Clichy has left. And Nasri in talks with Citeh.

[server too busy!]

Why are we selling to our rivals, we don't need the money so why not kart him off abroad.

[Power n Glory]

Especially the part I've highlighted, if Cesc, Clichy & Nasri leave I cannot see how folks on here can be happy unless we replace them with established quality, preferably PL based players.

This is like performing open heart surgey, brain surgery, and a kidney transplant at the same time. Even if this makes the team better in the long run, we've cut the team deep and it will take a long time for us to recover. No team should lose three of their first team starters in one transfer window. It's like Man U losing Rooney, Nani and Evra in one window. It's like Chelsea losing Lampard, Cole and Malouda.

I hope this doesn't happen. Most teams would just buy a replacement and have competition for places. We never do this. Too many changes to the first team is dangerous. We just saw how poor our defence was this year and that was partly because they had no Prem experience and had never played together. Wenger knows the key to success is stability, so what is he playing at?

I'm not holding my breath on those new world class signings either. Look how long it has taken us to tue down a deal with Gervinho. The guy is £10m -£15m rated player and we go in with a bid worth £7m! He just helped his team win the French league. They're not going to accept that. When it comes to spending serious money on a serious player we'll get blown out of the water.

[selassie]

you can use hindsight to criticsie anything. the point is at the time and for quite a while afterwards people were more than happy with him as a replacement. that view has only changed in the past couple of years.

I'm not really criticising, just stating facts, Clichy has never played at Cole's level so therefore Cole has not been adequately replaced.

[Alan B'stard]

I'm trying to think of arsenal players who have gone to man city in any capacity and actually been good there.

So far I have

1) Joe Mercer.

and thats it.

Alan Ball: shit
Toure shit. Fat.
Adebayor. Shit. cunt
seaman: past it
PLatt: shit
Clichy: shit
Anelka: shit. cunt

[Ollie the Optimist]

But he wasn't a good enough replacement for Cole was he? Therein lies the problem.

Arsene never ever adequately replaces players immediately.

i disagree, in the first few seasons after cole, he was fantastic, was one of our top players. last season and one before was when he went to shit

[Cripps_orig]

But he wasn't a good enough replacement for Cole was he? Therein lies the problem.

Arsene never ever adequately replaces players immediately.

This

Cos of the way Cole left us, we all got behind Clichy and supported him 100% and his shiteness was overlooked.

However season in and season out of Wenger failures meant the fans have lost trust and patience in the cunt meaning any shiteness is not not overlooked and instead highlighted

[selassie]

i disagree, in the first few seasons after cole, he was fantastic, was one of our top players. last season and one before was when he went to shit

Fine that's your opinion. Cole has widely been regarded as one of the best left backs in the world for quite some time, a good few seasons when he was our player.

Clichy? Whilst I agree he did fairly well for a few seasons after Cole left he never ever got close to playing at his level.

[Kano]

Fine that's your opinion. Cole has widely been regarded as one of the best left backs in the world for quite some time, a good few seasons when he was our player.

Clichy? Whilst I agree he did fairly well for a few seasons after Cole left he never ever got close to playing at his level.

And for a vast majority they thought he would go on to be just as good, there was no issue in the fans mind about him as a replacement. Nasri was also an adeuqate replecement for Hleb.

It's just lazy to throw a blanket statement out that he never replaces quality with similar. Gervinho would be a good replacement for Nasri - there is no one in this league that we could buy to come in and hit the ground running. The hype of Nasri is just that, so far he has shown flashes and 6 months, hardly world class.

[Master Splinter]

i disagree, in the first few seasons after cole, he was fantastic, was one of our top players. last season and one before was when he went to shit

Spot-on.

[Niall_Quinn]

Looks to me like we are trying to sabotage City's plans by lumbering them with as many of our losers as we can. Might work. Imagine if we get them in the cup final in a few years, both teams would implode and concede 20 goals in the last 5 minutes. Might be the final of the century and we could even win by accident. Definitely, sell them, it;s better than the plan we have now.