Winter Transfer Speculation

Guys, do bear in mind that Ramsey's been parterned with Flamini for this run in, who's hardly the best DM around right now. I think you'd see a better Ramsey alongside Coquelin, who offers more discpline and defensive security.

Central midfield is often about parternerships and understandings. It's clear that combined Flamini and Ramsey doesn't work well in games where you need to dictate tempo, however that doesn't mean Ramsey/Coquelin or Ramsey/Elneny couldn't. So let's not completely dismiss Ramsey's chances of seizing the future CM berth especially considering his beast mode form he displayed there a couple of years ago.

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Originally Posted by The Emirates Gallactico

Guys, do bear in mind that Ramsey's been parterned with Flamini for this run in, who's hardly the best DM around right now. I think you'd see a better Ramsey alongside Coquelin, who offers more discpline and defensive security.

Central midfield is often about parternerships and understandings. It's clear that combined Flamini and Ramsey doesn't work well in games where you need to dictate tempo, however that doesn't mean Ramsey/Coquelin or Ramsey/Elneny couldn't. So let's not completely dismiss Ramsey's chances of seizing the future CM berth especially considering his beast mode form he displayed there a couple of years ago.

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True. Hopefully he’s better with someone else in the middle. But he’s had similar problems when playing with Arteta and Wilshere. It’s a worry.

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Originally Posted by The Emirates Gallactico

Guys, do bear in mind that Ramsey's been parterned with Flamini for this run in, who's hardly the best DM around right now. I think you'd see a better Ramsey alongside Coquelin, who offers more discpline and defensive security.

Central midfield is often about parternerships and understandings. It's clear that combined Flamini and Ramsey doesn't work well in games where you need to dictate tempo, however that doesn't mean Ramsey/Coquelin or Ramsey/Elneny couldn't. So let's not completely dismiss Ramsey's chances of seizing the future CM berth especially considering his beast mode form he displayed there a couple of years ago.

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Ramsey will be our CM for sometime now. Wenger likes him as a player, that much is clear and with Cazorla out, getting older etc he'll be looking for a longterm solution. I think he'll always find room for Ramsey in the starting line-up if he's fit and available. I'm looking forward to seeing if he can partner up with Le Coq effectively once he is back. The whole Cazorla idea in CM was a good one for a while but never one to keep going for a season after season.

Has he ever started a game alongside Coq in the centre?

Cazorla has played pretty much non-stop over the last year.

What's all this hullabaloo about Ramsey? We all know if Barca come knocking he's gone, so for those who think he's world class (as risible a claim as any other) and want him to stay, best hope it's just a baseless rumour and nothing else.

Totally agree, if Barca are interested and do come in for him we haven't a hope of keeping him here, they're one of the biggest clubs in the world, play great football, have some of the best footballers on the planet and put football before anything else.

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Originally Posted by Özim

Totally agree, if Barca are interested and do come in for him we haven't a hope of keeping him here, they're one of the biggest clubs in the world, play great football, have some of the best footballers on the planet and put football before anything else.

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Your "reasonableness" is actually making you anti-Arsenal. Do you realise that?

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Originally Posted by The Emirates Gallactico

Guys, do bear in mind that Ramsey's been parterned with Flamini for this run in, who's hardly the best DM around right now. I think you'd see a better Ramsey alongside Coquelin, who offers more discpline and defensive security.

Central midfield is often about parternerships and understandings. It's clear that combined Flamini and Ramsey doesn't work well in games where you need to dictate tempo, however that doesn't mean Ramsey/Coquelin or Ramsey/Elneny couldn't. So let's not completely dismiss Ramsey's chances of seizing the future CM berth especially considering his beast mode form he displayed there a couple of years ago.

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Lee Dixon was doing the commentary during City mtach and literally the whole game he was so annoyed at how Ramsey completely left Flamini exposed.

Its just not the discpline, his distrubition when playing as part central is not good. Too many wayward and hospital balls. Still takes too much time on the ball.

He's simply not that good in that role, too many flaws.

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Originally Posted by Jimmy_Saville

Your "reasonableness" is actually making you anti-Arsenal. Do you realise that?

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:lol: Just stating facts, we can't compete with Barca for many reasons, but in the end we don't see to be trying very hard despite the promises before we built the stadium about wanting to compete with the best.

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Originally Posted by Master Splinter

Has he ever started a game alongside Coq in the centre?

Cazorla has played pretty much non-stop over the last year.

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First game of the season against West Ham. In theory Ramsey & Coq should be a fairly decent partnership, though we do lose a lot of creativity without some like Santi/Jack in the middle.

After that defeat to West Ham Ramsey was put back on the wings.