With Santi Cazorla finally signed, we take a look at how the Arsenal line-up could look like this season.
Cazorla has signed a long-term contract with The Gunners, which, in my book is a fantastic bit of business done by the club and certainly pushes the ‘lack of ambition’ remarks that have been floating around out of the window.
So, so far Arsenal have signed Lukas Podolski, Olivier Giroud and newly Santi Cazorla, all of whom are international players, splashing out around £35 million in total – if this doesn’t prove to Van Persie that we know what we’re doing then nothing will.
So for the purpose of the line-up below, I am going to assume that Robin has left the club. With that being said, here is how I see Arsene Wenger setting out his side this season:
Szczesny
Koscielny Mertesacker Vermaelen Santos
Arteta Song
Podolski Cazorla Gervinho
Giroud
With Bacary Sagna out until the end of September, I have a feeling Laurent Koscielny will end up moving to right-back, especially as Per Mertesacker will be back fit – how this is going to change when Sagna comes back remains to be seen, but I would imagine the French defender won’t be left out of the line-up.
I think Andre Santos is my preferred choice at left-back, despite young Kieran Gibbs’ performances. I think the Brazilian has shown in pre-season so far that he is capable of running with the ball at defenders and I think it would give us a chance to perhaps loan out Gibbo.
Jack Wilshere is out until probably close to Christmas. He sadly will not feature much again this season, thus adding to the fans worry that it could potentially be an injury that ultimately ends his career which is obviously the worse case scenario imaginable.
Gervinho has done fantastically well in pre-season and I think, assuming that Van Persie leaves, the Ivorian will play a big part for us this season. However, this position could also be filled by Theo Walcott as we also don’t know if he is going to stay with us, although it certainly looks that way.
One thing is certain though, with only 10 days until the start of the Premier League, there is still a lot of questions to be answered and a lot of decisions to be made.
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what about song?
Simple mistake meant to put Song but typed Sahin… been a long week
wrong.
song will be first name on the sheet. if not
wenger will get mvilla if song leaves.
sahin his to weak to play that role in the PL
most of the team is wrong
gibbs if first left back santos has been playing as a winger anyways
walcott has the right wing
podolzi the left
yes yes…Sahin was supposed to be song yawn yawn
R u also assumin song is gaan +weak bench
No simply typed Sahin instead of Song due to it being late when i typed it.
what a mug… koscielny is our best cb…gibbs is a decent rotation for lb and should not be loaned out! as we all know we need atleast 2 if not 3 players for every position. Song is our best cm by far…podolski on the right??? do you watch football? walcott is our best right sided player, the amount of assists he got last season. gervinho needs time to adapt properly…
scesny,
sagna/jenksinson while sagna inj
vermalen
koscielny
gibbs/santos (rotate)
song
arteta
wilshere/diaby while wislhere inj
cazorla
podolski
giroud (rvp gone)
walcott
bench- flappyhandski/mannone, gibbs/santos, coquelin, mertesacker, gervinho, rosicky, oxelade
meant cazorla to play amc while wilshn diaby inj (i know diaby is currently fit, but you know what i mean if youve followed his career)
Song????
you obviously don’t know AFC.
Bored typing it now…it was a simple mistake get over yourself
This is very far from the truth!! Kos and verm are our centre backs. Gibbs will not be loaned!!!!! Pod will be central or left. And diaby song arteta will begin the season, plus sahin is not defensive enough to replace song like some simple people and journo’s are saying
Madness how can you add a player that has not signed. Loan out Gibbs do you not watch football or did you only start in preseason we lost all our fullbacks last years n who do you intend to back up Santos if you loan out the man who tackle got us intoo the champions league. Walcott on the right is a must podolski on the left n who ever upfront I don’t no why I even bother reading this tush it just winds me up that the people. That take there time out to write this talk s#*t I should write my own
Life witout v.p, anyway gir/pod can do it. Song pls dnt leave..
well, I would only pick players that are actually on the books, and not loan out anyone who may be considered a first choice by many.what you present is a possible line up, still at least there are no doubts over Chesney
i will nt happy to c song leaving d club mr.wenger should pls do sumtin abt it and mk him stay