At least 3 players. LB, maybe RB. Player for top 3 , someone who can play left/right/central. Lennon,Chadli,Townsend not good enough. Soldado not good enough so far.Would be a mistake to not sign the right players. The player for the front 3 has be top tier or genuinely promising youngster.
if we go into Feb with Rose and Townsend in the team, we will only have ourselves to blame when we finish outside the CL places again.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
Sorry is Townsend class? Would he get near any of our rivals team? Lennon is a very decent squad/sub, but if we are serious about really challenging we need an upgrade. Chadli does not look like one, from what I have seen so far.
There is a reason why Arsenal always finish above us , year after year.
Has the penny dropped?
Townsend is young player just coming into his own. The chances are Lamela will take his spot anyway but either way he's a very promising talent. I'm not too sure where Lennon is now in the pecking order but if he can find top form again he is a very useful weapon to have in our ars....um...locker.
Writing off Chadli after a few games is bizarre. He hasn't even been playing badly and apparently played a great game in the international there last week. Lots more to come from this guy.
Arsenal finish above us because they are better over the season (and have the devils luck), but the chasm that existed between our sides is a mere crack now and who knows what will happen this year. I think we're in as good shape as we've ever been. Got to be positive, right?
They don't owe us anything, though.
Sorry is Townsend class? Would he get near any of our rivals team? Lennon is a very decent squad/sub, but if we are serious about really challenging we need an upgrade. Chadli does not look like one, from what I have seen so far.
There is a reason why Arsenal always finish above us , year after year.
Has the penny dropped?
how do you find a backup for one as talented as Eriksen?
Can we just raid the football league for some young British talent, I always liked it when we pulled off double signings like Davies/Etherington, Reid/Dawson and Walker/Naughton because you always felt there was a good chance one of them would make it.
Are there any clubs with good youngsters out there these days? or have they all already been priced above 10m!
EDIT: In all honestly I doubt there are many (if any) prospects in the lower leagues with potential to get fast tracked into our current 11. The level we are at nowadays any new youngster will be shipped straight back out and made to complete our 5 year step by step loan plan up through the leagues that we seem to have established
3 things left to address IMO:
1) first choice LB - Coentrao or equivalent
2) first choice LF - Muniain or equivalent
3) back-up CF - Hernandez/Rodrigo or equivalent
I'd also like to see us starting to eye up a replacement for Friedel for the summer.
The main rumour seems to be that we're going for El Shaarawy in Jan.
Seeing as our rivals variously include this lot in their squads:
Oxlade-Chamberlain
Januzaj (sp)
Zaha
Sterling
De Bruyne
Then why not Townsend?
Who is saying that?