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Granit Xhaka OUT!, Mustafi, I loved your initial spirit but Mustafi OUT! we need a DM, not a gaping hole in the midfield, & Captain Kosceilny & the BFG have been great for the club, its time to move FOWARD!!!
we need Some real Steel in the mid field
& Defense, our attack is awesome enough, & we have enough make shift non-defensive midfielders that we can sell a few
& Bring in some Leaders for Rob Holding, Miles, Mavrapanos & Iwobi to FIGHT next to man.
Bring back that unbeaten mentality & strength of defense that we had before,
I'd even take a relatively unknown young manager whose done it like Wenger did in Japan before most of the world knew what an amazing mind & gentleman he was and is!
The Signings of Sven & that Braca guy gives me hope that the board are starting to move younger and smarter, faster with transfers & business,
If only they'd let Usmanov dish out some cash, we'd be challenging sooner, anyway, COYG!!!

The Big German f***ing?

The defensive signings and decline of organisation have been Wenger & Bolds fault,

Sven & Co I hear are looking to adress the DEFENSE & DEFENSIVE Midfied positions 1st, which is exactly what we need

& they believe our attack is more than good enough, which I Concur.

Heres to hoping they respectly step down the gentlemanly old guards, and those other guys ( Mustafi & Xhaka need to go IMMEDIATELY)

& We bring in some no nonsense 1-0 to the Arsenal REAL, & strong young but experienced defensive minds.

& we keep Wengers best youths to fight for their place next to them! Iwobi ( gona do something nice this World Cup just you watch!)
Miles, Holding, Mavrapanos & hopefully Mandela if you catch my drift!

Essential that whatever happens this summer we bring in a top-class centre-back who can come in and be the main man in our defence immediately. Koscielny's injury has made it even more imperative but his powers have been on the wane for some time. I'd like to see what the next manager can do with Mustafi - someone like Allegri could make him a far better defender than what we've seen so far, I feel - and then we'd have Chambers and one of Holding/ Mavropanos to add some depth, with the other going out on loan. I'd like to see Holding go out personally as I think he needs a full season playing regularly in the Premier League, much like Chambers did at Middlesbrough.

With the right manager appointed we should hopefully better performances from all the defenders but a quality addition needs to be made as well.

UFGN wrote:The Big German f***ing?

yuh done know!!! Captain Tortoise, like Wenger a true gentleman, good representative for kids etc,

but yeah, he still has a sharp defensive mind, but not the body to position himself and or speed like Koscielny, who has been excellent

I remember him emptying Lewandowski from his pocket after Bayern came to play one time,

not to mention Costa's kindness in shielding his eyes from the Sun in our penalty area.

The Kos was such a gentleman that he let him do that without rearanging his face, understanding that Costa is just a bully, ignored him like a fly

Did his job to the point the Rod Holding Mirrored his mental & physicla strength against Costa in that FA Cup final.

Ahh nice times, thanks Wenger, but its time to move on, Kos has retired from international, the BFG also, we need a new defense that

carry on the torch that these great men have for the recent;y acquired youth.

UFGN wrote:The Big German f***ing?

Wow...I now see the mistake man, Have no idea how to change it, I'll check that out! lol tks!!!

BFG!!!

Just making a new topic (with the proper Per Acronym- thanks UFGN 4 pointing that out!) with the same starting post, don't want to be spamming, I invite you guys to check it out, get the AST trust involved and other fans too so we can make Arsenal stronger bit by bit, everything takes time!

-ORIGINAL POST-
Granit Xhaka OUT!, Mustafi, I loved your initial spirit but Mustafi OUT! we need a DM, not a gaping hole in the midfield, & Captain Kosceilny & the BFG have been great for the club, its time to move FOWARD!!!
we need Some real Steel in the mid field
& Defense, our attack is awesome enough, & we have enough make shift non-defensive midfielders that we can sell a few
& Bring in some Leaders for Rob Holding, Miles, Mavrapanos & Iwobi to FIGHT next to man.
Bring back that unbeaten mentality & strength of defense that we had before,
I'd even take a relatively unknown young manager whose done it like Wenger did in Japan before most of the world knew what an amazing mind & gentleman he was and is!
The Signings of Sven & that Braca guy gives me hope that the board are starting to move younger and smarter, faster with transfers & business,
If only they'd let Usmanov dish out some cash, we'd be challenging sooner, anyway, COYG!!!

(NB: I apologize about the miss spelling of Captain Per Mertesacker's honorable acronym, it can happen again, were only human, but I do apologize!)

You know you could of just edited this threads title, no?

I believe the successive 5-1 defeats to Bayern (3 back2back) & the successive 3-0 defeats to Man City (2 back2back) ,

these are painful tangible records that scream the need for a new defensive guard, when Thomas Müller hasn't scored a goal whole season practically,

& he comes on for the 1st time in ages for the return leg at home, yet he's unmarked for the 5th goal, a simple header or tap in.

Mousa Dembele made to look like Makélélé by passing through our whole side in the Last NDL at white Hart Lane

all because we didnt move at all to get a younger faster, smart substitution for Santi Carzola, who partnered awesomely with Le Coq.

Xhaka & Mustafi have not lived up to their expectations or namesake, Mustafi is a World Cup winner, was an Awesome sweeper in parnership with Cap Kos

but when Bellerin, Mustafi & Le Coq got injured, they never regained confidence, maybe with a new manager and DEFENSIVE COACH, they may move smart

like Kante & miraculously NEVER GET INJURED!...I don;t know how he does it??? must have something to do with not playing for Arsenal?... ... .. ... ..

I'll find the way.

I would be very surprised if Mustafi is going anywhere as much as some want him replaced, firstly do Arsenal have the funds to replace most of the defensive areas that need improving, I doubt it, besides I think some players such as Mustafi/Xhaka should get 1 more season under a new manager to see if they improve.

At most I think we will get just 1 top CB to replace the injured Koscielny.
A new keeper
And either a new LB/RB option.
Hopefully a DM as well

Arsenalthebest wrote:I would be very surprised if Mustafi is going anywhere as much as some want him replaced, firstly do Arsenal have the funds to replace most of the defensive areas that need improving, I doubt it, besides I think some players such as Mustafi/Xhaka should get 1 more season under a new manager to see if they improve.

At most I think we will get just 1 top CB to replace the injured Koscielny.
A new keeper
And either a new LB/RB option.
Hopefully a DM as well

Nope, Nope, Nope, I will not accept the current low standards Arsenal has you mind in.

Xhaka is not a DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDER, not a general, nothing close to a Matic or Ngolo KANTE.

we used to have Vieira

we used to have Alex Song

we used to have Francis Coquelin

these guys are Real defensive midfielders, with a keen mind, that can deconstruct an attack, steal a ball from an attacker in flight

regain possession & start an attack immediately!!!

Almost 100% of the time, when Kante steals a ball, regains possesion, the next pass is ALWAYS, ALWAYS to a Chelsea blue shirt!!!

Without fail, never has a bad match in terms of spirit or errant play.

Xhaka has misplaced so many passes in his Arsenal career that we should charge him with Purgery,

[ but it Wenger who bought a box2box midfielder & tried to convert him into a DM...]

& he doesn't tackle, or regain posession,

In the end of the day we need STEEL a General in the midfield, a genuine leader and smart tactical defensive midfielder this summer!

God pls bring us one or two!!!

Alex Song? Real defensive midfielder?

Luzh 22 wrote:Alex Song? Real defensive midfielder?

Come on, why did Barca buy him, to look pretty or to add some STEEL to their midfield of tici taca tic tacs!

Song, Diaby and almost every good player at Arsenal gets injured and comes out the other end, not so good...

Bellerin, Mustafi, Francis Coquelin, these guys were looking great, in their respective positions & partnerships

1 Arsenal injury on the field or in TRAINING & then all down hill.

[ Ngolo Kante has almost never been injured, yet he is the best DM i've seen in recent times, so intelligent with his interceptions, not even injuring his victims,

he pick pockets the ball off them, have them searching for it like if someone just jacked their wallet a few seconds ago on in crowded street]

those brains, a lil youth, better coaching staff, these are things i'd like see change this Summer and Jan transfer window! God willing!