Do we have a good enough squad to win the league?

[Imy]

morientes is a decent player just not in the pl

forget sheva pal please

Yeah ok, it was hypothetical anyway

[red g]

fletcher over sissoko? has fletcher ever had a good game? in fact mediocre game?

[Pablo]

i keep waitin for jeremy beadle to walk thro the door

Why? So you can **** him?

[FatTony]

Difficult one this.

I think we have a decent squad, however, I don't think we have enough class to win the league.

[carheex]

I don't think we have that. We are missing out on the wings and in our central defense. We have two excellent central defenders but that's about it, no good enough cover.

On the wings we have Pennant, Benayoun, Babel and Stevie as options on the right. Benayoun, Stevie and Babel isn't wingers. That leaves Pennant.

He isn't good enough for a team that is fighting for the title.

On the left we have Riise, Aurelio, Leto, Kewell and Babel.

Riise isn't good enough, Aurelio is a wing back, Leto is still adapting, Kewell is injured and Babel isn't a winger.

That leaves Riise and Aurelio as our best options. Not any good is it?

We are also missing a player to play behind Torres. Kuyt, Voronin and Crouch isn't good or creative enough for a title chasing side.


Rafa need to sell a few players in January that we don't really need.

Sissoko, Riise and Crouch can be sold without any replacement brought in. We have enough players to cover in the positions they play in.

Pennant and Hyypia can be sold but we would then need to sign replacements for them.

In short, we need a second striker, a right midfielder(winger), a central defender and a left sided midfielder(winger).

Then we will have a squad that can win the title.

IMO of course.

It's not always about whether players like Penannt are good enough. If it were, a manager wouldn;t be so important to the teams success. Look at Utd for example: would you say the likes of brown, o'shea, ji-sung, carrick, hargreaves and fletcher are good enough for a team challenging for the title? I wouldn't - not in a million years. They're the epitome of mediocrity yet have more league winners medals than our whole squad! The likes of Pennant, Riise and Sissoko are more than equal to some of Utds, Chelseas, Arsenals counterparts.

[thekop]

I would take Fletcher before Sissoko.

Silvestre(if he was fit) before our current left backs in the league.

O'Shea before Sissoko and our current left backs in the league.

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I'd rather play with eight players than play the over rated fookin manc ****e you mention AF (no offence like)

[JohnDoe]

I would take Fletcher before Sissoko.

Sheva before Kuyt, Crouch, Voronin.

Silvestre(if he was fit) before our current left backs in the league.

O'Shea before Sissoko and our current left backs in the league.

Brown and Kalou is the only players that I wouldn't even consider.

Fecking hell, that's just taking the piss.

It's barely October, watch the squad perform over the course of the season before passing judgment. Amazing.

[friedk]

I would take Fletcher before Sissoko.

Sheva before Kuyt, Crouch, Voronin.

Silvestre(if he was fit) before our current left backs in the league.

O'Shea before Sissoko and our current left backs in the league.

Brown and Kalou are the only players that I wouldn't even consider.

[Woobus]

Of course we can win it, we have seen the good and bad this season. When we are good we look like we could destroy any team, then last nite we looked like part timers.
Need a win on Saturday to get the confidence up and as shown in previous seasons we can go on long runs without dropping points, I cant see why this season will be any different.
People keep going on about how badly we have played in the last few matches, have they not been watching United and Chelsea? Both those sides are playing just as bad as we have in the league but for a longer period. The Gunners are flying at the minute and if they keep playing like they have been they will be hard to catch. Far to early in the season to write us off, specially since we could go second if we win our game in hand.

[CAD]

i keep waitin for jeremy beadle to walk thro the door

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Beadle

Have no idea who the **** he is...

I think you're mostly talking out of your ass though

[red g]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Beadle

Have no idea who the **** he is...

I think you're mostly talking out of your ass though

thumbs up for the wiki reference

[Red Chilli]

Of course we have a good enough squad, doesn't mean we'll win it like.

[Parm]

cant be arsed doing it, but we have equally as strong squad as scum, chelsea and stronger than arse's

I agree with you. The squads are similar in strength. For every JAR/Pennant/Momo there is a O Shea/Park/Nani/Anderson/Silvestre/Sendros/Lehamn/Flamini/Diarra/Sidwell/Kalou/Pizzrro/Ben Haim/Alex/Hilton/Cudicini/Cole/Ferreria/Shevchenko.

[CAD]

he rescued Mascha an undoubted talent from the West ham reserves

he could work his magic again or have a Morientes situation

Why is buying an unhappy player with talent player management? Has absolutely nothing to do with anything

[CAD]

I agree with you. The squads are similar in strength. For every JAR/Pennant/Momo there is a O Shea/Park/Nani/Anderson/Silvestre/Sendros/Lehamn/Flamini/Diarra/Sidwell/Kalou/Pizzrro/Ben Haim/Alex/Hilton/Cudicini/Cole/Ferreria/Shevchenko.

Exactly!