the inevitable 'vital summer thread'. how many is that now? 5th year in a row?

anyway selling song and not replacing him was one of the biggest fuck ups he's ever made. its no coincidence we've been nowhere near 1st place since we sold flamini tbh, the last real DM we had, so to sell song (who papered over the cracks) and not replace him was immoral. say what you want about flamster but he was bloody effective. then we had song who was a downgrade and a pretty crap DM tbh but he still managed to become a vital cog in our team due to his responsibilities. i cant remember how many times ive said 'we need to sign a DM' but im getting sick and tired of it. arteta is no DM. he is good alongside a DM i.e. like last season. he links up play and keeps things flowing, he is not the person who should be putting his body on the line and making the crunching tackles. signing a DM would add aggression and presence in our midfield and prevent teams steam rolling us like they were doing at the start of the season.

a world class striker. if we kept van persie he'd have won us 10 extra points over the course of the season. that makes you title challengers.

a centre half if verm goes.

if sagna leaves promote cafu. realistically he aint signing a right back is he.

keep fabianski as back up he's been decent.