As it stands 1st team squad — 28 Cech, ospina Martinez Bellerin (u21) debuchy mertesacker chambers (u21) koscielny gabriel Monreal gibbs Coquelin Ramsey
wilshire arteta rosicky ozil chamberlain flamini cazorla Walcott welbeck giroud alexis campbell wellington gnabry (u21) akpom (u21)
I would love to see a big dm option come in, but again with all our midfield options due back by the time we face spurs (in 5 matches time) I can see wenger running with 2 of cazorla rosicky chamberlain ozil ramsey
wilshire arteta zelalem diaby and niles, playing either side of coquelin flamini chambers or hayden, again 14 options for 3 positions will be considered enough by wenger.
Regardless that koscielny coquelin cazorla alexis
wilshire arteta rosicky and welbeck should be missing against Sunderland, the fact remains that a win could see us top of the league.
Not exact matches
Bcos in cazorla, ozil, rosicky, chamberlain alexis campbell coquelin
arteta flamini gnabry ramsey
wilshire welbeck zelalem giroud bielik and akpom we have 17 players competing for 6 positions.
Not sure where that would leave players like ospina, Szczesney, martinez, flamini,
arteta, Ramsey,
wilshire, chamberlain, rosicky, giroud, sanogo and welbeck.
Just add one more (a carvalho, schneirderlin etc) to cazorla ozil
wilshire rosicky ramsey coquelin
arteta flamini and u would have 9 players competing for 3 positions.
Having said that we have a lot of players away on international duty and highly unlikely they will all come back fit we always pick up 1 or 2 injuries so we may have important players missing as well fingers cross for a change we have no injuries and everyone fit for liverpool game also we should have
arteta, chamberlain and
wilshire all fit to be in the squad!
I would go with
wilshire ozil Ramsey cazorla fighting for the advanced and deep lying playmaker roles, with
arteta and rosicky as injury cover with a new rival to coquelin required, with flamini as injury cover.
When needed as xover cover for coquelin he should be less gung hoe than someone like Ramsey /
wilshire, more energetic than
arteta and less of a risk than gabriel, chambers and hayden.
Arteta and rosicky could find that age finally catches up with them, whilst big big offers for the injury prone Walcott and
wilshire might be just too good to turn down.
So many players have played so few matches, ospina, debuchy, gibbs, monreal, bellerin, coquelin,
arteta, rosicky,
wilshire, Ramsey, ozil, campbell, Walcott, giroud, diaby, gnabry.
Arteta has been poor this season he has kept his passing still quality but he averages the highest amount of fouls at arsenal along with yellows and only second to jack
wilshire in tackle success rate.6.5 / 10
At 2 - 1 up we really should have sacrificed one of our attacking players perhaps the hardworking
wilshire or ramsey and bring on an
Arteta or someone defense minded to park the proverbial bus.
sz bellerin mert koz gibbs
arteta wilshire ox cazorla campbell welbeck... welbeck is knocking on the door + we do nt have any other strikers (sanchez will be too tired with his huge work rate + we need him for nxt weekend)
Giroud and
arteta can also play those two roles whilst, sanchez Welbeck akpom Walcott gnabry rosicky
wilshire diaby would thrive in the other positions.
Arteta diaby ramsey
wilshire rosicky chamberlain and cazorla ozil are already back or are soon, meaning 9 midfielders.
can u imagine if it pains us to see wenger playing ozil on L, sanchez on bench and
wilshire &
arteta in the middle, what the players must be thinking / feeling???? what must campbell or roziscky be thinking as their skills waste away?
The current squad will looks like Szczesney ospina martinez Jenkinson debuchy Gabriel Mertesacker koscielny gibbs monreal
Arteta flamini Coquelin ramsey
wilshire diaby rosicky cazorla ozil chamberlain Walcott welbeck sanchez Campbell giroud podolski ryo wellington sanogo
Flaming and
Arteta are NOT up to scratch any more and old glass ankles (
wilshire) is back in the usual situation.
schzney is rubbish, chambers is just potential, mertersacker rubbish, monreal played out of position but in his favorite position hes rubbish, gibbs rubbish he should be in his peak years now but hes rubbish and a downgrade to the likes of cole, clichy of recent times,
wilshire has potential, ramsey has potential, chamberland has potential,
arteta rubbish, cazorla has digressed, welbeck potential, giroud rubbish starter decent sub, the only 3 players i believe would get into any team in the world is alexis ozil, walcott and maybe koschilney.
He could have played a few games instead of Sanogoal.On top of that I guess that you must agree with Mr Wenger that Montreal is a CB, Ozil is a LW,
Arteta is a DM, and that
wilshire is our number 10.
Khedira12m dm The obvious choice, he has a presence on the pitch he can sit and defend better than
arteta and he has the ability to drive forward powerfully like
wilshire but he is of a sturdier build.
Howeverfor the front 6 positions it is already competitive, coquelin flamini
arteta cazorla Ramsey
wilshire rosicky ozil chamberlain Welbeck Walcott giroud already means 12 players fighting for 6 positions but add to that hayden, bielik, zelalem, gnabry, wellington, campbell, iwobi adelaide and akpom.
If we go at it with our best 18 as often as possible, cech, bellerin, Gabriel, koscielny, Monreal, coquelin, cazorla, chamberlain, ozil, alexis, Walcott, ospina, Debuchy, mertesacker,
wilshire, Ramsey, Welbeck, giroud, then use the likes of Macey, gibbs, chambers,
arteta, flamini, rosicky and campbell to cover injury and suspensions only then we will not fare too badly.
You can be sure that if
wilshire, flamini and even
arteta were on the pitch there would have been a little more bite.
Arsenal — Szczesney ozil sanchez Ramsey
wilshire chamberlain rosicky cazorla podolski Walcott campbell chambers koscielny mertesacker debuchy diaby gibbs monreal
arteta giroud flamini ospina
Similarly our «front 5» options of ozil sanchez walcott giroud cazorla Ramsey
wilshire rosicky chamberlain
arteta welbeck gnabry akpom campbell podolski zelalem sanogo give us some real depth, but we severely lack that World class striker, that title winning teams always seem to have.
The xll has improved Sanchez is an upgrade at cf, Theo is an upgrade from his previous version, mustafi is an upgrade from per Xhaka + elneny >
arteta + Flamini Iwobi + Perez adds depth > inj Rosicky +
wilshire
now, here's the real problem.if wenger buys vidal, kondobgia or schnederline, or any b2b player, then he will be buying a first 11 player... both
wilshire ramsey carzola and
arteta play in that position..
wilshire or
arteta or whoever plays the deeper role moves up the field too much leaving our back 4 exposed.
presuming our starting 11 is schz dubuch mert kos gibs
arteta ramsey ozil walcot alexis giroud so we have now 7 subs ospina have to have a defender so chambers or monreal 5 players left cazorla
wilshire rosisky ox campball that is our 7 subs soo the following players wont even make it to match day squad monreal flamini diaby cocqualin podalski sonogo gnasbry please add if i missed any out
We also seem to be lacking the midfield creator, (
arteta,
wilshire or ramsey).
Coquelin cazorla Giroud ozil sanchez and welbeck is proving to be a superb «front 6» so much so that
arteta flamini
wilshire Ramsey chamberlain rosicky and walcott appear to be looking at the bench at best.
It's now up to the likes of Walcott, ozil, flamini, campbell and eventually welbeck
wilshire and
arteta when they return to show they can play that game, otherwise they will struggle to find a way back in.
if wenger only belived in rotation, we have enough for two teams but he has to trust the bench Team Red against man city: sczczc debuchy koz mert gibbs flam ramsey walcott ozil campbell sanchez ==== Team Yellow against dortmund: ospina / sc chambers koz mert monreal
arteta wilshire ox cazorla podolski * sanogo * only the positions marked * in team Yellow are marked dropoffs in quality from team Red (shows where we have to buy, esp since we have 5 competitions and injury - prone players) we could mix those players so they only are on for 60 min.
u21 * St giroud (Lacazette) Lf Sanchez, welbeck Rf Walcott, ox *, w.silva Am ozil, santi, Rosicky Cm Ramsey,
wilshire Dm (Vidal), coqulan,
arteta Lb Monreal, gibbs Cb mertesacker, chambers * Cb koscielney, gabriel Rb debuchy, bellerin * Gk (cech), ospina
But we have problems with soft tissue injuries, this season already we have missed
wilshire, Ramsey,
arteta, flamini, sanogo, gnabry, chamberlain, monreal, gibbs to these type of injuries.
Let's not forget for all our injuries of late, we now only have coquelin,
wilshire, Welbeck, Walcott, rosicky and
arteta currently unavailable.
Arteta, flamini, Ramsey,
wilshire, rosicky, Ramsey, diaby, galindo, cazorla, ozil, chamberlain, coquelin
cam = ozil, rosicky (zalelem) box2box = ramsey,
wilshire deep cm = cazorla,
arteta cdm = coqulan, flamini (bielek)
Have to say though I am starting to worry about
arteta and flamini's lack of pace as well as
wilshire and Ramsey becoming the new diaby.
It's just a shame our back up.trio of
arteta, Ramsey and
wilshire are all injured.
Try mu get schneiderlin arsene decides to stick with coquelin,
arteta, flamini,
wilshire and bielek!
For the main striker role I would have a choice welbeck giroud and sanogo the 6 wide players would be Walcott chamberlain gnabry sanchez podolski campbell and the 9 central players fighting for 3 slots would be ozil cazorla rosicky
wilshire ramsey diaby coquelin flamini and
arteta.
Our double pivot and no. 10 role next season will be contested by coquelin, cazorla,
wilshire, Ramsey, chamberlain, ozil, flamini,
arteta, rosicky, zelalem, bielik, hayden and chambers.
Henderson is ever improving, but nowhere near world class
wilshire Ramsey
arteta are all better than him so he would be challenging Rosicky, flamini on the bench
In midfield
arteta, rosicky may have seen their age finally catch up.with them whilst Walcott and
wilshire injuries must be of concern and a combined fee of around # 50m for the pair may be too good to.turn down.
Here is my list of players from the 29 that can be sold released or loan, which will bring the over 21 year old first team squad down to just 21 players Szczesney Martinez Macey Debuchy Flamini
Arteta Rosicky Sanogo This then gives us space for 4 new signings, personally I think that would be enough if we go with this squad for next season Cech ospina Huddart (under 21) Jenkinson Bellerin (u21) New signining, Mertesacker Koscielny Gabriel Monreal Gibbs New signing Coquelin chambers (u21) Elneny
wilshire ramsey New Signing, walcott, chamberlain Ozil, iwobi (u21) toral (u21) Alexis, Campbell, Wellington New signing, Welbeck, giroud
Don't play ramsey,
wilshire and
arteta together.
arteta rosicky diaby and song showing our young guns of frimpong coquelin
wilshire ramsey lansbury yennaris eisfeld ozyakup henderson and aneke the way would be superb.