I really do think arsenal have great squads, reserve and first team, but nothing can hide the blantly obvious.

There are a few players that i can’t seem to see someone capable of covering thier positions should they get injured. And should they get injured arsenal will cease to challenge for the title this year.

Vermaleen and Gallas. while they are absolutely great in defence this year. It’s quite inevitable for at least one of them to be uninjured all season even for a couple of weeks.

Then comes the cover problem. options = silvestre, djourou(if fit), senderos.

I really don’t know which one of these makes me more nervous about our defence. silvestre is a “legend” and really what i think is that he is at arsenal to lead defensive training and mentor more than anything. I believe that’s what wenger’s was after when he bought him. great, but we need to win trophies and need someone that’s really sharp for the big games should arsenal need cover at the back. Now senderos. Senderos spent the last season on load with ac milan. I havn’t seen much of him this season. But It would be awesome if he can show the kind the expierence and skill that he may have learned training with the great defenders ar AC milan. Land of defence. but we ll have to see

verdict buy buy buy at least one CB…. no question about the need

what should happen if song gets injured? no muscule in the whole squad to match his and really i could see arsenal being physically man handled without that kind of strength in DM. Sure we have other very good technicaly players like diaby ramsy denilson as options but all of which i feel get pushed around in midfield, maybe the nature of the english league.

sooo i think buy buy buy DM. i also happen to think that since arsene is always so discrete about his purchases. i think and hope that matudi will be commin in. The less i hear about him the more i think its true.

in anycase i do count on wenger make at least one intellgent signing
in jan. The masterful shopper he is! ph.d in economics

Without him we have Bendtner and Eduardo who can play up front on their own. I don’t think the rest of the players will work as center forwards, because they are more second strikers or wide players.

Currently Eduardo is our only available option. He cannot come in and replicate what RvP has been doing. We’ll play differently with him in the team, no doubt. Whether it will be worse or better (hard to imagine that) or the same remains to be seen.
He played in that role once this season (against Celtic) and impressed, so I’m positive about his involvement. Some are trying to paint this situation as a disaster for Arsenal but in fact we are not a team that relies on one or two individuals.
We can even put out our under-5s team and still play great football.

As stated by ‘henrykissinher’, someone has been pasting your articles on other sites. However, there are quite a few sensible Arsenal fans fighting your corner by telling whoever is the culprit off. Our dear American 7amkicker, Tim has already banned someone from his site for the same offense. It goes to show, though, how good your articles are. Keep up the good work.

After spending over maybe 500 mil in one window altogether, who could be sure that Madrid and citeh will win anything?

Song will be gone but it’s not a disaster if Wenger does not buy. Who could be 100% sure that that player will do a better job than the ones we have now?

Wenger is being smart in this financial environment. Apart from the ‘strange’ purchase of few players, Arsene is in his own league when comes to buying and selling players.

Just like the great Verminator, he will jump into the market and buy that player when there’s a need to(provided the price is reasonable).

He is the only manager in this world who could buy Arshavin at that price.

And I am sure Dudu or Vela will do just fine while RVP takes some rest…

Perhaps Ramsey, Diaby, or Denilson are who Wenger has in mind for replacing Song in January.

However, I still feel we need to buy more depth at CD. Gallas and Vermaelen are putting in tons of minutes and with Wenger only giving Silvestre and Senderos (rumors of him asking to leave) Carling Cup minutes, I worry about anything that might happen to those 2, or them just getting plain wore out by February.

Thankfully it’s only a 6-week layoff for RvP (that’s the best bit of news I’ve heard all week) and Bendtner will hopefully be back before then. I think the worry is whether anyone can do the dropping back and hold play up like RvP can. Bendy would do a good job up there but we’ll have to see with dudu, although he did play there against Liverpool in the Carling Cup. He may need someone like a Diaby up there with him for the height.

We’ve got plenty of strength for the next two games and should still win those (RvP probably wouldn’t have played in the champs league game anyway). The Chelsea game will be interesting but then they are without Lampard and Drogbawhich is more of a loss to them than losing RvP is to us.

Not only is he a clinical finisher and assassin in front of goal, he is a competent, unselfish and breath-taking playmaker who can act as the fulcrum of our attack just like RVP. Bendy should be back soon to give Dudu some breathing space if needed – but Wenger still has many options if he were to rest Dudu.

The Sunderland game is the more important game as it’s the sort of game that we have to pick up maximum points to keep up with the leaders in the EPL table. Chelsea’s game is crucial, but if we draw or lose it, it’s not as bad as not picking up points from teams lower than us. Sunderland has given us problems in the last 2 seasons and it will be a tough test, but I’m confident the boys can do it.