re: Arsenal 2012/2013 Season Long Thread

How many of those have you seen play? The only one out of the ones I have seen who has real quality is Eriksen, and he's really inconsistent. Witsel is a shite player for the most part. Capoue is a poor man's M'vila and we are linked to him because we are linked with every French DM from Rio Mavuba to Blaise Matudi to Jeremy Toulalan to Moussa Sissoko. Dembele is a magnificent dribbler without any real final product. Suarez and Biglia aren't worth those price tags. We won't buy a 28 year old DM either (Denisov). Yanga-Mbiwa might be a good buy, but in the last three years we've spent 30 M on central defenders. Unless Djourou leaves, I don't think that is an area where we will try to improve.

As far as Dempsey playing as a AM, he would provide something different sure, but it wouldn't be what the position (to date) has required, which is to move the ball quickly and create chances. Ramsey, who played like shite for half the season, created the 2nd or 3rd most chances on the team at 55. I think Rosicky had around 30 chances created. Dempsey wouldn't be able to create nearly as much as those two, and probably won't be as good as Wilshere could be in that role. I'd just rather spend 10M on someone younger if we are deadset on bringing in another midfielder.