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I've harped on and been laughed at when I criticised how we've assembled a squad of midgets on this board but from Arsene's point of view his sytem is everything. We were blessed previously with guys like Vieira, Petit, Edu, Gilberto, Thierry, DB who had the physical size as well as the technique to contribute to our play.
How many players in world football are there with the combination of both right now? Essien, but we were never getting him, Song is a very good player but more comparable to Mikel than an Essien and he's been very effective for us all season. Think you're wrong about Diaby too, he's the only one who has the right combination of the two and this season playing in his natural position he is putting it together at times quite spectacularly too. He is such an important player for us now but remains very very injury prone.
Wouldn't be averse to more beef in the squad but the current way of playing is working for us right now and is extremely entertaining (provided the players actually work hard with their positioning and tracking back; hence my disdain for guys like Denilson and Clichy this season). We're only three off the top with a very friendly run in and I actually believe when this team is motivated and full of belief they are very hard to beat regardless of their opponent's style of play(they just switch off too often). My gripe with how our games are officiated still stands though.
A game like Saturday's just makes me want to get behind everything about the club and be a blind supporter again like when I was young. If at the end of it we fall short I can ask plenty of questions of Arsene not strengthening the squad when he had ample opportunity to but as it stands he's very hard to criticise given where we are at this point in the season. Look for a huge Ramsey banner the Burnley game from an Arsenal forum I frequent(it's an absolute cracker
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