Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit.

[Marc Overmars]

Daniel Levy selling a player to us.

[Niall_Quinn]

Worrying post by Arseblog today.
http://arseblog.com/2015/04/ozil-and...senals-future/

Normally I wouldn't give it a thought but this one has a ring of truth to it. It's just the sort of thing Wenger would do.

Personally I think it would set us back to square one in terms of settling on a midfield where if one player isn't firing another can pick up the slack. We've had that a lot this season with Alexis to the fore, then Santi picking up the slack and now Ozil pulling his weight. Surely we couldn't condone getting rid of any of these three in a hope Ramsey, Wilshere or Ox could slot in. Not with their injury records for starters.

[LDG]

Worrying post by Arseblog today.
http://arseblog.com/2015/04/ozil-and...senals-future/

Normally I wouldn't give it a thought but this one has a ring of truth to it. It's just the sort of thing Wenger would do.

Personally I think it would set us back to square one in terms of settling on a midfield where if one player isn't firing another can pick up the slack. We've had that a lot this season with Alexis to the fore, then Santi picking up the slack and now Ozil pulling his weight. Surely we couldn't condone getting rid of any of these three in a hope Ramsey, Wilshere or Ox could slot in. Not with their injury records for starters.

Don't worry, Diaby will be back

[Power n Glory]

Worrying post by Arseblog today.
http://arseblog.com/2015/04/ozil-and...senals-future/

Normally I wouldn't give it a thought but this one has a ring of truth to it. It's just the sort of thing Wenger would do.

Personally I think it would set us back to square one in terms of settling on a midfield where if one player isn't firing another can pick up the slack. We've had that a lot this season with Alexis to the fore, then Santi picking up the slack and now Ozil pulling his weight. Surely we couldn't condone getting rid of any of these three in a hope Ramsey, Wilshere or Ox could slot in. Not with their injury records for starters.

I said it earlier in the season, Ramsey and Wilshere are problem players. We were terrible when they were both paired together and I don't trust either of them to take over from Santi.

Neither are ready yet and until they play there way back into the team, we shouldn't be getting rid of anybody.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Not at all suggesting that Santi or Ozil should be dropped but tbf one of the reason's that Jack/Ramsey didn't work was because they either had an aging Arteta or a woeful Flamini behind them at the start of the season compared to the luxury of a competent and energetic Coquelin.

Worrying post by Arseblog today.
http://arseblog.com/2015/04/ozil-and...senals-future/

Normally I wouldn't give it a thought but this one has a ring of truth to it. It's just the sort of thing Wenger would do.

Personally I think it would set us back to square one in terms of settling on a midfield where if one player isn't firing another can pick up the slack. We've had that a lot this season with Alexis to the fore, then Santi picking up the slack and now Ozil pulling his weight. Surely we couldn't condone getting rid of any of these three in a hope Ramsey, Wilshere or Ox could slot in. Not with their injury records for starters.

I don't think Santi is going anywhere yet .... he's far too valuable and Wenger realises this, demonstrated by how much he's played him recently however I do think that Jack is probably going to be Santi's eventual replacement in that deep lying playmaker position given the latter's age. Wouldn't be surprised if we see Santi slightly eased out during the second half of next season and Jack briefed by Wenger to learn from him.

Clearly Jack isn't as good as Santi is yet but given how the amount of talent he does have, he can be. That famous Barca game does show he has the tools for it. All it'll take is some consistency and some hard work, though given some of his off-the-field behaviour recently, I'm worried about the latter.

[dostoy]

There is a lot to sort out over the summer.

The futures of Podolski , Campbell, Sanogo, Arteta and Flamini have to be resolved one way or another.

We have 3 right backs when Jenkinson returns from West Ham, one of them will go.

The goalkeeper situation as well, I think Sczeney will leave but there is no chance of Lloris coming and Cech is a blue and has been for 11 years.

I think we need another central defender as Mertesacker is getting old and very slow.

We also need another striker as when Giroud is injured, I'm not sure if Welbeck would score enough.


There are also contract issues to sort out with Walcott and maybe Ozil.

There might be other issues as well.

[Power n Glory]

Not at all suggesting that Santi or Ozil should be dropped but tbf

one of the reason's that Jack/Ramsey didn't work was because they either had an aging Arteta or a woeful Flamini behind them at the start of the season compared to the luxury of a competent and energetic Coquelin.

I don't think Santi is going anywhere yet .... he's far too valuable and Wenger realises this, demonstrated by how much he's played him recently however I do think that Jack is probably going to be Santi's eventual replacement in that deep lying playmaker position given the latter's age. Wouldn't be surprised if we see Santi slightly eased out during the second half of next season and Jack briefed by Wenger to learn from him.

Clearly Jack isn't as good as Santi is yet but given how the amount of talent he does have, he can be. That famous Barca game does show he has the tools for it. All it'll take is some consistency and some hard work, though given some of his off-the-field behaviour recently, I'm worried about the latter.

Not a fan of Arteta or Flamini. Neither should be in the first team but I doubt they're the reason for Ramsey and Wilshere not working together. They just don't work together and I really mean that. They're individuals on the pitch and hardly exchange passes between each other. I can't recall one game where they've worked as a pair and either knew what the others role was. I had a stat break down of the amount of passes they exchanged between themselves it was woeful. We're talking 4 or 5 passes exchanged between them all game. That's really bad. We could go back to the days of Denilson and you wouldn't find such numbers. Our midfield was non-existent whenever we played Wilshere and Ramsey together. No fluidity in our passing and moves breaking down easily all the time.

[Master Splinter]

Letting Cazorla leave would be mental. He's become more crucial to the team, even with Ozil's return and upturn in consistency and seems to be a leader in the squad and LITERALLY everyone loves him.

It would be hugely surprising if he left.

He's also a guy who would be able to play until he's 40 because it's all in his feet and brain. He doesn't rely on athleticism and physicality.

[Niall_Quinn]

Letting Cazorla leave would be mental.

There's only one man I can think of who would do such a thing.

[Bumble]

There's only one man I can think of who would do such a thing.

although Cazorla did wear the captains arm band at the weekend after Mert went off injured so it is possible he will leave.