Alexis Sanchez (official).

[Niall_Quinn]

Again, in January you said we only needed 2 players. Why now do we suddenly need the whole team replacing? There isn't much wrong with the squad, there's a lot wrong with the team. A good coach can fix that. You're giving Wenger too much 'credit' if you think he can make them bad players. And why are you talking about Chelsea again? I gave another example of a team transformed by a different manager and they were nowhere near as good as Chelsea.

We've needed a striker and a decent midfielder for years, that's no great revelation. What does that have to do with the shambolic collapse of the entire squad over the past months? Plenty of players have shown they aren't up for a fight and plenty more have shown they are second rate in the starkest terms. They've had the most part of a season to prove they are fit to wear the shirt. Most of them have failed to provide that proof. Half of them are second rate Wenger shite anyway, players that wouldn't get within a mile of a serious title contender.

[Özim]

We need a squad overhaul for sure, really this bunch aren't up to much, no fight, no desire to win and in a lot of them it's deeply ingrained as they've grown up at Arsenal.

Bring a new manager and start again IMO, new style, new tactics, new players who aren't brainwashed into playing tippy tappy.

[Globalgunner]

Its a pity that Leonard Nimoy is no longer with us. A Vulcan mind meld may be required to flush the crap mentality out of cherubs like Ramsey and Walcott. The Wenger is strong in those 2. As for Ozil, a Joe 90 brain transplant is the only solution. Apologies to those who were not kids in the 70s. You may have to google it.

[Niall_Quinn]

Its a pity that Leonard Nimoy is no longer with us. A Vulcan mind meld may be required to flush the crap mentality out of cherubs like Ramsey and Walcott. The Wenger is strong in those 2. As for Ozil, a Joe 90 brain transplant is the only solution. Apologies to those who were not kids in the 70s. You may have to google it.

It wasn't actually a brain transplant. It was recorded and transplanted brain impulses delivered via the BIG RAT and accessed via his specially adapted, trendy 60s style glasses, a style that kids then went on to get beaten up for wearing in the 80s. Important to give the newer generation full and accurate details, I think. Great show. The only thing I didn't like about it was the lacks of gays, lesbians and transgenders. I don't think a single one was cast in the entire show's run. Different times, outlandish bigotry was sort of accepted back in those days.

[Globalgunner]

It wasn't actually a brain transplant. It was recorded and transplanted brain impulses delivered via the BIG RAT and accessed via his specially adapted, trendy 60s style glasses, a style that kids then went on to get beaten up for wearing in the 80s. Important to give the newer generation full and accurate details, I think. Great show. The only thing I didn't like about it was the lacks of gays, lesbians and transgenders. I don't think a single one was cast in the entire show's run. Different times, outlandish bigotry was sort of accepted back in those days.

Not to worry mate Dr who is riding in to save the day. Another bastion of my youth. Sesame st has also gone all inclusive. Oscar the grouch must be positively livid.

[Letters]

We need a squad overhaul for sure

No, we don't.

really this bunch aren't up to much, no fight, no desire to win and in a lot of them it's deeply ingrained as they've grown up at Arsenal.

Have they? How many of our regular starters have actually grown up at Arsenal? Ox has and he's one of the few players that some on here have credited with having some fight.
Quite a few of our players have come in relatively recently and won plenty of trophies elsewhere. And suddenly they all need replacing?

Bring a new manager and start again IMO, new style, new tactics, new players who aren't brainwashed into playing tippy tappy.

Brainwashed
You're saying a good coach couldn't come in and change our style with the same players? Wenger did, we were "boring boring Arsenal" when he joined (arguably we are again now, in a different way) and he completely changed the way we played without replacing the entire squad from day one. Good players, and we have plenty of those, can adapt. And if you don't think we have good players then why complain that we're not title contenders? My disappointment this season is because I think we have a squad which should challenge, but we're not.

We need a new manager and a couple of additions to the squad. That's all.

[Letters]

We've needed a striker and a decent midfielder for years, that's no great revelation.

No, it isn't. So I agree, we need a couple of new players.

The collapse is the last in a line of a series of collapses over the last decade or so. This has probably been the biggest, maybe because of Wenger's contract situation, maybe because the players have finally lost faith in him, who knows?
But it's not because they've suddenly become a mediocre group of players who all need to be replaced. We know who needs to be replaced.

[Niall_Quinn]

No, we don't.


Have they? How many of our regular starters have actually grown up at Arsenal? Ox has and he's one of the few players that some on here have credited with having some fight.
Quite a few of our players have come in relatively recently and won plenty of trophies elsewhere. And suddenly they all need replacing?



Brainwashed
You're saying a good coach couldn't come in and change our style with the same players? Wenger did, we were "boring boring Arsenal" when he joined (arguably we are again now, in a different way) and he completely changed the way we played without replacing the entire squad from day one. Good players, and we have plenty of those, can adapt. And if you don't think we have good players then why complain that we're not title contenders? My disappointment this season is because I think we have a squad which should challenge, but we're not.

We need a new manager and a couple of additions to the squad. That's all.

You're kidding yourself if you think that's all that needs to change at this club and suddenly we'll be up there consistently challenging for titles. It's a long legacy of being second best and a fundamental lack of ambition that has to be corrected. Maybe somebody will emerge from the boardroom and if it's true there's now a split then it's good news. That's an indicator of how shit a situation we are in. It's hopeful and positive news (if true) that our board is divided. Whoever comes in (eventually) is going to have one hell of a job to get a defence installed. The neglect in that area is almost total. And the midfield has started to go the same way. Lots of work.

[Letters]

I didn't say that's all that needs to change at the club. I have concerns about board level too. But in terms of the squad we definitely don't need a whole clear-out. This lot should already be up there challenging.
A manager who can get them playing like a team and a couple of additions and we won't be far away IMO.

[Niall_Quinn]

I didn't say that's all that needs to change at the club. I have concerns about board level too. But in terms of the squad we definitely don't need a whole clear-out. This lot should already be up there challenging.
A manager who can get them playing like a team and a couple of additions and we won't be far away IMO.

We need a new manager and a couple of additions to the squad. That's all.