Indeed, if nasri and fab go I'd fancy our chances of getting in front of them more than our chances of getting in front of city.
Nasri won't have ANY effect on the club, infact consider it would seem that he's one of the most problematic players on the team in terms of personality and attitude that him leaving would be an improvement.
If Fab goes, we could seriously struggle to get into the top 5 though, he's the single best player on the team and our most crucial attacking player.
While Wilshire can indeed step in for Cesc and is FAR better than Nasri in the role, Wilshire playing Cesc's role means we lose him in the other midfield role, either way we'd need a new better central midfielder. Would Ramsey do, I really don't know, his games back last season, one was great, 3 were pretty awful, preseason he's looked pretty damn good. But what cost us last year was having backup to central midfield being so god damned awful so even if we end up with Wilshire/Ramsey in central mid, we have to buy a quality backup.
Cant see them losing both, probably the reason why Wenger is willing to let Nasri go on a free next summer as oppose to selling him this year, because he knows he'll have to do without Csec as it is.
Its so completely retarded, lost Cesc this year, and Nasri next year, or lose both this year, they both need replacing either way and if we get rid of Nasri this year we get 20+mil to spend on a replacement. I can't see how replacing him this year or next year makes the slightest bit of difference.
Likewise Mata probably is/was for sale, clubs who want a bit of stability are more willing to sell players before preseason starts though, I think our chances of simply making a real bid and getting him a month ago were MUCH higher than getting him now. Then theres plenty of other players in the world, you think Hernandez is the only 7mil top quality player in the world, not even a chance.
