30 Jan 2021 15:31:39
Hendo and Philips would do fine as a temporary solution until either fabs or matip come back. Don't panic buy. Don't want a dud on the books for next few seasons taking a squad place or hampering development of a younger player. Why is Sepp vdb not in squad. No worse than Williams and maybe could kick on if given a chance in first team games like np and rw. Also, if we do shop in January sales, than please not that arsenal CB mustafi. If arsenal willing to release him, that says lots about poor quality of the player. Any arsenal fan will be overjoyed he leaves. Cost them many goals and points with his lack of pace, silly fouls, diving into tackles when standing would do, poor passer and reader of the ball. No sloppy seconds please.

{Ed0666's Note - why does everybody assume we’re gonna get a dud if we get a short term CB solution? Trust in Edwards the man is a frigging wizard and he’s proved it time and time again. And if we get Mustafi or Aaron long so be it. You can’t rubbish a player before you’ve seen what he does on the pitch.


1.) 30 Jan 2021
30 Jan 2021 15:41:05
Then what happens when injury prone Henderson gets injured? Plus we can't qmweakwn our midfield to strengthen our Defence because we will still struggle.


2.) 30 Jan 2021
30 Jan 2021 16:01:37
If we’re trying to sign someone it’s on Klopps say so. If someone comes in it’ll be with Klopps approval. Klopp doesn’t panic buy. Have faith in the process.


3.) 30 Jan 2021
30 Jan 2021 16:04:56
I think we should just let the club do what they think is right. If that’s Mustafi then give the guy a chance.
By all accounts he was decent before he went to Arsenal and let’s be honest he wouldn’t be the only player who’s been mismanaged at Arsenal in the last few years.
Just relax and see what happens.


4.) 30 Jan 2021
30 Jan 2021 16:11:47
So u want our best mid fielder to keep covering our other best mid fielder who’s covering our missing centre backs to continue?


5.) 30 Jan 2021
30 Jan 2021 16:15:47
With three days to go and an acute shortage of centre backs in the first team I would say this is panic buying. Absolute textbook definition. Particularly when looking at the likes of Mustafi who is the poster boy of Arsenal’s failures these last few years.


6.) 30 Jan 2021
30 Jan 2021 17:01:42
The new centre back partnership could be my deceased nan and my dog and quite frankly i wouldn’t care. At this point it matters little who plays so long as they are an experienced adult and not injury prone. What is most important now is to get round pegs in round holes as we have seen how much it can damage to confidence of players and the knock on effects it can have.


7.) 30 Jan 2021
30 Jan 2021 17:25:16
Equally though Anonymous, there’s no point signing a player who is a liability to the defence in terms of decision making and ability, which clearly Mustafi is. He just isn’t up to it, you’d just as well let the youth players and reserves see out the rest of the season and end up with the same results as bring him in.


8.) 30 Jan 2021
30 Jan 2021 18:12:08
Sometimes a player can fail because of a system or the players they play with, or the manager they play for. What I'm trying to say is that you can see a different player to the one playing at a different club. It can be as much as being made to feel welcome or one of Klopp's hugs. If we get a temporary CB then let's judge him on how he plays for us and not another club. You just never know.


9.) 30 Jan 2021
30 Jan 2021 18:20:52
No amount of hugs will squeeze a good footballer out of Mustafi, he’s been at Arsenal for about four years under various different managers and not once looked capable. Always looks the weak link for Germany too. Avoid.


10.) 30 Jan 2021
30 Jan 2021 15:41:09
Ed0666 I have literally seen what Mustafi can do on the pitch and it’s like a hybrid of Djimi Traore/ Torben Piechnik/ Kvarme. He is the textbook definition of the word “dud”. And given that we’ve left it so late in the window to act, we are literally left with duds. Remember Andy Carroll anyone?

{Ed0666's Note - now barstool was a very expensive dud indeed. I’m very hopeful nae confident mustafi won’t be our star signing on Monday evening.