Laurent Koscielny

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I'll hold off the praise until the season is over. The signs look good but I remember Djourou looking solid at one point last season and then he just fell apart.

Best post on here other than my own

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This thread is a quality read.

Anyway, he has been disgustingly good recently and shows no signs of losing his form. You could always see he was an intelligent defender with the number of interceptions he makes but there were doubts as to whether he would cope with the physical side of it but has shown he has the strength to deal with Crouchy and the other non-footballers that pollute the pitch. After Vermaelen - who I think is, by some distance, Arsene's best signing in the last 10 years - this guy has shown he can be a very solid defender.

Things are looking good. When we get our best player back at Christmas, things should move up another level.

RVP injured?

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DoJo was never solid. Koscielny just needed a good partner (Verms), now when Sagna gets fit we can drop Mertesacker and have a solid defense again. Im also lovng Santos atm, he's the new Eboue in terms of character, but a much better player.

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Mertesacker is a far better defender

Kos has had a good couple of games after 14 months of total shitness and hes gone from being widely regarded by all true Arsenal fans as the worst CB in our history to being being than Djourou which isnt much of a jump but its a start.

Long may it continue

[Marc Overmars]

Djourou was awesome for about 10 games after last Christmas.

Then went mental.

Rightly bottom of the pecking order.

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Need Sagna back asap

Him with Mert and Verm gives us a solid defence.

As for LB, both Gibbs and Santos have their talents. Santos is good attacking wise, Gibbs is good getting injured wise but defensively both are suspect. If only there was a top quality LB going in the summer with PL experience and for around £6m. Oh wait....

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Mertesacker is a far better defender

Kos has had a good couple of games after 14 months of total shitness and hes gone from being widely regarded by all true Arsenal fans as the worst CB in our history to being being than Djourou which isnt much of a jump but its a start.

Long may it continue

The Norwich game says otherwise

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The Norwich game says otherwise

The 14 previous months says otherwise to that otherwise

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The 14 previous months says otherwise to that otherwise

Never watched him before that tbh so can't judge. i can only go on how he has been for us, and he has not got the pace for the epl yet tbh.

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Never watched him before that tbh so can't judge. i can only go on how he has been for us, and he has not got the pace for the epl yet tbh.

But you watched Kos during that time and hes been awful.

A couple of good games doesnt not make a player good. Mert has done more in 2 months than Kos has in his Arsenal career