UNTOLD ARSENAL » Blog Archive » Arsenal don’t need any more midfielders
I wrote at the weekend about the large number of central midfielders Arsenal now have – but the notes were buried away in my rant against the awful way Setanta ran their coverage of Arsenal against Newcastle.
In retrospect I wish I’d made the midfielder bit the main article, given that this is the topic on most other web sites and (not for the first time) I hold an utterly different view from most other people. The whole piece on Setanta is still on the sitebut here once again is the list of central midfielders on our books.
Song, Fabregas, Denilson, Diaby, Eboue, Nasri and Bischoff. That’s our central midfield. Of course you can still create an argument for more – but surely such an argument should take account of all the midfielders we already have. And I haven’t even mentioned Ramsey.
Nasri is apparently good in the centre, and so may play there once Rosicky is back. Bischoff was, I am told, a remarkable midfielder before his injury and is only a few weeks away from playing for Arsenal. Diaby is three weeks away also.
So eight central midfielders. Some are injured, but they are unlikely all to be injured together.
I would say to commentators who think we should buy another – fine, but which of these players are you going to ditch as they continue to grow?