Former Arsenal boss George Graham has told Arsene Wenger that he must clinch three big-name signings before the transfer window closes, or face the consequences.
Following Arsenal’s disappointing 2-0 loss to Liverpool at the Emirates yesterday, a number of fans once again voiced their frustration and anger at Wenger’s refusal to splash the cash, and Graham, who led the club to six major honours during his time at the helm, has backed them.
At present, Graham believes the Gunners could struggle to finish in the top four if significant reinforcements do not arrive in the next 10 days.
He was quoted in The Sun today saying:
‘They have big signs at the club saying ‘Arsene knows’. Well I hope he does.’
‘They need experienced, outstanding players and I think they need about another three in the side at the present time.’
‘They’ve got the money so please get the cheque book out. Let’s sit down, get some of these players in Wenger’s supposed to be after and see if they can start winning trophies again.’
Graham finished off by stating what he thinks Wenger needs to add to the current Arsenal squad:
‘I think they need another centre-half, a strong, outstanding, experienced midfielder an out-and-out striker like a Thierry Henry.’
I am with Graham on this one.
I also believe we need three big-name signings in the areas Graham pointed out.
A centre-back is a must – Thomas Vermaelen needs an equally good centre-back alongside him. Should TV5 pick up an injury, we’re screwed.
A creative midfielder – this doesn’t have to necessarily be an experienced one, but one that can replace Cesc Fabregas’ creativity, as we seem to have lost this since the Spaniard left for Barca last week. A lot of names have been touted, but nothing has transpired – only 10 days left Wenger.
An out-and-out striker – RVP is a great forward, but, in my opinion of course, looks like a second striker to me. Granted he bags goals, but he doesn’t look like a pure striker, like a Thierry Henry. If the Dutchman gets injured, then we’ve got no one to replace him.
I will not say anymore on the matter until I see what Wenger does in the next 10 days, but to be honest, I’m not holding my breath.
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Oh hell yeah. Of course we can not agree with Graham because he is a manager and knows football well. We need all what he said. The miedfielder should be experienced if we want to win titles,if we get a young one we wont win anything this season. You(the publisher of this article) are wrong becaause as Graham said the miedfielder should be experienced.
IMO we need 4 maybe 5 new players for the squad. Yesterday game however painful it was to watch showed that the squad needs help badly, it obvious we need a CB (probably 2), to help Vermaelen a LB (there’s talk of Traroe going to QPR on loan) and Gibbs is always injured, DCM, a winger – Arshavin and Walcott were not existence and a striker – Chamakh and Bendtner are not good backup for Van Persie, but my fear is even if Wenger buys it will be young talent from the French league and not the experience the team so badly needs.
I agree, but we need CB, MF and creative winger (Walcott, Gervinho are not creative and Shava is inconsistent in his game). The only top quality winger we have is Nasri. We don’t need a striker, because for me a good sub for RvP is Gervinho. He reminds me Samuel Eto.
Perfect transfers – Jagielka, Hazard, Marvin Martin and Nasri staying.
GOOD REPLACEMENT FOR FABREGAS…HAZARD,KAKA,RONALDINHO,
Agree with him or not,its quite clear! what we need is 4-5players not 2-3players!
We need is EXPERIENCE and QUALITY!
And i think (cahill or Dann,kaka or anyother £18m creative mifielder,Hazard,Zarate and M’villa) won’t b a bad addition @all.#goodluck to wenger in his quest 4 his “never found” top quality signings!
Wenger is now old with outdated ideas. if not to guide him, he led us to coca cola championship.
3 BIG name signings were needed, before all the departures, but now we have lost, Fabregas, Clichy, Eboue, Denilson, Vela, Emmanuel-Thomas and probably Nasri and Bendtner. This means as 3 of those 8 are from our first x1, we now need 6 yes SIX Big name signings. Gervinho, Jenkinson, & Chamberlain are fine to replace Eboue, Emmanuel-Thomas and Vela. But we need big name replacements for Nasri, Fabregas and Clichy on top of the 3 we needed anyway. In addition we need a couple of squad players to replace, Denilson and Bendtner should he leave.
All in all we need 8 players
Why cant we apoint George Graham once again as an arsenal coach what makes Alex Ferguson a Man u coach still claim truphy every season, i beleave George Graham can do it.
3 more players are needed in the Arsenal Squad….i rate Vela very highly…why does he loan himout when he could be playing in the first team !
Samba, Cahil Arteta and onemore straker along side with van persie, Arsenal we rule the world and become world club champion.