January transfer window (football)

Gervinho won't be sold.

A new combative midfielder is an absolute must, but I doubt Arsenal will sign anyone else.

Whether or not a striker comes in probably depends on what happens with Walcott.

 

Vermaelen, Sagna and Chesney. All far more valuable to Arsenal than Nani would be. Not to mention Arteta, Cazorla and Wilshere.

 

Well I'd take our starting midfield three ahead of him, so that's Wilshere, Cazorla and Arteta. I'd also have Sagna definitely ahead. Then I'd have him on a par with our 3 CBs and arguably Giroud. So he's somewhere 5th-10th on my list.
I know the CBs will draw mass lols from Veri but that's because he hates Koscielny and absolutely nobody rates Mertesacker. However, Mertesacker has had an absolutely storming year and besides Koscielny's immediate return from injury he's began looking more and more like his old self the more he plays. Vermaelen has probably been the worst of the three, how much of that is due to being played at LB for so long? Unsure.

 

It seems odd because we always seem to be so frail at the back and despite that I'm listing 4 defenders in my top 6/7 players. Individually they've all been excellent at various points of the season. It's a proven fact that Arsenal make more individual errors resulting in goals than any other team in the league. It's why it's possible for us to have good defenders but a bad defence, if you see what I'm saying.

I'm of the opposite opinion of Sledger, despite me not rating Nani all that highly (don't get me wrong, he's good) I think he'd add a lot more to the squad than say... Koscielny. Despite me thinking the latter is actually a better player. Nani would give us something different.

Wenger's comments after last night's game actually seemed really positive and I genuinely hope and believe we'll get the Walcott situation sorted out. Like I did with RVP - which I was right about, he wanted to stay in the end. The only way Walcott will go is if Wenger wants him to IMO and I think that the extra opportunities he's been given upfront in recent times show that isn't the case. If you divide Walcott's career into two halves his improvement has been remarkable.

As for January, I'd love a striker, ball winning midfielder and defensive cover - preferably a left back.

 

Yeah, not sure where I said otherwise tbf. It's not the players I listed making the mistakes but the fact we concede so often looks bad on them.

 

Try reading it all again and then point out where I've said that any of the players I've labelled excellent are prone to error. Then point out the bit where I explicitly said it is NOT the players I listed making such errors.

 

Exactly.