Since Arsene Wenger moved to Arsenal in 1996, Arsenal have had a dominant and reliable team but up until now it seems that Arsenal are carrying their weakest team yet.
Their recent Champion's League win against Dynamo Kiev was proof that the Arsenal team is at a weak point with many injuries and poor transfer decisions.
The line up against Dynamo Kiev was youthful but lacked the much needed experience especially in the midfield, I accept that there is a huge injury crisis at Arsenal but the likes of Denilson, Alexandre Song, and Abou Diaby have not stepped up and taken the second leader role in the midfield.
It is the bench that especially lacks depth and experience with half of the players yet to make their Champion's League debut, the youngsters do have immense talent but do not have the experience.
The team is no doubt talented and capable of beating most teams but the likes of Manchester United, Chelsea, and Liverpool all have stronger and more experienced squads.
A fully fit team does boast some formidable talent and depth all around the park, it also contains sufficient leadership and experience.
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about 1 month ago
wow, who let the 12-year old on the internet without mommy's permission??
from about 1 month ago
its 10 not 12
about 1 month ago
While you are entitled to your opinion Callum of course, I think this is a bit harsh for the following reasons:
1) Comparing ANY team, not only Arsenal's, to the Invincibles will pretty much leave any team short. They were by any stretch of the imagination a very strong team and you can't just put another one of them together.
2) Using last night's game as a contrast is a pretty bad match to use in my opinion. Injured: Walcott, Nasri, Diaby, Eboue, Toure, Adebayor and Sagna were all out, not to mention the long term injuries to Eduardo and Rosicky. That is nearly a team in itself.
3) I do agree that United, Liverpool and Chelsea perhaps have bigger squads than Arsenal BUT tell me they could cope with our list of injuries. Take United - we'll remove Evra, Ronaldo, Tevez, Rooney and O'Shea for arguments sake, Liverpool - we'll remove Agger, Alonso, Torres, Kuyt and Keane, Chelsea - we'll remove A.Cole, Anelka, Malouda, Ballack and Drogba : Now how good would these teams fair??
4)This is kind of an add of the last point - you are really suggesting in your article that Arsenal should have cover for each injured player - just how many players do you think a team can afford?
5) Flamini left on a free, Hleb whinged till he was sold and Gilberto should of been kept.
People know that this is not the greatest team but it is not the worst - a few experienced signings, injuries premitting we have a great team.
about 1 month ago
Jesus, how many times can you rewrite the same sentence over and over again and an editor not cut your article down to size.
We get it.
Young, talented and inexperienced.
Your article could be summed up in one sentence.
And since you didn't even bother to compare and contrast the 2008/2009 Arsenal line up with that of previous years, how about we change the title of your article to "I write about an article a day and I should really focus on quality rather than quantity".
Weak.
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