. I don’t hate him. When he give it 110% he is very good. But I fear 2007-08 Ade has gone forever.

    I feel Silvestre should be nothing more than squad fodder and should not be relied upon as much as he has in such a vital part of the season.

    I have mixed views on Denilson, Song and Diaby. I actually feel Diaby could be the ace in the pack but the other two had good half seasons. Maybe there lies the problem. No consistency. Denilson good first half and Song a good second half of the season. But can any of those players be anywhere the level or players of past like Petit, Parlour, Edu, Vieira even Grimandi?

    I would move some of these inconsitant performers further away from the first for now and sign a dominant midfielder along with a dominant centreback and a clincial striker/attacker (depends if he feels Theo is ready for the centre yet) with presence. These players need to be winners though. They have to add fight, spine and character to this potentially great team.

    I would go Joleon Lescott/ Cristian Zapata/ Micah Richards or Sakho. They are have similar yet different qualities. But 4 names people. For names that may not add experience but are fighters.

    As for midfield, its more difficuilt. Any suggestions people? What midfielders and attackers do you feel could do the job for us and have the desired qualities to really move this squad of players forward.

    P.S. I feel 4-3-3 and 4-4-2 should be the only formations we use from now on.

    We are not too far, but problems need to be addressed otherwise we will continue to slide. You can’t keep polishing turds.

  58. Rohan says:

    Sell: Gallas, Silvestre and Denilson

    Buy: Pogrebnyak, Miguel Veloso(?),Yaya Toure (I wish), Lescott or Hangeland and maybe Silva for a left footed winger

    Possible line up/s:
    Almunia
    Sagna Toure Lescott/Hangeland Clichy

    Yaya Toure/Veloso Fabregas

    Walcott Arshavin
    Eduardo

    Adebayor/Bendther

  59. Fred says:

    Those who think buying is the solution to winning silverware – look at Liverpool and Man City. I think Wenger is on to something if only he can keep the same outfit for two seasons.The boys are growing into men togther. Let us wait for the coming two seasons and enjoy the benfits of playing beatuful football and winning games. Just imagine before last week we had gone 21 games without lose at Emirates – that my fellow Gunners is a good record.

  60. alex says:

    OUT:
    - Diaby
    - Adebayour
    - Silvestre
    - Song

    IN:
    - De Rossi (CM/DM)
    - Veloso (CB/DM)
    - Akinfeev (GK)
    - Zhirkov (LM)
    - Silva (AM/LM)
    - Chiellini (DB/LB)
    - Pogrebnyak (ST)
    - Dzagoev (AM)

  61. Shaz says:

    Funny how all the players being mentioned are ones that we have been linked with in the last week or so after the losses against United and Chelsea. This is just the media making up stories but after analysing the season I think that the following players should and will be leaving:

    1) Gallas – After being removed as captain his ego has been battered…he was our best defender from January till he got injured and i think was key to holding our defence together. I think he will go back to France or to Italy. Fee: 7m

    2) Silvestre – Should be sold/released unless we keep him as a 5th choice centreback Fee: Nominal

    3) Diaby – Too injury prone…has 1 good game every 5 games he plays..plus i think we need to offload one midfielder to make room for an incoming midfielder. Linked to Italy. Fee: 10m

    4)Adebayor: Should have sold him for 30m last year as even then people were saying he was over rated. After last summer’s “im going and im staying” stories and his lazy performances this year as well as his stories of speaking to AC Milan owner the day before the biggest game of the year against Man Utd and comparing them to Beyonce i think his time is up. The fans are fed up. Fee: 22m

    Others: Not sure what is going to happen with Senderos, I think he is a good 4th choice defender to have. Think there will be a few reserve team players being sold too such as Kerrea Gilbert, Nacer Barazite etc.

    Overall income: 45m +/- 5m

    IN: Wenger has said he will bring players and it will not be players that lack experience as we have enough of those already.
    I think we need 3/4 players depending on Senderos returning. If he does we need 1 centre back if he doesnt we will need 2.
    Centre Back: Lucio 11m, Hangeland 10m, Cannavaro 2m(1 season-kids can learn a great deal) Chiellini 10m, Juan 15m, Upson 10m, Lescott 13m
    My Choce: Lescott and Cannavaro – 15m

    Defensive Central Midfielder: Cana 8m, Senna 9m, Barry 15m, Alonso 16m, Inler 12m.
    My Choice: Senna 9m

    Striker: Gomez 18m, Huntelaar 15m, Benzema 25m, Niang 16m, André-Pierre Gignac 14m, Edin Dzeko 13m, Higuain 17m, Eto’o 22m
    My Choice: Gomez/Huntelaar/Benzema – 19m Avg.

    Would love to see Gourcuff play for Arsenal but i dnt think he will :(

    Overall Expenditure: 43m

    So team in 09/10 should be:
    ———-Almunia———-

    Sagna-Toure–Lescott-Clichy

    Walcott-Senna–Cesc-Arshavin

    —-Rvp–Huntelaar—-

    Second Team
    ———Fabianski———

    Eboue-Djorou–Cannavaro-Traore/Gibbs

    Rosicky–Song–Denilson-Nasri

    Bendtner-Eduardo

    With Vela, Ramsey, Wilshere going out on loan.

    Comments would be appreciated!

  62. Fred says:

    In realtion to what we need – during the period the season is over all players have to spend an hour each day shooting the ball hard into an empty net from about 20 yards. I think next season if we at least have an average of 20 shoots around the 18 yard area at each game we shall win the League by December. Buying is no solution we only need to work on our weaknesses – not shooting, our boys especially the forwards must learn how to shoot first time. Let us look at the 2009 – 2010 with more promise and stop shouting the “buy, buy” chant. It was almost a bad season but end well…

  63. Samnnachi says:

    Lets Sell the THE BIG LOSER WENGER first then let the new manager buys his set of players. The BIG LOSER can not take Arsenal any further than he has done. With The BIG LOSER still in Arsenal next season its going to be same or worse than the last four seasons, he has lost his winning mentalilty, so is his BABIES or so called cheap young players.

  64. Petter Rice says:

    Out- Pat Rice, Wenger, Arshavin, Ade, Cesc

    In- Sir Alex, Ronaldo, Jessica Alba, O’Shea

  65. nickoman says:

    sell all the misfits ie
    -adebayor rubbish
    -diaby rubbish
    -silvestre liability
    -denilson not good enough
    -eboue wenger has ruined him
    -clichy great attitude but cannot defend
    keep song and bendtner only as back up because they have shown improvement
    send djourou out on loan

    buy
    -micah richards centre back and right back cover
    -chiellini or hangelend
    -alonso or melho and yaya
    -ribery and tevez or dzeko
    we need a quality squad not just a team

  66. Alex says:

    Jessica Alba…
    Not a half bad idea, rather c her playing football than any one else

  67. Anders says:

    BUY(some of these players)-
    Christian Romaric(sevilla) Eden Hazard(Lille)
    Micah Richards(man city) Mamadou Sakho(PSG) Markus Berg(Groningen) Luis Suárez(Ajax)Yohann Gourcuff(Bordeaux/Milan) Pavel Pogrebnyak(Zenit) Yaya Toure(Barcelona) Niko Kranjcar(Portsmouth) John Obi Mikel(Chelsea) Benzema(lyon) Gökhan INLER(udinese) Zhirkov(CSKA Moscow)
    Labinot Harbuzi(Malmo FF)
    or if we trad 3 players for Zlatan Ibrahimovic(inter):)

    Sell(all of them)- Mikael Silvestre, Emmanuel Adebayor, Phillipe Senderos, Nicklas Bendtner

  68. bushey gooner says:

    Out: Diaby Adebayor Eboue
    In: Zapata Inler Huntelaar
    Im being realistic with the amount of money we’ll have to spend

  69. tommy smith says:

    In Hangeland, faye, veloso and hunteelar…..
    OUT..SILVESTRE, ADEBAYOR, DIABY

  70. Ismail says:

    if ul wana win titles, jst support man utd!!!

  71. John says:

    IN
    Romaric(sevilla)
    Hazard(Lille)
    Richards(Man city)

    OUT
    Silvestre
    Adebayor
    Senderos
    Bendtner

  72. Chriss says:

    Buy Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  73. joker9191 says:

    sell silvestre, adebayor, diaby

    buy hangelaand, gareth barry/xabi alonso, david villa

    ( lets be honest, we are in need of a finisher aren’t we?)

  74. I-Keep-It-Real says:

    Why the f*ck is everyone kicking out Diaby? I can guarantee you he is more of a presence, and more of a threat than good for nothing Denilson… He would be my first choice out. Bendtner. Then possibly Adebayor. But I’ve seen Adebayor score, and he scores a lot when he has a good team around him (last seasons example).

    So I would just bring in:

    Hangeland and/or Lescott – We are in desperate need of 2 centre backs, maybe just 1 because Gallas is a starter in my book, he has the passion.
    David Villa -(only if Adebayor is sold)
    Carlos Tevez – even if Adebayor isn’t sold we should get him or try. His presence will make the other attackers up their game to match his work ethic.
    Flamini – Back from AC Milan. He already knows the Premiership, knows his football and can be trusted. He will be hungry for football and ready to return 2 arsenal if we showed the slightest interest.

  75. preben vermedal says:

    sell : adebayor , clichy, eboue, denilson, fabianski

    buy : david silva, carlos tevez, xabi alonso, inler, julio cesar from inter. kanskje zlatan ibrahimovic.
    wesley sneidjer. brede hangeland, chielini

    julio cesar
    mirhard richards kolo toure, hangeland, cheilini
    walcott, alonso, fabregas, sneidjer
    david villa , robin van persie

    inbyttere, almunia, tevez, gallas, inler, ibrahimovic

  76. nn says:

    ade fuckin greedy balls. get him the fuck out or i.ll go over there myself and kick his greedy ass out myself if i can get the greedy cunt out of the coma hes been in for the last year. lescot and hangerland in and the rest will look after itself. i,m giving that cunt ade barndoor a week to get out

  77. James says:

    HISTORY OFTEN REPEATS ITSELF.
    In 2000 we got hammered 1-6 v ManU. We were playing with a makeshift defence of Two Russians, Giles Grimandi and Ashley Cole. The latter – the left back had a mare and got brought off… Keiran Gibbs.
    We also got thumped at home 0-3 by Boro courtesy of two og’s and lost in the FA Cup 1-2 due to a late goal after we’d been in front.

    That summer Wenger had a clear out and brought in Sol Campbell worth £15M, Richard Wright £6M, Gio Van Bronkhurst £8M and Franny Jeffers £7M. All big name players in their day. (And Inamoto on loan)

    Next season we did the double and all of those players played a part bar the loanee.

    CLEAR OUT: Get shut of Denilson, Diaby, Adebayor, Silvestre, Song and Eboue. and Wenger knows it – whether he will do it is a different thing. Underperforming average shite.

    Ramsey, Wilshire, Merida and Vela cannot be any worse than these. Let them step up in the squad.

    BUY QUALITY: Mexes, Veloso, the Russian everyone’s talking about – Yuri Zhirkov…

    SOUTH YORKSHIRE GUNNER from ‘72

  78. dark one says:

    sell – ade

    buy – jagelka or bassong

    move – Traore to left midfield (like portmouth played him. Belhadj and him gave Milan nuff problems)

    line up

    almunia

    Sagna – toure – jagelelka – Clichy

    arsharvin – song – cesc – traore

    bendtner – van persie

  79. NJSP says:

    OUT: Ade,Diaby,Silvestre,Denilson,Bendtner

    IN: Defense: Hangeland, Wheater or Faye or Chiellini

    Midfield: Yaya or Senna OR FLAMINI!!!

    Strikers: Gomez or Pavel P. or Zdeko

  80. goldsoundz says:

    Hilarious FIFA 09 lineups being thrown about as expected.

    A little realism, for gods sake people.

    Wenger is never going to spend the money that is needed to bring in players like David Villa or Ibrahimovic. Ribery? He didn’t want to spend 15 mil for him back then, why do you think he’s gonna spend 50 mil for him now?

    Quaresma?!!??! Are you kidding me? He is junk.

    My first move going forward into next season is putting Arshavin in the Bergkamp role and going from there.

    CB and DM needs are obvious.

    Diaby, Adebayor and Silvestre are all obvious pieces to move.

  81. Marko says:

    I’d look to offload Adebayor, one of Diaby or Denilson and Silvestre and maybe Gallas.

    It’s clear to see that we are very good going forward but our weaknesses are in defence.
    We should look to bring in Zapata, Albiol or Sahko this summer as I think they can be available. Also Dabo of St. Ettienne cause not only is he very good and very versatile (left/right back and midfield) but he would be cheap enough and his current club are in a relegation battle at the moment so he won’t want to stay there.

    I think if Adebayor is to go which there’s a chance then replace him with Dzeko from Wolfsburg and we’d be sorted, the guy is a goal machine and scores the simply goals and his movement is fantastic too or Mario Gomez from Stuttgart would be good too he’s scored 23 goals so far this season.

    I can see another midfielder coming in. Maybe Wenger will go back in for Inler or Alonso who both decided to stay last summer. He does always say he sees Song as a defender maybe thats cause he wants to buy an experienced central midfielder.

    So get rid of Adebayor, Diaby, Gallas and Silvestre and bring in Albiol, Dabo, Dzeko and Inler or Yaya Toure and if Rosicky’s fitness is beyond him then sign Gourcuff cause he’s class.

  82. Karlos says:

    Jeffers = big name!?!?

    Puh-leeeeease!!

    Goldz…yes I like the 4-4-1-1 with Arshavin playing in “the hole” a la Bergkamp behind Robin or Eddy.

    Andriy’s pace, vision, passing and heavy stroke will allow him to excel in this role. I have visions of the lightning counter-attacks being started by outlet balls from Cesc to Andriy who will push, draw the defenders and dish to Robin or out onto the wings.

    Praying we bring back “showtime” next year…blitzkrieg counter-attacks flashing one-touch footie!!

    Yesssssssssssssssss!!.

    Been way to long…bring it back home!.

  83. goldsoundz says:

    No way we can afford Gourcuff- as much as I love the kid’s game. He truly is the closest thing when people speak of the dreaded “Next Zidane” title. Bordeaux has until the end of the month to trigger the 15 mil buyout clause in his loan contract.

    IMO, they could probably flip him the next day for a minimum of 25 mil. Surely that is going to be out of Wenger’s range- especially after we spend (hopefully) to shore up the CB and DM positions.

  84. sweet. says:

    Anyone who thinks AW is going to get rid of 5 guys and then buy a whole clip of players on big transfer fees is in la la land. Ade, Diaby and Gallas should go. I thought Gallas did well this year but he should move on.

    Lescot and barry.

    We have two guys that are in the tevez mold so thats dumb. So is thinking that we will buy 4 or 5 top tier guys worth millions.

    Depth will be our savior next year. that and playing guys in their proper spot on the field. Bedtner has shown me a lot in recent time. i hated him but everyone needs to get off his back. We need a leader with balls Fab unfortunately has not shown that this year.

    Finally, everyone needs to stop suckling at the medias tit and thinking the world is ending because we have a few things to work out.

    breathe

  85. anto says:

    this is how are line up should be

    ———-Almunia—-
    -Sagna–hageland– Gallas–Clichy—
    —-Song ——Alonso—–
    Cesc————–Nasri—
    —–Arshavin——–
    —————-Eduardo—-

  86. juan elias says:

    keep ade we cant affore to buy all these players
    we just need a solid d and thats it

  87. Aiman says:

    out denilson silvestre

    in senna alonso skrtel

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