Arsenal Sign Per Mertesacker

[Letters]

As slow as a barge, not particular good at defending...the only thing he has going for him is his height.

I'll be honest and say I don't understand this signing, height is great but a player has to be good at what he does too.

You can't trust Wenger with defenders though, just look at the cr*p he's signed.

And yet you rate Cahill who has a whopping 3 caps for England and has played for Bolton for years without any interest from England or Europe's top sides.

[Coney]

*Bam*

[Özim]

And yet you rate Cahill who has a whopping 3 caps for England and has played for Bolton for years without any interest from England or Europe's top sides.

It's not the amount of caps it's how they perform.

Cahill has proved he's good playing for a lesser side in England just because he doens't have 75 caps it doesn't matter.

Ian Wright never got that many caps for England but look how good he was.

I've only got bad memories of Mertersacker, going back 5 years.

[Letters]

It's not the amount of caps it's how they perform.

Cahill has proved he's good playing for a lesser side in England just because he doens't have 75 caps it doesn't matter.

Well, it says something about him that no big clubs have come in for Cahill and he's not a regular for England.
The fact Mertersacker is such a regular for Germany says to me that they think he performs quite well. And frankly, Germany are a much better international side than we are.

Let's see how he does, at least he's tall and we've all thought for years our team is too small. It may help with the infamous set piece problem.

[Coney]

Well, it says something about him that no big clubs have come in for Cahill and he's not a regular for England.
The fact Mertersacker is such a regular for Germany says to me that they think he performs quite well. And frankly, Germany are a much better international side than we are.

Let's see how he does, at least he's tall and we've all thought for years our team is too small. It may help with the infamous set piece problem.

And being a kraut, he will be handy in the event of a pelanty shoot-out.

[Daniele]

Imagine you are a club that don't watch and read the English media. who would you get?

Mertesacker, 26, 2 WC played, 75 caps in the German national team which reached the top 4 both times

or

Cahill, 25, 3 caps in the England national team, no WC, no CL experience, playing for Bolton.

?

[Syn]

Imagine you are a club that don't watch and read the English media. who would you get?Mertesacker, 26, 2 WC played, 75 caps in the German national team which reached the top 4 both times orCahill, 25, 3 caps in the England national team, no WC, no CL experience, playing for Bolton.?

Yup. I said it before and I'll say it again - I don't get the fuss about Cahill. He's good, but some here are making him sound like the fucking messi of centre backs.

[The Wengerbabies]

Finally we sign a decent centre half.

[selassie]

This potentially is a very good piece of business. I do worry about Mertesacker's lack of pace but he's a proper Centre Half with bags of experience. He's quite young too.

He could potentially form an excellent partnership with Tommy V.