wow...coming out of retirement eh? can provide reliable and experienced cover, good deal for u guys

Completely agree. I wasn't too pleased when they refused to give Gallas a 2 year contract.

Arsenal always seem to have some calamity defenders in the ranks. i.e. Cygan, Luzhny, Silvestre, Senderos, Djourou (despite doing reasonable well this season), Squillaci, e.t.c

Isn't Lehmann the proven winner everyone says we should be signing? No reason to pan him then.

In any case, he's not entirely rusty, played until May last year in the top tier and probably won't do too bad.

We'll only have 10 games left all season and either Szczesny or Mannone will return hopefully halfway through these games.

Can't do emergency loans for defenders, would have loved to re-sign Keown.

I would prefer to have good discussion with someone like corez or boxsystem as they provide very informative input from a different point of view with solid facts.
But with you, looking at the replies that you respond to, i only could find zero maturity. I would appreciate if you don't reply to my post.

Can we have a discussion on players who's not good enough to be in the team, to win a premiership. I know this would actually create an easy route for some frustrated fans to make a certain player an escape goat, i'm hoping for a positive discussion, not just from Arsenal fan, others are welcome based on their analysis.

P.S : Please bear in mind that, the discussion is purely on whether the player was good enough to win the premiership this season, please don't discuss on his age/maturity/development thus leading out of topic. Please do compare the below players to other premiership team players as this is where i would want this discussion lead to. Thanks.

Lets start with strikers/forwards :

1) RVP10
2) C29
3) NB52
4) A23
5) TW14
6) V11 (Loan to WBA)

1)RVP10 has always been our best striker in the squad. But he has a problem, he just can't stay fit for the whole season due to injury prone. Despite that, he still contribute to the team for a whole season in term of goals. For me, he's good enough based on the stats that he provides every season.

2)A bargain striker who replaced RVP10 when he was injured. He went missing after that. Why did we get him for if we don't include him in the squad ? As a replacement only ? His stats is average on the number of games he played compared to contribution. Clinical striker ? Sometimes i doubt that, as he don't take the opportunity. Missing goal instinct ?

3)This lad has been disappointing the whole season. Despite his hattrick against New Orient, i failed to capture his contribution to the team this season. All talks but no action ? Clinical finisher - No. He's a CF, but caught out of position most of the time. Does Arsenal system which doesn't suite his style of play ? Well, for this season, i think he was nowhere near good to be inserted in a premiership winning team.

4) Hardworking, but making quite alot of mistakes in term of passing. Often getting caught. He's been pretty average this season, perhaps too high off expectation ? May be the lack of goal explains his average contribution ?

5) Arsenal certainly been missing him. He's having one of the good season till injury. I sense that we lack off fast pace players to run through the defender, opening space. I think he certainly was good enough for this season. The injury was unforeseen. We have no adequate substitute.

6) Vela, to be honest i was expecting him to get much needed game time this season. I believe from the games he played for Arsenal, he was largely missing in the game. Not physical enough ? I must say that i am dissapointed with him, may be next season we could see more of him.

for those forward players.. how u suggest Arsene to improve?.. we cant buy and replace Chamakh or Bendtner.. or even Walcott and Vela..

front line most probably will remain the same..

just that when we tot the squad is enough to compete for all four... injury happen and hit badly..
Injured player plus backup players off form.. that why we hit hard.. dont think because the lost of invincible hit us..

When we sold Viera & Gilberto, we got Cesc and Flamini...
Pires we got Rosicky.. tat time Rosicky was a big hit.. not the Rosicky we have now la...
Ljungberg in exchange with Hleb..

But we never really replaced Henry. The man used to deliver 30+ goals a season. The only player to ever come close was Adebayor with 30 in the 2008/2009 Season IIRC but he lost his way getting too cocky.
Van Persie is capable but he can never stay fit long enough as we have witnessed in all the seasons he has been at Arsenal. I think Arsenal needs a star striker

Louis van Gaal should replace AW soon than later.

Louis van Gaal should replace AW soon than later.

Louis van Gaal should replace AW soon than later.

i disagree with this. Even though Louis van Gaal might have won more trophies that AW, he failed to bring the dressing room together during his time at Barcelona and Bayern Munich. often have clash with players.

I do not represent all Arsenal fans, but I would say you have very valid points there. It's the arts of defences and its dark arts. We, for many occasions, were too naive and too passive, in another word, we were to obedient, hoping that we would be always protected by the rules. However, I'd like to stress that being aggressive alone is one thing, tactical fouls and dark arts are another.
Besides the defense part, AW should review our attacking football. To be fair, I can see some improvement in our attacks. We move the ball into the center more often. However, when we are against stronger opponents, we lose our confidence and revert back to the square passes.
Our players are good enough, especially if you consider the prices we pay for their services. Well, it back to strategy-priority or players' potential priority argument.
Back our ManCity guest, please do continue posting your valid post. I believe our fellow arsenal fans here sensible and rational ones. We only react negatively towards immature and trolling comments.

' I have a pimple on my penis'

since we are discussing about Arsenal striker, here's a thought.

should we buy a new top striker to be our main striker ahead of Robin, and base our attacking game around this new top striker?

I don't think Van Gaal is any better compared to AW. He might have a problem how to manager the young players in arsenal

What makes u say he is not better than AW?

I think alot of manager can be easily better than wenger.

lolz.. forget beandy was our manager and Casanova was asst... unfortunately beandy was sacked by us... lolz wat a joke... then Casa was the caretaker.. until beandy created another account...

BTW, is that is the case.. what is the purpose of MOD sacked our manager?..

NO. You have a great striker in Persie and a decent one in Chamakh. Pair them both to 4-4-2 and I'll think you'll reap more rewards. What you need is a midfield general and some steel in  you centerbacks pairing. But of course, your team might have to change the way they play which I think it is impossible under Wenger.