28 Aug 2017 10:33:04
Hi lads. Liverpool fan in peace. I'm not here to gloat. Some of your boys (gunner62 and Dagenham Gunner) have been great contributors to the Liverpool page recently. I just wanted to express how bad i feel for you guys and give you an outsiders view on things.

Personally, i think your management has gone stale. Wenger and Bould look lost for ideas and devoid of any passion. It is genuinely sad to see. I cannot believe Wenger got a new contract. Personally i think you should have gone for Silva who ended up at Watford.

Onto the players and the club need to let players go who want to leave. Chamberlain, Sanchez and Ozil clearly don't want to be at the club. However Lacazette, Kolasinac and Mustafi all clearly do. So why on earth the Wenger start the former trio and not the latter trio? It was embarrassing to see that Arsenal side. You have half the players out of position, 3 of them wanting to leave, and 3 excellent signings on the bench. It was abhorrent.

I think defensively you have a very good team if played as a back 4. Cech is great, Bellerin, Mustafa, Kosc and Kolasinac are as good a back 4 as there is in the Prem. The 3 doesn't suit you though. It smacks of desperation from the manager. Monreal is a bad joke surely?

Your forward line is also quite good. Welbeck, Iwobi, Walcott, Lacazette and Giroud are all good players in my opinion. You have a very good mix there of target men, work horses, skill, poachers and pace. I leave out Sanchez, Ozil and Chamberlain because i think you should let them leave. All i would look to add is an Ozil replacement. A creative forward who can see a pass such as Lemar. You've got to pay the money being asked though.

For me though your midfield is dire without Cazorla. Xhaka is a thug, Coquelin is sub par, Ramsey is a headless chicken, Elneny is decent but still not fully settled, and Wilshere is quite simply the most over hyped player in English football history. Arsenal teams have always had the best midfield in the league in my opinion. Pires, Ljungberg, Viera, Petit, Gilberto, Parlour, Fabregas, Cazorla etc. But it has just slowly got worse over the years to the point it is now is non-existent. For a team who try and control the game, you simply have to have a good midfield and that right there is where Arsenal are falling down.

I hope none of you take this to be rude or imposing, i just thought you may be interested to see an outsiders opinion.

If i was Wenger I'd actually go back to his tried and tested 4-4-1-1 (back when you had two flying wingers and Dennis. B behind Henry) with Lacazette up front and hopefully Lemar in behind. I'd have Iwobi on your left and Walcott on the right to bring back that pace you are so lacking at times, and then Elneny holding with a new signing if Cazorla isn't fit enough. Wenger cannot persevere with this 3-4-3. You do not have the personnel and it will destroy your chances of a top half finish, let alone top 4.

You have a good nucleus but you are missing a proper midfield general such as Gabi and a creative spark who wants to be on the pitch such as Lemar. Wenger has got to give up on his experiments though, and fast.

1.) 28 Aug 2017
28 Aug 2017 10:51:46
Excellent summary. The thing is we are overdue a new manager. However, Wenger has delivered 3 FA Cups and 3 Community Shields over the last 4 seasons and almost continual CL football, bar one season. Its an enigma, but you are totally correct. If we reverted to Wenger's hugely successful 4-4-2 or 4-4-1-1 formations and brought in a couple of quality signings we could challenge for the top honours.
With current squad, which could/ should have started yesterday:
Cech
Bellerin Mustafi Koscielny Kolasinac
Oxlade Xhakka Coquelin Sanchez
Giroud Lacazette

Ideally:
Butland
Bellerin Van Dijk Koscielny Kolasinac
Oxlade Xhakka N'Zonzi Sanchez
Giroud Lacazette.

2.) 28 Aug 2017
28 Aug 2017 10:53:09
Hi MK mate personally I welcome all honest constructive opinions from other fans mate, it's always good to hear how people who aren't emotionally biased see things.
Sometimes we are all to close to the wood to see the trees and other people's opinions can be more realistic.

3.) 28 Aug 2017
28 Aug 2017 10:56:33
Ahhh how nice.

4.) 28 Aug 2017
28 Aug 2017 13:54:35
Mk mate, the thing is we all see the problem and it has been going for a while but our manager can't see it, which why many fans gave up on the team already before it even starts.

5.) 28 Aug 2017
28 Aug 2017 14:37:04
Heck of a post from MK. rational and thoughtful. Seems out of place with the heckling and hysteria we get around here most of the time, see where ed 2 is coming from.

No advice today but the next couple of moves is critical and the next game, we have been so good for so long we have been spoiled. It can change fast. C'mon Wenger!

6.) 28 Aug 2017
28 Aug 2017 15:05:38
With the formation we had last year most said we need a change of formation son he did! You all loved it but we have lost two and now it's getting slated i don't get.