I am shocked that a coach of Wenger's standing will sell any of his strongest players without having an able replacement in place. And when we do, we search for the poor man's version of the departing player, talk up his averageness and 'sell'
Kolo Toure only won 44% of his duels in the air. The 67th best in the league (not quite sure if that is broken down by position) so make what you like from that figure
Speaking of transfers , while I'm glad that Adebayor left (although i highly rate him) it really frustrates me that at the beginning of summer Wenger said as he says every summer that he wanted to keep the squad together well and as always that didn't happen
Wenger said that we will know more in the next 24 hours, so I guess it is goodbye to a fantastic player and great servant to the club. According to the BBC, Toure is currently in talks with Manchester City over a £15 million deal
Phillipe Senderos played in the holding role in the second half, we know that he will not be starting the season in that role and probably not even at the club so what does this mean?
RVP will play in the hole, Arshavin on the wing and Bendtner up top as the target man. He produced an impressive 15 goals, many from the bench, last season
When I picked my strongest team Samir Nasri was on the bench but as we all know it is a squad game these days, as Aston Villa painfully found out last season
The Arsenal manager should have money to spend after receiving £25million for Adebayor, however the Frenchman is notorious for his reluctance to spend big and prior to Nasri's injury
I will be very keen to see how the players set up from the beginning. It started as a 4-2-3-1 on Saturday and if it continues then you would have to say that the signs are pointing to a formation that Wenger wants to use