Former Players Views

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Kenny Sansom has told talkSPORT Arsenal have to buy before the end of the transfer window.

The Gunners were hammered 8-2 by Manchester United on Sunday afternoon, their worst defeat for more than 100 years.

And the calls are now growing for Arsene Wenger to splash the cash to put things right.

“Wenger’s got to buy. The next three days are very important for Arsenal”Kenny Sansom


Sansom told the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast: “He’s got to buy. The next three days are very important for Arsenal. If he doesn’t sign players it will be a long tough season. The fans are arguing about whether Wenger should stay or go and you don’t want that.

“If he’s got money to spend, let the club make a statement to say that. Everyone knew Nasri and Fabregsas were going to go, so buy before they go. Once you let them go, who’s going to want to come?

“Arsenal need a leader. The youngsters need some experience around them.”

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http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-ne...ys-are-crucial

Finally, Kenny chips in. That's everyone ever connected with the club, then. All stating the obvious, saying the same thing. Except Wenger and the board.

Fuck experiance tbh. All of our experianced players where shit yesterday. Nor did united have much of it on the pitch. We're lacking quality.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Like he'd never played at the top level before. Like it was his first match. He played totally independently of Kos and left Jenkinson totally isolated. We might not have the best (or even any) defensive coaches but there's no way he has been taught to play like that. He must have taken it on himself to put in such a shit performance. Whatever, he can't be allowed to play again. That's three absolute untouchables we have in the squad, him, Squid and nobody up front.

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Said to my mate if we didn't know any better, these might as well have been players that we rounded up from the park earlier. It didn't even look like Welbeck was fighting to hold Djourou off as he nipped in.

Real pub team stuff and I'm sure it won't be the last we see of things like that.

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/...l-up-andMartin Keowns view

Smudgers article in the Telegraph Todayl

He does make for some good points

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Former Arsenal manager George Graham has questioned why it took Arsene Wenger until deadline day to bring in reinforcements.

The Gunners lost Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri earlier in the transfer window as the pair left for Barcelona and Manchester City, respectively. The north London club were also subjected to a humiliating 8-2 defeat at Old Trafford, and only after that did the Frenchman bring in Mikel Arteta, Yossi Benayoun, Per Mertesacker and Andre Santos - on deadline day.

"If you take Arsenal, they have signed three good internationals in Mikel Arteta, Per Mertesacker and Yossi Benayoun," said Graham, according to The Sunday Mirror.

"But Arsenal fans must wonder why these players were not bought way before the transfer window closed.

"I am not criticising Arsene Wenger. Not at all. I am just curious as to why it was left so late. That applies to all managers – not just Arsene.

"Everyone knew their first three fixtures ahead of the start of the season back at the beginning of July.

"You just wonder why the signings weren’t made a month ago.

"Maybe, in the case of Arsene, he was able to take his pick of unknown players when he first arrived here because of his knowledge of the world game.

"Patrick Vieira – who had heard of him at AC Milan?

"Thierry Henry was having a bad time at Juventus. Arsene made them both world-class performers.

"But people have now caught up and maybe that has *hindered him.

"All I am saying is that those three players must have been available two months ago and yet nothing happened.

"Instead, Arsenal had to go to Old Trafford with a really weak team."

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http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/...de-a-month-ago

Arteta isn't an international player, George.

And to me it's fairly easy to work out why; we weren't definitely in the Champions League a month ago.

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Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...

Arteta isn't an international player, George.

And to me it's fairly easy to work out why; we weren't definitely in the Champions League a month ago.

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I wouldn't say it like that. It looked like we panicked to be fair. I don't think we've bought the type of players that would only insist on a move until we've qualified for the Champs League.

Yep, I guess there's an element of panic buying, although not in the truest sense of buying for the sake of it, as we got in players we know about with the attributes we needed; we were after other targets (i think bids for Mvila and Goetze have been confirmed) although I still don't know why the fuck we had to wait until we were humiliated to get some action going.