Coquelin injured for 3 months

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Originally Posted by fakeyank

We have very little decent back ups, and even if we do, the back ups are dead too. Think about it..

Cech? Ospina is horrible

Kos? Gabriel is good

Per? Per himself is horrible and shouldnt be playing. Anyway his back up is Chambers and he has been terrible so far

Bellerin? Debuchy has been terrible this season in his limited starts. Chambers again can play here, but he is horrible

Monreal? Gibbs is a good back up but he is injury prone

Santi? Wilshere is dead, so I dont know if thats a back up.. do we have anyone else who can play that role? May be Rosicky.. when did he play last? 1996?

Ozil? Ramsey can play there but he is injury prone and no where near the level of Ozil

Coq? Flamini and Arteta. Both horrible.. but Arteta shades in being worse than Flamini.

Sanchez? Oxlade.. oh wait, he is injured too.. and nowhere near as good as Sanchez

Giroud? Walcott.. well, he is injured too. Akpom is untested. Welbeck is dead.

Did I miss any fucker?

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Didn't I hear our squad was as good as City's a few weeks ago?

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Originally Posted by Kano

Didn't I hear our squad was as good as City's a few weeks ago?

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Our first eleven is as good as theirs. Their squad is stronger than ours.

Well our first eleven is theoretically better because how would we know? We can never get it on a pitch.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Our first eleven is as good as theirs. Their squad is stronger than ours.

Well our first eleven is theoretically better because how would we know? We can never get it on a pitch.

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City edge it for me, especially for being a more balanced unit when they are on their game. You can also identify their best eleven, we still can't decide which striker to use. And I'm still not convinced on this Cazorla thing, not sure I ever will be. But as we know, a league is won with options in the squad, which is what we don't and haven't had for quite some time.

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Originally Posted by Kano

City edge it for me, especially for being a more balanced unit when they are on their game. You can also identify their best eleven, we still can't decide which striker to use. And I'm still not convinced on this Cazorla thing, not sure I ever will be. But as we know, a league is won with options in the squad, which is what we don't and haven't had for quite some time.

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Can't understand why they didn't buy Alexis. Can you imagine him playing on the right for them? Lucky escape for the rest of the league. If they had Alexis they'd walk it. If we had Aguero - he'd be injured.

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Originally Posted by Kano

Didn't I hear our squad was as good as City's a few weeks ago?

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It is.

City's back ups arent that good either. Our players just cant stay fit.. thats our problem.

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Originally Posted by fakeyank

It is.

City's back ups arent that good either. Our players just cant stay fit.. thats our problem.

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I'm kind of with you here, I think if we kept our entire squad fit or a majority of it then we have a fairly decent squad, I think City's is marginally better but it should be considering the amount of money they have spent.

Our issue is injuries and will remain an issue until the root cause of the issue is identified.

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I'm kind of with you here, I think if we kept our entire squad fit or a majority of it then we have a fairly decent squad, I think City's is marginally better but it should be considering the amount of money they have spent.

Our issue is injuries and will remain an issue until the root cause of the issue is identified.

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Yeah, our first team isn’t bad on paper. Injuries have really taken us out of our stride. I can’t believe we’re down to the bare bones again. Not sure what’s going on behind the scenes. Shad was brought in to prevent this sort of crisis. It would be interesting to hear what his role is at the club and his involvement. We still have Tony Colbert as our fitness coach and he’s been shocking. This piece from Le Grove was written in 2009.

http://le-grove.co.uk/2009/08/12/unr...cal-nightmare/

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First things first… stop blaming the medical team. The medical team deal with the injuries that are handed to them… there is nothing they can do to prevent and injury… that job falls directly at the feet of the fitness coach. Colin Lewin and Gary O’Driscoll are exempt here.
The head of fitness goes by the name of Tony Colbert. He looks like a drill sergent and boasts the same qualifications as my friend…

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Besides fitness being an issue, our squad is also really unbalanced and the lack of motivation is shocking sometimes. The warning signs have always been there. Certain players just don’t show up and lead. I don’t know whether it’s the style of play that makes us look so uninterested along with the team selection or if we’re just coasting along. Wenger did say we were a bit guilty of the old handbrake once we scored. Why hasn’t he fixed that still? He needs to hang his head in shame along with the other senior players.

Don't think hanging their heads in shame will take us anywhere useful. Getting their shit together is what's needed. If Wenger won't go then for the sake of the club (in terms of football), the players and the fans he should bring in somebody that can help him with the coaching and the tactics. Ferguson wasn't too proud to do that so I don't see what the big deal would be. Does absolutely everything at this club have to be done Arsene's way? It won't happen but that's what should happen. Then the board could have their money man for as long as they want and the club would have somebody who could drill this team in winning rather than energy consumption. No other coach or manager in the world would have benched Cech for those CL openers.

Injuries have taken there toll to a degree but we still have first choice back four and keeper. plus our 3 most creative players. So really we are only missing right attack and defensive midfielder. So things we should be able to cope with. Injuries aren't the reason why we lost to West Brom.

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City edge it for me, especially for being a more balanced unit when they are on their game. You can also identify their best eleven, we still can't decide which striker to use. And I'm still not convinced on this Cazorla thing, not sure I ever will be. But as we know, a league is won with options in the squad, which is what we don't and haven't had for quite some time.

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Got to agree think City have the edge, Aguero is that player who can produce a goal out of nothing and is the standout player and importantly a striker, we don't have that.

He was a bargain of a signing, shame we never had the money to buy him when he became available, having said that we'd have probably past up the opportunity knowing us, just like we do with most strikers.