Overmars, Petit, Vieira, Bergkamp and Henry have all departed and we wondered how they would be replaced but that is the thing, you do not replace an individual you restructure the team to make a competitive team capable to challenging for the top prizes
Why do we need to keep on looking to other clubs players when we've got a brilliant youth squad, filled with talented young English players. Secondly, our first team is the best on it's day, in the world
Cesc on the other hand showed what being a winner is all about, he never shirked any responsibility he came on and got himself on the ball as quickly as possible
I rate Peter Crouch as a footballer, and the preverbal good feet for a big man springs to mind but in my eyes he is not an Arsenal player and I do not imagine Arsene wanting a player who cannot get in behind a back four and run the channels as Adebayor does.
Lets put aside the prospect of media speculation for a minute and try to put things into perspective. Could this be 'The ultimate ploy'
According to various tabloid we are after the diamond Guiza (sorry, that was poor) from Real Mallorca to replace Emmanuel Adebayor. No quotes or anything substantial
The reason why most of the transfer talks are crap is because Arsenal has enough strikers already. Get that? We have Adebayor, Van Persie, Eduardo, Walcott, Bendtner and Vela
Arseblog are claiming that the deal is not sorted because Marseille want to wait for some reason until they are ready to announce it. Arsenal insider are claiming that Arsenal have to announce it first due to the stock market
This is purely speculation of course but it would leave Hleb in a position where he would have to choose another club or sit his backside down at Arsenal, sign a new contract and get on with working for Arsenal
This is purely speculation of course but it would leave Hleb in a position where he would have to choose another club or sit his backside down at Arsenal, sign a new contract and get on with working for Arsenal