i am pleased with some of the transfers, but i am left baffled and shaking my head at the state of the gunners. here're liverpool and man utd busy bolstering their back lines and what are we doing? we're buying strikers. like we need more firepower in attack. we've got henry, van persie, bergkamp (even though he's gone at the end of this season), jose antonio reyes (although he's really being turned into a midfielder), arturo lupoli, quincy awusu abeyie, anthony stokes and we've now added
abedayor (who i suspect will slot back into the midfield somewhere, but he is a natural center forward) and wunderkind theo walcott.
we are potent up front, there is no question.
but who cares about up front right now? i don't. we're bleeding to death at the back. we need help in defense. and we need it this week.
we are without ashley cole again, cause he hurt himself in his comeback; we're without eboue and toure who are off in africa; sol cambell's hurt his foot; now even cygan is gone (who was not nearly as bad as i feared filling in for our left backs) with a hamstring injury; justin hoyte is still out on loan.
that means our back line this week will be some combination of lauren (our tested and true workhorse... and one of my favorite gunners), swiss boys johan djourou, and nervous nelly phillipe senderos, and either kerrea gilbert, sebastian larrson, or alexander song. we need a good defender or two dammit! not more strikers.
the one move i am totally satisfied with, even if i remain onconvinced of his skill, was the pick up of abou diaby to fill the boots of vieira. i know he won't fill paddy's boots, but at least we got someone in the position we needed to be filled.
once again wenger has bought for the future, but once, just once, couldn't he buy for today?
three factors killed arsenal today:
