Our lack of quality in central midfield

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Originally Posted by Grimandi's Perm

Joker :lol:

Most appropriately named poster ever?

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Apart from myself.

Last 10 games

Won 4 Drawn 2 Lost 4

Mid table form and thats where we are heading

Our midfield is as bad as it gets for a team supposedly going for a CL place. Mediocre players = a mediocre team

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Originally Posted by Ach

Last 10 games

Won 4 Drawn 2 Lost 4

Mid table form and thats where we are heading

Our midfield is as bad as it gets for a team supposedly going for a CL place. Mediocre players = a mediocre team

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Luckily for us, everyone else below us is more shit.

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Originally Posted by LDG

Luckily for us, everyone else below us is more shit.

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Thats a positive for sure.

We wont finish lower than 6th or higher than 5th.

Between us and Liverpool for those 2 places. Just hope 6th is good enough for a Europa League spot

Ramsey, Song and Arteta aren't mediocre players. They are decent, but not good enough to win the big prizes. Good enough to nab 4th for us though, within our reach finacially (considering Wenger is tasked with making a profit in the transfer window every year). Who could we bring in this month - realistically?

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Originally Posted by MaxPeck

I don't think there is a big midfield issue. I still think the main issue is finding a couple of finishers to backup RvP. This situation has not changed in years. We have got the ball to the opposition box without too much trouble over the last few years but apart from RvP, we just don't have people to finish the job off. If we could put away just a few more of our chances over the year, we would be challenging for the title every year. It's that last few yards that is our downfall.

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Other years though I think we've been scoring far more from midfield with people like Nasri and Cesc doing well. We don't have that now. We do need another striker who can actually put the ball in the net but we need the midfielders to be chipping in too.

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Originally Posted by Ach

Thats a positive for sure.

We wont finish lower than 6th or higher than 5th.

Between us and Liverpool for those 2 places. Just hope 6th is good enough for a Europa League spot

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We'll struggle for fourth, if we don't sign someone to stick the ball in the back of the net, or can't get a pair of fit fullbacks....yup.

Nothing to do with the midfield 3 though. Wilshere coming back will be just fine thanks.

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we need the midfielders to be chipping in too

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Save the fancy stuff for later, just getting them to shoot straight is the primary requirement.

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Originally Posted by Ach

Thats a positive for sure.

We wont finish lower than 6th or higher than 5th.

Between us and Liverpool for those 2 places. Just hope 6th is good enough for a Europa League spot

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we were in the top four yesterday, we are out of it by a point now. we are still massively in with a chance of getting there at end of season. we still have to play united, scum, city, chavs and they all coming to ours, get points out of that lot and we will be up there. we are not out of the race now, not by a long shot. to be where we are now, given where we were in august is brilliant, wenger deserves a lot of credit and so do the players but we have to push on. yesterday was a crap game but now most of the team will be rested for leeds i expect so thats two weeks off, we must hope they come back rested and ready to push on.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Ramsey, Song and Arteta aren't mediocre players. They are decent, but not good enough to win the big prizes. Good enough to nab 4th for us though, within our reach finacially (considering Wenger is tasked with making a profit in the transfer window every year). Who could we bring in this month - realistically?

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Song isnt. He has shown his quality over the years and im happy with him in the team. Hes just off form at the minute. Shame he isnt going to the ACON so we can put Coq in and see how he does with a run in the team. Arteta in his peak at Everton was an above average player. Hes well past his peak now and been pretty Denilsonesque for us. Ramsey is just poor. His injury as it did with Eduardo, Diaby and by the looks of it Wilshere made him better than he is in the eyes of fans.

Unfortunately Arteta is the level of the player we are trying to sign these days. The top players wont come to us or a joke of a manager anymore