Match Reaction v Swansea at home (15/16)

[Munchies]

To all of you that thought the banner was destroyed, it's here and very much ready for action

https://twitter.com/DeejayDt/status/705494417956839424


The banner is making a return!

[Niall_Quinn]

Bitch.

Don't get emotional about this.

[fakeyank]

To all of you that thought the banner was destroyed, it's here and very much ready for action

https://twitter.com/DeejayDt/status/705494417956839424


The banner is making a return!

Alhumdulillah

[GP]

Alhumdulillah

gesundheit

[Xhaka Can’t]

Wenger in

sane?

[Letters]

Had we waved goodbye and cut our losses a few years ago we'd probably be in a much better place now, as it is the squad needs a lot of work.

The first part of that is one of those somewhat annoying things people say - annoying because it is pure speculation.
A lot of clubs getting rid of a long term manager - ManYoo is a 'for example' - tend to do worse, at least in the short term. We can't know how we'd have done under a different manager so it's a pointless thing to say.

And does the squad need that much work? There is some dead wood to get rid of and we clearly near more up front but IMO we already have a squad which should be challenging, we don't need that much more.

[Kano]

We have a squad that should win in the current environment, in any of the previous years it is not strong enough to be close to the title.

It drives me mad that people keep looking at our squad on paper and these 'known' names seem to indicate we have good players all over. We really don't. The squad needs quite a bit of work when you consider 4/5 attacking players are needed (out wide and upfront) replacements in midfield for those leaving and one if not two CB's and a replacement keeper once Ospina clears off. Maybe even more if an Ozil or Sanchez clear off.

[Bumble]

The first part of that is one of those somewhat annoying things people say - annoying because it is pure speculation.
A lot of clubs getting rid of a long term manager - ManYoo is a 'for example' - tend to do worse, at least in the short term. We can't know how we'd have done under a different manager so it's a pointless thing to say.

And does the squad need that much work? There is some dead wood to get rid of and we clearly near more up front but IMO we already have a squad which should be challenging, we don't need that much more.

I disagree with Ozim I don't think the squad needs a lot of work, it needs better direction and structure. We have a squad that should be top of the league this year. Regardless of injuries as all teams have injuries and with the amount of money spend we have a big enough squad to cope with all the injuries we had.

The team needs a leader, needs direction and we need to get a grip of what sort of team we are going to be in playing style terms. Possession football doesn't work for us as we only have a couple of decent passers. We need use the pacy players we have better than we currently do. And we probably need another high energy CM tackler alongside Coq and let the front 4 do the business with the full backs providing the width.

[Munchies]

Squad wise, we need a better CB, CDM/CM, winger and a striker.

That's an overhaul, and I don't trust Wenger to fix the squad over the Summer.

Same problem areas time and time again. Just go

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Who would you bring in? Not manager wise player wise?

I'd bring in a goalkeeper as a proper understudy to Petr Cech and let both Ospina and Szczesny go

Let Mertesacker and Callum Chambers go bring in John Stones and Ogbonna

Get rid of both Ramsey and Wilshere, Wilshere just never going to be fit and Ramsey is never going to fit into our style of play in central midfield too ponderous.

(Arteta, Flamini, Rosicky going almost goes without saying)

Bring in Gundogan from Borussia Dortmund and Wanyama from Southampton

Give Ox another chance but offload Walcott, bring in Mahrez

And finally Lukaku up front.