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By Walter Broeckx

Well at the end of the day… we can only trust the Lord Wenger.

For those about who shout BUY, I would like to ask: how are you going to keep all of them happy on the bench as only 3 players can play in our current system.  We still have 2 full internationals ready (if they don’t get injured next week that is) and Walcott and Vela (also 2 full internationals when fit) coming back real soon now. Bendtner and RVP are also 2 full internationals so that makes that our 6 attackers are all full internationals.

For some bizarre reason we have now the situation where 4 of our 6 first team attackers are injured at the same time. Must say that this is a very extreme situation and how would other clubs deal if they got hit by 4 forwards out at the same time. In a very short time we should recover Walcott  and Vela and with Eduardo and Arshavin also available we then have 4 international players.

Let’s try to look at the other top 4 clubs from last season. How would they cope with a situation like ours.

Madchester United: they have Rooney, Owen, Berbatov,  and then we could add Valencia and Nani but they are more wingers then strikers. Oh  yes I forgot Wellbeck. So let’s suppose the first 4 fall out at the same moment… they could put  Nani and Wellbeck up front.  I would suggest SAF to buy.

Let’s stay up north and go to Liverpool. They have Torres, Kuyt, Voronin, Ngog, and ….. can anyone please tell me cause when I look at their site a only see midfielders for the rest that could play in attack. So this would mean that Liverpool just had no real attackers at their disposal in case they got hit by the same amount of injuries like we do. I would suggest Benitez to buy even more.

Coming back to London we look at Chelsea. They have Drogba, Anelka, Kalou all full internationals and then there is still Sturridge. So if 4 attackers would get hurt at the same time… Chelsea would have… no replacement who are pure strikers. I would suggest Ancelotti to buy, buy and buy.

So one can see that the current situation is a situation that very rare appears but as always we are the one to suffer. But at the other end we are the best equipped compared with our other rivals.

In fact we have in our midfield players who can play up front and have done in the past mostly on the wings like  Diaby, Nasri, Rosicky and even Cesc , can and have played there.

So those who say : buy, buy, buy are just shouters who do not have any eye for the very special circumstances we suffer for the moment. NO team has the depth to survive 4 injured attackers  at the same time. In fact I never heard of a similar situation by any other football club.  We shall see how Wenger puts his players on the field the next weeks and see how we cope with it on the field.

Missing Robin is a major blow because he was on fire and playing and scoring great but the players we still have are all full internationals and have proven in the past that they can play there and deliver. So let’s get behind our team and the players and give them the trust that Wenger has in them.

I must admit I was down when I heard the news but at the other end we now can see how strong Eduardo has come back and the way he scored for Croatia was a promising start.

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