More doom and gloom from the regulars I see on the arsenal front. From what I saw yesterday I don't think it is all as bad as some think.
Cahill looked good but I think they only showed him involved in the goal so can't say what he did for the rest.
However I would say even if fab and nasri stayed we still need four or five players. Our bench looked weak again and despite some glimpses of skill from arshavin we miss some strong characters in the team.
Would love Wenger to buy but I honestly feel we are going into the season feeling we are ready. I wouldn't jump the gun and call for the head of Wenger though. Who would replace him?
Tuesday is going to be a big day. Let's hope it doesn't take going out of the CL to force them into the transfer Market.
Had we ditched Wenger 2 months ago, we had more choices, and more time to get a real god damned manager in.
As you said, even with Fabregas, we'd need 5 more players. Bendtner, Eboue, Clichy, Fab are 4 players who should be first team, Nasri, meh, he just doesn't fit in, not a winger, not a striker, not a central midfielder, good bench warmer though.
We've not even brought in enough replacements for the guys who will be leaving shortly, let alone strengthening vs last season, and definately not vs the season before or the season before that.
I've been complaining for 6 years because this season has been steadily but slowly coming. Huge wage bill and no champs league football and we're boned. We'd need to ditch basically 4 100k a week quality players to not end up losing 20mil a year. Every year we've lost quality players and brought in crap replacements. This season we're looking at losing what should be 5 first team players, as yet we've got one real potential first team replacement, Gervinho, and he was woeful, and being played out of position.
Wenger really is a complete idiot, he's lost it. Theres no reason we couldn't have got Boas at the beginning of summer, if he had the choice of a sensible board and good squad at Arsenal or the maniac and potentially very short job at Chelsea, who knows which he'd choose, and theres a bunch of other managers around who wouldn't be as retarded as Wenger.