We would still have Saha and newcomer Stracqualursi, plus Anichebe, Vellios and McAleny. And that's if Beckford and Yakubu do leave.
//Edit and Baxter! I almost forgot Baxter.
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I know you'd lose a lot of creativity, but at least you still have plenty of midfield bodies with Cahill, Osman, Rodwell, Fellaini, Neville, Heitinga, Coleman, Bilyaletdinov and maybe Drenthe coming. If talk of Yakubu and Beckford leaving are true, that would surely leave you very short up top?
ATM we've got plenty of strikers (Never thought I'd say that... guess there's a first time for everything), but selling Arteta would deprive us of all of our creativity in midfield.
Plenty of strikers? :S
Saha (always injured), Anichebe (poor), New Argentinian guy. That's it.
Well if you're going to add 2 nobody's to the list, you can add players like Ross Barkley and Jose Baxter to your midfield. I don't think any of the 4 are ready for the step up yet, and it would be very risky going into the season dependant on them to make that jump.Scroll up a little bit and...
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Man Utd not going for anyone - not really a surprise :/ but to be honest we don't need anyone
Well if you're going to add 2 nobody's to the list, you can add players like Ross Barkley and Jose Baxter to your midfield. I don't think any of the 4 are ready for the step up yet, and it would be very risky going into the season dependant on them to make that jump.
They may be 'nobody' to you but you must realise we're not aiming for the title, but for a mid table finish. Vellios has already had a few matches in the first team and so has Baxter, and I expect them to play a few more games this season. But I'm not expecting any of our kids to bag 20 goals this season and turn us into title challengers, I'd just very much rather have Arteta, who gives our midfield creativity, than have more strikers which are not 'needed'.
Arsenal withdraw interest in Arteta - SSN.
So Arsenal had an offer rejected for M'Villa and Goetze (reportedly), reject the chance to sign Miralem Pjanic for £9M then effectively choose Yossi Benayoun over Mikel Arteta.
Wow, shrewd business there Arsene. Shrewd indeed...