Absolutely vital summer signings

[I_Killed_Kenny]

Spot on LDG. with BFG and Kos keeping the CB partnership has shown how solid we can be. Chopping and changing causes to much confusion and doesnt allow for understandings to be built. Stable, solid defence and a good experienced no2 and I can see chesney being our No1 for the next 10 years

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

the inevitable 'vital summer thread'. how many is that now? 5th year in a row?

anyway selling song and not replacing him was one of the biggest fuck ups he's ever made. its no coincidence we've been nowhere near 1st place since we sold flamini tbh, the last real DM we had, so to sell song (who papered over the cracks) and not replace him was immoral. say what you want about flamster but he was bloody effective. then we had song who was a downgrade and a pretty crap DM tbh but he still managed to become a vital cog in our team due to his responsibilities. i cant remember how many times ive said 'we need to sign a DM' but im getting sick and tired of it. arteta is no DM. he is good alongside a DM i.e. like last season. he links up play and keeps things flowing, he is not the person who should be putting his body on the line and making the crunching tackles. signing a DM would add aggression and presence in our midfield and prevent teams steam rolling us like they were doing at the start of the season.

a world class striker. if we kept van persie he'd have won us 10 extra points over the course of the season. that makes you title challengers.

a centre half if verm goes.

if sagna leaves promote cafu. realistically he aint signing a right back is he.

keep fabianski as back up he's been decent.

[Ollie the Optimist]

i think we need a keeper, cesar from qpr would be great, a decent cb, ashely williams from swansea would be good as back up to kos, per and depends if vermaelen stays. if sagna goes, id go for micah richards instead of a cb as he can play both

midfield, if we can fabregas and joevitc in our midfield and a top class striker, we will have the makings of a very good squad.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Goal Keeper is 50/50 for me. Chesney has looked dodgy at times but reassured others. Whether he's enough to win a title is another matter and thankfully a decision I'm not paid to make.


In order of piority

1) Centre Forward: Top top quality centre forward to replace you know who. Someone who can bang in 20+ a season, create something out of nothing & isn't so utterly dependent on service and can contribute to overall build up play. May be Jovetic.

2) Defensive midifielder. I don't really rate Arteta, we need someone more dynamic.

3) Central midfielder. We're too reliant on Santi to create us chances. God forbid he gets a serious injury or is off form like he was during the middle part of the season and we'll be in trouble.


Other less important positions, a RB, backup CB and another wide player if Gervinho leaves.

[Seymour Butts]

We all know that we wont strengthen properly this summer and this team needs about 8 quality players to mount a title challenge. But what are the absolute must gets in order for the club/manager to avoid gross negligence yet again??


Right Back replacement for Sagna - How this chump has got anywhere near the team this season is beyond me. Wenger at his non ruthless best. He should have been benched. Jenkinson is not the answer - we need a world class RB.

Striker - Pod and Giroud are decent enough but they're not great. The biggest thing that wins you the league is quality in the final third, nothing has proved that to be true more than Manure this season.

Centre back - replacement to Merts/Verm. Verm's shot. Merts has been very decent but he still scares the crap out of me. He's got the turning speed of a cruise ship and is just too damn slow. He's a top 4/5 team defender. If we want to push on we need a world class CB to play alongside the excellent Kos.

Midfield and GK also requires more quality but that's pushing it.

If we sign 3 quality players in those positions then it's progress IMO.

8 quality players to compete? I think that is wide of the mark. I think we are literally 3 very good players away from a PL winning team

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ST: Higuain/Villa
ST/AM: Jovetic
DM: Capoue/Gonalons
RB: Richards/The dude from Sochaux
GK: Begovic/Minolet

Done

[LDG]

Another 10 Laurent Koscielny's please

[Munchies]

Is it just me, but whenever I've seen Higuain play live, he's always been shit ?

[Seymour Butts]

Is it just me, but whenever I've seen Higuain play live, he's always been shit ?

103 goals in 169 appearances for RM since 2007

[Marc Overmars]

Higuain would probably struggle for form like Podolski.