Honestly...

[Ryan]

Would you swop this...

FINNAN-CARRA-SAMI-RIISE

For any of these...

1) FERREIRA-TERRY-CARVALHO-COLE

2) NEVILLE-FERDINAND-VIDIC-HEINZE

3) EBOUE-TOURE-SENDEROS-CLICHY


... Well, would you?

[paulcooper4]

not a cat in hells chance, wouldnt swap the midfield, goalie or manager either.

[dww]

No, but we would benefit from the addition of Cole, Heinze or Terry to our back four.

I think in a few years everyone might be envious of that Arsenal back four aswell. I wish we had been bringing through players of that calibre in the last few years.

[Ryan]

No, but we would benefit from the addition of Cole, Heinze or Terry to our back four.

I think in a few years everyone might be envious of that Arsenal back four aswell. I wish we had been bringing through players of that calibre in the last few years.

I dunno.

Too many athletes, not enough footballers in it for my liking.

What they make up for in terms of non-stop energy and pace, they lose out on with their lack of on-ball compsure and inability to take the ball out of defence. Especially Toure - Great defender, wooden footballer.

[Rich]

I'd probably take Heinze for the left back spot, but other than that, I'd keep our defence. And that includes having Hyypia there rather than Terry.

[Howard_lfc]

I'd probably take Heinze for the left back spot, but other than that, I'd keep our defence. And that includes having Hyypia there rather than Terry.

ah - life through rose tinted specs - you can't beat it!!

[Ryan]

I'd probably take Heinze for the left back spot, but other than that, I'd keep our defence. And that includes having Hyypia there rather than Terry.

I think it's foolhardy to make comparisons between Hyypia and Terry. They're both two of the best centre backs on Earth.

I'd also take Cole ahead of Heinze.

[dww]

I dunno.

Too many athletes, not enough footballers in it for my liking.

What they make up for in terms of non-stop energy and pace, they lose out on with their lack of on-ball compsure and inability to take the ball out of defence. Especially Toure - Great defender, wooden footballer.

I almost completely disagree about Toure, always seems to use the ball well to me. I will give you that to improve his defending he seems to have given up any willingness to carry the ball out.

Eboue also looks a real danger in attack. Good cross. Not seen enough of him to say much about his overall game but he looked a great prospect at the African nations and seemed to adapt very quickly to the premier league once in the first team.

[Ryan]

Whatever 'potential' they may have mate, there's no way that a defence of Eboue-Senderos-Toure-Clichy is strong enough for Arsenal to win the league in my opinion.

[Rich]

I'm not saying that Terry isn't a better player than Hyypia!

I believe that the partnership between Hyypia and Carragher is fantastic (and the best in the league) hence the reason why I wouldn't break it up.

The only reason why I would change one component of the defence is because I believe Heinze is altogether a much better player than Riise. It is also easier to chop and change the fullback positions, rather than changing the Centreback positions.

[Shaggy]

I almost completely disagree about Toure, always seems to use the ball well to me. I will give you that to improve his defending he seems to have given up any willingness to carry the ball out.

You beat me to it. Toure is seen by Wenger as being so comfortable in possession that he can play in centre midfield, or even right wing. Granted, he's pretty much set in stone at centre-back now and has cut out a lot of the fancy stuff, but when he first arrived on the scene he played in any number of positions. He can play.

[Snigger]

So why not Aurelio at LB? I'd pick him over JAR

[Shaggy]

So why not Aurelio at LB? I'd pick him over JAR

Long term I would too, but I assume he went for the back four likely to start the season - and for me Aurelio should have to earn the left-back berth rather than just walk straight into the side at Riise's expense.

[red g]

You beat me to it. Toure is seen by Wenger as being so comfortable in possession that he can play in centre midfield, or even right wing. Granted, he's pretty much set in stone at centre-back now and has cut out a lot of the fancy stuff, but when he first arrived on the scene he played in any number of positions. He can play.

Toure was there player of the season last year......he came on leaps and bounds last year.crackin player

[dww]

Whatever 'potential' they may have mate, there's no way that a defence of Eboue-Senderos-Toure-Clichy is strong enough for Arsenal to win the league in my opinion.

Totally agree. However given a couple of seasons I genuinely think they have a chance of forging a new legend as a back unit for Arsenal. Our defence is head an shoulders above it this year but I think to improve we need to replace Riise and age will catch up with Hyypia at some point.