Arsenal vs Liverpool. 14th August. 4pm

[AFC Leveller]

Funnily enough that was his nickname at school.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

I won't be comfortable with both Iwobi and Chamberlain playing and there has been a distinct lack of Debuchy's name as a makeshift CB....despite the fact he looked better than Monreal and even Gabriel there. At least he looked pretty natural there, albeit he didn't play there for an extended amount of time.

Now obviously that is to do with him wanting out but he is still at the club for heaven's sake. We can't make him work in hospitality so may as well play when needed.

[Maestro]

Get Carzola in there and we win this game, simples

[alexander]

Now come on, we both know that that is not true!!!

As an irregular user on this forum, I am at a loss in relation to this camp bizzo???

Letters...Wenger lover
NQ........Couldnt hate Wenger more.

Makes for `interesting` debates

[Power n Glory]

I won't be comfortable with both Iwobi and Chamberlain playing and there has been a distinct lack of Debuchy's name as a makeshift CB....despite the fact he looked better than Monreal and even Gabriel there. At least he looked pretty natural there, albeit he didn't play there for an extended amount of time.

Now obviously that is to do with him wanting out but he is still at the club for heaven's sake. We can't make him work in hospitality so may as well play when needed.

Really not sure about Ox starting either. I think he needs to be eased in to the squad off the bench without the huge expectation and pressure of getting dropped if he has a poor game. I don't think he'd handle a poor start the season well. We saw what happened last year.

[alexander]

Really not sure about Ox starting either. I think he needs to be eased in to the squad off the bench without the huge expectation and pressure of getting dropped if he has a poor game. I don't think he'd handle a poor start the season well. We saw what happened last year.

I think he just deserves his place, done well pre season, but Campbell offers a bit more defence I know that.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Yes I agree. Take the pressure off and I'd be more than happy to pay Campbell or Walcott ahead of him.

[Power n Glory]

I think he just deserves his place, done well pre season, but Campbell offers a bit more defence I know that.

I thought he started well but had two bad performances from in our last two pre season games. I don't want it to be a case where we have to shatter his confidence if he doesn't perform or try to stick with an underperforming player out of fear of crushing his confidence.

[Niall_Quinn]

We go into the game without our "terms agreed" CB. And of course without that striker we've been after for the last 4 seasons. So it now falls on the players who have let us down without fail to not let us down. What could go wrong?

Do we really do the, "If Theo has a good season, if Ox delivers on potential, if, if...", thing all over again? Quick answer. They won't. Or at best it will be a miracle if they do.

I agree though, for want of a settled team of players that actually want to be here and are fully prepared for a new season, we should consider Debuchy as a typical Arsenal make do and mend option. When you are scrabbling around with broken bits and pieces and with other pieces missing entirely then you use whatever you can cobble together.

Debuchy at the back, Theo wide, give a few kids the chance to step up? Why not? It's all random anyway. Unplanned, unprepared, negligent, complacent, incompetent. And it's LIVE!

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

I agree with Tim Stillman on his sentiments about the symbiosis between Theo and Alexis. If it were me I'd play them both and even encourage them to alternate between the CF position and wide right one.