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If you could clone any one player...

...from any point throughout your club's history and place a prime version of that player in your current team who would it be?

Doesn't necessarily have to the best player you've had, doesn't have to be the best performing player you've ever had, just has to be the one player who physically, mentally, emotionally and tactically, your team could do with more than anyone else and who's presence, you believe, would likely make the most difference to your current club's output.

To start off bastardizaing my own thread immediately, I'm struggling to choose between one of two; Tony Adams and or Patrick Vieira.

Insert either of those two into the current set up and I think this Arsenal team go from nappy wetting bottle jobs, to perhaps not champions, but certainly something approaching a genuine threat for the big ones.

It's long been said of Arsenal that we lack leaders, and we do. Whether that be a vocal leader like Adams or an example setter like Vieira, this Arsenal side has little in the way of heart; either one of these men would be the CPR this side needs to start being taken seriously by both themselves and others.

Wenger my allow standards to drop but neither of these two, at their peak would. Both in positions we're crying out for quality and for presence, I don't think there's another two players who, if you were to pluck them in their prime, would make as big a difference to our current fortunes.

At a push, I'll go with Vieira, because I think our need is greater in central midfield than it is in defence and with him protecting, you immmediately improve what's behind him as well as lessening the burden they're tasked with game after game because of weak tactics and weak players.

So, what about you lot?

Admins, please multiboard.

posted on 24/8/17

comment by Captain Marvel (U21549)
posted 1 hour, 22 minutes ago
Beckham would create more chances and make us a greater danger at set pieces Lambeau.
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Ronaldo would be a greater danger full stop.

posted on 24/8/17

I'd actually clone Moussa Dembele. Imagine two of them as holding midfelders. The oppo would never see the ball.

posted on 24/8/17

Luka Modric

posted on 24/8/17

Liverpool have found the Egyptian Sadio Mane.

posted on 24/8/17

Edu

posted on 24/8/17

Henry

posted on 24/8/17

With Arsenal in this situation I would echo the Vieria shouts....

honourable mentions to
Henry (would score more of the chance Ozil creates)
Wright (see above)
Adams
Campbell
Gilberto (as we need a wall in MF)

comment by Devil (U6522)

posted on 25/8/17

Toss up between Essien & Lampard.

We need a CM, one is the perfect destroyer Conte wants but the other guarantees goals and has the protection to get them. Either would be grand right now.

posted on 25/8/17

I'll bring back Drogba, will settle the Costa problem imo

posted on 25/8/17

comment by The Devil's Advocate's Advocate - I Represent Him (U6522)
posted 8 hours, 16 minutes ago
Toss up between Essien & Lampard.

We need a CM, one is the perfect destroyer Conte wants but the other guarantees goals and has the protection to get them. Either would be grand right now.
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We have Kante, no need for Essien, so Lampard would do nicely, we need goals, lots of it to win stuff

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