Quote Originally Posted by fakeyank View Post
Here is our midfield options- Arteta, Flamini, Rosicky, Ozil, Wilshere, Santi, Ramsey and if needed, we could use Ox, Zelalem and Frimpong. Ramsey out of that lot is out for the season.. that leaves us 6 players to play in 3 positions. Why on earth do we need another player? Let's say we do, why do we need a player who is for sure out for 6 weeks and doesnt help us in ANY way?
As for strikers... didnt Fulham sign a striker? Didnt 'money bags' Monaco get Berbatov? We needed a striker the most.. I am sure thats not debated. If Giroud is out, the back up names are atrocious! Heck, even bringing back Chamakh made more sense than getting a midfielder who has never played in england and most importantly, someone who IS injured! Might as well not have signed anyone than to wind up the fans! Kallstrom is on the level of Bischoff in terms of absolute garbage value signing.

And since you asked, who we couldve signed as striker for the short term- fulhams striker, berbatov, michu, eduardo, Vucinic or just ANY FIT striker. Sure, the names are not world class out there but they definitely make more sense than Kallstrom, an injured midfielder in his thirties playing in the Russian league. Agree?
Again with the logic. our #10 position has nothing to do with our 2 central midfield spots. For the 2 central midfield spots we have Arteta and Flamini who can cover the #6 spot and Ramsey/Wilshere who can cover the #8 spot, then Ox can do a job at the #8 spot, but its still a project, since he have never played there in his proffesional career, Rosicky can do a job at the #8 spot aswell, but certainly not for 90min. So with 3 of our 4 normal midfielders suddenly out for longer than expected in the end of January, it was the highest priority to get someone in who could cover both midfield positions, Wenger himself told us yesterday that all this happend super fast, so they had less than a day to find someone who could do a job, be cool with a 6 month loan deal and sit on the bench for most of that time. Kallström were probably the only one who fitted all those expections, when it turned out that he might be injuried, they were forced to take a gamble, since they had no time to get someone else in.

For strikers, there's probably a reason Fulham and West Ham were the only one after that guy. As much as you hate Bendtner, he's on par with or better than 3 out of those 4 you mention (same 3 being "old as fuck", the part you didnt like about Kallstrom) and Michu rather wants to play #10 role and he's injuried so that was not an option.

So please tell me again, who should we have signed instead?