Then
he let Vermaelen leave and loaned Jenkinson.
We can say he's trying on the transfer market, but why, for instance,
let Vermaelen go when you don't have a replacement lined up & yet you know defending is our biggest problem.
In retrospective
letting Vermaelen go was a good move for 15m pound with his injuries but getting only Chambers and trusting him to play at a high level every game filling multiple positions wasn't a wise one.
Letting Vermaelen go when he wanted to, ensured our reputation among players for doing the decent thing.
Not exact matches
As soon as Thomas
Vermaelen was sold, I don't know for the life of me why he
let [Carl] Jenkinson out on loan, it didn't make sense.
Now
let's see:
Vermaelen, injured, still out 6 weeks, sold for 12 mils BANG!
He
let sagna,
vermaelen and jenkinson go and only brought in 2 replacements when Stevie wonder cud have seen we were way too short at the back.
Let's start with Thomas
Vermaelen.
I actually have no issue with
letting Sagna and
Vermaelen go.
Letting go of
Vermaelen and not getting another defender (in addition to Debuchy and Chambers who replaced Sagna and Jenkison) was not a good decision.
mike,
let's be honest we have also sold players for unreasonable prices, adebayor, toure,
vermaelen....
Imagine a peak
Vermaelen and vertonghen at the base of our defense with the likes of fab and van persie infront, would have surely won 1 league title in the seasons where our weak defense
let us down.
If its a crisis, Arsene Wenger is to blame for
letting go of
Vermaelen, Sagna and loaning out Jenkinson
Let Sagna go for free
Let Fabinaski go for free Sell
Vermaelen (okay he is still injured) Sell Miquel (could have been better than Monreal, maybe even Mert right now) Sell Djourou (not good but, If we talk numbers we only have two real CB in the squad) Loan out Jenkinson Loan out Coquelin
He
let Song and
Vermaelen go to Barcelona.
When
Vermaelen did play, he didn't
let Arsenal down.
Song, arguably our most improved player is on 4 yellow cards and we should ensure that he doesn't miss the Chelsea game.The partnership of Gallas and
Vermaelen is outstanding, yet one can not expect them to play in every game, and it is in that are we are weak in cover.With regards to the full back situation, perm any two from four, that is Clichy, Gibbs, Eboue, Sagna and even Traore they are attacking wing backs and are always at risk on the quick counter attack by the opposition.Almunia still doesn't impress me and his command of his area is still indecisive and he is still vulnerable to
letting goals in, especially to his near post.Wenger being Wenger, I doubt he will buy in January, and it is a pity we didn't go for Given months before he joined City, when he was available for a comparatively cheap price.This new diamond shape or 4 -1-4-1 is working well and we have an abundance of quality to interchange, which bemuses the opposition more often than not.We have every chance this year, and we are also being helped by the fact that the other so called big four sides are showing their vulnerability.A couple of decent signings, not squad players in January, and hopefully we are in the mix.
In the year in which future Club captain Thomas
Vermaelen joined the club from Ajax for around # 10m, Arsenal rather
let fans down by making no Deadline Day signings.
One key for Arsenal will be not
letting their left flank get torn up again as last weekend at Everton; Wigan did score up that flank against City, so will be incumbent upon Lukas Podolski or whoever plays on that side to help Monreal and
Vermaelen keep the Wigan attack at bay.
After van Persie,
Vermaelen, Benayoun, all missed narrowly, it was man of the match Mikel Arteta, who
let go from a long way out and completely beat the keeper of the season, Joe Hart, with 4 minutes left on the clock.