My only concern with selling him is that Bendtner (who I prefer as striker to Chamahk) seems set to go so if RVP got injured, not that he ever gets injured, we would have what? Vela and Walcott?

If we got a decent bid and could keep Bendtner, wouldn't say no to selling Chamahk.

I do wonder how much of Cesc's injury problems in last year or two have been due to Wenger overplaying him and rushing him back when Cesc was younger. I worry Wenger will overplay Wilshire in the years ahead

I'm looking forward to seeing if we can set a new record for imploding after a strong half time lead. We have managed 4-0, I'm sure we can throw away a 5-0 lead.

He might be a good signing, he might not. But one thing I am certain of is that Mata is not anywhere close to being as good as Cesc and, contrary to some people's belief, won't by himself be sufficient replacement for what we'll be missing if Fabregas goes. Agree with that. I think he would be a go...

1) We have to find a new way of playing to make up for the loss of our playmaker though Mata is a very good young player. We are still defensively disorganised and I'm not entirely sure about Jagelkia in possession, I would put us down as dropping out of top 4 then forum wide curses as Nasri leaves ...

Never thought I would see the day when Senderos wasn't being called the worst centreback in the history of the game To be honest, with Djorou I don't know how much of it is him being a bad player and how much of it is Wenger's coaching not ironing it the flaws in his game.

Decent group. The danger is Montenegro as we are already witnessing, Poland aren't very good... Ukraine at best will be gambling on young players breaking through so maybe a transitional period. Or not be very good.

As Gunnersaurus says, why not get Mata and strengthen the defensive side of things? Still think how we coach the defensive side of things is more key then a new cb but do think we need a new leftback and dm desperately.

Keown was defensive coach when we went on the CL run without conceding, culminating in the final against Barce. That back four was (I think) Eboue, Campbell, Senderos and Flamini. If he can coach those four into a run without conceding, then the guy is worth his weight in gold. My only concern with...

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Yay?

I think Diaby is a decent squad player as a secondry dm. I wouldn't want him sold unless we brought another squad player in to replace him and with our injury history, I fear we may lose the players in front of Diaby while Diaby is injured.

I think the problem that Cesc has is that on the one hand he quite clearly is tempted in joining the team that him and his family have supported and they also happen to be the best team in the world; but on the other hand he is never going to turn around and disrespect the club by demanding to be s...

Is it really Gibbss fault that our centre backs seem to spend a lot of time in opponents half? :wink: They never play that deep! I would say the summer has been a disappointing one. We have sold one or two youth players, only been able to loan out Denilson, I think soon to losing Bendtner is a blow...

I think he had the talent to play for us in the right system but mentally, I'm not entirely sure even a year loan then return would have been right for him. He simply looked terrified when given a scoring chance after his return for us.

A title medal, a potential Cl medal, his reputation greatly improved and looking like he can gradually become a first choice defender? Yeah, hard to argue he got that one wrong.