Viper22

I'm hoping for: -------------Tibo------------- -Ivan---JT---Cahill---Luis- --------Matic---Cesc-------- Willian----Oscar----Hazard -------Costa/Drogba-------- Depending on if Costa is fit. If weneed to kill the game, removing Oscar for Ramires and going 4-3-3 is an option too. Solanke and Schurrle good options off the bench if struggling to score.

Yeah I know i'm sorry. Just got a bit wound up is all.

Reading through the last 4-5 pages, when did this forum become a bitch fight/shit slinging match? So many pathetic comments and over the top comparisons. I swear I saw some tit comparing starting Solanke up top to Hiroshima.

He's either a liar, or a moron. Either way.

Except that he'll be 31 already by the end of the season. I agree he would be the perfect choice if he was 4/5 years younger, but he won't be going much longer and then we'd be in the situation again. I honestly reckon you should go with the person who shows the most leadership qualities, be preferably youngish, a guaranteed starter, thinks most like the manager to relay his tactics and is a loud passionate man. That all points to Cesc for me. I think Matic or Courtois would be great choices too. I wouldn't be upset with Cahill or Ivan getting the captaincy but then in 2/3 years we'll be in this same situation again without Cesc as a viable option (if he's still here, I hope so) as he'll then be too old. You're relying on a strong captain emerging from the youth ranks (most likely candidates being Zouma, Chalobah and Kalas) and i'd rather have a semi-long term option in place (one of the first 3 I mentioned).

Also, let's not forget just how much making him our captain would piss off arsenal fans. Pissing off gooners is always a good idea.

Never ever ever thought I'd even consider this man as our captain even 1 year ago. How times change eh? He's the best candidate for the job on leadership qualities and he's definitely shown his passionate willingness to fight for the club already. I think he would be a great shout for our next captain, forget short term, Cesc to take over when JT leaves, as long as JT himself and Jose think he's up to the job. If they think he is then he is.

Was more for the poll, to see who people think is the most important target, but if you think it's unnecessary then you can delete it.

Ok just curious as to what people reckon here. I'm going to put a poll up too. Who do you all think should be our main target in the January transfer window?

These stats will be used to bait and abuse my mates who mentioned the words "Park the Bus" in the last 18 months. Thank you 5x for this .

While you're probably right, Arsenal this season prove it could be possible. Their 6 foreign players could be: Ozil, Koscielny, Mertesacker, Debuchy, Ospina and Sanchez and 13 of their 17 British/HG/U21 players could be: Szczesny, Chambers, Gibbs, Wilshere, Zelalem, Ramsey, Ox, Gnabry, Miyachi, Walcott, Welbeck, Jenkinson, and Sanogo. That would mean only 4 from the youth academy needed. And that's Arsenal's current team minus Monreal, Arteta, Flamini, Cazorla, Diaby, Rosicky, Giroud, and Podolski. Hardly much weaker and the current Arsenal team is decent. It is do-able.

I think he's useless. I honestly didn't know it was a controversial opinion until I saw the love-in for him on this forum. So no, not trying to be controversial.

We'll wait and see then .

My controversial opinions: Stoke and Palace have the best fans in England if not the world. I appreciate and respect the way Arsenal have run themselves as a club in the PL. Busquets is the most over-rated player in world football atm. Aguero is better than Suarez. We should go back to the maximum 6 foreign players in 23 man squad limit in PL, limit of 3 in the Championship and limit of 1 below that. The German national team that won the '14 world cup would have beaten the Spain national team that won the '08 euros, the '10 world cup and the '12 euros. Drogba is less of a club legend than Lamps and JT, and his legend has been over-inflated because of the romance of scoring the winning CL penalty.

So because it's so early in the season i'm not allowed to have an opinion on anyone? :S. I also said he'd have been better at Chelsea in my original post, but he's obviously got a massive issue with his positioning because even though Man Utd's general positioning is terrible his is (incredibly) even worse.

He's not just out of form though, his positioning is terrible, his stamina is awful, he doesn't seem to be bothered about caring, just pathetic all round from him. I'm not writing him off, but I was singing his praises before and begging us to sign him, even for £25M. On the evidence of the start of this season I was so so wrong.

You should be

I would just like to say, having watched Luke "Please sir, can I have some more pie" Shaw this season so far I was so so so so so so so so wrong to suggest that we should have signed him. While he would have definitely been better at our club than Man Utd's he's been absolutely terrible, and showing every sign that he was a one season wonder at best. I was wrong, and am so glad that Chelsea didn't think the same as me in regards to him. I hang my head in shame...

Phil Dowd is a good ref. Probably my favourite tbh. Still can't get this gif out of my head, look at his eyes!!!

Crap. I'll edit my inital post to include this info then...

Only thing that was lacking Saturday was that he wasn't jelling with the other players. So passes were going astray and he wasn't on other player's wavelengths. That will come with game time though, so it's not a problem at all IMO.

Final nail in his coffin for me. We don't want to be associated with people that the media (rightly in this case) are going to brand as divers. Reputation proceeds them and refs give them less. So I agree with Jason, sell him and promote from within to fullfill the HG quota. Hell, T Hazard, Traore, Boga and Atsu are all better than him now.

-----------------Tibo----------------- -Azpi---Zouma-----Cahill---Luis- -------Ake-------Fabregas------- -Salah-------Willian-------Hazard ----------------Remy---------------- Bench: Cech, Ivan, Baker, Matic, Oscar, Drogba, Solanke. For me that's the right combination of resting players (Matic, JT, Ivan, Oscar) while still playing a strong enough team to not underestimate them (Fabregas, Hazard).

Southampton properly taking the piss now.

Don't know where to post this so it shall go here. Everyone laugh at the chump: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2796550/former-tottenham-target-leandro-damiao-faces-six-game-ban-trying-win-penalty-pulling-jersey.html