Arsenal: Let Us See a Summer Of No Selling

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Why does every end of season start with rumours of key players departing Arsenal?

Why are we unable to hold down the players we need in our club?

Where does the money go that we make by selling these players?

Few questions being raised in the past few summers but nobody is willing to answer. However, last season we saw Arsene Wenger spending more than he had earned during the summer. He spent a possible 30 Million (Arshavin, Nasri, Coquelin, Ramsey, Silvestre) against the possible income of 20 million (Hleb, Hoyte).

We have seen the possible replacement of Hleb in Nasri (I feel he is better than Hleb as he does not pass the ball in front of empty net), and Dennilson was supposed to be the possible replacement for Flamini (he did a brilliant job in the starting of the season as his vision and passing was way better than Flamini)

Another summer has arrived on us and rumours of departure have begun. And the sad part is departure is always plural. Every year we Arsene Wenger has to start from scratch. He thinks the jigsaw is complete and it needs one or two more pieces but then he sees the likes of Barcelona and Milan pick up the pieces they want and force the rebuilding cycle to be restarted. The worst part is these players don’t even see day light for a long time they rot their career on benches and are used as fringe players.

This time around too there are rumours of likes of Van Persie, Adebayor, Fabregas, and even Song and Sagna departing.  Well If Fabregas leaves for Barcelona where would he play? If Van Persie leaves for inter will he able to replace Murihnios 4-5-1 formation and replace Zaltan in lone strikers position? Think? These players are worshiped as gods at Arsenal FC it depends on them to spend the rest of their career as bench warmers.

Now comes the key question, who would Wenger sell? In my opinion, no one, no not even Rosicky, if possible bring back Sanderos too. We have lacked the depth in our squad we are playing 4 tournament simultaneously and we should have the capacity to rotate the squad. A feature of “Invincibles49” was that the likes of Keown and Upson were easily able to replace Toure and Campbell when they needed rest or were injured. This season we suffered because the only replacement to our defence when both Gallas and Djourou got injured was Silvestre.

However, I think the likes of Vela, Gibbs and Wilshere should be sent on loan. There was a link up of Vela to West Ham on loan, if it comes good I think under Zola’s guidance this highly talented kid can become our Messi.

Now let us see our squad if we don’t sell anyone:

Forwards:

Adebayor, Arshavin, Robin Van Persie, Eduardo, Bendtner, Walcott, Vela.

Midfielders:

Nasri, Rosicky, Song, Dennilson, Fabregas, Diaby, Ramsey, and one new signing.

Defenders:

Toure, Gallas, Djourou, Sanderos, Clichy, Silvestre, Gibbs, Sagna, Traore and one or two new signings.

This gives us a squad with depth; experience and a squad that can keep fighting if people get injured, squad that can be rotated freely. This is the key to Man-U’s and Barca’s success and Wenger needs to apply this on Arsenal too. Hopefully we do see a summer of no departures.

In Arsene We trust

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