I love the Arsene does not buy experience waffle. Bacary Sagna, William Gallas, Mikel Silvestre, Tomas Rosicky, Andrey Arshavin and Eduardo are all experienced international players

It is all doom and gloom around Arsenal right now or so it seems. Many ex players have been kind enough to give Arsene some much needed advice about his job because he is pretty new to this stuff. He clearly doesn’t know which area of the pitch he needs to look at, so thank you to Emmanuel Petit.

“Arsenal have not won anything in four years,” Petit stated on L’Equipe TV. “Everything was done to bring together a young team and make it progress step by step, after [Thierry] Henry’s departure.

“But, at the end of the day, the transition did not work out.Arsene Wenger was always protected by David Dein, but today the shareholders, the fans and the press are doing soul-searching.

“Arsene is extremely intelligent, he is a visionary. I am not saying that he should change his ways, but if he made slight changes and managed to find a compromise between youth and experience, like Manchester and every dominant team in Europe do, he would find the right mix. But it means spending more money.”

I love the Arsene does not buy experience waffle. Bacary Sagna, William Gallas, Mikel Silvestre, Tomas Rosicky, Andrey Arshavin and Eduardo are all experienced international players and correct me if I am wrong, Arsene did actually buy those players.

The Arsene needs to buy organisation or leadership argument would sit better with me. What I am a little confused about is the Abou Diaby out on the left and Samir Nasri in the middle experiment. During Cesc’s absence, Diaby played in the middle on more than one occasion and won plenty of tackles and tracked back and we saw against Chelsea that Samir Nasri really isn’t a natural at that. Having said that I think Nasri is a far more productive attacking central player than he is a wide player.

Speaking of wide and central players, I am a little confused about Arshavin’s comments about playing on the left.

“The target for my first three months here was not to score a certain number of goals but to discover whether I could play in England or not.

“Sometimes I feel I can do well here but other times I don’t – and that’s probably because I am playing as a left midfielder.

“I still can’t get used to the idea that I am capable of playing there and, frankly, having to do it keeps me baffled.

“I don’t know if I can play so well as a left winger or if it is just God taking care of me.”

Now is that a ‘I do not want to play left wing’ or ‘I am trying to get used to it’ either way it is down to the manager where his players play and I personally think Arshavin is wasted behind the striker. He has fantastic vision and passing but his ability to carry the ball from a wide area is needed in a team of passers.

DJ Dragonfly mentioned the 4-3-3 formation yesterday in his Your Vision article and he makes a good point about how our players would fit nicely into that system.

Away from on pitch matters Stan the man Kroenke has upped his shareholding to 28.3% which is getting rather close to the 30% needed to make a takeover bid, although he apparently has no intension of doing so. What I find interesting is the fact that Kroenke taking over the club is no longer seen as a bad thing in the public eye, villain Alisher Usmanov has allowed Kroenke to be cast as the hero.

Gotta make tracks now, so appologies for short post today. Back tomorrow.

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