I think the club is in the biggest transfer mess since the 2011 - 2012 season when 3 established first
teamers left, Cesc, Nasri and Clichy.
Only one important first
teamer left and we replaced him with the player benching him in their national team.
Not exact matches
6 days
left till start, our first games our Liverpool and Leicester - tough games to be missing vital first
teamers, we should have all our buys and have them in the squad already integrated, points get dropped like this.
It remains to be seen if every one of these eight players will actually
leave all at once, but recent reports from various souces suggest that there are a number of first -
teamers in Carlo Ancelotti's squad who could be considered for sale for the right price, which is likely to see some movement, possibly to the Premier League.
There are many Arsenal first
teamers and peripheral members entering the final year of their contracts this summer, and it would seem that quite a few of them will be put on the market, although there are some that we don't want to
leave.
So despite much speculation regarding some of the younger guys pushing for the open guard spot
left by Mahon, I guess CJ Thorpe, Mike Miranda, Des Holmes, Gellerstedt, and (gulp) Sterling Jenkins are probably viewed as second
teamers at this point and it will be a Wright / Fries rotation at RT with Menet at the guard spot, for now.
Bring in Ospina for Cech; Gabriel for Koscielny (Kos is 31 and its time we start testing Gabriel and Holding beside Mustafi to see what our long term first choice defensive partnership will look like); Gibbs for Monreal (Wenger needs to start rotating these 2 more frequently as we need to ascertain if Gibbs can adequately produce the quality to hold that position from next season for a few years as I'm thinking this might be Nacho's last or penultimate season with Arsenal, it will also give a hint as to the type of
Left - back to target in the summer — first
teamer or backup and age as well); I'll like to see an Elneny — Xhaka partnership in this fixture as we might just never know, this might be our replica of the Kos Mustafa partnership in the centre of the park, Two disciplined (positionally, i mean) central midfielders who can play box to box; Chamberlain for Iwobi, and Perez for Alexis should do the work.
The Arsenal
left back Nacho Monreal is one of the few regular first
teamers that is not involved for his country during the current international duty, which is good for us with all the concerns about injury problems, but it must seem strange to the 29 - year old who is in the form of his life right now.
The Arsenal
left back Nacho Monreal is one of the few regular first
teamers that is not involved for his country during the current international duty, which is good for us with all the concerns about injury problems, but it must seem strange to the 29 - year old who is in the form of his
left right now.
the idea should be that the players age and get replaced by the youth team, like persie chamakh rosicky arshavin sagna eboue, but most of our current first -
teamers still have 6 - 8 years
left in them, so what happens when the kids hit 21.
Well there's nothing concrete at the moment for any of our first -
teamers to be
leaving us, but the rumours are there.