Halfway through Season...
GK
Leno - Unproven
Cech - Too old
DF
Concede way too many:
Lichsteiner - Too old
Maitland Niles - Too young
Monreal - Too old
Koscielny - Injury Prone / Aging
Mustafi - Unproven / Injury Prone
Holding- Injured / Unproven
MF
Not enough..
- Chances
- Creativity
- Goals coming from MF
Xhaka-Matteo-Torreira (All DF minded)
Ramsey - Out of contract (2 goals) ???
Ozil- Not getting best out of (4 goals) ???
FW / ST
Lacazette- Not getting best out of (9)
Iwobi - Too young / Wasteful (2) ???
Mhikitayrian - Not decisive enough (4) ???
Welbeck - Long Term Injury (5)
Overall, past month (especially)... has shown us:
Not solid enough defensively *
Don't create enough chance for ST *
Struggle to beat worst teams in League *
Need 2-3 1st team improvements *
Ozil must play centrally/ behind ST
Xhaka and only 1 of Matteo / Torreira in MF *
Need Bellerin back asap *
Lacazette is being wasted away *
Away form is very worrying *
(1 win out of 5)
N.B.
We haven't made any actual progress yet since Wenger left *
Estimate Finish (Season 2018/19)
* Premier League - 5th/6th
* Europa League - Final / Winners
* FA Cup - Who cares. (Less games)
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January Transfer Window :
Sell:
Ramsey - (20M) (Bayern badly stuck CM)
Iwobi - (20M) (Any relegation teams)
Lichsteiner- Free
Buy:
1 Aouor or Fekir or Milinkovic Savic
(Creativity)
2 Depay or Brahimi or Lozano
(Goals)
Summer Transfer Window :
Worry about DF / GK situation
(I.e. New RB + Solid CB a must)
What you all think ?
Emery has done ok.
Style of football has been terrible though
since we beat Spurs at start of month.
Don't think we are ready to compete against top teams until next year.
And that's with 5-6 new signings
+ clearing out another 3-4 who simply arent good enough.
Season so far (C+ - must improve)
Any ideas / thoughts ladies ??? )))) Xox
Arsenal- Problems 2018/19
posted on 27/12/18
Personally I would address our defence as a priority in January. You're right though - we also need more creativity from midfield/wide to become challengers again.
It won't come at once and we're going to have to be patient.
Personally I would love Zaha and Fekir to help our attacking issues. Absolutely no idea who is a realistic option for us in defence though? Sokratis has been a superb signing in my opinion, dread to think where we would have been without him. Looking forward to the next two transfer windows, don't think we'll be spending £70m on a single player but I hope we'll be active.
posted on 27/12/18
You could have summed this up with Attack good, defence schite, midfield alright.
posted on 27/12/18
comment by RonAlvinho - Victoria Concordia Pathetic (U6117)
posted 11 minutes ago
Personally I would address our defence as a priority in January. You're right though - we also need more creativity from midfield/wide to become challengers again.
It won't come at once and we're going to have to be patient.
Personally I would love Zaha and Fekir to help our attacking issues. Absolutely no idea who is a realistic option for us in defence though? Sokratis has been a superb signing in my opinion, dread to think where we would have been without him. Looking forward to the next two transfer windows, don't think we'll be spending £70m on a single player but I hope we'll be active.
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Won't get Zaha in January.
Fekir might come though.
Ramsey and Iwobi = nearly 50M between them. Put that towards Fekir, should get deal done.
Then go for Lozano or Brahimi, both 35M or so.
As for DF..
Koscielny is solid when fit. Bellerin is back this week. Kolasinac is decent. Socratis makes up the back 4.
Monreal, Mustafi, Mavropanos and Maitland Niles are ok as backup, for now.
We need to create more chances for Lacazette to capitalise on. Hate seeing him frustrated all the time. Then more goals from MF and if DF improves we are on right track
posted on 27/12/18
comment by Striketeam7 (U18109)
posted 16 minutes ago
You could have summed this up with Attack good, defence schite, midfield alright.
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FW/ST - Not good enough due to MF lack of supply
MF - Not good enough going FW, or protecting DF
DF - Not good enough due to injuries / poor coaching
GK - Unproven / Weak
Happy?
posted on 27/12/18
comment by (U22015)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Striketeam7 (U18109)
posted 16 minutes ago
You could have summed this up with Attack good, defence schite, midfield alright.
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FW/ST - Not good enough due to MF lack of supply
MF - Not good enough going FW, or protecting DF
DF - Not good enough due to injuries / poor coaching
GK - Unproven / Weak
Happy?
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Still think that's too generous an assessment of the keepers. Leno is the German Ian Walker.
posted on 28/12/18
I just hope we address at least one of the issues (defence or AM/Wide) in Jan. We've got a great opportunity to sneak 4th or win the Europa with the right investment, which would be a massive step forward for the club.