Vertonghen Would 'Gladly' Join Magnificent Arsenal

i dont care if he signs that great polish defender splxcretyugf kkjhrystrynech as long as our defence is sound

Check this, he has already signed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Vertonghen

If anything he would be a replacement for Djourou.

He is a Utility player which is a good thing to have. If you ask me, Song does need competition; JD signing a new contract only serves to give us good value for him, if he is to be shipped out with squilacci. We have cried out for quality; nothing wrong with having a stronger squad of CBs. If Wenger is interested, go for him and sell or release the aforementioned CBs.

I don't see it happening DBerg but he is a CB who can play LB or DCM. He is too good to be a 4th choice CB and utility player like Djourou. I really didn't take to Mert: he was week in the air, slow on the turn, slow generally. He has a great standing tackle but players running at him beat him too often. He seems like a nice guy and he is undoubtedly seen as a good defender but I don't think he works at Arsenal. I don't mind us being ruthless to get the best team possible.

I'd wait a while before judging Mert too harshly it is his first season. We as fans have habits of giving some players more leeway than others. Kos and Verm both made mistakes in their first seasons but they were overlooked, with Verm probably because of his tenacity and with Kos because you could see the quality was there despite the mistakes. With Mert I would be willing to forgive the mistakes and see it as simply an adjustment period.

Read you perfectly,DBerg and must say I agree. There are some who still won't give Kos a chance and are quick to slate him but he is one of our better performers. Even on his 6 months or so performance, I can see the huge benefit of having Per in our defence and this is just his first season. We need to be in a position where our substitute bench will have a few 'unhappy' players who feel they deserve the starting berths. That only bodes well as the players will know they are playing for their shirts even if they are starting games. Nothing wrong with that.

I don't think the fans will ever completely take to Mertesacker, simply because he lacks dynamism and elegance. It is arguable that he makes up for these hindrances with intelligent positioning and not over-complicating matters, but in a squad of such dynamic and technically proficient players he is inevitably going to stick out like a sore thumb.

Picture this; we are in a crucial game with Kos and TV in CB partnership. TV comes off injured with a choice of Djourou, Squillaci and Vertonghen to replace him. Which will give the most confidence? Now, it gets better when you realise TV could be at LB and needs a replacement; or Song needs a rest with Coquelin injured, etc. These are real-life situations with Arsenal's injury record, so don't think the scenarios are far-fetched.

If it makes TV happy and enhances the possibility of getting Eden Hazard, then you begin to see how this could be an impact signing. Maybe, we are getting ahead of ourselves here and should probably let the manager do his job.

Its not gonna happen. Wenger has been playing all these years with just an "adequate staff", he is not gonna change his style now. With the limited funds that is available, he will be looking at bolstering the options in DM,striker and winger or AM, which ever combination that he can get within the budget that he has. Vertonghen IS a luxury that he does not have the funds for nor need.

Like I said, I don't think this will happen....but if it does I'll be very happy.

gunnerman76, there's 4 CBs at the moment fighting for two positions. I write them down in order of preference: Vermaelen, Koscielny, Mertesacker, Djourou. I consider Djourou in there because he's had a bad run this season and the end of the last. He was top class in the middle part of last season. So I'm thinking this is just a dip in form and he'll come out of it. Of course, he needs more games at CB, not RB to prove that. That might be difficult to get. And then, there is Miquel and Squillaci. Lets say 3 of the first 4 are injured which should be the worst case scenario. Then we've still got 1 out of the 4 and Miquel to cover. And this kind of setting is going to be in place only for five, maximum six games because one of the injured is bound to come back even by our poor injury standards. I think we can cope with that even without another CB like Vertonghen, coming in.

I assume he'll be sold too but Bartley was playing pretty well at Rangers. A better choice than Squillaci anyway.

Just get those ******** replacement for Chamakh and Park and Shava and Bendtner and we are good...With Jack, Ramsey and Rosicky Im not too worried about our AMF options..besides we dont rely on midfield creativity that much these days anyways.

Well, maybe I got across wrong. What I meant is that we dont rely on the intricate passing so endemic of the Nasregas period. This season, we have relied on hitting teams at pace. More direct football instead of tippy tappy stuff. And I for one am not complaining. Of course, we still need creativity - but for the kind of football we play, I rather have players in the Rosicky and Ox mould rather than Fab mode.

i think gylfi sigurdsson would be a good signing. i am not sure if he can be in the first 11 but he will certainly bring something different to the team, perhaps from the bench with his vision and eye for goal. i don't think he'll cost a lot, he is young & with epl experience. he is the poor man's fabregas

the way i see it, we maybe reverting to the game plan with strong tenacious cm and goal-scoring wingers like those days of pires-vieira-edu/parlour-ljungberg. the tried the barca-style with mostly diminutive technical midfielders spreading a cross i.e. arshavin-denilson/diaby-fabregas-nasri/song-rosicky/eboue but were out-muscled off the park for a good 5-6 seasons until song gives us some steel in the dm role. i think 2 players can really transform us into serious title contender - m'vila & gotze. then we can have the option to play with 2 dm i.e. m'vila-gotze-song or the current way of arteta/wilshere/gotze-song/m'vila-rosicky/ramsey/diaby. then again, m'vila & gotze to arsenal? a bit of wishful thinking

I think the main thing you are saying Joe is that we are starting to have options in the way we play. Even with the players we have (including the injured ones) that is true and that is one of the best things looking forward to next season.

Yep.. Would have loved to have Fabregas in our team. Hes the 3rd best player Ive seen play for Arsenal (After Berg and Vieira). But hes not at our club and there arent many players who can do a job as well as he did. (So fking happy Nasri left!!). Probably the only player who comes close to Cesc's vision and passing is Goetze, and we are not getting him. Thats why I feel, its important that we move away from trying to emulate Barcelona and go back to the style of football which actually won us some trophies.

TOP3: Henry, Bergkamp, Vieira

agree with no 10, but i certainly see vieira as a very special player. we've seen the henry's mould of skillful and pacey forward who score a lot of goals like c. ronaldo and players who are technically superb with great passing ability like bergkamp i.e. zidane. vieira is the most skillful and dominant dm i had ever seen and there is one player comparable so far

I hear you, but I remember fab Not turning up for the odd game. I just think Henry's undisputed record kind of outweighs the odd game he went missing, and I think many people forget that there are not many strikers who have that kind of consistancey, so many have a flash in the pan season....ady, torres, berbatov etc but can't keep it going over a period of years.....shearer, henry, nistlhorseface spring to mind, truly great strikers. As much as rvp has been amazing over the last year and is that this moment, priceless for us, he needs to do it for another 2 or 3 seasons consistently for me to put him alongside those other great premiership strikers. The reason the strikers get the glory is because the pressure is on them, they get paid to score goals and they are judged on that basis, for me if he does nothing for 89 minutes then scores the winning goal or the equaliser, he has done his job. Midfielders are workhorses don't get me wrong but it is a lot easier for a midfielder to hide behind other players then it is a striker, an average midfielder surrounded by great midfielders suddenly becomes a good midfielder, an average striker is just an average striker, I always believe that no team how great will ever win a title with average strikers, look at the stats.........I think we all no that we would not be fighting for 3rd place right now if we had to rely on chamakh, no matter how good the rest of the team were playing. Liverpool are a perfect example, they are a class striker away from challenging for the top four, as it happens there fighting for Europa because they don't have anyone with over 20 league goals a season in them.